Babcock-hitachi Kabushiki Kaisha

Hiroshi Watanabe

Toshiharu Nagashima

Toshiharu Myoga

Seiji Kikuhara

Keiji Ueda

Masahiro Kanatani

Koichi Mitsuhata

Shigeru Fujimoto

Takashi Sato

Ryuichi Etoh

A welding head which can easily move the torch portion of the welding head in the circumferential direction and the vertical moving direction of the outer circumference of the to-be-welded tubes even in a narrow gap, includes a torch rotating ring that rotates on the outer circumferences of the tubes by matching with the central axis of the to-be-welded tubes and a torch vertical moving ring disposed concentrically with the ring inside the ring, provided with a torch base for supporting a torch on the front ends, a first gear group for driving and rotating the ring around the tubes, a second gear group that is disposed in parallel to the first gear group and drives and rotates the ring around the tubes, a drive shaft for driving the two gear groups, and a torch rotating motor for driving the drive shaft, and a third gear group that can drive the ring while rotating it in the same direction as or in reverse to that of the ring at a speed equal to or higher or lower than that of the first gear group for rotating the ring around the tubes and vertically moving the torch, and a torch vertical moving motor for driving this third gear group.

All position automatic welding head and method for operating the same

An ultra-flat non-consumable electrode welding torch which allows performing a welding operation through a narrow gap between adjacent piping such as welding piping of a boiler panel, to be mounted on a compact automatic welding head, and a welding head provided with such a welding torch are to be provided. As a gas supply mechanism that supplies a shield gas to a welding section formed at the tip of the non-consumable electrode through inside of the torch body for the non-consumable electrode welding, a gas supply path is provided for supplying the shield gas from an outer gas space in a double ring shaped gas space provided around a non-consumable electrode and divided by a partition wall, to an inner gas space through a plurality of orifices provided at regular intervals in the partition wall, and the gas is blown from the inner gas space to the region around the non-consumable electrode through a metal mesh plate. A gas outlet opening provided in the inner gas space is oriented in a different direction from the gas blowing direction through the orifice.

Non-consumable electrode welding torch and welding head with the torch

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Kure, Japan

Hiroshi Watanabe