Abstract: A bushing for a track assembly, according to one or more embodiments, includes: a tubular bushing substrate having a longitudinal length and an outer surface; and at least one white iron member fixed to the outer surface of the tubular bushing substrate.

Abstract: A smart susceptor assembly, including a smart susceptor, and a cladding disposed on at least a portion of the smart susceptor, wherein the cladding includes an electrically conductive material.

Abstract: A system for automatically brazing joints in a manifold has a loading station, a brazing station, and a cooling station. The brazing station has a plurality of brazing torches moveable to a joint in the manifold to braze the joint. First, second and third fixture frames extend from a common rotatable platform. The platform rotates each of the fixture frames to each of the loading station, brazing station, and cooling station in turn. The fixture frames support manifolds with joints requiring brazing. The torches are disposed on a lifting platform that lifts the torches up to a desired joint. The lifting platform is disposed on a sliding platform that slides the torches horizontally to the desired joint. The torches surround the joint and braze it from all sides simultaneously. While brazing is being performed at the brazing station, loading and unloading of manifolds may be done at the loading station, and cooling of already-brazed manifolds may take place at the cooling station.

Abstract: A first tooling die and a second tooling die are movable with respect to each other. The first tooling die and the second tooling die form a die cavity. The first tooling die and the second tooling die comprise a plurality of stacked metal sheets. A plurality of air gaps is defined between adjacent stacked metal sheets. A first smart susceptor material is within the die cavity and connected to the first tooling die. The first smart susceptor material has a first Curie temperature. A second smart susceptor material is within the die cavity and associated with the second tooling die. The second smart susceptor material has a second Curie temperature lower than the first Curie temperature. A flexible membrane is between the second tooling die and the first smart susceptor material. The flexible membrane is configured to receive pressure.

Abstract: The disclosed technology includes a thermal management hinge connecting at least two hinged components of a computing device. The thermal management hinge has at least two different thermal orientations for managing thermal conditions within each of the hinged components. For example, the thermal management hinge may have a thermally conductive orientation and the thermally insulating orientation.

Abstract: A system for joining articles includes a joining unit; a positioning unit coupled to the joining unit, the positioning unit positioning the joining unit; a vision system obtaining an image of an item to be joined on a workpiece; a controller for processing the image and controlling a position of the joining unit relative to the item to be joined in response to the image; and a temperature probe for monitoring a temperature; wherein the controller adjusts the position of the joining unit in response to the temperature.

Abstract: A coaxially arranged smart susceptor conductor, comprising a smart susceptor core comprising an alloy having a first Curie temperature point and a first smart susceptor shell coaxially arranged around the smart susceptor core. The first smart susceptor shell comprising a second Curie temperature point that is different than the first Curie temperature point of the smart susceptor core. In one arrangement, the second Curie temperature point of the first smart susceptor shell is lower than the first Curie temperature point of the smart susceptor core. In another arrangement, the smart susceptor conductor further comprises a second smart susceptor shell disposed about the first smart susceptor shell. The second smart susceptor shell comprising a third Curie temperature point.

Abstract: An induction heating system employs a ferromagnetic susceptor mounted proximate an exterior of flight surface of an aircraft. At least one electrically conductive coil is mounted proximate the ferromagnetic susceptor. The at least one electrically conductive coil is powered by a first power source with a first frequency. At least one compensating coil is mounted proximate the ferromagnetic susceptor having a geometry determined to provide substantially net-zero flux with respect to the at least one electrically conductive coil and positioned to induce induction heating where the first plurality of electrically conductive coils lacks induced inductive heating coverage. The at least one compensating coils is powered by a second AC power source with a second frequency.

Abstract: Disclosed are a method of manufacturing a non-slip plate and a non-slip plate manufactured thereby. The method includes preparing a base metal plate for joint design, washing and surface treatment, preparing a non-slip material, adhering the non-slip material to the bonding surface of the base metal plate to form a protrusion, and brazing the base metal plate having the non-slip material adhered thereto in a brazing furnace. The non-slip plate is applied to vehicles to impart non-slip performance thereto, and can be semi-permanently used.

