System for estimating the amount and content of fumes
AssigneeIllinois Tool Works Inc.
InventorsSteven Edward Barhorst, Susan Renata Fiore
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Abstract
A system includes a fume collection system that collects fumes from a welding operation, multiple data sources that detect operational data of the fume collection system and/or of the welding operation indicative of at least two of arc on time, operator factor, electrode feed speed, electrode size, and electrode type, an analysis system that analyzes the operational data and estimates fume data indicative of amount and content of the fumes, and a reporting system configured to populate at least one user viewable electronic report based upon the fume data.
Claims35
A system comprising:
- a fume collection system configured to collect fumes from a welding operation;
- a plurality of data sources configured to detect operational data of the fume collection system and/or of the welding operation indicative of at least two of arc on time, operator factor, electrode feed speed, electrode size, and electrode type;
- an analysis system, comprising at least one processor, configured to analyze the operational data and to estimate fume data indicative of amount and content of the fumes;
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- a reporting system, comprising at least one processor, configured to populate at least one user viewable electronic report based upon the fume data.
A system comprising:
- a fume collection system configured to collect fumes from a fume-generating operation;
- a plurality of data sources configured to detect operational data of the fume collection system and/or of the fume-generating operation;
- an analysis system, comprising at least one processor, configured to analyze the operational data and to estimate fume data indicative of amount and content of the fumes;
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- a reporting system, comprising at least one processor, configured to populate at least one user viewable electronic report based upon the fume data.
A method comprising:
- extracting fumes from a welding operation via a fume extracting system;
- collecting operational data of the fume extracting system and/or of the welding operation from a plurality of data sources;
- automatically analyzing the operational data to estimate fume data indicative of amount and content of the fumes;
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- generating a user viewable electronic report based upon the fume data.
A system comprising:
- a plurality of data sources configured to detect operational data of a fume-generating operation from an empirically determined look up table or a model, without a fume collection system;
- an analysis system, comprising one or more processors, configured to analyze the operational data and to estimate fume data indicative of amount and content of the fumes without measuring the amount and content of the fumes;
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- a reporting system, comprising one or more processors, configured to populate at least one user viewable electronic report based upon the fume data.
A system comprising:
- an analysis system, comprising one or more processors, configured to:
- receive operational data of a welding operation from a plurality of data sources from an empirically determined look up table or a model, without a fume collection system;
- and
- analyze the operational data to estimate fume data indicative of amount and content of the fumes generated by the welding operation without measuring the amount and content of the fumes;
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- a reporting system, comprising one or more processors, configured to populate at least one user viewable electronic report based upon the fume data.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.