US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on May 27 for "Touch-start welding method between coils of different height and device thereof" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,480, issued on May 27, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Touch-start welding method between coils of different height and device thereof" was invented by Kenichiro Murata (Tochigi, Japan), Takeshi Yanagisawa (Tochigi, Japan) and Akifumi Sudo (Tochigi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A TIG welding device (10) includes a welding robot (11), robot control device (12), welding torch (13), welding control device (14), gas feeder (15), and a height detection device (16). The welding torch (13) is set at a reference position, and the height detection device (16) detects the respective heights of two tip parts (4e). The rob...