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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 19, 1985
Filed:
Apr. 09, 1984
Shingo Nishina, Kawasaki, JP;
Mitutoyo Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
This invention concerns a dimension measuring instrument comprising an encoder for converting a displacement of a spindle into an electric signal and an analogue indication device for electrically indicating a measured value, which has been obtained through processing of an output from the encoder, by a pattern including a scale or scales, a pointer and the like. The analogue indication device is provided with a scale indicating circuit for continuously indicating two or more scales different in scale interval from each other and a pointer indicating circuit for driving the pointer in accordance with the measured value and depending on the scale interval for the indication, and a range of dimension indication is expanded without deteriorating the reading accuracy within a predetermined range of dimension indication.