Patents Assigned to Sodick Co., Ltd.
  • Publication number: 20220001902
    Abstract: A carrier device is provided, which includes: a moving body; a top plate arranged above and separated from the moving body; a magnet plate including a plurality of permanent magnets arranged parallel to a predetermined moving direction on a lower surface of the top plate in a manner that adjacent polarities are different; a moving control coil unit including a plurality of exciting coils arranged on an upper surface of the moving body along and separated from the magnet plate; top gap control coil units including a plurality of exciting coils arranged on the upper surface of the moving body along and separated from the magnet plate; and a controller supplying drive currents respectively to the moving control coil unit and the top gap control coil units to make the moving body move along the moving direction, and controlling a top gap.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2021
    Publication date: January 6, 2022
    Applicant: Sodick Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ichiro ARAIE, Taro HASEGAWA
  • Publication number: 20210402477
    Abstract: A lamination molding apparatus includes a molding room, a chamber, a chamber window, a molding table, a molding table driving device, surrounding walls, an irradiation device, a measuring unit, and a controller. The measuring unit includes a first measuring device acquiring a measured value of a light intensity, and a second measuring device acquiring a value of a beam diameter, and measures laser beams outputted based on set values of light intensity during molding. The controller determines an abnormality has occurred when a slope of a linear function obtained from a relationship between the measured value of the light intensity and the value of the beam diameter at a predetermined height is out of a predetermined range, or when a slope of a linear function obtained from a relationship between the measured value of the light intensity and a value of a focal position is out of a predetermined range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2021
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Applicant: Sodick Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yasuyuki MIYASHITA
  • Patent number: 11206855
    Abstract: A high temperature food heating device includes a high temperature heating tank composed of three tanks, which are a main tank, a front reserve tank and a reserve tank, each of the front and rear reserve tanks has a first storage part having an opening at the upper part and a second storage part communicating with the first storage part at the lower part of the first storage part and having an opening at the upper part. In the high temperature food heating device, a communication chamber for communicating between a water surface of each of the second storage parts of the front reserve tank and the rear reserve tank and a water surface of the main tank and storing a liquid or a gas inside is provided, and a high pressure gas or a pressurized liquid is supplied from a high pressure fluid supply section into the communication chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: Sodick Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenichi Osako, Akinori Noguchi
  • Patent number: 11203076
    Abstract: A wire cut electric discharge machining apparatus cannot maintain high machining accuracy because the arm may expand/contract as it receives more heat from the machining fluid. The wire cut electric discharge machining apparatus has guide parts that guide a wire and arms that support the guide parts, wherein at least one of the guide parts has a machining fluid ejection nozzle, and at least one of the arms has an ejection connection pipe and a thermal insulation part. The ejection connection pipe is a hole penetrating the arm and supplies the machining fluid to the machining fluid ejection nozzle, and the thermal insulation part covers the inner peripheral surface of the ejection connection pipe to thermally insulate the inner hole of the ejection connection pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: Sodick Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Masashi Sakaguchi
  • Patent number: 11203075
    Abstract: An electric discharge machining apparatus includes a tool electrode that performs electric discharge machining to a workpiece, a tubular extended guide in which the tool electrode is inserted, a long nozzle in which the tool electrode is inserted with a tip protruded, and provided along an outer wall surface of the extended guide so as to provide mist generating space between the extended guide and the long nozzle, a compressed gas supplying device supplying compressed gas into the mist generating space, and a pressurized working fluid supplying device supplying pressurized working fluid into working fluid filling space between the tool electrode and the extended guide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: Sodick Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jun Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20210387275
    Abstract: A wire electric discharge machining apparatus is provided. The wire electric discharge machining apparatus includes an upper support that supports an upper guide unit that guides a wire electrode on an upper side. The upper support includes an arm having a lower end provided with the upper guide unit, an axis drive portion moving the arm in at least one axial direction and made of a material that has a larger coefficient of linear expansion than ceramics, and an adjustment block connecting the arm and the axis drive portion and made of ceramics. The adjustment block is fixed at a position where a displacement of the upper guide unit caused by expansion and contraction of the upper support is suppressed by a bimetal effect occurring on a fastening surface of the axis drive portion and the adjustment block.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2021
    Publication date: December 16, 2021
    Applicant: Sodick Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masashi SAKAGUCHI, Akio HOSAKA
  • Publication number: 20210379649
    Abstract: A backflow prevention device of a light metal injection device and a backflow prevention method thereof of the disclosure include: a valve which has a valve body made of a corrosion-resistant and heat-resistant steel and a valve seat made of a ceramic, and in which the valve body advances and is seated on the valve seat to close a communication path communicating a melting unit and an injection unit, and the valve body retracts and is separated from the valve seat to open the communication path; a valve body drive device which moves a drive body to which the valve body is connected forward and backward; a position sensor which detects that the drive body has reached at least a predetermined advance limit position; and a valve body drive control device which controls the valve body drive device based on a signal of the position sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2021
