The present disclosure relates to the technical field of aerospace, and provides a machining method for an ultra-high strength steel high-aspect-ratio wind tunnel test model part. The machining method includes the following steps: a) selecting a material; b) performing preliminary treatment, such as forging and solid solution heat treatment, on the material; c) performing rough milling to obtain a wing main body profile, process reference blocks, and grooves and holes with large sizes on a molded surface; d) performing finish milling on all machining features of a wing main body; e) removing all process reference blocks except the first process reference block; f) performing aging strengthening treatment when the wing main body is lifted; h) removing a process reference block at a wing main body root; and h) performing shaping treatment on the wing main body.

To automatically change and set machining conditions suitable for a plate thickness even when machining paths of a rough machining step and an end surface finishing step are different in level difference machining in which the plate thickness changes during machining. In a wire electric discharge machining method and a wire electric discharge machining apparatus of the disclosure, an XY-plane of a workpiece stand is divided into small regions to form a plurality of divided regions, and a plate thickness of the workpiece is detected and stored in association with the divided regions. Thereafter, whether there is a level difference ahead of a traveling direction of a machining path is estimated according to plate thickness information associated with the divided regions and a plate thickness of the workpiece at a current machining position, and machining conditions are changed.

A wire electrical discharge machine includes: a determination unit that determines whether or not a first route and a second route, each including an approach path, a machining path and an escape path in this order, are set in this order as a movement route of a wire electrode; and a wire movement control unit that, when the first route and the second route are determined to be set in a machining program in this order as the movement route of the wire electrode, causes the wire electrode to transition from the machining path of the first route to the machining path of the second route without moving the wire electrode along the escape path of the first route and the approach path of the second route.

A primary power supply charges a capacitor by turning on a switching element and, upon completion of charging, turns off the switching element. Then, an AC pulse voltage is applied to the gap between a wire electrode and a workpiece by alternately turning on and off a switching element present in a secondary power supply. After a dielectric breakdown occurs between the wire electrode and the workpiece, the switching element is turned on to connect the capacitor so that the capacitor supplies a pulse current for machining.

The disclosure provides a machining program generating device of a wire discharge machine, a machining program generating method, a wire discharge machining system and a machined object manufacturing method. The machining method of the wire discharge machine of the disclosure includes: a processing of forming and machining a claw part on at least one of a machining path of a machining groove and a machining path of a dividing line for dividing a core that forms an inner part of a workpiece separated by the machining groove; and a processing of separating the core from the workpiece by dividing at the dividing line.

To automatically change and set machining conditions suitable for a plate thickness even when machining paths of a rough machining step and an end surface finishing step are different in level difference machining in which the plate thickness changes during machining. In a wire electric discharge machining method and a wire electric discharge machining apparatus of the disclosure, an XY-plane of a workpiece stand is divided into small regions to form a plurality of divided regions, and a plate thickness of the workpiece is detected and stored in association with the divided regions. Thereafter, whether there is a level difference ahead of a traveling direction of a machining path is estimated according to plate thickness information associated with the divided regions and a plate thickness of the workpiece at a current machining position, and machining conditions are changed.

A controller for a wire electrical discharge machine that machines a workpiece along a machining path by relatively moving the workpiece and a wire electrode to each other while generating electric discharge across an electrode gap between the workpiece and the wire electrode, includes: a machining surface state acquisition unit configured to acquire the state of a machining surface of the workpiece; and a machining path setting unit configured to specify an excessively machined portion of the workpiece based on the acquired state of the machining surface and set an approach point at which the wire electrode is made to approach the machining surface from a machining start point, so as to avoid the excessively machined portion.

A wire electrical discharge machine includes: a determination unit that determines whether or not a first route and a second route, each including an approach path, a machining path and an escape path in this order, are set in this order as a movement route of a wire electrode; and a wire movement control unit that, when the first route and the second route are determined to be set in a machining program in this order as the movement route of the wire electrode, causes the wire electrode to transition from the machining path of the first route to the machining path of the second route without moving the wire electrode along the escape path of the first route and the approach path of the second route.

A device for the electrochemical processing of a metal workpiece, including a plurality of electrodes that by way of respective linear drive units are movable in a linear manner relative to the workpiece from an initial position to a terminal position, the electrodes having a reproduction face that is directed toward the workpiece, wherein at least three electrodes are provided, the electrodes being disposed so as to be offset around the circumference of the workpiece and by way of the reproduction faces of the electrodes during the entire readjustment movement from the initial position to the terminal position engaging across one another in portions so as to be in contact, and by way of the reproduction faces of the electrodes delimiting a fluid duct that in a closed manner encircles the circumference of the workpiece.

A method of manufacturing a gear, the method includes applying a first charge to a workpiece and applying a second, opposite charge to an electrochemical machining (ECM) attachment, the ECM attachment having a pattern. The method further includes simultaneously forming a plurality of surfaces of a gear tooth in the workpiece using the pattern of the ECM attachment while applying the first charge to the workpiece and applying the second charge to the ECM attachment and turning the workpiece and the ECM attachment in opposite rotational directions. The plurality of surfaces includes at least one end face and a top land of the gear tooth.