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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7627390 | Method and apparatus for the free-form optimization of bevel and hypoid gears Method for the optimization of the surface geometry or of a variable, dependent on this, or variables, dependent on this, of bevel or hypoid gears for their production on a free-form machine which can be mapped to a free-form basic machine with at most six axes uniq... | 12/01/2009 |
| 7627389 | Method and apparatus for the free-form optimization of bevel and hypoid gears Method for the optimization of the surface geometry or of a variable, dependent on this, or variables, dependent on this, of bevel or hypoid gears for their production on a free-form machine which can be mapped to a free-form basic machine with at most six axes uniq... | 12/01/2009 |
| 7574798 | Method for soft machining of bevel gears A device (10) for soft machining of bevel gears, having a receptacle (12) for receiving a bevel gear blank (K1) and having a tool spindle (13.1) for receiving a cutter head (13.2). The device comprises a machining arm (11) h... | 08/18/2009 |
| 7198441 | Method and machine for cutting spiral bevel gears In the single-indexing method, the blades are positioned in a circle on a cutter head, so that all of the blades run through a tooth space to be produced during cutting of a bevel gear. The workpiece is then rotated by one pitch and the continuously rotating cutter ... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7156718 | Generating method and machine for spiral bevel gears In a method and apparatus for machining spiral bevel gears a rotationally symmetric tool is driven about its axis of rotation as it is moved, along with a workpiece, into a respective initial starting position. The workpiece is rotated about one tooth index, and a c... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7146742 | Device for recognizing a probe head used in a measuring instrument Device with a removable probe head (15) for measuring a workpiece, whereby the device comprises a receiving section (17.1) for attaching the probe head (15). In the receiving section (17.1) sensors (17.2) in fixed, predefined posit... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7127824 | Apparatus for detecting the position in space of a carriage moveable along a coordinate axis Described is a device for machine tools or measuring apparatus for detecting the spatial position of a carriage movable in a coordinate axis along a guide with respect to a reference standard which is designed as a rectangular plate extending parallel to the guide o... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7117609 | Device, CNC measuring device, and method for measuring a rotationally symmetric precision part A device for measuring a rotationally symmetric precision part, having a dog, drivable via a drive, and a revolving centering means, the dog and the revolving centering means being positioned in such a way that a rotationally symmetric precision part to be measured ... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7114265 | Apparatus for detecting the position of a probe element in a multi-coordinate measuring device The invention is directed to a device for direct detection of the spatial position of a probe element in a multi-coordinate measuring apparatus, with a reference system comprised of at least one first standard and one second standard that are associated with coordin... | 10/03/2006 |
| 6481307 | Bevel gear pair In a bevel gear pair including a first gear having a plurality of first gear teeth, each defined at least in part by a tooth route and concave and convex flank surfaces, the concave and convex flank surfaces each define a first surface structure formed by... | 11/19/2002 |
| 6003409 | Play-free device for driving a rotary table Two separate drive systems for driving a rotary table about an axis of rotation relative to a support member within a predeterminable angular segment. The first drive system can move the rotary table into a starting position and the second drive system is... | 12/21/1999 |