JPH0939489A - Lettering machine - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To easily set and alter writing pressure and pen cap function by mounting a screen guide system to the setting of a pen (writing pressure) and pen cap function. SOLUTION: In a lettering machine wherein an arm 6 is moved in an XY axis direction by the control of a controller and a pen 16 is controlled by a lift device 12 so as to be moved up and down and a character is drawn on the paper on a placing surface by the pen 16, when a pen setting key 48 is pushed, pen setting text data is displayed on a display device 32 and, when an explanation key 42 is subsequently pushed, text data for pen setting explanation explaining the concrete operation procedure of pen setting is displayed. When a drawing function key 50 is pushed and drying preventing setting is selected, text data for drying preventing setting is displayed and, when an explanation key 42 is pushed succeedingly, text data for explaining the concrete operation procedure of drying preventing setting is displayed.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a portable type casing, in which an arm projects, a pen is held by the arm, the arm is driven in XY directions, and the pen is controlled to move up and down to mount a table or the like. The present invention relates to a lettering machine capable of drawing data such as characters input from a keyboard at an arbitrary position on a sheet of paper.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In this type of lettering machine, it is sometimes desired to change the density of lines during drawing. For example, FIG.
As shown in A, when the bag character is filled, the character line 5
For example, 8 is darkened and the inside is lightly painted, or, as shown in FIG. 7B, in the case of a rectangular box of characters, it is desired to make the surrounding line 60 thinner than the character 62. In this case, conventionally, the pen has been replaced with a pen having a small core diameter, or the density of the core has been changed.

[0003]

[Problems to be Solved by the Invention]
Since it is used by placing it on a sheet of paper on a desk or a drafting board, it is necessary to downsize the device, and it is not possible to adopt a pen exchange function like that of a plotter. To replace the pen, the operator must manually replace the pen. Therefore, the position of the lettering machine is displaced during the pen replacement, and the filling or the position of the rectangular enclosure is not aligned. Therefore, in order to change the density of a line during drawing, there is no choice but to adopt a method of changing the writing pressure, such as executing pencil drawing with the writing pressure of an ink pen. In addition, at this time, it is necessary to change two settings such as cancellation of the pen cap function. In a lettering machine, a predetermined key is selected from a large number of keys provided on a keyboard and the setting is changed while looking at a small screen, but this is an extremely difficult and difficult task to understand. SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION It is an object of the present invention to solve the above problems by installing a screen guide system for a pen (writing pressure) setting and a pen cap function in a lettering machine.

[0004]

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention has an arm (6) projecting in front of a portable type casing (4) and a pen (1) at the tip of the arm (6).
6) is detachably attached, the arm (6) is driven in the left and right and the front-back direction in front of the casing (4), and the pen (16) is moved up and down, so that the paper on the casing mounting surface can be arbitrarily placed. The casing in position (4)
In a lettering machine designed to draw printing information such as characters input from the keyboard of a pen, a pen setting key (48) and a drawing function key (5
0), the explanation key (42), the display unit (32), and the pen setting key (48) are turned on, the text data (40) for pen setting is displayed on the display unit (32), and the display is performed. When the explanation key (42) is pressed in the state, the display (32) is replaced with the text data (40) for the pen setting.
, Text data (44) for explaining the pen setting operation is displayed, and when the drawing function key (50) is turned on and the dry prevention setting is selected, the display (32). Text data for dry prevention setting (3
8) is displayed, and when the explanation key (42) is pressed in the display state, the text data (3) for the dry prevention setting is displayed.
The controller (2) which displays the text data (46) for explaining the dry prevention setting explanation on the display (32) instead of 8) for explaining the specific operation procedure of the dry prevention setting.
4) and are provided.

[0005]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. In FIG. 2, reference numeral 2 is a lettering machine, which has a weight and size that can be carried by hand and carried to an arbitrary position. The lettering machine 2 includes a casing 4 suitable for stable placement on a flat plate surface such as a desk. A keyboard 4 a is formed on the upper surface of the casing 4. An arm 6 projects from the casing 4, and the arm 6 is configured to be driven in the left-right direction (X direction) and the front-rear direction (Y direction) in FIG. 2 by XY motors 8 and 10 incorporated in the casing 4. ing.

A lifting device 12 such as a moving coil is fixed to the tip of the arm 6, and a pen holder 14 is connected to the lifting output part of the lifting device. A commercially available hollow ink pen, a ceramic pen or a pencil is connected to the pen holder 14. A pen 16 such as a pen is detachably held. Reference numeral 18 denotes a pen cap used to cover the tip of the pen 16 so that the ink does not dry when an ink pen is used as the pen 16, and is held by the casing 4 via a cap holder 20. The operator inputs a character string, a symbol or the like to the controller 24 from the character input key 22 of the keyboard 4a provided on the casing 4. The controller 24 uses the character generation circuit 2
6, the character input data is added with a size or the like, coded, and the coded data is stored in the character buffer 28.

At this time, since the switch 30 is set to the character input state according to the instruction from the controller 24, the coded data such as characters is displayed on the display 32 composed of a liquid crystal screen. The characters displayed on the display 32 are
Under the control of the controller, the arm 6 is driven in the XY axis directions, and the raising / lowering device 12 controls the up / down of the pen 16 so that the pen 16 causes characters to be printed on a sheet of paper such as a desk on which the casing 4 is placed. Etc. are visualized and visualized. In the case where the pen 16 is an ink pen, the pen 16 moves to the pen cap 18 and the pen tip is covered by the pen cap 18 while waiting for image formation.

