US Patent Issued to FANUC on April 7 for "Tool damage detection device and computer-readable storage medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,637, issued on April 7, was assigned to FANUC Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan).

"Tool damage detection device and computer-readable storage medium" was invented by Mamoru Kubo (Yamanashi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tool damage detection device includes: a data acquisition unit that acquires load data indicating a load of a spindle and rotational speed data indicating a rotational speed of the spindle in a cutting feed section; an extraction unit that extracts, from the load data, evaluation data to be used for evaluation of occurrence of damage to a tool based on the rotational speed data; a detection unit that detects occurrence...