    Publication date: December 9, 2021
    Applicant: Sodick Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tadashi MORIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20210370405
    Abstract: A lamination molding apparatus including: an irradiator irradiating a material layer with a beam to form a solidified layer; and a temperature adjustment device which abuts against a part or all of the solidified body including an upper surface of the solidified body, and heats and cools the part or all of the solidified body to a set temperature. The temperature adjustment device has a temperature adjustment plate and a revolving portion. The revolving portion sets the temperature adjustment plate to an upright state when the part or all of the solidified body including the upper surface of the solidified body is not heated and cooled by the temperature adjustment device, and sets the temperature adjustment plate to a lying state when the part or all of the solidified body including the upper surface of the solidified body is heated and cooled by the temperature adjustment device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2021
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Applicant: Sodick Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shuichi KAWADA, Katsutaka MURANAKA, Yoshitaka KATO
  • Patent number: 11185939
    Abstract: A wire electric discharge machining apparatus includes: a processing tank, a lower-side wire guide assembly, a lower arm, a direction changing pulley, a winding roller, and a conveying device. The conveying device comprises a high-pressure jet flow generator and a suction pipe. The high-pressure jet flow generator is provided between the direction changing pulley and the winding roller on a side of a front end of a lower arm, and spouts a high-pressure jet flow toward a direction of the winding roller so that a wire electrode is guided only by a restraining force of the high-pressure jet flow and sent flying to the direction of the winding roller with the high-pressure jet flow. The suction pipe is provided on an exit side of the winding roller, and sucks and captures a tip of the wire electrode sent by the high-pressure jet flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: SODICK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masashi Sakaguchi, Tsuyoshi Takeda, Tsubasa Kuragaya
  • Patent number: 11179789
    Abstract: A dirty fluid tank of a machining fluid supply tank has a capacity smaller than a machining tank and is arranged lower than the machining tank. An intermediate tank has a capacity smaller than the dirty fluid tank, selectively communicates with the dirty fluid tank. A clear fluid tank has a capacity smaller than the intermediate tank, is arranged above the dirty fluid tank and the intermediate tank. The sum of capacities of the dirty fluid tank and the intermediate tank is larger than the capacity of the machining tank. A pipe includes a drain pipeline of the machining tank, a first pipeline for purifying the electric discharge machining fluid and sending the electric discharge machining fluid to the clear fluid tank, and a second pipeline for sending the electric discharge machining fluid from the clear fluid tank to the machining tank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: Sodick Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Ryo Uneda
  • Publication number: 20210325846
    Abstract: The disclosure is a rotation center measurement method of a multi-axis processing machine which relatively moves tables on which a work piece is placed and a tool for processing the work piece by control of rotation axes based on a processing program, and the rotation center measurement method is characterized to include: a processing program acquisition step in which the processing program is acquired; a processing program analysis step in which command angles of tool postures are read from the processing program and analyzed, and measurement angles are calculated based on the analysis results; and a geometric deviation measurement step in which a reference sphere is placed on the tables and the tables and the tool are relatively moved to measure a position of the reference sphere, and directions and positions of rotation centers of the rotation axes are calculated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2021
    Publication date: October 21, 2021
    Applicant: Sodick Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Michihisa Kawasaki, Shoya Yokota, Munetaka Ambai
  • Publication number: 20210316381
    Abstract: An electric discharge machine 1 incudes: a machining tank 11; a dirty fluid tank 13; a circulation pump 21; a filter unit 3 including a filter element 31 and a filter case 33; a fixing mechanism 5 fixing the filter unit; a clean fluid tank 15; and a fluid feeding pump 23. The fixing mechanism includes: a bracket 51 fixed in a predetermined position; a rotating member 53 rotatably connected to the bracket; a lever 6 having: a link 61 of which one end is connected to the rotating member, a nut 63 arranged on the other end of the link, and a rod 65 screwed with the nut; a locked member 55 fixed to the bracket and engaged with the rod; and a pressing member 7 of which one end is connected to the rotating member 53 and the other end presses the filter case.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2021
    Publication date: October 14, 2021
    Applicant: Sodick Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Akio HOSAKA
  • Publication number: 20210299771
    Abstract: To automatically change and set machining conditions suitable for a plate thickness even when machining paths of a rough machining step and an end surface finishing step are different in level difference machining in which the plate thickness changes during machining. In a wire electric discharge machining method and a wire electric discharge machining apparatus of the disclosure, an XY-plane of a workpiece stand is divided into small regions to form a plurality of divided regions, and a plate thickness of the workpiece is detected and stored in association with the divided regions. Thereafter, whether there is a level difference ahead of a traveling direction of a machining path is estimated according to plate thickness information associated with the divided regions and a plate thickness of the workpiece at a current machining position, and machining conditions are changed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2021
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Applicant: Sodick Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kuniharu YAMADA, Kohei MATSUURA
  • Publication number: 20210294295
