EP0241433B1 - Machine de rodage à deux disques avec comparateur pour mesurer de manière continue l'épaisseur des pièces - Google Patents

Machine de rodage à deux disques avec comparateur pour mesurer de manière continue l'épaisseur des pièces Download PDF

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EP0241433B1
EP0241433B1 EP87830086A EP87830086A EP0241433B1 EP 0241433 B1 EP0241433 B1 EP 0241433B1 EP 87830086 A EP87830086 A EP 87830086A EP 87830086 A EP87830086 A EP 87830086A EP 0241433 B1 EP0241433 B1 EP 0241433B1
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B24—GRINDING; POLISHING
    • B24B—MACHINES, DEVICES, OR PROCESSES FOR GRINDING OR POLISHING; DRESSING OR CONDITIONING OF ABRADING SURFACES; FEEDING OF GRINDING, POLISHING, OR LAPPING AGENTS
    • B24B37/00—Lapping machines or devices; Accessories
    • B24B37/005—Control means for lapping machines or devices
    • B24B37/013—Devices or means for detecting lapping completion

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  • Both plates having lapping surfaces are rotated contrariwise to each other, thus being subjected to wear together with the workpieces.
  • the workpieces to be lapped are put on a predetermined number of circular jigs socalled "satellites" which are arranged about the axis of the lower plate at a constant angular phase to one another.
  • the jigs should be rotated about their axis.
  • Each jig is then constrained to an epicyclical motion about the axis of the lapping machine.
  • the main problem of these lapping machine is the setting of the thickness of the workpiece to be lapped, i.e. the vertical size thereof.
  • the jigs consist each of a circular plate and are arranged on the lapping surface of the lower lapping plate having the form of a circular crown, the central opening of which is defined by a rotating crown gear transmitting to the jigs the above mentioned epyciclal motion about the axis of the lapping machine.
  • JP- A-59129664 it has been known a device to effect an automatic sizing wherein a non contact sensor, such as a hydraulic micrometer or the like for measuring the thickness of the piece to be lapped is arranged at a position where the piece in a carrier, rotating under revolving between a sun gear and a internal gear, are protruded out of upper and lower level blocks. Axially revolving with the sun gear, the device may measure sequentially the thickness of respective workpieces.
  • a non contact sensor such as a hydraulic micrometer or the like for measuring the thickness of the piece to be lapped
  • the main object of this invention is to avoid this drawbacks by providing during the lapping operation the continuous measurement of the vertical size of the workpieces arranged on the jigs rotating by an epicyclical motion between the lapping plates, compensating the wear of the lower lapping plate.
  • each measurement carried out on a first workpieces by the measuring device is carried out, after a revolution of the jig about the axis of the machine, on a second workpiece located in the same jig at a diametrally opposite position of said first workpiece.
  • the measurement of the worpieces is carried out by a comparator having two arms facing each other, between which the edges of the jigs projecting from the lapping plate run after one another during the lapping operation, a workpiece to be lapped being at least partially arranged at said edges.
  • the upper arm is slidably mounted on a vertical guide and rests on the upper surface of the workpieces at the edges of the rotating jigs.
  • the lower arm is hinged at the opposite end of that brought into contact with the lower surface of said workpieces at the edges of the rotating jigs.
  • a self-setting system for the arms of said comparator means is provided according to another feature of the invention.
  • the arms of the sensing means should be set for following reasons.
  • both lapping plate are subjected to wear, thus changing their positions with respect to both arms of the sensing means, between which the workpiece to be measured is running.
  • Both arms are perpendicular to the running workpieces at the beginning of the lapping operation, i.e. the upper arm to the upper surface of the workpieces, the lower arm to the lower surface of the same.
  • the upper arm fo the sensing means resting on the workpieces follows that lowering along the path of its vertical guide.
  • the lower arm which is hinged at the opposite end far away from the end in contact with the workpieces, tilts about its hinge point.
  • an electronic system is used for aligning both arms to each other.
  • Said electronic system operates an electromechanical device the operation of which is as follows.
