Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha

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Mitsubishi Electric Corporation

Japan Science and Technology Corporation

Mitsubishi Denki K.k.

Mitusbishi Denki Kasushiki Kaisha

Yoshihito Imai

Hidetaka Miyake

Takayuki Nakagawa

Takuji Magara

Akihiro Goto

Tatsushi Sato

Teiji Takahashi

Takaaki Iwata

Takashi Yuzawa

Tomoko Sendai

Atsushi Morita

Masato Matsubara

Naotake Mohri

Nagao Saito

Osamu Nagano

Tsukasa Fukushima

Takeshi Sakata

Shuhei Nakata

Shigeru Matsuno

Hisashi Yamada

Yoshio Ozaki

Yoichiro Nishimoto

Atsushi Taneda

Seiji Sato

Yoshiki Tsunekawa

Hajime Ogawa

Tetsuya Shiroishi

Takeyuki Maegawa

Hisaichi Maruyama

Akihiko Hosono

Naotake Mouri

Akio Noda

Hiroyoshi Omura

Mitsuaki Akune

Yoshifumi Nanasawa

Nagao Saitoh

Kohei Shimamoto

An electrical discharge machine feeds an electrode wire received within a guide tube to a process region of a machined article. The electrical discharge machine includes a cylindrical hollow driving shaft arranged in a vertical direction, which has a space for receiving the guide tube with the electrode wire along a vertical central axis. A head assembly includes a first holding member for holding the guide tube, and a second holding member for holding the electrode wire extending from a bottom opening of the guide tube. The head assembly is detachably coupled with a bottom portion of the driving shaft. Therefore, the electrode wire can be replaced by replacing the head assembly.

Electrical discharge machine

Provided are a wire electric discharge machining method for poorly conductive materials, such as solar cell silicon, and a semiconductor wafer manufacturing method and a solar battery cell manufacturing method based on the wire electric discharge machining method. Electrical discharge machining of a high volume resistivity, hard and brittle materials, having a volume resistivity that is equal to or higher than 0.5 &#x3a9;&#xb7;cm and equal to or lower than 5 &#x3a9;&#xb7;cm is performed by applying a pulse voltage having a pulse width that is equal to or higher than 1 &#x3bc;sec and equal to or lower than 4 &#x3bc;sec and having a peak current at the time of machining a wire electrode that is equal to or higher than 10A and equal to or lower than 50A to a wire electrode and generating a discharge pulse between the wire electrode and a subject to be machined.

Wire electric discharge machining method, semiconductor wafer manufacturing method, and solar battery cell manufacturing method

A signal processing portion obtains the reciprocal of a composite impedance of gap static capacitance and a plasma impedance, obtains composite static capacitance which is the sum of the gap static capacitance and a static capacitance component included in the plasma impedance from an imaginary part of the reciprocal, and obtains a resistance component included in the plasma impedance from a real part of the reciprocal. A gap detection device obtains the static capacitance component by using a model representing the characteristics of the reciprocal of the plasma impedance and the resistance component and obtains the gap static capacitance by subtracting the static capacitance component from the composite static capacitance. The gap detection device obtains a gap from the obtained gap static capacitance. Thus provided is a technique to detect a gap between a nozzle of a laser beam machine for outputting a laser beam and an object to be machined with high accuracy.

Gap detection device for laser beam machine, laser beam machining system and gap detection method for laser beam machine

To provide a method of manufacturing a field emission display having an improved electron emission effect by means of laser irradiation and accordingly mitigating a luminance fluctuation among pixels, and other such techniques. Provided is a method of manufacturing a field emission display which includes a cathode substrate and a fluorescent screen glass opposed to the cathode substrate and emits light when an electron emitted from a carbon nanotube printed layer () containing a carbon nanotube of the cathode electrode enters a fluorescent material of the fluorescent screen glass, the method including a laser beam irradiation step of irradiating a surface of the carbon nanotube printed layer () with a laser beam having its energy density to be spatially modulated to expose and raise the carbon nanotube of the carbon nanotube printed layer so as to form a laser irradiation part (B) and a non-laser irradiation part (C).

Manufacturing method for field emission display

An electric discharge machining apparatus includes a guide electrode that is tubular and receives a small-diameter wire electrode for electric discharge machining. The small-diameter wire electrode can freely slide within the guide electrode. A guide electrode holder holds the guide electrode at a specified position. Pressurized fluid is supplied into the guide electrode to feed the small-diameter wire electrode from the guide electrode. A small-diameter wire electrode holder automatically releases and grasps the small-diameter wire electrode in response to starting and stopping of the pressurized fluid supply, respectively.

Electric discharge machining apparatus

In an electric discharge machine, wherein electric power is supplied between an electrode and a workpiece to machine the workpiece, a jumping motion is performed to temporarily increase a distance between the electrode and the workpiece. The electric discharge machine includes a detector for detecting a machining reaction force; a setting unit for setting a specified value of the machining reaction force; a comparator for comparing a detected value of the machining reaction force with a specified value of the machining reaction force; and a changing unit for changing a locus of the jumping motion so that the machining reaction force can be reduced if the comparator finds that the detected value of the machining reaction force is greater than the specified value of the machining reaction force.

