US Patent Issued to STAR MICRONICS on Oct. 27 for "Machine tool system and method of controlling machine tool system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,732, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to STAR MICRONICS Co. LTD. (Shizuoka, Japan).

"Machine tool system and method of controlling machine tool system" was invented by Takuji Uchiyama (Shizuoka, Japan), Katsuhiro Shinomiya (Shizuoka, Japan), Takeshi Ikegaya (Shizuoka, Japan) and Norio Kaku (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lathe system includes a spindle capable of gripping a bar and moving back and forth in an axial direction of the bar and a tool post to which a first tool is attached. The lathe system can manufacture a plurality of products having an identical shape from the bar by repeating a machining of the bar, ...