公开(公告)号：US06913145B2

公开(公告)日：2005-07-05

申请号：US10413492

申请日：2003-04-15

申请人： David J. Barton ,  Christopher Hsu

发明人： David J. Barton ,  Christopher Hsu

IPC分类号： B23K9/133 ,  B65H49/08 ,  B65D85/676 ,  B65H49/00

CPC分类号： B65H49/08 ,  B23K9/1333

摘要： A package for containing and dispensing a coil of welding wire having a coil axis parallel to a package axis, a coil top transverse to the coil axis and radially inner and outer surfaces parallel to the coil axis. The welding wire package includes a container having a bottom and an outer wall structure extending upwardly from the bottom to a top edge, and the outer wall structure has inwardly and outwardly facing surfaces. The package further includes a plurality of ribs extending parallel to the package axis and positioned between the coil outer surface and the inwardly facing surface of the outer wall structure thereby forming gaps between the coil outer surface and the inwardly facing container surface. The welding wire package further including a retainer ring for controlling the dispensing of the welding wire. The retainer ring includes a ring body extending between an inner edge defining an inner opening and an outer peripheral edge, and the outer peripheral edge includes a plurality of projections each extending beyond the outer surface of the wire coil and over a portion of the gaps.

摘要翻译： 用于容纳和分配具有平行于封装轴线的线圈轴线的焊丝线圈，与线圈轴线横向的线圈顶端以及平行于线圈轴线的径向内外表面的包装。 焊丝包装包括具有从底部向上延伸到顶部边缘的底部和外壁结构的容器，并且外壁结构具有向内和向外的表面。 该封装还包括平行于封装轴线延伸并且位于线圈外表面和外壁结构面向内的表面之间的多个肋，从而在线圈外表面和面向内的容器表面之间形成间隙。 焊丝包装件还包括用于控制焊丝分配的保持环。 保持环包括在限定内部开口的内边缘和外周边缘之间延伸的环体，并且外周边缘包括多个突起，每个突起延伸超过线圈的外表面并在间隙的一部分上方延伸。

公开(公告)号：US20050045691A1

公开(公告)日：2005-03-03

申请号：US10857293

申请日：2004-05-28

申请人： George Blankenship ,  Christopher Hsu ,  Jeffrey Klein

发明人： George Blankenship ,  Christopher Hsu ,  Jeffrey Klein

IPC分类号： B23K37/04

CPC分类号： B23K37/0452 ,  B23K37/04 ,  B23K37/0461

摘要： In accordance with one aspect of the present exemplary embodiment, set forth is a welding system including a plurality of adjustable welding support structures positioned in relationship to each other to permit welding of a workpiece held by a plurality of adjustable welding support structures, each of the support structures having a movable platform. The control system individually controls the position of the movable platform for each of the adjustable welding structures. In another embodiment of the present application, provided is a method for increasing the accuracy at which an adjustable support structure control system positions at least one adjustable support structure. Included in the process is the generation of a model of the adjustable support structure having an initial set of parameters, including structural position parameters and corresponding control element position parameters. A Design Of Experiments process is performed using the adjustable support structure control system to obtain actual structural position parameters and control element position parameters. The parameters of the adjustable model support structure are updated based on the results of the results of the Design Of Experiments, and a compensation mechanism is updated based on the updated parameters of the model support structure, wherein the compensation mechanism is used by the control system to increase the accuracy of positioning of the at least one adjustable support structure.

摘要翻译： 根据本示例性实施例的一个方面，提出了一种焊接系统，其包括彼此关系定位的多个可调焊接支撑结构，以允许焊接由多个可调焊接支撑结构保持的工件， 具有可移动平台的支撑结构。 控制系统分别控制可调节焊接结构中每个可动平台的位置。 在本申请的另一个实施例中，提供了一种用于提高可调支撑结构控制系统定位至少一个可调支撑结构的精度的方法。 该过程中包括生成具有初始参数集的可调节支撑结构的模型，包括结构位置参数和相应的控制元素位置参数。 实验设计过程采用可调式支撑结构控制系统，实现结构位置参数和控制元件位置参数。 基于实验结果的结果，对可调模型支持结构的参数进行更新，并根据模型支持结构的更新参数更新补偿机制，其中补偿机制由控制系统使用 以增加至少一个可调节的支撑结构的定位精度。

