Roundness measuring device, method and program for measuring roundness

• US 20090048799A1
• Filed: 05/14/2008
• Published: 02/19/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 05/15/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Mitutoyo Corporation
• Original Assignee: Mitutoyo Corporation
• Inventors: Kadowaki, Soichi, Kojima, Tsukasa
• Application Number:
  US12/153,164
• Publication Number:
  US 20090048799A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 702/95
• CPC Class Codes: G01B 5/201 for measuring roundness
• CPC Class Codes: G01B 5/252 for measuring eccentricity, i.e. lateral shift between two parallel axes

Abstract

A roundness measuring device obtains an eccentric position of a measured object with respect to a rotation axis in measuring roundness of the measured object by rotating and driving the measured object. The roundness measuring device includes: a measurement acquisition unit obtaining, as measurements, rotation angles of the measured object and distances from the rotation axis to a surface of the measured object, the distance corresponding to the rotating angle; and an eccentricity calculation unit setting a circular correction circle with its center position provided as variable parameters, calculating the center position of the correction circle that minimizes sum of squares of distances between each of the measurements and the correction circle, in a direction from each of the measurements toward the center position of the correction circle, and determining the center position of the correction circle as the eccentric position.

Claims

1. A roundness measuring device for obtaining an eccentric position of a measured object with respect to a rotation axis in measuring roundness of the measured object with a detector unit, by rotating and driving the measured object or the detector unit about the rotation axis with a rotary drive unit, the roundness measuring device comprising:

a measurement acquisition unit obtaining, as measurements, rotation angles of the measured object provided by the rotary drive unit and distances from the rotation axis to a surface of the measured object, the distance corresponding to the rotation angle; and

an eccentricity calculation unit setting a circular correction circle with its center position provided as variable parameters, calculating the center position of the correction circle that minimizes sum of squares of distances between each of the measurements and the correction circle, in a direction from each of the measurements toward the center position of the correction circle, and determining the calculated center position of the correction circle as the eccentric position.

2. The roundness measuring device according to claim 1, wherein

the eccentricity calculation unit applies the Gauss-Newton method to calculate minimum sum of squares of the distances between each of the measurements and the correction circle in a direction toward the center position of the correction circle.

3. The roundness measuring device according to claim 1, further comprising:

an analysis unit analyzing roundness or cylindricity based on each of the rotating angles and distances between each of the measurements and the correction circle in a direction from the measurements toward the center position of the correction circle, the distance corresponding to the rotating angle, after the center position of the correction circle is calculated by the eccentricity calculation unit.

4. A method of measuring roundness using a roundness measuring device for obtaining an eccentric position of a measured object with respect to a rotation axis in measuring roundness of the measured object with a detector unit, by rotating and driving the measured object or the detector unit about the rotation axis with a rotary drive unit, the method comprising:

a measurement acquisition step of obtaining, as measurements, rotation angles of the measured object provided by the rotary drive unit and distances from the rotation axis to a surface of the measured object, the distance corresponding to the rotating angle; and

an eccentricity calculation step of setting a circular correction circle with its center position provided as variable parameters, calculating the center position of the correction circle that minimizes sum of squares of distances between each of the measurements and the correction circle, in a direction from each of the measurements toward the center position of the correction circle, and determining the calculated center position of the correction circle as the eccentric position.

5. The method of measuring roundness according to claim 4, wherein

in the eccentricity calculation step, applying the Gauss-Newton method to calculate minimum sum of squares of the distances between each of the measurements and the correction circle in a direction toward the center position of the correction circle.

6. The method of measuring roundness according to claim 4, further comprising:

an analysis step of analyzing roundness or cylindricity based on each of the rotating angles and distances between each of the measurements and the correction circle in a direction from the measurements toward the center position of the correction circle, the distance corresponding to the rotating angles, after the center position of the correction circle is calculated by the eccentricity calculation unit.

7. A program for measuring roundness adapted to cause an eccentric position of a measured object with respect to a rotation axis to be obtained in measuring roundness of the measured object with a detector unit by rotating and driving the measured object or the detector unit about the rotation axis with a rotary drive unit, the program causing a computer to perform:

a measurement acquisition step of obtaining, as measurements, rotation angles of the measured object provided by the rotary drive unit and distances from the rotation axis to a surface of the measured object, the distance corresponding to the rotating angle; and

an eccentricity calculation step of setting a circular correction circle with its center position provided as variable parameters, calculating the center position of the correction circle that minimizes sum of squares of distances between each of the measurements and the correction circle, in a direction from each of the measurements toward the center position of the correction circle, and determining the calculated center position of the correction circle as the eccentric position.

8. The program for measuring roundness according to claim 7, wherein

in the eccentricity calculation step, applying the Gauss-Newton method to calculate minimum sum of squares of the distances between each of the measurements and the correction circle in a direction toward the center position of the correction circle.

9. The program for measuring roundness according to claim 7, the program further causing a computer to perform,

an analysis step of analyzing roundness or cylindricity based on each of the rotating angles and distances between each of the measurements and the correction circle in a direction from the measurements toward the center position of the correction circle, the distance corresponding to the rotating angle, after the center position of the correction circle is calculated by the eccentricity calculation unit.