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Wire cutting device, wire transport system, and method for severing of a wire electrode in an EDM machine

US7230200B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateAug 8, 2005
Grant dateJun 12, 2007
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Expiry dateAug 8, 2025

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY10T83/8791
  • WIPO fieldMachine tools
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A wire cutting device for an electrical discharge machining (EDM) machine with a wire draw-off device, which moves a wire electrode along a feed direction into a cutting zone of the EDM machine; and with a deflection unit in order to deflect the wire electrode running in the feed direction into the cutting zone from the feed direction into a cutting area, in which at least one cutting edge acts on the wire electrode in the cutting area in order to cut it.

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