Appeal No. 96-1899
Application No. 07/936,007
The disclosed invention
The disclosed invention comprises the conventional apparatus
with additional axis movement symbol display functions.
Specification at 7, lines 11-15 and at 8, lines 13-23. The
additional functions include the following.
A correspondence is determined between the direction of
movement instruction to each axis of the machine tool 8 and the
direction of the actual movement of each axis of the machine
tool 8 as seen by the operator. Instructions (e.g., the “+”
instruction) for the various movements of the axes are input and
the operator examines the machine’s response and identifies a
symbol that corresponds to the response actually seen.
Specifically, when a movement instruction of the “+” direction is
made for each axis, the operator observes the screen of the
display section 4 and inputs data, one after the other,
concerning which direction each axis of the machine tool 8
actually moves as seen by the operator.
The “+” direction for different axes of the machine tool and
the workpiece may correspond to various directions seen by an
operator such as “FRONT,” “UP,”, “BACK,” “RIGHT,” OR “ROTATION TO
RIGHT.” As seen in Figure 3, a variety of arrows can be selected
to correspond to those directions seen by an operator.
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