US Patent Issued to FANUC on Jan. 27 for "Numerical control device, machining system simulator, and numerical control program" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,791, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to FANUC Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan).

"Numerical control device, machining system simulator, and numerical control program" was invented by Toshihiro Watanabe (Yamanashi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A numerical control device according to one aspect of the present disclosure capable of easily setting a tip point control is provided with: an edge shape information storage unit; a center position calculation unit that calculates a center position of rotation of a multi-edge tool having machining edges; an edge switching determination unit that determines whether or not edge switching is to be ...