Measurement device
AssigneeMitutoyo Corporation
InventorsHideki KUMAGAI, Kazumi MIZUKAMI
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Abstract
A three-dimensional measuring machine (measurement device) which supplies a probe having a measurement head able to make contact with a measured object and a contact detection sensor which detects the contact of a measurement head with a measured object and outputs a touch signal; a displacement structure which displaces a probe along three axial directions orthogonal to one another; scale sensors which detect the position coordinates of a probe and output a coordinate detection signal; a control circuit board having an integrated circuit on which are installed a touch counter which counts touch signals and a scale counter which counts coordinate detection signals; and a latch controller which latches a touch counter value and a scale counter value at the same time.
Claims2
A measurement device comprising:
- a probe comprising:
- a measurement head configured to contact a measured object;
- and
- a contact detector configured to detect the contact of the measurement head with the measured object, the contact detector further configured to output a touch signal;
- a displacer configured to displace the probe along three axial directions orthogonal to one another;
- a coordinate detector configured to detect a position coordinate of the probe, and further configured to output a coordinate detection signal;
- a control circuit board having an integrated circuit on which are installed a touch counter, the touch counter configured to count the touch signal and a scale counter, the scale counter configured to count a coordinate detection signal;
- and
- a latch configured to latch the touch counter value and the scale counter value at the same time.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.