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- Patent Title: Laser apparatus enabling calculation of effective driving time and remaining lifetime taking account of drive conditions including temperature
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Application No.: US15640728Application Date: 2017-07-03
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Publication No.: US09887514B2Publication Date: 2018-02-06
- Inventor: Hiroshi Takigawa , Satoshi Kagiwada
- Applicant: FANUC CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: JP Yamanashi
- Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: JP Yamanashi
- Agency: Studebaker & Brackett PC
- Priority: JP2016-136319 20160708
- Main IPC: G01N21/00
- IPC: G01N21/00 ; H01S5/00 ; H01S5/062 ; G01N21/68 ; G01N21/64 ; G01J3/02

Abstract:
A first calculation unit calculates an acceleration factor of lifetime consumption of the light source with as case of a standard temperature and standard drive condition as a reference, a second calculation unit calculates a whole lifetime or remaining lifetime of individual light sources relative to a performance index of the individual light sources or a change rate of the performance index, a computation unit obtains an effective cumulative driving time at which the magnitude of influence imparted on the lifetime is equivalent with a case of driving at the standard temperature and standard drive condition, by calculating a time integral of the acceleration factor, and a recording unit records the effective cumulative driving time and the whole lifetime or remaining lifetime together with an optical output characteristic of the light source.
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