85results about "Electrode vibration holders" patented technology

A welding system includes a welding torch. The welding torch includes a sensor configured to detect a motion associated with the welding torch, a temperature associated with the welding torch, or some combination thereof. A display of the welding torch is activated, a determination is made that the welding torch has been involved in a high impact event, live welding using the welding torch is disabled, a software selection is made, or some combination thereof, based on the motion, the temperature, or some combination thereof.

A method of rough shaping a prosthetic joint component that includes a generally spherical polycrystalline diamond compact by electric discharge machining is disclosed. The discharge machining electrode roughens a polycrystalline diamond compact sphere while the electrode and the sphere are rotating about different axes. By controlling the amount of discharge current, the depth and amount of the heat affected zone can be minimized. In the case of a polycrystalline diamond compact, the heat affected zone can be kept to about 3 to 5 microns in depth and is easily removable by grinding and polishing.

The invention provides a weld method compounding an ultrasonic and a gas metal arc welding so as to make use of the cavitation effect and the vibration effect of the ultrasonic to lead welding drops generated by the gas metal arc welding to be smoothly transmitted to a welding pool when the drops are still small. And when in welding, an electric arc shrinks under the effect of the ultrasonic and then the stiffness of the electric arc can be enhanced, which has a significant application value for welding of special positions such as a full-position welding, an overhead position welding, a flat position welding and a horizontal position welding, etc.. The invention includes the following steps: an ultrasonic generator is connected with an ultrasonic transducer 2 to convert ultrasonic energy into mechanical vibration; an ultrasonic transformer 3 enlarges amplitude; a conductive tip 5 is combined with the ultrasonic transformer; a protective gas nozzle 4 is fixed on the vibration node of the transformer; a welding wire 1 is connected with the conductive tip 5 to start a welding power supply 9 and then start an ultrasonic power supply after the electric arc becomes stable, then the transducer converts electrical energy into vibration and the ultrasonic transformer enlarges the ultrasonic amplitude which is transmitted to a melting electrode.

The invention discloses a welding method of compounding ultrasonic and nonconsumable electrode voltaic arc. Under the welding condition of protection of nonconsumable electrode gas, the ultrasonic is conducted into welding arc through the conductive electrode and the voltaic arc obviously contracts after ultrasound is carried on. The invention not only has the advantages of stable welding process and high welding and forming quality which normal TIG welding has, but also can improve weld penetration of single-pass welding and therefore the method can realize high quality welding under normal welding condition. The invention converts the high frequency electrical signals of ultrasound supply into mechanical vibration through an energy conversion device and the mechanical vibration is amplified by an amplitude transformer, and then is transmitted to an electrode studded in the amplitude transformer so as to generate supersonic vibration of corresponding frequency on the electrode. The input power of the ultrasound can be adjusted at will between 1W to 1000W and then welding is carried out by the method of normal gas metal arc welding. When voltaic arc is applied to processing pieces, the energy is concentrated, thereby effectively improving utilization ratio of voltaic arc during welding.

When forming metallic components, in particular three-dimensionally curved blades, which constitute a single piece with the blading of turbomachine rotor wheels, the linear oscillation of the electrode acting as a tool is superimposed by a circular oscillation, enabling the electrode to turn into the workpiece conformally with its shape. Further forming is performed by circular oscillation with circular feed in the one and/or the other direction. An embodiment of the corresponding apparatus comprises an electrode holder (9) with linear feed (Zvor) and linear oscillation (Zosz) and a workpiece holder (5) with circular oscillation (Cosz) and circular feed (Cvor).

A method of joining an aluminum workpiece and an adjacent overlapping steel workpiece by reaction metallurgical joining, and the resultant metallurgical joint formed between the two workpieces, are disclosed. The method involves compressing a reaction material located between the aluminum and steel workpieces and heating the reaction material momentarily to form a metallurgical joint that comprises bonding interface between the reaction material and the steel workpiece and a bonding interface between the reaction material and the aluminum workpiece. The reaction material is formulated to be able to interact with both aluminum and steel in order to establish the bonding interfaces of the metallurgical joint. Moreover, the practice of oscillating wire arc welding may be employed to deposit the reaction material in the form of a reaction material deposit onto the steel workpiece prior to assembling the steel and aluminum workpieces in a workpiece stack-up.

A programmed electrode wear compensation device and method for 3D EDM scanning apparatus has a compensation device which receives raw data about a working path of a working apparatus from a CAD/CAM device, calculates therefrom compensated data which take into account electrode wear and transmits the compensated data to a control device which controls the working apparatus, so that smoothness and shape of a machined surface are maintained during electric discharge.

A small hole electrical discharge machining apparatus 1 is comprised of electrode holding 27 means for holding an upper part of an electrode 39, electrode guide means 41 for guiding a lower part of the electrode 39, a jet nozzle 73 injecting a water let (WJ) from the electrode holding means 27, and a fluid channel 97 which supplies a gas, such as air, to an electrode guide 75 of the electrode guide means.

The electrode 39 is guided with the water jet (WJ) toward the workpiece (W), and small hole electrical discharge machining is performed while the gas is being released from the electrode guide 75 into a working liquid via the fluid channel 97.

An electric discharge machining apparatus includes: a guide electrode (7) that is shaped like a hollow bar and receives a small-diameter wire electrode (8) for electric discharge machining in such a way that the small-diameter electrode can freely slide and; guide electrode holding means (9, 19, 20) that holds this guide electrode (7) at a specified position; pressurized fluid supply means (10, 11) that supplies pressurized fluid into the guide electrode (7) to feed out the small-diameter wire electrode (8) from inside the guide electrode (7) to an electric discharge machining side; and small-diameter wire electrode holding means (21) that automatically holds the small-diameter wire electrode (8) fed out of the guide electrode (7).

