The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document.
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:
Apr. 15, 2008
Filed:
May. 28, 2004
George D. Blankenship, Chardon, OH (US);
Christopher Hsu, Mentor, OH (US);
Jeffrey R. Klein, Mentor, OH (US);
George D. Blankenship, Chardon, OH (US);
Christopher Hsu, Mentor, OH (US);
Jeffrey R. Klein, Mentor, OH (US);
Lincoln Global, Inc., City of Industry, CA (US);
Abstract
In accordance with one aspect of the present exemplary embodiment, set forth is a welding system including a plurality of adjustable welding support structures positioned in relationship to each other to permit welding of a workpiece held by a plurality of adjustable welding support structures, each of the support structures having a movable platform. The control system individually controls the position of the movable platform for each of the adjustable welding structures. In another embodiment of the present application, provided is a method for increasing the accuracy at which an adjustable support structure control system positions at least one adjustable support structure. Included in the process is the generation of a model of the adjustable support structure having an initial set of parameters, including structural position parameters and corresponding control element position parameters. A Design Of Experiments process is performed using the adjustable support structure control system to obtain actual structural position parameters and control element position parameters. The parameters of the adjustable model support structure are updated based on the results of the results of the Design Of Experiments, and a compensation mechanism is updated based on the updated parameters of the model support structure, wherein the compensation mechanism is used by the control system to increase the accuracy of positioning of the at least one adjustable support structure.