Patent · US Expired

Control for coordinate measuring instruments

US4769763A · kind A · utility

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Assignee

Carl Zeiss Stiftung · DE

Inventors

Gerhard Trieb · Königsbronn, DE
Karl Schepperle · Oberkochen, DE
Karl-Eugen Aubele · Geislingen an der Steige, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Jun 16, 1986
Grant date	Sep 6, 1988
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jun 16, 2006

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG05B2219/50134
WIPO fieldControl
WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A "scanning" work-contact probe is deflectable with respect to a measuring-machine head which is driven by the three-coordinate drive system of the measuring machine. The arrangement is such that the probe continuously tracks (scans) a desired profile of a workpiece and, in doing so, measured probe increments (decrements) of deflection with respect to the head are so mathematically combined with head-position data that, in the further circumstance of holding path-velocity magnitude .vertline.V.sub.des. .vertline. of the measuring machine to a constant value, the orientation of the probe head with respect to the locally contacted slope of the workpiece can also be a constant.

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