US Patent Issued to FANUC on Sept. 15 for "Numerical control device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,736,940, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to FANUC Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan).

"Numerical control device" was invented by Daiki Kikkawa (Yamanashi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides technology which makes it possible, in a numerical control device for detecting a gap size on the basis of a relationship between the gap size and a nonlinear gap sensor output voltage, to increase the distance that can be detected by the numerical control device while ensuring high detection accuracy of the gap size. This numerical control device 1 comprises: a measurement interval storage unit 12 which stores multiple measur...