Hitachi, Ltd.

Nobuo Shibata

Kenji Mori

Toshio Akatsu

Akira Hirai

Jun Nakajima

Tsugio Udagawa

The welding position detecting apparatus incorporates a detecting portion including light emitter for emitting a light stripe onto a beveling surface of a work to be welded and a camera for receiving a reflected light from the beveling surface, a support member to which the detecting portion is mounted, which is disposed for rotation about an axis of the welding torch, and a motor for rotating the support member, whereby the detecting portion is rotated to a desired angular position about the axis of the welding torch.

Apparatus utilizing light stripe image for detecting portion to be

A welding position detecting apparatus provided on a welding torch which forms an arc between a welding wire and a groove face on a work piece. The apparatus has an optical system for irradiating the groove face with a converging ray at a point in advance of the point of the arc so as to form a groove face crossing image, and an observing optical system which introduces this groove face crossing image and an arc image into its field of view and by which the groove face crossing image and the arc image are detected at the same time.

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Ibaraki, Japan

Nobuo Shibata