Display Apparatus for Work Machine and Language Rewriting System for Display Apparatus

• US 20120016659A1
• Filed: 01/15/2010
• Published: 01/19/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 02/04/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kubota Corporation
• Original Assignee: Kubota Corporation
• Inventors: Miura, Keisuke, Matsumoto, Atsushi, Umemoto, Susumu, Saijo, Naohiro
• Application Number:
  US13/061,884
• Publication Number:
  US 20120016659A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 704/8
• CPC Class Codes: E02F 9/26 Indicating devices E02F5/145 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: E02F 9/267 Diagnosing or detecting failure of vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/454 Multi-language systems; Localisation; Internationalisation

Abstract

The invention provides for making it possible to readily display information relating to a work machine, even when the mode of national language differs between the user and the vendor. The invention is characterized by a user information displaying means for displaying user information relating to the work machine to a user who is operating this work machine and a vendor information displaying means for displaying vendor information relating to the work machine, separately from the user information. The user information displaying means includes a plurality of national languages corresponding to said user information so that the user information can be displayed in a plurality of national languages. The vendor information displaying means includes a plurality of national languages corresponding to the vendor information so that the vendor information can be displayed in a plurality of national languages.

Claims

1. A display apparatus for a work machine, comprising:

a user information displaying means for displaying user information relating to the work machine to a user who is operating this work machine;

a vendor information displaying means for displaying vendor information relating to the work machine, separately from said user information;

said user information displaying means including a plurality of national languages corresponding to said user information so that said user information can be displayed in a plurality of national languages;

said vendor information displaying means including a plurality of national languages corresponding to said vendor information so that said vendor information can be displayed in a plurality of national languages; and

a means for displaying said national language displaying by said user information displaying means and said national language displaying by said vendor information displaying means in different languages from each other.

2. The display apparatus for a work machine according to claim 1, further comprising a national language switching means for switching over said national language displaying by said user information displaying means and said national language displaying by said vendor information displaying means, independently of each other.

3. The display apparatus for a work machine according to claim 1, wherein said national language switching means effects a national language switching operation corresponding to said user information displaying means and a national language switching operation corresponding to said vendor information displaying means, by separate processes from each other.

4. The display apparatus for a work machine according to claim 1, wherein the number of languages are set such that the number of the national languages provided in said user information displaying means is greater than the number of national languages provided in said vendor information displaying means.

5. A language rewriting system for the display apparatus of a work machine, the system comprising:

a language writing device for writing a plurality of national languages as a national language group in a display apparatus for displaying information of the work machine so that said information can be displayed in a plurality of national languages;

a language rewriting instructing device configured to output a rewriting instruction to said display apparatus written with said national language group to cause said display apparatus to rewrite at least one of the national languages included in said national language group to another national language; and

a language rewriting device for rewriting the language in the national language to said further national language in response to said rewriting instruction from said language rewriting instructing device.

6. The language rewriting system for the display apparatus of a work machine according to claim 5, wherein said language rewriting instructing device is configured to output a combination pattern of national languages as rewriting candidates as said rewriting instruction;

and said language rewriting device rewrites a language stored in said display apparatus to a further language in accordance with said rewriting instruction from said language rewriting instructing device.

7. The language rewriting system for the display apparatus of a work machine according to claim 5, wherein said display apparatus includes:

a user information displaying means for displaying user information relating to the work machine to a user who is operating this work machine;

a vendor information displaying means for displaying vendor information relating to the work machine, separately from said user information;

said user information displaying means including a plurality of national languages corresponding to said user information as a national language group; and

said vendor information displaying means including a plurality of national languages corresponding to said vendor information as a national language group; and

wherein said language rewriting instructing device is configured to output, to said language rewriting device, a rewriting instruction for said national language group provided in said user information displaying means and a rewriting instruction for said national language group provided in said vendor information displaying means, individually; and

said language rewriting device is configured to be capable of rewriting said national language group provided in said user information displaying means and said national language group provided in said vendor information displaying means, respectively.

8. The language rewriting system for the display apparatus of a work machine according to claim 7, wherein said language rewriting instructing device includes a first mode to rewrite the national language group provided in said user information displaying means and to rewrite also the national language group provided in said vendor information displaying means, respectively and a second mode to rewrite only the national language group provided in said user information displaying means,

said language rewriting instructing device being configured to output, in said second mode and as said rewriting instruction, an instruction to rewrite only the national languages of the national language group provided in said user information displaying means, while keeping intact the national languages of the national language group provided in said vendor information displaying means;

and

in response to said rewriting instruction, said language rewriting device rewrites only the national languages of the national language group provided in said user information displaying means, while keeping intact the national languages of the national language group provided in said vendor information displaying means.

9. The language rewriting system for the display apparatus of a work machine according to claim 5, wherein said language rewriting instructing device and said language rewriting device are disposed in a different country than said language writing device.