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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8049139 | System and method for determining and employing consumable use by electric arc welders A system and method for determining the approximate weight of metal consumables used by an electric arc welder over a period of welding time, the system comprises a program to calculate the total energy exerted by the welder over a period of welding, a divider to di... | 11/01/2011 |
| 7772524 | Integrating sensors over a digital link A system that facilitates dynamic configuration of a welding system with respect to a sensor comprises a processing unit associated with the welding system. A configuration component facilitates configuring the welding system with respect to the sensor upon determin... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7683290 | Method and apparatus for characterizing a welding output circuit path Methods and apparatus to characterize a welding output circuit path. A welding output circuit path is characterized in real time with respect to a true energy and/or true power input to the welding output circuit path. A welding output circuit path is also character... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7405377 | Method for testing undercut on the inner diameter of pipe welds A method and apparatus of comparing two or more welding flux systems to determine which flux system results in the smallest incidence of undercut about a weld bead in an inner diameter of a pipe. ... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7375304 | System and method providing automated welding notification The present invention relates to a system and method that provide for automated notification to entities (e.g., individuals, groups of individuals, computers, systems . . . ) of welding system related information. The invention provides for determination of events a... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7358458 | Methods and apparatus for tactile communication in an arc processing system Systems and methods are presented for tactile communication with an operator in an arc processing system, in which a tactile device is mechanically coupled with a handheld torch to provide tactile messages to the operator according to information related to the syst... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7355145 | Arc welding robot The invention provides an arc welding robot capable of collecting and displaying waveform data in a welding operation without using an external device. The arc welding robot comprises: a manipulator 101 including a welding torch 124 mounted thereon; a ... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7348518 | Welding apparatus A welding apparatus capable of effecting welding completion processing which is reliable and free of wasteful time, by transmitting the completion of wire fusion prevention processing to a welding machine 11, by transmitting the detected result to a controlle... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7342209 | Microprocessor controlled tube apparatus having reduced radio frequency emanations A tube apparatus is provided to detect successful or failed tube operations. The tube apparatus includes jaws mounted for movement with respect to one another between (1) a first position spaced from one another and (2) a second position selected to perform a succes... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7342210 | Remote control for auto-darkening lens systems and method A wireless remote control is provided for an auto-darkening lens (ADL) system used in a welding helmet, respirator system or other device to control or to adjust settings of an ADL of a controllable light shutter. A display system facilitates providing information i... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7307238 | Determining quality of a stick electrode A method of measuring the quality of a stick electrode used in forming the root bead of a pipe joint, which electrode has a wire diameter, a length substantially greater than 12 inches and an upper exposed rod head. The method comprises: preparing a standardized wor... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7304268 | Method for rating stick electrodes for pipe welding Stick welding electrode rating and ranking procedures are provided for determining stackability performance of stick electrodes for pipe welding operations. The rating technique involves performance of a standardized vertical down weld procedure using a stick electr... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7291808 | Method for setting parameters in welding devices The invention relates to a method for setting a parameter for external control units (30) of a welding device (1), whereby the welding parameters can be selected and set using different control elements (27) and indicating elements (28) o... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7289862 | Methods to support process quality and maintenance during control of an industrial process such as welding A number of methods to support process quality and maintenance during control of an industrial process such as welding are provided. The methods provide, among other things: automatic process limit programming based on runtime data; user-initiated process limit prog... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7282667 | Welding wire positioning system An electrode position detection system for a welder having a laser that is projected in a lateral plane to laterally cross a welding wire at a location below a contact tip of a welding gun and a receiver that receive the laser bean after crossing the welding wire, a... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7265319 | Multifunction meter for welding apparatus A multifunction meter and method for monitoring a welding-type device is disclosed. The multifunction meter has a single display unit, a first input configured to receive feedback from an engine, and a second input configured to receive feedback from a power convert... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7245875 | System and method to facilitate wireless communication in a welding environment A system and method for wireless communication with and among nodes of a welding cell are provided. The system includes a communications device adapted for wireless communication with a welding node provided with a wireless communications interface. The system furth... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7238917 | Device to control power source A device to control operation of a power source for an electric arc welder comprising an oscillator for inducing a high frequency voltage into a series circuit including the welding gap, a detector tuned to the high frequency for sensing the level of current in the ... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7227099 | System and method for improving the productivity of a welding shop Methods of controlling an arc welding shop. In the shop, several welding torches are used and each torch is supplied with consumable wire. The wire moves at a wire speed and is subjected to an electrical current. For each torch, either an average wire speed or an av... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7206210 | Power supply control loop with multiple leveling modes A method and apparatus for controlling a power supply. The system includes a power supply and a controller for outputting a command signal to regulate the operation of the power supply. The controller determines the command signal based on at least one error signal ... