MACHINE STATE DISPLAY DEVICE OF COMPOSITE LATHE HAVING A PLURALITY OF MAIN SPINDLES

• US 20150290759A1
• Filed: 03/31/2015
• Published: 10/15/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 04/14/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Nakamura-Tome Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Nakamura-Tome Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: NAKANISHI, Nagafumi
• Application Number:
  US14/674,423
• Publication Number:
  US 20150290759A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B23Q 17/22 for indicating or measuring existing or desired position of tool or work B23Q16/005 takes precedence
• 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 2219/35318 3-D display of workpiece, workspace, tool track
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/35505 Display two windows, one with nc-data, other with general application data
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/36137 Configuration of display device, operator panel
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/36168 Touchscreen
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/45125 Four axis, spindle lathe
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/50005 Multiple chuck machining, chuck position change after each partial machining
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04847 Interaction techniques to control parameter settings, e.g. interaction with sliders or dials
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 13/20 3D [Three Dimensional] animation
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2200/24 involving graphical user interfaces [GUIs]
• CPC Class Codes: Y02P 90/02 Total factory control, e.g. smart factories, flexible manufacturing systems [FMS] or integrated manufacturing systems [IMS]

Abstract

Three-dimensional figures of a plurality of main spindles and tool posts of a composite lathe are displayed on a full-time display region of a display according to an arrangement of main spindles and tool posts of an actual machine. A main spindle selection state of each of the tool posts is displayed by an arrow which is seen to move toward the main spindle figure from each of the tool post figures. It is possible to provide a display device which can viscerally understand an operating state of the machine and is excellent in design, and it is possible to easily instruct a controller a setting and a command which affects the machine state.

Claims

1. A display device for impressing a machine state of a composite lathe having a plurality of main spindles on an operator, the display device comprising:

a display provided in a part of a screen a full-time display region which is not switched even in the case that a screen of a main region is switched;

three-dimensional figures of respective main spindles which are displayed as motion pictures rotating at a low speed in the same direction of the rotation of the corresponding main spindles, the three-dimensional figures being arranged in said full-time display region in correspondence to the arrangement of a plurality of main spindles in an actual machine;

three-dimensional figures of respective tool posts which are arranged in said full-time display region in correspondence to the arrangement of a plurality of tool posts in the actual machine; and

arrow figures which are directed to the three-dimensional figures of the selected main spindles from the three-dimensional figures of the respective tool posts, for displaying a main spindle selection state of the tool post.

2. The machine state display device according to claim 1, wherein the three-dimensional figure of the tool post having a tool drive motor comprises:

a three-dimensional figure of a turning tool which is displayed in the case that a process command applied to said tool post from the NC device is a lathe turning process command, or

a three-dimensional figure of a drill which is displayed in the case that the process command applied to said tool post from the NC device is a milling process command and an arrow figure which indicates a rotation direction of the tool displayed near the three-dimensional figure of said drill.

3. The machine state display device according to claim 1, wherein the arrow figure for displaying said main spindle selection state is an arrow figure which is seen to move toward the main spindle figure indicated by the arrow.

4. The machine state display device according to claim 2, wherein the arrow figure for displaying said main spindle selection state is an arrow figure which is seen to move toward the main spindle figure indicated by the arrow.

5. The machine state display device according to claim 1, further comprising:

said display in which a panel is constructed by a touch panel; and

an arrow figure for displaying said main spindle selection state, the arrow figure being a start button of a program for selecting the main spindle in a side directed by the arrow.

6. The machine state display device according to claim 2, further comprising:

said display in which a panel is constructed by a touch panel; and

an arrow figure for displaying said main spindle selection state, the arrow figure being a start button of a program for selecting the main spindle in a side directed by the arrow.

7. The machine state display device according to claim 3, further comprising:

said display in which a panel is constructed by a touch panel; and

an arrow figure for displaying said main spindle selection state, the arrow figure being a start button of a program for selecting the main spindle in a side directed by the arrow.

8. The machine state display device according to claim 4, further comprising:

said display in which a panel is constructed by a touch panel; and

an arrow figure for displaying said main spindle selection state, the arrow figure being a start button of a program for selecting the main spindle in a side directed by the arrow.

9. The machine state display device according to claim 1, further comprising:

a work state selection screen displaying three-dimensional figures of a plurality of works having different processing states, the three-dimensional figures being a start button of a program which teaches an NC device the matter that the work in a state shown by each of the figures is installed to the main spindle; and

a program which displays said work state selection screen on a main region of a display,

wherein the three-dimensional figure of the main spindle is a start button of the displayed program.

10. The machine state display device according to claim 2, further comprising:

a work state selection screen displaying three-dimensional figures of a plurality of works having different processing states, the three-dimensional figures being a start button of a program which teaches an NC device the matter that the work in a state shown by each of the figures is installed to the main spindle; and

a program which displays said work state selection screen on a main region of a display,

wherein the three-dimensional figure of the main spindle is a start button of the displayed program.

11. The machine state display device according to claim 3, further comprising:

a work state selection screen displaying three-dimensional figures of a plurality of works having different processing states, the three-dimensional figures being a start button of a program which teaches an NC device the matter that the work in a state shown by each of the figures is installed to the main spindle; and

a program which displays said work state selection screen on a main region of a display,

wherein the three-dimensional figure of the main spindle is a start button of the displayed program.

12. The machine state display device according to claim 4, further comprising:

a work state selection screen displaying three-dimensional figures of a plurality of works having different processing states, the three-dimensional figures being a start button of a program which teaches an NC device the matter that the work in a state shown by each of the figures is installed to the main spindle; and

a program which displays said work state selection screen on a main region of a display,

wherein the three-dimensional figure of the main spindle is a start button of the displayed program.