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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8112897 | Monitoring devices, assemblies and methods for attachment to gauges and the like A monitoring device assembly and method may include a primary interface for attaching to a monitored device, and a monitoring device mechanically coupled to the primary interface that captures an image of the monitored device. ... | 02/14/2012 |
| 7721455 | Measuring instrument A measuring instrument includes a detector that outputs a measured value, a digital display unit, an analog display unit having a plurality of display segments, and a display controller. The display controller includes: a tolerance range display unit that lights or ... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7392692 | Surface scan measuring device, surface scan measuring method, surface scan measuring program and recording medium A surface scan measuring device, a surface scan measuring method, a surface scan measuring program and a recording medium storing such a program which can appropriately adjust the scanning speed, the sampling pitch and other measurement parameters according to the s... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7352271 | Probe and contour measuring instrument A probe body (200) includes a middle closing portion (250) formed upright on a connector front portion (261A) and a female thread (261D) into which a male screw (110) is screwed. A sensor module (300) includes a slidable-con... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7194818 | Mount table, surface texture measuring machine and surface texture measuring method A mount table having a mount surface on which a workpiece as an object to be measured or worked includes a support unit for supporting the mount table so as to be floated from a surface plate so that the mount table can freely move or rotate on the surface plate fin... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7191535 | On-machine automatic inspection of workpiece features using a lathe rotary table To enable the on-machine measurement of selected features of a workpiece formed on a live spindle lathe with a positioning rotary table, both the machine itself and the electronic touch probe used to conduct the measurements are calibrated. The accuracy of the machi... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7171759 | Method and apparatus to accurately measure the angular orientation of two surfaces A method and apparatus are disclosed to measure the angular orientation of two surfaces. The device consists of two frames which are aligned to the surfaces. A continuous string is routed between the frames and put under tension. A position indicating instrument on ... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7024333 | Coordinate measuring apparatus A coordinate measuring apparatus includes probe pin(s) fixed to a probe head displaceable in coordinates. The probe pin includes probe shafts having respective ends to which probe balls are attached. At least two of the probe shafts are differently oriented when the... | 04/04/2006 |
| 6909517 | Method for assessing accuracy of positioning of a multi-axis numerically controlled machine A method is provided for assessing accuracy of positioning a NC machine having a spindle that is movable along each of at least two mutually orthogonal translational axes. The method Includes creating a master flame of reference relative to the translational axes by... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6832877 | Dental measuring and machining system A dental measuring and machining system includes a measuring and machining unit for preparing measurement data by measuring a prosthesis model based on a predetermined algorithm and for producing a prosthesis by machining a prosthesis block based on the above measur... | 12/21/2004 |
| 6830659 | Apparatus for measuring the wear of a doctor blade and method in measuring the wear of a doctor blade and in controlling a paper machine An apparatus for measuring wear of a doctor blade includes measuring members placed around the doctor blade for measuring at least one dimension of the doctor blade. The measuring members are arranged to permit longitudinal movement of the doctor blade between the d... | 12/14/2004 |
| 6694634 | Position error evaluation method of moving device and method of improving movement accuracy based on evaluation results thereof Disclosed is a position error evaluating method of a moving device, which includes the following steps. Specifically, in a moving device which moves a movable body in two axial directions or in three axial directions orthogonal to each other, a straightne... | 02/24/2004 |
| 6611786 | Apparatus and method concerning analysis and generation of part program for measuring coordinates and surface properties In coordinate and surface texture measurement in which measurement control is performed by a part program, a part program is analyzed to extract measurement information or measurement condition. The measurement condition is rewritably stored such that opt... | 08/26/2003 |
| 6400998 | Generation of measurement program in NC machining and machining management based on the measurement program A method and apparatus for NC machining management based on a measurement program, wherein a machining shape at an arbitrary machining stage is determined by an NC program, a geometric element or a geometric model is generated, and a measurement program i... | 06/04/2002 |
| 6370787 | Measuring machine A measuring machine having a base (10), a touch signal probe (P), a moving mechanism (20) for retaining the touch signal probe (P) movably in three-dimensional directions, and a controller (60) for controlling a movement of the moving mechanism (20) and f... | 04/16/2002 |
| 6366831 | Coordinate measurement machine with articulated arm and software interface A novel, portable coordinate measuring machine comprises a multijointed (preferably six joints) manually positionable measuring arm for accurately and easily measuring a volume. In addition to the articulated measuring arm, the present invention employs a... | 04/02/2002 |
| 6161079 | Method and apparatus for determining tolerance and nominal measurement values for a coordinate measuring machine A method of operating a coordinate measuring machine (CMM) provides the operator with the ability to automatically set the tolerance value of the part measurement based on preset conditions, and make an educated guess or estimate of the nominal part value... | 12/12/2000 |
| 5966681 | Coordinate measuring apparatus and method for controlling the same The invention is directed to a method which is provided for controlling coordinate measuring apparatus wherein a probe head (2) is moved and has a movably attached probe unit (24) attached thereto. The probe unit (24) is charged with a measurement force F... | 10/12/1999 |
| 5926781 | Roundness measuring A roundness measuring machine is described which measures the position of the surface of an object as the object is rotated on a turntable. The machine determines the circle which is the best fit to the measured points and converts the measurements to dis... | 07/20/1999 |