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7206661 | Persistent naming for sub-paths of intermittent fillet weld beads A computing environment is provided with the ability to at least contribute to the persistent naming of the divided sub-paths, including their edges and vertices, of a continuous path of an intermittent fillet weld bead, including the determination of an invariant w... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7194447 | System and method for processing welding data A system and method for evaluating the use of a welding process for welding a weld joint. The method comprises providing a user with requests for data to enable a processor-based system to establish various attributes of welding a specific weld joint using a specifi... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7193501 | Enclosure system allowing for hot work within the vicinity of flammable and combustible material An enclosure constructed around an area at which hot work is to be performed at a facility containing flammable or combustible material. Hot work includes such things as welding, torch cutting, grinding and the like. Facilities include petroleum drilling and product... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7186949 | Arc welding equipment It is an object to provide an arc welding apparatus capable of causing an operator to easily decide a welding abnormality and the quality of a welding condition by simultaneously displaying a welding current command value, a welding voltage command value and a wire ... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7173215 | Method for evaluating and/or comparing welding consumables Methods and systems are disclosed for characterizing a welding consumable, such as flux or an electrode, and/or for comparing two or more welding consumables for use in narrow gap deep groove welding operations, including creating test welds on fixtures having joint... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7159753 | Wire body based welding representation A computing environment is provided with the ability to at least contribute to generate a representation for a weld bead to be used to weld a number of components of an article of manufacture together at one or more edges of the components in the manufacturing of th... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7135635 | System and method for musical sonification of data parameters in a data stream One embodiment of a musical sonification system and method receives a data stream including different data parameters. The sonification system may apply different sonification processes to the different data parameters to produce a musical rendering of the data stre... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7132623 | Luminescence sensing system for welding A method and apparatus can adaptively control a pulsed power arc welding process. A trainable system can recognize an empirical transfer mode from a signal emitted during an arc welding pulse and determine a pulsed power parameter set to produce a modified transfer ... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7132617 | Method and system for assessing quality of spot welds A system and method for assessing the quality of spot weld joints between pieces of metal includes an ultrasound transducer probing a spot weld joint. The ultrasound transducer transmits ultrasonic radiation into the spot weld joint, receives corresponding echoes, a... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7122770 | Apparatus for delivery of induction heating to a workpiece A method and apparatus for inducing heat within a workpiece. A flexible fluid-cooled induction heating cable is used to produce a magnetic field to induce electric current in a workpiece. The induction heating cable has separate fluid and electrical connectors to se... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7107863 | Internal riser inspection system, apparatus and methods of using same A system for inspecting a pipe weld from within a pipe through use of magnetic particle imaging “MPI” includes an apparatus having a head unit that carries a wire wheel brush for cleaning an inspection area along an inner diameter of a pipe weld, and an MPI medi... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7091848 | Enclosure system for hot work within the vicinity of flammable or combustible material One or more enclosures constructed about one or more objects at which hot work is to be performed at a facility containing flammable and/or combustible material. Hot work includes such things as welding, torch cutting, grinding and the like that produces heat, spark... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7081599 | Apparatus and method for processing workpieces An apparatus for processing workpieces by relative displacement of a plurality of simultaneously operating functional elements in relation to the workpieces being worked on is provided. The present apparatus includes a device for the mounting of the functional eleme... | 07/25/2006 |
| 7049547 | Method for transmitting data and/or synchronizing at least two welding devices and device therefor The invention relates to a method of transmitting data between and/or synchronising at least two welding devices (1, 27) or current sources or with another component and another device, which are supplied with energy via a supply network (35), whereby ... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7050937 | Performance measurement system A performance test system includes a measuring device to measure an object device, and a computing device having a controller to test performance of the object device based on measured data transmitted from the measuring device, wherein the controller controls to di... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7019270 | System for reducing noise from a thermocouple in an induction heating system A method and apparatus for reducing electrical noise in an electrical signal from a temperature feedback device to an induction heating system. The induction heating system has an electrical connector that is adapted to electrically couple a temperature feedback dev... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7015439 | Method and system for control of on-site induction heating A workpiece heating system having an induction heating power source and a controller. The controller is operable to control the operation of the power source according to programming instructions received from a user. The controller enables a user to establish a seq... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7012217 | Method and apparatus for making welded large pipes In a method and apparatus for making welded large pipes, a leading end of a hot strip is connected to a trailing end of a leader strip and then subjected to a two-stage leveling for strip flatness in transverse direction and strip flatness in longitudinal direction.... | 03/14/2006 |
| 7009144 | Process for short-time arc welding and short-time arc welding system A process and a system are proposed for short-time arc welding, in particular for stud welding, with the step of sampling a welding parameter, in particular the arc voltage (U), during at least one time segment (Ts) of the welding operation, in order to d... | 03/07/2006 |
| 7002103 | Welding-type power supply with a state-based controller A method and apparatus for providing welding-type power includes a source of welding-type power and a controller. The controller is a state-based controller, and/or a deterministic control module, connected to the controller output. The state-based control module in... | 02/21/2006 |
