135 results about "Background current" patented technology

An electric arc device and methods to build up, clad, join, or overlay an alloyed metal onto a parent metal with minimal admixture. The methods employed in the electric arc device provide a high frequency waveform with a high amplitude pulse, a low amplitude background current, and a special shorting routine, to alleviate the problem of generating too much ad-mixture. A fast transition from a peak current level to a background current level along with a shorting response and a plasma boost pulse reduces the droplet size and reduces the heat input required to achieve good welding performance.

A method for root pass welding steel plate and pipe is provided that uses pulse arc welding having a current pulse waveform exhibiting a low constant background current and fixed frequency. The welding process may be performed without a backer or backing material.

An electric arc welder including a high speed switching power supply with a controller for creating high frequency current pulses with negative polarity components through the gap between a workpiece and a welding wire advancing toward the workpiece, where the pulses and a background current defining a series of weld cycles. A wave shape generator defines the shape of the pulses and the background current including a controlled ramp up and/or ramp down in each of said cycles, and a circuit to change the shapes of the pulses and/or background current in a repeating pattern in each of the weld cycles, including a negative current in at one of said pulses. The shape change in a cycle can be between first and second shapes or by a rhythmic AC modulation.

An impulse arc welding control method comprises: repeating electrifying using the electrifying of peak current of in peak period and the electrifying of background current in background period as impulse period; controlling the arc length in the manner that the welding voltage value (Vw) is approximately equal to the set voltage value (Vs); making the arc length to vary periodically by making the set voltage value (Vs) to vary synchronistically with the switching signal (Stc); making the impulse parameter (Ps) to vary synchronistically with the switching signal (Stc); and changing the sending speed (Fs) from the time the switching signal (Stc) varying starts to the time arc length (La) transition varying approximately converges. Thus, the major varying of arc force make the shake movement of the bath becomes more intensive to improve the air bubble reducing effect. Consequently, the air bubble reducing effect is improved in the impulse arc welding method with arc length varied periodically.

A method and a system to control heat input to a weld during an arc welding process. A series of electric arc pulses are generated between an advancing welding electrode and a metal workpiece using an electric arc welding system capable of generating an electric welding waveform to produce the electric arc pulses. The welding waveform has droplet transfer pulses and at least one heat input pulse which is generated during a background portion of the waveform. The at least one heat-increasing current pulse is above the background current level and has a polarity opposite of that of the droplet transfer pulse.

An active matrix drive system drives an emissive display device such as an organic light-emitting diode display and is configured to measure sub-pixel current in the emissive display device. One or more power column power lines of the emissive display device are turned off while sub-pixel current is measured. As a result, the sub-pixel current is relative large compared to the background current of the emissive display device, which facilitates accurate measurement of the sub-pixel current.

An electric arc welder for performing a given weld process with a selected A.C. pulse current waveform performed between an electrode and a workpiece, where the current waveform includes a positive segment and a negative segment, with at least one segment including a peak current and background current. The welder comprises: a power source with a controller having a digital processor including a program to calculate the real time power factor of the weld current and weld voltage where the program includes an algorithm to calculate the rms weld voltage, the rms weld current and the average power of said power source; a circuit to multiply the rms current by the rms voltage to produce an rms power level; a circuit to divide the average power by the rms power to create a value representing the actual real time power factor of said power source; and, a circuit to adjust said background current to maintain said power factor at a given level, which is manually adjusted to set the heat of the weld.

The invention discloses a background suppression method for an infrared reading circuit and a circuit thereof. The circuit is provided with a negative charge packet generator, a detector, an injection circuit, a sampling hold circuit and a buffer, wherein an output end of the negative charge packet generator is connected with one input end of the injection circuit; and an output end of the detector is connected with the other input end of the injection circuit, an output end of the injection circuit is connected with an input end of the sampling hold circuit, an output end of the sampling hold circuit is connected with an input end of the buffer, and an output end of the buffer is connected with a subsequent signal processing circuit. The method and the circuit adopt the negative charge packet generator to provide a plurality of negative charge packets by stage to reduce charges of background current accumulated on an integrating capacitor, do not need a background current memory of the prior art to generate background reduction current to realize background suppression, have extremely low background suppression non-uniformity, and do not introduce extra noise and power consumption.