Abstract: A heat-bonding apparatus and method of manufacturing a heat-bonded product not allowing the temperature of the object to be heat-bonded to overshoot greatly from a specified target temperature, and setting the temperature of the object to the target temperature in a shorter time and with higher efficiency and accuracy than the conventional when heat-bonding in vacuum. A heat-bonding apparatus having a vacuum chamber for housing an object to be heat-bonded and a buffer part, a heater for the buffer part in contact with the object in the chamber, a cooler for the buffer part, a sensor for detecting temperature of the object heated through the buffer part and a controller for controlling the temperature of the object to be the target temperature by adjusting heat discharge from the buffer part with the cooler based on the detected temperature of the object.

Abstract: A heat treatment apparatus configured to perform a heat treatment on a plurality of substrates, including: a processing vessel configured to accommodate the plurality of substrates on which the heat treatment is performed; an electromagnetic induction source configured to generate an oscillating magnetic field having a high frequency within the processing vessel; and a substrate holding element having a plurality of heating elements arranged in a vertical direction and spacers interposed between the adjacent heating elements, the heating element being made of a conductive material and allowing an induced current caused by the oscillating magnetic field to flow therein to generate heat, the substrate holding element supporting the substrates in a state where the substrates are mounted on the heating elements.

Abstract: A system includes a layered structure. The layered structure includes first and second coalesced layers and an intermediate layer disposed between the first and second coalesced layers. The first and second coalesced layers have a higher degree of coalescence than the intermediate layer.

Abstract: A bond head assembly for bonding a semiconductor element to a substrate is provided. The bond head assembly includes a base structure, a heater, and a clamping system securing the heater to the base structure. The clamping system includes a plurality of elastic elements constraining the heater along a plurality of axes.

Abstract: A method is described for producing a sawing bead for use in a sawing cord. Sawing cords are used for cutting hard and brittle materials. In the method, laser cladding is used to form an abrasive layer on a small metallic tube (204) or sleeve. The abrasive layer (220) comprises a metal matrix material in which abrasive particles such as diamond, cubic boron nitride or other hard cutting materials are embedded. The metal matrix material preferably comprises an active metal that improves wetting and adhesion of the abrasive particles. Although the abrasive particles are relative large—with a particle size in excess of 100 ?m—they are evenly distributed throughout the abrasive layer. This is achieved by letting the tube (204) rotate relative to the laser cladding system possibly in combination with a relative axial movement so that the cladding track loops on itself thereby forming an abrasive layer (220). Additionally the method allows to shape the sawing bead for improved geometrical tolerances and centricity.

Abstract: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for annealing an ammunition cartridge that include an inductive coil, the inductive coil substantially encompassing the sides of an annealing chamber, the inductive coil including a first portion comprising a first diameter and a second portion comprising a second diameter, wherein the first diameter is larger than the second diameter. Apparatus, system and method may also include an insert, the insert encompassing the sides of the annealing chamber, and a cartridge case that is unevenly heated such that the cartridge case obtains at least a first hardness at a first location and a second hardness at a second location, the first hardness different from the second hardness.

Abstract: The invention discloses a brazing method for a glass Kovar combination and an oxygen-free copper, wherein the glass Kovar combination, the silver-based solder and the oxygen-free copper are placed within a quartz room with the pressure of 3.0×10?5˜7.0×10?5 Pa. The quartz room is heated by the coils of the high-frequency induction power; and the quartz room stops being heated quickly until reaching the melting temperature of the silver-based solder and then being cooled. The invention further discloses a corresponding brazing device, which simplifies the processing technology in the electronic vacuum industry, reduces the rejection rate greatly, has significant industrial economic value and is the important method of the energy conservation and environment protection. It enables the brazing process time to be short; the energy consumption to be reduced; the whole brazing process to be visible; the temperature to be monitored; and the manufacturing cost to be greatly reduced.

Abstract: A clad welding method, which can prevent the occurrence of incomplete fusion, and can cover the surface of a base material over a wide range with a weld metal, while suppressing the dilution of the weld metal, by use of a relatively simple technique, is provided. For this purpose, a welding heat input is increased at a location where one end (10a) of a preceding weld bead (10) and the other end (20b) of a succeeding weld bead (20) overlap, as compared with a welding heat input at a location where the preceding weld bead (10) and the succeeding weld bead (20) do not overlap, to produce a deep penetration portion (12a) involving locally deep penetration (12).

