A joining apparatus includes an electrifying/pressurizing head provided with an abutting surface contacting a pressure-receiving surface of a first metal member, joins the first metal member and a second metal member by electrification and pressurization employing the electrifying/pressurizing head, and obtains a joined body in which a joining interface inclines with respect to the pressure-receiving surface. The abutting surface includes: an electrode section capable of electrifying the first metal member; and an insulating section configured from an insulating material. At least a shortest portion where a distance from the joining interface will be shortest, of the pressure-receiving surface will be a non-contact-with-electrode section of non-contact with the electrode section, and the insulating section contacts at least part of the non-contact-with-electrode section.

The present disclosure relates to a projection welding machine, and more particularly, to a projection welding machine for avoiding an accident in which an operator's hand gets caught between an upper electrode unit and a lower electrode unit, and preventing a fault in welding operation from occurring due to incorrect seating of a nut on the lower electrode unit.

A device for inspecting a welded state between a tab, which protrudes from a plurality of electrodes stacked with a separator therebetween, and a lead welded to the tab. The device for inspecting a welded state may include a pair of tab probes, which are in contact with the tab and spaced apart from each other in a width direction of the tab, and a pair of lead probes which are in contact with the lead and spaced apart from each other in a width direction of the lead. Related methods for inspecting the welded state between a tab and a lead thereby are provided.

Provided is a welding monitoring apparatus that monitors a welding state of a V-convergence region in which a strip-shaped metal sheet is converged in a V-shape, when the metal sheet is cylindrically formed while being conveyed, and both side edges of the metal sheet are heated and melted in a manner of being butted each other while being converged in the V-shape, such that an electric resistance welded steel pipe is manufactured. This welding monitoring apparatus includes an image capturing unit that captures images of a region including the V-convergence region in time series; and an image processing unit that extracts a welding point based on the images captured in time series and detects the presence or absence and a position of irregular arcing at the welding point or on an upstream side of the welding point.

The spot-welding electrode inspection device is provided with: a camera unit 2 including a camera body 7 for taking an image of a tip-end of a spot-welding electrode 10 having a welding gun G attached thereto; a control unit 3 for controlling the camera unit 2; a camera cable 4 connecting the camera unit 2 and the control unit. The control unit 3 is provided with: a control substrate 32 for processing the image taken by the camera body 7 and determining the condition of the electrode 10 by comparing a processing result of the image and a setting value which is set in advance; and a metal casing 31 housing the control substrate 32. The casing 31 is attached to a base 11 made of a metal material.

A resistance spot welding method comprises: performing test welding; and performing actual welding after the test welding, wherein the test welding is performed under each of two or more welding conditions. In the test welding, for each of the welding conditions, an electrode force parameter from when electrode force application to parts to be welded starts to when a set electrode force is reached before start of current passage and a time variation curve of an instantaneous amount of heat generated and a cumulative amount of heat generated are stored. In the actual welding: electrode force application to the parts to be welded is performed under each of the same conditions as in the test welding before start of current passage, and a corresponding electrode force parameter and the parameter stored in the test welding are compared for each of the welding conditions to set a target of a time variation curve of an instantaneous amount of heat generated and a cumulative amount of heat generated in the actual welding; and adaptive control welding is performed to control a current passage amount according to the target.

An apparatus includes a housing, a pin, a mechanism and a sensor. The housing is configured to receive a weld head. The pin is configured to move linearly relative to said housing. The mechanism is configured to convert a position of said pin into a displacement. The sensor is configured to generate a value representative of said position of said pin based on said displacement.

The present disclosure generally relates to a welding machine adapted for performing a spot welding process on a workpiece, wherein the welding machine is specifically adapted for automatically applying pre-conditioning a welding pulse portion to the workpiece prior to performing the spot welding process. The present disclosure also relates to a corresponding method and computer program product.

A resistance spot welding method comprises: performing test welding; and performing actual welding after the test welding, wherein in the test welding, 0.2Vtp/Vtm1.5 is satisfied where Vtm is an average value of a voltage between the electrodes in main current passage in the test welding and Vtp is an average value of a voltage between the electrodes in subsequent current passage in the test welding, and in each of main current passage and subsequent current passage in the actual welding, a time variation curve of an instantaneous amount of heat generated per unit volume and a cumulative amount of heat generated per unit volume that are stored in a corresponding one of the main current passage and the subsequent current passage in the test welding are set as a target, and adaptive control welding is performed to control a current passage amount according to the target.

A cap extractor for a welding gun includes a housing, a pair of springs, and first and second arms that are arranged between the springs. Each of the first and second arms have teeth that are configured to engage a welding cap. The first and second arms are configured to move relative to the housing in first and second directions that are transverse to one another by deflecting the springs.