A method and a system to increase heat input to a weld during an arc welding process. A series of electric arc pulses are generated between an advancing welding electrode and a metal workpiece using an electric arc welding system capable of generating an electric welding waveform to produce the electric arc pulses. A cycle of the electric welding waveform includes a pinch current phase providing an increasing pinch current level, a peak current phase providing a peak current level, a tail-out current phase providing a decreasing tail-out current level, and a background current phase providing a background current level. At least one heat-increasing current pulse of the cycle is generated, providing a heat-increasing current level, during the background current phase, where the heat-increasing current level is above the background current level. The cycle of the electric welding waveform with the at least one heat-increasing current pulse may be repeated until the arc welding process is completed.

The present invention discloses a rip current forecasting method. The method comprises the following steps of: (1) based on a mesoscale marine weather operational forecasting system, acquiring wind fields and pressure fields of a target sea area and surrounding sea areas of the target sea area; (2) establishing a Delft3D hydrodynamic numerical model, and simulating to obtain tidal current fields of the target sea area and the surrounding sea areas of the target sea area; (3) establishing an SWAN wave spectral model, and simulating to obtain wave fields of the target sea area and the surrounding sea areas of the target sea area; (4) extracting boundary conditions from the wave fields, using the tidal current fields as background current fields, establishing an SWASH wave analysis model, and simulating to obtain a time sequence of a water particle velocity of the target sea area; and (5) accounting intensity of a rip current. In order to consider the dynamic characteristics of coupling of multiple physical mechanisms and coexistence of multiple spatial and temporal scales of the rip current, the method comprehensively utilizes various models to respectively stimulate different physical processes, considers the interactions between various models by using data exchange and coupling, and achieves real-time forecasting of the rip current of a bathing beach so as to provide references for beach rescue.

The present invention discloses a super rapid exchanging method compound pulse current polarity changing arc welding power supply device used for electric arc welding, which comprises a DC power supply, a full bridge transfer circuit, a control system, a drive circuit, a parallel absorbing protecting circuit and a pulse current output circuit. The parallel absorbing protecting circuit is consists of an electrolytic condenser CE, a high frequency capacitance C and a power resistor R. The pulse current output circuit consists of a second follow current inductance LP, a fifth power switch tube TP and a second power diode DP. The DC power supply comprises an assistant DC power supply, a first DC power supply and a second DC power supply. The first DC power supply is used for providing a background current, and the second DC power supply is used for supplying a peak current Tpp, and the control system adopts a DSP processor chip. The current ascension rate of the power supply equipment output polarity changing square wave current of the present invention is not less than 50A/Mus, and the rate of descent is not less than 50A/ Mus, and the current ascension rate of the compound pulse is not less than 50A/Mus, and the current ascension rate is 10 to 15 A/ Mus, and the frequency of the compound pulse is 1kHz to 30 kHz, and the duty ratio is 10 percent to 90 percent.

