Processing system

• US 10,185,493 B2
• Filed: 06/16/2016
• Issued: 01/22/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 06/16/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Disco Corporation
• Original Assignee: Disco Corporation
• Inventors: Chiba, Shinya, Takaba, Jun
• Primary Examiner(s): Haley, Joseph
• Application Number:
  US15/184,536
• Publication Number:
  US 20160370905A1
• Time in Patent Office: 950 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: B23Q 1/0045 Control panels or boxes
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 19/00 Programme-control systems
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 19/406 characterised by monitoring or safety G05B19/19 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/13031 Use of touch screen
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/23377 Touch screen, with representation of buttons, machine on screen
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04805 Virtual magnifying lens, i.e. window or frame movable on top of displayed information to enlarge it for better reading or selection
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04886 by partitioning the display area of the touch-screen or the surface of the digitising tablet into independently controllable areas, e.g. virtual keyboards or menus

Abstract

A touch panel device includes a display section for displaying a plurality of input fields, an enlarged display section for displaying, at enlarged scale, one of the input fields in which the operator wants to enter data and which is touched by the operator, and an input section for entering processing condition data from the input field displayed at enlarged scale.

Claims

1. A touch panel device provided on a processing apparatus, comprising:

display means for displaying a plurality of input fields in a device area in the touch panel device, the input fields having an associated item name, wherein each input field has a predetermined relative position with respect to the associated item name;

enlarged display means for displaying, in an enlarged portion directly over a selected input field, a predetermined region including the selected one of the input fields in which an operator wants to enter data and which is touched by the operator and other input fields adjacent to the selected input field, the predetermined region being movable in a desired direction without deleting the predetermined region in response to an operation made by the operator; and

input means for entering processing condition data in the selected input field displayed in the enlarged portion without fully concealing adjacent input fields, wherein the selected input field is not moved relative to the item name associated with the selected input field, and the selected input field is not moved with respect to the predetermined relative position when the selected input field is not in an enlarged portion.

2. The touch panel device according to claim 1,

wherein the processing apparatus includes a cutting apparatus, and

the input fields displayed by the display means are displayed on an input screen when the cutting apparatus is activated, and the input screen is made up of a device area, a cut setting area, an auto setup area, an auto down area, and a software keyboard area.

3. The touch panel device according to claim 2, wherein each of the device area, the cut setting area, the auto setup area, and the auto down area includes the item names associated with the input fields, and the enlarged display means displays a magnifying lens on the input screen for displaying, at enlarged scale, the one of the input fields when the operator selects and touches the one of the input fields.