US Patent Issued to MAKINO MILLING MACHINE on Sept. 16 for "Tool path generation method, tool path generation device, and machine tool control device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,907, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to MAKINO MILLING MACHINE Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Tool path generation method, tool path generation device, and machine tool control device" was invented by Jiro Yasukochi (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a tool path generation method for generating a tool path (Tp), along which a workpiece is machined as a tool (T) moves over a tool movement curved surface (So) generated along a work surface of the workpiece. In this method: a scanning policy is set, which is a rule for establishing a path along which the tool is to move over the tool movement curved surface (So); a dividi...