| 摘要 |
<p>A wire electrode supply device for a wire-cut electric discharge machine that prevents a wire electrode from departing from a wire traveling path using a simple configuration. A wire bobbin (2) is driven in a reverse direction of a wire feed direction by a torque motor (3) to apply tension to the wire electrode. A velocity detector (4) that detects a rotation velocity of the wire bobbin (2) is provided. The wire electrode is laid along the wire traveling path that includes a guide roller (14), a brake roller (5), upper and lower guides (8,9), and a wire take-up roller (10a,10b), during which, when the wire electrode is fed out from the wire bobbin, if a velocity detected by the velocity detector meets or exceeds a predetermined velocity, the output torque of the torque motor (3) is increased so that inertial force of the wire bobbin causes the wire electrode to slacken, thus preventing the wire electrode from departing from the wire traveling path. Accordingly, the wire electrode can be simply prevented from departing from the wire traveling path merely by providing a velocity detector, and since the wire electrode does not come out of the wire traveling path the work of laying the wire is made easy.</p> |
