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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 22, 2001
Filed:
Dec. 29, 1997
Albrecht Schindler, Aspach, DE;
Thomas Bader, Neuenstein, DE;
Thorsten Klepsch, Aspach, DE;
Guenter Wahl, Weissach, DE;
Robert Bosch GmbH, Stuttgart, DE;
Abstract
The apparatus for tightening or installing a screw connection includes a screwdriver device (,) having a drive motor (,) and a screwdriver spindle (,); a control device (,) for controlling a torque, rotation speed, rotation angle, rotation direction, advance and/or tightening time of the screwdriver spindle (,) and an operating device (,) including an input and/or output device (,) for selecting a predetermined tightening or screwing process program which is assembled in a modular manner from individual tightening or screwing process program steps and which is used by the control device (,) to control the screwdriver device. The input and/or output device (,) includes a device for providing an input display (,) having a multi-dimensional, advantageously two-dimensional, field (,) with a plurality of predetermined distinct field locations (,) and a device for associating the respective field locations with predetermined tightening or screwing process program steps.