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Method of measuring by coordinate measuring instrument and coordinate measuring instrument

US4653011A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateMar 27, 1985
Grant dateMar 24, 1987
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Expiry dateMar 27, 2005

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG05B2219/37207
  • WIPO fieldMeasurement
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

This invention relates to a method of measuring by a coordinate measuring instrument and the coordinate measuring instrument, wherein a probe to be brought into abutting contact with a work to be measured is moved in two- or tri-dimensional direction by a robot mechanism provided independently of a main body of measuring instrument. A moving path of the robot mechanism is preset, and, when a command to carry out a predetermined measuring program is given from a data processing unit, the robot mechanism is moved in accordance with the moving path, and a measured result is calculated to seek a dimension of the work, on the basis of measured data given through an abutting contact between the probe and the work.

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