Abstract: An automated laser shock peening (LSP) process equipment system for an aero-engine blade, including: a base, where a loading and unloading manipulator, working manipulator, reverse engineering mechanism, coating apparatus, and LSP apparatus are disposed; the loading and unloading manipulator is configured to grab a blade and place it on the reverse engineering mechanism, which includes a reverse engineering instrument and controller that are connected, the instrument can generate three-dimensional digital data of the blade, and the controller generates a working path for coating and LSP according to the data, and transmits the path to the working manipulator; the loading and unloading manipulator places the blade into the pallet, and the working manipulator drives the blade to a corresponding position according to the path. Independent locating and clamping systems of the pallet and the blade and the pallet and the manipulator fix a position of the blade relative to the manipulator.

Abstract: Provided is a manufacturing method for a joint body having a blank material plated with a metal material and a hoop material plated with a metal material joined together by placing the hoop material on the blank material and causing a laser oscillation system to irradiate a surface of the hoop material with laser light to form a joint portion including a line-shaped welded portion where the blank material and the hoop material are joined together. In this manufacturing method, the hoop material is supplied to be placed on the blank material and form a predetermined gap d between the blank material and the hoop material, and the hoop material is irradiated with a laser at a position where the predetermined gap d is located between the blank material and the hoop material to join the blank material and the hoop material together by laser welding.

Abstract: A system includes a robotic arm, a rotisserie control linkage, and a computer system. The robotic arm includes a touch probe and laser head. The rotisserie control linkage is configured to couple to a transport cart. The computer system is communicatively coupled to the robotic arm and the rotisserie control linkage and is configured to control the system to probe, using the touch probe of the robotic arm, a transparent outer layer of an aircraft canopy located on the transport cart in order to determine surface measurements of the aircraft canopy. The computer system also controls the system to ablate, using a plurality of predetermined parameters and the laser head of the robotic arm, an interface layer located between the transparent outer layer and the aircraft canopy, wherein movements of the robotic arm during the ablation are based on the surface measurements.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods and systems for monitoring a welding process for welding at least one glass workpiece to another workpiece, e.g., also made of glass, wherein a weld seam is formed in the workpieces in a process zone that is exposed to a pulsed processing beam, e.g., to a pulsed laser beam, such as an ultra-short-pulse laser beam, wherein the radiation emitted by the process zone is detected in a time-resolved manner.

Abstract: A workpiece positioning system for holding and manipulating a workpiece. The system includes a rail, a headstock assembly, and a tailstock assembly. The tailstock assembly is mountable to the rail in spaced relation to the headstock assembly to enable the workpiece to be supported between the headstock assembly and the tailstock assembly. The tailstock assembly includes a locking mechanism operable between a locking position in which the tailstock assembly is lockable against the rail in a desired position relative to the headstock, and an unlocked position in which the tailstock assembly is adapted to traverse the rail. The invention also provides a powder injection nozzle having a body and aa tube releasably connected to the body. The tube defines a through passage having at least one inlet for receiving a cladding material and an outlet for delivering the cladding material from the tube.

Abstract: An induction heating device includes a case, a working coil, a base plate that is disposed vertically below the working coil, an indicator substrate support that is coupled to the case and that is disposed vertically below the base plate, an indicator substrate that is disposed on an upper surface of the indicator substrate support, that is disposed vertically below the base plate, and that is spaced apart from the base plate, an inverter substrate that is disposed at a lower surface of the indicator substrate support and that includes an inverter configured to apply a resonance current to the working coil through a switching operation, and a resonance substrate that is disposed at the lower surface of the indicator substrate support, that is connected to the working coil, and that includes a resonance capacitor configured to generate the resonance current based on the switching operation of the inverter.

Abstract: A beverage maker includes a heating device for heating water, a cold water inflow, a first hot water outlet, at least one second hot water outlet, a cold water path connecting the cold water inflow to the heating device, a first hot water path connecting the heating device to the first hot water outlet, at least one second hot water path connecting the heating device to the at least one second hot water outlet, a conveying device for conveying water, a first flow meter that is arranged in the cold water path or in the first hot water path, and at least one second flow meter that is arranged in the at least one second hot water path. A method of determining hot water amounts dispensed by a beverage maker and/or hot water amounts used for beverage preparation is also disclosed.

Abstract: Provided is a heater that is excellent in heat equalizing property even when being narrow in a sweep direction. Also provided are a fixing device, an image-forming device, and a heating device each including such a heater. A heater is configured to heat an object to be heated in such a manner that at least one of the object to be heated and the heater is swept with the heater disposed opposite the object to be heated. The heater includes a base having a rectangular shape and a plurality of heating cells each independently receiving power supply, the heating cells being disposed on the base and arranged in a longitudinal direction of the base. Each of the heating cells includes a plurality of lateral wires extending in substantially parallel with the longitudinal direction of the base and a plurality of oblique wires tilted relative to the lateral wires.

Abstract: A device for fabricating a quartz microfluidic chip by a femtosecond pulse cluster. The device includes: a femtosecond pulse cluster laser source configured to output a femtosecond pulse cluster; a beam splitting and interference system, configured to split the femtosecond pulse cluster into a plurality of parts, and to converge split parts to form a femtosecond pulse cluster plasma or a femtosecond pulse cluster plasma grating; a sample system configured to move the electronic displacement platform where a quartz glass is placed to control a position where the parts of the femtosecond pulse cluster are converged on the quartz glass; and a hydrofluoric acid immersion system configured to immerse the quartz glass in a diluent hydrofluoric acid solution to remove an ablated part of the quartz glass to form the quartz microfluidic chip.

