US Patent Issued to FANUC on March 11 for "Control device and recording medium encoded with program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,246,386, issued on March 11, was assigned to FANUC Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan).

"Control device and recording medium encoded with program" was invented by Minjie Ai (Yamanashi, Japan) and Tomoyuki Furuta (Yamanashi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A contact detection unit, after executing a first detection operation of contact between the wire electrode and the workpiece at a first relative movement speed and a first pulse cycle, executes a second detection operation of contact between the wire electrode and the workpiece, at a second relative movement speed which is slower than the first relative movement speed, and at a second pulse...