The invention relates to a low-voltage rapid micro-arc oxidation technique for micro-arc oxidation of valve metals such as aluminum, magnesium, titanium, zirconium and niobium by the aid of a constant-current pulse oxidation power supply and silicate system oxidation liquid. The peak current and the background current of the constant-current pulse oxidation power supply are continuously adjustable within the range of 10A-500A, the frequency of the constant-current pulse oxidation power supply is continuously adjustable within the range of 50Hz-100Hz, the duty ratio of the constant-current pulse oxidation power supply is continuously adjustable within the range of 10%-20%, and the voltage of the constant-current pulse oxidation power supply varies from 0V to 200V. The silicate system oxidation liquid comprises deionized water, sodium silicate, a regulator, a low-voltage arcing agent and a reinforcing agent. Compared with a common micro-arc oxidation technique, the low-voltage rapid micro-arc oxidation technique has the advantages that oxidation voltage is reduced to be below 200V, time for preparing ceramic films with the same thickness is shortened to be one third to one eighth of the original, micro-arc oxidation energy consumption is basically unchanged, the thickness of a loose layer of each ceramic film is obviously reduced, and the hardness is averagely improved by about HV300 and reaches more than HV1000.

A method and a system for forming a root pass weld for a root pipe joint. A substantially periodic electric welding waveform is generated and a series of electric arc pulses are generated between an advancing welding electrode and a root pipe joint in response to the electric welding waveform. The electric welding waveform includes a base cycle having a background current phase providing a background current level, a peak current phase providing a peak current level, a tail-out current phase providing a decreasing tail-out current level, and at least one heat-increasing current pulse during the background current phase providing a heat-increasing current level being above the background current level.

A system and method is provided. The system includes a first power supply that outputs a welding current that includes welding pulse currents and a background welding current. The system also includes a second power supply that outputs a heating current that includes first heating pulse currents at a first polarity and second heating pulse currents at an opposite polarity. The system also includes a controller that synchronizes at least one of the first heating pulse currents and the second heating pulse currents with at least one of the welding pulse currents and the background current to influence a position of an arc relative to a molten puddle based on magnetic fields created by the welding current and the heating current.

The invention relates to a staged background suppression method of an ultrared focal plane readout circuit. The staged background suppression method is characterized in that unit circuits in the ultrared focal plane readout circuit comprise an injection circuit, an integral capacitor circuit, a background current reduction circuit and a row-selection control circuit, wherein the output end of a detector is connected with the input end of the injection circuit; the output end of the injection circuit is connected with the input end of the integral capacitor circuit; the output end of the integral capacitor circuit, the output end of the background current reduction circuit and the input end of the row-selection control circuit are mutually connected; the input end of the background currentreduction circuit is connected with an input voltage VB; and the output end of the row-selection control circuit is connected with a subsequent signal-processing circuit. The background current reduction circuit is utilized to be switched on by stages in an integral process so that a charge packet is reduced form the integral capacitor circuit every time when the background current reduction circuit is switched on, and charges collected on an integral capacitor by a background current are eliminated for a plurality of times to realize background suppression.

A system and method is provided. The system includes a first power supply that outputs a welding current that includes welding pulse currents and a background welding current. The system also includes a second power supply that outputs a heating current that includes first heating pulse currents at a first polarity and second heating pulse currents at an opposite polarity. The system also includes a controller that synchronizes at least one of the first heating pulse currents and the second heating pulse currents with at least one of the welding pulse currents and the background current to influence a position of an arc relative to a molten puddle based on magnetic fields created by the welding current and the heating current.

The invention discloses a diamond-based electrode material of a seawater salinity sensor. A diamond thin film material and a diamond composite thin film material are used as the electrode material of the seawater salinity sensor. The diamond thin film material comprises a boron-doped polycrystalline diamond thin film material body and a boron-doped nano diamond thin film material body. The diamond composite thin film material comprises a diamond and graphite composite thin film material body, a diamond and carbide composite thin film material body, boron-doped diamond and amorphous carbon composite thin film material body and a diamond thin film material body with the surface being decorated or modified through metal, or organic matters or inorganic molecules. The electrode material has the advantages of wide electrochemical window, low background current, high corrosion resistance, strong biological adhesion prevention capacity, high mechanical strength, high stability of chemical performance, more functional ways, good reprocessability, high biocompatibility and the like. The measurement precision and reliability of the seawater salinity sensor are further improved, and the service life of the seawater salinity sensor is prolonged.