US Patent Issued to Huys Industries on March 25 for "Vibrating welding apparatus and method" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,655, issued on March 25, was assigned to Huys Industries Ltd..

"Vibrating welding apparatus and method" was invented by Nigel Scotchmer (Willowdale, Canada) and Franklin Rementer (Dover, Del.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A welding electrode apparatus may be mounted to a robot that presents it to a workpiece along a pre-programmed path conforming to the surface of the workpiece. The welding electrode apparatus has a first drive for rotating the welding electrode about its own axis. The electrode handle has a second rotating drive having an imbalance to impose vibration on the welding rod transverse to the axis of the rod. The first...