US 4,680,014 AGranted

Welder's trainer

AssigneeInstitute Problem Modelirovania v Energetike a An USSR

InventorsBoris E. Paton, Vsevolod V. Vasiliev, Valentin A. Bogdanovsky, Alexandr I. Baranov, Sergei N. Danilyak, Viktor A. Schegolev, Vladimir A. Chernoivanov, Vitaly I. Voloshin, Viktor M. Gavva, Vsevolod N. Bernadsky

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Abstract

The welder's trainer comprises an welding electrode simulator, an electric-arc welding heat balance electronic model, a welding situation visual synthesis electronic model, a welding situation simulator made in the form of a television-type display, to which the welding situation visual synthesis electronic model is connected, and a training control and monitoring unit connected to the display through the visual synthesis electronic model.

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A welder's trainer comprising:

a welding situation simulation unit having an input and made in the form of a TV-type display having a screen:
a welding electrode simulator having an input and an output;
a welding process heat balance electronic model having an input and an output;
a welding situation visual synthesis electronic model having inputs and a first and second outputs;
said first output of said visual synthesis electronic model connected to said display;
a training control and monitoring unit having first, second and third inputs and a first output, said first output connected to said input of said welding electrode simulator, a second output connected to said input of said heat balance electronic model and a third output connected to said input of said visual synthesis electronic model, said first input connected to the output of the welding electrode simulator, said second input connected to the output of the heat balance electronic model and said third input connected to the second output of the visual synthesis electronic model, in which said welding situation simulation unit is connected to said visual synthesis electronic model that provides an electronic model for visual synthesis of the welding situation on the display screen that is part of said welding situation simulation unit;
the welding situation simulation unit is connected to the trainer monitoring and control unit through the visual synthesis electronic model.

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A welder's trainer comprising:

a welding situation simulation unit having an input and made in the form of a television-type display;
a welding electrode simulator having an input and an output;
a heat balance electronic model having an input and an output;
a welding situation visual synthesis electronic model having inputs and a first and a second outputs;
said first output of said welding situation visual synthesis electronic model connected to said display;
a training control and monitoring unit having an input and a first output connected to said input of said welding electrode simulator, a second output connected to said input of said heat balance electronic model, a third output connected to said display, and a fourth output to said input of said welding situation visual synthesis electronic model;
said welding situation visual synthesis electronic model comprising:
a weldpool image generation unit having inputs and an output connected to said input of said training control and monitoring unit;
a grooving image generation unit having an input and an output;
a welding process sparking image generation unit having an input connected to said output of said weldpool image generation unit and to said output of said heat balance electronic model, and an output connected to said input of said welding electrode simulator and to said display;
a welding joint image generation unit having an input connected to said output of said weldpool image generation unit and an input connected to said input of said welding process sparking image generation unit;
a welding situation simulation process timing unit having an input and an output connected to said input of said weldpool image generation unit and to said input of said welding joint image generation unit and to said input of said welding process sparking image generation unit;
a circuit for separation of error signals indicating a deviation of said welding electrode simulator from a weldpool image generation unit center on said screen of said display, the separation circuit connected to said training control and monitoring unit, to said timing unit, to said weldpool image generation unit, and to said welding joint image generation unit.

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