US Patent Issued to FANUC on April 8 for "Numerical control device with manual handle configured based on control mode" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,271,177, issued on April 8, was assigned to FANUC Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan).

"Numerical control device with manual handle configured based on control mode" was invented by Nobuhito Oonishi (Yamanashi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a numerical control device which can improve the operability of a machine tool. The numerical control device controls a machine tool having a manual handle for moving a shaft by manual operation. The numerical control device comprises: a control mode determination unit for determining a control mode of the machine tool; a haptic control unit for generating haptic feedback at the manual handle ...