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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 12, 1987
Filed:
Jul. 29, 1985
Roderick L Smith, Rockford, IL (US);
Energy Adaptive Grinding, Inc., Rockford, IL (US);
Abstract
A method of grinding a workpiece which is susceptible to deflection and/or deformation when grinding is carried out by relatively infeeding a grinding wheel to keep the wheel face and work surface in relative rubbing contact at an interface region, the method comprising continuously determining the force exerted by the wheel on the workpiece at the interface region as grinding conditions change, continuously applying to the workpiece at least one counterbalance force which in equivalent effect is opposite in sense to the determined force, and variably controlling the counterbalancing force to maintain its effective magnitude equal to the magnitude of the determined force.