Patents Assigned to HEXAGON METROLOGY SAS
  • Patent number: 11951608
    Abstract: A three-dimensional measuring device, comprising an arm having a free end provided with an interface body and a handle enabling an operator to point the measuring member at a zone of the object that is to be measured. The handle is secured to a fastener base having an end portion that includes a slideway extending transversely relative to the longitudinal direction of the handle in order to co-operate with a slideway of the interface body, the interface body and the end portion of the fastener support having both complementary abutment means so as to define a mutual engagement position of the slideways and also complementary locking means that oppose disengagement of the slideways, the complementary locking means including a control lever that is hinged to the end portion of the fastener base between an activation position for activating the locking means and an inactivation position for inactivating the locking means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: HEXAGON METROLOGY SAS
    Inventors: Laurent Desforges, Thibault Duportal, Denis Roux, Jean-Luc Famechon, Wes Inglis
  • Patent number: 11883950
    Abstract: A three-dimensional measuring device, comprising an arm having a free end provided with an interface body carrying a measuring member and a grip member enabling an operator to point the measuring member at a zone of the object that is to be measured. The measuring member includes a male cylindrical portion having a portion engaged in a tubular coupling part secured to the interface body, the tubular coupling part is provided with a coupling locking mechanism comprising a tab mounted on a pin provided with a first annular sealing gasket bearing against a surface of the tubular coupling part, and a second annular sealing gasket is mounted between the tubular coupling part and the male cylindrical portion to be deformed between them when the male cylindrical portion is mounted in the tubular coupling part secured to the interface body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: HEXAGON METROLOGY SAS
    Inventors: Laurent Desforges, Thibault Duportal, Denis Roux, Jean-Luc Famechon, Wes Inglis
  • Patent number: 11883949
    Abstract: A three-dimensional measuring device, comprising an arm having a free end provided with an interface body carrying a measuring member and a grip member enabling an operator to point the measuring member at a zone of the object that is to be measured. The interface body has a front face in which at least one electrical connector is accessible and from which there extends a projecting tubular coupling part for coupling to the measuring member, an annular grippable body being engaged on the tubular coupling part and extending over the front surface and the electrical connector, a retaining element being mounted on the grippable body to co-operate with the tubular coupling part in order to hold the grippable body pressed against the front face of the interface body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: HEXAGON METROLOGY SAS
    Inventors: Laurent Desforges, Thibault Duportal, Denis Roux, Jean-Luc Famechon, Wes Inglis
  • Patent number: 11543236
    Abstract: A three-dimensional measuring device comprising an arm having a free end provided with an interface body that includes a front face that has projecting therefrom a tubular coupling part for coupling to a first measuring member for measuring by contact and that is arranged to form a fastener plate for fastening either to a first grip member or else to a second measuring member, and the interface body also includes a side surface arranged to form a second fastener plate for fastening to a second grip member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: HEXAGON METROLOGY SAS
    Inventors: Laurent Desforges, Thibault Duportal, Denis Roux, Jean-Luc Famechon, Wes Inglis
  • Patent number: 11466975
    Abstract: A three-dimensional measuring device, comprising an arm having a free end provided with an interface body carrying a measuring member and a grip member enabling an operator to point the measuring member at a zone of the object that is to be measured. The measuring member includes a connector to be electrically connected to a corresponding connector of the interface body by a fastener mechanism that is controllable by a lever and that is arranged in such a manner that the lever controls the fastener mechanism to occupy selectively a snap-fastening state in which the measuring member is held on the interface body while the connectors are disengaged from each other, a locking state in which the measuring member is fastened to the interface body and the connectors are engaged with each other, or a release state in which the measuring member can be separated from the interface body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: HEXAGON METROLOGY SAS
    Inventors: Laurent Desforges, Thibault Duportal, Denis Roux, Jean-Luc Famechon, Wes Inglis
  • Patent number: 9644936
    Abstract: Method for measuring a part using an articulated measurement arm having a measurement head provided with a pointing member and at least one joint fitted with at least one rotary encoder, comprising focusing on a first measurement point on the part, the measurement arm adopting a first measurement position, moving the measurement arm to a second measurement position to focus on a second measurement point of the part in order to capture a geometric feature of the part on the basis of the measurement points, and determining a degree of precision of the capture of the geometric feature undertaken as a function of the first and second positions of the measurement arm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: HEXAGON METROLOGY SAS
    Inventor: Laurent Desforges
  • Patent number: 9074620
    Abstract: A measuring device including a base on which is mounted, to pivot about a horizontal axis, between a high position and a low position, a first end of an articulated arm having a second end provided with a pointing member. A position locking device is mounted between the base and the first end, the position locking device comprising a pawl mounted so as to oppose movement of the arm toward the low position and connected to means for disengagement of the pawl.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2015
    Assignee: HEXAGON METROLOGY SAS
    Inventors: Thibault Duportal, Jean-Luc Famechon
  • Publication number: 20130129406
    Abstract: A measuring device including a base on which is mounted, to pivot about a horizontal axis, between a high position and a low position, a first end of an articulated arm having a second end provided with a pointing member. A position locking device is mounted between the base and the first end, the position locking device comprising a pawl mounted so as to oppose movement of the arm toward the low position and connected to means for disengagement of the pawl.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2012
    Publication date: May 23, 2013
    Applicant: HEXAGON METROLOGY SAS
    Inventor: HEXAGON METROLOGY SAS