A welding method
    1.
    发明公开
    A welding method 审中-公开

    公开(公告)号:US20240316683A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-09-26

    申请号:US18579606

    申请日:2022-06-21

    申请人: ArcelorMittal

    摘要: A welding method for the manufacture of an assembly of at least two steel substrates spot welded together through at least one spot welded joint, including A. provision of substrates including a press hardened steel part obtained by press hardening of a steel sheet coated with an aluminium based coating, B. application of a spot-welding cycle with welding electrodes and a spot-welding power source applying a current, the cycle including: at least three pulsations, each having the same maximum pulsation current (Cp) applied through the substrates, each pulsation duration p being identical and set from 20 to 60 ms, each pulsation being followed by the same cooling time c set from 30 to 50 ms, wherein the welding parameter Wp value is at least 0.8, Wp being defined as Wp=(t×c)/p t being the average thickness of the substrate in mm, c being the cooling time in ms, p being the pulsation duration in ms.

    Inverter power supply
    3.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11545911B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-01-03

    申请号:US16959009

    申请日:2019-08-08

    IPC分类号: B23K11/11 B23K11/24 H02M7/48

    摘要: Provided is an inverter power supply including a measurement function of measuring deterioration of a rectifier element such as a diode.
    The inverter power supply includes a step-down stabilization unit that applies a reverse voltage increasing gradually to diodes, an isolation amplifier that detects a current value of a current flowing to the diodes when the reverse voltage is applied, and an inverter control unit that decides that the diodes have deteriorated when the detected current value is larger than a determination current value for determining deterioration of the diodes, and decides that the diodes have not deteriorated when the detected current value is smaller than the determination current value.

    Resistance spot welding method
    4.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11504796B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-11-22

    申请号:US15024164

    申请日:2014-09-12

    摘要: Proposed is a resistance spot welding method to join parts to be welded which are a plurality of overlapping metal sheets, including: dividing a current pattern into two or more steps for welding; before actual welding, performing test welding; and subsequently, as actual welding, performing adaptive control welding, in which the two or more steps for welding include a step of securing a current path between the sheets directly below the electrodes and a subsequent step of forming a nugget having a predetermined diameter, and a welding interval time is provided between these steps. This method thus yields a good nugget without causing splashing even under special welding conditions.

    A WELDING TRANSFORMER
    5.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20220293325A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-09-15

    申请号:US15733924

    申请日:2020-03-24

    申请人: KOYO GIKEN Inc.

    摘要: A flat, electrically and thermally conductive flat surface group is formed in the common connection region 32 of the secondary coil 13. The flat conductive surface group is directly and mechanically joined to the connecting surfaces of the first conductor plate 42, the second conductor plate 44, and the third conductor plate 46, respectively. The first conductor plate 42, the second conductor plate 44, and the third conductor plate 46 cover the entire common connection region 32. The annular first conductor plate 42 occupies the maximum area. The refrigerant can be circulated in the annular cavity provided inside the first conductor plate 42 to efficiently cool the whole.

    Spot welding method
    6.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11007598B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-05-18

    申请号:US15756351

    申请日:2016-09-02

    IPC分类号: B23K11/11 B23K11/24 B23K11/16

    摘要: The present invention provides a spot welding method for a member to be welded constituted of a plurality of steel sheets that are overlapped with each other at at least a welding zone, in which at least an overlapped face of at least one of the plurality of steel sheets at the welding zone is coated with zinc plating, a total sheet thickness t (mm) of the plurality of steel sheets is 1.35 mm or more, a squeeze time St (seconds) from the time when welding electrodes are brought into contact with the member to be welded to the time when electric current flow for welding starts satisfies “0.020≤St”, and a hold time Ht( seconds) after welding from the time when electric current flow for welding between the welding electrodes ends to the time when the welding electrodes and the member to be welded are brought out of contact satisfies “0.015t2+0.020≤Ht”.

    WELD SHIELDING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF USE
    7.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20200348700A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-11-05

    申请号:US16931433

    申请日:2020-07-16

    申请人: Pacesetter, Inc.

    IPC分类号: G05D7/06 B23K11/00 B23K11/24

    摘要: A resistance weld shielding control system includes a computer that is executed to control a fixture to receive and hold at least one part to be welded. The computer also controls one or more electrodes to apply electrical energy to the part for welding the at least one part, and controls a gas delivery system to direct an inert gas onto the part for shielding the part from the ambient atmosphere via a nozzle. The nozzle is configured in the fixture such that the fixture holds the nozzle in a fixed physical relationship to the part.

    Inverter Power Supply
    9.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20200336082A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-10-22

    申请号:US16959009

    申请日:2019-08-08

    IPC分类号: H02M7/48 B23K11/11 B23K11/24

    摘要: Provided is an inverter power supply including a measurement function of measuring deterioration of a rectifier element such as a diode.The inverter power supply includes a step-down stabilization unit that applies a reverse voltage increasing gradually to diodes, an isolation amplifier that detects a current value of a current flowing to the diodes when the reverse voltage is applied, and an inverter control unit that decides that the diodes have deteriorated when the detected current value is larger than a determination current value for determining deterioration of the diodes, and decides that the diodes have not deteriorated when the detected current value is smaller than the determination current value.

    Topology-based spot weld optimization with inter-distance constraints

    公开(公告)号:US10695857B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-06-30

    申请号:US15723679

    申请日:2017-10-03

    摘要: A computer-implemented method for reducing spot welds in a parameterized workpiece model includes generating a new design space (DS) from an original spot weld DS. The new DS includes a plurality of spot weld locations from the parameterized workpiece model with the original spot weld DS. The new DS is optimized to have a fewer number of spot weld locations than the original DS. The processor identifies a plurality of offending spot weld locations of the remaining spot weld locations in the new DS and a plurality of conforming spot weld locations of the remaining spot weld locations. The processor removes all but one optimized extension candidate from processor-selected groupings of welds while enforcing a minimum distance requirement. The processor outputs an inter-distance constrained parameterized workpiece model with an optimized extension candidate in each of the plurality of extended DSs to an operatively connected output processor.