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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 10, 2002
Filed:
Mar. 05, 1998
Kouji Minami, Tokyo, JP;
Hiroyuki Tokita, Tokyo, JP;
Nobuo Suzuki, late of Tokyo, JP;
Muneo Kawasaki, Tokyo, JP;
Seiko Instruments Inc., , JP;
Abstract
An end-face lapping apparatus, comprises a rod member W supported on an apparatus main body by a support mechanism through a fixing jig board. A lapping board has a lapping member for lapping the rod member and is rotatably swingably supported on the apparatus main body by a drive mechanism. The drive mechanism causes the lapping board to rotate about a first rotating center and at the same time swivel rotating center about a second rotating center to thereby carry out lapping while urging the rod member W fitted in the fixing jig board against the lapping member of the rotatably swinging lapping board by the support mechanism. The end-face lapping apparatus has a relative position shift device for shifting the relative position of the lapping board and the fixing jig board. The rod member W is lapped at a different portion of the lapping member each time the relative position shift device shifts the relative position of the lapping board.