KR101758900B1 - Spot welding quality inspection system - Google Patents
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a welding tip quality inspection system in a spot welding apparatus capable of performing welding monitoring and real-time control of inspection by measuring movement resistance in an automated spot welding process by a robot, for example.
A three-phase power source 37 is supplied to the main body 30 and the upper electrode of the welding tip 31 or the lower electrode of the welding tip 31 'in the resistance welding machine via the welding transformer 32 And the welding material 33 is placed between the welding tip 31 of the upper electrode or the welding tip 31 'of the lower electrode so that the nugget 35 is spot welded by the spot welding, The resistance detection line 34 is connected to the resistance detection board 45 of the timer unit 40 at the upper electrode of the transformer 32 and the welding tip 31 or at the lower electrode of the welding tip 31 ' The upper electrode 31 or the lower electrode 31 'is judged as an abnormality of the tip radius by the real time feedback resistance value at the main board 50 of the main body 40. [
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The present invention relates to a welding tip quality inspection system in a spot welding apparatus capable of performing welding monitoring and real-time control of inspection by measuring movement resistance in an automated spot welding process by a robot, for example.
Spot Welding in a production site is resistance welding in which a metal plate is stacked and an electrode tip is placed below a metal plate and a current and a pressing force are concentrated on a relatively small portion so as to locally heat and apply pressure to the electrode. A spot welding system for spot welding is a process system for joining metals by combining a mechanical device and an electric device to adjust the welding current, welding force, and welding time required for welding will be.
The spot welding system according to the related art includes a power conversion unit for generating a welding current by a control signal of a welder controller and controlling a current amount or a welding time of the generated welding current, a welding transformer for generating a large current to be delivered to the welding object, A welding gun for transmitting an electrode pressing force necessary for a welded portion of the welded material, a welding portion having a pneumatic device for generating an electrode pressing force by a control signal of a welder controller, a power conversion portion, a welding transformer, . Further, the welding drive unit can be realized as a welding robot or in various forms, and a welding control apparatus is also included.
Especially, it is an important process that the welding of about 3000 ~ 4000 RB is applied to the production of one automobile, because it is cheap and the automation is easy because of the low equipment cost. Weldability is deteriorating due to the widely used surface treated steel sheet. Welding monitoring technology in spot welding is considered to be very important because there is no proper nondestructive inspection method that needs to be overcome.
Due to the nature of spot welding, it is difficult to perform non-destructive inspection. Therefore, quality inspection of the welded part is performed by using destructive method of collecting some samples in automobile assembly process. However, this method can not be restored, Welding monitoring and real-time control are required.
Korean Patent Publication No. 10-2012-0032119 (Intelligent Welding Control Apparatus and Control Method) discloses a β-peak time of resistance, which is a beta peak (β peak) The peak-to-peak voltage, the beta-peak resistance at the beta peak, the breakpoint time of resistance, the area of resistance between the beta peak and the inflection point, the peak time of voltage, The weldability was monitored by measurement of the break time of voltage. However, the method of predicting the weldability using these process parameters has been made possible only after the welding process has been completed.
Therefore, there is a growing need for a technology capable of grasping the welding quality in real time during the spot welding process or before the spot welding is completed.
For example, electric resistance welding is performed using Joule's law, and the calorific value Q of the weld is Q = 0.24 * I2 * R * t [cal], where I is the welding current , R is the resistance of the material, and t is the energization time.
When continuous welding is carried out, the resistance value is changed by abrasion of the tip of the electrode or foreign matter or the like, so that the heat of the welded portion is often not normalized. At this time, when the tip of the electrode is worn, the resistance value decreases because the cross-sectional area increases with the resistance = ρ panel thickness / contact area.
Therefore, after a certain number of times of welding, the tip end of the electrode is polished periodically, and the electrode material is copper, so that it is easily worn. When spot welding is performed in the state where the blade of the polishing machine is broken or normal polishing is not performed, welding failure occurs. This is an automation process by a robot, so that a large number of defects are occurring.
In order to prevent such a phenomenon, the resistance at both ends of the electrode is detected and the polishing state of the electrode is monitored. Accordingly, the present inventor has developed a welding tip quality inspection system by measuring the movement resistance in the adaptive control type spot welding.
