US 11,752,587 B2
Locating system for machine tools and locating method provided by said system
Alessandro Trifoni, Bologna (IT); Davide Cevoli, Castelmaggiore (IT); Denis Mosconi, Rimini (IT); and Lorenzo Frangi, Barlassina (IT)
Assigned to SPRINGA S.R.L., Milan (IT)
Filed by SPRINGA S.r.L., Milan (IT)
Filed on Sep. 17, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/23,690.
Claims priority of application No. 102019000016778 (IT), filed on Sep. 19, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0086321 A1, Mar. 25, 2021
Int. Cl. B23Q 17/22 (2006.01); B23Q 9/00 (2006.01)
CPC B23Q 17/22 (2013.01) [B23Q 9/0007 (2013.01); B23Q 2717/006 (2013.01)] 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A locating system for machine tools comprising:
a machine tool suitable for working on a machining surface of an object by removing material and including a tool, movement means suitable to be placed in direct contact with said machining surface and for moving said machine tool and, therefore, said tool with respect to said object while said tool works on said object,
at least two locating apparatuses each including a supporting portion suitable to be placed at a fixed point on said machining surface, detection means comprising a first cable or a second cable designed to connect said at least two locating apparatuses to said machine tool, and a locating portion configured to release or receive said first cable or said second cable in such a way as to measure a distance detected between said machine tool and said at least two locating apparatuses,
wherein said detection means being configured to allow mutual connection of said at least two locating apparatuses in such a way as to allow a direct measurement of a distance between said at least two locating apparatuses, and
said distance between said at least two locating apparatuses being further obtainable indirectly from the distance between said machine tool and said at least two locating apparatuses.