ORBITAL WELDING DEVICE WITH IMPROVED RESIDUAL OXYGEN MEASUREMENT

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ORBITAL WELDING DEVICE WITH IMPROVED RESIDUAL OXYGEN MEASUREMENT

This abstract first appeared for US patent application 18823376 titled 'ORBITAL WELDING DEVICE WITH IMPROVED RESIDUAL OXYGEN MEASUREMENT

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An orbital welding device (), having a welding current source () in a welding current source housing () and an orbital welding head (), which is separate from the welding current source housing () and is connected to the welding current source () by a cable (), the orbital welding head () having a pipe mount () and a welding electrode holder () for holding a welding electrode (). An electric motor () is designed to drive the welding electrode holder () and thus turn it with respect to the pipe mount (). The orbital welding head () has a chamber () for shielding gas. An optical oxygen sensor () is designed to measure an oxygen concentration in a measuring region () in the chamber (). The oxygen sensor () is arranged outside the chamber () and is optically coupled to the measuring region () by an optical coupling.