US Patent Issued to FANUC on April 21 for "Numerical control system and interference checking assistance method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,978, issued on April 21, was assigned to FANUC Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan).

"Numerical control system and interference checking assistance method" was invented by Hiroki Sawaoka (Yamanashi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A numerical control apparatus 3 comprises: a pulse generation unit 34 that moves a plurality of machine elements of a machine tool 2 along a plurality of control axes on the basis of a movement pulse for the machine tool 2; an interference checking unit 36 that performs interference checking calculation for a plurality of interference-checking subject sets; and an interference checking assistance device 5 that as...