JP3760245B2 - Touch panel image display method for forming work information - Google Patents

Description

[0001]
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a touch panel image display method for forming work information.
[0002]
[Prior art]
In order to mold a high-quality molded product by the injection molding machine 1 shown in FIG. 7, a mold (not shown) is selected based on molding work information, molding conditions by the injection molding machine 1 are selected, and injection is performed. It is necessary to perform teaching to properly operate the molded product take-out machine 2 mounted on the molding machine 1, select a molded product take-out head, and determine the quality of the molded product.
[0003]
Conventionally, it is inputted in advance by an input operation by an operator to the controller 3 of the molded product take-out machine arranged on the side of the injection molding machine 1 and a control operation of the controller 3 of the molded product take-out machine based on this input operation. A plurality of molds are individually displayed on the image display device 3A of the controller 3 with a code, and a molded product formed by these molds is individually displayed with a code or name adjacent to the code of the mold, The operator selects a mold based on these displays. Further, an input operation by an operator to the controller 4 of the injection molding machine attached to the injection molding machine 1 and a control operation of the controller 4 of the injection molding machine based on this input operation are input in advance corresponding to the molded product. The molding conditions such as the resin temperature, the mold temperature, the injection pressure, and the injection speed are displayed on the image display device of the controller 4, and the operator selects the molding conditions for the injection molding machine 1 based on this display. Further, a standby position input in advance corresponding to the molded product by an input operation by the operator to the controller 3 of the molded product take-out machine and a control operation of the controller 3 of the molded product take-out machine based on the input operation, Teaching data of the molded product take-out machine 2 such as the lowered position, the drawing position, and the take-out position is displayed, and the operator teaches the molded product take-out machine 2 based on this display. In addition, a plurality of types of take-out heads are stored in different locations, and the operator can install the molded product into the molded product take-out machine 2 in order to properly take out the molded product from the mold. Select the required pick-up head by visual inspection. Further, a non-defective molded product that has been properly molded is attached as a sample, for example, near the safety door of the injection molding machine 1 (see the two-dot chain line S in FIG. 7), and the operator visually checks the sample and the molded product. The quality of the molded product was determined by comparison.
[0004]
[Problems to be solved by the invention]
In the conventional method of selecting a mold, selection of molding conditions by an injection molding machine, teaching to operate a molded product take-out machine properly, selection of a molded product take-out head and determination of quality of a molded product, Since both the controller and the controller of the injection molding machine must be operated, the work is complicated. In addition, since the operator needs to know the proper correspondence between the mold and the molded product and the proper correspondence between the take-out head and the molded product, the mental burden on the operator increases. Therefore, it is easy to cause an operation mistake that impairs the appropriate correspondence due to misidentification. In addition, since it is necessary to attach a sample used for determining the quality of a molded product, for example, in the vicinity of a safety door of an injection molding machine, there is a disadvantage that the orderliness of the working environment is impaired.
[0005]
Therefore, the present invention provides a selection of a mold, selection of molding conditions by an injection molding machine, setting of teaching data for properly operating the molded product take-out machine, and a molded product take-out head by operating only the controller of the molded product take-out machine. Sample settings for determining the quality of the molded product and determining the quality of the molded product, making the work easier, reducing the mental burden on the operator, avoiding the occurrence of work errors and An object of the present invention is to provide a touch panel image display method for forming work information that can enhance the orderliness of the work environment.
[0006]
[Means for Solving the Problems]
In order to achieve the above-mentioned object, the touch panel type image display method of molding operation information according to the present invention includes selection of a mold, selection of molding conditions by an injection molding machine, and a molding product take-out machine mounted on the injection molding machine. A touch panel type image display method for forming work information for displaying an operation value setting and a quality determination of a molded product as forming work information, which stores a central processing unit, a ROM in which a software program is set, and data. And a controller of a molded product take-out machine comprising an input / output device having a touch panel type image display device and a sheet switch displayed on the image display device. The menu image selection sheet switch is displayed on the image display device at the start by the control operation of the controller based on the operation. A menu image in which a data read sheet switch is displayed on the image display device by turning on the menu image selection sheet switch, and the image display device by turning on the data read sheet switch. A plurality of mold selection sheet switches for individually identifying a plurality of molds by reference numerals, and molded articles formed by these molds corresponding to each of the plurality of mold sheet switches individually by reference numerals or names The displayed mold data read image is displayed, and is molded by the selected mold by turning on one mold selection sheet switch selected from among a plurality of mold selection sheet switches of the mold data read image. An image of the molded product and installation to the molded product take-out machine is required to properly remove the molded product from the selected mold. An image retrieval head, is characterized by displaying a molded essential image displayed and teaching data to properly operate the molded article of the molding conditions and the molded article take-out machine to be formed by the selected die.
[0007]
According to the present invention, teaching data for selecting a mold, selecting a molding condition by an injection molding machine, and operating the molded product ejector properly based on a molding essential image displayed only by the operation of the controller of the molded product take-out machine. Setting of the sample, selection of the take-out head of the molded product, and image setting of the sample for determining the quality of the molded product can be performed.
[0008]
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
