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US 8,041,448 B2Granted
Mouse-based hand wheel control for a machine tool
AssigneeHurco Companies, Inc.
InventorJoseph D. Glandorf
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Abstract
A machine tool is controlled using a pointing device coupled to two rotatable hand wheels. The pointing device tracks movement of the two hand wheels and communicates the movement to a control system which controls a moveable element.
Claims11
A machine tool comprising:
- at least one movable element;
- a control system;
- a rotatable first hand wheel having a tracking surface with at least one physically consistent region;
- a second hand wheel having a different axis of rotation than the first hand wheel;
- and
- a pointing device coupled to both the first hand wheel and the second hand wheel configured to track movement of both the first and second hand wheels, the pointing device being configured to interact with the at least one physically consistent region of the tracking surface to track movement of the first hand wheel as the tracking surface translates across the pointing device and to 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 first hand wheel.
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A machine tool comprising:
- at least one movable element;
- a control system;
- a first rotatable hand wheel having a tracking surface;
- a second hand wheel having a different axis of rotation than the first hand wheel;
- and
- a pointing device that directly contacts the tracking surface of the first hand wheel, the pointing device coupled to both the first hand wheel and the second hand wheel and being configured to track a movement of the first and second hand wheels as the tracking surface translates across the pointing device and to 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 wheels.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.