Boots – shoes – and leggings
Patent
1988-03-04
1990-02-13
Ruggiero, Joseph
Boots, shoes, and leggings
34082507, 34082523, 364138, 36447411, 36447437, 364468, G06F 1546, G05B 2302
Patent
active
049012185
ABSTRACT:
Factory machines such as CNC machine tools, co-ordinate measuring machines and industrial robots are connected in a local area network. Each machine controller is interfaced to the network via a communications adaptor which translates data, commands and programs between the Manufacturing Automation Protocal used by the network and the necessary machine-specific format. The communications adaptors are microprocessor-based and have additional input/output ports for controlling probes, other sensors such as temperature sensors and workpiece presence sensors, peripheral devices such as conveyors, and the "electronic handwheel" inputs of the machine controller. Controlling such devices from a program run in the communications adaptor rather than from the machine controller or from a computer on the network gives greater power, flexibility, convenience and potential for real-time control.
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Renishaw Controls Limited
Ruggiero Joseph
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