Abstract: Various embodiments of the invention include solutions for chamber-less thermal joining. A first aspect includes a system for performing a thermal joining of a joint space defined by a metallic part without an environmental chamber thereabout. The system may include an induction coil for heating an area adjacent to the joint space defined by the metallic part for the thermal joining of the joint space. The system may also include a gas lens for directing a shielding gas towards the joint space, and a valve system for controlling a flow of the shielding gas from the gas lens. A vacuum system creates a negative pressure in the metallic part to urge the shielding gas through the joint space during the thermal joining, thus allowing thermal joining of the metallic part without an environmental chamber thereabout.

Abstract: Apparatus and method are provided for an electric induction brazing process in an inert atmosphere using a substantially oxygen-free copper alloy filler or preform under an inert atmosphere within a brazing chamber minimally sized for containment of the brazed joint region and an induction coil. The inert atmosphere may be nitrogen gas supplied from a liquid nitrogen source. For brazing of an open-interior fitting around a hole in a tubular material a nesting area is provided around the hole for seating of the filler or preform and the fitting.

Abstract: A welding head is provided. The welding head includes a bracket and a plurality of blocks coupled to the bracket. Each of the plurality of blocks has a contact tip. The contact tips are adapted to receive an electrode. Further, at least one of the plurality of blocks is capable of variable positioning relative to the bracket.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for processing a modular hybrid component having a first part made of a first material and a second part made of a second material, which is different from the first material with regard to its electromagnetic and/or thermal properties. The method including exposing the modular hybrid component to an alternating electromagnetic field, whereby both parts are heated up differently, and that a brazing or soldering joint or field sensitive mineral cement between the first part and the second part is affected by the heating action.

Abstract: A hybrid diffusion-brazing process and hybrid diffusion-brazed article are disclosed. The hybrid diffusion-brazing process includes providing a component having a temperature-tolerant region and a temperature-sensitive region, brazing a braze material to the temperature-tolerant region during a localized brazing cycle, then heating the component in a furnace during a diffusion cycle. The brazing and the heating diffusion-braze the braze material to the component, and the localized brazing cycle is performed independent of the diffusion cycle in the hybrid diffusion-brazing process. The hybrid diffusion-brazed article includes a component, and a braze material diffusion-brazed to the component with a filler material. The filler material has a melting temperature that is above a tolerance temperature of the component.

Abstract: A downhole tool and method for manufacturing such downhole tool. The downhole tool includes a bit body having a blank and a matrix bonded to and surrounding the blank, a shank having a threaded connection at one end, and a butt joint formed within a gap formed between the blank and the shank and coupling the blank to the shank. The blank includes a first planar surface while the shank includes a second planar surface opposite the one end. The butt joint is formed between the first and second planar surfaces when positioned adjacent to one another, wherein the first planar surface is positioned external to the matrix.

Abstract: A system for forming a brazed joint between a tie wire and a workpiece, and methods therefor are presented. The system includes: a braze chamber including an induction heating coil, the induction heating coil having magnetic flux concentrators thereon; and a controller receiving a temperature feedback signal from a temperature sensor on a tie wire and controlling a temperature of a section of the tie wire to be brazed by controlling an electrical current applied to the induction heating coil.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for manufacturing an air/fluid heat exchanger (1), said method comprising at least the following steps: a) on a first sheet metal plate (2), a plurality of tight folds are formed, said folds acting as fins (3), or, alternatively, the first sheet metal plate (2) comprising a first portion (2a) and a second portion (2b), tight folds (3) are formed only on the first portion (2a); said first sheet metal plate (2) or said first portion (2a) forming a sheet metal plate in the upper position; b) the tight folds (3) are opened on a portion across their height; c) the first sheet metal plate (2) obtained in step b) is placed on a second sheet metal plate (6), said second sheet metal plate (6) forming a sheet metal plate in the lower position, or, alternatively, the first portion (2a) obtained in step b) is folded on the second portion (2b), said second portion (2b) forming a sheet metal plate in the lower position, d) the tight portion of the folds (3) is brazed and the

