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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 07, 2026
Filed:
Dec. 01, 2022
Sodick Co., Ltd., Kanagawa, JP;
Hirotoshi Inoue, Kanagawa, JP;
Sodick Co., Ltd., Kanagawa, JP;
Abstract
A wire electric discharge machining apparatus includes a wire electrode and upper and lower guide devices guiding the wire electrode, and includes: a power conductor moving in a first direction as a horizontal axis direction and supplying power by contacting the wire electrode; and a fixing device fixing the power conductor in the lower guide device and switchable between a fixed state, in which a movement of the power conductor relative to the lower guide device in a second direction as another horizontal axis direction orthogonal to the first direction is not possible, and a non-fixed state in which such relative movement is possible. The wire electric discharge machining apparatus includes: a pressing device, movable relative to the lower guide device and pressing the power conductor in the non-fixed state to move in the second direction; and a movement device, moving the pressing device relative to the lower guide device.