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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:
Jun. 09, 1992
Filed:
Aug. 16, 1990
Applicant:
Inventors:
David J Jenuwine, Utica, MI (US);
Jacob N George, Sterling Heights, MI (US);
Assignee:
General Motors Corporation, Detroit, MI (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N / ; B23K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
364507 ; 364552 ; 21913001 ;
Abstract
An on-line, non-destructive method and apparatus monitors a welding process and detects faulty welds by analyzing the average frequency of the airborne radiation emitted from a weld during the welding process. A sequence of measured average frequency values corresponding to sequential blocks of time during the weld are individually compared to a predetermined frequency threshold value. Overall weld integrity is discerned by comparing the number of average frequency values exceeding the threshold value to the number of average frequency values not exceeding the threshold value.