Coordinate Measuring Machines Probing Accessories
Diamond Styli
Solid diamond and diamond-coated balls offer significant advantage over other styli tip materials. Whether it is because the application demands extreme wear resistance or extreme long lasting is the requirement, diamond is a perfect choice.
General specification:
• The ball and stem connection is done by using hard soldering in a protective atmosphere. • Stem material: carbide • Styli lengths up to 50mm are currently supported. • All styli specified with ruby balls and tungsten carbide stems can be replicated with diamond coated balls. (M2, M3, M4 and M5)
Straight Shaft Stylus
Specification: Solid diamonds
• Available ball diameters are: ø0.3mm, ø0.6mm, ø0.8mm, ø1.0mm, ø2.0mm, ø3.0mm • Sphericity deviation Grade 10 <250 nm
Specification: Diamond coated balls
Stepped Shaft Stylus
• The diamond coating is applied on a silicon nitride ball. • The black color is still visible through the translucent diamond coat. • 0.05mm are added to the diameter of the nitride ball. • Available ball diameters are: ø1.05mm, ø2.05mm, ø3.05mm, ø5.05mm, ø8.02mm • Sphericity deviation Grade 10 <250 nm • Sphericity deviation Grade 5 <130 nm for ø1.05mm, ø2.05mm, ø3.05mm, ø5.05mm on request
StyliCleaner
The integrated solution for automatic stylus tip cleaning improves reliability of measurement results and reduce machine downtime caused by manual cleaning and human error.
Risk at manual styli cleaning
• Contaminations on the styli elements lead to significant deviations in the measurement results. • Cleaning the stylus elements is time consuming and requires a high level of expertise.
• Human error can lead to damage and misplacement of the stylus. • This leads to downtimes in which measurements cannot be made.
Solution
• Human error is avoided. • Planning of automatic cleaning cycles to remove dust, oil or chips from spherical stylus elements. • The cleaning cycle can be coupled to the calibration cycle, for example. • The cleaning program can also be initiated by less qualified personnel using a bar or QR code.
Cleaning process
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The stylus tip element is cleaned with cleaning agent for 10 seconds and then dried for 10 seconds residue-free with compressed air.
Contaminated stylus tip
Cleaned stylus tip
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