Electric heating – Metal heating – Cutting or disintegrating
Patent
1992-05-18
1994-01-04
Evans, Geoffrey S.
Electric heating
Metal heating
Cutting or disintegrating
219 6913, 219 6916, 219 6918, B23H 102
Patent
active
052763021
ABSTRACT:
A method for controlling an electric discharge machining apparatus of the type in which a workpiece is machined by generating an electric discharge across a machining gap between a confronting electrode and the workpiece through a machining solution while feeding the electrode towards the workpiece includes the steps of determining current removal rate of material from the workpiece, calculating current removal efficiency based on the current removal rate and average machining current applied to the electrode, comparing the current removal efficiency with an optimal removal efficiency corresponding to peak current applied to the electrode, and when the current removal efficiency is less than or equal to a predetermined percentage of the optimal removal efficiency, adjusting at least one of a plurality of machining parameters to increase the current removal efficiency. According to one aspect of the present invention, the machining parameters include average machining current, the ON time of an applied voltage pulse, the circulation rate induced by a jump operation of the electrode and the flow rate of machining solution in the machining gap. The optimal removal efficiency values used in the inventive method are determined experimentally.
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Evans Geoffrey S.
Mitsubishi Denki K.K.
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