Measurement device
AssigneeFanuc Corporation
InventorsShunpei Tanaka, Kazunori Iijima
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Abstract
A measurement device comprises: an ultrasonic vibrator that emits an ultrasonic wave to a measurement target; an acoustic lens; a sound-receiving element unit; an A/D converter array; a calculator connected to the A/D converter array; and a driving mechanism that makes the measurement target movable or tiltable relative to the ultrasonic vibrator. The calculator stores information in chronological order acquired by the sound-receiving element unit through scanning irradiation with the ultrasonic wave, converts the information stored in chronological order to space information, and acquires an acoustic intensity distribution.
Claims3
A measurement device that measures a target to be machined by a machine tool as a measurement target, comprising:
- an ultrasonic vibrator that emits an ultrasonic wave to the measurement target, which is reflected and/or diffracted from the measurement target,
- an acoustic lens that focuses the reflected and/or diffracted wave,
- a sound-receiving element unit that converts the ultrasonic wave focused by the acoustic lens to an analog electrical signal;
- an A/D converter unit that converts the analog signal from the sound-receiving element unit to a digital signal;
- a calculator connected to the A/D converter unit;
- a numerical controller that gives a command about a machining shape;
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- a driving mechanism that makes the ultrasonic vibrator, the acoustic lens, and the sound-receiving element unit move and tilt relative to the measurement target in response to the machining shape acquired from the numerical controller, wherein
- the calculator stores information in chronological order acquired by the sound-receiving element unit through scanning irradiation with the ultrasonic wave, converts the information stored in chronological order to space information, and acquires an acoustic intensity distribution.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.