Patent ID: 11906333
Assignee: DMG MORI CO., LTD.
Field: Measurement (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G  B | IPC G

Claim 10:
11. A position detection device comprising:
a plurality of scales that each records absolute data including a scale ID for separately identifying each of the plurality of scales and position data representing a position on any one of the plurality of scales;
a detector that detects the absolute data from each of said plurality of scales;
an extractor that is configured to extract, from the absolute data detected by the detector, the scale ID and the position data,
wherein
each of said plurality of scales includes specific absolute data, and
said extractor comprises a storage that stores a correspondence between the specific absolute data and the scale ID, and
wherein said extractor extracts the position data by offsetting an offset value corresponding to the scale ID from the absolute data.