Multi-functional feed-screw-type dovetail stage
AssigneeMiruc Optical Co., Ltd.
InventorHiroaki Muramatsu
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Abstract
A multi-functional feed-screw-type dovetail stage may include a male threaded rod having, on each of its ends, a coupling portion for coupling to a control knob; a first support and a second support provided on respective sides of a fixed member for rotatably supporting the male-threaded rod; and the control knob that detachably couples via its coupling portion to the male-threaded rod and serves to rotate the male-threaded rod. A slide member travels until a female-threaded cylinder engaging the fixed member abuts the first support and the second support upon moving.
Claims7
A multi-functional feed-screw dovetail stage in which a slide member having a female-threaded cylinder connected thereto is engaged with a fixed member having a male-threaded rod connected thereto, and, by operating a control knob to rotate the male-threaded rod so as to move the female-threaded cylinder, the slide member is made to slide to thereby perform positional adjustment of a measuring equipment mounted on the stage,
- wherein
- the male-threaded rod includes, on each of its respective ends, a rod coupling portion for coupling to a knob coupling portion of the control knob;
- the multi-functional feed-screw dovetail stage further comprises a first support and a second support provided on respective sides of the fixed member, the supports defining the length of the fixed member along a travel direction of the female-threaded cylinder and rotatably supporting the male-threaded rod;
- the control knob detachably couples via the knob coupling portion to the male-threaded rod and serves to rotate the male-threaded rod;
- the rod coupling portion comprises threaded holes formed in the two ends of the male-threaded rod along an axial direction, and a bolt inserted inside the control knob along the axial direction for engaging with the threaded holes formed in the male-threaded rod;
- the slide member includes an insertion recess in which a protrusion coupled to the female-threaded cylinder can be removably inserted;
- and
- by removing the engaged bolt and removing the protrusion from the insertion recess, replacements can be made selectively from among a plurality of male-threaded rods having different amounts of displacement per rotation and corresponding female-threaded cylinders.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.