PROCESSING SYSTEM

• US 20160370905A1
• Filed: 06/16/2016
• Published: 12/22/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 06/16/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Disco Corporation
• Original Assignee: Disco Corporation
• Inventors: Chiba, Shinya, Takaba, Jun
• Granted Patent: US 10,185,493 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• 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;

enlarged display means 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

input means for entering processing condition data from the input field displayed at enlarged scale.

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 a plurality of item names and a plurality of the input fields corresponding to the item names, 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.