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Position-correctable numerical control system

US4101817A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateJul 6, 1976
Grant dateJul 18, 1978
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Expiry dateJul 6, 1996

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG05B2219/42329
  • WIPO fieldControl
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

In a position-correctable numerical control system for machines without any device for detecting the absolute position of an object to be controlled, a plurality of equidistantly-spaced reference marks providing standard ranges of control of the object are determined by a reference mark detection pulse generator. Reference positions corresponding to the reference marks are stored in advance in a non-volatile memory. The actual position of the object is compared with a reference position stored in said non-volatile memory, each time the object to be controlled passes each of the reference marks, so that the actual position of the object is corrected in accordance with a difference, if any, between the actual position and the reference position.

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