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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 25, 1987
Filed:
Feb. 26, 1985
Makoto Goto, Toki, JP;
Abstract
A wire cutting type electrical discharge machining system includes a wire supply device, an upper and lower electrode guides, and a wire take-up device for feeding a wire electrode so as to carry out the discharge machining on an electrically conductive workpiece. An improved wire-disconnection detecting device attached to the system includes a first and second wire-slack detecting members of metallic tube through which the wire is passed with a small distance formed therebetween, a wire-disconnection detecting circuits connected between the detecting members and the wire, including a power supply, and a sensor for sensing a flow of current from the power supply through the detecting members and the wire upon contact of the two due to a slack of the wire. A disconnection of the wire is detected when the flow of current is sensed by the sensor.