US 5,479,756 AGranted

Apparatus integrating system

AssigneeIshida Co., Ltd.

InventorsSetsuo Haze, Ryoji Nishimura, Masao Fukuda, Satoshi Konishi

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Abstract

An apparatus integrating system such as a product shipping line includes a group of integrated apparatus each provided with a memory device for storing conditions of its operation, an input device through which conditions of operation for the group of apparatus can be set, a display device for displaying conditions and actual modes of operation of the apparatus group and control devices for controlling the apparatus group. Data are exchanged among the control devices of the apparatus through a communication device. Instead of providing a memory device to each apparatus, a master memory may be provided to only one or some of the apparatus or separately and away from the group of apparatus. The user can operate on the input device of any of the apparatus to set not only the conditions of operation of that apparatus but also the conditions of operation of the other apparatus through the communication device.

Claims8

Dependent claims

An apparatus integrating system comprising a group of apparatus including a weighing machine for weighing articles to be supplied and a packaging machine for packaging weighed articles, said group of apparatus operating in a mutually coordinated manner;

said system comprising:
a master input means for allowing a user to enter and thereby setting conditions of system operation related to operations of all of said group of apparatus;
individual input means each separately associated with one of said group of apparatus for allowing a user to enter and thereby setting conditions of individual operation of said one apparatus and those of said apparatus operating in a mutually coordinated manner therewith;
a master memory means for storing said conditions of system operation and said conditions of individual operations;
a master display means for displaying said conditions of system operation and modes of operations of all of said group of apparatus;
individual display means each provided to one of said group of apparatus for displaying at least said conditions of individual operation and mode of operation of said group of apparatus;
individual control means each provided to one of said group of apparatus for controlling said one apparatus, said individual display means and said master display means according to inputs received through said master input means and said individual input means;
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a master control means for controlling said master memory means and said display means according to inputs received through said master input means and signals from said apparatus control means;
said system further comprising communication means for transferring data among said apparatus control means and between said master control means and said apparatus control means.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 08/253,528Filed 3 Jun 1994
Granted: 2 Jan 1996
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification9 codes

G05B 19/41865
Total factory control, i.e. centrally controlling a plurality of machines, e.g. direct or distributed numerical control [DNC], flexible…:…
B65B 57/00
Automatic control, checking, warning, or safety devices
B65B 65/003
Details peculiar to packaging machines and not otherwise provided for; Arrangements of such details: packaging lines, e.g. general layout
G05B 2219/32003
Operator till task planning: manual control at central control to control workcell, select pallet