The present invention has been accomplished in view of the above circumstances, and it is an object of the present invention to provide a method and apparatus for automatically spot welding using a Joule's law, It is an object of the present invention to provide a welding tip quality inspection system in an improved spot welding apparatus capable of monitoring and real-time controlling a welding tip quality inspection by measurement of movement resistance by judging whether or not the tip diameter of the upper electrode or the lower electrode is abnormal have.
In order to accomplish the above object, the present invention provides a welding apparatus for welding an upper electrode or welding tip 31 'of a
Another specific feature of the present invention is that the main board of the CPU board connected to the computer is connected to the resistance detection board and the output of the error signal in a state where the Ethernet communication module of the timer unit is connected via the communication cable; The average value of the resistance values monitored during the welding in the basic value setting step is a reference value, and the average value of the resistance value measured during the welding in the basic value setting step is the reference value, Enter the value as upper limit resistance value or +% value, and enter numerical value as lower limit resistance value or -% value that you want to hold as boundary range.
INDUSTRIAL APPLICABILITY As described above, according to the present invention, the resistance of both ends of the electrode is detected by monitoring the welding tip quality inspection system by the movement resistance measurement in the adaptive control type spot welding, and the polishing state of the electrode is monitored. There is an effect that the whole spot inspection of high quality spot welding can be performed.
1 is a network diagram for explaining a welding tip quality inspection system in a spot welding apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention;
Fig. 2 is a basic structural view of resistance welding showing a welding tip quality inspection system in a spot welding apparatus according to the present invention; Fig.
3 is a functional block diagram for explaining a welding tip quality inspection system in a spot welding apparatus according to the present invention,
FIG. 4 is a detail view showing real time feedback control through the weld between the welding tips shown in FIG. 2;
5 and 6 are test flow charts of the measurement of the moving resistance to explain the welding tip quality inspection system in the spot welding apparatus of the present invention.
Hereinafter, preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.
FIG. 1 is a network diagram for explaining a welding tip quality inspection system in a spot welding apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention. In the automatic spot welding process using a robot, for example, And a welding tip quality inspection system in an improved spot welding apparatus for real time control.
For example, in an automobile manufacturing factory, an automated spot welding process is performed by a robot. At this time, the basic principle of resistance welding used in the welding tip quality inspection method is to pressurize the two welding materials, And resistance heating due to a specific resistance.
Here, the nugget generation process and the dynamic resistance summary of the welded material are performed in the order of pressurization start - pressure completion - melting start - nugget growth. In the spot welding, the width of the end face of the electrode is a method of finding the change of the tip diameter by the current intensity. For example, the adaptive control type is a technique for real time controlling the optimum current corresponding to the welding resistance by measuring the resistance in real time.
A plurality of time-
In some cases, it is possible to monitor the welding of the computer by installing a screen as a display device on the main body, or by installing a dedicated monitor using a communication cable so that the operator can easily use the monitor.
Fig. 2 is a basic configuration diagram of resistance welding showing a welding tip quality inspection system in a spot welding apparatus according to the present invention. Fig. 3 is a functional block diagram illustrating a welding tip quality inspection system in a spot welding apparatus according to the present invention. And FIG. 4 is a detailed view showing a real time feedback control through the welding material between the welding tips shown in FIG.
2, in the course of performing spot welding using Joule's law in the automatic spot welding process by the robot, the
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3, the detection of the end-to-end resistance of the electrode is applied to the
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The electric resistance welding in the present invention presses the
Spot welding is welding using Joule's law. In the calculation formula of the heat of welding, the energization time and the welding current are set. What is the resistance value of the material? Here, the resistance of the welded portion in the equivalent circuit of the welded portion, and the Joule heat causes heat loss due to the electric resistance inside the conductor when a current flows through the conductor.
INDUSTRIAL APPLICABILITY As described above, according to the present invention, the resistance of both ends of the electrode is detected by monitoring the welding tip quality inspection system by the movement resistance measurement in the adaptive control type spot welding, and the polishing state of the electrode is monitored. There is an effect that the whole spot inspection of high quality spot welding can be performed.
5 and 6 are test flow charts of the measurement of the moving resistance to explain the welding tip quality inspection system in the spot welding apparatus of the present invention. In the process of spot welding using Joule's law during the automated spot welding process by the robot, the resistance value of the tip of the welding tip is adjusted to the ideal value The welding tip quality inspection system is a welding tip quality inspection system in an improved spot welding apparatus for welding monitoring and real time control of welding tip quality inspection by moving resistance measurement.
