# US 8,782,916 B2 · Supporting plate structure for magnetoscale

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- Number: US 8,782,916 B2
- Document ID: US8782916B2
- Status: Granted
- Kind: B2
- Application number: 13/266,111
- Filed: 2010-02-23
- Published: 2012-02-23
- Granted: 2014-07-22
- Earliest claimed: 2009-04-24
- Assignees: Guangzhou Lokshun Cnc Equipment Ltd
- Applicants: Liqing Yan; Qiang Huang; Ziming Gu
- Inventors: Liqing Yan; Qiang Huang; Ziming Gu
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US8782916B2

## CPC

- G01D 11/30: Supports specially adapted for an instrument; Supports specially adapted for a set of instruments
- G01D: MEASURING NOT SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR A SPECIFIC VARIABLE; ARRANGEMENTS FOR MEASURING TWO OR MORE VARIABLES NOT COVERED IN A SINGLE OTHER SUBCLASS; TARIFF METERING APPARATUS; MEASURING OR TESTING NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR

## Abstract

The invention provides a supporting plate structure for a magnet grid ruler, including a plurality of pieces of supporting plates and at least two sections of ruler shells within which magnetic strips are provided, both ends of each section of the ruler shells are fixedly mounted on two pieces of the supporting plates respectively, and the respective pieces of supporting plates are mounted at one side of a machine guide rail pair. A magnet grid reading head is mounted at the other side of the machine guide rail pair, and is moved with respect to magnetic strips. In the invention, the supporting plate structure is designed to be a structure with a plurality of pieces, each has a smaller size, thus the supporting plates do not need to be calibrated exactly, and thus time and work are saved. Also, the supporting plates have no twisting and bending, so as to ensure the straightness of the ruler shells and magnetic strips, which are mounted on the supporting plates, thereby improving parallelism between the magnetic strips and the magnetic grid reading head and improving the measurement accuracy of the magnetic grid.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A supporting plate structure for a magnet grid ruler, comprising a plurality of pieces of supporting plates and at least two sections of ruler shells within which magnetic strips are provided, wherein both ends of each section of the ruler shells are fixedly mounted on two pieces of the supporting plates respectively, wherein the respective pieces of supporting plates are mounted at one side of a machine guide rail pair, wherein each piece of the supporting plate comprises a ruler shell mounting base face, wherein the ruler shell mounting base face is flat and parallel with the machine guide rail pair, and wherein a lower portion of each piece of the supporting plates is provided with a protruding extending from one end of the supporting plate to the other end for contacting and positioning two neighboring ruler shells.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

The supporting plate structure for a magnet grid ruler according to claim 1, wherein an upper portion of each piece of the supporting plates is provided with three holes, a lower portion of each piece of the supporting plates is provided with two holes, and each hole is fitted with a fastening bolt for adjusting.

### Claim 3 (depends on 1)

The supporting plate structure for a magnet grid ruler according to claim 1, wherein a middle position of the ruler shell is fixedly connected with a piece of supporting plate.

### Claim 4 (depends on 1)

The supporting plate structure for a magnet grid ruler according to claim 1, wherein the ruler shells are connected to the supporting plates by a countersunk head hexagon screws.

### Claim 5 (depends on 1)

The supporting plate structure for a magnet grid ruler according to claim 1, wherein the supporting plates are fixed at one side of the machine guide rail pair by a countersunk head hexagon screws.

### Claim 6 (depends on 1)

The supporting plate structure for a magnet grid ruler according to claim 1, wherein each piece of the supporting plates has a length of 118 mm, a width of 80 mm and a thickness of 16 mm.

### Claim 7 (depends on 1)

The supporting plate structure for a magnet grid ruler according to claim 1, wherein the supporting plates and the ruler shells are aligned with each other at ends of the magnetic grid ruler.

### Claim 8 (depends on 1)

The supporting plate structure for a magnet grid ruler according to claim 1, wherein the supporting plates are made of steel or aluminum alloy material.