Electric discharge machine with reactive force compensated by jump locus adjustment

An electric discharge machining apparatus has improved responsive drivability and improved machining speed. A tool electrode has a tip end directed toward a work piece, a voltage applied between the tool electrode and the work piece generating a discharge. A drive shaft is connected with the tool electrode. An electrode driving device has magnetic bearings for moving the drive shaft in three directions, including a Z-axis direction, which is an axial direction of the drive shaft, a Y-axis direction perpendicularly crossing the Z-axis direction, and an X-axis direction perpendicularly crossing the Y-axis direction and Z-axis direction, by supplying electric current to electromagnetic portions to control magnetic attraction. A movable coupling is connected with an end of the drive shaft and is movable in the three directions. An electric motor is connected with an end of the coupling for rotating the drive shaft through the coupling.

An electric discharge machining apparatus is provided with an electrode mounting section which mounts a tool electrode, and an electrode driving section which has a radial driving section which supports and drives the electrode mounting section in a non-contact manner in a radial direction and a thrust driving section which supports and drives the electrode mounting section in a non-contact manner in a thrust direction, and a machining state is controlled by adjusting a position of the tool electrode by the electrode driving section. Because of such a structure, a mass increase of a section which should be driven together with the electrode is restricted, and high response in X-axis, Y-axis and Z-axis directions are achieved, whereby an electric discharge machining apparatus capable of improving a machining speed and a machining accuracy is achieved.

Electric discharge machining device and electric discharge machining method

A layered anisotropically conductive element, a resistant element, and a feed element constitute an electrode for discharge machining. The layered anisotropically conductive element includes high conductivity layers and low conductivity layers alternately laminated on each other, the high conductivity layers and the low conductivity layers being made of thin metallic plates coated with an insulating film. The layered anisotropically conductive element has an anisotropic conductivity, in which the conductivity in a direction parallel to the low conductivity layers is much higher than that in a direction perpendicular to the low conductivity layers. The resistant element is connected to one of end surfaces of the layered anisotropically conductive element perpendicular to the layers. The feed element is connected to the resistant element.

Electrical discharge machining apparatus

An electric discharge machine for machining a workpiece by an electric discharge by supplying a machining fluid to a gap between an electrode and the workpiece and supplying pulses to the workpiece while providing the electrode with a jump motion, the jump motion being a periodic motion of the electrode relative to the workpiece; wherein the electric discharge machine detects a state quantity caused in a main body of the electric discharge machine by a reactive force produced by a machining operation in the gap between the electrode and the workpiece and changes machining conditions of the workpiece in accordance with a detected value of the state quantity.

Electric discharge machine

An electric discharge machining device including an interelectrode servo control unit for controlling an interelectrode distance between an electrode and an object while applying a voltage across the electrode and the object, and a jump control unit for controlling a jump operation in which the interelectrode distance is temporarily increased at time intervals or in response to a machining state jump control unit includes a jump locus generation unit for generating a smooth command locus having a frequency component in a frequency range. The jump control unit controls the jump operation by using a smooth command locus generated by the jump locus generation unit.

Jump control method and apparatus for electric

A detected value indicating a machining state is filtered and a machining gap between an electrode and a workpiece is adjusted by using a control variable obtained through the filtering. Therefore, machining speed can be improved by maintaining a stable machining state through suppression of a disturbance in a gap distance control system due to eccentricity of an electrode, due to fluctuations in electric characteristics at feeding brush sections, and due to mechanical resonance of the electrode driving system.

Method and apparatus for electrodischarge machining

An error signal is obtained from a reference value and a value indicating a detected state in machining, a first controlled variable is obtained by adding a value obtained by multiplying the error signal by a proportion gain to a value obtained by multiplying the error signal by a first integration gain, a second controlled variable is obtained by multiplying an instruction value by a second integration gain for integration, and a value obtained by adding the first controlled variable to the second controlled variable and multiplying the sum by a machining trajectory vector is used as a controlled variable for a driving unit for adjusting a distance between an electrode and a workpiece in discharge machining. Therefore, it is possible to realize a discharge machining control method and apparatus in which the machining speed can be improved by always maintaining the discharge machining process in an optimal state.

Electric discharge machining control method and electric discharge machining controller

An electric discharge machine for machining a workpiece by an electric discharge by supplying a machining fluid to a gap between an electrode and the workpiece and supplying pulses to the workpiece while providing the electrode with a jump motion having a periodic motion of the electrode relative to the workpiece; wherein the electric discharge machine detects a state quantity caused in a main body of the electric discharge machine by a reactive force produced by a machining operation in the gap between the electrode and the workpiece and changes machining conditions of the workpiece in accordance with a detected value of the state quantity.

EDM with jump motion detecting reactive force

A surface treating is performed by an electric discharge. The electric discharge is generated by applying a voltage between an electrode and a metal workpiece. The electrode is a solid or green compact electrode or the like which is made of a reforming material. The workpiece may be an end mill or the like. Then, a coating layer is formed on a surface of the metal workpiece. Thereafter, a nitriding treatment is performed on the coating layer in a nitriding vessel or the like. Thus, a hard coating layer of better quality is formed on the surface of the workpiece whether a material of the workpiece is steel or hard metal.

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Tokyo, Japan

Yoshihito Imai