US Patent Issued to DMG MORI on Nov. 4 for "Machine tool, and control apparatus and control method thereof" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,070, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to DMG MORI Co. LTD. (Nara, Japan).

"Machine tool, and control apparatus and control method thereof" was invented by Akihiro Tanaka (Nara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To perform cleaning in a machine while meeting a user's requirement to perform machining without supplying a coolant to a work or a tool, a machine tool that performs machining for a work using a tool includes a controller that performs mode switching between a half-wet machining mode in which a coolant is supplied to a non-machining area to remove chips in the machine tool during machining, and no coolant is supplied to a mac...