US Patent Issued to Sodick on Jan. 27 for "Multi-axis processing machine and method for measuring rotation center of multi-axis processing machine" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,765, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Sodick Co. Ltd. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Multi-axis processing machine and method for measuring rotation center of multi-axis processing machine" was invented by Michihisa Kawasaki (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for measuring a rotation center of a multi-axis processing machine 100 includes: using reference ball 8 and a measurement device 7 which has a probe 71 and measures, as a measurement value 72, a movement amount of the probe 71 when the reference ball 8 contacts the probe 71; executing a measurement process of rotating the rotation axis to measure the measurement val...