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- Nachgewiesen in: USPTO Patent Grants
- Sprachen: English
- Patent Number: 10286,474
- Publication Date: May 14, 2019
- Appl. No: 13/702932
- Application Filed: June 14, 2010
- Assignees: ESAB AB (Gothenburg, SE)
- Claim: 1. A method of automatically setting a welding parameter of a welding apparatus for MIG/MAG welding including the following steps: generating, by a welding controller of the welding apparatus during a parameter setting welding operation, a plurality of data couples, each data couple comprising a welding voltage and a wire feed speed parameter; identifying, by the welding controller, a second function mapping a relationship between the welding voltage and the wire feed speed parameter based on the data couples, wherein the second function is defined outside of real welding operating points; and determining, by the welding controller, a welding wire material category using the second function defined outside of the real welding operating points.
- Claim: 2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising: determining, by the welding controller, a controlling voltage based on wire welding material from said second function.
- Claim: 3. The method of claim 1 , further comprising determining, by the welding controller, a wire welding material from said second function using a lookup table.
- Claim: 4. The method of claim 3 , wherein a desired welding current is determined from a set actual thickness of a work piece in dependence on said wire welding material determined from said second function.
- Claim: 5. The method of claim 3 , further comprising determining, by the welding controller, a globular area transition current from said determined wire welding material.
- Claim: 6. The method of claim 5 , further comprising decreasing, by the welding controller, a short-circuiting percentage when said desired welding current is increased to a value equal or greater than said globular area transition current, and increasing, by the welding controller, said short-circuiting percentage when said desired welding current is decreased to be equal to or smaller than said globular area transition current.
- Claim: 7. The method of claim 1 , further comprising: detecting, by the welding controller, a response welding current at a present wire feed speed during said parameter setting welding operation; identifying, by the welding controller, a first function mapping a welding current to a wire feed speed from said response welding current and said present wire feed speed; determining, by the welding controller, a desired welding current; determining, by the welding controller, a desired wire feed speed from said first function and said desired welding current.
- Claim: 8. The method of claim 7 , further comprising setting, by an operator of the welding apparatus, an actual thickness of a work piece to be welded; and determining, by the welding controller, said desired welding current from said set actual thickness of the work piece.
- Claim: 9. The method of claim 8 , wherein said first function forms a linear mapping.
- Claim: 10. The method of claim 9 , wherein said linear mapping is expressed as v=k*I P , where v is the wire feed speed, I represents current and p is a value between 1 and 2.
- Claim: 11. The method of claim 7 , wherein said parameter setting welding operation comprises establishment of a short arc welding process defined by a short-circuiting time and an arc time, and controlling a melting efficiency of an electrode so that the melting efficiency is modified based on a percentage value of a measured short-circuiting time of a period time.
- Claim: 12. The method of claim 11 , further comprising determining, by the welding controller, a voltage reference value from said percentage value.
- Claim: 13. The method of claim 1 further comprising performing, by an operator of the welding apparatus, a continued welding process subsequent to the parameter setting welding operation.
- Claim: 14. The method of claim 13 , comprising selecting, by the operator, a work piece thickness, automatically determining, by the welding controller, a desired welding current, a desired wire feed speed, and a voltage reference value from data collected during the parameter setting welding operation and performing, by the welding controller, the continued welding process with the desired welding current, the desired wire feed speed, and the voltage reference value as control parameters.
- Claim: 15. The method of claim 1 , wherein the second function is defined based on welding at zero wire feed speed.
- Claim: 16. The method of claim 1 , further comprising determining, by the welding controller, the welding wire material category using a value of the second function, the second function defined outside of the real welding operating points.
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- Assistant Examiner: Dang, Ket D
- Primary Examiner: Ross, Dana
- Attorney, Agent or Firm: Edell, Sharpiro & Finnan, LLC
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