JP2003025167A - Operation panel mounting device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an operation panel mounting device pulled out close to a worker when requiring operation and stored when requiring no operation so as to provide an operation panel capable of moving by simple operation without interfering with a machine device main body. SOLUTION: This mounting device of the operation panel 20 consists of a pulling-out guide means 30 for holding the operation panel 20 on the device main body 1 so as to pull it out onto its front side, a turn means 40 for holding the operation panel so as to turn at an eccentric position on the pulling-out guide means 30, and an angle regulation means 50 for regulating a turn angle of the operation panel 20 in one direction and regulating a turn angle to a predetermined angle in accordance with a position of the operation panel 20.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a machining machine such as an electric discharge machine and a machine tool, a measuring device, or a mounting device for an operation panel of various mechanical devices such as an injection molding machine. The present invention relates to a device for mounting an operation panel, which can be pulled out near when performing operation, and can be pushed in and stored so as not to interfere when operation is not required.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Machine tools such as machine tools, electric discharge machines, measuring devices, and injection molding machines (hereinafter referred to as machine devices)
Includes a device body and a control device for controlling the device body. This control device includes an operation panel, and the operation panel includes an input device for inputting an operation command and a display device for displaying an input state, a driving operation state, maintenance / inspection information, and the like.

The operator stands on the front of these machines and the like, looks at the display device, obtains necessary information, and inputs an operation command for performing setup work and maintenance / inspection work into the input device. Therefore, the operation panel should be located near the operator. On the other hand, once a machine or the like starts to operate, the operator sometimes looks at the operation panel only when monitoring the operation status. For this reason, the operation panel should be housed on the machine side as long as the screen can be seen, so that it does not interfere. Thus, it is convenient that the operation panel can be moved as needed.

This type of movable operating panel mounting mechanism is disclosed in Japanese Utility Model Publication No. 53-51390 and Japanese Utility Model Publication No. 61-20.
5729, JP-B-6-37442, and JP-A-9-267230. Further, Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 10-15706 proposes a mounting mechanism capable of more complicated moving operation. With these moving mechanisms, the operation panel can be moved so that the operator can easily handle it.

[0005]

However, the inventor of the present invention has found that the operator can move the operation panel by a simpler operation and does not need to pay extra attention during the operation. Thought that was desired.
That is, the operation of pulling out the operation panel can be performed by one operation that smoothly connects the movement operation to the rotation operation, and the operation of pushing the operation panel smoothly connects the rotation return operation and the storage operation. It was thought that a mounting mechanism for the operation panel, which is made possible by the above, and which does not interfere with the members in the vicinity of the operation panel during these operations, is desired.

The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and its moving operation is simple while its structure is simple.
An object of the present invention is to provide a device for mounting an operation panel, which is simple and in which interference with the mechanical device or the like is always avoided.

[0007]

A mounting device for a control panel (20) according to claim 1 of the present invention is arranged at a left or right side position on the front of a device body (1) to be controlled. A device for mounting an operation panel (20), which is a guide device (30) for holding the operation panel (20) so that it can be pulled out to the front side, and an operation panel at an eccentric position on the drawer guide unit (30). Rotation means (40) for rotatably holding (20) and an angle regulation for regulating the rotation angle of the operation panel (20) in one direction and at a predetermined angle according to the pull-out position of the operation panel (20). And means (50).

The operation panel mounting device according to a second aspect of the present invention is the operation panel mounting device according to the first aspect, and the drawer guide means (30) is fixed to the device body (1). Base member (32) and movable base (34) movably held on the base member (32)
And at least two linear guide devices (35) fixed between the base member (32) and the moving base (34), the rotating means (40) of which moves the operation panel (20). A lever (51), which includes a rotary bearing (41) rotatably held on the platform (34), and whose angle regulating means (50) rotates integrally with the operation panel (20), and a lever (51). When the operation panel (20) is rotated, the roller (52) fixed to the tip of the roller (52) contacts the restriction rails (53), (54) that restrict the rotation angle of the lever (51). ) And one of the regulation rails (53) and (54) is formed in a straight line, and the other regulation rail (54) is widened with respect to the one regulation rail (53). It is characterized in that it is formed in a bent shape.

