US Patent Issued to STAR MICRONICS on Oct. 20 for "Machine tool system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,602, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to STAR MICRONICS Co. LTD. (Shizuoka, Japan).

"Machine tool system" was invented by Takuji Uchiyama (Shizuoka, Japan) and Takeshi Ikegaya (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A machine tool system of the present invention includes a rotatable spindle capable of releasably gripping a bar, a pusher that biases the bar from a rear end thereof toward a front end thereof to be movable together with the bar in a Z1-axis direction thereof, and an abnormality determining unit that determines whether an abnormality occurs by monitoring movement of the pusher in the Z1-axis direction. The spindle...