Gripping device for holding, centring and/or collet-clamping a micromechanical or horological component
AssigneeETA SA Manufacture Horlogere Suisse
InventorsPatric Pham, Christophe Donzé
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Abstract
A gripping device (100) for holding, centring and/or clamping a micromechanical or horological component (200) in a chamber delimited by a collet including at least one movable jaw (2) and at least one stationary jaw (3), wherein some of the movable jaws (2) and/or stationary jaws (3) include a reference surface (20) to support a component (200) bearing frontally thereagainst, and this gripping device (100) includes both, on the one hand, stationary jaws (3) including the reference surface (20) to support the component (200) bearing thereagainst, and movable jaws (2) for centring and/or clamping the component (200).
Claims10
A gripping device for holding, centring and/or collet-clamping a micromechanical or horological component in a clamping chamber delimited by a collet of the gripping device, wherein the collet comprises, distributed about a collet axis:
- a plurality of movable jaws and a plurality of stationary jaws,
- wherein at least some of said stationary jaws, each comprise a respective reference surface arranged to support either of:
- (i) a said component directly bearing frontally thereagainst, or
- (ii) an intermediate retaining plate directly bearing frontally thereagainst, against which intermediate retaining plate a-said component frontally bears, and
- wherein said movable jaws are arranged to centre and/or clamp said component and/or are arranged to centre and or clamp said intermediate retaining plate.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.