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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 15, 2026
Filed:
Apr. 22, 2021
Nippon Steel Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Yoshito Isei, Tokyo, JP;
Kousuke Sakai, Tokyo, JP;
Shinya Ikeda, Tokyo, JP;
Yuki Usutani, Tokyo, JP;
NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A crankshaft shape inspection method includes: acquiring three-dimensional point cloud data of a surface of a crankshaft S; superposing the three-dimensional point cloud data on a surface shape model of the crankshaft S; moving the three-dimensional point cloud data superposed on the surface shape model to match with a coordinate system used when the crankshaft S is machined; generating an estimated machined surface, which is the surface after machining of a predetermined machining portion of the crankshaft S, in the coordinate system used when the crankshaft S is machined; and calculating a distance between machining portion point cloud data extracted from the three-dimensional point cloud data moved and the estimated machined surface generated and determining a machining stock of the crankshaft S to be insufficient based on the calculated distance.