Welding apparatus

• US 6,329,626 B1
• Filed: 08/17/1999
• Issued: 12/11/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 06/09/1999
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Takao Kinzoku Kogyo Co., Ltd. (Kikuchi Company Limited)
• Original Assignee: Takao Kinzoku Kogyo Co., Ltd. (Kikuchi Company Limited)
• Inventors: Takahashi, Kenichi, Fujita, Shigeo, Yamaguchi, Shigeya, Otsuka, Kazushi
• Primary Examiner(s): Copenheaver, Blaine
• Assistant Examiner(s): O CONNOR, TERESA M
• Application Number:
  US09/375,524
• Time in Patent Office: 847 Days
• Field of Search: 219/86.8, 219/86.9, 219/87, 219/88, 219/89, 219/109, 219/110, 219/111, 219/108, 219/116, 219/120, 219/119, 307/147
• US Class Current: 219/87
• CPC Class Codes: B23K 11/31 Electrode holders and actuating devices therefornot restricted to resistance welding or severing by resistance heating B23K37/02
• CPC Class Codes: B23K 11/312 for several electrodes

Abstract

A welding apparatus provided with a base frame having a power source portion, an electrode die portion having a lower base portion and an upper base portion at least one of which is driven to ascend and descend to close to and part from each other, plural lower electrode portions attached to the lower base portion, and plural upper electrode portions attached to the upper base portion. Further, a lower contact conductor which electrically connects the lower electrode portions to the power source portion intermittently, and an upper contact conductor which electrically connects the upper electrode portions to the power source portion intermittently, are provided to the base frame side.

Claims

1. A welding apparatus comprising:

a base frame having a power source portion,

an electrode die portion having a lower base portion and an upper base portion at least one of which is driven to ascend and descend to freely close to and part from each other,

plural lower electrode portions attached to the lower base portion,

plural upper electrode portions attached to the upper base portion,

lower contact conductors to intermittently connect the lower electrode portions to the power source portion, said lower contact conductors being laterally movable to and from the lower electrode portion, and

upper contact conductors to intermittently connect the upper electrode portions to the power source portion, said upper contact conductors being laterally movable to and from the upper electrode portion.

2. A welding apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the upper electrode portions have vertical welding electrode pressurizing cylinder guns which arc supplied with cooling water in unpressurized state and pressed to a welded object placed on the lower electrode portions to weld in pressurized state, wherein the welding electrode pressurizing cylinder gun comprises:

a main body portion, a piston rod portion inserted to the main body portion as to freely slide, an extension rod portion detachably attached to an end of the piston rod portion protruding from the main body portion, and a tip electrode portion attached to an end of the extension rod portion.

3. A welding apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the upper electrode portions comprise welding electrode pressurizing cylinder guns which are pressed to a welded object placed on the lower electrode portions to weld, each of the cylinder guns having a gun current detecting sensor.

4. A welding apparatus provided with an electrode die portion having a lower base portion and an upper base portion at least one of which is driven to ascend and descend to freely close to and part from each other, plural lower electrode portions attached to the lower base portion, and plural upper electrode portions attached to the upper base portion having lateral welding electrode pressurizing cylinder guns which are supplied with cooling water in unpressurized state and pressed to a welded object placed on the lower electrode portions to weld in pressurized state, comprising a construction in which;

the welding electrode pressurizing cylinder gun is provided with a main body portion having an attachment protruding piece, a piston rod portion inserted to the main body portion as to freely slide vertically, a link portion of which upper end is connected to a lower end of the piston rod portion protruding from the main body portion, an oscillating attachment portion of which one end is connected to the attachment protruding piece of the main body portion and another end is connected to a lower end of the link portion, and an electrode block portion, having a tip electrode portion, detachably attached to the oscillating attachment portion; and

the tip electrode portion of the electrode block portion is oscillated by descending movement of the piston rod portion through the oscillating attachment portion, and pressed to the welded object in lateral direction to weld.

5. A welding apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the upper electrode portions have vertical welding electrode pressurizing, cylinder guns which arc supplied with cooling water in unpressurized state and pressed to a welded object placed on the lower electrode portions to weld in pressurized state, wherein the welding electrode pressurizing cylinder gun comprises:

a main body portion, a piston rod portion inserted to the main body portion as to freely slide, an extension rod portion detachably attached to an end of the piston rod portion protruding from the main body portion, and a tip electrode portion attached to an end of the extension rod portion.

6. A welding apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the upper electrode portions comprise welding electrode pressurizing cylinder guns which are pressed to a welded object placed on the lower electrode portions to weld, each of the cylinder guns having a gun current detecting sensor.