Position sensing a location pin in a welding electrode
AssigneeNBN Innovations, LLC
InventorTimothy P. Granger
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Abstract
An apparatus includes a housing, a lever, a plurality of gears and a sensor. The housing may be configured to receive a weld head. The lever may be rotatably attached to the housing and configured to convert a linear position of a free end of the lever relative to the housing into a first angular position of a first shaft relative to the housing. The gears may be configured to transform the first angular position of the first shaft to a second angular position of a second shaft. The sensor may be coupled to the second shaft and configured to generate a value representative of the linear position of the free end of the lever by a measurement of the second angular position of the second shaft.
Claims20
An apparatus comprising:
- a housing configured to receive a weld head;
- a lever rotatably attached to said housing and configured to convert a linear position of a free end of said lever relative to said housing into a first angular position of a first shaft relative to said housing;
- a plurality of gears configured to transform said first angular position of said first shaft to a second angular position of a second shaft;
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- a sensor coupled to said second shaft and configured to generate a value representative of said linear position of said free end of said lever by a measurement of said second angular position of said second shaft.
A method for position sensing in a welding electrode, comprising the steps of:
- (A) converting a linear position of a free end of a lever relative to a housing into a first angular position of a first shaft relative to said housing using said lever;
- (B) transforming said first angular position of said first shaft to a second angular position of a second shaft using a plurality of gears;
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- (C) generating a value representative of said linear position of said free end of said lever by a measurement of said second angular position of said second shaft.
An apparatus comprising:
- means for housing configured to receive a weld head;
- means for converting a linear position of a free end of said means for converting relative to said means for housing into a first angular position of a first shaft relative to said means for housing;
- means for transforming said first angular position of said first shaft to a second angular position of a second shaft;
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- means for generating a value representative of said linear position of said free end of said means for converting by a measurement of said second angular position of said second shaft.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.