Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Naoki Kawai

Koji Hamamoto

Yoshiaki Tanaka

Toshinori Hongu

Tetsu Innami

Yoshinori Nishida

Seigo Hagiwara

Norikazu Osaki

Kazuo Kimoto

Junzo Tanimoto

Masahiro Minooka

Tomiaki Hosokawa

Torafumi Takemoto

Kouji Hamamoto

An arc welding and arc plasma cutting machine having a dc high-voltage generator is provided. The dc high-voltage generator includes a first dc power source, a second dc power source, an one-way rectifier, and a voltage clamping circuit. The first dc power source applies a dc voltage through the one-way rectifier across an electrode and a work piece. The second dc power source is connected across the first dc power source and superimposes a dc voltage on the power produced by the first dc power source for developing an arc discharge across the electrode and the work piece. The voltage clamping circuit connected in parallel to the one-way rectifier to restrict a high-voltage applied to the one-way rectifier below a given level for protecting the one-way rectifier from breakage due to application of the high-voltage.

Arc welding and arc plasma cutting machines having improved DC

An arc welding machine comprises an output control circuit which produces an arc output in accordance with output control signal, an output detection circuit which measures the state of arc output and produces a feedback signal indicative of the output arc state, and a fuzzy inference control circuit which introduces the feedback signal, produces a welding current waveform and welding voltage waveform required to produce the optimal arc state based on the fuzzy inference, and delivers the resulting waveforms to the output control circuit as the output control signal.

Arc welding machine

A power apparatus is used in an arc welding device to control a weld operation during a welding start time. An improved arc start performance is obtained in both a cooled condition of the welding wire tip end portion and a red heated condition thereof. A feed quantity of the consumption electrode during the weld start time is changed depending on whether the welding wire tip end portion is cooled or red heated from a prior arc welding operation.

Arc welding power apparatus having plural selectable electrode feed

In a pulse arc welding machine which is adapted to feed at a constant speed a welding wire as a waste electrode to turn the molten lump of the wire tip end into a spray state with a pulse current so as to effect a welding operation, the risetime and falltime of the pulse current influence the bead outer appearance, the gas shielding property and welding function and are varied independently of the other parameters controlled by the machine in accordance with the material quality of the welding wire, the wire diameter, and the wire feeding speed.

Pulsed arc welding machine

A consumable electrode arc welding machine in which if a short circuit does not lasts beyond a predetermined first time limit, pulse current and base current outputs for the arc are alternated with each other in a basic pulse period. If a short circuit lasts beyond the first time limit, the welding output during the subsequent short circuit period is subjected to constant-current control along a predetermined first trace, and a second time limit begins from the start of arc regeneration. The welding output is controlled to be different from both the pulse current and base current during the second time limit to restore the operation of the welding within the basic pulse period.

Reduced-spatter pulse arc welding machine for use with a consumable

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Ikeda, Japan

Naoki Kawai