User interface for a front control panel for microprocessor

- Ingersoll-Rand Company
Description

FIGS. 1-3 are front views of the first embodiment of the user interace for a front control panel for a microprocessor showing our new design wherein different screen elements are displayed in alternate positions on the central display window;

FIG. 4 is a rear view thereof;

FIG. 5 is a top view thereof and the undisclosed bottom view is a mirror image;

FIG. 6 is a right side view thereof and the undisclosed left side view is a mirror image;

FIGS. 7-9 are front views of a second embodiment thereof wherein different screen elements are displayed in alternate positions on the central display window;

FIG. 10 is a rear view thereof;

FIG. 11 is a top view thereof and the undisclosed bottom view is a mirror image; and,

FIG. 12 is a right side view thereof and the undisclosed left side view is a mirror image.

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D313982 January 22, 1991 Eilert et al.
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Patent History
Patent number: D399197
Type: Grant
Filed: Aug 2, 1996
Date of Patent: Oct 6, 1998
Assignee: Ingersoll-Rand Company (Woodcliff Lake, NJ)
Inventors: Daniel W. Clark (Paducah, KY), Meng Jeng Kann (Mayfield, KY), Alvin Joel Fisher (Murray, KY), Troy Smoot (Mayfield, KY), Curtis Bryan Warren (Paducah, KY), James Edward Scelzi (Paducah, KY)
Primary Examiner: Freda A. Nunn
Attorney: Michael M. Gnibus
Application Number: 0/57,864
Classifications
Current U.S. Class: D14/115; D14/100
International Classification: 1402;