Patent Document ID: 10036731
Application ID: 15087461
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A welding assembly for in-line spot welding using welding electrodes of a welding machine, the welding assembly comprising: a non-destructive weld testing system configured to monitor the welding electrodes during spot welding of the spot welds and analyze weld data generated during the spot welding to determine whether a spot weld is an anomaly, the weld testing system comprising: a non-destructive weld testing tool mounted on a robot and being robotically controlled, the weld testing tool having a phased-array ultrasonic transducer configured to test spot welds in-line that are determined by the weld testing system to be anomalies; and a control module configured to control movement of the weld testing tool to test anomalous spot welds in response to the weld testing system determining that the anomalous spot welds are anomalies.