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Measuring system for measurement on tools in a machine tool

US10330464B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateOct 23, 2017
Grant dateJun 25, 2019
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Expiry dateOct 23, 2037

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG02B7/026
  • WIPO fieldOptics
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A contactlessly measuring measuring system having a contactlessly measuring measuring device with a light transmitter portion and a light receiver portion, for determining the position of a tool or for determining the longest cutting edge of a rotating tool, wherein an optical lens arrangement for shaping and focusing a light beam from the light transmitter portion to the light receiver portion is associated with the light transmitter portion and/or the light receiver portion, the optical lens arrangement being accommodated in a lens mount, and the lens mount having an inner and an outer sleeve which in each case is cylindrical, at least in sections, and the lens arrangement is inserted into the inner sleeve, which is at least partially enclosed by the outer sleeve, and the lens mount together with the lens arrangement is accommodated in a wall of the light transmitter portion and/or of the light receiver portion.

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