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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7423233 | Butt welding device and butt welding method A butt welding apparatus and a butt welding method where end faces of at least one plate member to be welded are butted to each other to form a butt portion, and butt welding can be performed on respective plate members which have various thickness sizes on both sid... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7307235 | Butt welding apparatus, butt welding method, and butt welded product A butt welding apparatus, a butt welding method, and a product manufactured by the butt welding method involves two electrode rollers disposed on both the front and back sides of a thick sheet member and a thin sheet member whose end surfaces are butted. The electro... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7281319 | Apparatus for manufacturing wire wound filter screens An apparatus for manufacturing a wire wound filter screen from wrapping wrap wire over a set of rib wires has a frame, a spindle for supporting the rib wires in a longitudinal orientation, a wire guide for delivering wrap wire around the rib wires as the spindle rot... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7022933 | Seam welding apparatus A seam welding apparatus enables, even when metallic sheets are arranged in a line in a short distance, the welding electrodes to come into contact only with the metallic sheet to be welded, so as to provide a reliable welding of the metallic sheets to form connecte... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7012213 | Reel wire type of welding device for spot welding A reel wire type of welding device for spot welding includes a first guiding portion rotatably mounted in a front end of the welding device such that the wire is supported and guided in a working area in which the wire contacts a target object. At least one second g... | 03/14/2006 |
| 6931729 | Method for manufacturing a filler neck In response to the recent various requests, the present invention provides a method for manufacturing filler neck to facilitate jointing a mouthpiece and a feeding pipe which were manufactured separately into an integrated filler neck having an excellent hermeticity... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6710278 | Device for the welding of a wire mesh grid Apparatus for welding a wire mesh of crossing longitudinal and transverse wires, with a rotatable upper and lower electrode configured as a disk-like polygon, at least the upper electrode (2) being movable upwardly and downwardly and the upper and lower elect... | 03/23/2004 |
| 6448532 | Method for resistance welding metal parts The invention relates to a resistance welding process for welding metal parts together. To improve the quality of the weld, at least one welding electrode (4) is embodied as a circular cylinder, which is seated so that it rotates around its cylinder axis.... | 09/10/2002 |
| 6396023 | Airtight sealing method and airtight sealing apparatus for semiconductor laser element The present invention provides a method for hermetically sealing a semiconductor laser element, by which the cleanness of a package can be maintained extremely satisfactorily in a stabilized state, in order to prevent organic substances from being adhered... | 05/28/2002 |
| 6323453 | Low inertia bearing for resistance seam welding wheel A seam welding apparatus having an improved bearing support arrangement for the transversely movable upper weld wheel. This upper weld wheel is nonrotatably secured adjacent one end of an elongate electrically conductive shaft, which shaft adjacent its ot... | 11/27/2001 |
| 5676858 | Roller seam welding process and electrode roller head mounting on a resistance seam welding machine The lower welding wheel (2) of a resistance seam welding machine is vertically adjusted by providing retaining pieces (10) for the stator (8) of the electrode roller head, which are able to position the electrode wheel head in different vertical settings ... | 10/14/1997 |
| 5420389 | Bearing mounts for electric-resistance can welders The disclosed bearing mount includes a bearing with inner and outer raceways and rollers operating between the raceways, the raceways being fixedly held fast relative to separated structures and the rollers rotatably supporting them and the structures rel... | 05/30/1995 |
| 5347099 | Method and device for the electric welding of sheets of multilayer structure Methods and device for the electric welding of at least two sheets of multilayer structure (2,5), termed sandwich sheets, each including at least two metal sheets interconnected by a film of polymer. The method includes putting the inner faces (3a, 7a) of... | 09/13/1994 |
| 5159168 | Sliding contact roller head A roller head (10) for a resistance seam welding machine has an internally located sliding contact current transmission device (24) between stator 12) and rotor (14) and is composed of a pair of circular ring-shaped discs (26, 26') which extend radially b... | 10/27/1992 |
| 5122629 | Resistance seam welding machine A compact resistance seam welding machine wherein the upper electrode roller (14) is provided on a pivotally mounted arm (12) instead of on a pendulum roller head. The lower electrode roller (16), which is disposed below the upper electrode roller (14), i... | 06/16/1992 |
| 5089682 | Roller electrodes for electric-resistance welding machine A roller electrode combination for use in electric-resistance welders, the electrode having relatively rotatable components separated by very small gaps, and an electrically and thermally conductive liquid is contained by the components across the gaps; t... | 02/18/1992 |
| 5021627 | Electrode for resistance welding surface-treated sheets of steel and method of manufacturing such electrodes The invention concerns an electrode for the resistance welding of sheets of surface-treated steel. A thin disk of high melting-point metal is permanently attached to the electrode's shaft or cap at the contact surface. The grain of the high melting-point ... | 06/04/1991 |
| 4940873 | Roller electrodes for electric-resistance welding machine An improved roller electrode combination for use in electric-resistance welders, the electrode having relatively rotatable components separated by very small gaps, and a liquid contained by the components across the gaps; where said liquid is nontoxic, an... | 07/10/1990 |
| 4916271 | Resistance welding head A welding head 10 for coupling a welding electrode 12 to a source of electrical current. The welding head includes a housing 30 and an electrically conductive shaft 18 rotatably mounted with the housing. The shaft has a substantially circular cylindrical ... | 04/10/1990 |