| 5898590 | Method and apparatus for numerically controlled pattern determination A probing system that checks a pattern formed by a plurality of features of an object. The system includes an input device that receives an ideal position and an ideal set of dimensions of each of the plurality of features, as well as an acceptable tolera... | 04/27/1999 |
| 5737244 | Coordinate measuring apparatus having a control which drives the probe head of the apparatus in accordance with desired data The control of a coordinate measuring apparatus includes a device for correcting the pregiven desired path when the actual geometry of the workpiece 17 to be measured deviates from the desired geometry. This device is a two-stage controller which includes... | 04/07/1998 |
| 5471406 | Method of measuring elemental shapes of a workpiece on a coordinate measuring machine For rapid measurement of workpieces having elemental shapes of known geometry in any orientation in space, the elemental shapes are scanned on a coordinate measuring machine which is equipped with a measuring probe head having a permissible measurement ra... | 11/28/1995 |
| 5461797 | Object measuring system A monitoring system having a stylus mounted to a support that controllably moves the stylus along a travel path as it contacts an object of interest. The object is supported by a rotating turntable and held in place by a retainer that exerts a repeatable ... | 10/31/1995 |
| 5448505 | Feed through dimensional measurement system A feed-through dimensional measurement system for gathering crossectional measurement data from an elongated part and correlating that data with the longitudinal position on the part from which the data was measured. The system includes a measurement appa... | 09/05/1995 |
| 5418730 | Control axis mounted computer interface for coordinate measuring machines A computer interface device for a coordinate measuring machine comprises a trackball that transmits perpendicular movement signals to a computer in response to corresponding perpendicular tangential movement of the trackball. The computer is interconnecte... | 05/23/1995 |
| 5283630 | Error correcting method for measuring object surface using three-dimension measuring apparatus A three-dimension measuring apparatus having a probe, such as non-contact optical probe, is used to measure the surface of an object, such as an aspherical lens. Initially, the apparatus is used to obtain reference probe measured values of a reference sph... | 02/01/1994 |
| 5053971 | Method and apparatus for edging an optical lens A three axis, computer controlled apparatus for edging optical lenses maps the surfaces of a lens blank along a path defining the shape of the lens to be cut from the lens blank and from which mapping a computer controlled cutting algorithm directs the mo... | 10/01/1991 |
| 4991304 | Workpiece inspection method A succession of nominally identical workpieces is measured using a probe on a coordinate measuring machine. To enable most of the workpieces to be probed at a fast speed (step 40), and compensate for the errors thereby introduced, one workpiece is also pr... | 02/12/1991 |
| 4982504 | Method for determining positional errors and for compensating for such errors, and apparatus for carrying out the method A method for determining and correcting positional errors or deviations which occur when measuring the position of a point in space, or when positioning to a point which has a specific position in space, where the position refers to a specific coordinate ... | 01/08/1991 |
| 4945501 | Method for determining position within the measuring volume of a coordinate measuring machine and the like and system therefor Axis correction or machine charateristic data is stored (108) in memory (110) within a control or measurement processor (36) of a CMM (10) (FIG. 8). The axis correction data includes error data representing 21 different geometry errors (FIG. 4A through 4C... | 07/31/1990 |
| 4939678 | Method for calibration of coordinate measuring machine Methods for determining nonrigid error parameters that result from deflection or deformation of machine elements and correcting scale readings in a coordinate measuring machine. The nonrigid error parameters are a function of probe position along two dire... | 07/03/1990 |
| 4914609 | Displacement measuring apparatus An oscillator outputs an oscillator frequency corresponding to a moving distance of a probe. A counter counts the oscillator frequency of the oscillator. A computer calculates the moving distance. A display unit displays the moving distance computed by th... | 04/03/1990 |
| 4914610 | Displacement measuring apparatus When a probe of a displacement measuring apparatus is moved, a core member connected to the probe is also moved through coils of an oscillator. A movement distance of the probe is calculated in accordance with a change in an oscillation frequency generate... | 04/03/1990 |
| 4908951 | Coordinate measuring and testing machine Multi-coordinate measuring and testing machine which is essentially constituted from a fundamental machine unit, a scanning or sensing system which is movable in at least two coordinate directions, and a machine-controlling unit. The scanning or sensing s... | 03/20/1990 |
| 4819195 | Method for calibrating a coordinate measuring machine and the like and system therefor Method (FIGS. 4A through 4C) and system (FIG. 3) are disclosed for automatically calibrating a coordinate measuring machine (CMM) (10). The system guides an operator through instrument set-up and data collection procedures. The system automatically conver... | 04/04/1989 |
| 4784539 | Tool communications method An intelligent Tool System used with Computer Numerical Controlled machining centers consisting of a method of establishing tool presence and type of tooling device and a method of eliminating any error due to thermal growth. The spindle mechanism provide... | 11/15/1988 |
| 4761891 | Method and appartus for machining a screw thread with little dispersion In an NC-lathe comprising a thread touch sensor provided with a touch portion to be brought into contact with an effective radius/diameter portion of a screw thread, an automatic measuring device electrically connected to the thread touch sensor, and an a... | 08/09/1988 |
| 4720699 | Optical encoder using line array detectors Absolute optical encoder device using a line array detector in conjunction with a single strip of encoding bars. The bars are orthogonal to the detector array line and may be long enough to allow motion parallel to the bars without loss of measurement con... | 01/19/1988 |
| 4709482 | Arbitrary-direction tracer control unit The present invention is directed to an arbitrary-direction tracer control unit which permits arbitrary setting of the tracer feed direction, and is intended to allow ease in changing the tracer feed direction even during tracing. A memory (M) has stored ... | 12/01/1987 |
| 4631834 | Coordinate measuring instrument A coordinate measuring instrument including: a table (50) movable in the direction of Y-axis on a bedplate (10); a slider (110) movable in the direction of X-axis through supports (90) and a beam member (100); a Z-axis structure (180) supported by this sl... | 12/30/1986 |
