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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7318767 | Device and method for machine control A data set (D) is provided for machine control of a grinding machine to determine time-efficient, collision-free travel paths. The data set has a collision parameter of “0” or “1” in each separate coordination point (X, Y, Z, A) as well as for each combinati... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7102622 | Production equipment monitoring device A production equipment monitoring device comprises a display panel providing a touch switch function, a touch switch display controller displaying on the display panel a touch switch corresponding to a general segmentary operating process, an operating status displa... | 09/05/2006 |
| 6982535 | Feeder In a feed drive apparatus wherein a moving element 27 is driven by drive legs 21, 22 having extension/contraction deforming parts 23 and shear deforming parts 24, sine wave drive voltages are respectively applied to the extension/contract... | 01/03/2006 |
| 6963788 | Holography-aided orthodontic archwire bending Mechanisms for facilitating and performing precision bending of an orthodontic bracket archwire. A digital representation of an ideal bent orthodontic bracket archwire is obtained. The digital representation is then used to generate a holographic image of the bent o... | 11/08/2005 |
| 6909921 | Occupancy sensor and method for home automation system A room occupancy sensor, a home automation system and a method for automatic control of controlled devices throughout a home. A unique architecture of occupancy sensors includes entry/exit sensors for detecting movement through doorways that separate rooms in the ho... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6522941 | Three dimensional linear processing machine and a method of composing and controlling machining program in the three dimensional linear processing machine The chuck 10, for positioning and holding a pipe at any rotational angle position around the axial center, is provided with the three dimensional linear processing machine. When the machining program PRO is composed, a plurality of the shape patterns KPT ... | 02/18/2003 |
| 6401004 | Method and device for analyzing NC program for NC machining A device for analyzing NC program is provided with a machining method analyzing means (34) which extracts machining conditions for every machining work element by analyzing an actual NC machining program, and data base creating means (35). The device extr... | 06/04/2002 |
| 6397124 | Interactive system between machine tool and operator An interactive system involves a machine tool and an operator of the machine tool comprising a controller. The controller is formed of a central processing unit and a control panel connected with the central processing unit. The interactive system compris... | 05/28/2002 |
| 6298275 | Non-intrusive part identification system for parts cut from a sheet material A part identification system for non-intrusively identifying a subset of parts cut from a sheet material. The part identification system includes a visual signal generator for projecting an identifying image associated with a given subset of cut parts. A ... | 10/02/2001 |
| 6298279 | CAD/CAM apparatus and machining apparatus for processing position/force information A modeling operation of a shape of a work (3) is performed by a CAD (1). A tool path calculation section (15) calculates path data having, as an attribute, position and force information by a fuzzy inference or the like by shape information, machining inf... | 10/02/2001 |
| 6154684 | Template language for industrial controller programming A programming language for programming industrial controllers in relay ladder logic language, the programming language including both extensions to standard RLL rung form itself and extensions wholly independent of the standard form. The language uses a p... | 11/28/2000 |
| 5862056 | Method and apparatus for display of machining status A numerical control machining apparatus, having a section for reading out and analyzing machining programs from a storage section to control the axis drive section of a machine tool, also can display the quantity and direction of movement for each axis on... | 01/19/1999 |
| 5740058 | Automatic positioning system An automatic positioning system in which a divider element divides the space between the initial position and the required final position into a predetermined number of well defined measurement positions at predetermined but not necessarily constant inter... | 04/14/1998 |
| 5731801 | Two-handed method of displaying information on a computer display A method for displaying a display object on a display screen, which method permits efficient simultaneous input operation by allowing a display object to be shown on a display screen without producing an area wherein an electronic pen is disabled when sim... | 03/24/1998 |
| 5726917 | Method for controlling a coordinate measuring apparatus The invention is directed to a method wherein the probe head of a coordinate measuring apparatus is driven in a controlled manner in accordance with desired data. The control data, which are necessary for the control, are prepared in the computer of the c... | 03/10/1998 |
| 5608641 | Method and apparatus for simplifying the task of retrieving and accessing a segment of a numerical control (NC) program Long NC programs are made more manageable by assigning descriptive NC sentences to groups of program code lines of the NC program. The groups can be combined into groups of higher hierarchial order and assigned a descriptive NC sentence. The NC sentences ... | 03/04/1997 |
| 5602453 | Coordinate system display guide for a numerical control apparatus A numerical control apparatus for controlling a cutting machine for cutting a workpiece according to a predetermined tool path wherein the tool path is defined relative to a coordinate system by a cutting program. The numerical control apparatus includes ... | 02/11/1997 |
| 5544046 | Numerical control unit A numerical control unit (NCU) uses character codes to communicate with an external input/output apparatus. Further, internal NCU data is stored in an array format corresponding to a display format. Further, while one set of data is being executed by the ... | 08/06/1996 |
| 5437010 | Embedded user interface accessible by an external device A postage meter mailing machine includes an improved embedded user interface. The user interface is suitable for providing a user interface to the mailing machine and also a direct user interface to an external device in bus communication with the mailing... | 07/25/1995 |
