Electrode re-conditioning tool and method of using the same

    公开(公告)号:US12109643B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-10-08

    申请号:US16980216

    申请日:2019-09-20

    CPC classification number: B23K11/36 B23K11/11

    Abstract: Texture for breaking oxide layers on an electrode and a tool applying texture to an electrode is disclosed. The tool may be used during a pattern creating process where the texture is applied to the electrode tip, or may be used during a re-conditioning process where a new texture is applied to a deteriorated electrode tip. The textured surface may include a pattern of raised or depressed features (teeth, knurls, protrusions, depressions, ridges, asperities, cross-hatches, parallel or non-parallel lines, star shapes, triangles, hexagons, etc.). The tool includes a plate having an upper side and a lower side, and a texture surface is arranged on one or both of the upper and lower sides of the tool. The tool's texture surface may include various asperities or patterns, which are imprinted onto the electrode tips by squeezing the electrodes against the upper and lower sides of the tool.

    BOLT FEEDER
    3.
    发明公开
    BOLT FEEDER 审中-公开

    公开(公告)号:US20240116125A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-04-11

    申请号:US18542689

    申请日:2023-12-17

    CPC classification number: B23K11/36 B23K11/0053 B23K11/30

    Abstract: A bolt feeder is for supplying a bolt to a resistance welding machine that performs resistance-welding of a workpiece and the bolt using a lower electrode. The bolt feeder comprises a holding unit configured to receive the bolt fed by a bolt feeding unit with a head located above a shaft, a moving unit configured to move the holding unit, and a pusher member configured to protrude from and retract into a tip end of the upper electrode. The bolt includes a projection on a top surface of the head which is opposite to a surface provided with the shaft. The lower electrode includes an insertion hole into which the shaft is inserted. The shaft is inserted into the insertion hole by the pusher member protruding from the tip end of the upper electrode and pushes an area of the top surface where the projection is absent.

    Component supply device
    4.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11951558B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-04-09

    申请号:US18379216

    申请日:2023-10-12

    CPC classification number: B23K11/36 B23P19/06 B23P19/062

    Abstract: A component supply device is configured to feed a component having a through hole to a target position. The component supply includes: a rod including at its distal end a holding portion to be inserted into the through hole; an actuator; a valve mounted on the rod; and a fixing portion by which the valve that advances with the rod passes. The rod includes a gas outlet located in an outer periphery of the holding portion and configured to blow gas rearward, and a gas passage extending inside the rod and configured to send gas supplied from a gas source to the gas outlet. The valve includes a push switch configured to be switched between an advanced attitude and a withdrawn attitude, and a biasing unit configured to bias the push switch to the withdrawn attitude. The fixing portion includes a pressing wall portion facing the push switch.

    TIP DRESSER
    6.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20230017267A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-01-19

    申请号:US17775825

    申请日:2020-09-28

    Inventor: Kazuhiro TEZAWA

    Abstract: Provided is a tip dresser which is highly capable of collecting chips. A chip collection unit 8 is provided under a body case 2, the chip collection unit 8 configured to collect chips M1 produced in a cutaway part 4a of a rotary holder 4 during a cutting operation and falling downwardly through a lower communication hole 20b of the body case 2. The chip collection unit 8 includes a chip guiding member 81 provided on one lateral side of a chip falling area R1 that is located downwardly of the lower communication hole 20b, and a first air discharge unit 82 provided on another lateral side of the chip falling area R1. The chip guiding member 81 includes at one end thereof a chip collection port 81b located corresponding to the chip falling area R1, and is connected at another end thereof to a chip collector 83 capable of collecting the chips M1. The first air discharge unit 82 includes an air nozzle 82a configured to discharge compressed air towards the chip collection port 81b.

    BALANCED WELDING OF DISSIMILAR MATERIALS

    公开(公告)号:US20220072647A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-03-10

    申请号:US17015449

    申请日:2020-09-09

    Inventor: Nathan Cloeter

    Abstract: A multi-tiered weld program that is effective in resistance spot welding of dissimilar materials is disclosed. The process is repeatable across a multitude of grades/thicknesses, and number of sheets of conductive materials, and is possible to perform with traditional weld tooling and electrodes. Different size/different material/different contact face geometries weld surfaces are used to balance thermal properties of the materials, and the process is designed to create a small, consistent Intermetallic Compound (IMC) that is effective in holding two different conductive materials together with a high level of strength that is suitable for industrial mass production. The multi-tiered resistance spot weld process uniformly preheats, welds, and cools the samples to control the formation of the IMC that is formed therein.

    ELECTROSTATIC ENERGY STORAGE WELDING MACHINE

    公开(公告)号:US20220055144A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-02-24

    申请号:US17396287

    申请日:2021-08-06

    Abstract: An electrostatic energy storage welding machine for performing resistance welding while applying pressure to an object to be welded includes: a pair of welding electrodes; an energy storage section including a plurality of energy storage parts; an individual charge circuit for individually charging respective energy storage parts; an individual discharge circuit for individually discharging the respective energy storage parts; a voltage monitor circuit individually monitoring voltages of the respective energy storage parts; an individual voltage stabilization control section for performing control to further charge an energy storage part having deviation in performance in an individual manner to stabilize a voltage of that energy storage part and thereby achieve a set voltage; and an output circuit for outputting power produced by the set voltage stabilized through individual charging and electric current through individual discharging in the energy storage section to apply the electric current between the welding electrodes.

    RESISTANCE WELDING PINCH PROTECTION SYSTEM

    公开(公告)号:US20210310613A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-10-07

    申请号:US17343890

    申请日:2021-06-10

    Abstract: A resistance welding pinch protection system for use with a resistance welder, comprising a sensor array adapted to be secured around the base of a positive electrode of the resistance welder, the sensor array including a plurality of proximity sensors positioned along a perimeter of the sensor array, the plurality of proximity sensors defining an electrode operation field around the positive electrode, an input/output interface to be operatively connected to the resistance welder, and at least one processor in communication with the plurality of proximity sensors and the input/output interface, wherein in use, during the lowering of the positive electrode, the at least one processor interrupts the control signal to the resistance welding controller in order to stop the welding sequence, raising the positive electrode in response to the detection of an obstacle within the electrode operation field.

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