Daihen Corporation

Honjyun Tong

Tomoyuki Ueyama

Norihito Takahashi

Hiroyasu Mondori

Hideo Shiozaki

Waichi Nishikawa

Tuneo Takeda

An consumable electrode AC pulsed arc welding is performed by repeatedly executing a cycle of supplying a peak current Ip in an electrode positive polarity, then supplying an electrode negative current Ien in an electrode negative polarity and finally supplying a base current Ib in the electrode positive polarity. During a base current supply time, the rate of increase dVb/dt of the base voltage Vb is detected. Should the base voltage increase rate dVb/dt detected be larger than a predetermined determining value &Dgr;Vu, it means that the arc interruption is likely to occur and, therefore, since that timing, the peak current Ip for the subsequent cycle is supplied to thereby prevent the arc interruption from occurring.

Method of controlling the AC pulsed arc welding and welding power supply apparatus therefor

An arc length controlling method that is used in the practice of the pulsed welding in which welding is carried out by feeding an consumable electrode at a substantially constant speed while the pulse frequency f is set to a predetermined value. This method is carried out by effecting a welding after the counting time Tr and the target short-circuiting frequency Nr have been set, detecting the detected short-circuiting frequency Nk, and controlling the output voltage Vt to a value effective to allow the detected short-circuiting frequency Nk to be equal to the target short-circuiting frequency Nr.

Control of welding arc length

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