US 11,809,699 B2
Operation setting device and injection molding machine
Chiharu Nishizawa, Nagano (JP); and Syuto Tanaka, Nagano (JP)
Assigned to NISSEI PLASTIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD., Nagano (JP)
Appl. No. 17/600,718
Filed by NISSEI PLASTIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD., Nagano (JP)
PCT Filed Mar. 5, 2020, PCT No. PCT/JP2020/009429
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Oct. 1, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/203017, PCT Pub. Date Oct. 8, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 2019-069759 (JP), filed on Apr. 1, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0050589 A1, Feb. 17, 2022
Int. Cl. G06F 3/00 (2006.01); G06F 3/04847 (2022.01); B29C 45/76 (2006.01); G06F 3/0481 (2022.01); G06F 3/0488 (2022.01)
CPC G06F 3/04847 (2013.01) [B29C 45/7626 (2013.01); G06F 3/0481 (2013.01); G06F 3/0488 (2013.01); B29C 2945/76551 (2013.01); B29C 2945/76568 (2013.01)] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An operation setting device for setting operations of an ejector for extracting a molded product from a mold, the operation setting device comprising:
a touch panel display screen that has 1) a first area where an ejector operation graph is to be displayed and 2) a second area where numerical values related to the ejector operation graph is to be displayed, the ejector operation graph including a vertical axis and a horizontal axis for indicating an operation sequence and operation positions of the ejector; and
a processor programmed to:
display an input area to overlap a first portion corresponding to a first process of the operation sequence in the first area of the touch panel display screen, wherein no operation positions for the first process is displayed in the first portion;
receive via the input area displayed over the first portion corresponding to the first process of the operation sequence, a first operator input of a first operation position of the operation positions to assign the first operation position to the first process;
upon receiving the first operator input of the first operation position for the first process, 1) stop displaying the input area over the first portion and 2) display the input area to overlap a second portion corresponding to a second process of the operation sequence in the first area of the touch panel display screen, wherein no operation positions for the second process is displayed in the second portion;
receive, via the input area displayed over the second portion corresponding to the second process of the operation sequence, a second operator input of a second operation position of the operation positions to assign the second operation position to the second process;
detect the operation sequence and the operation positions of the ejector based on the received first operator input of the first operation position for the first process and the received second operator input of the second operation position for the second process to generate operation parameters each including an operation speed, an operation position, an operation time, and an operation pattern of the ejector; and
control, based on the generated operation parameters, the touch panel display screen to generate the ejector operation graph showing the operation sequence and the operation positions of the ejector along the vertical axis and the horizontal axis in the first area, and display the numerical values related to the ejector operation graph in the second area,
wherein the ejector operation graph is drawn before the ejector is actuated to extract the molded product from the mold based on the operation parameters.