US Patent Issued to STAR MICRONICS on Dec. 16 for "Machine tool and method of deciding tool moving path" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,673, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to STAR MICRONICS Co. LTD. (Shizuoka, Japan).

"Machine tool and method of deciding tool moving path" was invented by Shotaro Kamo (Shizuoka, Japan) and Katsuhiro Shinomiya (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controller of a machine tool acquires coordinates of a first machining start point of an eccentric shape in a reference phase of a workpiece around a spindle axis, a second machining start point in an anti-phase, a first machining end point in the reference phase, and a second machining end point in the anti-phase. The controller decides a moving path of the tool in association w...