Display and input apparatus

• US 4,952,918 A
• Filed: 05/09/1988
• Issued: 08/28/1990
• Est. Priority Date: 05/11/1987
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Toshiba Kikai Kabushiki Kaisha (Shibaura Machine Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Toshiba Kikai Kabushiki Kaisha (Shibaura Machine Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Harada, Susumu, Tanaka, Hideo, Fujita, Shigeru
• Primary Examiner(s): Oberley, Alvin
• Assistant Examiner(s): Fatahiyar, M.
• Application Number:
  US07/191,967
• Time in Patent Office: 841 Days
• Field of Search: 340/706, 340/712, 178/18, 178/19, 341/33, 341/34, 200/5 A
• US Class Current: 345/173
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0489 using dedicated keyboard keys or combinations thereof

Abstract

In a display apparatus comprising a display member in the form of a cathode ray tube adapted to display a plurality of set items and a transparent touch panel superposed on the display member and formed with a plurality of touch key elements, there are provided at least one increment key and at least one decrement key located near a plurality of juxtaposed input data display members.

Claims

1. Display apparatus comprising:

display means adapted to display a plurality of set data items and set display labels corresponding to the set data items, said set data items comprising a plurality of digits arranged as a number, and said set display labels comprising a plurality of characters;

a transparent touch panel superposed on said display means and including a plurality of touch keys, each of said touch keys corresponding to a set display label, the transparent touch panel also including an input setting key frame including a plurality of input data displays adapted to collectively display an input data item, said input data item comprising a plurality of digits arranged as a number, said input setting key frame also including at least one increment key for incrementing the digits of the input data item, and at least one decrement key for decrementing the digits of the input data item.

2. The display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the input data displays are juxtaposed, and said at least one increment key and decrement key comprise one increment key corresponding to each input data display and one decrement key corresponding to each input data display, the increment keys being disposed above the corresponding input data display, and the decrement key being disposed beneath the corresponding input data display.

3. The display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein a plurality of input setting key frames are arranged in a matrix on said transparent touch panel.

4. The display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein a plurality of input setting key frames are arranged in a matrix on said transparent touch panel, and said matrix is used to set an injection pressure, an injection speed and an injection speed change position of an injection compression molding machine.

5. The display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the input setting key frame further includes a plurality of digit selection keys each digit selection key corresponding to one of the input data displays.

6. The display apparatus according to claim 2, wherein a plurality of input setting key frames are arranged in a matrix on said transparent touch panel.

7. The data display apparatus according to claim 2, wherein a plurality of input setting key frames are arranged in a matrix on said transparent touch panel, and said matrix is used to set an injection pressure, an injection speed and an injection speed change position of an injection compression molding machine.

9. The display apparatus according to claim 6, wherein a plurality of input setting key frames are arranged in a matrix on said transparent touch panel, and said matrix is used to set an injection pressure, an injection speed and an injection speed change position of an injection compression molding machine.

8. A display apparatus comprising:

display means adapted to display a plurality of set data items and set display labels corresponding to the set data items, said set data items comprising a plurality of digits arranged as a number, and said set display labels comprising a plurality of characters;

a transparent touch panel superposed on said display means and including a plurality of touch keys, each of said touch keys corresponding to a set display label, the transparent touch panel also including an input setting key frame including a plurality of juxtaposed input data displays adapted to collectively display an input data item, said input data item comprising a plurality of digits arranged as a number, said input setting key frame also including an increment key, a decrement key, and a plurality of digit selection keys, each digit selection key corresponding to one of the input data displays and operating to select the corresponding input data display, and said increment and decrement keys respectively incrementing and decrementing the digits of the selected input data item, the increment key being disposed above the corresponding input data display, and the decrement key being disposed beneath the corresponding input data display.