| 5383110 | Method of programming primary and secondary machining operations using an interactive numerical control apparatus An interactive numerical control apparatus is programmed by inputting data through keys on a control panel, and answering questions displayed on a display screen, to generate a numerical control program. The operator defines a blank shape and a part shape... | 01/17/1995 |
| 5365812 | Automatic saw machine and method A saw apparatus for automatically sawing pieces of material at various predetermined lengths and angles includes a power saw mechanism, a rotatable saw mechanism mounting structure, a motor for rotating the mounting structure, a translational power saw mo... | 11/22/1994 |
| 5357450 | Automated maintenance system for computer numerically controlled machines The invention provides a system and method for automatically, accurately, and repeatable aligning computer numerically controlled (CNC) movable machine components with respect to their respective degrees of freedom of motion. One embodiment of the inventi... | 10/18/1994 |
| 5355307 | Apparatus for entering and displaying control commands for controlling a machine loop A control apparatus, in particular for a machine tool, has an input keyboard, for the input of items of data and/or control commands, has further a visual display unit with a screen, and has an operation unit. Items of control information can be displayed... | 10/11/1994 |
| 5327114 | Service entrance distribution and management system for communication systems There is provided a distribution system and a wiring format which will not only provide for a common enclosure, which will help to centralize the entrance of services to a facility, but will also organize the services throughout the facility. In particula... | 07/05/1994 |
| 5315524 | Interactive type automatic programming method including automatic re-execution of program statements An interactive type automatic programming method which facilitates the detection of errors in a part program and permits only a required portion of the modified/edited part program to be re-executed. First, part program statements are displayed on a scree... | 05/24/1994 |
| 5239477 | Conversational-type programming apparatus classifying by color regions to be machined A conversational-type programming apparatus according to the invention originates an NC tape for a numerically controlled (NC) machine tool or the like. In a case where a plurality of machining operations are defined for one region of a blank, a color cor... | 08/24/1993 |
| 5223777 | Numerical control system for irregular pocket milling A numerical controller accepts an instruction for the cutting of pockets with perimeters of irregular shapes, the instruction defining the perimeter by a series of vertex points and a straight-line, circular, or some other interpolation to move between th... | 06/29/1993 |
| 5212692 | Help function generation apparatus and method A method and apparatus for automatically outputting an operation guidance message. An operation guidance message is output if an operator repeatedly inputs an erroneous command. A processing unit processes a command input by an input unit. An observation ... | 05/18/1993 |
| 5177689 | CAD/CAM apparatus for enhancing operator entry of machining attributes and geometric shapes A series of input units (a machining attribute specification unit, a geometric element selection unit, and an additional information input unit) of a CAD/CAM apparatus according to the present invention enables machining attributes to be input in an inter... | 01/05/1993 |
| 5177690 | Method of creating no data for hole machining Any hole shape pattern (HPT) and a machining procedure thereof are specified in dialog fashion and these are registered in a hole-type file (FLD) as a single item of hole-type data. In a case where the registered hole type is designated by a keyboard (14)... | 01/05/1993 |
| 5172327 | Automatic programming method There are provided a first machining method in which a tool (TL) is fed a predetermined amount (d) in a center direction of a blank to cut into the blank, after which the tool is fed in a cutting mode by an amount (W) corresponding to groove width longitu... | 12/15/1992 |
| 5140237 | Computerized numerical control method A CNC method controls a plurality of paths with a single computerized numerical control apparatus. In the CNC method, an order (6) in which to execute part programs (5) for the respective paths (4) is designated, and the part programs (5) are sequentially... | 08/18/1992 |
| 5130625 | Control unit for program controlled machine tools This invention concerns a control unit for program-controlled machine tools with control circuits for the individual feed motors (20) of the moving machine parts (2) which are connected to the program control unit (34) and also contain at least one switch... | 07/14/1992 |
| 5072398 | Figure definition method in automatic programming A figure definition method including the steps of displaying a list (11) of the definition statements of already defined figure elements and graphic images (12) of the already defined figures on a display screen; successively displaying, one at a time in ... | 12/10/1991 |
| 5065332 | Figure element revising method A predetermined figure element (C2) already defined is designated, and a figure definition statement of the designated figure element (C2) is revised to produce a figure element (C2 '). When an error occurs in the figure d... | 11/12/1991 |
| 4972322 | Method for preparing numerical control data for a machine tool A method for preparing numerical control data for a machine tool by displaying various kinds of operation information on a display for causing data necessary for preparing the numerical control data to be inputted and by inputting the data in accordance w... | 11/20/1990 |
| 4949270 | Method of creating NC program for pocket machining The method of the invention includes displaying a profile outline (POL) and a graphic cursor (CSR) on a display screen, adopting points, which are obtained on the display screen by successively positioning the graphic cursor and inputting its coordinates ... | 08/14/1990 |
| 4926311 | Part profile input method A part profile input method for automatically creating NC data. The method includes conversationally inputting a part profile without giving any consideration to chamfering or rounding of corner portions of the part. At the end of part profile definition,... | 05/15/1990 |
| 4901220 | Part profile input method The invention relates to a part profile input method for inputting the profile elements of a part using arrow keys. When inputting a part profile, an angle (Ai) defined by two mutually adjacent profile elements (ELi, ELi+1... | 02/13/1990 |
| 4878172 | Four-axis lathe NC program creation method The process names of machining processes to be balance cut are registered in a parameter storage area (13a) in advance. If the name of the balance cutting process registered in the parameter storage area has been inputted in the machining process input st... | 10/31/1989 |