Abstract: A sealing device for slot-type vacuum glass is provided with a slot (11) through which a glass sheet to be sealed passes, inductive heating coils (14) are arranged around the slot, and the circumference of the glass sheet to be sealed is gradually hermetically sealed through metal brazing process as the glass sheet to be sealed passes through the slot via conveyor rollers (13). The device is further provided with a casing (10-1) and press wheels or rollers (15), and the slot extends through the casing, the inductive heating coils are arranged inside the casing around the slot, the press wheels or rollers (15) are set in the casing. The device is only required to be arranged in the middle of conveyor rollers in order to ensure that the glass sheet can pass through the slot, thereby simplifying equipment and sealing process, enhancing sealing efficiency.

Abstract: A brazing method connects an assembly made up of a pipe, a component provided with an opening, and a compensation element. The compensation element includes a support section and an insertion section that is arranged between an end of the pipe and the opening of the component. An inside diameter of the compensation element is smaller than a diameter of the opening in the component. The insertion section is inserted into the end of the pipe, and the support section is located between the pipe and the component and rests on the component at the edge of the opening. The compensation element, the pipe, and the component are heated, preferably inductively, in a region of the compensation element to a temperature above the melting temperature of brazing material that is present in the region of the brazing points.

Abstract: The aim of the invention is to provide a fluxing agent for soldering components, which creates one or more specific surface characteristics during the soldering process itself, thus obviating the need for the surface treatment process that is conventionally carried out after the soldering process. To achieve this, nanoparticles are added to a base substance.

Abstract: A brazing method includes the steps of providing a first part and a second part, at least a first portion of the first part configured to fit inside a second portion of the second part, preplacing a non-self-fluxing braze alloy on one or more of the first portion and the second portion, thermally treating at least one of the first portion and the second portion, to create a temperature differential between the first portion and the second portion, inserting the first portion into the second portion, and heating at least one of the first portion and the second portion to melt the non-self-fluxing braze alloy. The first portion is joined by brazing to the second portion.

Abstract: A method for brazing parts having complex profiles, while enabling reproducible implementation conditions to be defined. The method adjusts a heat cycle during brazing by controlling and mapping heat, while taking emissivity coefficient of the material to be brazed into account. Further, a brazing station includes a power generator configured to supply a predetermined voltage to a transformer connected to a circuit forming a shape inductor, the circuit having an overall shape of the parts to be brazed. A pressure mechanism exerts a load on the parts to be brazed. A camera establishes a heat map. A laser-sighted infrared pyrometer measures the brazing temperature by radiation after parameterizing an emissivity coefficient, other parameters being fixed. A controller supplies a set power to the generator on the basis of the measured temperature.

Abstract: A cooking pan and method of manufacture includes welding layers of aluminum, stainless steel and an intermediate anti-warping plate by induction brazing to provide a cooking pan having a substantially flat bottom and having substantially no voids between the layers to better distribute temperature across the flat bottom of the cooking pan and to form a thermal bottom which prevents the layers from deforming in response to heat applied thereto.

Abstract: A method of forming an abrasive article includes directing a beam of electromagnetic radiation at a starting location on an abrasive preform comprising a bonding layer and abrasive grains within the bonding layer, and increasing the power of the beam of electromagnetic radiation to a scanning power while directed at the starting location. The method further includes changing the position of the beam relative to the abrasive preform from the starting location to a second location on the abrasive preform.

Abstract: A device (20) for inductively heating at least one region (12, 14) of a component (10) includes a coil device (30) for generating a magnetic field in at least the region (12, 14) of the component (10) and includes an auxiliary member (40) to be configured adjacently to the component (10) in the magnetic field of the coil device (30) in such a way that the auxiliary member (40) faces the component (10) in a direction that is orthogonal or substantially orthogonal to the direction of a magnetic field that the coil device (30) can generate in the region between the component (10) and the auxiliary member (40).

Abstract: A combined pressure and temperature sensor, the sensor comprising at least one first optical sensing element of a first type and at least one second optical sensing element of a second type, wherein the sensor is adapted to compensate for temperature and/or pressure effects in the first or second optical sensing element using a response of the other of the second or first optical sensing elements.

