US Patent Issued to FANUC on Nov. 4 for "Control device and control system for machine tool performing polygon turning" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,506, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to FANUC Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan).

"Control device and control system for machine tool performing polygon turning" was invented by Nobuhito Oonishi (Yamanashi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device that controls polygon turning to simultaneously rotate a workpiece and a tool and form a polygon on a surface of the workpiece inputs information on misalignment in a rotation direction of a cutting tool T attached to a tool body, generates adjustment pulses to correct the misalignment in the rotation direction of the cutting tool T, and generates a rotation command for rotating, at a pred...