Terminal for processing facilities

• US 10,534,346 B2
• Filed: 07/01/2015
• Issued: 01/14/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 08/20/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: SIG Technology AG (SIG Group AG)
• Original Assignee: SIG Technology AG (SIG Group AG)
• Inventors: Holzkamper, Peter, Hofmann, Thomas
• Primary Examiner(s): Azad, Md
• Application Number:
  US15/504,524
• Publication Number:
  US 20170235296A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,658 Days
• Field of Search: 700 83
• CPC Class Codes: B65B 17/00 Other machines, apparatus, or methods for packaging articles or materials
• CPC Class Codes: B65B 57/00 Automatic control, checking, warning, or safety devices registering wrapping or container-forming material fed from rolls B65B41/18
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 19/409 characterised by using manual data input [MDI] or by using control panel, e.g. controlling functions with the panel; characterised by control panel details or by setting parameters G05B19/408, G05B19/4093 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/32014 Augmented reality assists operator in maintenance, repair, programming, assembly, use of head mounted display with 2-D 3-D display and voice feedback, voice and gesture command
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/36159 Detachable or portable programming unit, display, pc, pda
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/36542 Cryptography, encrypt, access, authorize with key, code, password
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/39449 Pendant, pda displaying camera images overlayed with graphics, augmented reality
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1694 the I/O peripheral being a single or a set of motion sensors for pointer control or gesture input obtained by sensing movements of the portable computer
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0346 with detection of the device orientation or free movement in a 3D space, e.g. 3D mice, 6-DOF [six degrees of freedom] pointers using gyroscopes, accelerometers or tilt-sensors
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04847 Interaction techniques to control parameter settings, e.g. interaction with sliders or dials

Abstract

Terminal 20 for processing facilities having a communication device 28 arranged to exchange information about the processing facility with a communication partner, a screen 22 arranged to display the information about the processing facility, a position sensor 26 arranged to collect alignment information relating to an alignment of the terminal 20 and a processor 24 arranged to control the communication device 28, the screen 22 and the position sensor 26. The functionality of the terminal is extended by the fact that the processor sets a function of the terminal 20 dependent on alignment information from the position sensor 26.

Claims

1. A terminal for processing facilities, comprising:

a communication device arranged to exchange information about the processing facility with a communication partner,

a screen arranged to display the information about the processing facility,

a position sensor arranged to collect alignment information relating to an alignment of the terminal, and

a processor arranged to control the communication device, the screen and the position sensor,

wherein the processor sets a function of the terminal dependent on the alignment information of the position sensor,

wherein in a first position of the terminal a first function of the terminal is set and in a second position of the terminal a second function, which is different from the first function, is set, and

wherein the information displayed on the screen is set dependent on information displayed by a display device in a viewing window of a processing station of the processing facility, for intervening in a case of an error and readjustment of erroneous parameters leading to an unwanted outcome,

wherein the information displayed on the screen includes numeric values, warnings, instructions, and/or messages arranged in such a way that the information displayed on the screen is readable in a comprehensible manner.

2. The terminal of claim 1, wherein the processor sets at least one of a type and a content of the information displayed on the screen about the processing facility dependent on the alignment information from the position sensor.

3. The terminal of claim 1, wherein the functions of the terminal comprise:

controlling the processing facility,

viewing facility parameters,

viewing operator instructions,

exchanging information with the processing facility.

4. The terminal according to claim 1, wherein the processor, dependent on at least one of an access control and a role of a user currently logged into the terminal, sets the setting of the function of the terminal which is dependent on the alignment information.

5. The terminal according to claim 1, wherein the processor sets access control on the terminal dependent on the alignment information.

6. The terminal according to claim 1, wherein a login device is arranged to receive login information wirelessly.

7. The terminal according to claim 1, wherein the terminal is mobile relative to the processing facility.

8. The terminal according to claim 1, wherein the terminal is at least partly transparent in the area of the screen, and wherein the terminal at least one of has a camera facing away from the screen and displays on the screen at least a picture taken by the camera.

9. The terminal according to claim 1, wherein the information displayed on the screen is set dependent on a relative position of the terminal to the processing facility.

10. The terminal according to claim 1, wherein the communication device is arranged to communicate wirelessly with the processing facility.

11. The terminal according to claim 1, wherein the information displayed on the screen is semantically associated with the information displayed in the viewing window.

12. The terminal according to claim 5, wherein the processor sets remote access via a data network dependent on the alignment information.

13. A system comprising:

a processing facility comprising at least one processing station, wherein the processing station includes a viewing window and a display device, and wherein the display device is arranged to display information in the viewing window, and

a terminal for the processing facility, wherein the terminal comprises;

a communication device arranged to exchange information about the processing facility with a communication partner,

a screen arranged to display the information about the processing facility,

a position sensor arranged to collect alignment information relating to an alignment of the terminal, and

a processor arranged to control the communication device, the screen and the position sensor,

wherein the processor sets a function of the terminal dependent on the alignment information of the position sensor,

wherein in a first position of the terminal a first function of the terminal is set and in a second position of the terminal a second function, which is different from the first function, is set, and

wherein at least one of (i) the processor controls the screen to display the information dependent on the information displayed in the viewing window by the display device and (ii) the display device displays the information in the viewing window dependent on the information displayed on the screen, for intervening in a case of an error and readjustment of erroneous parameters leading to an unwanted outcome,

wherein the information displayed on the screen includes numeric values, warnings, instructions, and/or messages arranged in such a way that the information displayed on the screen is readable in a comprehensible manner.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein a cover at least partly surrounds the processing facility, and wherein the cover has the at least one viewing window.

15. A method of operating a processing facility, comprising:

exchanging, with a communication device of a terminal for the processing facility, information about the processing facility with a communication partner;

displaying, with a screen of the terminal, the information about the processing facility;

collecting, with a position sensor of the terminal, alignment information relating to an alignment of the terminal;

setting, with a processor of the terminal, a function of the terminal dependent on the alignment information of the position sensor,

wherein in a first position of the terminal a first function of the terminal is set and in a second position of the terminal a second function,

which is different from the first function, is set, and wherein the information displayed on the screen is set dependent on information displayed by a display device in a viewing window of a processing station of the processing facility, for intervening in a case of an error and readjustment of erroneous parameters leading to an unwanted outcome,

wherein the information displayed on the screen includes numeric values, warnings, instructions, and/or messages arranged in such a way that the information displayed on the screen is readable in a comprehensible manner.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein the processing facility is a filling installation.