The main board of the timer unit determines whether or not the electrode tip radius is abnormal with the real time feedback resistance value during the welding process, , The value of the monitored resistance value is the reference value, and the upper limit resistance value to be held in the boundary range or the numerical value input as the +% value, and the lower limit resistance value to be held in the boundary range or the numerical value as the -% value.
In the input step, the other points to be measured are inputted (for example, 0 to 100 times are arbitrarily set). For example, in the case of five times of inputting, the average value is calculated for each of five RBs and used as the measured value. The reference counter setting (for example, arbitrary setting of 0 to 50 times) is a range to be determined (for example, five times).
For example, when the abnormal counter is set three times, the number of the measured values input by the other points to be measured is counted out of the upper limit value or the lower limit value boundary range, for example, in the abnormal counter setting (for example, 0 to 50 random setting).
In the judgment step, the reference counter is set to 5 circuits and the ideal counter is set to 3 circuits. Thus, if the number of RBs out of the five RBs is out of the upper limit value or the lower limit value is 3 or more, an ERROR signal is output If not, it is processed normally.
The computer shown in FIG. 3 is configured such that the main board of the CPU substrate connected to the resistance detection board and the output unit of the error signal is operated while the Ethernet communication module of the timer unit is networked through the communication cable.
As shown in FIG. 5, when the resistance abnormality detection is turned on in the main board of the timer unit, the welding tip quality inspection method as the inspection method based on the moving resistance measurement includes a moving average resistance score, a moving average resistance lower limit, The upper resistance limit is displayed on the monitor screen of the computer.
On the monitor screen, the average moving average score is obtained by counting the other points welded in advance based on the last spot, comparing the resistance value obtained by calculating the average value of the five spot points with the reference resistance value, Can be cleared.
The counter above the resistance value and the reference value above the resistance value are displayed on the monitor screen of the computer. And an error signal is output when the number of times of the counter exceeds the resistance value finally.
Here, the abnormality detection method is ① OFF ②
As shown in Fig. 6, the setting conditions are displayed on the monitor screen of the computer as three times of the resistance value or more and five times of the resistance value or more of the resistance value. As shown in the chart, the number of alarms output during the last 5 RBs, or an error signal is output.
INDUSTRIAL APPLICABILITY As described above, the present invention utilizes a welding tip quality inspection system based on moving resistance measurement in adaptive control type spot welding to detect the resistance at both ends of the electrode, thereby monitoring the polishing state of the electrode. Spot welding can be inspected in full.
It is to be understood that the welding tip quality inspection system in the spot welding apparatus of the present invention is not limited to the described embodiments and that various modifications and variations can be made without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention. It is obvious to those who have.
It is therefore intended that such variations and modifications fall within the scope of the appended claims.
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The average value of the resistance values monitored during the welding in the basic value setting step is a reference value and is held in the boundary range. And a numerical value is input as a lower limit resistance value or a lower limit value to be held within a boundary range, and a numerical value is input as a minus value.
In the input step subsequent to the basic value setting step, the other points to be measured are input. For example, when five times of input are made, an average value is calculated for each of the five points, and the measured value is used as a measurement value. It is set 5 times;
The abnormality counter setting is such that when the abnormality counter is set three times, the number of times the value measured by the other point input to be measured is out of the upper limit value or the lower limit value boundary range is counted. system.
Since the reference counter is set to 5 circuits and the ideal counter is set to 3 circuits in the determination step, the error signal is output when the number of the R, G, and B resistances that are out of the upper limit value or the lower limit value is 3 or more , And if not, normal processing is performed.
Wherein the welding monitor in the computer is installed on the main body as a display device or installed with a dedicated monitor using a communication cable so that the operator can easily use the monitor.
Wherein a plurality of time-critical bodies are Ethernet communication via an Ethernet communication through a hub so as to perform welding monitoring and real-time inspection of the inspection by the movement resistance measurement in the computer. .
In the main body, a resistance detection line is connected to the resistance detection board of the timer unit in the welding transformer, the upper electrode of the welding tip, or the lower electrode of the welding tip,
Wherein the abnormality of the tip of the upper electrode or the lower electrode is judged as a real time feedback resistance value at the main board of the timer unit.
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