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US 2014/0151351 A1Published application
Systems and methods for wire feed speed control
AssigneeIllinois Tool Works Inc.
InventorsJohn Carmen Granato, JR., Chris John Roehl
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Abstract
A welding system including a fine tuning knob and a coarse adjustment knob for setting a weld wire feed speed are provided. The welding system may include a welder having the coarse adjustment knob and a spool gun having the fine tuning knob. A user may adjust the knob on the welder to set a coarse adjustment wire feed speed and may adjust the knob on the spool gun to fine tune the wire feed speed setting.
Claims21
-20. (canceled)
A welding system, comprising:
- a welding power supply comprising a control panel, wherein the control panel comprises:
- a first adjustment configured to be adjusted by an operator to input a material thickness;
- and
- a second adjustment configured to be adjusted by the operator to place the welding power supply in an auto-set mode, wherein when the welding power supply is placed in the auto-set mode, the welding power supply is configured to automatically determine a coarse wire feed speed;
- and
- a welding gun comprising a third adjustment configured to be adjusted by the operator to fine tune the coarse wire feed speed.
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A welding system, comprising:
- a welding power supply;
- a welding gun configured to couple to the welding power supply;
- a first adjustment configured to be adjusted by an operator to activate an autoset feature and configure the welding power supply to automatically determine a coarse wire feed speed based on the position of the first adjustment;
- a second adjustment configured to be adjusted by the operator to set a material thickness;
- a third adjustment configured to be adjusted by the operator to fine tune the coarse wire feed speed;
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- wherein the third adjustment is located on one of the welding power supply and the welding gun, and the first and second adjustments are located on the other of the welding power supply and the welding gun not having the third adjustment.
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A welding system, comprising:
- a welding power supply;
- a welding gun configured to couple to the welding power supply;
- and
- wherein a first adjustment configured to be adjusted by an operator to set a coarse wire feed speed, a second adjustment configured to be adjusted by the operator to fine tune the wire feed speed, and a third adjustment separate from the first and second adjustments and configured to be adjusted by the operator to set a weld voltage level, a material thickness, or both are each located on at least one of the welding power supply and the welding gun.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.