US Patent Issued to Hitachi on Sept. 1 for "Welding system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,220, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Hitachi Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Welding system" was invented by Naoki Morihira (Tokyo), Kazutoshi Sugie (Tokyo), Makoto Ogata (Tokyo) and Seunghwan Park (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A welding system includes: a setting apparatus configured to move a material to be welded to a desired welding position according to a disturbance condition of the material to be welded 1; a welding robot configured to weld, according to a working condition, the material to be welded moved by the setting apparatus; an inspection apparatus configured to inspect a welding quality of the material to be welded that is w...