Patent ID: 8999136
Filing Date: 2015-04-07
Classification: B23H,G05B,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A method for compensating a wear of an electrode, used in an electric discharge machine, that machines a workpiece with at least one pocket, wherein the pocket is an amount of metal to be removed from the workpiece during a pass of the machine, the method comprising: machining a first pocket from plural pockets; comparing a length of the electrode at the end of the first pocket to determine a volume of consumed material from the electrode; selecting a current pocket, adjacent to the first pocket, to be machined from plural pockets of the workpiece; updating a wear compensation to be applied to the electrode for the current pocket based on a wear compensation of a previous pocket; and applying the updated wear compensation to the electrode and machining the current pocket from the plural pockets: wherein the current pocket is a second adjacent pocket.