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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7605347 | Control system using working robot, and work processing method using this system The control system includes a welding robot which moves a welding torch along a work for welding the work. A robot controller controls driving of the welding robot. A laser sensor head detects a shape change in the work during welding by the welding torch, and a per... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7462803 | Disconnection box for a robot system A switch-off box for a robot system has a two-part housing and a coupling device resiliently mounted in the housing and connected to a torch body and a hose pack or to a torch handle connected with the hose pack, and having a supporting surface for punctual contact ... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7363872 | Method and apparatus for use in assembly of hydrofoil skeg A method for preparing and assembling parts of a skin for a curved structure, and apparatus for use in connection therewith. A gantry may be used to carry cutting torches and welder heads along predetermined paths to cut skin plates accurately into skin parts and to... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7336814 | Method and apparatus for machine-vision A system and method facilitate machine-vision, for example three-dimensional pose estimation for target objects, using one or more images sensors to acquire images of the target object at one or more positions, and to identify features of the target object in the re... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7333516 | Interface for synchronous data transfer between domains clocked at different frequencies The present invention provides an interface and method for synchronous data transfer between domains clocked at different frequencies. The interface includes a first latch for receiving data from a first domain clocked at one frequency when the first latch is select... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7326880 | Welding torch and welding robot A welding torch having a flange portion to be coupled to a wrist of a robot. A shock sensor is attached to the flange portion. A nozzle is attached to the shock sensor. The welding torch includes a wire feeding pipe socket arranged at a center of the flange portion.... | 02/05/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7291807 | TIG welding equipment and TIG welding method TIG welding equipment includes a first articulate robot having a first arm, a TIG torch holding member for holding a TIG torch at a specified position so that the TIG torch can perform a weaving operation, and a filler wire guide moving member formed so as to surrou... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7282663 | Forge welding process An automated method for forge welding tubulars including heating the tubular ends to be joined in a welding chamber while the heated tubular ends are maintained aligned and parallel relative to each other and at a small spacing, whereupon the heated tubular ends are... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7283892 | Hybrid compact sensing apparatus for adaptive robotic processes A hybrid compact sensing apparatus for generating signals usable for guiding a process robot as a function of an object detected in a scene. The apparatus comprises a laser light generator, two optical sensors, one or more ultrasound sensors, and a control unit, all... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7274332 | Multiple evaluators for evaluation of a purality of conditions A system and method is disclosed for locating people or objects. In particular, a system and method for locating a wireless mobile station using a plurality of mobile station location estimators is disclosed. The system is useful for 911 emergency calls, tracking, r... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7268866 | Method for inspecting a weld seam in a workpiece made of weldable plastic and device for carrying out this method The invention relates to an inspection method for inspecting the quality of a weld seam (15) during which a material, which is transparent to electromagnetic radiation (30) of a defined frequency, is used in a workpiece (10) consisting of two pl... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7246736 | Supplying shielding gas A flexible articulate tubular device has a shank, a plurality of pivot rings, and a terminus with heat sensors and a fiber optic device. The flexible articulate tubular device is initially positioned, either manually or automatically, near a target weld path with th... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7248635 | Method and apparatus for communicating computer data from one point to another over a communications medium The present invention is directed toward a communications channel comprising a link level protocol, a driver, a receiver, and a canceller/equalizer. The link level protocol provides logic for DC-free signal encoding and recovery as well as supporting many features i... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7225968 | Crack repair using friction stir welding on materials including metal matrix composites, ferrous alloys, non-ferrous alloys, and superalloys A system and method of using friction stir welding and friction stir processing to perform crack repair or preventative maintenance of various materials and structures, wherein the structures include pipeline, ships, and nuclear reactor containment vessels, wherein ... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7199325 | Method for interconnecting tubulars by forge welding A method for interconnecting tubulars by forge welding involves arranging the tubular ends that are to be interconnected at a distance, up to a few millimeters from each other in a shield gas chamber, into which a reducing non-explosive flushing fluid mixture (e.g. ... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7186950 | Welder with light source In a welder wand including a welding tip attached to handle with an elongate, rigid conduit, the handle having a trigger for activating the welding tip, improvements therein including an optical light system attached to the welder wand comprising a light source moun... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7167523 | Spacial derivative bus encoder and decoder A method and apparatus for providing efficient and accurate electronic data transmission of information on a data bus in the presence of noise. Data signals are received on a plurality of input lines by a spacial derivative encoder. The spacial derivative encoder en... | 01/23/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7161113 | Laser machining system for forming multiple machining spots by a single laser A laser machining system is provided that includes a work-piece and at least one light source that produces a laser light along a first axis. The laser light defines a first portion of laser light and a second portion of laser light radially inward relative to the f... