US 12,595,996 B2Granted

Small-sized measuring device and operating method of the same

AssigneeMitutoyo Corporation

InventorsMao Kikuchi, Tomoharu Kurata

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Abstract

A small-sized measuring device includes a position detector that is provided on a main body and detects the position of an object to be measured, a timer that measures time, and a central control unit that controls overall operation. The central control unit accepts a base-point setting standby time set by a user and stores the base-point setting standby time. The central control unit measures elapse of the base-point setting standby time after accepting an instruction to start measuring time from the user, performs a base-point setting step of setting the position of the object to be measured detected by the position detector as a base point after the base-point setting standby time has elapsed, and then measures the position of the object to be measured as a relative position from the base point.

Claims8

Dependent claims

A small-sized measuring device comprising:

a main body;
a position detector provided on the main body and configured to detect a position of an object to be measured by contact or non-contact;
a timer configured to measure time;
and
a central control unit configured to control overall operation, wherein
the central control unit is configured:
to accept a base-point setting standby time set by a user and store the base-point setting standby time;
to measure elapse of the base-point setting standby time after accepting an instruction to start measuring time from the user;
to perform a base-point setting step of setting the position of the object to be measured detected by the position detector as a base point after the base-point setting standby time has elapsed;
and
to perform a measurement step of measuring the position of the object to be measured as a relative position from the base point.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.