Setting assistance device, setting assistance method, and program

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10994359-B2
Application number	US-201615553918-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 24, 2016
Priority date	Feb 27, 2015
Publication date	May 4, 2021
Grant date	May 4, 2021

Abstract

Provided is a setting assistance device capable of informing that which welding condition should be corrected with a value as the limit in order to achieve the target quality. In a setting assistance device ( 40 ) of a welding condition which is a condition in welding, an input receiving unit ( 42 ) accepts designation of the target quality in welding, and a welding condition information output unit ( 44 ) outputs an item of a welding condition to be corrected to achieve the target quality, and limit information indicating a limit of a value which can be taken by the item of the welding condition to achieve the target quality, in accordance with the acceptance of the designation of the target quality by the input receiving unit ( 42 ).

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A setting assistance device, for a welder, of a welding condition which is a condition in welding, the setting assistance device comprising:
a processor which receives designation of a target quality in the welding;
a welding condition database which stores information including:
welding condition item information identifying a plurality of welding condition items to be corrected to achieve the target quality; and
limit information indicating a limit for each welding condition item to be corrected according to the target quality; and

a display which displays the welding condition item information and the limit information, depending on acceptance of designation of the target quality by the processor,
wherein the processor acquires the welding condition item information and the limit information from the welding condition database,
the display displays a margin degree of values currently set in the welding condition items for a range of an allowable item value in accordance with the acceptance of the designation of the target quality by the processor, and
the display displays a graph or a range including a plurality of points respectively corresponding to a plurality of values of the welding condition items as the limit information.

2. The setting assistance device according to claim 1 , wherein the display further displays the values of the welding condition items in accordance with the acceptance of the designation of the target quality by the processor.

3. The setting assistance device according to claim 2 , wherein the display further displays another target quality that is affected by correcting the values of the welding condition items, and another limit information indicating a limit of the allowable item value to achieve said another target quality, in accordance with the acceptance of the designation of said another target quality by the processor.

4. The setting assistance device according to claim 1 , wherein the processor:
sets the welding condition, and
sets a value corresponding to a specific point included in the graph or the range displayed by the display.

5. The setting assistance device according to claim 1 , wherein the display displays information illustrating the relationship between the welding condition item information and the limit information on a single graph.

6. The setting assistance device according to claim 5 , wherein the graph includes an axis associated with a first welding condition item of the welding condition items and an axis associated with a second welding condition item of the welding condition items.

Assignees

• Kobe Steel Ltd

Inventors

• YAMASAKI Takemasa
• Hida Masatoshi
• Nishimura Toshihiko

Classifications

• B23K9/0953 Primary

  using computing means · CPC title

• B23K9/1081

  Arc welding by means of accumulated energy · CPC title

• B23K31/02

  relating to soldering or welding · CPC title

• B23K9/1062

  with computing means · CPC title

• B23K11/257

  the measured parameter being an electrical current · CPC title