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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:
Feb. 02, 1999
Filed:
Jun. 05, 1995
Applicant:
Inventors:
Timothy R Pryor, Windsor, CA;
Bernard Hockley, Windsor, CA;
Nick Liptay-Wagner, Windsor, CA;
Omer L Hageniers, Windsor, CA;
W J Pastorius, Windsor, CA;
Assignee:
Sensor Adaptive Machines, Inc., Windsor, CA;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
2505592 ; 25055923 ; 25055931 ; 25055938 ; 356375 ; 356-306 ; 356-401 ; 348 95 ;
Abstract
A method and apparatus for optically determining the dimension of part surfaces. Particular embodiments describe optical triangulation based coordinate measurement machines capable of accurate measurement of complex surfaces, such as gear teeth and turbine blades. Other embodiments provide highly useful sensors for robot guidance and related purposes. Up to 5 axis sensing capability is provided on surfaces of widely varying form.