公开(公告)号：US20050045690A1

公开(公告)日：2005-03-03

申请号：US10856541

申请日：2004-05-28

申请人： George Blankenship ,  Christopher Hsu ,  Jeffrey Klein

发明人： George Blankenship ,  Christopher Hsu ,  Jeffrey Klein

IPC分类号： B23K37/04

CPC分类号： B23K37/0461 ,  B23K37/04 ,  B23K37/0452

摘要： In accordance with one embodiment of the present application, provided is a welding support structure arrangement to support an elongated assembled weldment preparatory to positional welding. The arrangement includes at least one support structure having a support base and a movable platform connected to the support base by spaced-apart 2-bar linkages with center pintels and a series of length adjusting members between the pintels and the support base. A length adjusting member is located between the movable platform and the support base, wherein the lengths of the length adjusting members set the orientation of the movable platform. In accordance with another embodiment of the present application, welding support structures are arranged in a linear array, wherein each of the welding support structures include a movable platform. At least some of the movable platforms of the plurality of support structures are moved to predetermined orientations. Thereafter, the workpiece is positioned onto at least some of the movable platforms of the plurality of support structures.

摘要翻译： 根据本申请的一个实施例，提供了一种焊接支撑结构装置，用于支撑预备位置焊接的细长组装焊件。 该装置包括至少一个支撑结构，该支撑结构具有支撑基座和可移动平台，该平台通过间隔开的2杆连杆与中心臼轴连接，并且在臼钉和支撑基座之间连接一系列长度调节构件。 长度调节构件位于可移动平台和支撑基座之间，其中长度调节构件的长度设定可移动平台的取向。 根据本申请的另一实施例，焊接支撑结构被布置成线性阵列，其中每个焊接支撑结构包括可移动平台。 多个支撑结构中的至少一些可移动平台被移动到预定的取向。 此后，工件被定位在多个支撑结构的至少一些可移动平台上。

公开(公告)号：US06730875B2

公开(公告)日：2004-05-04

申请号：US10252574

申请日：2002-09-24

申请人： Christopher Hsu

发明人： Christopher Hsu

IPC分类号： B23K910

CPC分类号： B23K9/0956 ,  B23K9/0953

摘要： An arc welding apparatus (10) for performing a waveform-controlled arc welding process includes an arc welding torch (14) that interacts with an associated weld. A power supply (12) applies a selected waveform-controlled power to the welding load via the arc welding torch (14) and a grounding cable over a process interval (Tweld). The power supply (12) includes a sampling circuit (34) for sampling instantaneous current and voltage values of the power during a snip portion (Tsnip) of the process interval (Tweld). A processor (40) is designed to (i) compute a true heat over the snip portion (Tsnip) of the process interval (Tweld), and (ii) extrapolate a true heat over the process interval (Tweld) based thereon.

摘要翻译： 用于执行波形控制的电弧焊接工艺的电弧焊接装置（10）包括与相关焊缝相互作用的电弧焊炬（14）。 电源（12）通过电弧焊炬（14）和处理间隔（Tweld）上的接地电缆将选择的波形控制功率施加到焊接负载。 电源（12）包括采样电路（34），用于在处理间隔（Tweld）的剪切部分（Tsnip）期间对瞬时电流和电压值进行采样。 处理器（40）被设计为（i）计算处理间隔（Tweld）的剪切部分（Tsnip）上的真实热量，以及（ii）基于此在过程间隔（Tweld）上外推真实热量。

公开(公告)号：US06717108B2

公开(公告)日：2004-04-06

申请号：US10252575

申请日：2002-09-24

申请人： Christopher Hsu

发明人： Christopher Hsu

IPC分类号： B23K909

CPC分类号： B23K9/0953 ,  B23K9/09 ,  B23K9/091 ,  B23K9/1062

摘要： A method of designing a series of waveforms for current cycles generated by a waveform generator to control the waveforms of a welding process performed by an electric arc welder, where the waveforms are stored in a memory stack by work points. The method comprises: integrating the arc current of the waveform designed for each of the many work points to obtain an integrated amount; plotting the integrated amounts for each of the work points; creating a regression curve statistically matching the plotted amounts to reveal outlier amounts; selecting an outlier amount; and, changing the waveform corresponding to the selected outlier amount to decrease the deviation of the integrated amount of the changed waveform from the regression curve.

