Rotary encoder
AssigneeDr. Johannes Heidenhain GmbH
InventorKurt Feichtinger
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Abstract
An angle encoder including a carrier member, a measurement tape securable on the bearing surface circumference of the carrier member by being clamped thereto and having its opposite ends engaging opposite stop surfaces provided on the bearing surface in a mounted position of the measurement tape, and an adjustment element for adjusting a position of at least one of the stop surface so that a distance between the two stop surfaces and thereby a length of the bearing surface circumference correspond to a length of the measurement tape.
Claims7
An angle encoder, comprising a carrier member having a concave bearing surface a circumference of which is determined between two, spaced from each other, stop surfaces provided on the bearing surface;
- a measurement tape securable on the bearing surface circumference by being snap-fitted between the stop surfaces with opposite end surfaces of the measurement tape engaging respective stop surfaces in a mounted position of the measurement tape;
- and an adjustment element for adjusting a circumferential position of at least one of the stop surfaces so that a distance between the two stop surfaces and thereby a length of the bearing surface circumference correspond to a length of the measurement tape, whereby the measurement tape lays on the bearing surface circumference, in the mounted condition thereof, backlash-free after having been snap-fitted.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.