Abstract: A system for forming a brazed joint between a tie wire and a workpiece, and methods therefor are presented. The system includes: a braze chamber including an induction heating coil, the induction heating coil having magnetic flux concentrators thereon; and a controller receiving a temperature feedback signal from a temperature sensor on a tie wire and controlling a temperature of a section of the tie wire to be brazed by controlling an electrical current applied to the induction heating coil.

Abstract: The hydrogen permeable substrate includes a copper plate, a stainless steel plate, an insulating member, and hydrogen permeable metal. The hydrogen permeable substrate is formed by locating the insulating member between the stainless steel plate and a combined member formed by embedding the hydrogen permeable metal in through-holes made in the copper plate; subjecting the joining face of each component for joining to other components to irradiation with argon ions, to remove the oxide film thereon and activate the surface; and stacking and rolling the components. By so doing, they may be joined at low temperature and low pressure. Once joined, by cutting the hydrogen permeable metal into individual pieces along cut lines, a plurality of hydrogen permeable substrates may be manufactured all at once.

Abstract: The aim of the invention is to provide a fluxing agent for soldering components, which creates one or more specific surface characteristics during the soldering process itself, thus obviating the need for the surface treatment process that is conventionally carried out after the soldering process. To achieve this, nanoparticles are added to a base substance.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a magnet system (101, 201) for an electro-acoustic transducer (100, 200) comprising a magnet element (105, 205) and at least one pole plate (106, 107, 206, 207), is described, wherein the method comprises providing the magnet element (105, 205) having a first coating layer comprising a first corrosion resistant material, providing the at least one pole plate (106, 107, 206, 207) having a second coating layer comprising a second corrosion resistant material, and connecting said magnet element (105, 205) and said at least one pole plate (106, 107, 206, 207) by fusing the first coating layer and the second coating layer.

Abstract: A method of assembling aluminum alloy products, such as sheets, strips or tubes, by means of fluxless brazing, where the absence of flux is made possible by using a prior treatment resulting in formation of a conversion layer on the surface of the products. The treatment involves using a solution containing K+ and F? ions and at least one acid in a quantity such that the pH of the solution is less than 3. The inventive method enables effective flux was brazing in industrial conditions, such as a for the production of heat exchangers used in motor vehicles.

Abstract: A method of forming a brazed joint between an armature bar and a hydraulic header clip including the steps of: locating ends of a plurality of hollow strands and a plurality of solid strands within a cavity in an end fitting such that free ends of said hollow strands extend axially beyond free ends of said solid strands; and pre-placing an essentially phosphorous-free silver braze alloy around and between said ends of said hollow strands and said solid strands such that said braze alloy extends axially beyond the free ends of said solid strands.

Abstract: A method to improve the impact resistance of a braze joint between a tungsten/carbide/cobalt substrate and a substrate including titanium or alloy thereof includes utilizing a brazing material including gold, nickel, and copper present in respective amounts to improve the ductility of the braze joint.

Abstract: A method of forming a brazed joint between an armature bar and a hydraulic header clip including: assembling free ends of hollow strands and of solid strands of the armature winding bar and positioning the assembly within the hydraulic header clip; interleaving a silver based braze alloy between the strands, wherein a portion of the braze alloy extends axially beyond the free ends of a plurality of the solid strands and the free ends of a plurality of the hollow strands extend axially beyond the braze material; positioning the assembly of the free ends, hydraulic header clip and the braze alloy in a braze chamber, such that the clip is seated in an induction heating coil of the chamber; heating the assembly to a first temperature below a solidus temperature of the braze alloy and within a 200 degrees Fahrenheit of the solidus temperature activating the induction heat coil to heat the clip; heating the assembly to a second temperature above the liquidus temperature of the braze alloy; pooling liquid braze allo

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for manufacturing thin sheets of high-strength titanium alloys. The method includes the steps of preparing initial blanks, assembling the initial blanks into a pack within a sheath, and heating and hot rolling the pack of the initial blanks in the sheath. The method is characterized in that, in the step of preparing the initial blanks, blanks having an (?-phase grain size of not more than 2 ?m are produced by hot rolling a forged or die-forged slab to a predetermined value of a relative thickness hB/hF, where hB is a thickness in mm of the initial blank before said pack hot rolling and hF is a final sheet thickness in mm, and by heat treating the initial blanks followed by rapidly cooling; and in that the step of pack hot rolling is conducted in quasi-isothermal conditions in longitudinal and transverse directions, while changing a rolling direction by about 90° after a predetermined total reduction in one direction is achieved.

