ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,342, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to SHIBAURA MACHINE Co. LTD. (Tokyo).
"Processing machine, processing system, and method for manufacturing processed object" was invented by Takanobu Akiyama (Shizuoka, Japan), Masahiko Fukuta (Shizuoka, Japan) and Katsuji Gakuhari (Shizuoka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a processing machine 1, an X-axis control unit 33X, in each control cycle Tc, controls the position of an X-axis table 9X in the X-direction by feedback. The Z-axis control unit 33Z, in each control cycle Tc, acquires an up-close detection value of the position of the Z-axis table 9Z in the Z-direction, computes a second ...