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US 2009/0281664 A1Published application
Mouse-Based Hand Wheel Control For a Machine Tool
AssigneeHurco Companies, Inc.
InventorJoseph D. Glandorf
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Abstract
The present invention provides a device for controlling a hand wheel of a machine tool and a method for using the same.
Claims21
A machine tool comprising:
- at least one movable element;
- a control system;
- a rotatable hand wheel;
- and
- a pointing device coupled to the hand wheel and configured to track a movement of the hand wheel and communicate the movement to the control system, the control system being configured to control the at least one movable element based upon the movement of the hand wheel.
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A device for manually operating a machine tool comprising:
- a rotatable hand wheel;
- and
- a pointing device coupled to the hand wheel and configured to track and communicate a movement of the hand wheel.
A method of manually operating a machine tool comprising the steps of:
- providing a hand wheel with a pointing device coupled to the hand wheel;
- rotating the hand wheel;
- tracking a movement of the hand wheel with the pointing device;
- communicating the movement of the hand wheel to a control system;
- and
- positioning a movable element of the machine tool based upon the movement of the hand wheel.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.