  • the inclination of the lower arm with respect to the upper arm which is always perpendicular to the workpiece to be measured, is sensed so as to provide an electrical signal at the output of a circuit connected to the comparator.
  • Such electrical signal is received by a suitable device generating a pressure in a fluid which acts on a piston and causes by a jack the rotation of a lead screw, which in turn causes the hinge point of the lower arm to be lowered, thus aligning both arms again in their positions perpendicular to the workpiece to be measured.
  • the vertical lowering of the upper arm of the comparator provides the continuous check of the lapping operation and causes the lapping machine to be stopped when the desired thickness is reached.
  • the self-setting system provides for the alignement of the two arms of the sensing means when a limit inclination of the lower arm is reached.
  • the US-A-3304662 described an apparatus for automatically loading and unloading the workpieces together their retaining members on a staging table adjacent the lapping disc.
  • the jigs are arranged on a rotatable idling plate having the same form of the lapping plate.
  • Such idling plate is approached to a chute connected to the lower lapping plate at an opening in the circular guard wall of the lapping machine.
  • each jig is caused by the operator to slide up on the chute and to reach the lower lapping plate.
  • the machine of this invention comprises a mount 2 from which an upper presser 4 descend downwards.
  • a round iron sheet bucket which surrounds a lower lapping plate 8 on which a certain number of piece-holders 10 or satellites are arranged at constant angle distances.
  • Plate 8 has at its center a large circular cavity at the center of which a wheel is disposed which is provided at its periphery with a crown of vertical dragging studs or teeth 2 with which the peripheries 10a are engaged of the satellites disposed on the lower plate.
  • Satellites 10 are also surrounded by a crown of stationary studs 14 with which they engage always with the exterior periphery.
  • Such studs can be lowered below the plate plane for allowing the satellites to slip out.
  • Satellites 10 are pressed between the lower plate and the upper plate and are motor driven both about the axis of the machine and about their own center.
  • the lapping machine 17 is provided with a motor 18 which actuates the upper plate through belt 19 and by a motor 20 which actuates the lower lapping plate through belt 24.
  • Motors 18 and 20, provided with gear reducers 26 and 28 drive each one of the two lapping plates and have therefore the same power.
  • the upper lapping plate gives the pieces to be lapped, a downwards thrust which is generated in addition to the weight, by hydraulic pressure which thrust produces the rubbing that is the lapping of the pieces contained over the satellite.
  • Fig. 5 the manoeuvre is illustrated for charging the satellite on the lower plate.
  • Suitable handles facilitate the operator's task for rotating the table in the suitable direction. Supposing that the lapping machine comprises six satellites as illustrated in Fig. 5 the support table will have the capacity of seven satellites.
  • a plane 34 provided with a side slide 35 is inserted between the same support table and the lapping machine.
  • a device for measuring the thickness attained by each piece which takes part on the lot being machined, a device (Fig. 4) is provided which is called comparator 50 adapted for measuring the distance between a point (pont A) of the tangential horizontal upper plane of the piece and the point (point B) which lies (at the beginning) on the same vertical but belongs to the tangential lower surface of the same piece.
  • the comparator 50 device (Fig. 2 and 6) is provided with an upper point 36 and a lower point 38, both being diamond points which hold therebetween, as shears, a limb circularly projecting from each of the rotating satellites in which limb at least one of the pieces to be lapped is partially included.
  • the comparator can for instance be located at the place of one of the studs or teeth 14 with which the outer periphery of each satellite is engaged.
  • the comparator device verifies the lowering of the piece and then of its vertical dimension and consequently it interrupts the working cycle and at the same time it sums successive rotations, that is angular lowerings and activates the recovering of the plate wear device.
  • transducer 52 which transforms an electrical signal at the output of the comparator 50 into a control for the piston 46 which, through a jack 48 produces the rotation of a screw 45 which lowers the support assembly 47, 49 of comparator 50.