Next, the help function of the lettering machine will be described with reference to the flowchart shown in FIG. The operator operates various operation keys 34 on the keyboard 4a to start the setting change of the pen (writing pressure) setting and the dry prevention (pen cap) function. At this time, the switching device 30 stores the input character string and the like in the memory 34 and clears the screen of the display device 32. The controller 24 is the data table 3
The text data of the setting screen corresponding to the contents of the setting change is selected from 6 and displayed on the display 32 as shown by reference numerals 38 and 40 in FIGS. At this time, the explanation (Hel
p) When the key 42 is pressed (step 1), the switch 3
0 is the text data of the setting screen in the memory 34, for example, 3
8 and 40 are stored (step 2) and the screen is cleared (step 3).

The controller reads from the data table 36 the text data of the explanation corresponding to the selected setting change operation, for example, 44 and 46 (step 4), and the display 32.
(Step 5). When the explanation key 42 is pressed again, the explanation (Help) screen is cleared (step 7), and the switch 30 selects the text data of the setting screen stored in the memory 34, for example, 38 or 40 (step 8). It is displayed on the display 32 (step 9). The setting change is completed by confirming and canceling the setting, and the screen of the display unit 32 returns to the original character input state.

To change settings such as pen (pen pressure) settings, use a code number such as "PN01" for the controller 2
Recognized by 4. At this time, the explanation (Help) key 4
When 2 is input, the controller 24 recognizes it as a code number “PNH1” corresponding to “PN01”. Similar codes are attached to text data such as pen (writing pressure) settings stored in the data table 36, and the data is selected according to the correspondence of the code numbers. Next, a specific operation of pen (writing pressure) setting will be described with reference to FIG.

When the pen setting key 48 is pressed, the screen of the display 32 is cleared and the pen setting text data 40 is displayed on the screen. Here, if you press the explanation key 42,
The text data 44 of the pen setting explanation is displayed on the screen. When the explanation key 42 is pressed again, the pen setting text data 40 is displayed on the screen. The operator is F1,
Press any key of F2, F3, F4 to confirm and cancel the pen setting, and the pen setting change is completed. The screen returns to the original text input state. Next, with reference to FIG. 6, a specific operation for setting dryness prevention (pen cap) will be described.

When the drawing function key 50 is pressed, the screen is cleared and the text data 52 for setting the drawing function is displayed on the screen. Each item of the text data 52 corresponds to the function keys F1, F2, F3, F4. When the operator presses the function key F3, the screen is cleared and the dry prevention text data 38 is displayed on the screen. If it is not possible to know how to perform the setting operation only with this data, when the explanation key 42 is pressed, the text data 46 of the dry prevention setting explanation is displayed on the screen. By this explanation text data display, the operator can
Whether to set the dry prevention function key F1,
The selection is made with F2, and the registration is finished with the confirmation key 54.

Alternatively, the cancel key 56 is used to cancel. Next, the screen returns to the original character input state. In the case of a hierarchical setting change such as operation, selection, operation, and selection, as shown in A ', B', C ', D'of FIG. It is described in print etc.

[0014]

Since the present invention is configured as described above, there is an effect that the setting of the pen pressure and the pen cap function can be easily changed.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a flowchart showing the operation of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an overall plan view of a lettering machine.

FIG. 3 is an enlarged plan view of a part of the casing.

FIG. 4 is a block diagram illustrating the configuration of a lettering machine.

FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating a pen (writing pressure) setting operation.

FIG. 6 is an operation explanatory diagram of a dry prevention (pen cap) setting.

FIG. 7 is an explanatory diagram of a conventional technique.

[Explanation of symbols]

 2 lettering machine 4 casing 6 arm 8 X motor 10 Y motor 12 lifting device 14 pen holder 16 pen 18 pen cap 20 cap holder 22 character input key 24 controller 26 character generation circuit 28 character buffer 32 indicator 42 description (Help) key 44 text Data 46 Text data 48 Pen setting key 50 Drawing function key 52 Text data 54 Confirm key 56 Cancel key

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. An arm (6) is projected in front of a portable type casing (4), and a pen (16) is detachably attached to the tip of the arm (6), and the arm (6) is attached.
Is driven in front of the casing (4) in the left-right and front-rear directions, and the pen (16) is moved up and down to input from a keyboard of the casing (4) to an arbitrary position on the casing mounting surface. In a lettering machine adapted to draw printing information such as characters, a pen setting key (48), a drawing function key (50) having a dry prevention function, an explanation key (42), and a display (32).
When the pen setting key (48) is turned on, the display (3
Display the text data (40) for pen setting in 2),
When the explanation key (42) is turned on in the display state, the text data (40) for pen setting is displayed on the display (32) for explaining the pen setting specific operation procedure. When the text data (44) is displayed and the drawing function key (50) is turned on and the dryness prevention setting is selected, the text data (38) for the dryness prevention setting is displayed on the display (32) and the display state is displayed. When the explanation key (42) is pressed in, the text for explaining the dry prevention setting is displayed on the display (32) in place of the text data (38) for the dry prevention setting and for explaining the specific operation procedure of the dry prevention setting. A lettering machine comprising: a controller (24) adapted to display data (46).