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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 01, 1986
Filed:
Jan. 29, 1985
Tsuneo Sasaki, Tokyo, JP;
Fumio Ohtomo, Tokyo, JP;
Takashi Yokokura, Tokyo, JP;
Fumitomo Kondo, Tokyo, JP;
Tokyo Kogaku Kikai Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A displacement measuring device, using an incremental code, which includes a coding member (22) resting on the object (21) to be measured and having a coding section for generating such signals that a sensing element can discriminate the signals as 0 or 1, sensing means (25A, 25B) disposed to sense the coding section of the coding member for producing sensed signal in response to the displacement of the coding member (22), and rectangular wave-converting circuits (27A, 27B) for receiving and converting the sensed signal into rectangular wave signals. A clock pulse generator (28) is provided in the device for generating a clock pulse with a higher repetition-frequency than the repetition-frequency of the sensed signal. An edge detector (29) receives the clock pulse from the clock pulse generator (28) and the rectangular wave-signal from the rectangular wave-converting circuits (27A, 27B) and then delivers, as an output pulse, the clock pulse substantially coincident with at least one of the leading edge and the trailing edge of the rectangular wave-signal. A counter (30) counts the output pulses from the edge detector and a display (31) indicates the counted value. With such an arrangement, an incremental displacement measurement can be made without a differentiating circuit and an averaging circuit.