Hereinafter, an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. Since the injection molding machine and the molded product take-out robot are the same as those in the conventional description, detailed description of their structure and operation is omitted, and the same portions are denoted by the same reference numerals. FIG. 1 shows a block configuration of an embodiment of the present invention. A controller 3 of an injection molded product take-out machine that performs control for implementing the present invention sets a central processing unit (CPU) 30 and a software program. A ROM 31, a RAM 32 storing data, an input / output device 33 having a touch panel image display device 3 </ b> A and a sheet switch for displaying an image on the liquid crystal panel 3 a of the image display device 3 </ b> A are provided.
[0009]
The central processing unit 30 controls the input / output device 33 based on a software program set in advance in the ROM 31. By the ON operation (hereinafter referred to as touch operation) of a sheet switch that displays an image on the liquid crystal panel 3a. Signal processing is performed based on the output switch signal and data stored in the RAM 32, and a signal is output to the liquid crystal panel 3a to display a predetermined image on the liquid crystal panel 3a.
[0010]
When the start of FIG. 2 starts, as shown in FIG. 3, the main image 15 displaying the menu image selection sheet switch 14 is displayed on the liquid crystal panel 3a of the image display device 3A (step 1 of FIG. 2). By the touch operation 14 (step 2 in FIG. 2), the menu image 17 in which the data reading sheet switch 16 is displayed is displayed on the liquid crystal panel 3a as shown in FIG. 4 (step 3 in FIG. 2).
[0011]
As shown in FIG. 5, a plurality of mold selection sheet switches 18, 18,... For causing the liquid crystal panel 3a to individually identify a plurality of molds by reference numerals by touching the data reading sheet switch 16 (step 4 in FIG. 2). A mold data read-out image 20 is displayed in which molded articles formed by these molds are individually displayed with reference numerals or names 19, 19,... Adjacent to the plurality of mold sheet switches 18, 18. (Step 5 in FIG. 2).
[0012]
As shown in FIG. 6, an ON operation (step 6 in FIG. 2) of one mold selection sheet switch 18 selected from the plurality of mold selection sheet switches 18, 18. An image 21 of a molded product molded by the mold 18 selected in the liquid crystal panel 3a and a takeout head that needs to be mounted on the molded product take-out machine 2 in order to properly take out the molded product from the selected mold 18 The image 22 and the molding conditions of the molded product molded by the selected mold 18, that is, the molding conditions 23 and the molded product take-out machine 2 that numerically display the resin temperature, mold temperature, injection pressure, injection speed, etc. Teaching data 24 to be operated, that is, a molding essential image 25 that displays numerically the standby position, descending position, extraction position, extraction position, etc. of the molded product take-out machine 2 is displayed (step 7 in FIG. 2). The operator may perform setup before the injection molding machine is operated based on the molding essential image 25. That is, selection of molds, selection of molding conditions using an injection molding machine, setting of teaching data for properly operating a molded product take-out machine, selection of a molded product take-out head, and sample images for determining the quality of a molded product Settings can be made.
[0013]
Thus, for selection of molds, selection of molding conditions by the injection molding machine 1, setting of teaching data for properly operating the molded product take-out machine 2, selection of the molded product take-out head, and determination of quality of the molded product Since the image setting of the sample can be performed only by the operation of the controller 3 of the molded product take-out machine 2, the conventional method in which both the controller 3 of the molded product take-out machine 2 and the controller 4 of the injection molding machine are operated. Compared with, work becomes easier. In addition, since it is not necessary for the operator to know the proper correspondence between the mold and the molded product and the proper correspondence between the take-out head and the molded product, the mental burden on the operator can be reduced and the work can be reduced. The occurrence of mistakes can be avoided. Furthermore, since it is not necessary to separately prepare an actual sample used for determining the quality of the molded product, it is possible to improve the orderliness of the work environment.
[0014]
In addition, in the said embodiment, although demonstrated using the traverse type molded article extraction machine 2, the molded article extraction machine 2 used for this invention is not limited only to the said traverse type. A plurality of articulated arms, a take-out head is provided at the tip of the arm, and the take-out head is taken out from a side position of the injection molding machine 1 by expanding and contracting the plurality of arms. It is configured to move forward and backward between the corresponding positions, move the take-out head in the part take-out corresponding position forward and close to the part gripping position, grip the part at this position, and then move it back to the part take-out corresponding position. It can also be applied to the side entry type molded product take-out machine.
[0015]
【The invention's effect】
As described above, the touch panel type image display method of the molding operation information according to the present invention is based on the molding essential image displayed only by the operation of the controller of the molded product take-out machine, and the mold selection and molding by the injection molding machine. Since it is possible to select the conditions, set teaching data to properly operate the molded product take-out machine, select the molded product take-out head, and set the sample image to determine the quality of the molded product, the molded product take-out machine Compared with the conventional method in which both the controller and the controller of the injection molding machine are operated, the operation becomes easier. In addition, since it is not necessary for the operator to know the proper correspondence between the mold and the molded product and the proper correspondence between the take-out head and the molded product, the mental burden on the operator can be reduced and the work can be reduced. The occurrence of mistakes can be avoided. Furthermore, since it is not necessary to separately prepare an actual sample used for determining the quality of the molded product, it is possible to improve the orderliness of the work environment.
[Brief description of the drawings]
FIG. 1 is a block configuration diagram of an embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing an operation procedure according to the embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 3 is a front view showing an embodiment of a main image.
FIG. 4 is a front view showing an embodiment of a menu image.
FIG. 5 is a front view showing an embodiment of a mold data read image.
FIG. 6 is a front view showing an embodiment of an essential molding image.
FIG. 7 is a perspective view showing an injection molding machine, a molded product take-out machine, a touch panel image display device, and the like.
[Explanation of symbols]
DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Injection molding machine 2 Mold take-out machine 3 Mold take-out machine controller 3A Touch panel image display device 3a Liquid crystal panel 14 Menu image selection sheet switch 15 Main image 16 Data reading sheet switch 17 Menu image 18 Mold selection sheet switch 19 Molding Individual product code or name 20 Mold data read image 21 Molded product image 22 Pickup head image 23 Molding condition 24 Teaching data 25 Molding essential image 30 Central processing unit (CPU)
31 ROM
32 RAM
33 I / O devices

