Mitutoyo Corporation

Hideo Morita

Kenji Abiko

Katsuaki Anzawa

Yasuhiro Ichiba

A touch signal probe wherein a stylus installation shaft 2 and a stylus are connected by two springs 8 and 10 so as to move in a X-Y direction and a Z direction and a slat of a damper 9 is contained in a closed closure space S between the spring 8 and the spring 10, which space S is filled with a viscous liquid.

Touch signal probe

The present invention relates to a surface contour measuring tracer permitting a probe element to move in the directions of X-, Y- and Z-axes. A support structure includes a base supporting thereon an X-slider and a Y-slider which are movable in the directions of X- and Y-axes, respectively. A Z-slider is supported on the X-slider so to be movable in the direction of a Z-axis. Supported on the Z-slider is a probe element, the movements of which in the directions of X-, Y- and Z-axes are permitted by the movements of the X-, Y- and Z-sliders. The X- and Y-sliders are normally held at neutral positions by a wire spring extending in the direction of the Z-axis, and the Z-slider is permitted to move in the direction of the Z-axis against the action of a coil spring and normally held at a neutral position.

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Kawasaki, Japan

Hideo Morita