Manual pulse generating device
AssigneeFanuc Corporation
InventorsYasuharu Aizawa, Hiroshi Okita, Hideki Okamura, Yuuma Ootsuka
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Abstract
A manual pulse generating device is equipped with a rotatable dial, a pulse generating unit configured to generate drive pulses for commanding axial movement in accordance with an amount of rotation of the dial, an enable switch configured to switch between enablement and disablement of axial movement in accordance with the drive pulses, and a casing having the dial and the enable switch disposed on a surface thereof, and configured to accommodate the pulse generating unit in the interior thereof. The guard configured to cover at least a portion of an outer circumferential surface of the dial is attached to the casing.
Claims11
A manual pulse generating device, comprising:
- a rotatable dial;
- a pulse generating unit configured to generate drive pulses for commanding axial movement in accordance with an amount of rotation of the dial;
- an enable switch configured to switch between enablement and disablement of axial movement in accordance with the drive pulses;
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- a casing having the dial and the enable switch disposed on a surface thereof, and configured to accommodate the pulse generating unit in an interior of the casing;
- wherein a guard configured to cover at least a portion of an outer circumferential surface of the dial is attached to the casing.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.