Abstract:
An arc electric welding head (1) comprising a first contact device (3) housing a first duct (5) for feeding a first electrode (7) and providing electrical contact between a first power source (204) and said first electrode (7), a second contact device (11) housing a second duct (13) for feeding a second electrode (8) and providing electrical contact between a second power source (206) and said second electrode (8), said first and second contact devices being electrically insulated from each other, said first and second ducts being parallel. Said first and second ducts (5, 13) being arranged at a distance which allows for arcs (31, 33), between said first and second electrodes (7, 8) and a work piece (27) to be welded, to have an overlapping region (35), and in that said arc electric welding head (1) further comprises a third insulated duct (19) for feeding a cold wire (10) into said overlapping region (35).
Abstract:
A method includes monitoring a submerged arc welding (SAW) operation in real-time; determining, based on the monitoring and in real-time, a discrepancy between a desired weld parameter and an actual weld parameter of a weld resulting from the SAW operation; and in response to determining the discrepancy, controlling a power supply, which provides power for the SAW operation, to modify at least one of balance or offset of an alternating current (AC) welding power signal supplied for the SAW operation to compensate for the discrepancy.
Abstract:
A contact tip (1) for gas metal-arc welding comprising: - A body (3) of a metal material with a tubular base portion (4) and two or more fingers (5a, 5b) extending in the axial direction from a front end of the base portion; - At least one wire-feed conduit (7) extending axially through the body, in which a welding wire is to be received and fed; - slots (10a, 10b) arranged between the fingers in order to space these apart, and - A spring means (11) surrounding the fingers and exerting a radially acting spring force on the fingers of such strength that the fingers, when cool, are kept spaced apart, such that no pressure will be exerted on the casing surface of a welding wire introduced in the wire-feed conduit, and when heated to a temperature above the softening temperature of the metal material, are compressed by the spring force radially inward in order to exert pressure on the casing surface of a welding wire received in the wire-feed conduit.
Abstract:
A method comprising an arc ignition phase (IP), an arc-stabilizing phase (AP) and a stable arc phase (SP). The arc stabilizing phase comprises an initial sub-phase (IS) comprising the step of feeding at least one hot wire (4, 12) at constant feed speed and a main sub-phase (MS) comprising the steps of feeding said hot wire at constant feed speed and feeding at least one cold wire (22) at constant feed speed. The stable arc phase comprises the steps of continuously adjusting the feed speed of the hot wire and continuously adjusting the feed speed of the cold wire. The invention also relates to a welding apparatus (1) for carrying out the method. The welding apparatus comprises a hot wire feeding means (150), a contact means (2), a cold wire feeding means (35) and a control unit (31). The control unit is adapted to control said hot wire feeding means to feed the hot wire at a constant feed speed during the initial sub-phase, feed the hot wire at a constant feed speed during the main sub-phase and to continuously during the stable arc phase adjust the feed speed of the hot wire. The control unit is adapted to control said cold wire feeding means to feed the cold wire at a constant feed speed during the main sub-phase and continuously during the stable arc phase adjust the cold wire feed speed.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a method for submerged arc welding comprising the steps of guiding a first hot wire (4; 4a, 4b) towards a work piece and guiding a cold wire (22; 22a, 22b) at a variable feed speed. The method further comprises the steps of continuously measuring, during a welding phase, at least a first active welding parameter related to at least said first hot wire (4; 4a, 4b) adjusting the cold wire (22; 22a, 22b) feed speed in dependence on at least first active welding parameter variations, to maintain high welding stability and high weld quality. The invention also relates to a system (9) for carrying out the method. The system (9) comprises hot wire feeding means (150) for feeding a first hot wire (4; 4a, 4b) towards a work piece and cold wire feeding means (35) for feeding a cold wire (22; 22a, 22b) at a variable cold wire (22; 22a, 22b) feed speed and a control unit (31) for controlling the second wire feeding means (35). The system (9) also comprises measuring means (27) adapted to continuously measure at least a first active welding parameter related to said first hot wire (4; 4a, 4b). The control unit (31) determines target values for the cold wire (22; 22a, 22b) feed speed, each target value corresponding to a first active welding parameter value and controls said second wire feeding means (35) to adjust said cold wire (22; 22a, 22b) feed speed to said target values.
Abstract:
The present application relates to an electric arc welding method to be used with an arc welding arrangement (1) comprising a first power source, a first electrode (2) connected to said first power source, and a second electrode (7), said first electrode (2) being adapted to generate a weld pool (28) via a first electric arc present within a first arc region (31) and said second electrode (7) being adapted to generate said weld pool via a second electric arc present within a second arc region. The first electrode (2) is operated at welding parameters adapted to maintain said first arc ignited. The second electrode (7) is operated at welding parameters adapted to ensure that excess energy from at least said first electrode (2) is required to maintain said second arc ignited. The method comprises the step of feeding said second electrode (7) so that it is allowed to consume excess energy from said first electrode (2) to maintain said second arc ignited. The invention also relates to an arc welding arrangement (1) for carrying out the method.
Abstract:
A contact fitting (1) for a welding apparatus is described. The contact fitting (1) comprises a length axis (6), a housing (7), a first contact device (32), a second contact device (33) and a third contact device (25) which is arranged between the first contact device (32) and the second contact device (33), which is movable in relation to both the first contact device (32) and the second contact device (33). The first contact device (32) has an elongated form, is arranged fixed in the housing (7) and extends from a first end (24), which is arranged between the first end (8) of the housing (7) and the second end (9) of the housing (7), to a second end (13). The second contact device (33) has an elongated form, is suspended spring-loaded to the housing (7) and extends from a first end (17), which is arranged between the first end (8) of the housing (7) and the second end (9) of the housing (7), to a second end (18).