US Patent Issued to Okuma on Jan. 13 for "Error identification method for five-axis-control machine tool, non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, and five-axis-control machine tool" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,573, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Okuma Corp. (Niwa-Gun, Japan).

"Error identification method for five-axis-control machine tool, non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, and five-axis-control machine tool" was invented by Tetsuya Matsushita (Niwa-Gun, Japan) and Takuya Kojima (Niwa-Gun, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An error identification method for identifying an error includes: securing a calibrator having three or more spheres on the table; measuring an initial position of the calibrator with a position measurement sensor tool; calculating a reference angle of each of the rotation axes for positioning the ca...