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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 05, 2020
Filed:
Oct. 19, 2018
Aptiv Technologies Limited, St. Michael, BB;
Frank A. Ciapala, Youngstown, OH (US);
Nathan F. Uzarski, Greenville, PA (US);
Aptiv Technologies Limited, , BB;
Abstract
A welding system includes a welder, a human-machine-interface, an identification-device, a test-device, a memory, and a controller-circuit. The welder creates an assembly between electrical-components. The human-machine-interface receives an input from an operator and displays instructions to the operator. The identification-device creates a label identifying the assembly. The test-device produces test-data of the weld-joint. The memory stores welder-process-data of the weld-joint. The controller-circuit activates the welder, stores the welder-process-data in the memory, determines whether the welder-process-data violates a quality-metric, determines a number of violating-weld-joints, activates an alert-device to alert the operator to violating-weld-joints, disables the welder when a number of violating-weld-joints exceeds a threshold, activates the identification-device to create the label, instructs the operator to attach the label to the assembly having the violating-weld-joints, instructs the operator to perform a test of the violating-weld-joints with the test-device, and stores the test-data of the violating-weld-joints in the memory linked to the identity.