US Patent Issued to Spinduction Weld on Sept. 29 for "Parallel robotics system and method of induction kinetic hybrid welding processes" (Canadian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,626, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Spinduction Weld Inc. (Calgary, Canada).

"Parallel robotics system and method of induction kinetic hybrid welding processes" was invented by David Grant Lingnau (Calgary, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "With the present invention, the combination of amplitudes and velocities of rotary and axial motions required for an Induction-Kinetic Welding (IKW) process are achieved with Stewart Platforms, also known as parallel actuators, which typically have 6-DoF. The 6-DoF systems are used to generate the kinetic heating essential to the IKW process. Another new welding process uses only axial (...