Patent ID: 8809740

Claim:
A two-electrode welding method that uses two wire-shaped consumable electrodes to which an electric current is supplied from two independent welding sources, the method comprising: forming a molten pool with a leading electrode wire of a leading electrode that precedes in a welding direction; and inserting a trailing electrode wire of a trailing electrode that succeeds in the welding direction into the molten pool to form a single molten pool, wherein the leading electrode is used to perform gas-shielded arc welding in which the leading electrode wire is melted by generating an arc; the trailing electrode is an energized filler in which the temperature of the trailing electrode wire is increased by electric resistance heating through energization without generating an arc, and after the trailing electrode wire is inserted into the molten pool, the trailing electrode wire is melted through heat conduction of the molten pool; the trailing electrode includes a guide lead or guide tip having no energizing function but only a function of determining a position of the molten pool into which the trailing electrode wire is to be inserted; the trailing electrode wire protrudes from the guide lead or guide tip and is energized from an energizing tip disposed at a position on a welding machine side of the guide lead or guide tip; a distance D L between a welding surface and an end of the energizing tip closest to the welding surface is at least 100 mm and no more than 1500 mm; a distance D E between the leading electrode and the trailing electrode on the welding surface is 10 mm or less; an electric current of the leading electrode is at least 250 A; an electric current of the trailing electrode is at least 10 A and no more than 50% of the electric current of the leading electrode; and a feeding speed of the trailing electrode wire is at least 20% and no more than 50% of a feeding speed of the leading electrode wire.