Computer graphics processing and selective visual display system – Display driving control circuitry – Controlling the condition of display elements
Reexamination Certificate
2000-04-26
2003-01-28
Huynh, Ba (Department: 2173)
Computer graphics processing and selective visual display system
Display driving control circuitry
Controlling the condition of display elements
C345S215000, C700S200000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06512528
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a method of displaying images with a touchpanel for a molded form-take out robot.
2. Description of the Prior Art
A molded form-take out robot does, as shown in
FIG. 11
, comprise a first movement means
5
, which is provided with a transverse beam
3
mounted and fixed at its root portion
1
directly onto a stationary platen
2
A of an injection molding machine
2
and extending at a free end of the transverse beam
3
at a lateral side of the injection molding machine
2
as intersecting with a longitudinal axis C thereof, and also provided with, for example, a servo-motor
3
A mounted on the transverse beam
3
; a second movement means
7
, which is provided with a drawing beam
6
(mounted on the transverse beam
3
with a root portion
4
being assembled on the same, extending along the longitudinal axis C of the injection molding machine
2
, and movable, by actuation of the servo-motor
3
A on the transverse beam
3
, forwards and backwards in the extent from the root portion
1
to the free end of the same in the direction (indicated by the arrow X) intersecting the longitudinal axis C), and also provided with, for example, servo-motors
6
A,
6
B mounted on the drawing beam
6
(the servo-motors
6
A,
6
B are accommodated in a servo-motor accommodation box and thus not shown); a pair of grasping means
8
A,
8
B movable, by actuation of the servo-motors
6
A,
6
B, forwards and backwards in the extent from the root portion
4
to the free end of the drawing beam
6
in the direction (indicated by the arrow Y) of the longitudinal axis C of the injection molding machine
2
; and a raise-lower means
9
A,
9
B raising and lowering the grasping means
8
A,
8
B. The molded form-take out robot is subjected, before the start of automatic continuous operation, to such teaching operation with an image-display device
10
using a touchpanel that an operator performs an inputting operation (described later) to cause a liquid crystal panel
10
A of the image-display device
10
to show an image of the molded form-take out robot, so that the operator does, while watching the shown image of the molded form-take out robot, set and input proper or suitable values for the amounts of strokes of the first movement means
5
, of the second movement means
7
and of the raise and lower means
9
A and
9
B.
The molded form-take out robot may be arranged with respect to the injection molding machine
2
in such separate patterns that the transverse beam
3
extends, as shown in
FIG. 12
, from a position on the injection molding machine
2
(where an injection part
2
B mounted at the longitudinal rear side of the stationary platen
2
A (see
FIG. 11
) is seen on the right-hand side) to a first lateral side of the machine
2
shown in
FIG. 12
, thereby causing the free end of the beam
3
to project outwards of the machine
2
(“Operator-side extension pattern
12
”), or that the transverse beam
3
extends, as seen in
FIG. 13
, from the same position on the injection molding machine
2
(as above) to a second lateral side of the machine
2
shown in
FIG. 13
, with the free end of the beam
3
projecting outwards of the machine
2
oppositely to the first lateral side (“Opposite-side extension pattern
13
”).
According to a conventional images-displaying method using a touchpanel, the liquid crystal panel
10
A of the image-display device
10
shows a three-dimensional image
23
of the take-out robot in the Operator-side extension pattern in which the transverse beam
3
extends in the first lateral side (“Operator side”) as seen in FIG.
7
. Even with the conventional images-displaying method in which only the Operator-side robot image
23
can be shown on the liquid crystal panel
10
A, in case that the molded form-take out robot is arranged in the Operator-side extension pattern
12
(
FIG. 12
) and the image-display device
10
is positioned at the Operator-side (i.e., at the first lateral side of the injection molding machine
2
with respect to the point thereon viewing the injection part
2
B on the right-hand side), and when the operator does, while watching the three-dimensional image
23
of the Operator-side take out robot shown on the liquid crystal panel
10
A, perform the foregoing “teaching” operation, the take out robot (set in the Operator-side extension pattern
12
) and the three-dimensional image
23
(of the Operator-side take out robot shown on the liquid crystal panel
10
A) correspond in orientation to each other, thereby enabling the operator O to be prevented from misunderstanding the orientation, and also enabling avoiding an erroneous or incorrect teaching operation.
However, in case that the molded form-take out robot is set in the Opposite-side extension pattern
13
as shown in FIG.
13
and the image-display device
10
using a touchpanel is still positioned at the Operator-side, when the operator O does, while watching the three-dimensional image
23
of the Operator-side take out robot shown on the liquid crystal panel
10
A, perform the foregoing teaching operation, the take out robot (set in the Opposite-side extension pattern
13
) and the three-dimensional image
23
(of the Operator-side take out robot shown on the liquid crystal panel
10
A) are so different to each other in the orientation that the transverse beams
3
extend reversely to each other), whereby operators' misunderstanding of the orientation is very likely to happen, resulting in an incorrect teaching operation.
Moreover, in case that the molded form-take out robot is set in the Opposite-side extension pattern
13
as shown in FIG.
14
and the touchpanel type image-display device
10
is also positioned at the Opposite-side (i.e., in the second lateral side of the injection molding machine
2
with respect to the point thereon viewing the injection part
2
B on the right-hand side), when the operator O does, while watching the three dimensional image
23
of the “Operator-side” take out robot shown on the liquid crystal panel
10
A, perform the foregoing teaching operation, the take out robot (set in the Opposite-side extension pattern
13
) and the three-dimensional image
23
(of the “Operator-side” take out robot shown on the liquid crystal panel
10
A) differ from each other in the orientation as that the drawing beams
6
extend reversely to each other, whereby operators' misunderstanding the orientation is very likely to happen, resulting in an incorrect teaching operation.
In detail, the conventional images-displaying method using a touchpanel for the molded form-take out robot has no problems in the teaching operation by the operator watching the three-dimensional image of the Operator-side take out robot shown on the liquid crystal panel of the touchpanel type image-display device positioned at the Operator-side with the molded form-take out robot being arranged in the operator-side extension pattern. However, the conventional method has a problem or fear of operators' misunderstanding the orientation and a resultant incorrect teaching operation due to difference in the orientation between the take out robot set in the Opposite-side extension pattern and the three dimensional image of the “Operator-side” take out robot shown on the liquid crystal panel when the operator does, while watching the three dimensional image of the “Operator-side” take out robot shown on the liquid crystal panel, perform the teaching operation in case that the molded form-take out robot is set in the Opposite-side extension pattern, and the touchpanel type image-display device is positioned at the Operator-side or at the Opposite-side.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The present invention has been designed under the above circumstances.
An object of the present invention is to provide a method of displaying images with a touchpanel for a molded form-take out robot wherein three-dimensional images of robot corresponding to the setting patterns of the molded form-take out robot and the set positions
Armstrong Westerman & Hattori, LLP
Huynh Ba
Yoshin Precision Equipment Co., Ltd.
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