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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 02, 1988
Filed:
Feb. 03, 1987
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Aichi, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B23K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
219 867 ; 219 8625 ; 219 87 ;
Abstract
A spot welding device for welding car bodies at a plurality of different positions without the need to move the car body to the welding device for each weld position. The device comprises a polyhedron shaped rotating member having a plurality of electrodes disposed on surfaces of the rotating member. The member is rotated to select a desired surface and the configuration of electrodes thereon to thereby perform a plurality of welds with the electrodes on the selected surface.