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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:
Jul. 18, 2006
Filed:
Mar. 06, 2003
Applicants:
Benjamin Roller Taylor, Stone, GB;
Geoffrey Mcfarland, Dursley, GB;
Inventors:
Benjamin Roller Taylor, Stone, GB;
Geoffrey McFarland, Dursley, GB;
Assignee:
Renishaw PLC, Gloucestershire, GB;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01P 21/00 (2006.01); G01C 17/38 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method of inspecting a series of workpieces using a coordinate measuring apparatus, comprising the steps of: measuring a calibrated artefact on a coordinate measuring apparatus at a fast speed; generating an error map corresponding to the difference between the calibrated artefact and the measured artefact; measuring subsequent workpieces at the same fast speedand correcting the measurements of the subsequent workpieces using the error map. The artefact may be one of the workpieces.