Abstract: A method of forming a rack (45) (e.g. of the type used in a geared system such as a rack and pinion), suitable for use in a stairlift rail, comprises providing a plurality (30) of elongate strips (10) and securing the plurality of strips together as a stack of strips to form the rack. The strips may be profiled to provide a profile to the rack. Preferably the profile provides a toothed rack on which a gear or roller of a stairlift carriage may be driven. The rack may be formed in a continuous process. The rack may be straight or curved. A rack comprising a plurality of elongate strips secured together as a stack of strips is also described.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method and a device which are used to heat materials in order to produce objects industrially, especially by mass production, and which allow a large variety of transformation methods.

Abstract: The present invention provides technology that uniformly heats and melts a plurality of solder material arranged in a plurality of locations on a board, and uniformly solders a plurality of parts to the board that are arranged in a plurality of locations on the board. A soldering apparatus includes an induction coil having a length in the longitudinal direction that is longer than the length of the board. An inner space having a size sufficient to arrange the board therein is maintained inside the induction coil. The board supporting the parts and the solder material will be positioned in the approximate center of the inner space of the induction coil. An alternating current will flow through the induction coil in this state. An alternating magnetic field will be generated in the inner space of the induction coil. Magnetic fluxes will substantially uniformly pass through the inner space of the induction coil along the longitudinal direction of the induction coil.

Abstract: A brazing assembly includes a tungsten/carbide/cobalt substrate (e.g., wear pad), a second substrate including titanium or titanium alloy (e.g., a midspan shroud of a fan or compressor blade) and a brazing material including gold, nickel, and copper present in respective amounts to improve the ductility of the braze joint. A brazed article includes a first substrate, a second substrate, and a braze joint having a post-braze hardness of between 450 and 600 KHN. A method to improve the impact resistance of a braze joint between a tungsten/carbide/cobalt substrate and a substrate including titanium or alloy thereof includes utilizing a brazing material including gold, nickel, and copper and brazing at temperatures less than about 1900° F. (1038° C.).

Abstract: The invention relates to a method of producing electrical connections for an electrical energy storage unit (10), said unit employing at least one electrical energy storage element (70) placed inside a casing (20?), said casing having at least one cover (30, 40) containing the electrical energy storage element (70) in a main body (20) of the casing, said element (70) and said cover (30, 40) each having a current collector means, which method is characterized in that it includes at least one step of depositing gallium on one or other of the current collector means and a step of assembling two current collector means separated by the gallium coating followed by a diffusion brazing step carried out by the disposition and the pressing of a mass heated to a given temperature on the unit formed by two current collector means, the unit being brazed for a given time in order to produce the electrical connection for the electrical energy storage unit.

Abstract: Apparatus and method are provided for an electric induction brazing process in an inert atmosphere using a substantially oxygen-free copper alloy filler or preform under an inert atmosphere within a brazing chamber minimally sized for containment of the brazed joint region and an induction coil. The inert atmosphere may be nitrogen gas supplied from a liquid nitrogen source. For brazing of an open-interior fitting around a hole in a tubular material a nesting area is provided around the hole for seating of the filler or preform and the fitting.

Abstract: Disclosed is a high strength aluminium alloy brazing sheet, including an Al—Cu core layer and at least one clad layer, the core layer having the following composition (in weight percent): Cu: 1.2-4.0, Mn: 0.06-1.5, Mg: 0.06-1.5, Si: up to 0.5, Zn: ?0.4, Zr: ?0.25, Fe: ?0.5, Ti: ?0.25, Cr: ?0.25; V?0.25; the balance substantially aluminium and impurities, the clad layer including an Al—Si based filler alloy and being applied on at least one side of the core layer. Also disclosed is a brazed assembly including the brazing sheet and the use of the brazing sheet for a brazing application such as a heat exchanger.