Abstract: A cemented carbide includes a plurality of tungsten carbide particles, and a binder phase including Co. The binder phase further includes Cr. A region in a cross section of the cemented carbide where a distance X between surfaces of the tungsten carbide particles adjacent to each other having an opposing surface length L of 100 nm or more is 5 nm or less is a WC/WC region. A peak value of atomic percentage of Cr obtained by an elemental analysis in a transverse direction from one tungsten carbide particle to the other tungsten carbide particle in the WC/WC region is a Cr value, and a peak value of atomic percentage of Co thus obtained is a Co value. A ratio of the Cr value and the Co value (Cr value/Co value) is a Cr/Co ratio, and the Cr/Co ratio is larger than 1. A cutting tool includes the cemented carbide.

Abstract: A cutting insert may include a coupling part, a cutting part, a connection part, a clamping part, and a recess part. Also, the cutting part may include a cutting body part through which the clamping part passes and a cutting edge disposed along an outer circumference of the cutting body part, and the cutting edge may include a main cutting edge provided in plurality to cut the workpiece, a corner cutting edge provided in number corresponding to that of the main cutting edge and extending curvedly from the main cutting edge, a minor cutting edge provided in number corresponding to that of the corner cutting edge and extending from the corner cutting edge to cut the workpiece, and an inclined cutting edge having one end connected to the minor cutting edge and the other end connected to the main cutting edge.

Abstract: The invention relates to a drill head comprising at least one surface, with a number of structural elements, wherein the structural elements are manufactured by an additive or primary forming manufacturing method. The invention further relates to a method for manufacturing such a drill head.

Abstract: A cutting tool includes a replaceable cutting head including a forward cutting portion and a rearward mounting portion and a head through hole extending therethrough. The mounting portion includes a male coupling member. The male coupling member includes a conically shaped head abutment surface. The cutting tool includes a female coupling member including a conically shaped forward holder abutment surface and an internal thread. The cutting tool includes a fastening member having an external thread. When the cutting tool is in a locked position, the male coupling member is removably retained in the female coupling member by the fastening member located in the head through hole, the fastening member external thread and the holder internal thread being threadingly engaged with each other. The head abutment surface abuts the forward holder abutment surface thereby forming a Morse taper coupling between the male and female coupling members.

Abstract: A clamping jaw for a chuck includes a jaw body on which there is formed at least one jaw step having a step head, which has a sensor on its end face, for holding a clamping insert which is formed from a base leg and two fastening legs projecting from the base leg. On each of the opposite longitudinal sides of the step head there is formed a threaded bore for receiving a fastening screw whose screw head is received in a through-opening which is formed in the fastening leg of the clamping insert that is assigned to the longitudinal side, wherein, on each side, the longitudinal axes of the threaded bore and of the through-opening assigned thereto have an offset when the base leg bears against the end face. Also, a chuck has a chuck body, in which such clamping jaws are arranged in uniformly-distributed radial jaw guides.

Abstract: A pocket hole drill guide having a central base member, the pocket hole drill guide having two fifteen-degree guide channels for applying a pocket hole on a workpiece by way of a drill and drill bit. The pocket hole drill guide has a three-tenths inch diameter drill guide and a three hundred seventy-five thousandths inch diameter guide channel on opposing ends of the pocket hole drill central base member, with the exit holes of the guide channels on the same contact face of the central base member. The guide channels intersect at the fifteen-degree angles, so material can be removed from, and a user can quickly alternate between the two sized guide channels for ease of use and rapid production capacity. A multi-slot extrusion is provided which may be mounted to an L-shaped extrusion bracket, making the use of a miter bar optional and the system itself more portable.

