Machine tool control apparatus
| Title: | Machine tool control apparatus |
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| Patent Number: | 7,146,241 |
| Publication Date: | December 05, 2006 |
| Appl. No: | 10/986786 |
| Application Filed: | November 15, 2004 |
| Abstract: | A machine tool control apparatus includes: a control program storage unit that stores control programs for performing standard running control. The control program storage unit includes a basic data memory that sets a control program for performing standard running, and a variable data memory that temporarily alters part of the control program to set a control program for performing temporary running. The machine tool control apparatus further includes a parameter check unit that checks whether a basic parameter stored in the basic data memory and a variable parameter stored in the variable data memory are “matched”; and a temporary running confirmation operation unit that enables the standard running when a parameter check result from the parameter check unit is “match” and that enables the temporary running by performing a temporary running confirmation operation while disenabling the standard running when the parameter check result is “mismatch”. |
| Inventors: | Kondo, Yukio (Toyama, JP) |
| Assignees: | Nippei Toyama Corporation (Tokyo, JP) |
| Claim: | 1. A machine tool control apparatus comprising: a control program storage unit that stores therein control programs for performing standard running control in correspondence with specifications of a machine tool, the control program storage unit being provided with: a basic data memory that sets a control program for performing standard running, and a variable data memory that temporarily alters part of the control program to set a control program for performing temporary running; a parameter check unit that checks whether a basic parameter stored in the basic data memory and a variable parameter stored in the variable data memory are “matched” with each other; and a temporary running confirmation operation unit that enables the standard running when a parameter check result from the parameter check unit is “match” and that enables the temporary running by performing a temporary running confirmation operation while disenabling the standard running when the parameter check result is “mismatch”. |
| Claim: | 2. The machine tool control apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the record of the “temporary running confirmation operation” is erased when a power supply of the machine tool is OFF; and a fresh check between the basic parameter and the variable parameter is performed the next time the power supply is ON. |
| Claim: | 3. The machine tool control apparatus according to claim 1 , further comprising: a temporary running confirmation display unit that notifies an operator by displaying that the confirmation operation has been performed by the temporary running confirmation operation unit. |
| Claim: | 4. The machine tool control apparatus according to claim 3 , wherein the temporary running confirmation display unit includes a display having a screen on which the parameter check result is displayed. |
| Claim: | 5. The machine tool control apparatus according to claim 3 , wherein the temporary running confirmation operation unit is configured such that the operator makes a confirmation by means of an icon that is displayed on the display to confirm the variable parameter “mismatch” for the temporary running. |
| Current U.S. Class: | 700/181 |
| Patent References Cited: | 4683549 July 1987 Takaki 5828568 October 1998 Sunakawa et al. 6281650 August 2001 Yutkowitz 6473659 October 2002 Shah et al. 6594530 July 2003 Glanzer et al. 2002/0120914 August 2002 Gupta et al. 2005/0193269 September 2005 Haswell et al. 5-33202 April 1993 |
| Assistant Examiner: | Lee, Douglas S. |
| Primary Examiner: | Paladini, Albert W. |
| Attorney, Agent or Firm: | Sughrue Mion, PLLC |
| Accession Number: | edspgr.07146241 |
| Database: | USPTO Patent Grants |
| Language: | English |
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