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Honing process

US4831787A · kind A · utility

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Assignee

Maschinenfabrik Gehring Gesellschaft mit beschrankter Haftung & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft · DE

Inventors

Hans Grimm · Ochsenhausen, DE
Gunter Richter · Wuppertal, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Mar 4, 1988
Grant date	May 23, 1989
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Mar 4, 2008

Classification

Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
CPC primaryB24B33/06
WIPO fieldMachine tools
WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A honing process using a honing machine as a honing arbor or spindle, the travel or stroke limit points of which can be set, and that also has a measuring device, with at least one sensor, mounted on the honing tool for the workpiece that is to be honed, as well as a regulating mechanism for controlling the honing process. The workpiece is measured during the honing process via the sensors, and during at least one measurement procedure, at least one parameter of the honing procedure is at least reduced.

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