Patents by Inventor Cheng-Fu Tsai

Cheng-Fu Tsai has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 6184485
    Abstract: A method for solving the problem that the machining accuracy in a corner part or in a circular arc is reduced by the line flexure during the wire-cut electric discharge machining. In the method, the controller of the wire-cut electric discharge machine with a built-in function of measuring error of wire flexure, after the machining, a detection voltage of the machine detects the machined groove. If the wire electrode comes into contact with the workpiece, the short-circuit caused by the wire flexure in the corner part or in a circular arc is detected, and then the compensation value of the wire flexure is gradually changed to continue the groove detection until the wire electrode and the workpiece are not short-circuited and the groove detection stops. Then the wire flexure value in the corner part or in the circular arc is obtained to establish the machining parameter data of the machine to automatically compensate the wire flexure value in the following machining.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 1999
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2001
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Yea-June Day, Jui-Fang Liang, Cheng-Fu Tsai, Hsi-Pin Li, Mu-Tian Yan
  • Patent number: 6107593
    Abstract: A wire electric-discharge machining apparatus with recycled electric power is provided, which can recycle the energy stored in the inductor of the discharge circuit to be used as the power source to both the ignition circuit and the discharging circuit, so that the use of electric power is more cost-effective. The wire electric-discharge machining apparatus is of the type having a positive-voltage ignition circuit, a negative-voltage ignition circuit, a discharging circuit, and a snubber circuit. The improvement to the wire electric-discharge machining apparatus comprises: a first voltage converting circuit coupled between the snubber circuit and the positive-voltage ignition circuit; a second voltage converting circuit coupled between the snubber circuit and the negative-voltage ignition circuit; and a third voltage converting circuit coupled between the snubber circuit and the discharging circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2000
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Cheng-Fu Tsai, Hsi-Pin Li, Jui-Fang Liang, Hsiang-Kuo Li
  • Patent number: 5872347
    Abstract: It is a main object of the present invention to improve the drawback of a conventional wire cut EDM which controls the pulse width of discharging current to supply discharge energy under the state of constant current slope. The discharging current slope control method and device of the wire cut electrical discharge machine of the present invention comprises an electrical discharge detecting circuit, a timing controller circuit, a normal discharge driver circuit, an arc discharge driver circuit, normal discharge switch elements and arc discharge switch elements. The slopes of the output triangle waveform currents shall be variable due to the different results of detecting by the electrical discharge detecting circuit, depending on normal discharge or arc discharge condition, to render the current slope of the arc discharge smaller than the current slope of the normal discharge, so as to achieve the effect of keeping a high machining speed without easily breaking of the wire electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 16, 1999
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Hsi-Pin Li, Jui-Fang Liang, Cheng-Fu Tsai
  • Patent number: D1071116
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: AIRMATE ELECTRICAL (JIUJIANG) CO., LTD
    Inventors: Cheng-Fu Tsai, Jiaxin Zheng
  • Patent number: D1071117
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: AIRMATE ELECTRICAL (JIUJIANG) CO., LTD
    Inventors: Cheng-Fu Tsai, Jiaxin Zheng