System and method for wire cut discharge machining

• US 6,028,282 A
• Filed: 11/06/1998
• Issued: 02/22/2000
• Est. Priority Date: 03/07/1997
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Sodick Company Limited (Plustech, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Sodick Company Limited (Plustech, Inc.)
• Inventors: Minamikawa, Masateru, Kaneko, Yuji, Toyonaga, Tatsuo
• Primary Examiner(s): Evans, Geoffrey S.
• Application Number:
  US09/180,278
• Time in Patent Office: 473 Days
• Field of Search: 219/69.12, 226/45, 242/416
• US Class Current: 219/69.12
• CPC Class Codes: B23H 7/104 Wire tension control

Abstract

A wire cut electric discharge machine including a device (6) for pulling a wire electrode (1) such that it travels along a wire transport path, a servo motor (4B) which applies tension to the traveling wire electrode, an NC device which generates a signal indicating a tension setting value; a tension detector (9) which detects the tension applied to the wire electrode and generates a signal indicating the detected value, and a tension control device which processes the signal indicating the tension setting value and the signal indicating the tension detection value, and commands the servo motor rotational speed. The tension control device includes a non-essential frequencies setting circuit (20) which sets non-essential frequencies and generates a signal indicating that setting value, and an electric filter device (19), which blocks non-essential frequencies based on the non-essential frequencies setting circuit output signal.

Claims

1. A wire cut electric discharge machine which machines a workpiece by generating an electric discharge between a traveling wire electrode and a workpiece comprising:

a means for pulling a wire electrode such that the wire electrode travels along a wire transport path;

a motor for applying a tension to the traveling wire electrode;

a means for generating a signal indicating a tension setting value;

a tension detection means for detecting the tension applied to the wire electrode and generating a signal indicating the detected value, and

a tension control device which, based on the difference between the tension setting value and the tension detected value, corrects the speed command signal which commands the rotational speed of the motor;

the tension control device comprising a non-essential frequencies setting means, which sets non-essential frequencies and generates a signal indicating the tension setting value, and an electric filter device which blocks non-essential frequencies based on the output signal from the non-essential frequencies setting means.

2. The wire cut electric discharge machine according to claim 1, wherein the non-essential frequencies setting means sets the non-essential frequencies based on the output signal of the tension detection means.

3. The wire cut electric discharge machine according to claim 1, wherein the tension control device further comprises a memory for storing data indicating the relationship between wire electrode information and resonant frequency of the wire electrode.

4. In a wire cut electric discharge machining method for machining a workpiece by generating an electric discharge between a wire electrode traveling along a transport path under a tension applied by a motor, and a workpiece, said wire cut electric discharge machining method comprises:

a step of generating a signal indicating wire electrode tension setting value;

a step of transporting the wire electrode along a transport path;

a step of generating a speed command signal which commands the rotational speed of the motor;

a step of detecting the tension applied to the wire electrode and for generating a signal indicating the detected value;

a step of correcting the speed command signal based on the difference between the setting value and the wire electrode tension detected value;

a step of setting non-essential frequencies which vary the tension based on a signal indicating the wire electrode tension detection value; and

a step of selectively inserting a settable filter for blocking non-essential frequencies based on the settings thereof.