Three-dimensional measurement device
AssigneeHexagon Manufacturing Intelligence, Inc.
InventorsSatoshi SUZUKI, Masahiro SUZUKI, Yohichi SANO
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Abstract
Provided is a three-dimensional measurement device applicable to a machining machine. A sensor head contains a body and a collet chuck. A light emitting window and a light receiving window are provided on the front end of the body. A non-contact sensor is incorporated in the body. Laser light emitted by the non-contact sensor is radiated onto a workpiece through the light emitting window. Laser light reflected from the surface of the workpiece is received by the light receiving window. A collet chuck is attached to the rear end of the body. The collet chuck has the same shape as a collet chuck provided by each tool housed in a tool magazine of a machining center.
Claims20
A three-dimensional measurement device for measuring the shape of the surface of a target processed by a machine tool;
- wherein:
- the machine tool is provided with a tool magazine, a tool spindle for rotating the tools, and an automatic tool changer that picks up a tool from the tool magazine and replaces the tool currently clamped in the tool spindle with the tool picked up from the tool magazine,
- a measurement unit that outputs measurement data corresponding to the distance from the surface of the processed target, and
- a shape data generation unit that generates shape data corresponding to the shape of the target based on the measurement data;
- and
- wherein:
- the measurement unit is provided with a wireless communication means that transmits the measurement data to the shape data generation unit and housed in the housing unit;
- and,
- the automatic tool changing device is able to attach a measurement unit housed in the housing unit to the rotating shaft.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.