2001results about "Electrode supporting devices" patented technology

A welding tool includes a first handle and a second handle. The welding tool also includes a torch nozzle holder configured to hold a nozzle of a welding torch therein, and to block the nozzle from extending therethrough. The welding tool includes a blade assembly positioned a predetermined distance from the torch nozzle holder. The blade assembly is configured to cut welding wire extending through the blade assembly to calibrate wire stickout from the welding torch to the predetermined distance.

A simulator facilitating virtual welding activity. The simulator may include a logic processor based subsystem operable to generate an interactive welding environment in virtual reality space that emulates welding activity by simulating a virtual weld puddle having dynamic, real time molten metal fluidity and heat dissipation characteristics, responsive to performing a simulated welding activity in real time. The simulator may include a foot pedal device in operative communication with the logic processor based subsystem and configured to affect a characteristic of the virtual weld puddle in real time, responsive to user control of the foot pedal device. The simulator may be configured to track the movements of a mock welding tool and a mock filler wire and determine interaction between the virtual weld puddle, a corresponding virtual welding tool, and a corresponding filler wire in virtual reality space that would result in the welding tool becoming contaminated.

A mock welding unicoupon for a virtual welding system includes a first exterior surface and a second exterior surface perpendicular to the first exterior surface. The first exterior surface and the second exterior surface together provide a plurality of grooves configured for simulation of a plurality of different types groove welds on the mock welding unicoupon. A curved exterior surface is configured for simulation of a pipe fillet weld on the mock welding unicoupon. A magnet source is configured to generate a magnetic field around the mock welding unicoupon for tracking movements of a mock welding tool with respect to the mock welding unicoupon.

A welding system is provided that includes a wearable wire feeder having a wire drive motor that is responsive to a control signal received directly from a power unit. Another welding system is provided that includes a wearable wire feeder that is configured to couple to a constant voltage power unit and does not include a voltage sensor. Another welding system is provided that includes a power unit, a wearable wire feeder separate from the power unit, a cable extending directly from the power unit to the wearable wire feeder and a welding torch coupled to and separate from the wire feeder. A method is provided that includes receiving a control signal from a power unit at a wearable wire feeder and driving a welding wire from the wearable wire feeder to a welding torch in response to the control signal, wherein the wearable wire feeder is separate from the torch.

Welding electrodes with a welding face for contact with a metal surface for electrical resistance welding are provided with concentric contoured rings formed into the face. The rings may, for example, be ridges upstanding in the face or grooves depressed into the face. The contoured rings may be radially spaced with relatively flat (depending on the curvature of the face) intervening rings. When the electrode is pressed into contact with the surface of the workpiece for delivery of a welding current, the features of the concentric rings penetrate surface oxides or other conductivity barriers. When ongoing welding operations have eroded the contoured rings they may be rapidly reformed in the weld face in a surface re-dressing operation.

A hand held electrode holder has a power on / off switch on the handle of the electrode holder and a trigger to open the clamping jaws that clamp the electrode. The holder has internal parts which operate such that the trigger cannot open the clamping jaws while the switch is in the power on position thereby reducing the possibility of an electric hazard when changing electrodes.

An electrode holder comprised of a press and a clamp has at the bottom of the clamp adapted with a cylindrical base to allow one end of an electrode lead to pass through; the lead end being fastened in place by a bolt in conjunction with a protection pad covering up the cylindrical base so that in the course of welding, the point of heat conduction being kept farthest as from the hand gripping the holder to achieve working comfort.

A controller for a welding system adapted to determine a value of a weld secondary parameter across a weld secondary component based on a sensed parameter is provided. The controller may also be adapted to compare the determined value to a reference value range and to alert a user to a presence and location of a weld secondary error when the determined value is outside the referenced value range.

A spot welding system including a welding gun with an openable / closable electrode pair; and a dressing determination device determining a quality of a shaping process applied to an electrode of the electrode pair. The dressing determination device includes a visual sensor obtaining an image of the electrode, identifying a base and a tip of the electrode on the image and measuring a distance between the base and the tip on the image, by image processing; a visual sensor control section allowing the visual sensor to measure the distance immediately before and after the shaping process is performed; a cut amount calculation section calculating a difference between the distances measured by the visual sensor immediately before and after the shaping process is performed, as a cut amount of the electrode; and a cut amount judgment section judging whether the calculated cut amount is within a predetermined acceptable range.

A portable wire feeder system is disclosed that includes multiple wire supplies disposed in a case or luggage. The system has a number of embodiments each including multiple wire sources and at least one wire feeder disposed in the case. In a one embodiment multiple wire supplies and a wire feeder are mounted in a fixed position, and are configured to enable feeding of the wire from either supply to the wire feeder. In other embodiments, either the wire supplies or the wire feeder moves to align the wire supply with the wire feeder. In another embodiment, a wire guide is disposed between the wire feeder and wire supplies. In another embodiment, a second wire feeder is disposed within the case and is configured to align with a second wire supply while the first wire feeder is aligned with the first wire supply.

