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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 18, 2020
Filed:
Feb. 17, 2016
Applicant:
Jfe Steel Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
JFE Steel Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B23K 31/02 (2006.01); B23K 13/08 (2006.01); B21C 37/08 (2006.01); B21C 51/00 (2006.01); B23K 13/06 (2006.01); B23K 11/25 (2006.01); B23K 11/00 (2006.01); B23K 11/16 (2006.01); B23K 11/06 (2006.01); B23K 11/087 (2006.01); B23K 31/12 (2006.01); B23K 13/02 (2006.01); B23K 9/02 (2006.01); B23K 103/04 (2006.01); B23K 101/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B23K 13/08 (2013.01); B21C 37/08 (2013.01); B21C 51/00 (2013.01); B23K 11/0006 (2013.01); B23K 11/062 (2013.01); B23K 11/0873 (2013.01); B23K 11/16 (2013.01); B23K 11/252 (2013.01); B23K 13/025 (2013.01); B23K 13/06 (2013.01); B23K 31/125 (2013.01); B23K 2101/04 (2018.08); B23K 2103/04 (2018.08);
Abstract
A method of monitoring a manufacturing status of an electric resistance welded pipe manufactured by shaping a steel strip into a pipe and butt welding both end parts of the steel strip in a width direction along a lengthwise direction includes: arranging an imaging unit in a gas shield nozzle having an opening opposing a region in which both of the end parts of the steel strip in the width direction are butt welded and shielding the region with inert gas by ejecting the inert gas onto the region through the opening, the imaging unit having a visual filed including the region; and determining quality of a butt-welded part based on an image shot by the imaging unit.