Wire feeder
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorsDoojin Kim, Byongjoo Kim, Youngsu Kang, Kwanhyub Nam, Hyunjin Lim
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Abstract
A wire feeder includes a cartridge disposed in a supply position and having a wire spool wound with a wire, and including an outlet portion through which the wire is drawn outwardly along an internal travel path, an air guide disposed on a wire supply path and including a first inlet portion through which the wire drawn out from the outlet portion is drawn in, wherein the first inlet portion is aligned with the outlet portion on the wire supply path, a sensor disposed at the first inlet portion of the air guide, and a first vacuum line generating a vacuum in an interior of the first inlet portion according to a detection of the wire at the first inlet by the sensor.
Claims20
A wire feeder comprising:
- a cartridge disposed in a supply position and having a wire spool wound with a wire, and including an outlet portion through which the wire is drawn outwardly along an internal travel path;
- an air guide disposed on a wire supply path and including a first inlet portion through which the wire drawn out from the outlet portion is drawn in, wherein the first inlet portion is aligned with the outlet portion on the wire supply path;
- a sensor disposed at the first inlet portion of the air guide;
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- a first vacuum line generating a vacuum in an interior of the first inlet portion according to a detection of the wire at the first inlet portion by the sensor.
A wire feeder comprising:
- a main body including a mounting part configured to secure a cartridge in a supply position, the cartridge having a wire spool wound with a wire;
- an air guide disposed on a wire supply path and including a first inlet guide tube through which the wire drawn out from an outlet guide tube of the cartridge is drawn in, wherein the first inlet guide tube and the outlet guide tube are aligned on the wire supply path;
- a sensor disposed at the first inlet guide tube of the air guide, wherein the first inlet guide tube is configured to contact the outlet guide tube;
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- a first vacuum line generating a vacuum in the first inlet guide tube according to a detection of the wire by the sensor.
A wire feeder comprising:
- a cartridge disposed at a supply position and having a wire spool wound with a wire and an outlet guide tube through which the wire is drawn outwardly along an internal travel path;
- an air guide disposed on a wire supply path, and including a first inlet guide tube into which the wire drawn out from the outlet guide tube is drawn in, and a first outlet guide tube through which the wire drawn inwardly from the first inlet guide tube is drawn out, wherein the first inlet guide tube and the outlet guide tube are aligned on the wire supply path;
- a sensor detecting the wire drawn into the first inlet guide tube of the air guide;
- a wire tension member disposed on the wire supply path, and including a second inlet guide tube into which the wire drawn out from the air guide is drawn in and a second outlet guide tube from which the wire is drawn out;
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- a plurality of vacuum lines sequentially generating vacuum inside the first inlet guide tube, the first outlet guide tube, the second inlet guide tube and the second outlet guide tube when the wire being introduced into the first inlet guide tube is detected by the sensor.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.