System and method for engraving a plurality of engraved areas defining
different screens
    1.
    发明授权
    System and method for engraving a plurality of engraved areas defining different screens 失效
    用于雕刻定义不同画面的多个雕刻区域的系统和方法

    公开(公告)号:US5947020A

    公开(公告)日:1999-09-07

    申请号:US986578

    申请日:1997-12-05

    摘要: An engraving system and method is disclosed having multiple engraving heads wherein the operation of each head is controllable so that a vertical screen and/or horizontal screen may be independently controlled, thereby facilitating enabling each engraving head to engrave in accordance with different screen rulings as may be selected by a user. The engraving system includes a signal generator for controlling the vertical screen by utilizing a plurality of vertical scalers which use a cylinder factor signal corresponding to the rotational position of a cylinder rotatably mounted on the engraver, as well as screen variables, such as a screen angle and a screen ruling, to generate independent vertical scaled or screen signals. These vertical scaled signals are used to independently energize the engraving heads to engrave patterns defining different vertical resolutions or vertical screens. This system and method also discloses a drive system for independently driving the engraving heads using the cylinder factor signal mentioned above and the screen variables which were input by the user to enable the engraving heads to engrave patterns having differing horizontal resolution or horizontal screens. Thus, the method and apparatus enable a user to simultaneously or independently change the vertical screen and horizontal screen and, consequently, the screen ruling for each pattern of engraved areas being engraved.

    摘要翻译: 公开了具有多个雕刻头的雕刻系统和方法,其中每个头部的操作是可控制的,使得可以独立地控制垂直屏幕和/或水平屏幕,从而有助于使每个雕刻头根据不同的屏幕规则进行雕刻,如 由用户选择。 该雕刻系统包括:信号发生器,用于通过利用多个垂直定标器来控制垂直屏幕,所述垂直定标器使用与可旋转地安装在雕刻机上的圆柱体的旋转位置相对应的圆筒因数信号,以及屏幕变量 和屏幕规则,以生成独立的垂直缩放或屏幕信号。 这些垂直缩放信号用于独立地激励雕刻头以雕刻限定不同垂直分辨率或垂直屏幕的图案。 该系统和方法还公开了一种驱动系统,用于使用上述的圆筒因子信号独立地驱动雕刻头,以及用户输入的屏幕变量,以使得雕刻头能够雕刻具有不同的水平分辨率或水平屏幕的图案。 因此,该方法和装置使得用户能够同时或独立地改变垂直屏幕和水平屏幕,并且因此改变正在雕刻的每个雕刻区域图案的屏幕规则。

    Engraver and engraving method for detecting and measuring run-out
associated with a cylinder
    4.
    发明授权
    Engraver and engraving method for detecting and measuring run-out associated with a cylinder 失效
    用于检测和测量与圆筒相关的缺口的雕刻和雕刻方法

    公开(公告)号:US5923435A

    公开(公告)日:1999-07-13

    申请号:US883048

    申请日:1997-06-26

    摘要: A method and apparatus for automatically measuring a cylinder characteristic, such as a cylinder diameter or a cylinder run-out and then automatically adjusting the engraver in response to the measurement and subsequently engraving the cylinder to account for such characteristic. The engraver includes a run-out detector for detecting a cylinder characteristic of the cylinder on the engraver and the run-out detector includes an LVDT sensor and a run-out circuit for generating a signal generally corresponding to a shape of the cylinder surface. The run-out circuit is capable of generating a measured run-out using the signal generated by the LVDT sensor. The method and apparatus also provides a method and apparatus for automatically adjusting for the cylinder characteristic using manual, mechanical and/or electronic features of the method and apparatus.

    摘要翻译: 一种用于自动测量气缸特性的方法和装置,例如气缸直径或气缸跳动,然后响应于测量自动调节雕刻机,随后雕刻气缸以考虑到这种特性。 雕刻机包括用于检测雕刻机上的圆柱体的圆柱体特性的漏气检测器,并且扫气检测器包括用于产生大致对应于气缸表面的形状的信号的LVDT传感器和跳动电路。 跳闸电路能够使用由LVDT传感器产生的信号产生测量的跳动。 该方法和装置还提供一种用于使用方法和装置的手动,机械和/或电子特征自动调节气缸特性的方法和装置。

    Engraved area volume measurement system and method using pixel data
    5.
    发明授权
    Engraved area volume measurement system and method using pixel data 失效
    雕刻面积体积测量系统和使用像素数据的方法

    公开(公告)号:US5831746A

    公开(公告)日:1998-11-03

    申请号:US642610

    申请日:1996-05-03

    摘要: A includes system and method for determining an actual volume measurement for an engraved area on a surface of a workpiece, such as a cylinder. The system and method is capable of capturing an image of an engraved area, determining a plurality of cross-section volumes for a plurality of cross-sectional areas using the image, and generating a plurality of volume values in response thereto. The system and method sum the volume for the plurality of cross-sectional areas to provide a total engraved area actual volume value. If necessary, the system and method causes an engraver to be adjusted during a set-up procedure or during real-time operation to ensure that the densities of the areas being engraved correspond to desired densities. A computer associated with the engraver utilizes an image to determine a stylus profile from which engraved area measurements can be determined. The computer further adjusts the engraved drive signal by applying a gamma correction curve if the actual measurements deviate from a desired measurement by more than a predetermined amount. The engraving system and method also adjusts the engraved drive signal to eliminate engraved areas having densities less than a predetermined amount in order to eliminate undesired "scum dots" or engraved areas having a density less than, for example, three percent of maximum density.

