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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:
Dec. 04, 1990
Filed:
Sep. 20, 1989
Applicant:
Inventors:
William E Lukens, Annapolis, MD (US);
Robert DeNale, Arnold, MD (US);
Charles A Zanis, Bowie, MD (US);
Assignee:
The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy, Washington, DC (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B23K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
21912434 ; 219123 ; 21913021 ;
Abstract
A method of welding metals wherein the size and shape of a weld pool as w as the traversing of the arc from one metal to the other is commanded magnetically by predetermined data, which data is updated by observing and characterizing isotherms in the weld pool, comparing the observed isotherms with a predetermined set of desired isotherms and then updating the command data for optimum performance.