Development and Practicality of a Scanning Point Autofocus Instrument for High Speed Areal Surface Texture Measurement

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A point autofocus instrument (PAI) is widely used for the roughness and contour measurement of various precision processing surfaces, because it is capable of measuring a large area in high precision. The only disadvantage of PAI is to require a long measurement time. Its conventional index measurement stops the scanning stage in order to obtain each coordinate value of the fixed sampling pitch. Hence, it was necessary to develop a scanning point autofocus instrument (SPAI) which can obtain coordinate values while the scanning stage is moving. As an achievement of the development, the SPAI offers 26 times faster measurement speed than that of the index measurement with equivalent accuracy. The SPAI easily measures 3D surface texture and provides quantitative evaluations of the precision processing surfaces.

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September 2014

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[2] ISO 25178-605: 2014, Nominal characteristics of non-contact (point autofocus probe) instruments, Annex A, General principles.

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[4] ISO 25178-605: 2014 Nominal characteristics of non-contact (point autofocus probe) instruments, Annex D, Features of an areal surface texture measuring instrument.

DOI: 10.3403/30205377

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