    Abstract: A 5-axis processing machine includes a mounting table on which a tool and a work piece are placed; and a control unit including a calculation unit, a determination unit, and a correction unit; wherein the mounting table is moved relatively by three linear axes and two rotation axes based on NC data, the two rotation axes include a first axis and a second axis, the calculation unit calculates an orientation of the work piece with respect to the tool at a time of processing from NC data and a directions of rotation centers of an actual first axis and an actual second axis, the determination unit determines whether or not the calculated orientation of the work piece is included in an inoperable range, the inoperable range being the inoperable angle range, and the correction unit corrects the orientation of the work piece with respect to the tool.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2021
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Applicant: Sodick Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shoya YOKOTA, Michihisa KAWASAKI, Munetaka AMBAI
  • Publication number: 20210291307
    Abstract: A 5-axis processing machine includes a mounting table on which a tool and a work piece are placed; and a control unit; wherein the mounting table is moved relatively by three linear axes and two rotation axes based on NC data, the two rotation axes include a first axis and a second axis, when the control unit calculates a rotation angle of the two rotation axes, the control unit acquires an axis vector Na that specifies an actual first axis direction and an axis vector Nc that specifies an actual second axis direction, the control unit calculates a posture vector K that specifies a posture at a time of processing the work piece with respect to the tool from the NC data, the control unit calculates, as a solution of a following equation (4), an actual rotation angle ? around the first axis of the tool.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2021
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Applicant: Sodick Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shoya YOKOTA, Michihisa KAWASAKI, Munetaka AMBAI
  • Publication number: 20210268708
    Abstract: An injection molding machine having vent mechanism includes a plastication device, an injection device, a junction, a vent-up sensor, and a controller. The vent-up sensor detects vent-up. When the vent-up is detected, the controller switches from normal conditions to vent-up suppression conditions. The vent-up suppression conditions have at least one of the followings: increasing a rotational speed of the plastication screw to be higher than that in the normal conditions; using retreat-metering when the retreat-metering is not performed in the normal conditions, wherein in the retreat-metering, in addition to a pressure of the resin material, a force in a retreat direction is applied to the injection plunger to move the injection plunger at a predetermined retreat speed in the metering; and increasing the retreat speed of the injection plunger to be higher than that in the normal conditions when the retreat-metering is performed in the normal conditions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2021
    Publication date: September 2, 2021
    Applicant: Sodick Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shuji AIBA, Hiroya MUKAIDE, Kenzo AKIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20210268703
    Abstract: Provided is an injection device and an injection control method which are capable of preventing a drooping phenomenon from an injection nozzle even during high cycle molding, and capable of appropriately plasticizing and molding a resin having poor thermal stability. An injection device (10) of the disclosure includes: an injection cylinder (30) which accumulates a molding material and has an injection nozzle (33) at the front; an injection plunger (31) which is moved backward in the injection cylinder (30); an injection plunger driving device (50, 150) which moves the injection plunger (31) backward; and an injection controller (60, 160). The injection controller (60, 160) retreats the injection plunger (31) by the injection plunger driving device (50, 150) to perform metering in a plastication metering step of metering the molding material supplied into the injection cylinder (30).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2021
    Publication date: September 2, 2021
    Applicant: Sodick Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shuji AIBA, Shingo TANIGUCHI, Tasuku OKANO
  • Publication number: 20210260801
    Abstract: A molding material supply device and a molding material supply method capable of supplying a degassed molding material to a molding apparatus at a desired timing are desired. According to the molding material supply device and method of the disclosure, a first discharge member is driven to discharge a molding material accommodated in a first accommodation member to a second discharge member through a through hole of a die, and a second discharge member configured by the first accommodation member and the die advances to discharge the molding material having been degassed in the second accommodation member to the molding apparatus from a molding material supply port.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2021
    Publication date: August 26, 2021
    Applicant: Sodick Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tadashi MORIKAWA
  • Patent number: 11097365
    Abstract: The wire electric discharge machining device includes a wire bobbin configured to wind and hold a wire electrode, a wire delivery roller configured to draw the wire electrode from the wire bobbin and deliver the wire electrode continuously toward a work-piece, a brake motor configured to apply a load to the wire bobbin in a direction against the drawing of the wire electrode, rotation speed detector configured to detect a rotation speed of the wire bobbin, an emptiness determination device configured to determine that the wire bobbin reaches an empty state based on a rapid change in the rotation speed of the wire bobbin detected by the rotation speed detector, and a drive control part configured to stop the drive of the wire delivery roller when the emptiness determination device determines that the wire bobbin reaches the empty state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: Sodick Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masashi Sakaguchi, Kohei Matsuura, Hirotoshi Inoue
  • Publication number: 20210245248
    Abstract: According to a several embodiment, provided is a method for manufacturing a molded object, including a material preparing step to prepare a material powder obtained by removing carbon from medium carbon steel or high carbon steel until a carbon content is 0.1 mass % or less, a molding step to form a desired molded object by a lamination molding method repeating the steps of: a recoating step to uniformly spread the material powder on a molding table to form a material powder layer; and a sintering step to irradiate a predetermined portion of the material powder layer with a laser beam to form a sintered layer; and a carburization step to subject the molded object to carburization after the molding step is performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2021
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Applicant: Sodick Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ichiro ARAIE, Kazufumi NAMBU