Industrial Technology Research Institute

Cheng-Fu Tsai

Jui-Fang Liang

Hsi-Pin Li

Yea-June Day

Mu-Tian Yan

Hsiang-Kuo Li

A method for solving the problem that the machining accuracy in a corner part or in a circular arc is reduced by the line flexure during the wire-cut electric discharge machining. In the method, the controller of the wire-cut electric discharge machine with a built-in function of measuring error of wire flexure, after the machining, a detection voltage of the machine detects the machined groove. If the wire electrode comes into contact with the workpiece, the short-circuit caused by the wire flexure in the corner part or in a circular arc is detected, and then the compensation value of the wire flexure is gradually changed to continue the groove detection until the wire electrode and the workpiece are not short-circuited and the groove detection stops. Then the wire flexure value in the corner part or in the circular arc is obtained to establish the machining parameter data of the machine to automatically compensate the wire flexure value in the following machining.

Method of measuring flexure value of wire electrode

A wire electric-discharge machining apparatus with recycled electric power is provided, which can recycle the energy stored in the inductor of the discharge circuit to be used as the power source to both the ignition circuit and the discharging circuit, so that the use of electric power is more cost-effective. The wire electric-discharge machining apparatus is of the type having a positive-voltage ignition circuit, a negative-voltage ignition circuit, a discharging circuit, and a snubber circuit. The improvement to the wire electric-discharge machining apparatus comprises: a first voltage converting circuit coupled between the snubber circuit and the positive-voltage ignition circuit; a second voltage converting circuit coupled between the snubber circuit and the negative-voltage ignition circuit; and a third voltage converting circuit coupled between the snubber circuit and the discharging circuit. This foregoing wire electric-discharge machining apparatus is capable of recycling the excessive energy that is intended to be drained out in the prior art into reused power to the ignition circuit and discharging circuit. As a result, the wire electric-discharge machining apparatus not only can help save power consumption and thus electricity cost, but also can help prevent the excessive energy to cause damage to the internal circuitry of the wire electric-discharge machining apparatus.

Power apparatus for wire electric discharge machine

It is a main object of the present invention to improve the drawback of a conventional wire cut EDM which controls the pulse width of discharging current to supply discharge energy under the state of constant current slope. The discharging current slope control method and device of the wire cut electrical discharge machine of the present invention comprises an electrical discharge detecting circuit, a timing controller circuit, a normal discharge driver circuit, an arc discharge driver circuit, normal discharge switch elements and arc discharge switch elements. The slopes of the output triangle waveform currents shall be variable due to the different results of detecting by the electrical discharge detecting circuit, depending on normal discharge or arc discharge condition, to render the current slope of the arc discharge smaller than the current slope of the normal discharge, so as to achieve the effect of keeping a high machining speed without easily breaking of the wire electrode.

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Hsinchu, Taiwan

Cheng-Fu Tsai