Claims
- 1. A continuous hot-rolled sheet bar welding apparatus by which the tail of a preceding sheet bar and the top of a succeeding sheet bar are butted and welded while continuously moving in a rolling direction in a hot rolling line, said apparatus comprising:
- a movable main body traveling device capable of traveling by itself in the rolling direction independent of the continuous movement of the butted sheet bars in the hot rolling line to a position of not less than 4.9 m from an initial position at a distance from a fixed laser beam source while being opposed to the fixed laser beam source,
- said movable main body traveling device including:
- a rolling direction movable reflecting mirror mounted on the main body traveling device for movement with respect to the main body traveling device in the rolling direction independent of movement of the main body traveling device for adjusting to a welding line defined by the butted sheet bars,
- a vertical direction movable reflecting mirror mounted on the main body traveling device for movement with respect to the main body traveling device perpendicular to the rolling direction independent of movement of the main body traveling device for adjusting to thickness change of the sheet bars,
- a width direction focusing unit mounted on the main body traveling device for movement with respect to the main body traveling device transverse to the rolling direction independent of movement of the main body traveling device for conducting a melting welding operation, and
- means for detecting a welding position of the butted sheet bars, said means detecting said welding position while said main body traveling device travels by itself in the rolling direction of the hot rolling line.
- 2. The continuous hot-rolled sheet bar welding apparatus according to one of claim 1, wherein the welding apparatus is of a laser beam type, the welding apparatus includes two pairs of laser processing heads so that both tail and top sides of the sheet bar can be simultaneously cut and welded by laser beams, or one side and the center can be simultaneously cut and welded by laser beams.
- 3. The continuous hot-rolled sheet bar welding apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the welding apparatus is of a laser beam type, and the laser beams are oscillated so that an allowable range of butting accuracy can be increased.
- 4. The continuous hot-rolled sheet bar welding apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said continuous hot-rolled sheet bar welding apparatus recognizes the configuration of the welded portion, said continuous hot-rolled sheet bar welding apparatus further comprising: a semiconductor laser beam oscillator; a band-pass filter for shielding against heat rays from hot sheet bars of which the band width is several nm with respect to the wavelength of the semiconductor laser beam; and means for detecting a welding position composed of a condenser lens and a CCD.
Priority Claims (3)
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5-012471 |
Jan 1993 |
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5-074335 |
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5-236912 |
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Parent Case Info
This application is a continuation of application Ser. No. 08/307,733, filed as PCT/JP94/00127 Jan. 28, 1994 published as WO94/16838 Apr. 8, 1994.
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