L. Kellenberger & Co. Ag

L. Kellenberger & Co.

Hugo Thurnherr

Claus P Keferstein

Daniel Honegger

Markus Ritter

Bernard Gschwend

Emil Eugster

Anton Ilek

A method for grinding the surface of non-round workpieces. The method includes the steps of clamping a workpiece within a machining unit; machining the workpiece; without unclamping the workpiece, contactlessly measuring the workpiece using an optical measuring device having a conoscopic holography sensor with a characteristic measuring range; and machining and measuring the workpiece in an alternating manner to iteratively approach the desired measurements of a specified form by adjusting the distance between the optical measuring device and the surface of the workpiece depending on there being a deviation of the surface from the specified form so that a respectively measured area of the surface of the workpiece remains within the measuring range of the optical sensor.

Method and device for machining workpieces

An apparatus and method for machining workpieces is provided, in particular, for grinding the surface of non-round workpieces. The workpiece is clamped within a machining unit and the surface of this workpiece is contactlessly measured by means of a measuring device while the workpiece is clamped within the machine.

A procedure for the numerically controlled processing of a workpiece on a grinding machine having a workholder for the workpiece as well as a wheelhead equipped with a grinding wheel, the wheelhead being pivoted on a wheelslide and able to be shifted together with the wheelslide in relation to the workholder, including detecting positions of a set of points situated within a working range of the grinding machine, covering coordinates of the set of points into basic data for a processing program of the grinding machine, and taking the basic data of the coordinates of the set of points into account while the workpiece is processed. A gauge is attached to the wheelhead and to a measuring device at a zero (M) of the machine, a spherical measuring head of the gauge presents a measuring point (IV) for detecting an initial position of the spherical measuring head in a coordinate system (X,Z) of the machine and coordinates of an existing position of the spherical measuring head are detected with the aid of the measuring device. A control unit enables an end position of the spherical measuring head to be detected where the measuring point (V) of the spherical measuring head would be if the wheelhead, which can be swivelled around a swivel axis (F), is swivelled through a specified angle, and the measuring point (V) passes through a patch (B). A check is performed to verify whether there is an discrepancy between an actual position of the spherical measuring head and the end position of the spherical measuring head.

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