Method for controlling cartridge of welding helmet having display function of welding operation time

• US 8,659,509 B2
• Filed: 11/19/2010
• Issued: 02/25/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 12/24/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Otos Wing Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Otos Wing Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Huh, Moon Young
• Primary Examiner(s): Beck, Alexander S
• Assistant Examiner(s): STEINBERG, JEFFREY S
• Application Number:
  US12/950,413
• Publication Number:
  US 20110156989A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,194 Days
• Field of Search: 345 7- 9, 340/636.15, 368/10, 359/13, 359630-633, 348/E13.036, 349/11
• US Class Current: 345/7
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 9/067 with variable transmission
• CPC Class Codes: B23K 9/322 Head protecting means masks, shields or hoods for weldersp A61F9/06

Abstract

Disclosed is a method for controlling a cartridge of a welding helmet having a function to display a welding operation time, which can protect the welder'"'"'s face from intense light generated during a welding or cutting operation and also, enable automated light transmittance adjustment and operation time setting on a per operation basis, enabling a welding operation to be more efficiently performed. In the method including welding operation, cutting operation, grinding operation and X-mode operation steps, which are automatically performed in sequence according to preset conditions and a light transmittance and operation time of a liquid crystal screen of the cartridge, a control unit calculates an operation time of the liquid crystal screen indicating how long the liquid crystal screen is kept dark, and the calculated operation time is stored in a memory unit so as to be displayed on a display unit in a life mode step.

Claims

1. A method for controlling a cartridge of a welding helmet having a function to display a welding operation time, the method comprising a welding operation step, a cutting operation step, a grinding operation step and an X-mode operation step, which are automatically performed in sequence according to preset conditions and a light transmittance and operation time of a liquid crystal screen of the cartridge,

wherein a control unit calculates an operation time of the liquid crystal screen indicating how long the liquid crystal screen is kept dark, and the calculated operation time is stored in a memory unit so as to be displayed on a display unit in a life mode step.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the control unit senses a battery voltage, performs a low voltage alarm step if a low voltage is applied, and displays a low voltage state indicator on the display unit.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein:

a 12 hour or 24 hour clock mode, Fahrenheit or Celsius, alarm time adjustment, and time adjustment are selected in the life mode step;

if the alarm time adjustment is selected in the life mode step, an alarm time setting step is performed to set hour and minute of an alarm time, and the setting of the alarm time is completed once a welder pushes an ENTER key; and

if the time adjustment is selected in the life mode step, a time adjustment step is performed to set hour and minute of a time, and the setting of the time is completed once the welder pushes the ENTER key.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the display unit allows the welder to immediately view an operation time as soon as the life mode step begins to reduce power consumption.