Patent ID: 11906287
Assignee: SICK K.K.
Field: Handling (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  B | IPC B  G

Claim 2:
3. The shape profile measurement device according to claim 1, wherein the calculation unit further executes:
a calculation to obtain an adjacent vertex in a second rotation direction in relation to an arbitrary vertex on the shape profile, wherein, when a straight line passing through said arbitrary vertex is rotated in the second rotation direction, which is opposite to the first rotation direction, about said arbitrary vertex within the plane of the shape profile, that straight line initially makes contact with the shape profile outside of said arbitrary vertex, and
the calculation to obtain the minimum length comprises:
obtaining a second adjacent vertex by executing the calculation to obtain an adjacent vertex in the second rotation direction in relation to the starting vertex, and
obtaining a second line segment joining the starting vertex and the second adjacent vertex as a portion of the minimum length.