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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 17, 2017
Filed:
Oct. 23, 2013
Applicant:
Amada Company, Limited, Kanagawa, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
AMADA COMPANY, LIMITED, Kanagawa, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 19/00 (2011.01); B21D 5/00 (2006.01); G06F 15/00 (2006.01); B21D 5/02 (2006.01); G01N 3/20 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B21D 5/006 (2013.01); B21D 5/02 (2013.01); G01N 3/20 (2013.01); G06F 15/00 (2013.01); G06F 19/00 (2013.01);
Abstract
A machine tool for bending a workpiece by clamping the workpiece with a die and a punch is configured to: distinguish a material characteristic of the workpiece as an actual value and a nominal value; determine an actual material characteristic during an machining operation and re-calculate an operation target value suitable for the workpiece; and bend the workpiece by operating the punch in accordance with the suitable operation target value thus re-calculated.