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 photosensor, and a central control unit that controls overall operation. The photosensor is configured to function at least as an input device configured to accept a base-point setting instruction from the user. The central control unit, when accepting the base-point setting instruction from the user through the non-contact input sensor, 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, and performs a measurement step of measuring the position of the object to be measured as a relative position from the base point.
Claims12
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 non-contact input sensor configured to sense an instruction of a user in a non-contact manner;
- and
- a central control unit configured to control overall operation, wherein
- the non-contact input sensor is configured to function at least as an input device configured to accept a base-point setting instruction from the user, and
- the central control unit is configured:
- to perform, when accepting the base-point setting instruction from the user through the non-contact input sensor, a base-point setting step of setting the position of the object to be measured detected by the position detector as a base point;
- and
- to perform a measurement step of measuring the position of the object to be measured as a relative position from the base point.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.