Patents by Inventor Claude Rouge

Claude Rouge has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 6938353
    Abstract: Touch-triggered probe comprising a fixed part, designed to be fastened onto a measuring machine or a machine tool, and a mobile contact feeler that can be oriented on two independent axes along a multiplicity of spatial directions. The two axes of the probe comprise each an actuator for unlocking and adjusting the axes. The operation force is reduced as compared with the high effective indexing force by a demultiplying mechanism having an increasing transmission ratio, for making easier the operation in unlocked position. The indication elements can easily be read whatever the feeler's orientation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2005
    Assignee: Tesa SA
    Inventors: Claude Rouge, Pascal Jordil, Adriano Zanier
  • Patent number: 6907673
    Abstract: Touch-triggered probe comprising a fixed part, designed to be fastened onto a measuring machine or a machine tool, and a mobile contact feeler that can be oriented on two independent axes along a multiplicity of spatial directions. The two axes of the probe comprise each an actuator for unlocking and adjusting the axes. The operation force is reduced as compared with the high effective indexing force by a demultiplying mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2005
    Assignee: Tesa SA
    Inventors: Adriano Zanier, Pascal Jordil, Claude Rouge
  • Patent number: 6854195
    Abstract: Touch-triggered probe comprising a fixed part, designed to be fastened onto a measuring machine or a machine tool, and a mobile contact feeler that can be oriented on two independent axes along a multiplicity of spatial directions. The two axes of the probe comprise each an actuator for unlocking and adjusting the axes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2005
    Assignee: Tesa SA
    Inventors: Pascal Jordil, Adriano Zanier, Claude Rouge
  • Patent number: 6813845
    Abstract: Method enabling a command to switch the measure mode to be entered in a dimension-measuring column (1) provided with a probe tip (44). The command is entered by acting on the angular position of a turning control button, for example by pivoting it until a predetermined angular position. A tactile reaction is perceived by the operator when a predetermined threshold is reached. Advantages: it is possible to enter the commands to switch measuring mode intuitively and without the hands letting go of the turning button.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2004
    Assignee: Tesa SA
    Inventors: Pascal Jordil, Claude Rouge, Charles-Henri Zufferey
  • Publication number: 20040154177
    Abstract: Touch-triggered probe comprising a fixed part, designed to be fastened onto a measuring machine or a machine tool, and a mobile contact feeler that can be oriented on two independent axes along a multiplicity of spatial directions. The two axes of the probe comprise each an actuator for unlocking and adjusting the axes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2004
    Publication date: August 12, 2004
    Inventors: Pascal Jordil, Adriano Zanier, Claude Rouge
  • Publication number: 20040154179
    Abstract: Touch-triggered probe comprising a fixed part, designed to be fastened onto a measuring machine or a machine tool, and a mobile contact feeler that can be oriented on two independent axes along a multiplicity of spatial directions. The two axes of the probe comprise each an actuator for unlocking and adjusting the axes. The operation force is reduced as compared with the high effective indexing force by a demultiplying mechanism having an increasing transmission ratio, for making easier the operation in unlocked position. The indication elements can easily be read whatever the feeler's orientation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2004
    Publication date: August 12, 2004
    Inventors: Claude Rouge, Pascal Jordil, Adriano Zanier
  • Publication number: 20040148792
    Abstract: Touch-triggered probe comprising a fixed part, designed to be fastened onto a measuring machine or a machine tool, and a mobile contact feeler that can be oriented on two independent axes along a multiplicity of spatial directions. The two axes of the probe comprise each an actuator for unlocking and adjusting the axes. The operation force is reduced as compared with the high effective indexing force by a demultiplying mechanism.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2004
    Publication date: August 5, 2004
    Inventors: Adriano Zanier, Pascal Jordil, Claude Rouge
  • Publication number: 20040149057
    Abstract: Touch-triggered probe comprising a fixed part, designed to be fastened onto a measuring machine or a machine tool, and a mobile contact feeler that can be oriented on two independent axes along a multiplicity of spatial directions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2004
    Publication date: August 5, 2004
    Inventors: Pascal Jordil, Adriano Zanier, Claude Rouge
  • Patent number: 6760977
    Abstract: Trigger probe, constructed on the principle of the Boys connection, serving to detect the contact between the probe's stylus and a piece to be measured, comprising an electric circuit with at least one switch, whose contact elements are positioned by means of several connecting elements of the circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2004
    Assignee: Tesa SA
    Inventors: Pascal Jordil, Claude Rouge, Adriano Zanier, Charles-Henri Zufferey
  • Publication number: 20030106232
    Abstract: Method enabling a command to switch the measure mode to be entered in a dimension-measuring column (1) provided with a probe tip (44). The command is entered by acting on the angular position of a turning control button, for example by pivoting it until a predetermined angular position. A tactile reaction is perceived by the operator when a predetermined threshold is reached.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2002
    Publication date: June 12, 2003
    Inventors: Pascal Jordil, Claude Rouge, Charles-Henri Zufferey
  • Publication number: 20030101609
    Abstract: Trigger probe, constructed on the principle of the Boys connection, serving to detect the contact between the probe's stylus and a piece to be measured, comprising an electric circuit with at least one switch, whose contact elements are positioned by means of several connecting elements of the circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2002
    Publication date: June 5, 2003
    Inventors: Pascal Jordil, Claude Rouge, Adriano Zanier, Charles-Henri Zufferey
  • Patent number: D502116
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2005
    Assignee: TESA SA
    Inventors: Pascal Jordil, Claude Rouge, Adriano Zanier