Patents by Inventor Masashi Sakaguchi

Masashi Sakaguchi 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: 11684987
    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: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Sodick Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masashi Sakaguchi, Akio Hosaka
  • Publication number: 20230191514
    Abstract: Provided is an electric discharge machining apparatus including: a wire guide, positioning and guiding a wire electrode stretched perpendicularly to a horizontal line; a power conductor, energizing the wire electrode; a guide assembly, accommodating the wire guide and the power conductor; an extrusion member, provided in the guide assembly and pushing out the power conductor in a direction of the wire electrode; a drive device, reciprocating the extrusion member in a horizontal uniaxial direction; a fixing device, fixing the power conductor in a predetermined position within the guide assembly by the extrusion member; and an elastic member, provided coaxially with the extrusion member of the fixing device and constantly pushing out the power conductor in the direction of the wire electrode in a state in which the power conductor is attachable to and detachable from the guide assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2022
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Applicant: Sodick Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Masashi SAKAGUCHI
  • Patent number: 11521440
    Abstract: The present invention makes it possible to provide temperature traceability for a test vehicle. A vehicle control device controls temperature information for a test vehicle and includes a peripheral temperature acquisition unit that acquires a peripheral temperature of a test vehicle from a first temperature sensor that is provided in a soak chamber where the test vehicle is stored or in a test chamber where the test vehicle is tested, a position information acquisition unit that acquires position information for the test vehicle, and a recording unit that associates the peripheral temperature of the test vehicle with the position information for that test vehicle and records the association.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: HORIBA, LTD.
    Inventors: Mineyuki Komada, Masashi Sakaguchi, Mitsunobu Yamamoto, Masahiro Yamaoka
  • Patent number: 11440114
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a wire electric discharge machine which has a simple configuration and can make a wire electrode fed to a machining position rotate around an axis. The wire electric discharge machine for machining a workpiece includes an upper wire guide and a lower wire guide, which stretch a wire electrode therebetween, and a rotator. A position of the rotator is changed, whereby the wire electrode is rotated around an axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: SODICK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hirotoshi Inoue, Masashi Sakaguchi
  • Patent number: 11389886
    Abstract: The disclosure provides an electric discharge machining apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: Sodick Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Masashi Sakaguchi
  • Publication number: 20220176481
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a machining program generating device of a wire discharge machine, a machining program generating method, a wire discharge machining system and a machined object manufacturing method. The machining method of the wire discharge machine of the disclosure includes: a processing of forming and machining a claw part on at least one of a machining path of a machining groove and a machining path of a dividing line for dividing a core that forms an inner part of a workpiece separated by the machining groove; and a processing of separating the core from the workpiece by dividing at the dividing line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Applicant: Sodick Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsubasa KURAGAYA, Masashi SAKAGUCHI
  • Patent number: 11311954
    Abstract: A core moving device is provided, including a core adsorption holding part for adsorbing and moving a core cut out of a workpiece with a magnetic force of a magnet. The core adsorption holding part includes: a rod member, a distal end portion of which is constituted of the magnet; a bottomed cylindrical member which has a bottom surface on a distal end portion side and into which the rod member is inserted from a base end portion side; and a cylindrical member drive part which moves the bottomed cylindrical member forward, wherein the bottomed cylindrical member, on one hand, moves backward to adsorb the core to the magnet and, on the other hand, moves forward to remove the core adsorbed to the magnet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: SODICK CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masashi Sakaguchi
  • Patent number: 11285556
    Abstract: A core moving device includes a core adsorption holding part which adsorbs a core cut out of a workpiece with a magnet and moves the core, in which the core adsorption holding part includes a rod member in which a distal end portion thereof is constituted of the magnet, a cylindrical member into which the rod member is inserted and which, on one hand, moves backward to expose a distal end surface of the rod member so that the core is adsorbed to the distal end surface of the rod member and, on the other hand, moves forward to protrude from the distal end surface of the rod member so that the core is removed from the distal end surface of the rod member, and a cylindrical member drive unit which at least moves the cylindrical member forward.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: Sodick Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Masashi Sakaguchi
  • Publication number: 20220001474
    Abstract: An electric discharge machine is provided. The electric discharge machine includes: an axis drive part moving a tool electrode in at least one axial direction; and a sensor unit detecting a linear movement position of the axis drive part in the axial direction. The sensor unit includes a measurement scale having a linear shape, a position detector scanning the measurement scale and obtaining position information, and a pair of adjustment blocks fixed to both ends of the measurement scale or the position detector and erected perpendicular to an extension direction of the measurement scale. The adjustment blocks are fixed to the axis drive part and are curved in the axial direction due to a temperature change.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2021
