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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6553685 | Measuring instruments A measuring instrument includes a spindle (11) provided to a body (1), a sleeve (31) movable in the same direction as the spindle and stoppable at a desired position, a connector (41) for connecting the sleeve and the spindle and allowing relative movemen... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6519867 | Measuring device A micrometer comprising a thimble made, at least in part, of a translucent material, a vernier scale on an inner circumference of the thimble along the circumferential direction and a vernier numeral on an outer circumference of the thimble along the circ... | 02/18/2003 |
| 6115934 | Micrometer, method for manufacturing cylindrical component for micrometer A thimble 61 formed with graduations 65 and numerals 67 on the outer circumference thereof at predetermined intervals is molded by double-color molding using two kinds of resin 62, 63 with different colors. After a molding product having the graduations 6... | 09/12/2000 |
| 5183055 | Device for obtaining testicular or penile size and volume measurements A device which is useful in urological and andrological measurements of anatomical organs and for calculation of related volumetric capacity thereof which includes a graduated rule, bearing at one end thereof a fixed jaw, the rule defining an elongated ca... | 02/02/1993 |
| 5177874 | Gage for hex head fasteners A gage for measuring and displaying the dimensional distance across the flats of a hex head of a hex head fastener having a rotatable handle attached through a shaft to a gear. The gear engages racks of a movable jaw having faces which engage the flats of... | 01/12/1993 |
| 4787148 | Nanometric drive apparatus A nanometric drive apparatus providing superimposed coarse and fine adjustment for producing axially-directed linear displacement of a single linear displacement element. Linear displacement in the nanometric range is achieved. In the preferred embodiment... | 11/29/1988 |
| 4653191 | Device for checking the setting of the arrow guide button on a sports bow A device for checking the setting on a sports bow having a bow window and a spring-biased arrow guide button projecting from the bow window includes a measuring sleeve provided with a scale to measure the projection of the arrow guide button from the bow ... | 03/31/1987 |
| 4553330 | Micrometer A micrometer wherein two or more spindles are disposed on one and the same axis, a spindle in contact with a workpiece to be measured is made unrotatable and a thimble is reduced in diameter. This micrometer comprising a main body (1, 101), a first spindle (15... | 11/19/1985 |
| 4550506 | Measuring machine The invention provides a measuring machine which includes a stationary measuring contact point and a movable measuring contact point, each of which is positioned so as to oppose each other. Measuring of an object is carried out by putting the object betwe... | 11/05/1985 |
