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Method and device for centering a dressing tool in the thread of a grinding worm

US6290574A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateFeb 18, 2000
Grant dateSep 18, 2001
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Expiry dateFeb 18, 2020

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
  • CPC primaryB24B53/085
  • WIPO fieldMachine tools
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

In a first step for the purpose of precentering, the dressing too; (27), without axial movement, is brought into contact with the circumference of the rotating grinding worm (11), and those rotary-angle positions of the grinding worm (11) at which the overrunning of the thread gap (36) starts of ends are determined by means of an acoustic-sensor signal and the shaft-angle encoder (18) of the grinding spindle (16). In a second step for the purpose of precision centering, the dressing tool (27) fed into the thread gap (36) is brought into contact with the left-hand and right-hand tooth flanks (38, 39) by axial displacement. In this case, the axial infeed is stopped by means of the acoustic-sensor signal, and the exact grinding-worm thread center is calculated from the contact positions of the dressing tool (27) achieved.

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