Patents by Inventor David E. Platts

David E. Platts has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20200241505
    Abstract: A work center for automated subtractive machining includes machine frame components, material and parts handling components, control components, and communications components. The machine frame components may include a fixturing system, a CNC, a column, a spindle, and a cutting tool. The material and parts handling components may include material handling robotics, machined part handling robotics, material viewing, machined part viewing, and racks for stock materials, tools, and finished parts. The control components may include robotics controllers, viewer controllers, fixturing control, and an interactive process plan automation control (IPPAC). The IPPAC may include process planning/editing hardware & software, process control hardware & software, a device command interpreter, CAM hardware & software, SCADA hardware & software, which may include SCADA supervisory control and/or SCADA data acquisition components, database hardware & software, and communications hardware & software.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2020
    Publication date: July 30, 2020
    Inventors: David E. Platts, Terry Rosenkoetter
  • Patent number: 10642251
    Abstract: A work center for automated subtractive machining includes machine frame components, material and parts handling components, control components, and communications components. The machine frame components may include a fixturing system, a CNC, a column, a spindle, and a cutting tool. The material and parts handling components may include material handling robotics, machined part handling robotics, material viewing, machined part viewing, and racks for stock materials, tools, and finished parts. The control components may include robotics controllers, viewer controllers, fixturing control, and an interactive process plan automation control (IPPAC). The IPPAC may include process planning/editing hardware & software, process control hardware & software, a device command interpreter, CAM hardware & software, SCADA hardware & software, which may include SCADA supervisory control and/or SCADA data acquisition components, database hardware & software, and communications hardware & software.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Inventors: David E Platts, Terry Rosenkoetter
  • Publication number: 20170300037
    Abstract: A work center for automated subtractive machining includes machine frame components, material and parts handling components, control components, and communications components. The machine frame components may include a fixturing system, a CNC, a column, a spindle, and a cutting tool. The material and parts handling components may include material handling robotics, machined part handling robotics, material viewing, machined part viewing, and racks for stock materials, tools, and finished parts. The control components may include robotics controllers, viewer controllers, fixturing control, and an interactive process plan automation control (IPPAC). The IPPAC may include process planning/editing hardware & software, process control hardware & software, a device command interpreter, CAM hardware & software, SCADA hardware & software, which may include SCADA supervisory control and/or SCADA data acquisition components, database hardware & software, and communications hardware & software.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2017
    Publication date: October 19, 2017
    Inventors: David E. Platts, Terry Rosenkoetter
  • Patent number: 5453933
    Abstract: A CNC machine tool control system that includes a controllable, movable tool for shaping a workpiece, a mechanism for receiving control instructions describing shaping functions to be performed on the workpiece, a processing unit and memory. The control systems includes objects defined according to an object oriented design. One type of object is a model of a shaping process to be performed on a workpiece, including informational parameters regarding the physical dimensions of the shape resulting from the process. The process objects communicates through an object oriented messaging system to machine objects, which represent physical devices present on the CNC machine on which the control system operates. The system also includes object oriented motion control and exception handler objects, each of which may communication with other object via object oriented messages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 1993
    Date of Patent: September 26, 1995
    Assignee: Hurco Companies, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael R. Wright, David E. Platts, Daniel B. French, Gerald Traicoff, Michael A. Dupont, Gregory A. Head
  • Patent number: D288820
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 1984
    Date of Patent: March 17, 1987
    Assignee: Hurco Manufacturing Co., Inc.
    Inventors: James S. Couch, Rainer B. Teufel, David E. Platts, Peter T. Zarich, Thomas M. Whitcomb