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US 11,131,980 B2Granted
Electronic cutting machine
AssigneeCricut, Inc.
InventorsJeremy Crystal, Jeffery V. Gubler, Clark L. Roper, James T. Davis, II, Jim Colby, Daniel Torgerson, Alan Romig, Steven Bandis, Matthew Waibel, Robert Woldberg, Don Olsen, Matthew L. Tuttle
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Abstract
An electronic cutting machine includes at least one housing to which a drive roller is coupled for moving a sheet to be cut in a first direction and a cutter assembly coupled to the housing and moveable in a second direction that is perpendicular to the first direction.
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A method for working a workpiece, the method comprising:
- positioning a workpiece characteristic selector to a manually-selected setting of a plurality of manually-selectable settings wherein at least one of the plurality of manually-selectable settings corresponds to a type of material from which the workpiece is formed;
- receiving a manually-selected workpiece characteristic signal at an electronic controller, wherein the manually-selected workpiece characteristic signal corresponds to the positioning of the manually-selected setting associated with the type of material from which the workpiece is formed or one or more characteristics of said workpiece;
- translating, at the electronic controller, the manually-selected workpiece characteristic signal into a calibrated force signal;
- receiving, at the electronic controller, a sensed signal corresponding to when a working tool is in an upward most position that is furthest away from said workpiece;
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- based on the sensed signal, sending, from the electronic controller, the calibrated force signal to a motor whereby said motor drives, from said upward most position, said working tool downward against said workpiece with a force in proportion to said calibrated force signal.
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A method for working a workpiece, the method comprising:
- positioning a workpiece characteristic selector to a manually-selected setting of a plurality of manually-selectable settings wherein each manually-selectable setting of the plurality of manually-selectable settings corresponds to a type of material from which the workpiece is formed;
- receiving a manually-selected workpiece characteristic signal at an electronic controller, wherein the manually-selected workpiece characteristic signal corresponds to the positioning of the manually-selected setting associated with the type of material from which the workpiece is formed or one or more characteristics of said workpiece;
- translating, at the electronic controller, the manually-selected workpiece characteristic signal into a calibrated force signal;
- receiving, at the electronic controller, a sensed signal corresponding to when a working tool is in an upward most position that is furthest away from said workpiece;
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- based on the sensed signal, sending, from the electronic controller, the calibrated force signal to a motor whereby said motor drives, from said upward most position, said working tool downward against said workpiece with a force in proportion to said calibrated force signal.
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An apparatus configured for working a workpiece, comprising:
- a first working tool;
- a first motor coupled to the first working tool, wherein the first motor is configured for urging said first working tool against said workpiece;
- an electronic controller communicatively-coupled to said first motor;
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- a manually-selectable workpiece characteristic selector communicatively-coupled to the electronic controller that is configured to send a manually-selected workpiece characteristic signal of a plurality of manually-selectable workpiece characteristic signals to the electronic controller, the manually-selected workpiece characteristic signal corresponding to a type of material from which the workpiece is formed, wherein the electronic controller is configured to:
- translate the manually-selected workpiece characteristic signal into a calibrated force signal;
- receive a sensed signal corresponding to when the first working tool is in an upward most position that is furthest away from said workpiece;
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- based on the sensed signal, send the calibrated force signal to said first motor whereby said first motor drives, from said upward most position, said first working tool downward against said workpiece with a force in proportion to said calibrated force signal.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.