Patent ID: 7727051
Filing Date: 2010-06-01
Classification: B24B

Abstract:
1. A method of honing comprising steps of: providing a honing machine including a honing element movable in a reciprocating stroking motion for honing a work piece; providing a servo in connection with the honing element controllably operable for reciprocally stroking the honing element; providing a servo drive in connection with the servo operable for controllably operating the servo; and operating the servo drive to control the servo for axially reciprocally stroking the honing element, such that during at least a portion of the reciprocal motion acceleration and deceleration of the honing element will have a combined profile selected from a group consisting of a cycloidal profile, a modified trapezoidal profile, a polynomial profile, and a modified sine profile, such that a resulting jerk profile of the portion of the reciprocal motion will be finite.