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Article: New-generation welder answers users' requests.(keeping up: auxiliaries)
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- Plastics Technology
- Article date:
- September 1, 2009
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Customers requested enhanced process control, faster tool changes and setup, and increased speed and efficiency of the welding process. Based on those needs, Herrmann Ultrasonics, Inc., Bartlett, Ill., developed the new "HiQ evolution" ultrasonic welder, described as "a new machine concept" different from current welding systems.
Time and energy savings are said to be provided by the freely programmable stroke. This new feature is said to allow for optimized sonotrode motion. After weld completion, the sonotrode retracts just enough for part removal and loading of new parts. The complete stroke is used only for home position and tool change. Depending on the job, ...