Patent ID: 8757469
Filing Date: 2014-06-24
Classification: B23K,G05B,G06N

Abstract:
1. A system comprising: a welding horn; an anvil positioned adjacent to the welding horn, wherein the welding horn is configured to clamp against the anvil and form a weld on a work piece during a repeatable vibration welding process; a plurality of sensors positioned with respect to the welding horn; a host machine and a learning machine each having a respective processor in electrical communication with the plurality of sensors; and tangible, non-transitory memory on which is recorded instructions for predicting a binary quality status of the welds formed via the vibration welding process, wherein the binary quality status includes only a passing binary class and a failing binary class, and wherein the learning machine is configured to execute the instructions via the processor to thereby: wherein the host machine is configured to compare the received signals for a subsequent weld to boundaries of the recorded dimensional space during the repeatable vibration welding process to thereby predict, in real time, the binary quality status of the subsequent weld.