DIGITAL DISPLACEMENT MEASURING INSTRUMENT

• US 20130226507A1
• Filed: 02/27/2013
• Published: 08/29/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 02/27/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Mitutoyo Corporation
• Original Assignee: Mitutoyo Corporation
• Inventors: HAYASHIDA, Shuji, TSUJIMOTO, Yasuhiro
• Granted Patent: US 9,404,724 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 702/142
• CPC Class Codes: G01B 3/18 Micrometers

Abstract

A digital displacement measuring instrument includes: a body; a spindle; an encoder; a display; a speed information detector that detects a moving speed of the spindle; a judging unit that judges whether or not the spindle is stopped based on the moving speed detected by the speed information detector and, when the judging unit judges that the spindle is stopped, judges whether or not the moving speed of the spindle just before the spindle is stopped exceeds a predetermined threshold; and a notifying unit that notifies a judgment result provided by the judging unit.

Claims

1. A digital displacement measuring instrument, comprising:

a body;

a spindle that is screwed into the body to be axially moved;

an encoder that detects a displacement of the spindle;

a display that displays the displacement of the spindle detected by the encoder;

a speed information detector that detects a moving speed of the spindle;

a judging unit that judges whether or not the spindle is stopped based on the moving speed detected by the speed information detector and, when the judging unit judges that the spindle is stopped, judges whether or not the moving speed of the spindle just before the spindle is stopped exceeds a predetermined speed threshold; and

a notifying unit that notifies a judgment result provided by the judging unit.

2. The digital displacement measuring instrument according to claim 1, wherein

the speed information detector calculates the moving speed of the spindle based on the displacement of the spindle detected by the encoder.

3. The digital displacement measuring instrument according to claim 2, wherein

the speed information detector calculates an acceleration of the spindle just before the spindle is stopped based on the moving speed of the spindle, and

the judging unit judges that the spindle is stopped when the moving speed detected by the speed information detector is zero and the acceleration is not zero.

4. The digital displacement measuring instrument according to claim 3, wherein

the notifying unit notifies an alarm when the moving speed of the spindle just before the spindle is stopped exceeds the predetermined speed threshold, or when the acceleration of the spindle just before the spindle is stopped exceeds a predetermined acceleration threshold.