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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4641292 | Voice controlled welding system Apparatus and method are provided for permitting human voice control of a welding system. A human operator, remote from a welding power supply, uses a welding torch connected by a power line to the welding power supply. The human operator is provided with... | 02/03/1987 |
| 4628306 | Remote control system for automated equipment A remote control system operates automated equipment, such as a robotic device. The remote control system operates using an RF link and has both a "hard stop" control and a "soft stop" or "cycle hold" control. The system permits the technician or operator... | 12/09/1986 |
| 4591854 | Touch control identification system with portable encoder A personnel identification system for controlling access to restricted equipment or restricted areas comprises a portable device such as a wrist watch (10) in which a unique digital identification code is stored, and a static control unit having a conduct... | 05/27/1986 |
| 4588880 | Non-contacting code recognition system for code carriers on production line workpieces To permit ready change of information on information carriers applied to workpieces which travel along a production line, for example to control further operating, machining or assembly steps, non-contacting sensors, typically inductive elements generatin... | 05/13/1986 |
| 4564102 | Method and apparatus for transportation of materials A plurality of machine tools are disposed along a circulating conveyor transporting materials to be processed by the machine tools, and material selector subsystems associated with the respective machine tools are provided together with a load/unload comm... | 01/14/1986 |
| 4509047 | Circuit for connecting a process computer by means of a number of analog channels with a machine tool The circuit contains two random-access memories or storages into which there is alternately written-in data received from a process computer. The data, in addition to the related addresses, is read-out at two intermediate storages or memories which delive... | 04/02/1985 |
| 4488237 | Two dimensional press brake control system and apparatus A press brake control system and apparatus including a vertical ram extension controller and back gauge system which together determine respectively the angle and location of successive sheet metal bends according to a stored operating sequence. The contr... | 12/11/1984 |
| 4470046 | Capacitively coupled machine tool safety system having a digital quantizer A machine tool safety system having a signal induced in a capacitive receptor antenna by the action of an electric field capacitively coupled thereto includes a receiver having an array of linear amplifiers with fast response times, a network connected to... | 09/04/1984 |
| 4435771 | System for numerically controlling a machine tool A system for numerically controlling a machine tool comprising a plurality of machine tools, a plurality of numerical control circuits and a computer as an entirely automatic operation commander device, for carrying out the control of the entire processes... | 03/06/1984 |
| 4425061 | Tool setting device for machining center A tool setting device for a machine tool (10) having a numerical control (22) includes a gage unit (24) with a frame (26) adapted to be secured upon a slide (20) of the machine tool. A photodetector, which includes a source (96) and a receiver (98), is mo... | 01/10/1984 |
| 4380796 | Portable control box for computer numerically controlled machine tools Remote control of a computer numerically controlled (CNC) machine tool is facilitated by an intelligent portable control box coupled to the CNC machine tool through a radio frequency link, typically taking the form of a single conductor coaxial cable. The... | 04/19/1983 |
| 4209273 | Machine tool speed control system This invention relates to a retrofit system for automatically selecting and continuously controlling the rotational speed of a typical machine tool. A plurality of sensors are provided adjacent to the storage receptacles for each of the tools or tool hold... | 06/24/1980 |
| 4150326 | Trajectory correlation and error detection method and apparatus Trajectory correlation and error detection apparatus is provided for use with a programmed manipulator to detect movement during an operational work cycle outside a predetermined volumetric envelope. The trajectory correlation and error detection apparatu... | 04/17/1979 |
| 4131836 | Interference prevention system for machine tool movable members A machine tool having a plurality of independently and parallelly movable tool posts includes a system for preventing the interference between the tool posts, by means of that the information on the contour position of the tool post represented is added t... | 12/26/1978 |
| 4117943 | Device for pre-setting tools for numerical controlled machine A device to code a machine tool holder, to preset the tool length, to mount the tool in the holder, and to inspect tool dimensions and coding. These functions are performed by a ring selector which selects different outside diameter rings in such sequence... | 10/03/1978 |
| 4109309 | Method and apparatus for remote display of analog signals occurring in computer controlled machine tools An analog signal which occurs in a computer controlled machine tool is converted to digital form at the machine tool site and is stored in a memory portion of the machine tool computer. The digitized analog signal is subsequently read out of the memory an... | 08/22/1978 |
| 4107654 | Numerical control system having a position processing unit operated upon a power failure A numerical control system includes a machine tool position processing unit operated upon a power failure. The machine tool position processing unit is adapted to normally generate a present position output for each sampling time in response to an output ... | 08/15/1978 |
| 4100597 | Computer controlled distribution apparatus for distributing transactions to and from controlled machine tools having means independent of the computer for completing or stopping a tool function initiated by a computer transaction A system for controlling a plurality of machine tools in which the central processor communicates data transactions to and from a plurality of tool controllers, each of which is operatively associated with a machine tool. Each of the controllers comprises... | 07/11/1978 |
| 4017831 | N/C machine paging, status and report system A system for continuously, automatically sensing the setting of operator controlled switches that denote: (1) the need for operator assistance [CALL]; and, (2) the operational status [STATUS] of a plurality of numerically controlled (N/C) machines is disc... | 04/12/1977 |
| 4008461 | Apparatus for correcting and adding data to that taken from a mechanical data carrier In a machine tool perforated tape numerical control system, a correction storage means is provided in addition to normal storage to permit additional and corrected information to be added to and substituted for the information coming from the perforated t... | 02/15/1977 |
| 3943973 | Control system A control system for remote proportional positioning of hydraulic directional control valves includes pulse duration modulation control of electrohydraulic converters controlling hydraulic valve spool positioners. Pulse groups supplied to the converters h... | 03/16/1976 |
