Setup information display device and method for processing machine

• US 7,460,928 B2
• Filed: 11/08/2006
• Issued: 12/02/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 11/28/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Murata Machinery Limited (Muratec)
• Original Assignee: Murata Machinery Limited (Muratec)
• Inventors: Senda, Takashi, Totsugi, Makoto
• Primary Examiner(s): Masinick; Michael D
• Application Number:
  US11/594,104
• Publication Number:
  US 20070124017A1
• Time in Patent Office: 755 Days
• Field of Search: 700179-182
• US Class Current: 700/180
• CPC Class Codes: B21D 28/12 Punching using rotatable carriers
• CPC Class Codes: B23Q 17/00 Arrangements for observing, indicating or measuring on machine tools for automatic control or regulation of feed movement, cutting velocity or position of tool or work B23Q15/00

Abstract

The present invention provides a setup information display device for a processing machine which enables required setup information to be easily displayed. The present invention is applied to a multi-turret type punch press or the like. A setup information display device is used for a processing machine 1 in which a plurality of tools 7 can be installed. The device includes information generating means 48 for generating setup information on the basis of a processing schedule SH and information on the tools 7 installed in the processing machine 1. The device also includes display information generating means 71 for generating information to be displayed in an information display section 47a of a display device 47. The display information generating means 71 generates, in the information display section 47a, a setup information display 81 that shows the setup information and a guide display 82 that prompts an operator to perform an operation required to show the setup information display 81.

Claims

1. A setup information display device for a processing machine in which a plurality of tools can be installed, comprising:

setup information generating means for generating setup information on the basis of a processing schedule and information on the tools installed in the processing machine; and

display information generating means for generating information to be displayed in an information display section of a display device,

wherein the display information generating means generates, in the information display section, a guide display that displays types of tools that currently need to be set up and respective urgencies of setup of the tools that currently need to be set up and that prompts an operator to perform an operation required to display the setup information, and

wherein the display information generating means generates, in response to the operator performing the operation required to display the setup information, a setup information display that displays the setup information concurrently with the guide display.

2. A setup information display device for a processing machine according to claim 1,

wherein the display information generating means shows marks indicative of the types of tools that currently need to be set up, as the guide display, and the marks indicative of the types of tools that currently need to be set up are classified for display according to urgency level of the setup.

3. A setup information display device for a processing machine according to claim 2,

wherein the display information generating means simultaneously shows up to a predetermined maximum number of marks indicative of tools that currently need to be set up, as the guide display, and tools corresponding to an excess of the predetermined maximum number are displayed as the number of tools that need to be set up decreases as a result of execution of the setup, and in that the information display section is covered with a touch panel that allows information corresponding to a position touched with a human finger to be input.

4. A setup information display method for a processing machine in which a plurality of tools can be installed, comprising:

generating setup information on the basis of a processing schedule and information on the tools installed in the processing machine;

generating, in an information display section of a display device, a guide display that displays types of tools that currently need to be set up and respective urgencies of setup of the tools that currently need to be set up and that prompts an operator to perform an operation required to display the setup information, and

generating, in response to the operator performing the operation required to display the setup information, a setup information display that displays the setup information concurrently with the guide display.