Output control method for gas-shielded arc welding, welding system, welding power source, and welding control device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12459048-B2
Application number	US-202017792044-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 7, 2020
Priority date	Jan 29, 2020
Publication date	Nov 4, 2025
Grant date	Nov 4, 2025

Abstract

Gas-shielded arc welding in which the tip-to-work distance changes is configured so that fluctuations in welding current are curbed while arc length control is maintained. This is achieved with a corrected current calculating unit that includes a first controlling expression where a first gain G 1 is multiplied by an instantaneous voltage error value that is the difference between an instantaneous output voltage setting value and an output voltage detection value, and/or a second controlling expression where a second gain G 2 is multiplied by an average voltage error value that is the difference between an output voltage setting value and an average output voltage detection value of a pre-set period of time, determines an arc property gain G 1 and/or G 2 based on a torch position detection value determined by a torch position determinator, and calculates a corrected current based on the first and/or the second controlling expression.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1 . An output control method for performing gas-shielded arc welding in which a tip-to-work distance changes during the welding, the gas-shielded arc welding being performed by using a welding system having a welding control device and a welding power source,
wherein at least one of the welding control device and the welding power source has a torch position detector to determine a welding torch position during the welding, wherein the welding power source has a correction-amount calculation circuit to calculate a correction current for feedback control, wherein the correction-amount calculation circuit includes at least one of a first controlling expression in which an instantaneous-voltage error value Dv 1 serving as a difference between an instantaneous-output-voltage setting value Va and an output-voltage detection value Vd is multiplied by a first gain G 1 , and a second controlling expression in which an average-voltage error value Dv 2 serving as a difference between an output-voltage setting value Vs and an average-output-voltage detection value Vave in a preset period is multiplied by a second gain G 2 , and wherein the output control method comprises: setting at least one of the first gain G 1 and the second gain G 2 based on a torch-position detection value determined by the torch position detector; and calculating the correction current based on at least one of the first controlling expression and the second controlling expression.

2 . The output control method for gas-shielded arc welding according to claim 1 , further comprising performing control to increase at least one of the first gain G 1 and the second gain G 2 if the torch position detector detects the torch-position detection value based on which the tip-to-work distance is determined to be within a predetermined distance.

3 . The output control method for gas-shielded arc welding according to claim 1 ,
wherein the gas-shielded arc welding in which the tip-to-work distance changes is weaving-welding, wherein three or more preliminarily-segmented torch position sections are set within a range in which a welding torch performs weaving, and wherein the torch position detector determines that a torch position has changed when the welding torch enters each of the torch position sections during the weaving, and outputs the torch-position detection value.

4 . The output control method for gas-shielded arc welding according to claim 3 ,
wherein the torch position sections include at least two independently-set sections including a central section and a weaving end section, the central section including a position where the tip-to-work distance is the largest, the weaving end section including an end of the weaving.

5 . The output control method for gas-shielded arc welding according to claim 4 , wherein at least one of the first gain G 1 and the second gain G 2 when the welding torch is positioned in the weaving end section is controlled to be higher than at least one of the first gain G 1 and the second gain G 2 when the welding torch is positioned in the central section.

6 . The output control method for gas-shielded arc welding according to claim 4 ,
wherein the weaving end section has a width of 20% to 80% of half a distance of a weaving width by which the welding torch performs the weaving.

7 . The output control method for gas-shielded arc welding according to claim 3 ,
wherein if at least one of the first gain G 1 and the second gain G 2 is to be controlled for each of the torch position sections, the output control method further comprises: starting to increase or decrease the at least one of the first gain G 1 and the second gain G 2 at a boundary or near the boundary of each torch position section; and setting an increasing-decreasing rate of the at least one of the first gain G 1 and the second gain G 2 between 0.05/μs and 0.10/μs.

8 . An output control method for gas-shielded arc welding in which a welding current has a non-steady response section and a steady response section, the output control method comprising:
using the output control method according to claim 1 to calculate the correction current in the steady response section.

9 . The output control method for gas-shielded arc welding according to claim 8 , wherein the non-steady response section is a waveform control section of the welding current.

10 . The output control method for gas-shielded arc welding according to claim 8 , wherein the non-steady response section is a transient response section of the welding current.

11 . A welding system comprising:
a welding control device and a welding power source and for performing gas-shielded arc welding in which a tip-to-work distance changes during the welding, wherein at least one of the welding control device and the welding power source has a torch position detector to determine a welding torch position during the welding, wherein the welding power source has a correction-amount calculation circuit to calculate a correction current for feedback control, wherein the correction-amount calculation circuit includes at least one of a first controlling expression in which an instantaneous-voltage error value Dv 1 serving as a difference between an instantaneous-output-voltage setting value Va and an output-voltage detection value Vd is multiplied by a first gain G 1 , and a second controlling expression in which an average-voltage error value Dv 2 serving as a difference between an output-voltage setting value Vs and an average-output-voltage detection value Vave in a preset period is multiplied by a second gain G 2 , wherein the correction-amount calculation circuit sets at least one of the first gain G 1 and the second gain G 2 based on a torch-position detection value determined by the torch position detector, and wherein the correction-amount calculation circuit calculates the correction current based on at least one of the first controlling expression and the second controlling expression.

12 . A welding power source for performing gas-shielded arc welding in which a tip-to-work distance changes during the welding, the welding power source comprising:
a torch position detector to determine a welding torch position during the welding; and a correction-amount calculation circuit to calculate a correction current for feedback control, wherein the correction-amount calculation circuit includes at least one of a first controlling expression in which an instantaneous-voltage error value Dv 1 serving as a difference between an instantaneous-output-voltage setting value Va and an output-voltage detection value Vd is multiplied by a first gain G 1 , and a second controlling expression in which an average-voltage error value Dv 2 serving as a difference between an output-voltage setting value Vs and an average-output-voltage detection value Vave in a preset period is multiplied by a second gain G 2 , wherein the correction-amount calculation circuit sets at least one of the first gain G 1 and the second gain G 2 based on a torch-position detection value determined by the torch position detector, and wherein the correction-amount calculation circuit calculates the correction current based on at least one of the first controlling expression and the second controlling expression.

Assignees

• Kobe Steel Ltd

Inventors

• JO Baini
• Nakatsukasa Shogo
• Yano Takeshi
• Ogawa Akira
• Sato Eiji

Classifications

• B23K9/16

  making use of shielding gas · CPC title

• B23K9/0216

  Seam profiling, e.g. weaving, multilayer · CPC title

• B23K9/173

  and of a consumable electrode · CPC title

• B23K9/1062

  with computing means · CPC title

• B23K9/0953

  using computing means · CPC title