Rock processing machine having an improved control panel

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11517915-B2
Application number	US-202017017093-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 10, 2020
Priority date	Oct 8, 2019
Publication date	Dec 6, 2022
Grant date	Dec 6, 2022

Abstract

A rock processing machine having functional units and a control panel that switches the rock processing machine, in a starting switching operation and, in a stopping switching operation. The control panel includes a plurality of state switching elements with which, for at least one functional unit, a state transition is associated in such a way that actuation of the state switching element on the functional unit brings about a state transition. A first set of switching elements participates in the starting switching operation, and a second set of switching elements, participates in the stopping switching operation; each set being arranged in a visually perceptible spatial arrangement that corresponds to a predetermined actuation sequence.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A rock processing machine, comprising:
a plurality of different functional units that are each activatable at different times from an inactive state into an active state and deactivatable from the active state into the inactive state, the functional units being selected from the group consisting of a track drive unit, an internal combustion engine, a jaw crusher, a delivery chute, a pre-screen, a crusher extractor conveyor and a magnetic separator of the rock processing machine; and
a control panel including:
a first set of switching elements configured to switch the rock processing machine in a starting switching operation from a less-active operating state into a more-active operating state, more functional units being activated in the more-active operating state than in the less-active operating state, the first set of switching elements including at least one state switching element; and
a second set of switching elements configured to switch the rock processing machine in a stopping switching operation from the more-active operating state into another less-active operating state, the second set of switching elements being at least in part different from the first set of switching elements and including at least one state switching element;
wherein each of the state switching elements is configured to bring about, beyond an operating state switching operation, only exactly one state transition between the inactive state and the active state for at least one of the functional units, wherein the starting switching operation and the stopping switching operation are each operating state switching operations; and
wherein each of the first and second sets of switching elements is arranged on the control panel in a visually perceptible spatial arrangement relationship corresponding to a predetermined actuation sequence of the switching elements of the respective set.

2. The rock processing machine of claim 1 , wherein:
each of the first and second sets of switching elements is arranged on the control panel in a haptically perceptible spatial arrangement relationship corresponding to the predetermined actuation sequence of the switching elements of the respective set.

3. The rock processing machine of claim 1 , wherein:
the other less-active operating state associated with the second set of switching elements is identical to the less-active operating state associated with the first set of switching elements.

4. The rock processing machine of claim 1 , wherein:
the at least one state switching element of the first set of switching elements includes:
a first state switching element actuation of which activates a first energy supply system, the first energy supply system being one of the functional units; and
a second state switching element actuation of which activates at least one working apparatus, the at least one working apparatus being another of the functional units; and

the at least one state switching element of the second set of switching elements includes:
a third state switching element actuation of which deactivates the at least one working apparatus; and
a fourth state switching element actuation of which deactivates the first energy supply system.

5. The rock processing machine of claim 4 , further comprising:
a plurality of working apparatuses, the plurality of working apparatuses including the at least one working apparatus;
a data memory including stored in the data memory:
a starting control instruction sequence configured to activate the plurality of the working apparatuses in a predetermined chronological order; and
a stopping control instruction sequence configured to deactivate the plurality of the working apparatuses in a predetermined chronological order;
wherein the actuation of the second state switching element brings about execution of the starting control instruction sequence, and the actuation of the third state switching element brings about execution of the stopping control instruction sequence.

6. The rock processing machine of claim 4 , wherein:
the control panel further includes a special state switching element configured to both activate and deactivate a second energy supply system; and
each of the first and second sets of switching elements includes an information symbol providing a pseudo-switching element spatially arranged in accordance with the respective actuation sequence of the respective set of switching elements.

7. The rock processing machine of claim 4 , further comprising:
a plurality of working apparatuses, the plurality of working apparatuses including the at least one working apparatus;
wherein the control panel further includes a multifunction indicating apparatus configured to display, after actuation of at least one of the second and third state switching elements, an information item regarding the active or inactive state of the plurality of working apparatuses.

8. The rock processing machine of claim 1 , wherein:
each of the first and second sets of switching elements includes a shared control voltage switch configured such that by actuation of the shared voltage control switch a plurality of switching elements of the first set of switching elements and of the second set of switching elements are activatable and deactivatable.

9. The rock processing machine of claim 1 , wherein:
the first set of switching elements includes a selection switching element configured to select an operating mode from a plurality of operation modes of the rock processing machine.

10. The rock processing machine of claim 9 , wherein:
the first set of switching elements includes a confirmation switching element actuation of which confirms a setting state of the rock processing machine determined by the selection switching element.

11. The rock processing machine of claim 10 , wherein:
actuation of the confirmation switching element brings a controller into a predetermined operating state.

12. The rock processing machine of claim 10 , wherein:
actuation of the confirmation switching element configures a data memory in a predetermined manner.

13. The rock processing machine of claim 10 , wherein:
actuation of the confirmation switching element confirms an operating mode selection without prior actuation of the selection switching element.

14. The rock processing machine of claim 1 , wherein:
the control panel further includes a visually perceptible direction-indicating symbol arranged between two switching elements that follow one another in accordance with the predetermined actuation sequence, the symbol pointing toward the respective next switching element in the predetermined actuation sequence.

15. The rock processing machine of claim 14 , wherein:
the control panel further includes a haptically perceptible direction-indicating symbol arranged between two switching elements that follow one another in accordance with the predetermined actuation sequence, the haptically perceptible direction-indicating symbol pointing toward the respective next switching element in the predetermined actuation sequence.

16. The rock processing machine of claim 14 , wherein:
the visually perceptible direction-indicating symbols of the first set of switching elements differ from the visually perceptible direction-indicating symbols of the second set of switching elements.

17. The rock processing machine of claim 14 , wherein:
the switching elements of the first set of switching elements having the visually perceptible direction-indicating symbols of the first set of switching elements a

Assignees

• Kleemann Gmbh

Inventors

• Hommel Timo
• Klöss Tobias
• Köpf Reiner

Classifications

• B07B1/005

  Transportable screening plants · CPC title

• B02C23/02

  Feeding devices ({for grain mills B02C11/04; for roller mills B02C4/286}; transport devices in general B65G) · CPC title

• B02C1/02

  Jaw crushers or pulverisers · CPC title

• B02C25/00 Primary

  Control arrangements specially adapted for crushing or disintegrating · CPC title

• B02C21/02

  Transportable disintegrating plant · CPC title