ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,670, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Welding apparatus and control method for welding apparatus" was invented by Taisei Wakisaka (Tokyo) and Noriyuki Unose (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Welding-apparatus configured to weld base-material through wire-material melted by welding-laser, includes: laser-applicator configured to apply welding-laser to welding-area; wire-feeder configured to feed wire-material to welding-area; detector provided on wire-feeder and configured to detect feed-amount of wire-material or reaction-force from wire-material; moving-unit configured to move welding-area or wir...