US 2020/0050354 A1 · INTERACTIVELY CONTROLLING A MACHINE WITH FEEDBACK FROM A CONTROL PARAMETER

Abstract

The invention relates to a human machine interface (1) for simultaneously and interactively controlling a control function of a machine (3). The human machine interface (1) comprises a control input unit (5) by means of which a control parameter of a control function of the machine (3) can be simultaneously manually operated in accordance with a parameter input (27), a parameter input unit (7) which can be controlled independently from the control input device (5) and which enables a control parameter of the control function to be manually controlled, and a parameter display unit (9) arranged together with the parameter input unit (7) and which enables feedback of the control parameter to be manually controlled. As a result, the intuitive ease of operation, the security and ergonomics are improved such that a control parameter of the control function dependent on the control function can be manually controlled simultaneously by means of the control input unit (5) and that the parameter display unit (9) enables information relating to the desired value or an actual value of the manually controlled parameter and which is present on the machine (3) can be fed back.

Claims17

Dependent claims

1-16. (canceled)

Method of interactively controlling a regulating parameter of a machine by means of a human-machine interface, comprising:

providing a touch-sensitive screen,
providing a regulating input unit of the human-machine interface,
detecting a manual regulating input by means of the regulating input unit for manually controlling a regulating function of the machine,
providing a parameter input unit of the human-machine interface,
simultaneously detecting a manual parameter input by means of the parameter input unit for manually controlling a parameter of the regulating function the parameter being functionally dependent on the regulating function,
providing a parameter display unit of the human-machine interface,
simultaneously feeding back the regulating parameter of the regulating function by means of the parameter display unit,
simultaneously controlling the regulating function and the regulating parameter and thereby feeding back a nominal value or a current value of the regulating parameter of the regulating function that is actually occurring in the machine by means of a bar graph indicator oriented along a longitudinal touch-sensitive surface of the parameter display unit,
operating the touch-sensitive screen independently of the parameter input unit.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

16/343,074Filed 18 Oct 2017

Priority

DE 10 2016 119 853.618 Oct 2016

Published

13 Feb 2020

Term ends

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Classification16 codes

B29C 45/76
Component parts, details or accessories; Auxiliary operations: measuring, controlling or regulating
G06F 3/04883
Using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures: for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
G05B 19/409
Numerical control [NC], i.e. automatically operating machines, in particular machine tools, e.g. in a manufacturing environment, so as to…
G06F 3/016
Input arrangements or combined input and output arrangements for interaction between user and computer: input arrangements with force or tactile…

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Abstract

Claims17