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US 11,453,078 B2Granted
Use of mobile communication devices as user interface for welding equipment and systems
AssigneeLincoln Global, Inc.
InventorsWilliam T. Matthews, Lucian Petrila, Bruce J. Chantry
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Abstract
A welding or cutting system having a power supply with no user interface hardware or software for controlling the operation of the power supply, and a mobile communication device which contains an application allowing for control of the power supply. The mobile device is coupled to the power supply through either a wired or wireless connection.
Claims18
A welding or cutting system, comprising:
- a welding or cutting power supply to respectively perform welding or cutting operations;
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- an off-the-shelf third party mobile communication device having a custom welding or cutting application installed thereon, the custom welding or cutting application programmed to allow:
- a user to respectively input a welding or cutting operation of the welding or cutting operations into the off-the-shelf third party mobile communication device,
- the user to respectively input user-settable welding or cutting operational parameters, excluding waveform parameters, used to control the welding or cutting operation into the off-the-shelf third party mobile communication device, and
- real-time communication of the off-the-shelf third party mobile communication device with the welding or cutting power supply,
- wherein the welding or cutting operation of the welding or cutting operations and the user-settable welding or cutting operational parameters used to control the welding or cutting operation are only able to be input to the welding or cutting power supply via communication with the off-the-shelf third party mobile communication device.
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A welding system, comprising:
- a wire feeder device configured to feed welding wire during a welding operation;
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- an off-the-shelf third party mobile communication device having a custom welding application installed thereon, the custom welding application programmed to allow:
- a user to input user-settable welding operational parameters, excluding waveform parameters, used to control the welding operation into the off-the-shelf third party mobile communication device, and
- real-time communication of the off-the-shelf third party mobile communication device with the wire feeder device,
- wherein the user-settable welding operational parameters used to control the welding operation are only able to be input to the wire feeder device via communication with the off-the-shelf third party mobile communication device.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.