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US 11,110,009 B2Granted
Welding helmet for detecting arc data
AssigneeIllinois Tool Works Inc.
InventorsWilliam J. Becker, Kyle A. Pfeifer, Eric T. Sommers
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Abstract
A welding helmet for detecting arc data is provided. One embodiment of the welding helmet includes an arc detection system configured to detect one or more welding arcs that occur during one or more welding operations. The welding helmet also includes control circuitry configured to count a number of the one or more welding arcs detected by the arc detection system. The welding helmet includes a storage device configured to store the number of the one or more welding arcs.
Claims22
A welding helmet, comprising:
- a first sensor disposed on the welding helmet and configured to detect one or more welding arcs that occur during one or more welding operations, wherein the first sensor is an optical sensor;
- a second sensor disposed on the welding helmet, wherein the second sensor comprises at least one of an electromagnetic sensor configured to detect electromagnetic emissions in a non-optical wavelength range, a position sensor, an orientation sensor, a motion sensor, a location sensor, a temperature sensor, a humidity sensor, or a sound level sensor;
- control circuitry configured to:
- lighten or darken a lens assembly of the welding helmet based at least in part on the one or more welding arcs detected by the first sensor;
- determine whether any of the one or more welding arcs detected by the first sensor are false detections based on the second sensor;
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- count a number of the one or more welding arcs detected by the first sensor without including arcs identified as false detections;
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- a storage device configured to store the number of the one or more welding arcs.
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A welding helmet, comprising:
- a first sensor disposed on the welding helmet and configured to detect a plurality of welding arcs that occur during one or more welding operations, wherein the first sensor is an optical sensor;
- a second sensor disposed on the welding helmet, wherein the second sensor comprises at least one of an electromagnetic sensor configured to detect electromagnetic emissions in a non-optical wavelength range, a position sensor, an orientation sensor, a motion sensor, a location sensor, a temperature sensor, a humidity sensor, or a sound level sensor;
- control circuitry configured to:
- lighten or darken a lens assembly of the welding helmet based at least in part on the plurality of welding arcs detected by the first sensor;
- determine whether any of the one or more welding arcs detected by the first sensor are false detections based on the second sensor;
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- determine a duration of each welding arc of a portion of the plurality of welding arcs detected by the first sensor;
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- a storage device configured to store a total duration of the portion of the plurality of welding arcs detected by the first sensor, wherein the total duration of the portion of the plurality of welding arcs detected by the first sensor comprises a sum of the duration of each welding arc of the portion of the plurality of welding arcs.
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A welding helmet, comprising:
- a first sensor disposed on the welding helmet and configured to detect one or more welding arcs that occur during one or more welding operations, wherein the first sensor is an optical sensor;
- a second sensor disposed on the welding helmet, wherein the second sensor comprises at least one of an electromagnetic sensor configured to detect electromagnetic emissions in a non-optical wavelength range, a position sensor, an orientation sensor, a motion sensor, a location sensor, a temperature sensor, a humidity sensor, or a sound level sensor;
- control circuitry configured to:
- lighten or darken a lens assembly of the welding helmet based at least in part on the one or more welding arcs detected by the first sensor;
- determine whether any of the one or more welding arcs detected by the first sensor are false detections based on the second sensor;
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- determine a resettable duration of the one or more welding arcs detected by the arc detection system without including durations of arcs identified as false detections;
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- a storage device configured to store at least one of the resettable duration of the one or more welding arcs detected by the first sensor, a first date that provides a reference point relating to when the resettable duration was last reset, a first time that provides the reference point relating to when the resettable duration was last reset, a second date that provides the reference point relating to when the resettable duration was last zero, or a second time that provides the reference point relating to when the resettable duration was last zero.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.