The present disclosure is directed to systems and methods for pretreating a wire that is used in a welding operation to reduce the amount of hydrogen introduced into a weld. Using embodiments of the systems and methods disclosed herein, one passes a wire through a pre-treatment chamber in which a wire is treated to release hydrogen and/or other contaminants, and provides a gas flow through the pre-treatment chamber so that the contaminants that are released from the wire are taken up by the gas. The gas exiting the pre-treatment chamber may be isolated from the shielding gas utilized during a welding operation. For instance, the pretreatment gas may be directed away from the distal end of the welding torch, thereby preventing released contaminants from being transported into a weld.

A method for joining segments (electrical conductors) includes first and second joining steps. The first joining step includes welding a group of the segments including ends, such that the first group is welded to pairs of electrical conductors. The second joining step includes welding a second group of the segments including ends, which are composed of the segments whose ends are arranged in a column in the radial direction, such that the second group is welded to pairs of electrical conductors. The first group includes a segment as a first electrical conductor including the end which is located at the middle portion of a group of the segments including the ends in the radial direction. The second group includes a segment as a second electrical conductor including the end which crosses the first electrical conductor on the opposite sides with respect to the middle portion in the radial direction.

A system and method for repairing a metal substrate includes an electrospark device and an electrode removably supported in the electrode holder. The electrospark device applies a coating of a material when placed into contact with the metal substrate. A cooling device to lowers the temperature of shielding gas flow below an ambient temperature. A conduit is arranged to direct a flow of the shielding gas to the interface of the electrode and the substrate to cool the area of the substrate receiving the coating.

The present disclosure is directed to a system and method for obtaining a desirable shielding gas flow in a welding device. The system includes a user interface configured for a user to input the size of the nozzle, a processor that is configured to calculate a desirable flow rate of shielding gas based at least in part on the input nozzle size, and a flow regulator that is configured to control the flow of the shielding gas in order to obtain the desirable flow rate.

The present disclosure is directed to a component of a welding device that is configured to produce a shielding gas having a developed flow profile, which provides for a shielding gas column having a laminar profile over a greater length than has been achieved through conventional means. The component utilizes one or more flow restrictors, which are configured to provide higher resistance to the flow of shielding gas at increasing distances from the center of a shielding gas flow channel. By providing increasing resistance toward the periphery of the channel, a developed shielding gas flow profile may be achieved over a relatively short flow length.

The invention relates to an apparatus for feeding welding wire and process gas to a welding device comprising a wire feeding nozzle (1), which has a welding wire channel (4), a nozzle block (2), which is releasably connected to the wire feeding nozzle (1), a profile (3), which is releasably or fixedly connected to the nozzle block (2), has a welding wire channel (6) and can be connected to a welding wire conveying device, wherein the process gas channel (9) of the process gas feeding device is arranged at least partially within the profile (3) and the nozzle block (2) is provided with multiple bores (7), which adjoin the process has channel (9) and are arranged parallel to or at an acute angel of 5 to the welding wire chancel (4) of the wire feeding nozzle (1) and around the wire feeding nozzle (1). In this case, the nozzle block (2) is formed cylindrically in the direction of an end (14) having the wire feeding nozzle (1), wherein the bores (7) arranged within the nozzle block run out into depressions (15) on the surface of the nozzle block (2).

A battery-powered welder with a plurality of quick-connect modular components includes a power source component; a neck assembly component to create an electric arc between an electrode wire and workpiece metal, causing the electrode wire and workpiece metal to melt and join; an electrode spool component including an electrode wire spool reel housing and spool to carry the electrode wire; a wire feed component including a motor to feed the electrode wire from electrode spool component into the neck assembly component; a handle component for holding and operating the battery-powered welder during use; a flexible cable to provide remote attachment of various components to avoid additional hand held weight; a power source component to power the battery-powered welder, wherein the power source component, the neck assembly component, the electrode spool component, the wire feed component, the handle component, the flexible cable, and the power source component include quick connects to allow seamless, simplistic interchange and reconfiguration of the battery-powered welder.

An automated welding system for sealing high level radioactive waste containers in the field at the nuclear plant site. The system includes a programmable portable robotic welder comprising a multi-jointed articulating robotic arm. A welding head operable to form a weld is mounted to the arm. Operation of the robotic welder and ancillary components is controlled by a programmable controller which implements a welding plan. In one embodiment, a circumferentially-extending lid-to-shell hermetic seal weld may be formed by the robotic welder. The weld is completed in multiple welding passes through the weld joint between the lid and shell guided by an automated joint tracking sensor linked to the controller. The highly portable robotic welder is detachably mountable on the lid to perform the welding. An automated pivotable cable-conduit management apparatus keeps electrically conductive wiring and flow tubing out of the path of the rotating robotic arm during welding.

The present invention relates to a measuring apparatus, comprising: an arbitrary waveform generator to generate, and inject to a coupling network, a combination of N test signals; the coupling network to couple the N test signals to an EUT, and the responses thereof and those signals generated by the EUT itself, to a measuring unit; the measuring unit to measure the electrical signals provided by the coupling network; anda processing unit to process the N test signals and the measured electrical signals, to obtain: the electromagnetic signals, noise or EMI generated by the EUT; andthe Z, Y or S parameters of the EUT or any other meaningful set of parameters that can be computed from the aforementioned ones or from voltages and currents. The invention also relates to a measuring method adapted to perform method steps with the apparatus of the invention.

A robotic welding device including a control box configured to pre-store various welding processes and generate a welding parameter. A wire feed mechanism configured to feed a welding wire to a welding gun and a flexible guide rail attached to a welding component. A welding robot including a robot body and a welding gun. A teaching apparatus in communication with the welding robot and the control box, controlling, a traveling path and an operation position of the welding robot, and adjusting oscillation and welding operations of the welding gun according to an instruction of the control box. A remote control terminal in communication with the control box, and in communication with a data acquisition device of the welding robot. The robotic welding device including a welding power supply.