Patents by Inventor Tetsu Innami

Tetsu Innami has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 6987236
    Abstract: A plasma powder welding device in this invention comprises a powder having an identical kind of main component as that of a work piece, a feeder feeding the powder to the work piece, a welding torch generating a plasma between itself and the work piece for focusing the powder fed by the feeder on the work piece and transferring the powder to the work piece, and a power source supplying an electric power to the welding torch, wherein a distance from the welding torch to a focal point to which the powder is focused is set nearly equal to or more than the height of the torch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2006
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tetsu Innami, Hiroyuki Kiso, Hideki Ihara
  • Publication number: 20040159640
    Abstract: A plasma powder welding device in this invention comprises a powder having an identical kind of main component as that of a work piece, a feeder feeding the powder to the work piece, a welding torch generating a plasma between itself and the work piece for focusing the powder fed by the feeder on the work piece and transferring the powder to the work piece, and a power source supplying an electric power to the welding torch, wherein a distance from the welding torch to a focal point to which the powder is focused is set nearly equal to or more than the height of the torch.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2004
    Publication date: August 19, 2004
    Inventors: Tetsu Innami, Hiroyuki Kiso, Hideki Ihara
  • Patent number: 6066831
    Abstract: In an arc start ancillary apparatus, which is connected in parallel to a welding power source for supplying electric power necessary for arc discharge between an electrode and a base metal, for supplying a pulsed electric current in transferring from spark discharge to arc discharge, an object of the present invention is to solve a problem in that arc is not started, and to keep the effective value of current low. A capacitor with a relatively high capacitance is connected to secure a current for transferring from spark discharge to arc discharge, and a D.C. high voltage of a high voltage generator is applied according to a pulse in a period to which the period of pulse signals of a fixed period type high voltage controller is set so that the effective value of the current between an electrode and a base metal is kept low.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2000
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideki Ihara, Tetsu Innami, Jing Bo Wang
  • Patent number: 6037554
    Abstract: A consumable electrode type pulsed arc welder and a controlling method for the same, wherein at least one of a welding current and a welding voltage is output to a wire in accordance with a duty time of a pulse waveform group comprising a first pulse period to form a droplet having a predetermined amount at an end of the wire, a base period to shorten an arc length between the droplet and a base metal, and a second pulse period to detach the droplet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2000
    Assignee: Matsuhita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tetsu Innami, Jingbo Wang, Hideki Ihara
  • Patent number: 5866873
    Abstract: A welding power control apparatus that removes the effects of shorting and noise to accurately detect droplet separation, thereby reducing spatter during droplet separation and when shorting occurs, and stabilizing welding results is achieved. Welding conditions such as welding voltage, welding current, shorting, and droplet separation are detected. Based on thus detected welding conditions, a pulse wave configuration unit generates a steady-state pulse wave and a compensation pulse wave. The steady-state pulse wave is defined by a pulse height for a pulse period and a base height lower than the first pulse height for a base period. The compensation pulse wave defined by a compensation pulse height lower than the pulse height for a compensation period followed by the pulse wave based on said detected welding conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 2, 1999
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jing Bo Wang, Tetsu Innami, Hideki Ihara
  • Patent number: 5834732
    Abstract: In a consumable electrode type pulsed arc welder using a CO.sub.2 shielding gas a voltage detected by a detector (13) is given to a comparator (14) to which a reference voltage of a voltage setting circuit (15) is also inputted. When the detected voltage exceeds the reference voltage, a droplet detachment detection signal is issued. Then, an output adjusting circuit (16) lowers the welder output to a level I.sub.r lower than the ordinary current I.sub.p.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 1995
    Date of Patent: November 10, 1998
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tetsu Innami, Wang Jingbo, Hideki Ihara
  • Patent number: 5270516
    Abstract: An arc welding machine comprises an output control circuit which produces an arc output in accordance with output control signal, an output detection circuit which measures the state of arc output and produces a feedback signal indicative of the output arc state, and a fuzzy inference control circuit which introduces the feedback signal, produces a welding current waveform and welding voltage waveform required to produce the optimal arc state based on the fuzzy inference, and delivers the resulting waveforms to the output control circuit as the output control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 1992
    Date of Patent: December 14, 1993
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Koji Hamamoto, Naoki Kawai, Junzo Tanimoto, Tetsu Innami, Yoshinori Nishida