Rapid change holder for probe pins

US4738033A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Ernst Leitz Wetzlar, GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Wolfgang Ferber · Biebertal, DE
• Erich Schuster · Gammertingen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 10, 1986
• Grant date: Apr 19, 1988
• Expiry date: Jul 10, 2006

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T403/599
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A mount on the probe head of a coordinate measuring machine is described. For rapid change of a probe pin carrier, accommodating at least one probe pin, which is drawn against a bearing which clearly determines the position of the probe pin carrier in the probe head, a mechanical clamp mechanism, which acts on the bearing part of the probe pin carrier, and compression-creating and tension-creating media, actuating the clamp mechanism, are provided in the probe head.