Load voltage detecting device for use in an apparatus for supplying a current variable with time to a load section

• US 5,043,557 A
• Filed: 06/29/1989
• Issued: 08/27/1991
• Est. Priority Date: 06/29/1988
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation)
• Inventors: Ueda, Yoshihiro, Tabata, Yoichiro, Ueguri, Shigeo
• Primary Examiner(s): Shaw, Clifford C.
• Application Number:
  US07/373,841
• Time in Patent Office: 789 Days
• Field of Search: 219/130.51, 219/76.13, 324/654, 324/656, 323/234, 372/38
• US Class Current: 219/130.51
• CPC Class Codes: B23K 9/1056 by using digital means B23K9/1068 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G01R 19/0084 measuring voltage only all subgroups of G01R19/00 take precedence

Abstract

A load voltage detecting device for use in an apparatus for supplying a current variable with time to a load section. The load voltage detecting device for an apparatus such as a pulsed are welding machine can accurately detect the load voltage from the output voltage of the pulse current supplying section without being affected by the reactor component and the resistance component of the load section and the elements extended to the load section such as the cables and the welding torch.

Claims

1. A load voltage detecting device for use in an apparatus for supplying current variable with time to a load section comprising:

short-circuiting means for short-circuiting a load section;

sampling means for sampling at two time points the value of a current provided when said load section is short-circuited;

memory means for calculating a reactor L and a resistance r according to the difference signal of the current values thus sampled, and storing the reactor L and resistance r thus calculated; and

calculating means for sampling a current supplied when a load current is supplied, and calculating corresponding voltage values V_L and V_r from said reactor L and resistance r thus stored, and obtaining a load voltage by subtracting said corresponding voltage values from an output voltage value detected.

2. A pulsed arc welding machine comprising:

a pulse current supplying section for applying an arc current to a wire electrode and a material to be welded which form a load section;

an arc length setting unit for outputting a voltage corresponding to a set arc length;

a load voltage detecting means including short-circuiting means for short-circuiting said load section, sampling means for sampling at two time points the value of a current provided when said load section is short-circuited, memory means for calculating a reactor L and a resistance r according to the difference signal of the current values thus sampled, and storing the reactor L and resistance r thus calculated; and

calculating means for sampling a current supplied when a load current is supplied, and calculating corresponding voltage values V_L and V_r from said reactor L and resistance r thus stored, and obtaining a load voltage by subtracting said corresponding voltage values from an output voltage value detected a control circuit for controlling, according to the difference between a load voltage detected by said load voltage detecting system and said output voltage of said arc length setting unit, an arc current outputted by said pulse current supplying section so that arcs produced be constant.

3. A pulse laser device comprising:

a pulse current supplying section;

a voltage setting unit for setting an output in advance;

a load voltage detecting means including short-circuiting means for short-circuiting said load section, sampling means for sampling at two time points the value of a current provided when said load section is short-circuited, memory means for calculating a reactor L and a resistance r according to the difference signal of the current values thus sampled, and storing the reactor L and resistance r thus calculated; and

a control circuit for controlling, according to the difference between a load voltage detected by said load voltage detecting system and an output voltage of said voltage setting unit, a load current which is applied to a laser exciting source by said pulse current supplying section.

4. A surface treating device comprising:

a pulse current supplying section;

a voltage setting unit for setting an output voltage in advance;

a load voltage detecting means including short-circuiting means for short-circuiting said load section, sampling means for sampling at two time points the value of a current provided when said load section is short-circuited, memory means for calculating a reactor L and a resistance r according to the difference signal of the current values thus sampled, and storing the reactor L and resistance r thus calculated; and

a control circuit for controlling, according to the load voltage detected by said load voltage detecting means, a load current which is applied to a device for forming a film on a material by pulse discharge which is to be surface-treated.