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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Dec. 24, 2024

Filed:

Aug. 04, 2022
Applicant:

Lincoln Global, Inc., Santa Fe Springs, CA (US);

Inventors:

Lance F. Guymon, Fort Collins, CO (US);

Daniel J. Spieker, Windsor, CO (US);

Jacob F. Aas, Fort Collins, CO (US);

Levi J. Mitchell, Windsor, CO (US);

Zachary J. Bennett, Fort Collins, CO (US);

Assignee:

LINCOLN GLOBAL, INC., Santa Fe Springs, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B25J 9/16 (2006.01); B25J 11/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B25J 9/1666 (2013.01); B25J 9/163 (2013.01); B25J 9/1653 (2013.01); B25J 9/1679 (2013.01); B25J 11/005 (2013.01);
Abstract

An embodiment includes a robotic welding system for generating a motion program, having a programmable robot controller of a robot having a computer processor and a computer memory. The programmable robot controller is configured to digitally record, in the computer memory, a plurality of spatial points along an operator path in a 3D space taken by a calibrated tool center point (TCP) of the robot as an operator manually moves a robot arm of the robot along the operator path from a start point to a destination point within the 3D space. The programmable robot controller is also configured to identify and eliminate extraneous spatial points from the plurality of spatial points as digitally recorded, leaving a subset of the plurality of spatial points as digitally recorded, where the extraneous spatial points are a result of extraneous movements of the robot arm by the operator.


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