A retaining head for a MIG welding device includes a contact tip mounting end, an opposite retaining head mounting end, and a throughbore extending from one of the ends to the other end. A deflector is disposed along the throughbore and is adjustable for imparting a bend in welding wire passing through the throughbore. The deflector provides a straight wire contour for the welding wire that is fed out of the welding torch, while maintaining sufficient contact force between the welding wire and the contact tip. The deflector also reduces the effect of wire twist on the contact point between the welding wire and the contact tip.

The invention discloses a rocking arc narrow gap consumable electrode gas shielded welding method and a welding torch. The method comprises the following steps: a connecting cable is fixed on an electric brush mechanism and a coupling head; a hollow shaft motor is connected with a straight conducting rod through a shaft joint; a welding wire passes through a center hole of a cable coupling head, and penetrates out a center hole of a current contact nozzle; the lower end of the straight conducting rod is fixed with a connecting piece; and one end of a minor bend conducting rod is connected with the straight conducting rod through the connecting piece, while the other end of the minor bend conducting rod is connected with the current contact nozzle. The hollow shaft motor directly drives the straight conducting rod and the minor bend conducting rod capable of extending into a divided edge of a workpiece to make reciprocating rotation around the central axial line of the welding torch, thereby driving electric arc of the end of the welding wire send from the center hole of the current contact nozzle to make arc rocking in the divided edge of the workpiece so as to realize rocking arc narrow gap welding. The welding torch has the advantages of simple and compact structure, low implementation cost, high reliability of operation, strong practicality, and can adapt requirement of welding process for mean position and spatial position with different welding seams. The welding wire has strong rocking regulation, good directivity of the electric arc, and high welding quality.

A modular welding wire feed drive for use in a welding system. The welding wire feed drive is designed to be detachably connected to the welding wire feed system of the welding system. The welding wire feed drive includes a drive housing designed to be detachably connectable to the welding wire feed system, a wire contact arrangement designed to controllably feed welding wire through the welding wire feed drive, and a drive motor that is connected to or interconnected to the wire contact arrangement to at least partially drive the wire contact arrangement.

Several aspects of an in-line welding gun are disclosed. In one aspect, the welding gun has a variable profile insulating boot disposed over the torch barrel of the gun. The variable profile insulating boot may include a molded material having varying thickness to provide the desired insulating properties. In another aspect of the welding gun, a speed control mechanism for the motor driving the wire feed assembly is positioned in a recess in the housing such that it reduces the risk of being unintentionally adjusted during operation of the welding gun. In another aspect of the welding gun, the wire feed mechanism features a feeder roller and an idler roller that may be separated without opening the housing of the welding gun. To separate the rollers, the user may depress a portion on the exterior of the housing to press on a pivotable lever on which the idler roller is disposed.

A coated welding tip and nozzle assembly is disclosed. The tip and the nozzle are coated with a coating composition comprising titanium dioxide. The coating provides resistance to adhesion and accumulation of weld spatter on the nozzle and tip and facilitates weld spatter removal. The coating also protects against thermal damage of the nozzle by providing a thermal barrier.

The invention relates to a method for repairing a crack and a chipping a shunt ring of a case, which comprises the following steps of: (1) trimming and polishing the chipping part of the shunt ring to form a square or oblong notch by using an air drill and a grinding wheel; (2) performing dyeing inspection on the periphery of the polished notch, and determining as qualified if no crack exists; (3) taking a patch material from the corresponding portion of a discarded case by using a linear cutting method, trimming the patch material by using the grinding wheel according to the shape of the notch so that the trimmed patch is matched with the notch; (4) placing the trimmed patch in the notch, supporting the patch with a support frame, firstly performing positioning welding on the patch by using low current argon arc welding, and then performing sectional symmetry welding; (5) performing dyeing inspection on the welding portion, and determining as qualified if no crack or eyehole exists; and (6) eliminating welding stress by ultrasonic waves. The repairing method provided by the invention has the advantages of low equipment investment, low repairing expense and short repairing period.

Welding gun with double conductor composed by a torch body (1) and electronic scales (2) to measure the intensity of the sensors (6) located in each conductor (3) and with mechanisms to trigger an alarm when there is an imbalance of the intensities circulating through both conductors. To this end, a microcontroller (5) connected to intensity (6) and temperature (8) sensors in the conductors is used, with indicators of failure or anomaly. The microcontroller (5) program calculates the difference between the magnitudes of both intensity signals and determines which of the two is higher, and, based on predefined parameters, triggers the corresponding alarm signal.

