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US 5,687,489 AGranted
Guide assembly
AssigneeDr. Johannes Heidenhain GmbH
InventorsSebastian Tondorf, Christian Callimici
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Abstract
A guide assembly to be mounted on a machine-tool or a measuring machine and including a guide rail mountable in the machine-tool or the measuring machine as an independent structural element, and a linear encoder mountable on the guide rail as a separate unit before mounting of the guide rail in the machine-tool or the measuring machine.
Claims32
A guide assembly for a machine-tool or a measuring machine, comprising:
- guide means mounted on a machine-tool or measuring machine bed as an independent structural element and comprising a guide rail and an encoder, said encoder being mounted on the guide rail as a separate unit, said encoder having a scale, a scanning head for measuring a displacement path of a slide, and a housing for sealing the scale and the scanning head, the housing being connected to the guide rail;
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- the slide being displaceable on the guide rail and connected with a machine-tool carriage or a measuring machine carriage.
A guide assembly for a machine-tool or a measuring machine, comprising:
- guide means mounted on a machine-tool or measuring machine bed as an independent structural element and comprising a guide rail, an encoder, said encoder being mounted on the guide rail as a separate unit, said encoder having a scale and a scanning head and measuring a displacement path of a slide, and means for positively and replaceably connecting the encoder with the guide rail;
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- the slide being displaceable on the guide rail and connected with a machine-tool carriage or a measuring machine carriage.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.