US Patent Issued to Okuma on July 7 for "Thermal displacement estimating method for machine tool and machine tool" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,674,772, issued on July 7, was assigned to Okuma Corp. (Niwa-Gun, Japan).

"Thermal displacement estimating method for machine tool and machine tool" was invented by Reiji Kanbe (Niwa-Gun, Japan) and Misaki Hida (Niwa-Gun, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A thermal displacement estimating method includes: detecting each temperature of a predetermined heat generating portion and a predetermined main body structure portion by a temperature measurement device; and estimating a thermal displacement of the heat generating portion by an estimation model based on a detected temperature. The estimating of the thermal displacement includes: obt...