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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:
Nov. 02, 2004
Filed:
Apr. 23, 2002
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Obara Corporation, Kanagawa-ken, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/900 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/900 ;
Abstract
A welding system is capable of shortening length of connection lines and of effectively utilizing devices as a whole. The system includes a welding controller provided with an I/O interface, a controller unit provided with a programmable logic controller and connected to the I/O interface of the welding controller through a field bus interface serving as a communication link, a welding machine and general-purpose peripheral equipment. The welding controller controls the welding machine and the general-purpose peripheral equipment upon receipt of instructions from the programmable logic controller through the field bus interface.