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  1. Machine de rodage comprenant un plateau inférieur (8) et un plateau supérieur de pression (21) superposés de manière concentrique l'un par rapport à l'autre et entraînés chacun en rotation au moyen de moteurs de manière qu'ils tournent en sens contraire, les pièces à roder étant subdivisées en groupes égaux, chacun d'eux étant disposés entre les limites d'un satellite (10) qui est logé sur le plateau inférieur, lesdits satellites (10) étant répartis sur le plateau inférieur de manière à recouvrir au moins un espace égal à la surface limitée par la circonférence maximale et la circonférence minimale de ce plateau, chaque satellite (10) étant pourvu d'une couronne circulaire périphérique 10a en prise avec une couronne de goujons ou dents (14) fixe par rapport auxdits satellites, tandis qu'une couronne de goujon (12) située à l'intérieur de ladite couronne de satellites est entraînée par un troisième moteur, les pièces à roder étant alimentées et expulsées le long d'un plan de manutention (30) de l'organe supportant les satellites (10), caractérisée en ce qu'elle comporte en outre :
       au moins des moyens comparateurs (50) propre à mesurer la dimension verticale d'une pièce à roder au moyen de deux touches opposées (36-38) entre lesquelles passent successivement des bras circulaires s'étendant à partir de chaque satellite (10) pendant l'opération de rodage, ce bras contenant une pièce à roder ;
       un dispositif (52, 46, 48, 45, 47, 49) propre à rétablir l'alignement des deux touches du comparateur (50) en vue de compenser l'usure du plateau inférieur.
  2. Machine suivant la revendication 1, caractérisée en ce que le comparateur (50) est une jauge pourvue de deux touches l'une supérieure (36) et l'autre inférieure (38) par rapport aux pièces à roder et destinée à mesurer la cote verticale d'une pièce à roder, la touche supérieure (36) étant arrondie pour suivre un trajet rectiligne, tandis que la touche inférieure (38) est articulée autour d'un point qui est extérieur aux plateaux de rodage à une certaine distance par rapport à ces derniers, cette touche pouvant tourner dans un plan vertical autour dudit point ou vice et versa.
  3. Machine de rodage suivant la revendication 1, caractérisée en ce que les satellites circulaires dentés (10) sont tous compris dans une simple rangée circulaire autour de l'axe géométrique de la machine.
  4. Machine de rodage suivant l'une quelconque des revendications 1 et 3, caractérisée en ce que le rapport suivant lequel les dents de la couronne intérieure (12), les dents de la couronne extérieure (14) du plateau inférieur et les dents des satellites (10) est choisi de telle manière que la mesure par le comparateur (50) sur une pièce est répétée après un tour d'un satellite (10) autour de l'axe géométrique de la machine sur une pièce qui est située sur le même satellite mais dans une position diamétralement opposée par rapport à la position dans laquelle la mesure est effectuée.
  5. Machine de rodage suivant l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, caractérisée en ce que le dispositif pour rétablir l'alignement entre les touches (36, 38) du comparateur comprennent un transducteur (52) afin que le signal de décalage vertical de sortie des touches (36, 38) du comparateur, issu de ces dernières soit transformé en une pression de liquide qui agit sur un piston (46) par l'intermédiaire d'un cliquet (48) entraînant la rotation d'une vis (45) propre à abaisser l'ensemble support (47-49) du comparateur (50) de manière que les touches soient ramenées à leur position verticale qui est alignée et perpendiculaire à la pièce.
  6. Machine de rodage suivant l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, caractérisée en ce que le plan de manutention (30) de la pièce supportant les satellites est un plateau circulaire tournant manuellement et qui est pourvu d'autant d'emplacements qu'il y a de satellites (10) à charger sur la machine de rodage plus un de manière que quel que soit le satellite circulaire (10) avec sa pièce rodée qui doit être extrait du plateau inférieur (8), le dispositif est approché de la machine de rodage en face d'une ouverture (32) ménagée dans une cloison verticale circulaire (6) qui protège les plateaux de la machine, tandis qu'on fait glisser un satellite (10) avec les pièces rodées en direction de l'emplacement disponible du plan de manutention (30) qu'on fait ensuite tourner afin qu'un nouveau satellite avec les pièces à roder soit introduit dans l'emplacement laissé libre dans le plateau inférieur par le satellite retiré.
  7. Machine de rodage suivant la revendication 2, caractérisée en ce que le satellite (10) se projette tout autour des plateaux (21, 8) dans une mesure suffisante pour obtenir que les pièces à roder puissent être introduites les unes après les autres lorsque la machine tourne, entre les deux touches (36, 38) du comparateur pour au moins une partie desdites pièces.
  8. Machine de rodage suivant la revendication 6, caractérisé en ce qu'elle comporte aussi une plaque support (34) comportant une glissière plate latérale (35) disposée entre le plateau inférieur (8) et le plan de manutention (30) des satellites au niveau de l'ouverture (32) de la cloison circulaire (6) protégeant la machine de rodage.
EP87830086A 1986-03-07 1987-03-05 Machine de rodage à deux disques avec comparateur pour mesurer de manière continue l'épaisseur des pièces Expired - Lifetime EP0241433B1 (fr)

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IT47738/86A IT1190231B (it) 1986-03-07 1986-03-07 Lappatrice a due plato' con dispositivo per la misura spessore del pezzo in lavorazione e con tavola di caricamento manuale dei satelliti

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