Superfinishing Stone and Superfinishing Process Using the Same
AssigneeJtekt Corporation
InventorTakashi Uchino
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Abstract
A superfinishing stone 2 is slid on a rotating subject surface 7 as pressed against the subject surface 7 and is held in contact against the subject surface 7 as vibrated thereon in a different direction from the sliding direction. The superfinishing stone includes plural stone portions 3, 4 divided by a split surface 6 inclined to both the sliding direction and the vibrating direction and mutually independently movable along the split surface 6 and in the pressing direction.
Claims21
1-8. (canceled)
A superfinishing stone designed to be pressed against a subject surface and slid on the subject surface as relatively moved thereon and to be vibrated on the subject surface in a different direction from the sliding direction,
- wherein the superfinishing stone comprises a plurality of stone portions which are divided by a split surface inclined to both the sliding direction and the vibrating direction and which are mutually independently movable along the split surface and in the pressing direction.
A superfinishing stone for curved-surface working having an abrasive surface which is vibrated along a curved surface as pressed thereagainst and which is movable in the pressing direction according the height variations of the curved surface,
- wherein the superfinishing stone comprises a combination of plural stone portions which are divided by a split surface inclined to the vibrating direction and are movable along the split surface and in the pressing direction, and
- wherein the individual ones of the plural stone portions are mutually independently free to move.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.