US Patent Issued to Hitachi on Dec. 23 for "Welding control device, welding robot system, and welding control method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,502,724, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Hitachi Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Welding control device, welding robot system, and welding control method" was invented by Naoya Okizaki (Tokyo), Akihide Tanaka (Tokyo), Kazutoshi Sugie (Tokyo), Naoki Morihira (Tokyo), Isamu Takahashi (Tokyo), Xudong Zhang (Tokyo) and Seunghwan Park (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A master unit includes a welding DB in which prescribed motion data associated with an object to be welded is stored, a state sensor which measures, as welding state data, a situation of welding by a robot which executes welding in a real environment according to the prescribed motion dat...