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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 27, 1994
Filed:
Jul. 15, 1993
Applicant:
Inventor:
Victor L Chun, Charlotte, NC (US);
Assignee:
Murata Machinery, Ltd., Kyoto, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B23K / ; B23K / ; B23K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
21912139 ; 21912148 ; 21912144 ; 21912167 ; 266 48 ;
Abstract
A sheet material hybrid cutting apparatus has a laser beam cutting head mounted side-by-side with a plasma arc cutting head on a shuttle carrier plate movably mounted to enable positioning of either cutting head a single cutting station. The cutting heads are mounted in a punch press with a punching station offset from the cutting station to provide punching of a sheet material workpiece moved across a table by a carriage as well as contouring by either of the laser beam or plasma arc cutting heads.