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7151848 | Image processing apparatus for robot A robot control unit 42 and an image processing control unit (control unit of the image processing apparatus) 43 are incorporated into a robot controller 40. A camera CM is connected to the image processing control unit 43. A main body 1 of a robot is connected to t... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7136723 | Robot controller A robot controller for teaching a robot with high efficiency. The robot controller including command storage unit (21) where a movement command and a work command are stored, command identifying unit (24) for discriminating between the movement and wor... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7130718 | Pathcorrection for an industrial robot A method for an industrial robot to increase accuracy in movements of the robot. A first path is formed by bringing a tool supported by the robot to adopt a plurality of generated positions. A plurality of observed positions of the tool moving along the first path a... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7124504 | Method and device for connecting conductors A method and device for making multiple connections between electrical conductors surrounded by external insulators in overlapping flexible cables by ultrasonic welding. Overlapping conductors to be connected are arranged on a surface of a carrier disposed between a... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7123990 | Gap welding process A gap welding process (10) for manipulating a movable robotic welder (30) for making a weld between two or more substantially immovable work pieces (51) using a higher level programming language (20). The gap welding process (10) p... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7114881 | Method and apparatus for welding pipes together A method of laying a pipeline (6) underwater includes the steps of holding an end of a pipeline (6), providing a pipe section (5) for extending the pipeline (6), arranging the pipe section (5) adjacent to the end of pipeline (6 | 10/03/2006 |
| 7110859 | Setting method and setting apparatus for operation path for articulated robot A temporary operation path is set by connecting a plurality of welding points in a virtual space generated by a computer to investigate whether an end effector can be operated along the temporary operation path. If the operation cannot be operated, a path to avoid i... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7094989 | Welding apparatus and methods for using ultrasonic sensing A welding apparatus using ultrasonic sensing is described and which includes a movable welder having a selectively adjustable welding head for forming a partially completed weld in a weld seam defined between adjoining metal substrates; an ultrasonic assembly borne ... | 08/22/2006 |
| 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 |
| 7069664 | Portable coordinate measurement machine A portable coordinate measurement machine comprises an articulated arm having jointed arm segments. The arm includes joint assemblies which include at least two read heads in communication with a periodic pattern of a measurable characteristic, the pattern and read ... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7068825 | Scanning system and calibration method for capturing precise three-dimensional information of objects A scanning system includes a hand-held scanning device that generates two-dimensional images of a pattern reflected off an object. The system also includes a memory and processing unit. The memory stores a calibration table for the scanner and received scanned bitma... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7068836 | System and method for mapping a surface In accordance with a specific embodiment of the present invention, an image is projected upon a surface. The image can include a pattern having a plurality of individual shapes used to measure and map the surface. The plurality of individual shapes include features ... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7050619 | Method and device for automatic detection of a graduated compression paddle An acquisition is made of a base digital image containing the paddle, and the base image is subdivided into rows of N elementary pixels respectively assigned luminous intensity values, the rows of elementary pixels all being parallel to a general direction of gradua... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7034262 | Apparatus and methods for repairing tenons on turbine buckets Bucket tip tenons requiring refurbishment are removed from the bucket tips by grinding. Groups of buckets are clamped on a rotatable table in positions adjacent an induction heating coil and a robotic welding arm, respectively. While one group is preheated, the othe... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7034249 | Method of controlling the welding of a three-dimensional structure A welded structure is formed by arranging multiple pieces on a three-dimensional support base to provide an assembly in accordance with the structure to be welded and making a picture map of the assembly by photographing the assembly. Weld points are identified from... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7031420 | System and method for adaptively deskewing parallel data signals relative to a clock A system and method of reducing skew between a plurality of signals transmitted with a transmit clock is described. Skew is detected between the received transmit clock and each of received data signals. Delay is added to the clock or to one or more of the plurality... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7027642 | Methods for registration of three-dimensional frames to create three-dimensional virtual models of objects A method and system are provided for constructing a virtual three-dimensional model of an object using a data processing system, and at least one machine-readable memory accessible to the data processing system. A set of at least two digital three-dimensional frames... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7023564 | Sensor device for burr examination In order to provide a burr examination sensor device for the examination of burrs on a workpiece which can be used universally it is suggested that this comprise at least one distance sensor with a detector head, wherein the detector head can be positioned at a dist... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7017275 | Portable coordinate measurement machine with improved handle assembly A portable coordinate measurement machine comprises an articulated arm having jointed arm segments. The arm includes a probe at one end thereof. The probe also includes improved switches and a measurement indicator light. ... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7012247 | Portable device for measuring a position, a shape, and a size of an object The invention concerns a portable device (1) for measuring the position, shape and/or size of an object. The device comprises a carrier element (2), at least one transmission unit for generating and transmitting visible radiation towards the object and... | 03/14/2006 |
