US Patent Issued to KOBE STEEL on Feb. 4 for "Welding state determination system and welding state determination method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,214,450, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to KOBE STEEL LTD. (Hyogo, Japan).

"Welding state determination system and welding state determination method" was invented by Tatsuya Fujii (Hyogo, Japan), Tsutomu One (Hyogo, Japan) and Atsushi Fukunaga (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This welding state determination system acquires, for each weaving cycle, a characteristic amount that pertains to a physical quantity that changes according to the cycle of a weaving operation. A degree of abnormality is calculated based on an observation value that is the characteristic amount acquired in one cycle, and the average and standard devi...