US Patent Issued to FANUC on July 28 for "Sealing device and wire electrical discharge machine" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,517, issued on July 28, was assigned to FANUC Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan).

"Sealing device and wire electrical discharge machine" was invented by Ryuunosuke Tomioka (Yamanashi-ken, Japan) and Hisanori Kouda (Yamanashi-ken, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sealing device and a wire electrical discharge machine that may reduce sludge deposition, include a seal base, a seal plate, a bellows member, a flow passage, and a guide rail member. The guide rail member is open on the inward direction side thereof to cause sludge generated by machining of an object to be machined to flow into a machining tank along with a machining liquid supp...