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Thin board holding device and method of and apparatus for measuring thickness of thin board

US6212786A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateApr 14, 1997
Grant dateApr 10, 2001
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Expiry dateApr 14, 2017

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  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY10S33/02
  • WIPO fieldMeasurement
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A thin board holding device 2A for holding a thin board in a plane state to measure the thickness of a thin board is disclosed, which has a number of spot supports 3 with adsorbing portion for holding a thin board 1 attached by suction to the top. The thin board 1 is held in a multiple point support fashion to the spot supports 3. By moving a measuring terminal of a measuring instrument to a measuring point on the thin board, which has one surface of the thin board 1 set on the thin board holding device 2A, the level of the other surface of the thin board 1 from a reference surface A supporting the thin board holding device at a reference position is measured. The dimension from the reference position A to a thin board adsorption surface 3a of the spot support 3 is used as a computational constant, and the thickness of the thin board is calculated from the measured level of the other surface of the thin board 1 and the computational constant.

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