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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8188405 | Electric arc welding machine and operating method with modular unit enclosing cooling unit A welding machine has a welding unit for generating a welding voltage/current, and at least one welding tool connectable to the welding unit by a cable. The welding unit has a closed protective casing, and a cooling unit for cooling the welding tool and/or cable on ... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8115138 | Comprehensive identification and designation of welding procedures System(s) and method(s) that facilitates comprehensive identification and designation of welding procedures. A configuration component facilitates configuring the welding system with respect to pre-defined procedures and/or parameters and facilitates naming of the c... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8080762 | Electric arc welding machine with control interface An electric arc welding machine includes a manual welding tool, an electric power unit, and a cable electrically connecting the welding tool and the electric power unit. The electric power unit includes an electric power converter, an electronic central control unit... | 12/20/2011 |
| 7968822 | Arc welding system An electric arc welding system including a power lead for providing welding current between an advancing welding wire and a workpiece, a short circuit sensor having a short circuit output signal when the electrode is shorted with the workpiece and a premonition sens... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7858903 | Constant current welding power control system and method A technique is disclosed for controlling a constant current regime, such as for stick welding. The regime includes a dig segment or regime in which current is increased as voltage decreases. The dig regime is initiated at a voltage that can be set by an operator. Th... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7781700 | User interface for welding power supply A welding power supply includes a user interface that allows the operator to adjust one or more welding parameters comprising a welding sequence for a welding process. The user interface may include a display, which may be a graphical display depicting the welding s... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7687741 | Triggering events in a welder with a real-time clock Systems and methods are disclosed that facilitate inducing one or more actions, such as generation of a shift report data related to construction device(s), via detection of specified triggering events. The system comprises a triggering component that determines whe... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7642486 | Welding device with arc termination control A welding-type apparatus and method providing controlled termination of a welding-type process includes monitoring an arc parameter and setting a threshold based on the monitored arc parameter. When the arc parameter achieves the threshold, weld power is gradually r... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7414222 | Method and apparatus for pulse and short circuit arc welding A method and apparatus for multi process welding includes providing a controlled short circuit output and a pulse output in response to a user selection across a workpiece output stud and a torch output stud. ... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7411155 | Welding-type power supply with boot loader A method and apparatus for providing welding-type power are disclosed. They include a source of welding-type power and at least one welding system peripheral. Each includes a network module that has boot loader software. A network is connected to the two network mod... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7363137 | Construction equipment discovery on a network Systems and methodologies that facilitate a search for construction equipment(s) (e.g., a welding terminal) via a locator component that searches a networked area as defined by a plurality of reference points. Upon locating a network address of the construction unit... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7330846 | System and method for facilitating a distributed search of local and remote systems A system and method for performing a distributed search in response to a user request. In response to a search request received from a user at a local server, a request is spawned and transmitted to a remote site to search information at the remote site. Substantial... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7323658 | Method and apparatus for welding and control thereof A method and apparatus for welding includes one or more of a welding type power source, a feedback circuit, a wire feeder and a controller. The controller preferably has an eta control circuit responsive to the feedback. It also has a control loop having a response ... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7307240 | 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... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7307241 | Pendant control for a welding-type system A method and apparatus for programming a welding-type system is disclosed. They include storing at least one welding program in a pda and connecting the pda to the welding-type system. Then, the at least one welding program is downloaded to (or a program is uploaded... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7294808 | Remote wire feeder A wire feeder including a motor driving a set of feed rolls to force a welding wire from a spool through a welding torch to a welding operation. The wire feeder has an input lead to be connected to the output lead of one of a plurality of remotely located power sour... | 11/13/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7287056 | Dispatching notification to a device based on the current context of a user with the device After detecting that an event occurs for which notification is desired, a notification service determines an appropriate way to notify the user given the user's current circumstances. The notification service determines the appropriate notification method by accessi... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7268318 | Welding equipment A welding voltage judgment portion 16 of judging to see if a predetermined value of welding voltage inputted from an input device 11 falls within a predetermined certain range is provided, and when the aforementioned welding voltage judgment portion | 09/11/2007 |
| 7265318 | System and method for variable hot start of a welding-type device A system and method for a variable hot start of a welding-type device is disclosed. The variable hot start includes determining at least one of a plurality of parameters of a welding-type device including a desired V/A output for a welding-type process. The variable... | 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 |
