Wire electrical discharge machine and display method
AssigneeFanuc Corporation
InventorRyuunosuke Tomioka
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Abstract
A wire electrical discharge machine includes: a wire electrode cumulative moving time calculator for calculating a value correlated to a wire electrode cumulative moving time as a cumulative value of time for which a wire electrode has moved in each of multiple wire electrode moving regions which are defined by dividing a movable range of the wire electrode moving relative to a worktable; and a display control unit for displaying on a display unit the information on values correlated to the wire electrode cumulative moving time for respective wire electrode moving regions.
Claims12
A wire electrical discharge machine for implementing electrical discharge machining on a workpiece by applying voltage across an electrode gap formed between a wire electrode and the workpiece to generate electric discharge, comprising:
- a worktable on which the workpiece is set;
- a drive mechanism configured to relatively move the wire electrode and the worktable;
- a wire electrode cumulative moving time calculator configured to calculate a value correlated to a wire electrode cumulative moving time as a cumulative value of time for which the wire electrode has moved in each of wire electrode moving regions which are defined by dividing a movable range of the wire electrode moving relative to the worktable into multiple wire electrode moving regions;
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- a display control unit configured to display on a display unit information on values correlated to the wire electrode cumulative moving time for the respective wire electrode moving regions.
A display method for displaying information on a wire electrical discharge machine including a wire electrode for generating electrical discharge under application of voltage across an electrode gap formed between itself and a workpiece;
- a worktable on which the workpiece is set;
- and a drive mechanism for relatively moving the wire electrode and the worktable, comprising:
- a wire electrode cumulative moving time calculating step of calculating a value correlated to a wire electrode cumulative moving time as a cumulative value of time for which the wire electrode has moved in each of wire electrode moving regions which are defined by dividing a movable range of the wire electrode moving relative to the worktable into multiple wire electrode moving regions;
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- a display control step of displaying on a display unit information on values correlated to the wire electrode cumulative moving time for respective wire electrode moving regions.
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