US Patent Issued to DMG MORI on June 24 for "Chip detection apparatus, machine tool, chip detection method, and learning image composition apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,494, issued on June 24, was assigned to DMG MORI Co. LTD. (Nara, Japan).

"Chip detection apparatus, machine tool, chip detection method, and learning image composition apparatus" was invented by Junichiro Okuno (Sapporo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To easily and accurately detect chips produced when processing a work by a machine tool, there is provided a chip detection apparatus for detecting chips produced when processing a work by a machine tool. The chip detection apparatus includes a mesh divider that performs processing of dividing, into a plurality of mesh images in a predetermined mesh size, at least part of an area ...