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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 17, 2001
Filed:
Feb. 12, 1999
Ramutis Bansevicius, Kaunas, LT;
Sami Ahmed, Birmingham, GB;
Intelligent Manufacturing Systems Limited, Birmingham, GB;
Abstract
The application seeks to eliminate errors introduced by bearings and supports. It does so by integrating the drive means, in the form of a piezoelectric actuator, into the bearing or support. Thus the bearing no longer acts against the drive means, eliminating errors. It also describes a drive mechanism for elongate prismatic objects (,). The mechanism uses piezoelectric drives (,) and achieves very high accuracy of positioning with minimal backlash etc, whilst occupying only a small volume. This makes it suitable for use in electro-discharge machining and electro-discharge texturing operations where one or more wire electrodes (,) need to be positioned accurately with respect to a workpiece and maintained in that relative position as the workpiece erodes and the electrode (,) is consumed.