Abstract: A modular drill is disclosed. The modular drill includes a tool shank extending from a shank top end to a shank bottom end along a rotational axis and includes a cam slot extending at least partially through a width of the tool shank. The modular drill also includes a cutting head centered on the rotational axis including a cutting head top surface, a cutting head bottom surface, a draw pin extending from the cutting head bottom surface along the rotational axis, and a draw pin groove around at least a partial length of a circumference of the draw pin comprising a cam follower surface. The modular drill includes a double sided cam received within the cam slot of the tool shank and includes at least one cam surface contacting the cam follower surface.

Abstract: A modular drill is disclosed. The modular drill includes a tool shank extending along a rotational axis. The tool shank includes a shank top end and a shank bottom end along a rotational axis and includes a cam slot extending at least partially through a width of the tool shank. The modular drill includes a cutting head extending from a cutting head top surface to a cutting head bottom surface centered on the rotational axis. The cutting head includes a draw pin extending from the bottom surface of the cutting head along the rotational axis and a draw pin notch. The modular drill includes a clamping cam including a cam shaft contacting the draw pin notch.

Abstract: The helical tunneling device is a tool for tunneling along helical or spiral paths. Further, the tool may be used as a fixation device along helical/spiral paths, for connecting different surfaces or joints. Furthermore, the device includes associated instrumentation needed for creating such a helical path. In one embodiment, the device uses a woven flexible shaft in a helical tube to transmit rotational motion to a cutting tool. The helical tube may then be rotated independently to advance the cutting tool along a helical trajectory. In another embodiment, the device may advance helically into the created tunnel to engage, couple, and fix the relative positions of both bodies through which a continuous helical tunnel is created. Thus, the helical tunneling device is a simple and efficient tool that may be beneficial for wood working, orthopedics, metal manufacturing etc.

Abstract: The present disclosure can realize further prevention of a mounting mistake caused when a cutting insert is mounted on an insert seat is implemented by voluntarily improving a structure around the insert seat in particular.

Abstract: A cutter assembly is configured to interchange a cutter bit and has a plurality of retaining features to secure the cutter bit to ensure positive retention and alignment along a rotational axis. A cutter bit is retained within a slot of the retainer component and the retainer component is coupled to a chuck component. The retainer component may be detachably attachable to the chuck component by external threads that are configured to thread into the internal threads of the chuck component. The cutter bit may be retained in the slot by a threaded retainer that extends through one side of the retainer component, through a cutter aperture in the cutter bit, through the slot and into a threaded retainer aperture in the opposing side of the retainer component. The threaded retainer is configured to extend orthogonally to the slot to pull the first side of the retainer component to the second side and pinch or compress against the cutter bit therein.

Abstract: A cutting tool with blade parts having an application surface for a driving force, which essentially extends orthogonal to a cutting plane, is provided. A cutting force acting upon the blade parts causes a counterforce. A line of action of the cutting force extends differently from a line of action of the counterforce. Each application surface has an end facing the cutting plane and an end facing away from the cutting plane. The ends are located on the same side of the cutting plane. In order to reduce a cutting gap between blade edges, the end facing the cutting plane defines a first distance and that the first distance and/or a second distance are chosen such that an intersecting point lies in front of a line of action of the cutting force referred to a clockwise direction.

Abstract: Fast-acting and low-inertia actuators useable in various applications where a high force must be applied very quickly are disclosed. Power tools with detection systems configured to detect a dangerous condition between a person and a cutting tool are disclosed. In power tools, for example in a woodworking machine, a fast-acting and low-inertial actuator as disclosed herein can be used to retract a blade upon detection of a dangerous condition by a detection system. The actuator includes a charge of pressurized fluid and one or more electromagnets to selectively retain or release the pressurized fluid.

Abstract: Provided are an apparatus and a method for machining cylindrical grooves by multi-wire cutting of profiles, the apparatus includes a driving guide roller and a driven guide roller in a guide roller assembly with axes thereof disposed parallelly and symmetrically, a tension wheel further disposed between the driving guide roller and the driven guide roller, a cutting wire clamped in grooves of the driving guide roller and the driven guide roller and perpendicular to a central axis of a workpiece, and a plurality of segments of the cutting wire forming a cutting wire group mesh surface; and a plurality of grooves are machined simultaneously on the cylindrical surface of the workpiece by the wire group mesh surface, and the cutting wire forms a machining pressure under an action of tension wheel, which can feed smoothly and ensure the accuracy and machining efficiency of the grooves.