The operation panel (20) according to claim 3 of the present invention comprises a display device (21) and an input device (22), and the display device and the input device are inclined obliquely upward. It is characterized by being arranged.

The above-mentioned reference numerals in parentheses are for convenience of showing elements corresponding to the drawings, and the present description does not limit the present invention to the examples described in the drawings.

[0011]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION Hereinafter, a mounting device for a control panel according to the present invention will be described in detail with reference to an embodiment adopted in an electric discharge machine. The electric discharge machine 1 is, as shown in FIG.
The bed 10 is provided with a processing tank 11 in which the workpiece 1 is processed.
2 is fixed. Further, the electric discharge machine 1 includes a machining head 14 that moves up and down along the column 13, to which a tool electrode 15 is attached. Then, an electric discharge machining pulse voltage is applied between the workpiece 12 and the tool electrode 15 to perform electric discharge machining. During the electric discharge machining, the electric discharge machining liquid is supplied from the machining liquid storage tank 16 into the machining tank 11 by the machining liquid processing device 17.

The control device 2 includes a tool electrode 15 and a workpiece 1.
It controls relative movement between the electric discharge machine 1 and the electric discharge machine 2, electric discharge pulse control, machining liquid treatment control, and the like, and is arranged near the electric discharge machine 1, in the illustrated example, on the right front side of the electric discharge machine 1.
The operation panel 20 is arranged near the control device 2, and is arranged on the storage tank 16 in the illustrated example. When the control device 2 is arranged so as to face the front surface and a housing portion that allows the rotation of the operation panel is formed therein, the operation panel 20 is attached to the housing portion.

The operation panel 20 is pulled near when the operator stands up in front of the electric discharge machine 1 to perform input or the like in order to perform a preparation operation for electric discharge machining. Also,
The operation panel 20 is pushed back to the original unobtrusive position when the operator starts electrical discharge machining. At this time, even if the operator randomly moves the operation panel 20, the operation panel 20 needs to be configured so as not to interfere with the electric discharge machine 1. The operation panel 2 is provided so that the operator can monitor the operating state of the electric discharge machine during the electric discharge machining.
0 must be stored facing the front.

That is, the operation panel 20 is movably attached to a position close to the electric discharge machine 1 as shown in FIG. 2, that is, a position as close as possible to the machining tank 11 in the drawing. The operation panel 20 is pushed into the electric discharge machine side for storage as shown in FIG. 2 (a), is drawn out forward from the electric discharge machine side as shown in FIG. 2 (b), and as shown in FIG. 2 (c). It is turned to the operator side. In this illustrated example, since the operation panel 20 is arranged on the right side of the electric discharge machine 1, FIG.
As shown in, the operation panel rotates clockwise as viewed from above. In other mechanical devices, etc., the operation panel mounting device of the present invention described below is adopted because the operation panel is arranged at an appropriate position on either the left or right side facing the front of the device body to be controlled. Good to be done.

The operation panel 20 includes a pull-out guide means 30, a rotating means 40, and an angle regulating means 50, which will be described in more detail with reference to FIGS. 3 to 5, so that the operation panel 20 can be moved as described above. It consists of The pullout guide means 30 holds the operation panel 20 so that it can be pulled out to the front side of the electric discharge machine 1, and the rotating means 40 rotates the operation panel 20 at an eccentric position on the pullout guide means 30. The angle controlling means 50 holds the operation panel 20 in a unidirectional manner and regulates the rotation angle of the operation panel 20 to a predetermined angle according to the pull-out position of the operation panel.

The operation panel 20 includes a display device 21 and an input device 22 as shown in FIG. 4 on the front surface. If possible, these devices 21 and 22 should be inclined obliquely upward as in this embodiment. A handle 23 is attached to the lower front portion of the operation panel 20. The operator puts his / her hand on the handle 23 when keying in the input device 22. With this arrangement, when the operator makes a key input to the input device 22, the force of pushing the operation panel 20 hardly acts on the operation panel, so that it is not necessary to lock the pulled out operation panel as described later. Further, the operator uses the handle 23 when pulling out and pushing back the operation panel 20. When the operation panel 20 is arranged on the right side of the electric discharge machine 1 as in this embodiment, the display device 21, the input device 22 and the handle 23 are arranged on the right side of the operation panel 20, and the operation panel 20 is on the left side. It is rotatably attached at an eccentric position. With such a configuration, the operator can easily rotate the operation panel 20 when pulling out the operation panel 20, and easily return the rotation when pushing the operation panel 20 back.

