Method of indicating diagnostic results

• US 4,633,469 A
• Filed: 06/08/1984
• Issued: 12/30/1986
• Est. Priority Date: 10/13/1982
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Fancu Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Fanuc Ltd (Fanuc Corporation)
• Inventors: Tanaka, Kunio, Kishi, Hajimu
• Primary Examiner(s): ATKINSON, CHARLES
• Application Number:
  US06/619,560
• Time in Patent Office: 935 Days
• Field of Search: 371/29, 371/17, 371/20, 371/16, 364/200, 364/900
• US Class Current: 714/46
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/325 by lamps or LED's

Abstract

A method of indicating the results of diagnosing an apparatus in which a processor (105) performs prescribed processing under the control of a control program, which is stored in a ROM (102), using input information entered from a keyboard (101) having a plurality of keys (101a-1, 101a-2; 101b-1, 101b-2; . . . 101h-1, 101h-2) each of which is equipped with a lamp, various diagnostic tests are executed in accordance with a diagnostic program stored in the ROM (102). The method includes the steps of establishing correspondence between each diagnostic test and each of the lamps (101a-2, 101b-2, . . . 101h-2), starting the diagnostic program upon sensing, by a sensing unit 107, that electric power has been introduced, executing various diagnostic processes on the basis of the diagnostic program and, when a result of a diagnostic process is determined to represent a malfunction, lighting the lamps (101a-2, 101b-2, . . . 101h-2) corresponding to the processes for which the malfunctions have been determined.

Claims

1. A method of indicating the results of diagnosing an apparatus which performs prescribed processing under the control of a control program using input information entered from a keyboard having a plurality of keys, each of which is equipped with a lamp, and which carries out various diagnostic tests in accordance with a diagnostic program, comprising the steps of:

establishing correspondence between each diagnostic test and each lamp;

starting the diagnostic program, executing various diagnostic processes on the basis of the diagnostic program; and

lighting the lamp corresponding to the diagnostic process when a result of the diagnostic process is determined to represent a malfunction.

2. A method of indicating the results of diagnosis according to claim 1, wherein the diagnosistic program is started upon introduction of electric power.

3. A method of indicating the results of diagnosis according to claim 1, further comprising the step of displaying the result of the diagnostic process in the form of a message on a CRT.

4. A method of indicating the results of diagnosing an apparatus which performs prescribed processing under the control of a control program using input information entered from a keyboard having a plurality of keys, each of which is equipped with a lamp, and which carries out various diagnostic tests in accordance with a diagnostic program, comprising the steps of:

establishing correspondence between each diagnostic test and each lamp;

starting the diagnostic program;

lighting all the lamps;

executing diagnostic processes one at a time; and

extinguishing the lamp corresponding to the diagnostic process when the result of the diagnostic process indicates normal operation, and leaving the lamp lit when the result of the diagnostic process indicates a malfunction.

5. A method of indicating the results of diagnosis according to claim 4, wherein the diagnostic program is started upon introduction of electric power.

6. A method of indicating the results of diagnosis according to claim 4, further comprising the step of displaying the result of the diagnostic process in the form of a message on a CRT.