Abstract: A cutting apparatus (1) configured for The cutting apparatus (1) has a cutting means drive arrangement (100) having at least one cutting means (12) and at least one motive means (43) for providing power to the cutting means (12). The cutting apparatus (1) is configured such that all, some or a part of the cutting means drive arrangement (100) is interchangeable, on site. This enables use of a single cutting apparatus to perform a variety of different cuts and/or to cut a variety of different objects.

Abstract: There is provided a pipe peeler for removing a layer of material from an outer surface of a pipe. The pipe peeler includes a split housing for releasably mounting around the outer surface of the pipe, and three or more rollers rotatably secured to the housing. Each of the rollers has a contact surface that extends into a central opening for rotational contact with the pipe. Each of the rollers are positioned in the same plane, wherein the plane of the rollers is oriented perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of the split housing The pipe peeler includes a cutting blade, secured to an arm for mounting to the split housing, and a handle extending from the split housing for manually rotating the cutting blade about the outer surface of the pipe. Rotational contact between the rollers and the pipe stabilizes the pipe within the central opening.

Abstract: A method for grinding a workpiece with a toothing or a profile, in which, in a single workpiece clamping operation in the grinding machine, the toothing or the profile is pre-machined using a rough-grinding tool in a first step and then the toothing or the profile is finished using a smooth-grinding tool in a second step. Simultaneously with the first working step, the toothing or the profile is measured by at least one sensor, wherein a geometric variable defining the toothing or the profile or a variable linked to the geometry is measured, and wherein the deviation of the measured geometric variable or of the variable linked to the geometry is determined from a target value in the machine control.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the electromechanical machining of a component with at least one electrode which has a first working face with an outer contour which is shaped so as to form a gap complementary to a surface, to be produced by the electrochemical machining, of the component and which has a second working face which is able to be arranged at an edge of the produced surface of the component. In the method, first of all the component is provided, and the first working face of the electrode is positioned in a first machining position with respect to the component. Then, the component is machined with the first working face in order to produce the surface, before the machining of the component with the first working face is ended at a predetermined position. Subsequently, the component is machined with the second working face of the electrode.

Abstract: In some examples, pulsed electrochemical machining (pECM) system, including an pECM tool comprising a tool body, the tool body comprising an electrode defining a working surface configured to oppose a workpiece during a pECM process; an electrolyte system configured to supply electrolyte to an interelectrode gap between the working surface of the electrode and a target surface of the workpiece; and a power supply configured to generate a pulsed direct current between the one or more electrodes of the pECM tool and the workpiece during the pECM process. The electrode includes an oxidation resistant layer defining at least a portion of the working surface, and a diamond-like carbon coating that defines another surface of the electrode.

Abstract: A method for electrical discharge machining (EDM) a workpiece by means of a train of machining pulses. During the machining time the machining pulses are applied to the working gap between workpiece and electrode. An open voltage is first applied, the ignition delay time td is measured, then, at the beginning of the discharge, its fall time tf is measured, and certain shape features (e.g. the pedestal and ramp) of the pulse are adapted in real time for the very same discharge, as a function of said ignition delay time and/or fall time. Moreover, instead of shaping the very same discharge, one or more subsequent discharges can be shaped as a function of td and/or tf of a single discharge, or of an average of td and/or tf over several discharges.

Abstract: A machining condition estimation device includes a machining information database that stores machining information data in which data related to a machining condition satisfying a machining content and a required specification are associated with data related to the machining content and data related to the required specification. A machining condition estimated to satisfy a desired machining content and the required specification is derived based on the machining information data stored in the machining information database, and a simulation of a wire electric discharge machine is executed based on the derived machining condition. The machining condition is evaluated based on an execution result of the simulation, and the machining information database is updated based on a result of the evaluation.