The drawer guide means 30 guides the movable table 34 on which the operation panel 20 is mounted so that it can be moved back and forth on the base member 32, one example of which is shown in FIG. .

The base member 32 is a member for mounting the entire moving mechanism of the operation panel 20 and is fixed on the electric discharge machine 1.
On the upper surface of the base member 32, long rail mounting members 33, 33 having an angle-shaped cross section that are mounted in parallel along the front-rear direction are fixed to the left and right. The moving base 34 is a member having substantially the same length as the rail mounting member 33, and the both sides 3
4a and 34a are bent to form a channel structure in cross section as a whole. This bent portion 34a, 34a
Slide rails 35, 35 are fixed between the rail mounting members 33, 33 as a linear guide device.

The slide rail 35 is a member known as a commercially available product, and is composed of two rails that relatively move linearly by a ball bearing. More specifically, the slide rail 35 is sandwiched between two rail members 35a and 35b bent so that both side edges along the longitudinal direction face each other, and the bent side edges. This is an assembly including a ball bearing row (not shown), and the two rail members 35a, 35b thereof are held so as to be relatively movable. And 2
The relative movement stroke of the book rail members 35a and 35b reaches 2/3 or more of the entire length.

Such two slide rails 35, 3
5 of the rail members 35a and 35b of the moving table 34
Since the bent portion 34a and the rail mounting member 33 are fixed to each other, the moving base 34 can move largely forward with respect to the base member 32. Of course, it goes without saying that a stopper for restricting the moving distance of the moving table 34 is appropriately provided. For example, 37 is a moving table 34
It is a stopper that comes into contact with the bent portion 34a. Also,
The slide rail 35 of the pull-out guide means 30 may have various configurations as long as it is a linear guide device.

In addition to the above, the pull-out guide means 30 is preferably constructed as follows. Slide rail 3 between the moving base 34 and the rail mounting members 33, 33
A movable table cover 36 as shown in FIG. 4 is attached so as to cover 5, 35. This is a plate-like body having bending members 36a, 36b, 36b on its front surface and both side surfaces. This prevents foreign matter or the like from entering the rail mounting member 33 of the pull-out guide means 30 and the slide rail 35.

The rotating means 40 moves the operation panel 20 to the moving table 34.
It is rotatably held on the upper side.
Is adopted. The rotary bearing 41 is preferably a thrust bearing, but a conical roller bearing or the like is also used.
In the present embodiment, an example in which the rotating means 40 is a conical roller bearing is shown, the inner ring of the bearing 41 is fixed to the back surface of the operation panel 20, and the outer ring of the bearing 41 is attached to the moving base cover 36 together with the moving base 34. Fixed. In this case, the first cutout portion 34 formed in the movable table 34 and the movable table cover 36.
The inner rings of the rotary bearing 41 are aligned and attached to c and 36c. Since the center positions of the cutout portions 34c and 36c are eccentric to the left side, the operation panel 20 rotates about this eccentric position.

The angle restricting means 50 is a mechanism for restricting the turning angle of the operation panel 20 to a predetermined angle according to the pulled-out position, and a lever 51 having a roller 52, which will be described next, and first and second levers. It is composed of angle regulation rails 53 and 54.

The lever 51 having the roller 52 attached to its tip is integrally attached to the operation panel 20 by its base portion 51a. In this embodiment, the base portion 51a is attached to the lower end of the inner ring of the bearing 41 which is a conical roller bearing. Of course, this mounting form is not limited to this depending on the form of the rotating means 40. Thus the operation panel 20
And lever 51 rotate together.

