US Patent Issued to FANUC on Feb. 25 for "Controller, control system, and control method of machine tool" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,235,620, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to FANUC Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan).

"Controller, control system, and control method of machine tool" was invented by Junya Satou (Yamanashi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A time necessary for phase alignment is shortened in a polygon machining device having a plurality of cutting tools. In phase alignment of polygon machining, a phase RCURRENT of the workpiece axis and tool axis before phase alignment and a machining-allowing phase command value RNEW(n) are calculated, a new phase command value R'NEW is calculated while considering restrictions such as a phase alignment method and a maximum ...