Abstract: A brazing joint, a brazing method, and a device for promoting solder rheology and gas overflow are provided. The brazing joint includes a first base metal, a second base metal, and a brazing seam located therebetween. The brazing seam is formed by filling a solder in a gap formed by welding surfaces of the first and the second base metal and melting it to connect the first and the second base metal. The brazing seam is a concave-shaped brazing seam. The gap defines a first distance and a second distance, the first distance is located at an edge of the gap, the second distance is located at the edge or an inside of the gap, the first distance is greater than the second distance, and a curved surface is formed between the location of the first distance and the location of the second distance for transition.

Abstract: A soldering tool includes an orientation sensor to interrupt power in a non-upright condition and a touch sensor to override the orientation sensor to allow a user to employ the tool in non-upright positions.

Abstract: Embodiments reduce the draining of HF ignition energy via a data line for data transmission between a welding device and another part of a welding assembly. A decoupling apparatus is provided, in which a first data line portion of the data line is connected to a first coupling element and a second data line portion of the data line is connected to a second coupling element. The first coupling element and the second coupling element are interconnected via a wireless coupling path for galvanic separation of the data line, and a separate power supply is provided for each of the first coupling element and the second coupling element. The power supplies of the first coupling element and the second coupling element are decoupled from one another for a HF voltage on the data line as a result of the HF ignition voltage.

Abstract: An arc welding device for a secondary battery according to an embodiment of the present invention includes an upper fixing portion in which a plurality of welding electrode units connected to one pole of a welding power are disposed and a lower fixing portion disposed to face the upper fixing portion with an object to be welded therebetween and connected to the other pole of the welding power. The upper fixing portion includes a first facing surface facing the object to be welded and formed to be concave toward the object to be welded and the lower fixing portion includes a second facing surface facing the first facing face and formed to be convex to correspond to the concave shape of the first facing surface.

Abstract: A welding end assembly for welding system utilizing a consumable wire electrode. The wire electrode has a non-round cross-sectional shape. The end assembly features a tip having internal bore closely conforming to the cross-sectional shape of the electrode wire. An interaction is provided between an external surface of the tip and an internal surface of the diffuser which establishes a desired indexed orientation of the electrode wire cross-section relative to the end assembly.

Abstract: Provided in this disclosure is a detachable power connection, particularly for use with a welding system. A male conductor, retained within a first connector, is matingly received within a female conductor, retained within a second connector. An aligning insulator of the second connector encloses and internally retains the female conductor. The aligning insulator includes alignment features formed along an exterior surface of the aligning insulator. A locking body of the first connector retains the male conductor and includes an interior surface for defining an internal void for matingly receiving the exterior surface of the aligning insulator therein. The locking body includes second alignment features formed along the interior surface for matingly engaging the respective first alignment features. A locking nut is formed onto one of the first connector or second connector, for releasably securing the first and second connectors together to form the detachable power connection.

Abstract: Disclosed is a tip separation apparatus of a welding gun, which mechanically separates consumable tips installed at the end of the welding gun in a robot welding machine. The tip separation apparatus includes tip seating stands coupled to a main plate configured to maintain level, and configured such that each of the tip seating stands has a first insertion hole, into which a corresponding one of tips coupled to fingers of the welding gun is inserted, tip separation units rotatably disposed on bottom surfaces of the tip seating stands and configured to press outer circumferential surfaces of the tips inserted into the first insertion holes of the tip seating stands so as to clamp the tips and to rotate the clamped tips so as to separate the tips from the welding gun, and a housing configured to rotatably receive the tip separation units in a state of being elastically supported.

