US Patent Issued to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC on Feb. 24 for "Multiwire electric discharge machine and multiwire electric discharge machining system" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,733, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Multiwire electric discharge machine and multiwire electric discharge machining system" was invented by Atsushi Itokazu (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multiwire electric discharge machine includes: a machining power source that applies a machining pulse voltage between a workpiece and a cutting wire section; and a wire breakage detection unit that detects breakage of a wire electrode. The wire breakage detection unit is electrically connected in parallel to a wire electrode portion stretched over a section from one location on the feeding side of the...