Patent ID: 11931830
Assignee: KOBE STEEL, LTD.
Field: Machine tools (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B | IPC B

Claim 13:
14. The method of claim 2, further comprising:
providing a forced separation control period for forcibly promoting separation of a molten droplet in a case where a separation cycle of the molten droplet, which is defined as a total period of the separation control period and the normal arc period, exceeds a monitoring time Tarc set in advance,
wherein the monitoring time Tarc is in a range of from 10 ins to 60 ms, and
wherein the monitoring time Tarc in ms, the setting current Icc in A, and a wire diameter d in mm of the welding wire satisfy relationship (3):

10≤(d/1.2)×(350/Icc)×Tarc≤80  (3).