Abstract: A welding cell for a resistance spot welding, its use for resistance spot welding, and a welding method performed therewith are disclosed. The welding cell includes a system for implementing resistance spot welding technology, a data collecting system, a system for improving efficiency of data collection, and a processing, monitoring, and control system. The welding cell includes a data transmission priority manager for adjusting digit capacity, transmission rate and transmission frequency of the digitized signal, separately, for signals of each sensor, and a digital twin controller, which, based on the digitized signal, provides a control signal to the control unit for controlling the electromechanical actuators and moving the electrodes of the welding cell. The welding cell provides for resistance spot welding with predictable and controllable quality, increased performance and reduced requirements to the computing unit performance of the welding cell, and reduced costs for equipping the welding cell.

Abstract: An apparatus of a setting welding device for an auxiliary joining part with a head and a shaft, includes a linear drive fastenable at the setting device and including an element nest at a movable end, in which an auxiliary joining part is releasably receivable from a transfer unit. The element nest is movable by the linear drive in a first direction. The element nest is supported in a floating manner, and is positionable via a mechanical stop alignment in abutment with an electrode punch in the joining direction below the electrode punch. And/or the element nest is connected with the linear drive via a mechanical direction-changing coupling component so that the element nest is movable by the linear drive in a second direction so that the auxiliary joining part is positionable at the joining location, wherein the second direction is not parallel to the first direction.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for vacuum electron beam welding of twinning-induced plasticity (TWIP) steel and use thereof. The welding method according to the present disclosure includes preheating welding, tack welding, and deep penetration welding. The method according to the present disclosure can achieve welding stability, a uniform butt joint width, small splash and full arc ending, and ensure that the internal quality of a welded joint meets requirements for an ISO13919-1 grade B butt joint, and the plasticity and tensile strength of the welded joint are equivalent to those of a base metal, thereby ensuring that the welded joint has a high energy-absorbing buffering function equivalent to that of a base metal. A vehicle anti-collision beam manufactured after welding and a vehicle energy-absorbing buffer component assembled by using the anti-collision beam have the advantages of light structure, high safety protection, etc.

Abstract: An apparatus that can include a horn having a welding interface is provided. The horn can oscillate the welding interface at a first resonance frequency to weld a foil. The apparatus can include a trimmer coupled with the horn. The horn can oscillate the trimmer at a second resonance frequency to trim the foil.

Abstract: An ultrasonic welding apparatus includes a housing; a horn part coupled to the housing and configured to transmit an ultrasonic wave in one direction; a tip part coupled to the horn part and configured to apply the ultrasonic wave transmitted from the horn part to an object to be welded, and to apply the ultrasonic wave at an angle of 80° or greater and 100° or less with respect to a direction in which the horn part transmits the ultrasonic wave; an anvil part configured to support the object to be welded; and a suction connected to the anvil part and configured to suck a foreign matter generated resulting from ultrasonic welding, in which the tip part is configured to be driven by linear vibration with respect to the object to be welded, and achieves the effects of easily removing foreign matter and improving welding quality.

Abstract: Linear friction welding is used to join dissimilar materials, namely a first workpiece formed of a high wear resistant material and a second workpiece formed of a base material. A compressive force is applied and a friction force is generated between the first and second workpieces. A solid-state joint is formed between the first and second workpieces. The high wear resistant material can be a tool steel, and the base material can be a low alloy steel or a carbon steel. The composite assemblies can be used for mining wear applications.

Abstract: A method of controlling the ignition of exothermic weld material includes providing an exothermic welding system. The exothermic welding system includes: a controller including or connected to a battery; and a cable comprising a first end connected to a controller and a second, opposite end connected to an igniter, with a wire filament, attached to a mold holding the weld material. The method includes: receiving a wireless input signal from a portable electronic device; and in response to receiving the input signal, directing current from the battery to the second end of the cable to ignite the weld material.

