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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 15, 1998
Filed:
Mar. 08, 1996
Applicant:
Inventor:
Kurt Feichtinger, Palling, DE;
Assignee:
Johannes Heidenhain GmbH, Traunreut, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
33561 ; 33556 ;
Abstract
A multi-coordinate touch probe including a deflectable stylus, a stylus support, and a sensor arrangement for sensing the deflection of the stylus and for generating a deflection signal, with the deformation parameters of the assembly stylus/support, which include a geometrical layout of the support, a geometrical shape of the stylus, and properties of a stylus material, being so selected that a noticeable scanning direction-dependent characteristic is eliminated.