WELDING MONITORING SYSTEM AND METHOD

• US 20130112678A1
• Filed: 06/05/2011
• Published: 05/09/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 07/05/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: UDMTek Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: UDMTek Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Lee, Chang Ho, Wang, Gi Nam, Park, Sang Chul, Yoon, Tae Hyuck, Hong, Seung Taek, Kang, Yong Woo, Koo, Lock-Jo, Jo, Hee Won, Ahn, Eui Koog, Park, Jae Geun
• Application Number:
  US13/808,849
• Publication Number:
  US 20130112678A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 219/148
• CPC Class Codes: B23K 37/00 Auxiliary devices or processes, not specially adapted to a procedure covered by only one of the preceding main groups eye-shields for welders worn on the operator's body or carried in the hand A61F9/00 , i.e. A61F9/02; applicable to metal-working machines other than soldering, welding, or flame-cutting machines B23Q; laser protective screens B23K26/706; protective shields for other welding methods F16P1/06
• CPC Class Codes: B23K 9/0953 using computing means
• CPC Class Codes: B23K 9/0956 using sensing means, e.g. optical
• CPC Class Codes: B23K 9/1043 characterised by the electric circuit B23K9/1012 takes precedence

Abstract

Provided are a system and a method for monitoring welding operations. The system includes a welding machine, a current sensor sensing an operation time of the welding machine and a welding current, a welding information database storing information of the operation time of the welding machine and the welding current for each welding operator and storing information of a consumed charge amount of the welding machine, which is preset for each welding operation process, a data analyzer checking a charge amount consumed for the operation time by using the sensed operation time of the welding machine and the welding current and determining whether the welding operator achieves a task goal of a corresponding process by comparing the checked consumed charge amount with the preset consumed charge amount for a process performed by the welding machine, and a display unit outputting a result of the determining, performed by the data analyzer, whether the welding operator achieves a task goal of a corresponding process.

Claims

1. A welding monitoring system comprising:

a welding machine;

a current sensor sensing an operation time of the welding machine and a welding current;

a welding information database storing information of the operation time of the welding machine and the welding current for each welding operator and storing information of a consumed charge amount of the welding machine, which is preset for each welding operation process;

a data analyzer checking a charge amount consumed for the operation time by using the sensed operation time of the welding machine and the welding current and determining whether the welding operator achieves a task goal of a corresponding process by comparing the checked consumed charge amount with the preset consumed charge amount for a process performed by the welding machine; and

a display unit outputting a result of the determining, performed by the data analyzer, whether the welding operator achieves a task goal of a corresponding process.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the data analyzer stores the checked charge amount in the welding information database.

3. A method of monitoring welding operations by using a welding monitoring system, the method comprising:

sensing an operation time of a welding machine and a welding current by using a current sensor;

checking a charge amount consumed for the operation time by using the sensed operation time of the welding machine and the welding current; and

determining whether the welding operator achieves a task goal of a corresponding process by comparing the checked consumed charge amount with the preset consumed charge amount for a process performed by the welding machine and outputting a result of the determining.

4. The method of claim 3, further comprising, before the checking a charge amount consumed for the operation time, storing the sensed operation time of the welding machine and the welding current in a welding information database.

5. The method of claim 4, further comprising storing the checked charge amount in the welding information database.