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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 07, 2014
Filed:
Mar. 11, 2013
Lincoln Global, Inc., City of Industry, CA (US);
Matthew Wayne Wallace, South Windsor, CT (US);
David Anthony Zboray, Trumbull, CT (US);
Antonius Aditjandra, Chardon, OH (US);
Adam Lee Webb, Perry, OH (US);
Deanna Postlethwaite, Chagrin Falls, OH (US);
Zachary Steven Lenker, Vernon, CT (US);
Lincoln Global, Inc., City of Industry, CA (US);
Abstract
A simulator facilitating virtual welding activity. The simulator may include a logic processor based subsystem operable to generate an interactive welding environment in virtual reality space that emulates welding activity by simulating a virtual weld puddle having dynamic, real time molten metal fluidity and heat dissipation characteristics, responsive to performing a simulated welding activity in real time. The simulator may include a foot pedal device in operative communication with the logic processor based subsystem and configured to affect a characteristic of the virtual weld puddle in real time, responsive to user control of the foot pedal device. The simulator may be configured to track the movements of a mock welding tool and a mock filler wire and determine interaction between the virtual weld puddle, a corresponding virtual welding tool, and a corresponding filler wire in virtual reality space that would result in the welding tool becoming contaminated.