Abstract: For producing a welded ring, a band of a length corresponding to the circumference of the ring is bent into a ring and its two ends are welded together. The band ends to be welded together have an offset in the circumferential direction of the ring, the offset lying in the plane of the band. The welding is performed from both lateral edges of the ring, from the outside to the inside up to the offset. Welding having an overall improved welding quality and a higher tensile strength is thus obtained.

Abstract: Disclosed is a heating device comprising a heating resistor, and a heat sink thermally coupled to the heating resistor, wherein the heat sink comprises corrugated fins that are skived fins integral to the heat sink. Also disclosed is a method for producing a heating rod.

Abstract: Additive manufacturing system includes one or more processors configured to determine one or more geometrical characteristics of each of multiple segments of a build part at a candidate position of the build part relative to an additive manufacturing instrument. The geometrical characteristics include an angle of incidence between a beam line extending from a beam emitter and a surface normal of a respective skin of the corresponding segment proximate to the beam line. The one or more processors select, based on the determined geometrical characteristics, a first set of beam parameters for forming a first segment of the build part and a second set of beam parameters for forming a second segment of the build part. At least one of the beam parameters in the second set differs from the beam parameters in the first set.

Abstract: Provided is a joining structure capable of simplifying the manufacturing process and having high corrosion resistance. A joining structure has a welded part for connecting joined members made of a metal that forms a passive film. An outermost surface portion of the welded part has a pitting potential. The welded part may include a welded part main body formed inside and a surface-modified layer formed in contact with the welded part main body, and the surface-modified layer may include the outermost surface portion having a pitting potential.

Abstract: Some examples of the present disclosure relate to a cover cap for a welding torch. The cover cap is attached to a housing of the welding torch and rotatable between a closed position, where the cover cap covers an access port of the welding torch, and an open position, where the cover cap does not cover the access port. The welding torch may have welding components within the handle that may be accessed through the access port when the cover cap is in the open position. A cap holder may be used to hold the cover cap in the open position.

Abstract: A heating element includes a flexible substrate, a layer of adhesive disposed on a surface of the substrate, and a continuous strand of electrically conductive wire disposed on the adhesive in a pattern of coil structures. Each coil structure includes a first coiled part and a second coiled part. The wire in the first coiled part forms a counterclockwise pattern from an outermost turn to an innermost turn of the first coiled part, and the second coiled part has an innermost turn beginning at an end of the innermost turn of the first coiled part. The wire in the second coiled part forms a clockwise pattern from the innermost turn of the second coiled part to an outermost turn. A connector segment of wire connects outermost turns of adjacent ones of the coil structures.

Abstract: An end effector for a laser machine tool is configured to direct a laser beam onto a working surface along an optical axis of propagation of the laser beam. The end effector includes a supporting body having a duct with an axis parallel to at least one portion of the optical axis of propagation of the laser beam, and a further duct configured to be coupled to the supporting body and to provide an outlet for the laser beam.

Abstract: Discussed is an apparatus for notching an electrode sheet, the apparatus including a transfer unit having first and second transfer rollers provided on a bottom surface of the electrode sheet to transfer the electrode sheet at regular intervals, a jig unit provided below the electrode sheet, and supporting the bottom surface of the non-coating portion and a notching unit provided above the electrode sheet to notch the non-coating portion supported on the jig unit to provide the electrode tab, wherein the jig unit includes a rotation member provided between the first and second transfer rollers and rotated in a direction perpendicular to a transfer direction of the electrode sheet, two or more jigs provided on an outer circumferential surface of the rotation member to alternately support the non-coating portion disposed between the first and second transfer rollers when the rotation member is rotated.

Abstract: A laser machining device comprises a movable stage which is controlled by a stage controller. A laser produces a beam for machining and the beam is scanned over the part using a laser scanner under control of the laser scanner. The scanner controller controls the stage controller to synchronize movements of the stage with movements of the scanner. The stage may carry the part to be machined or the scanner.

Abstract: A method for butt laser welding two metal sheets includes providing a first metal sheet and a second metal sheet and butt welding the metal sheets along a direction of welding. The butt welding step includes simultaneously generating a first front keyhole in the first metal sheet, generating a second front keyhole in the second metal sheet, and generating a back keyhole in the first and second metal sheets. The first and second front laser beams and the back laser beam are configured in such a manner that at each moment in time, a solid phase region and/or a liquid phase region of the metal sheets remains between the first front keyhole and the back keyhole and between the second front keyhole and the back keyhole.

Abstract: An exhaust manifold for an additive manufacturing system includes a manifold housing, at least one baffle movable relative to the manifold housing configured to modify an exhaust flow area defined in part by the at least one baffle, and an actuator operatively connected to the at least one baffle configured to move the at least one baffle. The manifold housing defines a housing channel. The at least one baffle can be one or more moveable baffles at least partially disposed within the housing channel and configured to move relative to the housing to modify a respective exhaust flow area of a respective baffle of the one or more moveable baffles. The actuator is operatively connected to each of the one or more movable baffles and configured to move the one or more movable baffles relative to the housing.