Electronic equipment, and restriction removal method

摘要

Electronic equipment, including a GPS dongle and a PC, compares an acquired current location position of the electronic equipment with an acquired planned installation position of a machine tool to determine whether or not the current location position is within a predetermined range from the planned installation position. Further, the electronic equipment determines, if it is determined that the current location position is within the predetermined range from the planned installation position, whether or not a predetermined condition has been satisfied. The electronic equipment also performs, if it is determined that the predetermined condition has been satisfied, information input processing on the machine tool to remove activation restriction on the machine tool. In this manner, the electronic equipment can prevent illegal removal of activation restriction on the machine tool.

主权项

1. Portable electronic equipment for removing activation restriction on a machine tool, the portable electronic equipment being portable with respect to the machine tool and comprising:
a processor including: a first acquisition unit configured to acquire first information including a current location position of said portable electronic equipment; a second acquisition unit configured to acquire second information including a planned installation position of said machine tool, from a storage device which stores said second information; a first determination unit configured to determine whether or not the current location position is within a predetermined range from said planned installation position based on said first information and said second information; and a second determination unit configured to determine, if said first determination unit determines that the current location position is within the predetermined range from said planned installation position, whether or not a predetermined condition has been satisfied, wherein, said portable electronic equipment is configured to perform, if said second determination unit determines that said predetermined condition has been satisfied, information input processing on said machine tool to remove an activation restriction on said machine tool, and wherein said portable electronic equipment includes an interface to attach and detach from said machine tool.