Abstract: Disclosed is a weld pad for an ultrasonic welding system having a sonotrode. For example, a universal weld pad. The weld pad includes a base and a welding component. The base includes an opening to receive an end of the sonotrode. The welding component includes a set of legs and a bridge portion therebetween. The welding component conforms to an outer surface of the weld substrate during a welding operation.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides for systems and methods for removing markings from pavement. In general, the present disclosure provides for methods of using thermal ablation for effectively removing pavement stripe markings without causing excessive damage to the pavement surface.

Abstract: A laser processing apparatus includes a laser oscillating mechanism for emitting pulsed laser beams. The laser oscillating mechanism includes a group setting section for establishing the number of pulsed laser beams to be applied to a workpiece until a time after which melted debris produced by the pulsed laser beams applied to the workpiece is solidified, and assigns the pulsed laser beams to a group, under conditions that, within a period of time which is shorter than a period of time in which the melted debris is produced, and within a period of time after which a plasma generated by the pulsed laser beam becomes extinct, a next pulsed laser beam is applied to the workpiece to sustain the plasma uninterruptedly to break growing debris, and a time interval setting section for establishing a time interval between the group and another group adjacent thereto.

Abstract: A laser oscillation mechanism of a laser beam irradiation unit has a first mode to break growing debris, a second mode to suppress generation of molten debris, and a third mode to break the growing debris and suppress generation of the molten debris. The laser oscillation mechanism includes a selecting part that selects any of the first mode, the second mode, and the third mode. The laser oscillation mechanism sets a repetition frequency with a first group being one unit in the first mode, and sets a repetition frequency with a second group being one unit in the second mode, and sets a repetition frequency with a third group being one unit in the third mode.

Abstract: A method for laser-processing a metallic surface to produce a functionalized metallic surface comprises: providing a material substrate having the surface; and applying a pulsed laser beam to a region of the surface, the pulsed laser beam being applied at a non-normal angle to the surface, wherein material in the region of the surface ablates due to the applied pulsed laser beam and wherein at least a portion of the ablated material redeposits on the surface to produce one or more material-coated structures angled at the non-normal angle with respect to the surface, wherein the surface having the one or more material-coated structures is the functionalized surface. The functionalized metallic surface has broadband directional emissivity independent of polarization.

Abstract: Methods and systems for generating a laser beam with different beam profile characteristics are provided. In one aspect, a method includes coupling an input laser beam into one fiber end of a multi-clad fiber, in particular a double-clad fiber and emitting an output laser beam from the other fiber end of the multi-clad fiber. To generate different beam profile characteristics of the output laser beam, the input laser beam is electively coupled either at least into the inner fiber core of the multi-clad fiber or at least into at least one outer ring core of the multi-clad fiber, or a first sub-beam of the input laser beam is coupled into at least into the inner fiber core of the multi-clad fiber and a second, different sub-beam of the input laser beam is coupled at least into the at least one outer ring core of the multi-clad fiber.

Abstract: A welding optical unit includes a collimator for collimating a laser beam, a focusing device for focusing the laser beam toward a workpiece, an adjustable beam shaper configured to shape the laser beam. The beam shaper includes a beam subdivision assembly that includes a cylindrical lens pair comprising two cylindrical lenses with diametrically opposite focal lengths and mutually parallel optical planes. The two cylindrical lenses extend with a curve on at least one side with respect to a common refraction direction perpendicular to the optical planes, and extend translationally invariantly with respect to a common non-refraction direction parallel to the optical planes. The refraction direction and the non-refraction direction extend perpendicularly to the optical axis of the welding optical unit. The welding optical unit further includes a spot distance adjusting device configured to displace the two cylindrical lenses relative to one another with respect to the refraction direction.

Abstract: A refrigerator includes a vacuum adiabatic body including a conductive resistance sheet providing a vacuum space that has a temperature between a temperature of an internal space and a temperature of an external space and is in a vacuum state, the conductive resistance sheet capable of resisting heat conduction between a first plate and a second plate, wherein at least one of the conductive resistance sheet and each of the first and second plates are welded to each other to create a welding part, wherein a plurality of regular beads are provided to a surface of the welding part, and wherein the plurality of regular beads includes: a parabolic inflection region provided at a center portion; linear regions respectively provided at both outsides of the inflection region; and edge regions respectively provided at outsides of the linear regions.