Reference numeral 53 is a long linear first angle regulating rail. Reference numeral 54 is a long second regulation rail 54 that is bent so as to be farther from the first angle regulation rail 53 toward the front side. These are fixed to the upper surface of the base member 32. Then, the first angle regulation rail 53 is
The second angle regulating rail 54 is arranged so as to be parallel to the rail mounting member 33, and the linear portion 54a at the inner side thereof is parallel to the first angle regulating rail 53 and is spaced apart from the rail 53. Are arranged to be slightly larger than the outer diameter of the roller 52. Further, a short straight line portion 54b is formed on the front side of the second angle regulation rail 54,
This is arranged so as to be substantially parallel to the first angle regulation rail 53. The lever 51, the roller 52, and the second roller 52 are arranged so that the roller 52 comes into contact with the bending position of the front-side linear portion 54b of the rail 54 when the operation panel 20 is rotated to a position where the operation panel 20 is pulled out to the limit. The angle regulation rail 54 is formed.

As described above, the first angle regulation rail 53 is straight, the second angle regulation rail 54 has a wider distance from the first angle regulation rail 53 toward the front side, and the rotating means. Since 40 is eccentric to the left side toward the first angle regulation rail 53 side, these angle regulation rails 53,
The pivotable angle of the lever 51 regulated by 54 becomes clockwise, and the pivotal angle becomes larger as the operation panel 20 is located closer to the front side. Moreover, since the interval between the parallel sections at the back of both rails 53 and 54 is narrow,
When the operation panel 20 is located rearward, the rotatable angle of the lever 51 is almost 0 (zero), and the rotation direction of the operation panel 20 at this position is restricted to the front side only. Also,
When the operation panel 20 is rotated at a position in which it is pulled out to its limit, the roller 52 causes the second angle regulation rail 54 to move.
Since the straight line portion 54b on the front side comes into contact with the bent portion, the rotation angle of the operation panel 20 is regulated at that position.
Therefore, when the display device 21 and the input device 22 are inclined obliquely upward as in the present embodiment, when the operator makes a key input to the input device 22, the operation panel 20 that is rotating. Will not be pushed back.

In addition, since the handle 23 of the operation panel 20 is arranged on the right side of the operation panel 20, the operation panel 20 is easily rotated clockwise when the handle 23 is pulled out to the front side. Similarly, when the handle 23 is pushed in,
It is easy for the operation panel 20 to rotate counterclockwise and return to the original front direction.

As described above, when the operation panel 20 reaches the position where it is pulled out to some extent, strictly speaking, the operation panel 20 is moved to the position where it comes out of the parallel section of the angle regulating rails 53 and 54. It becomes rotatable. Then, the pulling out operation and the rotating operation can be realized by one continuous operation. Moreover, this never interferes with the electric discharge machine 1 on the left side (strictly speaking, the machining tank 11) during the movement operation of the operation panel 20.

When the rotation of the operation panel 20 cannot be reliably regulated only by the configuration of the angle regulation means 50, a known stopper means, for example, an additional stopper member is separately provided on the fixed side and the rotation side. It is preferable that a device that is mounted between and and that controls the rotation angle by abutting them be mounted. For example, when the display device 21 and the input device 22 are upright with the front facing each other, a separate locking device is prepared so that the operation panel 20 is not pushed back.

In addition, the drawer guide means 30 is
It is desirable to provide a braking means 60 that gives resistance to the movement of the operation panel 20. This is a mechanism for generating frictional resistance between the moving member side and the non-moving side member.
The configuration may be as shown in FIG. This is to prevent the operation panel 20 from moving too lightly.

The braking means 60 described below uses a part of the first regulation rail 53. The upper edge of the rail 53 is bent so as to be parallel to the upper surface of the base member 32, and is processed into a bent piece 53a. Slit 53b
Are formed parallel to the longitudinal direction.

