Apparatus for helping setting of welding conditions in multi-pass welding

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10315310-B2
Application number	US-201715434410-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 16, 2017
Priority date	Mar 23, 2016
Publication date	Jun 11, 2019
Grant date	Jun 11, 2019

Abstract

When setting welding conditions of arc welding, an operator sets the shape of a material to be welded, the specifications of welding, and welding conditions using a teach pendant. An apparatus for supporting setting of welding conditions in multi-pass welding of the present invention automatically calculates the state of the bead layering cross-section including at least one of the number of bead layers, the number of passes, and the layering direction, and the state of the bead layering cross-section including at least one of the number of bead layers, the number of passes, and the layering direction, obtained by the calculation is displayed on a display section.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An apparatus for supporting setting of welding conditions in multi-pass welding by a welding robot, comprising:
a control section that controls the welding robot; and
a teach pendant that is connected to the control section and that instructs the welding robot to operate, the teach pendant having an input section for setting operation instruction information and a display section configured to graphically display,
wherein the teach pendant is configured such that a shape of a material to be welded and welding conditions which includes a welding current, voltage and speed as the operation instruction information can be input by an operator,
the apparatus for supporting setting of welding conditions automatically calculates a state of a bead layering cross-section including at least one of a number of bead layers, a number of passes, and a layering direction based on the input by the operator, and
the display section of the teach pendant displays the state of the bead layering cross-section obtained by the calculation, together with the material to be welded and a groove shape of the material to be welded.

2. The apparatus for supporting setting of welding conditions in multi-pass welding according to claim 1 , wherein the teach pendant is configured such that the specifications of welding can be set.

3. The apparatus for supporting setting of welding conditions in multi-pass welding according to claim 1 , wherein the display section is configured to be able to display the torch target position on the bead layering cross-section displayed on the display section.

4. An apparatus for supporting setting of welding conditions in multi-pass welding by a welding robot, comprising:
a control section that controls the welding robot; and
a teach pendant that is connected to the control section and that instructs the welding robot to operate, the teach pendant having an input section for setting operation instruction information and a display section configured to graphically display,
wherein the teach pendant is configured such that [i] a shape of a material to be welded which includes a base material, a groove shape, and a welding position, [ii] welding specifications which include a welding method and a welding material and [iii] welding conditions which include a welding current, voltage and speed as the operation instruction information can be input by an operator,
the apparatus for supporting setting of welding conditions automatically calculates a state of a bead layering cross-section including a number of bead layers, a number of passes, and a layering direction based on the input by the operator, and
the display section of the teach pendant displays the state of the bead layering cross-section obtained by the calculation, together with the material to be welded and the groove shape of the material to be welded.

Assignees

• Kobe Steel Ltd

Inventors

• Hida Masatoshi
• Nishimura Toshihiko
• YAMASAKI Takemasa
• Sadahiro Kenji
• Kim Hyunseung

Classifications

• Y10S901/03

  Teaching system · CPC title

• G05B19/409 Primary

  characterised by using manual data input [MDI] or by using control panel, e.g. controlling functions with the panel; characterised by control panel details or by setting parameters (G05B19/408, G05B19/4093 take precedence) · CPC title

• G05B2219/45135

  Welding · CPC title

• Y10S901/42

  Welding · CPC title

• G06F30/20

  Design optimisation, verification or simulation (optimisation, verification or simulation of circuit designs G06F30/30) · CPC title