Patent ID: 8742904

Claim:
An industrial instrument performing position control of a movable body moving along a first axis, and rotational speed control of a rotating body rotating about a second axis, comprising: a manual pulse generator, a selector switch for selecting manually one of a plurality of axes including said first axis and said second axis, and a control device, said manual pulse generator including a rotary handle configured to be rotated by hand, and a first signal generator configured to generate a pulse signal based on rotation of said rotary handle, and transmit the generated pulse signal to said control device, said selector switch including a second signal generator configured to generate a signal corresponding to the selected axis, said second signal generator transmitting a signal corresponding to the selected axis to said control device, said control device including a first determination unit configured to determine an amount of rotation, rotational speed, and direction of rotation of said rotary handle, based on said pulse signal, and a second determination unit configured to determine which of said position control and said rotational speed control is selected by selection of an axis through said selector switch, based on the signal generated by said second signal generator, said control device controlling when a determination is made that said position control is selected, an amount and direction of travel of said movable body based on the amount of rotation and direction of rotation of said rotary handle, and when a determination is made that said rotational speed control is selected, the rotational speed and direction of rotation of said rotating body based on the rotational speed and direction of rotation of said rotary handle.