The invention discloses a narrow clearance TIC automatic welding technique for a thick plate of titanium alloy. The welding technique comprises six items of a welding torch form, a welding line spreading form, a bevel for welding form, selecting the parameters of the welding process, selecting the protection atmosphere of the welding process and eliminating a welding stress adopted by welding process. The welding technique of the invention realizes the narrow clearance welding for the large thick plate of the titanium alloy, has stable welding process, can obtain the welding lines which have no defects, qualified properties and 10mm to 16mm of widths of the welding lines on a cover surface layer, thus solving the key technical problems of the narrow clearance TIC automatic welding for the large thick plate of the titanium alloy, realizing the narrow clearance TIC automatic welding for the thick plate of the titanium alloy and having the advantages of high manufacture efficiency, low manufacture cost, small residual stress and residual deformation of joints, relatively thin and small welding line tissues and good mechanical property of the joints.

A welding wire for use in electric arc welding and method of making same, wherein the wire has an effective outer diameter and comprises a length of solid metal formed into a series of distinct segments each having a selected volume and having an indented and non-indented region with the cross sectional area of the solid metal at said non-indented region being greater than the cross sectional area of the solid metal at the indented region.

A weld joint automatic tracking control method and system based on magnetic controlling arcs and laser vision sensing mainly solves the technical problem that an existing space weld joint is low in automatic real-time tracking accuracy, not good in system fault tolerance and the like. According to the key points of the technical scheme, all deviation information, obtained by a magnetic controlling arc sensor (10) and a laser vision sensor (11), of the butt welded seam center of a welding gun (1) is input to a tracking system central control unit (8), information processing is conducted through a double-sensing estimating, examining and correcting fusion method, infused deviation information is taken as weld joint deviation regulating amount of an executing mechanism, the executing mechanism executes weld joint deviation regulating, weld joint automatic tracking is achieved, and the automated welding is completed. The weld joint automatic following control method and system is mainly used for weld joint automatic tracking.

A contact tip for a welding torch is provided. In one embodiment, the contact tip includes a body formed of an electrically conductive material and a non-linear passage that extends through the body. The non-linear passage of this embodiment is configured to receive a wire electrode and to facilitate electrical communication between the body and the wire electrode. Various contact tip assemblies and manufacturing techniques for forming contact tips are also provided.

A consumable electrode arc-welding machine comprising an arc resistance calculating part that calculates an arc resistance from a welding current and a welding voltage to develop an arc resistance signal, wherein the welding current and welding voltage are controlled by a short-circuit waveform control signal and an arc waveform control signal that vary in accordance with the arc resistance signal. In this way, the spatter control and the arc stability can be achieved. During an arc period, if the arc resistance signal exhibits a level greater than a predetermined level for a predetermined period, a constant current control signal is developed to perform a constant current control of the welding current by use of a predetermined current value that is higher than the current value developed during the development of the arc waveform control signal, thereby preventing the arc from going off.

The invention provides a special portable miniature drainage cover for automatic underwater local dry-method welding. A drainage cover body of the drainage cover comprises an upper end cover, an organic glass cover and a lower end cover. A clamping rod, an air inlet quick plug connector, a lower locking sleeve, a cooling air chamber and an underwater camera component are fixed to the upper side of the upper end cover and the lower side of the upper end cover through threaded connection respectively, and the upper end cover and lower end cover are connected with the organic glass cover through threads. A welding oscillator is clamped on the upper portion of a copper welding torch of a welding gun. According to the structure of a drainage sealing device, drainage felt and a felt skirt are arranged on the periphery of the lower end cover, and the drainage felt and the felt skirt are fastened on the lower end cover through hose clamps; the copper welding torch of the welding gun is fastened through an upper locking sleeve and the lower locking sleeve, the welding gun is inserted into the organic glass cover, and an elastic rubber leather sheath is arranged between the upper locking sleeve and the lower locking sleeve. The special portable miniature drainage cover for automatic underwater local dry-method welding has the advantages of being simple in structure, exquisite, convenient and fast to use, low in cost, obvious in drainage effect, and stable and reliable in welding process. Moreover, a connector with the quality of on-land welding is formed, the welding efficiency is improved and the special portable miniature drainage cover is easy to popularize.

A nozzle for a plasma arc cutting torch includes a substantially hollow, elongated body capable of receiving an electrode. The nozzle body defines a longitudinal axis and has a length along the axis from a first end of the nozzle body to a second end of the nozzle body. The nozzle also includes a plasma exit orifice disposed at the first end of the body. The first end of the nozzle body has a width and a ratio of the length of the nozzle body to the width of the nozzle body is greater than about 3.

A method of forming a sputtering target assembly and other metal articles is described. Sputtering target assemblies and metal articles are also described. The method includes bonding a sputter target to a backing plate using resistance heating or welding to bond assembly members that respectively include mating projections and grooves formed in bonding surfaces thereof.