Electric heating – Metal heating – By arc
Patent
1985-04-29
1987-03-17
Shaw, Clifford C.
Electric heating
Metal heating
By arc
364162, B23K 912
Patent
active
046509577
ABSTRACT:
The voltage between a work instrument and a workpiece varies with the distance between them. A microcoded controller is used to compare the voltage between the work instrument and the workpiece when the instrument moves relative to the workpiece, to generate a correction signal. The correction signal is the sum of a proportional term, a derivative term and an integral term. A servo means responds to the correction signal to correct the distance between the work instrument and the work piece so as to maintain the voltage between them at a set level. A battery-backed memory is used to store crucial parameters necessary for operating the automatic control system to prevent loss of the parameters from the controller memory caused by power interruptions. A stepper motor operating in either the full of half step mode may be used to move the work instrument away from or towards the work piece in response to the correction signal.
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Cullen Richard
Koploy Randolph A.
Thorvick Thomas S.
Westman Donald A.
Cyclomatic Industries, Inc.
Shaw Clifford C.
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