The braking means 60 includes an upper block 61, a lower block 62, a spring member 63, a pressing plate 64, and a bolt 65 and a double nut 66 which are inserted into these. The upper block 61 and the lower block 62 are made of an engineering plastic material such as Duracon. The spring member 63 is formed by bending an elastic piece and is used for the lower block 62.
And the pressing plate 64. A female screw into which the bolt 65 is screwed is formed on the pressing plate 64. The double nut 66 is tightened and fixed at a predetermined position of the bolt 65 to be screwed in, and prevents the lower block 62, the spring member 63, and the pressing plate 64 from falling. And
The second block 61 in which the upper block 61 is cut out in the movable base cover 36
Brackets 67 and 6 attached to the notches 36d of
It is sandwiched between 7 so as to be movable in the vertical direction. The upper and lower blocks 61, 62 are attached so as to sandwich the bending surface 53a from above and below. In such a configuration, the spring force of the spring member 63 is adjusted by adjusting the screwing amount of the bolt 65 screwed into the pressing plate 64,
The frictional resistance force during the moving operation of the operation panel 20 is adjusted. Further, since the upper block 61 can move up and down, even if the parallelism between the movable table cover and the bending surface is not accurate, the frictional resistance does not change, and an appropriate constant braking force is pulled out from the operation panel. It is given to the pushing operation. Since the bolts 65 are inserted into the slits 53b, the upper and lower blocks 6
1, 62 move along the slit 53b.

[0033]

As described above, according to the first aspect of the present invention.
According to the operation panel mounting device of the present invention, the movement operation and the rotation operation of the operation panel can be performed only by the simple operation of pulling out the operation panel toward the front side or pushing the operation panel back. The rotation angle is regulated according to the pulled-out position, and there is no possibility that the operation panel interferes with the apparatus main body.

Further, according to the operation panel mounting device according to the second aspect of the present invention, the movement operation and the rotation operation of the operation panel have a simple structure, but the operation panel is pulled out toward the front or pushed inward. Only a simple operation of operation is required. In addition, the rotation angle of the operation panel is restricted to one direction according to the pulled-out position of the operation panel, and it is almost 0 (zero) at the pushed-in position of the operation panel. .

Further, according to the arrangement of the operation panel input device and the display device according to claim 3 of the present invention, the operator inputs a key to the input device by adding this arrangement to the simple operation panel attachment device. Since the operation panel is not pushed in at that time, it is not necessary to lock the operation panel which is pulled out and rotated.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is an overall view of an electric discharge machine equipped with an operation panel mounting device of the present invention, FIG. 1 (a) is a plan view thereof, and FIG. 1 (b) is a front view thereof.

FIG. 2 is a plan view showing a state where the operation panel of the present invention is moved or rotated, FIG. 1 (a) is a state in which the operation panel is stored in the electric discharge machine side, and FIG. The state of being pulled out from the electric discharge machine side, FIG. 1 (c) is the state of being rotated to the electric discharge machine side of the operation panel.

FIG. 3 is an overall front view of the operation panel and its attachment device of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a perspective view showing the configuration of the operation panel attachment device of the present invention on the operation panel side.

FIG. 5 is a perspective view showing a configuration on the base member side of the operation panel attachment device of the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a sectional view of a braking device of the operation panel mounting device of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 Device body (electric discharge machine) 20 Operation panel 21 Display 22 Input device 30 Withdrawal guide means 32 base member 34 Mobile platform 35 Straight guide device 40 rotation means 41 rotary bearing 50 angle control means 51 lever 52 Laura 53 First Angle Control Rail 54 Second Angle Control Rail

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A device for mounting an operation panel, which is arranged at a left or right side position on the front side of a device body to be controlled, and a pull-out guide means for holding the operation panel so that it can be pulled out to the front side. Rotation means for rotatably holding the operation panel at an eccentric position on the drawer guide means, and a rotation angle of the operation panel is regulated in one direction to a predetermined angle according to the drawer position of the operation panel. An operation panel mounting device comprising: an angle control unit. 2. The pull-out guide means is fixed between a base member fixed to the apparatus main body, a movable base movably held on the base member, and the base member and the movable base. At least two linear guide devices, the rotating means includes a rotary bearing for rotatably holding the operation panel on the movable table, and the angle regulating means is integrated with the operation panel. The regulating rail includes a rotating lever, a roller fixed to the tip of the lever, and a regulation rail that abuts the roller when the operation panel rotates to regulate the rotation angle of the lever. 2. The operation panel mounting device according to claim 1, wherein one of the regulation rails is formed in a straight line, and the other regulation rail is formed in a bent shape so as to widen a space with respect to the one regulation rail. 3. The operation panel is provided with a display device and an input device, and the display device and the input device are arranged so as to be inclined obliquely upward and inclined. Operation panel mounting device.