An apparatus or actuator system having a motor, a housing and a thrust rod or thrust tube, where the actuator is configured to convert rotational motion of the motor into axial motion of the thrust tube for axial motion of a tool coupling therewith. A guide assembly is coupled to the actuator housing, extending along an axis thereof. The guide assembly comprises a guide shaft and a coupling between the guide shaft and the thrust tube, and is configured to provide positional stability for the tool coupling when positioned along the actuator axis by motion of the thrust tube.

A quick release mounting assembly or connector assembly for connecting a wire feeder to a robotic welding system is disclosed. The connector assembly includes an adapter plate configured to mount to a robotic welder of the robotic welding system, a feeder plate configured to couple to a wire feeder of the robotic welding system, and a clamping plate mounted to the adapter plate and configured to clamp the feeder plate to the adapter plate. The feeder plate can be positioned and clamped in place by the clamping plate when the clamping plate is at least partially disposed within a clamping zone.

The present invention provides a low-voltage high-current light-weight spot welding machine, comprising: a welding power supply device, wherein the welding power supply device comprises a casing, a first electrode and a second electrode; a movable arm assembly, comprising a movable arm and at least one nut flange, wherein an end of the movable arm is connected with the at least one nut flange; at least one connection block, provided in between the first conductivity block and the first electrode; a drive assembly, wherein a drive rod of the drive assembly is connected with the at least one nut flange, the drive rod is located at a bottom portion of the casing; a static arm, wherein the static arm is connected with the second electrode via a second conductivity bridge, and the lateral connection plates are rotatably connected at the at least one flange structure; wherein, by connecting the movable arm assembly, the at least one connection block, the drive assembly and the static arm with the lateral connection plates, a bearing connection mechanism of the welding tong of a spot welding machine is formed and the bearing connection mechanism is integrally connected with the welding power supply device. In the present invention, the structural design of the movable arm and the static arm is tight, the welding tongs are designed to be small-sized, detachment between the welding tongs and the welding power supply devices can be done easily and rapid swift of the two kinds of welding tongs can be realized.

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.

A joining apparatus for panel sheets and a joining method for panel sheets using the same are provided. The joining apparatus includes an element punching device which stores and supplies elements according to a specification of a panel sheet and inserts the element into a first panel sheet among different types of panel sheets. Additionally, a welding device resistively welds a part of the first panel sheet into which the element is inserted by the element punching device.

A component loading-welding system for welding a component panel to a vehicle body panel includes a rotation portion body having first and second opposing sides. The first opposing side is coupled to a robot arm. A picking device is installed in the rotation portion body and is configured to hold and release the component panel. A vehicle body pressurizing tip is installed in the rotation portion body. A pressurizing portion body is rotatably installed at the second opposing side of the rotation portion body. A pin clamp is installed in the pressurizing portion body and is configured to clamp the component panel. A component pressurizing tip is installed in the pressurizing portion body and is configured to apply pressure to the component panel. A multi point projection welding method is also disclosed.

A building construction welding apparatus is provided including a rover vehicle having at least one movable arm configured to provide spot welding functionality, the rover vehicle comprising rover drive hardware configured to transport the rover vehicle over an upper corrugated sheet of metal, a crawler configured to travel under a lower corrugated sheet of metal beneath the upper corrugated sheet of metal, the crawler provided with crawler drive hardware and a movable electrode configured to be positioned at a lower position desired weld point, and a central power/data unit connected to the rover vehicle and crawler. The rover vehicle is configured to position one movable arm above the upper corrugated sheet of metal at an upper position desired weld point corresponding to the lower position desired weld point and effectuate a welding function.

A welding cell for a resistance spot welding, its use for resistance spot welding, and a welding method performed therewith are disclosed. The welding cell includes a system for implementing resistance spot welding technology, a data collecting system, a system for improving efficiency of data collection, and a processing, monitoring, and control system. The welding cell includes a data transmission priority manager for adjusting digit capacity, transmission rate and transmission frequency of the digitized signal, separately, for signals of each sensor, and a digital twin controller, which, based on the digitized signal, provides a control signal to the control unit for controlling the electromechanical actuators and moving the electrodes of the welding cell. The welding cell provides for resistance spot welding with predictable and controllable quality, increased performance and reduced requirements to the computing unit performance of the welding cell, and reduced costs for equipping the welding cell.

Disclosed is a tip separation apparatus of a welding gun, which mechanically separates consumable tips installed at the end of the welding gun in a robot welding machine. The tip separation apparatus includes tip seating stands coupled to a main plate configured to maintain level, and configured such that each of the tip seating stands has a first insertion hole, into which a corresponding one of tips coupled to fingers of the welding gun is inserted, tip separation units rotatably disposed on bottom surfaces of the tip seating stands and configured to press outer circumferential surfaces of the tips inserted into the first insertion holes of the tip seating stands so as to clamp the tips and to rotate the clamped tips so as to separate the tips from the welding gun, and a housing configured to rotatably receive the tip separation units in a state of being elastically supported.

A welding device of a robot arm includes a welding machine having a first pressing member which includes a cylindrical first pressing part and a second pressing member which includes a second pressing part inserted into a hollow of the first pressing part. A transformer supplies a positive (+) current to the first pressing member and a negative () current to the second pressing member. The first and second pressing parts have the same co-axis.