ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,377,494, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to MAKINO MILLING MACHINE Co. LTD. (Tokyo).
"Water jet laser processing machine" was invented by Kenichi Yada (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A water jet laser processing machine (100) is provided with a nozzle (26) that can eject a water column (34) and introduce a laser beam into the water column (34), a pump (40) that supplies pressurized water to the nozzle (26), a pressure sensor (42) that detects the pressure of the water supplied from the pump (40) to the nozzle (26), a storage unit (52) that stores a threshold value for assessing a decrease in the pressure of the water suppli...