B23K 9/0731
Stabilising of the arc tension
Official title: {Stabilising of the arc tension}
B23K9/0731 (Stabilising of the arc tension) appears on 31 US grants and 19 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B23K- Granted patents
- 31
- Published applications
- 19
- Assignees
- 18
- Inventors
- 70
- Latest grant
- 3 Feb 2026
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| 2024 | 3 | 1 |
| 2025 | 1 | 0 |
| 2026 | 1 | 0 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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- Current limiting secondary contact13 Feb 2024US 11,897,059 B2Illinois Tool Works Inc.
- Welding power supply device30 Jan 2024US 11,883,912 B2DAIHEN Corporation
- Systems and methods to provide welding-type arc starting and stabilization with reduced open circuit voltage8 Aug 2024US 2024/0261884 A1Illinois Tool Works Inc.
- Systems and methods to control welding processes using a voltage-controlled control loop5 Aug 2021US 2021/0237189 A1Illinois Tool Works Inc.
- Systems and methods to provide welding-type arc starting and stabilization with reduced open circuit voltage6 May 2021US 2021/0129250 A1Illinois Tool Works Inc.
- Apparatus for controlling AC weld current by means of an arc igniter25 Feb 2021US 2021/0053134 A1
- Method and system for hot-wire strip wire deposition and cladding9 Jul 2020US 2020/0215636 A1Lincoln Electronic, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Control for gas metal arc welding system50US 4,794,232 AKinetic Energy Corporation · 1988
- Arc welder with timed control of arcing recovery and means for reducing weight, size, and power loss in the welder34US 5,343,017 ASansha Electric Manufacturing Company, Limited · 1994
- Welding system and method for arc starting and control32US 3,934,110 A1976
- Constant voltage DC arc welding apparatus32US 4,442,339 AMitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha · 1984
- Gas-shielded AC arc welding method and machine making use of consumable electrode21US 6,207,927 B1Hitachi Seiko Ltd. · 2001