Wire electric discharge machining device, and control method and control program therefor

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11890691-B2
Application number	US-201917255894-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 19, 2019
Priority date	Jun 27, 2018
Publication date	Feb 6, 2024
Grant date	Feb 6, 2024

Abstract

The object of the present invention is to make it possible to maintain a stable electric discharge and to achieve a stable quality and machining performance even when a work having a non-uniform composition is machined. A wire electric discharge machining device performs electric discharge machining on a work while controlling an inter-electrode distance between a wire and the work based on an inter-electrode voltage between the wire and the work so as to match a set target voltage. The wire electric discharge machining device includes an inter-electrode voltage measuring unit that measures the inter-electrode voltage, an actual amplitude calculating unit that calculates an amplitude of the measured inter-electrode voltage, and a target voltage correcting unit that corrects the target voltage in such a way that the calculated amplitude approaches the target amplitude that is set to a value larger than zero.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A wire electric discharge machining device comprising:
a wire,
a sensor configured to measure an inter-electrode voltage between the wire and a work; and
a controller configured to includes a processor, and a memory storing a program that, when executed by the processor, causes the processor to perform operations, the operations including:
setting a target voltage value in accordance with a shape of a final machined product to be formed from the work,
calculating an amplitude of the inter-electrode voltage measured by the sensor,
calculating a target voltage correction value for causing the amplitude of the inter-electrode voltage to approach a target amplitude that is set to a value larger than zero,
correcting the target voltage value by using the target voltage correction value, and
controlling an inter-electrode distance between the wire and the work so that the inter-electrode voltage measured by the sensor approaches the corrected target voltage value.

2. The wire electric discharge machining device according to claim 1 , wherein the target voltage correction value is calculated to reduce the target voltage when the amplitude of the inter-electrode voltage is larger than the target amplitude, and the target voltage correction value is calculated to increase the target voltage when the amplitude is smaller than the target amplitude.

3. The wire electric discharge machining device according to claim 1 , wherein the target voltage correction value is limited within a preset limit range.

4. The wire electric discharge machining device according to claim 1 , wherein the operations further include switching whether or not the target voltage is corrected on the basis of a composition of the work.

5. The wire electric discharge machining device according to claim 4 , wherein the target voltage value is corrected when the work contains silicon carbide.

6. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing a control program of the wire electric discharge machining device so as to control the wire electric discharge machining device according to claim 1 .

7. A control method for a wire electric discharge machining device including a wire and a sensor measuring an inter-electrode voltage between the wire and a work, the control method comprising:
setting a target voltage value in accordance with a shape of a final machined product to be formed from the work,
calculating an amplitude of the inter-electrode voltage measured by the sensor,
calculating a target voltage correction value for causing the amplitude of the inter-electrode voltage to approach a target amplitude that is set to a value larger than zero,
correcting the target voltage value by using the target voltage correction value, and
controlling an inter-electrode distance between the wire and the work so that the inter-electrode voltage measured by the sensor approaches the corrected target voltage value.

Assignees

• Makino Milling Machine

Inventors

• Okamoto Yasuhiro
• Kurihara Haruya

Classifications

• B23H7/18 Primary

  for maintaining or controlling the desired spacing between electrode and workpiece · CPC title

• B23H7/04 Primary

  Apparatus for supplying current to working gap; Electric circuits specially adapted therefor · CPC title

• B23H7/20

  for program control, e.g. adaptive · CPC title

• B23H1/024

  Detection of, and response to, abnormal gap conditions, e.g. short circuits (preventing short circuits or other abnormal discharges by altering machining parameters using adaptive control B23H7/16) · CPC title

• B23H1/028

  for multiple gap machining · CPC title