Patent ID: 7143523
Filing Date: 2006-12-05
Classification: G01D

Abstract:
1. A securing device for transporting and mounting a measuring arrangement for the determination of the position of two components which are movable with respect to each other, said measuring arrangement comprising a linearly extending measuring graduation, a support body for said measuring graduation, a scanning device for scanning said measuring graduation, which is guided at a defined distance from said measuring graduation, and a mounting base for fastening said scanning device to one of said two components which are movable with respect to each other, wherein said securing device comprises: a base body which is longitudinally shifted along a guide track of said support body, and which is on the one hand fixable to said mounting base; and which is on the other hand fixable to said support body in order to maintain said mounting base in a defined nominal position with respect to said support body; and a connector provided on said extended part which can be automatically brought into engagement with a connecting point of said mounting base, wherein said connector is distanced from said base body in said extension direction, and said connector is provided at an end of said extended part distanced from said base body and said connector is brought into engagement with said connecting point by shifting said base body in said extension direction.