Toyoda Koki Kabushiki Kaisha

Isao Suzuki

Toshihiko Yomogida

Kenichi Munekata

Tsuyoshi Yokota

Tetsuro Yamakage

Sadamu Kato

Yoshio Doi

Shigeru Doi

A numerical controller for a machining center comprising a microprocessor, which selectively executes an automatic programming function and a numerical control function. The microprocessor selectively displays on a CRT display unit various information which instructs an operator to input machining information regarding the blank and finished shapes of a workpiece and the mounting position of the workpiece on a work table. The operator inputs the machining information with a key board-type data input device in response to the information displayed on the CRT screen, and the machining information is stored in a data storage device. Based upon the stored machining information, the microprocessor then displays on the CRT screen the blank shape and the finished shape of the workpiece so that the operator can observe if the machining information has been correctly input. Unless modification of the stored machining information is required, the microprocessor prepares the numerical control (NC) program based upon the stored machining information. The microprocessor, in response to a machining start command, executes the numerical control function and controls the operation of the machining center in accordance with the NC program.

Method of inputting machining information to a machine tool numerical

A numerical controller for a machining center comprising a microprocessor connected to a data input device, a CRT display device and a data storage device. The microprocessor prepares an NC program for a workpiece to be machined, based upon machining information manually input by the use of the data input device and stored in the data storage device. The debugging of the prepared NC program is then executed, wherein the microprocessor obtains by calculation a workpiece interference space defined outwardly from the outer periphery of the workpiece, based upon workpiece blank shape and dimension data and workpiece mounting position data stored in the data storage device. The microprocessor further calculates, based upon the NC program, a tool path along which a tool spindle of the machining center would be moved relative to a work table in accordance with the NC program. The microprocessor ascertains based upon the tool path, a tool interference space, defined outwardly from the outer periphery of each tool, and the workpiece interference space, whether or not the tool interference space would enter the workpiece interference space in any rapid feed movement if relative movement between the tool spindle and the work table were effected in accordance with the NC program. When detecting the entry of the tool interference space into the workpiece interference space, the microprocessor displays on the CRT screen a message informing an operator of the occurrence of an interference.

Menu programmed machine tool numerical controller with an interference

A programmable sequence controller with a counting function comprises an addressable latch circuit including at least one flip flop. A counter is connected to the flip flop such that the content of the counter is changed by one each time the flip flop is set. A setting device is provided for manually setting a count-up value of the counter. A comparator generates a count-up value signal when the counting-up of the counter to the count-up value is detected. A data selector is connected to receive the count-up value signal for supplying a logical value indicative of the status of the comparator. A logic operation circuit is responsive to a test command of a first instruction for testing a logical value of one of a plurality of external input devices and the data selector specified by address data in the first instruction and also responsive to an output command in a second instruction for generating an output command signal based upon the result of the test. The flip flop is set in response to the output command signal generated from the logic operation circuit when the flip flop is designated by the address data.

Programmable sequence controller with counting function

In a programmable sequence controller, a memory stores an auxiliary function decoding program comprising command information and address information. A comparator circuit capable of a simultaneous comparison of a plurality of bits is operatively connected to an external numerical control device to receive auxiliary function data therefrom and connected to receive address information of the decoding program for comparing the auxiliary function data with the address information of the decoding program. A logic operation circuit included in the programmable sequence contoller is operatively connected to the comparator circuit to examine the comparison result of the comparator circuit based upon command information of the decoding program, whereby the auxiliary function data is decoded.

Programmable sequence controller with auxiliary function decoding circuit

A programmable sequence controller wherein in accordance with a sequence program read out from a memory, a logic operation circuit tests a logical value supplied from an input converter connected to an external input element and generates an output command signal based upon the result of the test. The output command signal is stored in an output memory which has two storage addresses for each external output element, each storage address corresponding to a particular memory storage element addressed by the sequence program. A gate circuit is connected to these two memory storage elements and inhibits the application of an output command signal from one of the memory storage elements to an output converter when the gate circuit receives a logical value from the input converter. When receiving an output command signal from the other of the two memory storage elements the gate circuit then applies this signal to the output converter. Thus, an output element connected to the output converter is energized immediately in response to the operation of an input element.

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Okazaki, Japan

Isao Suzuki