Thyristor controlled welding power supply

Electric heating – Metal heating – By arc

Patent

Rate now

  [ 0.00 ] – not rated yet Voters 0   Comments 0

Details

21913051, B23K 910

Patent

active

043920454

ABSTRACT:
A three-phase thyristor (42, 42) controlled welding output supply requiring only a single firing pulse of short duration per phase per half cycle is shown. Once a firing pulse has been provided (122), a holding impedance (40) connected between the output electrodes (32, 34) is provided to the neutral terminal (18) of a wye wound secondary (17) to provide a path for holding current independently of the load presented by the arc. An improved firing control circuit includes in addition to the normal firing capacitor (82), a negative phase angle impedance (86, 87, 88) attached to one end of a conventional breakdown device (117) used to fire a master thyristor gate (119). Stepped up voltage (60) is provided to the control circuit for greater noise immunity. Also shown is a remote control (151) for controlling a reversible motor (150) to drive through a slip clutch (140), the main voltage controlling variable impedance (80).

REFERENCES:
patent: 3308265 (1967-03-01), Hobart
patent: 3549978 (1970-12-01), Stearns et al.
patent: 3683149 (1972-08-01), Mages et al.
patent: 3883714 (1975-05-01), James
patent: 3912980 (1975-10-01), Crump et al.
patent: 4247752 (1981-01-01), Stringer
Chapter 9 "AC Phase Control" General Electric SCR Manual Fifth Edition, Copyright 1977.

LandOfFree

Say what you really think

Search LandOfFree.com for the USA inventors and patents. Rate them and share your experience with other people.

Rating

Thyristor controlled welding power supply does not yet have a rating. At this time, there are no reviews or comments for this patent.

If you have personal experience with Thyristor controlled welding power supply, we encourage you to share that experience with our LandOfFree.com community. Your opinion is very important and Thyristor controlled welding power supply will most certainly appreciate the feedback.

Rate now

     

Profile ID: LFUS-PAI-O-1441589

  Search
All data on this website is collected from public sources. Our data reflects the most accurate information available at the time of publication.