The disclosure relates to a holding device for a handheld computer unit that is designed to control a machine, wherein the holding device has a holding unit that is designed to hold the handheld computer unit, and wherein at least one integrated safety switch for a safety function of the machine is integrated into the holding device and/or wherein the holding device has a further holding unit for holding at least one external safety switch for a safety function of the machine.

A machine apparatus that a user can more easily operate includes a machine driver that is mechanically driven, a main operation unit that operates the machine driver, a remote operation unit that transmits an operation instruction signal to the machine driver at a position apart from the main operation unit, a position determiner that determines a position of the remote operation unit, and a controller that, upon determining that the remote operation unit is located in a predetermined area, enables operations by the main operation unit, and upon determining that the remote operation unit is located outside the predetermined area, disables at least some operations by the main operation unit.

A technology downsizing a control panel unit is provided. The control panel unit for a machine tool comprises a casing, a duct, and a fan. The casing has an openable door. A control device is arranged in an internal space, which is closed when the door is closed. The duct has a groove and a ventilation opening. The groove is closed at a closed end and open to the internal space at an open end. The ventilation opening connects the groove with the internal space in a position nearer the closed end than the open end. The duct is fixed to an inner wall of the casing in such manner as the groove faces the inner wall. The fan is mounted on the ventilation opening. The air in the internal space is taken into the groove enclosed by the inner wall and the duct by the operation of the fan.

A manual pulse generating device is equipped with a rotatable dial, a pulse generating unit configured to generate drive pulses for commanding axial movement of a machine tool in accordance with an amount of rotation of the dial, and a casing having the dial disposed on a surface of the casing and accommodating the pulse generating unit in the interior thereof. When the dial is pressed toward the casing, the pulse generating unit enables the axial movement in accordance with the drive pulses.

The disclosure relates to a holding device for a handheld computer unit that is designed to control a machine, wherein the holding device has a holding unit that is designed to hold the handheld computer unit, and wherein at least one integrated safety switch for a safety function of the machine is integrated into the holding device and/or wherein the holding device has a further holding unit for holding at least one external safety switch for a safety function of the machine.

A machine tool includes a machine body; a control panel; a peripheral device; a peripheral device frame that is adjacent to one side surface of the machine body and for which the top view of the area for installing the peripheral device is roughly rectangular, wherein the two corners of one end of the rectangle are supported, and the corner of the other end of the rectangle that is closer to the machine body is supported from below but the corner of the other end of the rectangle that is farther from the machine body is not supported from below; and a coolant filtration and supply device with a coolant tank disposed below the peripheral device frame so as to accept coolant discharged from the machine body, the coolant filtration and supply device being installed so as to be able to move toward and away from the machine body.

A machine tool includes a machining chamber, an illuminator in the machining chamber, and an NC unit. The NC unit includes a manual execution unit for executing the machining operation via a pulse signal generated in response to operation of a manually operated part, and has a one-block stop mode in which the NC program is executed for one block and then stopped. A notification unit issues a notification of completion of the execution of one block of the NC program while the machining operation is executed manually using the manual execution unit in the one-block stop mode, and the notification unit includes the illuminator. A change in the illumination state of the illuminator enables an operator to observe the interior of the machining chamber continuously while being notified of the completion of the execution of the one block of the NC program.

An operation panel for a machine tool includes: a blower device that includes a plurality of blade sections and a center axis section, the plurality of blade sections rotating around a center axis, the center axis section having a circular columnar shape around the center axis and being disposed on a radial-directional inside about the center axis relative to the plurality of blade sections the blower device sucking air in an axial direction about the center axis and blowing out the air in the axial direction about the center axis an opposed wall that is disposed on an air suction side of the blower device and that is disposed so as to face the blower device in the axial direction about the center axis; and an intermediate member that is provided between the opposed wall and the center axis section in the axial direction about the center axis.

There is provided a processing machine and a processing machine line for which it is easy for an operator to view a screen display, including an operation panel with a free vertical and horizontal posture of a display in which a longitudinal dimension and a lateral dimension are different, in which a first display aspect which displays one screen that is displayed on the display and a second display aspect which is disposed lined up with two screens are switched. Switch buttons are set in order to perform switching between the first display aspect screen and the second display aspect screen, and the first display aspect screen and the second display aspect screen are mutually switched by operating the switching button, and during the switching, are rotated 90 with respect to the display.

A movable stand with casters for installing each of a plurality of separate type control panels that correspond to a plurality of machine tools disposed in parallel and are disposed to be separated from the machine tools, is provide. The stand includes a top plate sections on which the separate type control panel is installed, a plurality of leg sections that support the top plate section, and horizontal sections that are provided to attach the casters to bottom sections of the leg sections and are horizontal to a floor, in which, out of the horizontal sections, a height from the floor of one horizontal section is different from a height from the floor of another horizontal section.