Abstract: Provided is a laser scanning device that scans a surface of an electrical steel sheet with a laser beam, and includes: a laser beam output unit which irradiates the laser beam; a polygon mirror which has a polygonal shape including a top surface and a bottom surface that are polygonal, in which at least any one surface excluding the top surface and the bottom surface is formed as a mirror, which rotates about an axis serving as a rotation axis and penetrating the top surface and the bottom surface, and which causes the laser beam irradiated from the laser beam output unit to be reflected at the mirror; and an optical system which guides the laser beam reflected at the polygon mirror to the surface of an electrical steel sheet, the rotation axis of the polygon mirror being parallel to the surface of the electrical steel sheet and substantially parallel to a direction in which the laser beam is scanned.

Abstract: A laser crafting apparatus for directing electromagnetic radiation toward a workpiece may include various features. For example, the laser crafting apparatus may include a material support tray that is removably supported within an internal volume of the laser crafting apparatus. Further, the apparatus may include pre-filter disposed in a ventilation pathway between a workspace region of the internal volume and an extractor fan. The laser crafting apparatus may include a laser carriage assembly that houses a laser module and the assembly may include a lens tray detachably coupled to the support structure of the laser carriage assembly. In various embodiments, the laser crafting apparatus includes a lid having a radiation attenuation layer and a fire suppression layer.

Abstract: An apparatus or process supplies a controlled stream of gas in a laminar flow to provide a laser beam permeable barrier in a plane between laser material processing byproducts and a final laser focusing optical element to separate a contaminated environment and a clean environment without directing gas towards the processing point of the laser. The stream of gas may be directed towards a filter by a vacuum source such as a fan. The vacuum source may be sized to draw in more gas than the stream of gas.

Abstract: To prevent metal vapor and spatter from adhering to an optical system. A vacuum laser processing device includes: a laser beam irradiation unit having an optical system configured to emit a laser beam and an irradiation chamber through which the emitted laser beam passes; a construction chamber to which the irradiation chamber of the laser beam irradiation unit is connected, and in which an object to be processed to be constructed by the laser beam is positioned; a vacuum device unit configured to produce a vacuum in the interior of the construction chamber; and a gas supply unit having a gas nozzle configured to inject cross jet gas toward the laser beam at an irradiation port, which is the outlet of the laser beam of the irradiation chamber.

Abstract: A method for welding metallic foils includes the method steps of: forming a parallel joint with a plurality of metallic foils to be joined, by arranging the foils in such a way that they contact each other over a wide area, and welding the metallic foils together by directing a laser beam onto an end face of the parallel joint of the foils, such that a welded seam joining the foils is formed.

Abstract: A laser beam welding system comprises a welding laser source and a penetration monitoring laser source arranged for simultaneous operation in a manner such that a penetration monitoring laser beam from the penetration monitoring laser source is incident on a molten weld pool at a process site comprising an area of contact between a connection tab and a cell terminal, the connection tab and cell terminal to be joined by the welding system, and wherein the molten weld pool is created by a welding laser beam emitted by the welding laser source. The penetration monitoring laser beam is reflected from the molten weld pool to a receiver arranged to receive the reflected penetration monitoring laser beam. Data is outputted indicative of the distance travelled by the penetration monitoring laser beam and therefore the penetration of the welding laser beam at the process site.

Abstract: A method of assembling a vehicle component, a system for assembling a vehicle component, and a vehicle component assembly. A blank is formed from a steel sheet, wherein the steel sheet includes a coating on a surface. The coating is removed from a first interface surface of the blank and the blank is stamped either prior to or after removing the coating. The first dynamic interface surface is arranged relative to a second interface surface and thermally joined to form a joint.