WELDING HELMET WITH HEADS UP DISPLAY

摘要

A welding system and welding helmet is provided, where the welding helmet is capable of providing an image representative of information from an associated welding operation where the image appears as a head-up display (HUD) in the welding helmet. The helmet displays the information at a focal point which coincides with a working distance of a welding operation so that a user need not change his/her focus during a welding operation.

主权项

1. A welding helmet, comprising:
a main body portion; a visual display portion which is coupled to the main body portion, where said display portion allows a welding operation to be viewed with said display portion; an information generating mechanism which generates an image to be displayed on said visual display portion said that said image is viewable during said welding operation; and a wireless communication device coupled to said information generating mechanism which receives information to be displayed in said image; wherein said image is generated by said information generating mechanism is generated having a visual focal range which is located beyond said visual display portion at a position outside of said main body portion and wherein said focal range is correlated to a work area for said welding operation.