摘要翻译： 设计由波形发生器产生的用于当前循环的一系列波形的方法，以控制由电弧焊机执行的焊接过程的波形，其中波形由工作点存储在存储器堆中。 该方法包括：对为多个工作点中的每一个设计的波形的电弧电流进行积分以获得积分量; 绘制每个工作点的综合金额; 创建一个回归曲线，统计匹配绘制的数量以显示异常值; 选择异常值; 并且改变对应于所选异常值的波形，以减小改变波形的积分量与回归曲线的偏差。

公开(公告)号：US06717107B1

公开(公告)日：2004-04-06

申请号：US10091278

申请日：2002-03-06

申请人： Christopher Hsu

发明人： Christopher Hsu

IPC分类号： B23K910

CPC分类号： B23K9/1056 ,  B23K9/092

摘要： An electric arc GMAW welder is provided, which welder includes a high speed switching power supply with a controller for creating a first or second weld process across the gap between a workpiece and a welding wire advanced toward the workpiece. The first process uses a first current waveform and the second process uses a second current waveform. A circuit is provided for shifting between the first and second weld processes. The shifting circuit includes a counter for counting the waveforms in the first and second processes and a circuit to shift from the process being processed to the other weld process when the waveform count of the weld process being processed reaches a preselected number for such weld process.

摘要翻译： 提供一种电弧GMAW焊机，该焊机包括一个高速开关电源，带有一个控制器，用于跨工件和向工件前进的焊丝间的间隙产生第一或第二焊接工艺。 第一个进程使用第一个电流波形，第二个进程使用第二个电流波形。 提供了用于在第一和第二焊接工艺之间移动的电路。 移位电路包括用于对第一和第二过程中的波形进行计数的计数器以及当正在处理的焊接过程的波形计数达到用于这种焊接过程的预选数量时从正在处理的工艺转移到另一焊接过程的电路。

公开(公告)号：US06708877B2

公开(公告)日：2004-03-23

申请号：US10330736

申请日：2002-12-27

申请人： George D. Blankenship ,  Christopher Hsu

发明人： George D. Blankenship ,  Christopher Hsu

IPC分类号： G06F1700

CPC分类号： G06K19/07758 ,  B23K9/1062 ,  B23K35/40 ,  G06K1/125 ,  G06K7/084 ,  G06K19/07749 ,  G06K2017/0087 ,  G06K2019/06253

摘要： Information pertaining to characteristics of metal welding electrode wire and which characteristics are useful in connection with adjusting welding parameters in an arc welding process and/or selecting between operating modes in a welding system are encoded on welding wire and/or on other memory components such as bar code labels and tags, RFID cards and tags, IC cards, and Touch Memory buttons, and the memory device is scanned prior to and/or at the point of use of the welding wire for enabling tracking of product distribution, manual and/or automatic selection of an operating mode for the welding system, manual and/or automatic adjustment of welding parameters in a given operating mode, consumables inventory, and the like.

摘要翻译： 关于金属焊接电极线的特性的信息，以及在电弧焊接过程中调整焊接参数和/或在焊接系统中的操作模式之间进行选择的特征中有用的信息被编码在焊丝和/或其它存储部件上，例如 条形码标签和标签，RFID卡和标签，IC卡和触摸存储器按钮，并且在焊丝使用和/或之前对存储器件进行扫描，以便跟踪产品分布，手动和/或 焊接系统的操作模式的自动选择，给定操作模式下的焊接参数的手动和/或自动调整，消耗品库存等。

公开(公告)号：US06700097B1

公开(公告)日：2004-03-02

申请号：US09965327

申请日：2001-09-28

申请人： Christopher Hsu ,  Steven R. Peters

发明人： Christopher Hsu ,  Steven R. Peters

IPC分类号： B23K910

CPC分类号： B23K9/092 ,  B23K9/09 ,  B23K9/1006 ,  B23K9/1062

摘要： An electric arc welder for creating a welding cycle with a real time current waveform constituting several control parameters by a microprocessor that controls a power supply by a signal so the output of the power supply traces a desired waveform and dynamic reaction behavior to arc conditions defined by the control parameters. The welder has a controller for creating the signal and reading the parameters, a graphic user interface program controlled by input from a graphic user interface computer, a system with a first interface for an interactive display for displaying the desired waveform and dynamic behavior and at least one manipulative control parameter, a second interface for a manual data entry device to change the waveform and/or the parameters and a digital communication link from the graphic user interface to the welder microprocessor controller for causing the welder to perform the desired waveform by controlling the signal. A number of script language files each defining a given type of waveform logic and containing a user manipulative variable table of control parameters and graphical descriptive language to display a waveform to be implemented by the welder is used with an input stage for processing a selected one of the script files into graphic user interface components (readouts, charts, and/or panels) for operating the welder.

