Apparatus for testing the accuracy of machine tools and measuring devices

• US 8,516,709 B2
• Filed: 10/07/2010
• Issued: 08/27/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 10/09/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Dreier Technology GmbH
• Original Assignee: Dreier Lasermesstechnik GmbH
• Inventors: Dreier, Horst
• Primary Examiner(s): GUADALUPE, YARITZA
• Application Number:
  US12/900,006
• Publication Number:
  US 20120066922A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,055 Days
• Field of Search: 335/02, 335/03, 335/67
• US Class Current: 33/502
• CPC Class Codes: G01B 21/042 Calibration or calibration artifacts G01B3/30, G01B9/02072 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G01B 3/30 Bars, blocks, or strips in which the distance between a pair of faces is fixed, although it may be preadjustable, e.g. end measure, feeler strip

Abstract

An apparatus for testing the accuracy of machine tools and measuring devices has a support and at least one reference element formed as a sleeve, wherein the reference element is glued on top of the support.

Claims

1. An apparatus for testing an accuracy of machine tools and measuring devices, comprising

a support made of granite, and

a plurality of reference elements made of titanium or a titanium alloy having a thermal expansion coefficient matching a thermal expansion coefficient of the granite, wherein the reference elements are glued on a top of the support and onto at least one side surface of the support and have an interior surface in form of a circular cylinder or an interior surface with a polygon-shaped cross-section,

wherein a subset of the reference elements is arranged on imaginary longitudinal lines or transverse lines, or both, which form a grid pattern on at least the top of the support, and wherein at least one of the reference elements disposed on the top of the support is arranged with an offset from the grid pattern formed by the at least one imaginary longitudinal and transverse line.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the support is constructed as a rectangular plate or a cuboid.

3. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the at least one reference element is constructed as a sleeve, a sphere, a cuboid, or a semi-sphere.

4. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the reference element has an exterior surface segment in form of at least one of a truncated cone and a circular cylinder.

5. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the reference element has an exterior surface segment in form of a truncated cone, wherein an end of the truncated cone having a larger diameter is glued to the holder.

6. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the reference elements are glued to the support with a bonding agent having a longitudinal expansion coefficient that corresponds to a longitudinal expansion coefficient of the support or of the at least one reference element.

7. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the support has openings and at least one of the plurality of reference elements is arranged between openings.