| 7220941 | Remote controller and control unit for a welding device The invention relates to a multi-functional remote controller (27) for a welding apparatus and a welding current source, which remote controller can be connected to the welding apparatus and the welding current source by at least one line, the remote controll... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7186947 | Process monitor for laser and plasma materials processing of materials A method for monitoring the processing of a workpiece includes directing an incident laser beam onto the workpiece and measuring a signal emitted from the workpiece. At least two signals are generated by a detector based upon the emitted signal. A workpiece processi... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7186944 | Method and apparatus for autodetection of plasma torch consumables A method and apparatus for automatically determining a consumable type when a consumable is disposed within an electrode holder of a welding-type system is disclosed. The invention includes a detector assembly that measures a physical characteristic of a connected c... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7183517 | Portable welding-type apparatus with interchangeable energy storage device The present invention is directed to a portable welding-type power source including a removable energy storage device configured to provide a first voltage output and a boost circuit connected to the energy storage device and configured to boost the first voltage ou... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7171454 | Method for providing real-time production information using in-situ web services embedded in electronic production equipment Electronics assembly equipment 12 includes a controller 13 including computer readable medium having stored thereon, executable instructions defining at least one web service 10. The web service includes information relating to the equipment. Th... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7166817 | Electric ARC welder system with waveform profile control for cored electrodes An electric arc welder for creating a welding process in the form of a succession of AC waveforms between a particular type of cored electrode, with a sheath and core, and a workpiece by a power source comprising an high frequency switching device for creating the i... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7117051 | Appliance communication system and method A method for communicating with and controlling an intelligent appliance by a user from a remote device. The intelligent appliance includes an integrated controller, such as a single board computer, user-interface and integrated networking capabilities. Typically, t... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7102098 | Method and system for solving a problem arising during a welding operation or the like A method and system for diagnosing, solving, and/or controlling, in particular remotely, a given technical problem likely to arise before, during or after a heat treatment operation on metals, in particular in the welding or cutting field, and to provide the most su... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7084371 | Joining system for joining elements onto components, method of operating a joining system and data memory Proposed is a joining system (10) as well as a method of operating a joining system (10) for joining elements (20) onto components (22), in particular for the short-time arc welding of elements (20), such as metal studs (20)... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7080137 | Communication system between a programmable logic controller server and a client machine This invention relates to a communication system between a programmable logic controller (PLC) equipped with an HTTP server and a client machine (C) via a network (B), characterized in that it comprises, in the central processing unit (CPU) of this controller, a mea... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7076575 | Method and system for efficient access to remote I/O functions in embedded control environments A method for accessing I/O devices in embedded control environments is provided, wherein said I/O devices are remotely attached to an embedded microprocessor. By mapping said I/O devices' resources to said microprocessor's address or memory address space, existing d... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7067767 | Two stage welder and method of operating same An electric arc GMAW welder is provided, which welder includes a high speed switching power supply with a controller for creating a first or second weld process across the gap between a workpiece and a welding wire advanced toward the workpiece. The first process us... | 06/27/2006 |
| 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 |
| 7041936 | Method for connecting several welding devices and corresponding welding device The invention relates to a method of linking several current sources, in particular several welding devices (1; 27; 28), plasma current sources or similar. Operating individually and independently of one another, a process control and/or regulating system ( | 05/09/2006 |
| 7038167 | Pendant control for a welding-type system A method and apparatus for programming a welding-type system is disclosed. They include storing at least one welding program in a pda and connecting the pda to the welding-type system. Then, the at least one welding program is downloaded to (or a program is uploaded... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7032814 | Coded welding consumable Information pertaining to characteristics of consumables such as metal welding electrode wire and shielding gas and which characteristics are useful in connection with adjusting welding parameters in an arc welding process and/or selecting between operating modes in... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7027880 | Safety controller providing rapid recovery of safety program data Re-certification of a control program loaded in a safety controller is avoided through the use of a digital snapshot and digital signature, the snapshot providing a rapidly loadable memory image file and the signature providing a confirmation that the file loaded ma... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7022936 | Plasma arc torch trigger system A trigger system for operating a plasma arc torch is provided that comprises a selector that operates between at least a first operating position and a second operating position, wherein the first operating position operates the plasma arc torch in a first mode to d... | 04/04/2006 |
