Processing machine and processing machine line

• US 10,456,880 B2
• Filed: 10/28/2013
• Issued: 10/29/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 10/28/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fuji Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Fuji Company Limited
• Inventors: Furukawa, Kazuya, Mori, Masahiko, Suzuyama, Shigefumi
• Primary Examiner(s): Addisu, Sara
• Application Number:
  US15/028,892
• Publication Number:
  US 20160256968A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,192 Days
• CPC Class Codes: B23Q 1/0045 Control panels or boxes
• CPC Class Codes: B23Q 37/007 Modular machining stations designed to be linked to each other
• CPC Class Codes: B23Q 7/14 co-ordinated in production lines

Abstract

There is provided a processing machine and a processing machine line for which it is easy for an operator to view a screen display, including an operation panel with a free vertical and horizontal posture of a display in which a longitudinal dimension and a lateral dimension are different, in which a first display aspect which displays one screen that is displayed on the display and a second display aspect which is disposed lined up with two screens are switched. Switch buttons are set in order to perform switching between the first display aspect screen and the second display aspect screen, and the first display aspect screen and the second display aspect screen are mutually switched by operating the switching button, and during the switching, are rotated 90° with respect to the display.

Claims

1. A processing machine comprising:

an operation panel including a rectangular display in which a longitudinal dimension of the display is longer than a lateral dimension of the display,

wherein the operation panel is switchable between a first display state in which only a first screen is displayed on the display and a second display state in which the first screen and a second screen are displayed on the display, a first type of predetermined information related to a machine tool of the first screen and a second type of predetermined information related to the machine tool of the second screen being different from each other,

wherein a switch button is set in order to perform switching between the first display state in which only the first screen is displayed on the display and the second display state in which the first screen and the second screen are displayed on the display,

wherein the operation panel has a first display position in which the longitudinal dimension of the display is horizontal and the lateral dimension is vertical, and a second display position in which the lateral dimension is horizontal and the longitudinal dimension is vertical,

wherein the operation panel is switched between the first display state and the second display state by operating the switch button such that in the first display state, the operation panel is in the first display position, and the in second display state, the operation panel is in the second display position which is rotated 90°

with respect to the first display position, and

wherein, in the second display state, the first and second screens are lined up one on top of the other.

2. The processing machine according to claim 1,

wherein the operation panel is able to wirelessly communicate with a machine tool using a wireless communication device.

3. The processing machine according to claim 1,

wherein the switch button is provided on a left side of the display in the first display state and in the second display state.

4. The processing machine according to claim 1,

wherein the first screen is a ladder diagram screen and the second screen is an I/O monitor screen.

5. A processing machine line comprising:

a plurality of processing machine tools which are connected to each other via a line concentrator; and

an operation panel including a rectangular display in which a longitudinal dimension of the display is longer than a lateral dimension of the display,

wherein in the operation panel, predetermined information which relates to one processing machine body is displayed on the display by selecting the one processing machine tool out of the plurality of processing machine tools,

wherein the operation panel is switchable between a first display state in which only a first screen is displayed on the display and a second display state in which the first screen and a second screen are displayed on the display, a first type of predetermined information related to one of the plurality of processing machine tools a machine tool of the first screen and a second type of predetermined information related to the one of the plurality of processing machine tools of the second screen being different from each other,

wherein a switch button is set in order to perform switching between the first display state in which only the first screen is displayed on the display and the second display state in which the first screen and the second screen are displayed on the display,

wherein the operation panel has a first display position in which the longitudinal dimension of the display is horizontal and the lateral dimension is vertical, and a second display position in which the lateral dimension is horizontal and the longitudinal dimension is vertical,

wherein the operation panel is switched between the first display state and the second display state by operating the switch button such that in the first display state, the operation panel is in the first display position, and in the second display state, the operation panel is in the second display position which is rotated 90°

with respect to the first display position, and

wherein, in the second display state, the first and second screens are lined up one on top of the other.

6. The processing machine line according to claim 5,

wherein the operation panel is able to wirelessly communicate with the plurality of processing machine tools using a wireless communication device.

7. The processing machine line according to claim 5,

wherein the predetermined information of the plurality of processing machine bodies are respectively displayed by indication of different colors on the display.

8. The processing machine line according to claim 5,

wherein the switch button is provided on a left side of the display in the first display state and in the second display state.

9. The processing machine line according to claim 5,

wherein the first screen is a ladder diagram screen and the second screen is an I/O monitor screen.