    Publication date: January 6, 2022
    Applicant: Sodick Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Masashi SAKAGUCHI
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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: 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
  • Patent number: 10987746
    Abstract: A wire electric discharge machining apparatus includes upper and lower wire guide units including wire guides configured to position and guide a wire electrode and a jet nozzle configured to supply a jet flow coaxially with the wire electrode, and a core holding pad having a through-hole passing therethrough in an upward/downward direction, and in which a plurality of protrusion sections having an equal distance from upper surfaces thereof to a lower surface of the workpiece are formed. The core holding pad is disposed on the lower wire guide unit such that the core holding pad approaches the lower surface of the workpiece as closely as possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: Sodick Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Masashi Sakaguchi
  • Publication number: 20200368837
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a wire electric discharge machine which has a simple configuration and can make a wire electrode fed to a machining position rotate around an axis. The wire electric discharge machine for machining a workpiece includes an upper wire guide and a lower wire guide, which stretch a wire electrode therebetween, and a rotator. A position of the rotator is changed, whereby the wire electrode is rotated around an axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2020
    Publication date: November 26, 2020
    Applicant: SODICK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hirotoshi INOUE, Masashi SAKAGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20200168013
    Abstract: The present invention makes it possible to provide temperature traceability for a test vehicle. A vehicle control device controls temperature information for a test vehicle and includes a peripheral temperature acquisition unit that acquires a peripheral temperature of a test vehicle from a first temperature sensor that is provided in a soak chamber where the test vehicle is stored or in a test chamber where the test vehicle is tested, a position information acquisition unit that acquires position information for the test vehicle, and a recording unit that associates the peripheral temperature of the test vehicle with the position information for that test vehicle and records the association.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2019
    Publication date: May 28, 2020
    Applicant: HORIBA, LTD.
    Inventors: Mineyuki KOMADA, Masashi SAKAGUCHI, Mitsunobu YAMAMOTO, Masahiro YAMAOKA
  • Publication number: 20200122251
    Abstract: The disclosure provides an electric discharge machining apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2019
    Publication date: April 23, 2020
    Applicant: SODICK CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masashi Sakaguchi
  • Publication number: 20200114444
    Abstract: A core moving device is provided, including a core adsorption holding part for adsorbing and moving a core cut out of a workpiece with a magnetic force of a magnet. The core adsorption holding part includes: a rod member, a distal end portion of which is constituted of the magnet; a bottomed cylindrical member which has a bottom surface on a distal end portion side and into which the rod member is inserted from a base end portion side; and a cylindrical member drive part which moves the bottomed cylindrical member forward, wherein the bottomed cylindrical member, on one hand, moves backward to adsorb the core to the magnet and, on the other hand, moves forward to remove the core adsorbed to the magnet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2019
    Publication date: April 16, 2020
    Applicant: SODICK CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masashi Sakaguchi
  • Publication number: 20200047271
    Abstract: A core moving device includes a core adsorption holding part which adsorbs a core cut out of a workpiece with a magnet and moves the core, in which the core adsorption holding part includes a rod member in which a distal end portion thereof is constituted of the magnet, a cylindrical member into which the rod member is inserted and which, on one hand, moves backward to expose a distal end surface of the rod member so that the core is adsorbed to the distal end surface of the rod member and, on the other hand, moves forward to protrude from the distal end surface of the rod member so that the core is removed from the distal end surface of the rod member, and a cylindrical member drive unit which at least moves the cylindrical member forward.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2019
    Publication date: February 13, 2020
    Applicant: SODICK CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masashi SAKAGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20190255638
    Abstract: A wire electric discharge machining apparatus includes upper and lower wire guide units including wire guides configured to position and guide a wire electrode and a jet nozzle configured to supply a jet flow coaxially with the wire electrode, and a core holding pad having a through-hole passing therethrough in an upward/downward direction, and in which a plurality of protrusion sections having an equal distance from upper surfaces thereof to a lower surface of the workpiece are formed. The core holding pad is disposed on the lower wire guide unit such that the core holding pad approaches the lower surface of the workpiece as closely as possible.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2019
    Publication date: August 22, 2019
    Applicant: Sodick Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Masashi Sakaguchi