Workpiece support structures and system for controlling same
    3.
    发明授权
    Workpiece support structures and system for controlling same 失效
    工件支撑结构及其控制系统

    公开(公告)号:US07357290B2

    公开(公告)日:2008-04-15

    申请号:US10857293

    申请日:2004-05-28

    IPC分类号: B23K37/04

    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。

    Welding workpiece support structures
    4.
    发明授权
    Welding workpiece support structures 失效
    焊接工件支撑结构

    公开(公告)号:US07347350B2

    公开(公告)日:2008-03-25

    申请号:US10856541

    申请日:2004-05-28

    IPC分类号: B23K37/04

    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。

    System and method for welding with multiple arcs
    5.
    发明授权
    System and method for welding with multiple arcs 有权
    多弧焊接系统及方法

    公开(公告)号:US07183516B2

    公开(公告)日:2007-02-27

    申请号:US10852088

    申请日:2004-05-24

    IPC分类号: B23K9/10

    摘要: A system and method for welding with a first and second arc between a first and second electrode, respectively, and a common workpiece, where each of the electrodes is driven by a single power source, where there is a first inductor connected in series with the first electrode and a second inductor connected in series with the second electrode and each of the inductors has sufficient inductive reactance to store enough energy to maintain an existing arc associated with one of the electrodes for a selected general time with essentially no current to the one electrode.

    摘要翻译: 一种用于分别在第一和第二电极与公共工件之间焊接第一和第二弧的系统和方法,其中每个电极由单个电源驱动,其中存在与第一电感器串联连接的第一电感器 第一电极和与第二电极串联的第二电感器,并且每个电感器具有足够的感抗以存储足够的能量以保持与电极中的一个相关联的现有电弧,在所选择的一般时间内基本上没有电流到一个电极 。

    Inventory of consumables in electric arc welding process
    7.
    发明授权
    Inventory of consumables in electric arc welding process 有权
    电弧焊工艺消耗品库存

    公开(公告)号:US06536660B2

    公开(公告)日:2003-03-25

    申请号:US09842103

    申请日:2001-04-26

    IPC分类号: G06F1700

    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。

    Coded and electronically tagged welding wire
    8.
    发明授权
    Coded and electronically tagged welding wire 有权
    编码和电子标记焊丝

    公开(公告)号:US06708877B2

    公开(公告)日:2004-03-23

    申请号:US10330736

    申请日:2002-12-27

    IPC分类号: G06F1700

    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。

    Method of determining cable impedance
    9.
    发明授权
    Method of determining cable impedance 有权
    确定电缆阻抗的方法

    公开(公告)号:US06359258B1

    公开(公告)日:2002-03-19

    申请号:US09784278

    申请日:2001-02-16

    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。

    Method of determining cable impedance

    公开(公告)号:US06596970B2

    公开(公告)日:2003-07-22

    申请号:US10076702

    申请日:2002-02-13

    IPC分类号: B23K905

    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.