Patent Issued for Arc Start Control Method in Robot Welding

摘要

2013 MAR 11 (VerticalNews) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Robotics & Machine Learning -- From Alexandria, Virginia, VerticalNews journalists report that a patent by the inventors Uezono, Toshiro (Osaka, JP); Era, Tetsuo (Osaka, JP); Ueyama, Tomoyuki (Osaka, JP); Hirota, Shugo (Osaka, JP), filed on July 26, 2006, was cleared and issued on February 26, 2013.nnThe patent's assignee for patent number 8383986 is DAIHEN Corporation (Osaka, JP).nnNews editors obtained the following quote from the background information supplied by the inventors: "The present invention relates to an arc start control method in robot welding for improved arc start in the retract arc starting in which the welding wire is first shorted with the base metal and then the welding torch is retracted by the welding robot to move the welding wire off the base metal to generate an arc.