摘要翻译： 一种电弧焊机，用于通过微处理器产生具有构成若干控制参数的实时电流波形的焊接周期，该微处理器通过信号控制电源，使得电源的输出将期望的波形和动态反应行为跟踪到由 控制参数。 焊工具有用于创建信号和读取参数的控制器，由图形用户界面计算机的输入控制的图形用户界面程序，具有用于显示所需波形和动态行为的交互式显示器的第一界面的系统，并且至少 一个操作控制参数，用于手动数据输入装置的第二接口，用于改变波形和/或参数，以及从图形用户界面到焊接微处理器控制器的数字通信链路，用于使焊机通过控制 信号。 每个定义给定类型的波形逻辑并包含控制参数和图形描述语言的用户操纵变量表以显示要由焊工实现的波形的许多脚本语言文件被用于处理选定的一个 将脚本文件转换为用于操作焊工的图形用户界面组件（读数，图表和/或面板）。

公开(公告)号：US06359258B1

公开(公告)日：2002-03-19

申请号：US09784278

申请日：2001-02-16

申请人： George D. Blankenship ,  Christopher Hsu

发明人： George D. Blankenship ,  Christopher Hsu

IPC分类号： B23K9095

CPC分类号： B23K9/10

摘要： A method of determining the impedance, inductance, and resistance of the network connecting an electrical power supply to an electric arc welding station including an electrode and a workpiece, wherein the method-comprises: shorting the electrode to the workpiece; creating at least one waveform including a first state operating the power supply at constant current of a selected value and a second state operating the power supply at a low value of current or open circuit voltage whereby the current decays from the selected value along a decay path indicative of di/dt; obtaining the average current Iavg and average resistance Ravg during the first state; selecting a portion of the decay path; sampling the instantaneous current for a number of times on the path during the second state to read the rate of the decay; and, using the average current and the average resistance with the rate of decay to obtain the inductance of the network.

摘要翻译： 一种确定将电源连接到包括电极和工件的电弧焊接站的网络的阻抗，电感和电阻的方法，其中所述方法包括：将电极短路到工件; 产生包括以选定值的恒定电流操作电源的第一状态和在电流或开路电压的低值下操作电源的第二状态的至少一个波形，由此电流沿着衰减路径从所选择的值衰减 表示di / dt; 获得第一个状态期间的平均电流Iavg和平均电阻Ravg; 选择衰减路径的一部分; 在第二状态下在路径上对瞬时电流进行多次采样以读取衰减速率; 并且使用平均电流和平均电阻与衰减速率来获得网络的电感。

公开(公告)号：US6160241A

公开(公告)日：2000-12-12

申请号：US268329

申请日：1999-03-16

申请人： Elliott K. Stava ,  Peter Nicholson ,  Christopher Hsu

发明人： Elliott K. Stava ,  Peter Nicholson ,  Christopher Hsu

IPC分类号： B23K9/173 ,  B23K9/02 ,  B23K9/073 ,  B23K9/095 ,  B23K9/10 ,  B23K9/127

CPC分类号： B23K9/0735 ,  B23K9/0216 ,  B23K9/1056 ,  B23K9/1276

摘要： An electric arc welding apparatus for depositing molten metal from an advancing welding wire into a weld puddle in an open root between two juxtapositioned plates where the root extends in a welding path and is formed by converging walls terminating in generally parallel walls spaced to define a gap, which apparatus comprises a contact holder with a wire outlet, a switching power supply directing welding current to the wire as the wire passes from the outlet toward the open root, with the advancing wire defining an electrode stick out between the contact holder and the weld puddle, a circuit for sensing the length of the stick out, and control means for adjusting the welding current as a function of the sensed stick out length.

摘要翻译： 一种电弧焊接装置，用于将熔融金属从前进的焊丝沉积到两个并置板之间的开放根部中的焊接熔池中，其中根部在焊接路径中延伸并且通过会聚壁形成，所述壁终止于大致平行的壁，间隔开以限定间隙 该设备包括具有电线出口的接触保持器，当电线从出口朝向开放根部时将引导焊接电流引导到电线的开关电源，其中前进线限定了电极伸出触点支架和焊缝之间 水池，用于感测伸出长度的电路，以及用于根据所感测的伸出长度调整焊接电流的控制装置。