Abstract:
A pad shaping tool for shaping a polishing pad. The tool includes a disk having a first side and a second side and at least two discontinuous pad shaping surfaces located in spaced apart positions relative to each other on the first side of the disk. The pad shaping surfaces are simultaneously engageable with a polishing surface of the polishing pad for shaping the polishing surface as the pad rotates relative to the tool to change a cross sectional profile of the polishing surface from a curved shape to a flatter shape. A process for reconditioning the polishing pad on a rotatable platform of a wafer polishing machine includes the steps of engaging the pad shaping tool with the polishing surface of the pad such that at least two discontinuous pad shaping surfaces of the tool simultaneously engage the polishing surface, and rotating the polishing pad while preventing translational movement of the tool relative to the pad so that the tool shapes the polishing surface of the pad to be more nearly flat.
Abstract:
There is provided a tool for trueing and dressing a grinding wheel, comprising a wheel having a thin layer of diamonds in a plane perpendicular to the rotational axis of the tool. There is also provided a method for trueing and dressing a grinding wheel, comprising engaging the periphery of a rotating grinding wheel with a rotating trueing and dressing wheel having a thin layer of diamonds in a plane perpendicular to the rotational axis of the trueing and dressing wheel. Preferably, the trueing and dressing wheel is disposed between the headstock and tailstock of a grinding machine in place of the workpiece.
Abstract:
A dressing roll comprises a revolving circumferential surface, in particular two conical circumferential surfaces (12, 13) intersecting each other along an outer circumferential line (14). The circumferential surface is garnished with diamonds. In order to ensure that the diamond needles attack a grinding wheel to be dressed over a two-dimensional surface and to avoid the production of spiral-shaped dressing grooves in the grinding wheel surface, the diamonds take the form of diamond needles (15, 16) which project obliquely from the circumferential surface (12, 13) and whose free ends (17, 18) overlap each other in the circumferential direction (FIG. 1).
Abstract:
A grinding wheel dressing apparatus including a housing, a dresser shaft rotatably mounted on the housing and having one end adapted for connection to a drive shaft and an opposite end adapted to receive a dresser wheel, and an acoustic sensor retained by the housing and adapted to detect acoustic signals produced by contact between the rotating dresser wheel and a grinding wheel being dressed thereby.
Abstract:
A dressing roll unit is supported on a nonrotating shaft clamped and maintained as a "fixed end" beam, thereby restrained against axial movement and deflection. The shaft is formed with spaced-apart bearing points, wherein wedge-shaped relief sectors are formed about the shaft at the bearing points, and a roll body is maintained about the bearing points with an annular clearance. Rotation of the dressing roll body and roll thereby forms high pressure hydrodynamic wedges of oil at the relief sectors and annular clearances, to create an extremely rigid roll mounting unit, without the need for pivoting bearing parts.
Abstract:
Apparatus and method to provide a rotary dressing tool, formed to the geometric shape of any part piece to be ground, which is utilized to reform an abrasive wheel so that it will produce desired dimensional characteristics on the part piece. A combination of diamond particles and preformed polycrystalline diamond segments are spaced around the outer perimeter of the tool and surrounded by a matrix of abrasive resistant nickel based alloy. Co-utilization of the diamond particles and the preformed segments creates a rotary dressing tool which is highly resistant to abrasive wear, enhancing the performance and durability of the tool.
Abstract:
A truing apparatus includes a truing tool supported on a tool support movable radially and axially of a grinding wheel having a rounded corner and drivable by a feed drive unit coupled to the tool support to move along a predetermined path for truing the rounded corner of the grinding wheel. At least one contact member for contacting outer peripheral and end surfaces of the grinding wheel is mounted on the tool support, and a sensor is also mounted on the tool support for detecting a contact between the contact member and the grinding wheel. A feed control system controls the feed drive unit for moving the truing tool along the predetermined path. The feed control system controls the feed drive unit so that the contact member will move radially and axially of the grinding wheel until the sensor is actuated immediately after one truing process and immediately before a next truing process. A grinding wheel position detector detects radial and axial positions of the grinding wheel when the sensor is actuated immediately after the one truing process and immediately before the next truing process. A correcting unit corrects the predetermined path along which the truing tool is to move in the next truing process based on the positions of the grinding wheel detected by the grinding wheel position detector immediately after the one truing process and immediately before the next truing process.
Abstract:
A tangential grinding machine has a variable grinding feed rate which is dependent upon the length of the cutting or grinding path which occurs between the grinding wheel and a workpiece. The variable feed rate accomodates fluctuations in grinding wheel and workpiece dimensions to control the grinding time and optimize stock removal rates.
Abstract:
Apparatus for dressing, smoothing and reshaping the cutting surface of an abrasive impregnated cutting wheel. Apparatus includes a frame member suitable for mounting in the object vise of a cutting machine having a diamond impregnated cutting wheel, a rotatable cylindrical dressing surface mounted on the frame member, and guide means to hold the cutting wheel in proper position. The dressing surface engages the periphery of the cutting wheel under pressure to smooth and shape it by a peening action of the rotating cylindrical dressing surface upon the periphery of the cutting wheel.