A wire electric discharge machining apparatus includes upper and lower wire guide units including wire guides configured to position and guide a wire electrode and a jet nozzle configured to supply a jet flow coaxially with the wire electrode, and a core holding pad having a through-hole passing therethrough in an upward/downward direction, and in which a plurality of protrusion sections having an equal distance from upper surfaces thereof to a lower surface of the workpiece are formed. The core holding pad is disposed on the lower wire guide unit such that the core holding pad approaches the lower surface of the workpiece as closely as possible.

A wire electrical discharge machine includes a wire feeding hole position acquisition unit configured to obtain a position of a wire feeding hole that allows for insertion and feeding of a wire electrode. In this wire electrical discharge machine, when the position of the wire feeding hole obtained by the wire feeding hole position acquisition unit is deviated from a wire feeding position defined by a machining program, a wire feeding control unit controls a machine main body to move the wire electrode to the position of the wire feeding hole and feed the wire electrode there, and a machining control unit controls the machine main body to perform electrical discharge machining on a workpiece with the wire electrode while moving the wire electrode on a path segment between a position where the wire electrode has been fed and the wire feeding position defined by the machining program.

A wire electrical discharge machine includes: a guide pipe as a guide member arranged on a path for feeding a wire electrode from a feed roller toward a workpiece and having a passage hole through which the wire electrode is passed; an airflow generator for generating a flow of compressed air in the passage hole and switching a flow direction of compressed air flowing through the passage hole between a forward direction and a reverse direction; a deflection detector for detecting a deflection of the wire electrode; and a control device for controlling the airflow generator so as to generate a flow of compressed air in the forward direction in the passage hole during auto wire feeding and, when the deflection detector detects the deflection, change the flow direction of compressed air to the reverse direction and thereafter switch the flow direction of compressed air to the forward direction.

A wire guide device of a wire electrical discharge machine includes a first roller shaft, a first wire guide roller provided at an end of the first roller shaft, a second roller shaft, and a second wire guide roller provided at an end of the second roller shaft and having an end face in an axial direction provided to face an end face of the first wire guide roller in the axial direction. The first wire guide roller and the second wire guide roller have a conical surface and a conical surface with which a wire electrode is in contact.

The disclosure provides a wire electric discharge machine which has a simple configuration and can make a wire electrode fed to a machining position rotate around an axis. The wire electric discharge machine for machining a workpiece includes an upper wire guide and a lower wire guide, which stretch a wire electrode therebetween, and a rotator. A position of the rotator is changed, whereby the wire electrode is rotated around an axis.

To provide a wire electrical discharge machine for which the machining precision of corner parts and corner exit parts in a workpiece are improved. A wire electrical discharge machine includes a machining path compensation unit which compensates a machining path, in a case of creating a corner part which is a circular arc as a second machining block, by compensating a position of a center of the circular arc of the second machining block by way of a first compensation vector calculated based on at least one indicator among the four indicators of deflection of a wire electrode, etc., and inserting a linear first compensation block between an end point of the first machining block and a start point of a second machining block which was compensated, and by eliminating a predetermined distance from the start point of a third machining block, creates a starting point of this third machining block, and then inserts a second compensation block between the end point of the compensated second machining block and the created starting point of the first machining block.

A wire electrical discharge machine includes an upper wire guide and a lower wire guide supporting a wire electrode, a probe provided on an upper guide block having the upper wire guide, an offset storage unit for storing an offset amount from the upper wire guide to the probe, a position shift drive unit for changing the relative position between the table, and the upper and lower wire guides, a drive controller for controlling the position shift drive unit, a contact position calculator for calculating a contact position that is a position of the probe when it comes in contact, and a machining start position calculator for calculating a machining start position of the wire electrode, based on at least two contact positions and the offset amount. The drive controller controls the position shift drive unit so that the position of the wire electrode becomes the machining start position.

This small-hole electric discharge machining machine for electric discharge machining of a workpiece by use of a rod-like or pipe-like electrode is equipped with: a first support part for supporting the base side of the electrode; a second support part for supporting the tip side of the electrode; and an intermediate guide device that is disposed between the first support part and the second support part, and guides the electrode. The intermediate guide device is equipped with: a guide part that has an open form and a closed form, and guides the electrode when in the closed form; a driving means for causing the guide part to transition between the open form and the closed form; and a biasing means for biasing the guide part in the closing direction when the guide part is in the closed form.

A wire electrical discharge machine for performing electrical discharge machining on a workpiece to be machined by applying voltage to an electrode gap formed between a wire electrode and the workpiece to generate electrical discharge at the electrode gap under predetermined machining conditions while conveying the wire electrode along a transfer path, includes: a wire breakage detector for detecting a breakage of the wire electrode; a position calculator for calculating the breakage position of the wire electrode in the transfer path; and an adjustment unit for adjusting the machining conditions when the breakage position is in a predetermined section of the transfer path.

A WEDM machine tool for machining a disc-shaped porous part, comprises a workbench, a central stand column, a rotary device, a plurality of wire rack assemblies and a wire feeding mechanism comprising a bottom plate, a wire rack arranged on the bottom plate and a radial driving mechanism for driving the wire rack to move in a radial direction on the bottom plate; and the wire rack is a [-shaped rack with an opening oriented to the central stand column; and the wire feeding mechanism comprises a first guide wheel assembly arranged on the workbench to guide an electrode wire into and out of a wire winding barrel, second guide wheel assemblies arranged on the radial driving mechanism and the wire rack, a third guide wheel assembly arranged on the central stand column and a fourth guide wheel assembly arranged between two wire rack assemblies.