US 12,000,695 B2
Electrode-misalignment detection device in resistance welder
Keiji Nakamura, Tokyo (JP); Teruhiko Yajima, Tokyo (JP); and Masahiro Yokoi, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to SUBARU CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by SUBARU CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Dec. 13, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/549,590.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-214001 (JP), filed on Dec. 23, 2020; and application No. 2021-149572 (JP), filed on Sep. 14, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0196399 A1, Jun. 23, 2022
Int. Cl. G01B 21/24 (2006.01); B23K 11/30 (2006.01)
CPC G01B 21/24 (2013.01) [B23K 11/3063 (2013.01)] 4 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An electrode-misalignment detection device in a resistance welder configured to join joint members together by holding the joint members between opposing electrodes and applying pressure and electricity to the joint members, the electrode-misalignment detection device comprising:
an electrode misalignment detector configured to simultaneously approach outer peripheries of both of the opposing electrodes in a state where the resistance welder is located at a predetermined position so as to detect misalignment of each of the outer peripheries,
wherein the electrode misalignment detector comprises
a clamping member movable toward the outer peripheries of the both of the opposing electrodes to clamp the opposing electrodes from opposite radially outer sides of the opposing electrodes, in a state where the resistance welder is located at the predetermined position, and settable in a predetermined closed state in a case where each of the opposing electrodes is located at an appropriate position,
a signal generator configured to output a movement state signal according to a movement state of the clamping member toward the outer peripheries of the opposing electrodes,
a non-closed-state detector configured to detect that the clamping member moved toward the outer peripheries of the opposing electrodes is in a state other than the predetermined closed state based on the movement state signal from the signal generator, and
a misalignment determiner configured to determine that either one of the electrodes is misaligned in a case where the non-closed-state detector detects that the clamping member is in the state other than the predetermined closed state.