US Patent Issued to Okuma on Sept. 23 for "Calibration method and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing calibration program for contact tool sensor in machine tool, and machine tool" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,240, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Okuma Corp. (Niwa-Gun, Japan).

"Calibration method and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing calibration program for contact tool sensor in machine tool, and machine tool" was invented by Daichi Kawauchi (Niwa-Gun, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for calibrating a positional relation between a main spindle and a contact tool sensor attached to a table in a machine tool. The method includes: mounting a reference tool on the main spindle and obtaining measurement position coordinates as respective tool sensor measurement values, the measurement position coordinat...