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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 02, 1993
Filed:
Aug. 03, 1990
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Toyoda Koki Kabushiki Kaisha, Kariya, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
36447416 ; 36447419 ; 36447422 ;
Abstract
An apparatus for displaying an operation sequence of a machine tool such as a grinding machine which is controlled by a numerical controller. During operation, successive operations instructed by a machine operator are stored in the memory of the numerical controller along with successive numerical commands which are executed during the successive operations. When a malfunction occurs in the machine tool, the storing operation is stopped, and the successive operations and the successive numerical commands executed before the occurrence of the malfunction are displayed on a display device for analyzing the cause of the malfunction.