Inspection system for wire electrical discharge machine
AssigneeFanuc Corporation
InventorKazutaka NAKAYAMA
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Abstract
Provided is an inspection system for a wire electrical discharge machine, capable of automatically performing inspection of a constituent element and the like. The inspection system for a wire electrical discharge machine is provided with the wire electrical discharge machine, a robot for inspecting the constituent element of the wire electrical discharge machine, an image pickup device provided on a movable part of tee robot and configured to image the constituent element, an image processing unit configured to acquire an image of the constituent element by means of the image pickup device, and a maintenance necessity determination unit configured to determine the necessity of maintenance of the constituent element based on the image acquired by the image processing unit.
Claims12
An inspection system for a wire electrical discharge machine, which comprises the wire electrical discharge machine, a robot for inspecting a constituent element of the wire electrical discharge machine, and an image pickup device provided on a movable part of the robot and configured to image the constituent element, the inspection system further comprising:
- an image processing unit configured to acquire an image of the constituent element by means of the image pickup device;
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- a maintenance necessity determination unit configured to determine the necessity of maintenance of the constituent element based on the image acquired by the image processing unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.