Patent ID: 7729805

Claim:
A travel time display device for displaying, by a computer system, time taken for an industrial robot including a robot arm and an end effector mounted to the robot arm to move a work between two points, comprising: a display for displaying on a display screen a location of the industrial robot and an operation area of the industrial robot, which covers a circular area within a maximum robot arm radius of the industrial robot from which an installation area and a blind area are excluded; a position designator, configured and arranged to designate a travel starting point of the industrial robot at an arbitrary position within the operation area on the display screen; a processor, configured to calculate a plurality of divisions at intervals of a predetermined time with respect to necessary travel time from the travel starting point and calculate a travelable area, to be displayed on the display screen, for each of the necessary travel time divisions; and the processor being further configured to provide instructions to the display to depict the travelable areas on the display screen with a visual expression discriminating between the travelable areas.