Mitsubishi Electric Corporation

Tsubasa Yagi

Yoichi Otomo

Atsushi Itokazu

A multiwire electric discharge machine includes: a plurality of guide rollers; a machining power supply that applies a voltage between each of a plurality of cutting wire sections and a workpiece; a dummy workpiece including a contact surface curved in such a way as to be capable of coming into contact with a curved surface of the workpiece except for an end point, the end point being to be reached by each of the plurality of cutting wire sections when machining of the workpiece is completed, the dummy workpiece supporting the workpiece from one side in a first direction, the first direction being a direction in which the workpiece moves; and a pressing mechanism including a pressing portion, the pressing mechanism pressing the workpiece against the dummy workpiece by bringing the pressing portion into contact with the workpiece from another side in the first direction.

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Tokyo, Japan

Tsubasa Yagi