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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:
May. 07, 1996
Filed:
Jun. 10, 1993
Dimitrios G Cecil, Bloomfield Hills, MI (US);
William E Mumford, Lansing, MI (US);
Yajie Chen, Detroit, MI (US);
Other;
Abstract
The present invention provides a weld control monitoring system which determines the quality of the welds in real time, and provides responsive useful outputs indicating the quality of the weld. The system permits the user to input weld data as well as quality specifications which the part must meet in order to continue the production run. A monitoring system can be used with or without programmable logic controllers and includes special program for estimating the tip wear of the welding electrodes. The present invention also includes a weld gun control in which additional support for the weld gun electrode is provided by adjacent rail structures which permit displacable movement of the electrode mounted to linear displacement welding cylinder. A sensor coupled to the piston rod of the weld cylinder provides linearly variable displacement transducer signals for use in monitoring portion of the apparatus. The monitoring apparatus also provide statistics of individual and groups of parts produced with the welding apparatus.
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