Measuring instrument with digital display

• US 4,229,883 A
• Filed: 05/03/1979
• Issued: 10/28/1980
• Est. Priority Date: 05/04/1978
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Mitutoyo Mfg. Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Mitutoyo Mfg. Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Kobashi, Takashi
• Primary Examiner(s): Martin, Jr., William D.
• Application Number:
  US06/035,899
• Time in Patent Office: 544 Days
• Field of Search: 33/143 L, 33/147 N, 33/1 N, 33/125 A
• US Class Current: 33/784
• CPC Class Codes: G01B 3/205 provided with a counter for digital indication of the measured dimension
• CPC Class Codes: G01D 5/347 using displacement encoding scales

Abstract

A measuring instrument with digital display including a relatively elongate caliper body formed with a measuring part adapted to make measuring engagement with an article to be measured and a slider freely slidable in a longitudinal direction of the caliper body and formed with a measuring part disposed opposite to the measuring part of the caliper body. In the measuring instrument a transparent linear scale is fixedly disposed on the caliper body with its axis extending in the longitudinal direction of the caliper body and a transparent index scale is mounted on the slider with its calibrated face disposed opposite to the calibrated face of the linear scale and slightly spaced apart relationship. A measuring circuit including a digital display element is mounted in the slider and is electrically connected to a light emitting element and a light receiving element mounted in the slider. The light emitting element and the light receiving element are disposed opposite to each other with the linear scale and the index scale interposed thereinbetween.

Claims

1. A measuring instrument with digital display comprising:

a relatively elongated instrument body including a measuring part adapted to make measuring engagement with an article to be measured;

a transparent scale fixedly disposed on an upper surface of said instrument body with its axis extending in a longitudinal direction of said instrument body, said linear scale further being disposed perpendicularly to said body such that a calibrated face of said linear scale forms a right angle with said upper surface of said body;

a slider freely slidable in said longitudinal direction of said instrument body and including a measuring part disposed opposite to said measuring part of said instrument body;

a measuring circuit mounted in said slide and including a digital display means;

a transparent index scale mounted in said slider having a calibrated face disposed opposite to said calibrated face of said linear scale in slightly spaced apart relations; and

a light emitting element and a light receiving element mounted in said slider and disposed opposite to each other with said linear scale and said index scale interposed therebetween, said light receiving element being electrically connected to said measuring circuit and generating pulse signals corresponding to movement of said calibrated face past said light emitting element and supplying said pulse signal to said measuring circuit.

2. A measuring instrument with digital display comprising:

a relatively elongated istrument body including a measuring part adapted to make measuring engagement with an article to be measured;

a transparent linear scale fixedly disposed on said instrument body with its axis extending in a longitudinal direction of said instrument body;

a slider freely slidable in said longitudinal direction of said instrument body and including a measuring part disposed opposite of said measuring part of said instrument body;

a measuring surface mounted in said slider and including a digital display means;

an extension formed on one side of a sidewall of said slider, said extension being arranged and configured to accomodate a rechargeable battery provided as a power source for said measuring circuit;

a transparent index scale mounted in said slide having a calibrated face disposed opposite to a calibrated face of said linear scale and slightly spaced apart relations; and

a light emitting element and a light receiving element mounted in said slider and disposed opposite of each other with said linear scale and said index scale interposed therebetween, said light receiving element being electrically connected to said measuring circuit and generating pulse signals corresponding to movement of said calibrated face past said light emitting element and supplying said pulse signal to said measuring circuit.