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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 23, 2018
Filed:
Feb. 04, 2015
Nsk Americas, Inc., Ann Arbor, MI (US);
George Morrison, III, Taylor, MI (US);
Ty Alan Brown, Clarinda, IA (US);
Timothy Brian Rood, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
NSK Americas, Inc., Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Abstract
An apparatus () (and associated method) for inspecting a steering column assembly () including a motor () driven drive sleeve () supported in a headstock () and having a longitudinal axis, and being adapted for receiving and engaging a portion of the steering column assembly, and at least one optical scanning device () adapted to optically scan a feature of interest of the steering column assembly () while the shaft of the steering column assembly () is rotated for gathering data for identifying one or more deviations from one or more predetermined values for the feature of interest.