Claims (1)

Selection of mold, selection of molding conditions by injection molding machine, setting of operation value of molded product take-out machine mounted on injection molding machine, judgment of quality of molded product, etc. A touch panel image display method,
Molding comprising a central processing unit, a ROM for setting a software program, a RAM for storing data, a touch panel image display device, and an input / output device having a sheet switch displayed on the image display device A controller for the product take-out machine,
By an input operation by an operator and a control operation of the controller based on the input operation,
When starting, display the main image with the menu image selection sheet switch displayed on the image display device,
By turning on the menu image selection sheet switch, a menu image in which a data read sheet switch is displayed on the image display device is displayed.
By turning on the data reading sheet switch, a plurality of mold selection sheet switches for causing the image display device to individually identify a plurality of molds by reference numerals, and the molds corresponding to each of the plurality of mold sheet switches. Display the mold data readout image that individually displays the molded product molded by the mold with the code or name,
By turning on one mold selection sheet switch selected from a plurality of mold selection sheet switches of the mold data read image, an image of a molded product molded by the selected mold, and the molded product An image of the take-out head that needs to be attached to the molded product take-out machine in order to properly take out from the selected mold, the molding conditions of the molded product molded by the selected mold, and the molded product take-out machine are properly set. A touch panel type image display method for forming work information, characterized in that a forming essential image displaying teaching data to be operated is displayed.

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