Patent ID: 8309886
Filing Date: 2012-11-13
Classification: B23K

Abstract:
1. A welding device comprising: a welder power supply; and a setter for setting a welding condition item to the welder power supply, wherein the welder power supply produces an output which powers a welder and which depends upon said welding condition item which is set by the setter wherein the setter includes: a change instruction input section for inputting an instruction that changes a content of the welding condition item in the welder power supply so that said output of said power supply changes; a setter-data transmitter for transmitting the instruction, to the welder power supply; a welder power-supply data receiver for receiving the content of the welding condition item transmitted from the welder power supply; and a display section for displaying the content of the welding condition item received at the welder power-supply data receiver, wherein the welder power supply includes: a setter-data receiver for receiving the instruction transmitted from the setter; a welding-condition-item memory & selector, connected to the setter-data receiver, for storing a plurality of contents of the welding condition item and for selecting the content from the plurality of contents of the welding condition item based on the instruction and independent of the other plurality of contents, stored in the welding-condition-item memory and selector; a welding condition memory for storing data corresponding to the content of the welding condition item; and a welder power-supply data transmitter for transmitting the content of the welding condition item to the setter, where the content is selected by the welding-condition-item memory & selector; wherein the display section of the setter displays the content of the welding condition item, selected by the welding-condition-item memory & selector.