Operating unit for an injection molding machine

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10093056-B2
Application number	US-201314087437-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 22, 2013
Priority date	Nov 26, 2012
Publication date	Oct 9, 2018
Grant date	Oct 9, 2018

Abstract

An operating unit has an operating program and a touch-sensitive display screen on which display fields and/or navigation fields can be represented. Upon actuation of the operating fields, operating signals can be sent by a control or regulating device to injection molding machine elements. Upon actuation of the navigation fields, pages of the operating program can be called up. At least one operating group contains the operating fields but no navigation fields, and/or navigation groups contain the navigation fields but no operating fields. At least one passive field in the form of rows and/or columns contains neither operating fields nor navigational fields. The least one operating group and/or the navigation groups is arranged in rows and/or columns, and the at least one passive field is arranged between the navigation groups and/or the at least one operating group.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An operating unit for operating an injection molding machine, said operating unit comprising:
an operating program embodied in a control device; and
a touch-sensitive display screen on which at least one of operating fields and navigation fields is represented, said touch-sensitive display screen interacting with the control device;
wherein said operating program and said touch-sensitive display screen are configured:
such that, upon actuation of an operating field on said touch-sensitive display screen, operating signals are sent by the control device to elements of the injection molding machine and, upon actuation of a navigation field on said touch-sensitive display screen, pages of said operating program are called up;
to include an interactive group consisting of at least one of:
at least one operating group containing operating fields but no navigation fields and arranged in at least one of rows and columns on said touch-sensitive display screen; and
at least one navigation group containing navigation fields but no operating fields and arranged in at least one of rows and columns on said touch-sensitive display screen; and

to include at least one passive field arranged in at least one of rows and columns on said touch-sensitive display screen, said at least one passive field representing information about the injection molding machine but containing neither operating fields nor navigational fields, said at least one passive field being arranged between members of said interactive group.

2. The operating unit as set forth in claim 1 , wherein each of said at least one passive field is formed as a row having a height of at least 0.5 cm.

3. The operating unit as set forth in claim 2 , wherein each of said at least one passive field has a height of at least 1.0 cm.

4. The operating unit as set forth in claim 2 , wherein said interactive group includes at least one navigation group having a navigation field arranged at the same position on at least two different pages of said operating program.

5. An injection molding machine comprising said operating unit as set forth in claim 2 .

6. The operating unit as set forth in claim 1 , wherein each of said at least one passive field is formed as a column having a width of at least 0.5 cm.

7. The operating unit as set forth in claim 6 , wherein each of said at least one passive field has a width of at least 1.0 cm.

8. The operating unit as set forth in claim 6 , wherein said interactive group includes at least one navigation group having a navigation field arranged at the same position on at least two different pages of said operating program.

9. An injection molding machine comprising said operating unit as set forth in claim 6 .

10. The operating unit as set forth in claim 1 , wherein said interactive group includes at least one navigation group having a navigation field arranged at the same position on at least two different pages of said operating program.

11. An injection molding machine comprising said operating unit as set forth in claim 10 .

12. An injection molding machine comprising said operating unit as set forth in claim 1 .

13. An operating unit for an injection molding machine, comprising:
an operating program embodied in a control device; and
a touch-sensitive display screen for displaying at least one of operating fields and navigation fields, said touch-sensitive display screen interacting with the control device;
wherein, upon actuation of said operating fields on said touch-sensitive display screen, operating signals are sent by the control device to elements of the injection molding machine and, upon actuation of said navigation fields on said touch-sensitive display screen, pages of said operating program are called up;
wherein said operating program and said touch-sensitive display screen are configured to include at least one passive field and at least one of a group of at least one operating group and at least one navigation group on said touch-sensitive display screen;
wherein said at least one operating group contains operating fields but no navigation fields, said at least one navigation group contains navigation fields but no operating fields, and said at least one passive field contains neither operating fields nor navigation fields;
wherein each of said at least one operating group, said at least one navigation group, and said at least one passive field are arranged in rows or columns on said touch-sensitive display screen;
wherein said at least one passive field is arranged between navigation groups, between operating groups, or between at least one navigation group and at least one operating group on said touch-sensitive display screen; and
wherein information about said injection molding machine is represented in said at least one passive field.

Assignees

• Engel Austria Gmbh

Inventors

• Dimmler Gerhard
• Giessauf Josef
• Hoelzl Rainer
• Kern Albin
• Mairhofer Friedrich
• Steinparzer Helmut
• Voggeneder Johann
• Wiesinger Karl

Classifications

• B29C45/1774

  Display units or mountings therefor; Switch cabinets · CPC title

• B29C45/76 Primary

  Measuring, controlling or regulating {(measuring in general G01; controlling or regulating in general G05)} · CPC title

• B29C2045/7606

  Controlling or regulating the display unit · CPC title

• G06F3/0484

  for the control of specific functions or operations, e.g. selecting or manipulating an object, an image or a displayed text element, setting a parameter value or selecting a range · CPC title

• G06F3/04817

  using icons (graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34) · CPC title