A tool attachable to a spindle of a machine tool by an automatic tool changer in the same way as an ordinary tool, capable of being driven without connecting with an external power supply etc., and able to rotate at a rotational speed different from than that of the spindle of the machine tool without supply of electric power from the outside, provided with a machining tool for machining a workpiece, a motor connected with the machining tool and rotating the machining tool, and a generator to which rotary force is transmitted from the spindle of the machine tool and generating electric power to drive the motor, the shaft of the motor being arranged in an orientation different from the axial center of the spindle.

An apparatus and method for treating a cutting edge with a carbide coating to form a high endurance cutting edge that is self sharpening. The cutting edge has one side of its bevel treated with an electronically impregnated coating to create a wear resistant surface employing Tungsten, Titanium or Vanadium Carbide. The coating providing an abrasion resistant cutting edge and creates a differential hardness on the total cutting edge thereby extending its cutting ability through a wear-resistant surface on its treated face and a faster wear on the untreated surface causing the cutting edge to be self sharpening.

The invention relates to an inverter electric welding machine device with adjustable electric arc, which comprises a welding host machine, a welding torch, a liquid cooling system, a compressed air supply device, a protective gas supply device and an electric arc adjusting device, wherein the welding torch comprises a handle, a main cylinder body, a nozzle, an outer bushing, an inner bushing, a compression screw, a tungsten stick, a ceramic sleeve and a fixed sleeve. An electric arc adjusting device comprises an electric adjusting mechanism, and a control circuit of the electric arc adjusting device mainly consists of a push-and-pull coil and a reversing switch; the direction of current can be changed by switching the reversing switch, namely, the magnetic induction polarity of the push-and-pull coil can be changed, so that the moving direction of an induction magnet coil is forced to be changed, and the inner and the outer bushings of the welding torch are driven to change the moving direction of the tungsten stick; and a manual adjusting mechanism consists of an adjusting disc and a rotating sleeve, wherein the adjusting disc is manually rotated to drive the rotating sleeve to rotate, and the inner and the outer bushings moves up and down to drive the tungsten stick to move by mechanical transmission. The inverter electric welding machine device has the advantages that one welding machine can realize two electric arc types; free electric arc continuous compression can be converted into plasma electric arc; and the structure is simple, and the use is convenient.

The invention discloses a build-up welding device for an axis part with a conical surface. The build-up welding device comprises a base, a tool, a horizontal guide rail, a horizontal sliding table, a swing guide rail, a feed sliding table, a connecting plate and a welding head, wherein the tool comprises a machine head, a chuck and a centre seat, wherein the machine head is arranged on the base, the chuck is arranged on the machine head, the centre seat is arranged on the base, and the upper end of the centre seat is provided with a centre; the horizontal guide rail is erected above the base through an elevator mechanism; the horizontal sliding table is arranged on the horizontal guide rail, and is driven by a horizontal driving mechanism; the left end of the swing guide rail is hinged to the right end of the horizontal sliding table, and the right end of the swing guide rail is hinged to one end of a first connecting rod; the other end of the first connecting rod is hinged to one end of a second connecting rod; the other end of the second connecting rod is connected with a swing motor; the feed sliding table is arranged on the swing guide rail; the upper end of the connecting plate is connected with the lower end of the feed sliding table; the welding head is arranged at the lower end of the connecting plate, and is provided with a welding gun and a wire feeding head. The build-up welding device disclosed by the invention can be used for performing mechanical build-up welding on the conical surface of the axial part with the conical surface, and is stable in welding quality and high in efficiency.

A method for electrical discharge machining a workpiece includes the steps of: presenting an elongate electrode to the workpiece with a spark gap therebetween; flowing a dielectric fluid in the gap; eroding the workpiece by electrical discharge between the tip of the electrode and the workpiece; displacing the electrode in a direction aligned with the long axis of the electrode to maintain the gap as the electrode wears and the workpiece is eroded; and simultaneously with the displacement, producing vibratory movement of the electrode, the vibratory movement being aligned with the long axis of the electrode.

A small-hole electrical discharge machining device comprises a diaphragm which can be moved up and down along a notch window provided in a work tank for mounting a work in the work tank in which a working fluid can be filled or discharged, and adjusts the height of the working fluid; a W-axis slide which can be moved up and down, and having an electrode guide in the lower end portion; a master cylinder which is moved up and down corresponding to up-and-down movement of the W-axis slide; and a slave cylinder which is connected with the master cylinder through a pipeline and with a diaphragm driving mechanism, and wherein the diaphragm is moved up and down corresponding to up and down movement of the W-axis slide.

A system for ultrasonic assisted electrical discharge machining of a component part having a longitudinal axis, a half wavelength resonant frequency along the longitudinal axis and an attachment portion, is provided. The system includes an ultrasonic horn having a longitudinal axis, a half wavelength resonant frequency along the longitudinal axis and an attachment portion. The half wavelength resonant frequency of the ultrasonic horn is the same as the half wavelength resonant frequency of the component part. Additionally, one of the attachment portion of the component part and the attachment portion of the ultrasonic horn is a male part and the other one of the attachment portion of the component part and the attachment portion of the ultrasonic horn is a female part sized and shaped to mate and engage one another when the component part and the ultrasonic horn are at generally the same temperature.