| 4861961 | Welding electrode Electrodes for use in electric resistance welding and a method of making such electrodes are disclosed. The electrodes are each shaped to define a tip surface for contact with a workpiece during welding. In one embodiment, each electrode comprises an elec... | 08/29/1989 |
| 4795875 | Contact wire for a roller seam welding machine The contact wire (30) for a roller seam welding machine is provided on its front face with grooves (32) which are formed in the longitudinal direction of the wire and which are bounded by sharp longitudinal edges (34). The contact wire (30) is particularl... | 01/03/1989 |
| 4782207 | Electrode roll An electrode roll for an electric resistance seam welding machine comprises a stator substantially made of copper or a copper alloy, a rotor mounted on the periphery of the stator, and substantially or in part made of copper or a copper alloy and rotatabl... | 11/01/1988 |
| 4780589 | Roller electrodes for electric-resistance welding machine A roller electrode combination for use in electric-resistance welder, the electrode having relatively rotatable components separated by very small gaps, and a liquid contained by the components across the gaps; where said liquid is nontoxic, and is highly... | 10/25/1988 |
| 4732026 | Method of lap welding eventual can blank consisting of metal sheet or the like A method of lap welding an eventual can blank of a metal sheet or the like by passing a lap joint between the upper and lower roller electrodes via upper and lower wire electrodes to be heated and simultaneously applied pressure, thereby forming continuou... | 03/22/1988 |
| 4652715 | Method of making a welded can body A method of making a welded can body wherein the opposite marginal edge portions of a metallic blank are overlapped to form a can body preform with an overlapped portion, and then the overlapped portion is electric-resistance mash-seam welded by using a p... | 03/24/1987 |
| 4642437 | Electrode roll for electric resistance welding An electrode roll for electric resistance welding which contains a stator member at least partly made of Cu or Cu alloy, a rotor member at least partly made of Cu or Cu alloy and rotatably mounted on the stator member, and a fusible alloy mainly composed ... | 02/10/1987 |
| 4641008 | Apparatus for electrical resistance seam welding by rollers The apparatus described is so constructed that narrow can bodies having an internal diameter of 52 mm for example can be produced from rounded blanks by welding the edges of the blanks. The supply of welding current to the electrode roller is effected thr... | 02/03/1987 |
| 4591686 | Feeder for revolving electrode A device for feeding electric power to a roll-like revolving electrode in an electrical resistance welding machine includes a feeder rotor provided in a shaft formed integrally with a revolving electrode and a feeder plate extending in the moving directio... | 05/27/1986 |
| 4559431 | Apparatus for producing welded metallic can bodies An improved apparatus for producing welded metallic can bodies is provided. The apparatus has two roll-like revolving electrodes and an elongate electrode, and the lap portions of two can bodies are disposed respectively between the two revolving electrod... | 12/17/1985 |
| 4493962 | Apparatus and method to suppress oxidation during resistance welding In an apparatus and a method of at least partially suppressing oxidation of can components or the like during resistance roller welding with the aid of an inert gas, the steps include welding the can components to one another, so as to obtain a hot weldin... | 01/15/1985 |
| 4433229 | Electrode roll for resistance welding An electrode roll for resistance welding comprising a fixed portion which has a disc portion at the longitudinal center part of a shaft where the disc portion and the shaft are at right angles to each other; a rotary portion which surrounds the fixed port... | 02/21/1984 |
| 4410781 | Lap-seaming electrical resistance welding machine for can bodies A continuous lap-seaming electrical resistance welding machine for can bodies is disclosed. Two electrode units together define a welding passage, through which laps of sheet metal are passed for welding. Each of the electrode units comprises a band elect... | 10/18/1983 |
| 4401874 | Method of welding tin-free steel can Disclosed is a process for the preparation of welded cans, which comprises forming a blank into a cylinder and passing a lap portion of the formed cylinder between a pair of electrode rollers through an electrode wire to effect electric resistance welding... | 08/30/1983 |
| 4368372 | Apparatus for resistance seam welding In an electrode for electrical resistance seam welding apparatus, which electrode is arranged to roll against a workpiece to be welded and is composed of a pressure member maintained out of contact with the workpiece, connected to a welding current supply... | 01/11/1983 |
| 4258245 | Resistance welding machine A resistance welding machine in which a wire electrode is urged into contact with a workpiece by first and second electrode wheels, the wire having first and second surfaces extending parallel to the axis of the wire and a twisting mechanism located in th... | 03/24/1981 |
| 4188523 | Roll electrode for use in a seam welding machine The roll electrode comprises a stator member and a rotor member surrounding the stator member with an annular gap therebetween and a liquid metal is filled in the gap. The liquid metal has a composition consisting of 69.5&#b1;5.0 atomic % of Ga, 15.2&#b1;... | 02/12/1980 |
| 4160892 | Method and apparatus for seam welding overlapped edges Method and apparatus for longitudinally seam welding overlapped edges of metal sheets with continuously renewable flat wire electrodes in which the edges are overlapped a distance of from three to no more than six times the thickness of the edges and the ... | 07/10/1979 |
| 4150277 | Electrode roll arrangement for a resistance roll-welding machine An electrode roll-welding arrangement for a resistance roll-welding machine comprising a welding arm adapted to be supported at a machine frame and an electrode roll mounted at an end of the welding arm, the electrode roll being supplied with the welding ... | 04/17/1979 |
| 4137444 | Wire resistance-roll welder with brake and tension devices An electrical resistance-roll seam welding machine having a pair of welding rolls or rollers and at least one electrode wire which is guided from a supply station for the infeed of fresh welding wire by means of at least one of the welding rolls to a coll... | 01/30/1979 |
| 4100391 | Portable seam welder A portable seam welder comprising a pair of arms pivoted to one another about a pivot axis and a spindle assembly mounted on each arm. Each spindle assembly includes a shaft rotatably mounted about an axis extending generally parallel to the pivot axis an... | 07/11/1978 |