    摘要翻译: A包括用于确定诸如气缸的工件的表面上的雕刻区域的实际体积测量的系统和方法。 该系统和方法能够捕获雕刻区域的图像,使用该图像确定用于多个横截面区域的多个横截面积,并响应于此产生多个体积值。 系统和方法将多个横截面积的体积相加以提供总刻蚀面积的实际体积值。 如果需要,系统和方法使得在设置过程期间或在实时操作期间调整雕刻机,以确保被雕刻的区域的密度对应于期望的密度。 与雕刻机相关联的计算机利用图像来确定可以确定雕刻区域测量的触针轮廓。 如果实际测量偏离期望的测量超过预定量,则计算机通过应用伽马校正曲线来进一步调节雕刻的驱动信号。 雕刻系统和方法还调节雕刻的驱动信号以消除密度小于预定量的雕刻区域,以便消除密度小于例如最大密度的3%的不期望的“浮渣点”或雕刻区域。

    Engraving system and method for helical or circumferential engraving
    6.
    发明授权
    Engraving system and method for helical or circumferential engraving 失效
    用于螺旋或圆周雕刻的雕刻系统和方法

    公开(公告)号:US5555473A

    公开(公告)日:1996-09-10

    申请号:US391582

    申请日:1995-02-21

    摘要: A cylindrical engraving system selectively able to engrave either in a helical or circumferential format. An encoder scans index markings on the surface of a cylinder being engraved and generates timing pulses for selective application to one or the other of a helical drive unit or a circumferential drive unit incorporated within the system controller, Engraving is performed by an engraving head which is stepped in the axial direction along the workpiece in response to step pulses generated by the selected drive unit. The step pulses may be generated in spaced bursts or at a regular frequency depending upon whether circumferential or helical driving has been selected.

    摘要翻译: 圆柱形雕刻系统选择性地能够以螺旋或圆周格式雕刻。 编码器扫描正在雕刻的圆柱体的表面上的索引标记,并产生用于选择性地施加到并入系统控制器内的螺旋驱动单元或圆周驱动单元中的一个或另一个的定时脉冲,雕刻由雕刻头 响应于由所选择的驱动单元产生的步进脉冲沿工件沿轴向方向。 阶跃脉冲可以以间隔的脉冲串或以规律的频率产生,这取决于是否选择了周向或螺旋驱动。

    System and method for measuring run-out and other characteristics of a
workpiece mounted on an engraver
    7.
    发明授权
    System and method for measuring run-out and other characteristics of a workpiece mounted on an engraver 失效
    用于测量安装在雕刻机上的工件的耗尽和其他特性的系统和方法

    公开(公告)号:US5652659A

    公开(公告)日:1997-07-29

    申请号:US541330

    申请日:1995-10-09

    摘要: A method and apparatus for automatically measuring a cylinder characteristic, such as a cylinder diameter or a cylinder run-out and then automatically adjusting the engraver in response to the measurement and subsequently engraving the cylinder to account for such characteristic. The engraver includes a run-out detector for detecting a cylinder characteristic of the cylinder on the engraver, and the run-out detector includes an LVDT sensor and a run-out circuit for generating a signal generally corresponding to a shape of the cylinder surface. The run-out circuit is capable of generating a measured run-out using the signal generated by the LVDT sensor. The invention also provides a method and apparatus for automatically adjusting for the cylinder characteristic using manual, mechanical and/or electronic features of the invention.

    摘要翻译: 一种用于自动测量气缸特性的方法和装置,例如气缸直径或气缸跳动,然后响应于测量自动调节雕刻机,随后雕刻圆筒以考虑到这种特性。 雕刻机包括用于检测雕刻机上的圆柱体的气缸特性的漏气检测器,并且检测器包括用于产生大致对应于气缸表面形状的信号的LVDT传感器和漏气回路。 跳闸电路能够使用由LVDT传感器产生的信号产生测量的跳动。 本发明还提供一种用于使用本发明的手动,机械和/或电子特征自动调节气缸特性的方法和装置。

    Engraving system and method for helical and circumferential engraving
    9.
    发明授权
    Engraving system and method for helical and circumferential engraving 失效
    用于螺旋和圆周雕刻的雕刻系统和方法

    公开(公告)号:US5706100A

    公开(公告)日:1998-01-06

    申请号:US681842

    申请日:1996-07-29

    摘要: A cylindrical engraving system selectively able to engrave in a helical and a circumferential format. An encoder scans index markings on the surface of a cylinder being engraved and generates timing pulses for selective application to one or the other of a helical drive unit or a circumferential drive unit incorporated within the system controller. Engraving is performed by an engraving head which is stepped in the axial direction along the workpiece in response to step pulses generated by the selected drive unit.

    摘要翻译: 圆柱形雕刻系统选择性地能够以螺旋形和圆周格式雕刻。 编码器扫描正在雕刻的圆柱体的表面上的折射率标记,并产生用于选择性地施加到并入系统控制器内的螺旋驱动单元或周向驱动单元中的一个或另一个的定时脉冲。 通过雕刻头进行雕刻,所述雕刻头响应于由所选择的驱动单元产生的步进脉冲而沿着工件在轴向上阶梯。