US Patent Issued to Kobe Steel on Sept. 22 for "Control method for portable welding robot, welding control device, portable welding robot, and welding system" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,741,333, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Kobe Steel Ltd. (Kobe, Japan).

"Control method for portable welding robot, welding control device, portable welding robot, and welding system" was invented by Takashi Yashima (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method controls a portable welding robot to ensure good bead appearance even where a workpiece corner and a curved section of a guide rail are not located on a concentric circle and where there is a large difference in curvature between the workpiece corner and the curved section of the guide rail. A portable welding robot sets a guide rail with respect to a workpiece hav...