Abstract: A method of laser processing a transparent workpiece includes directing a pulsed laser beam into the transparent workpiece. The pulsed laser beam includes pulse bursts having 2 sub-pulses per pulse burst or more, each pulse burst of the pulsed laser beam has a burst duration Tbd of 380 ns or greater; and the pulsed laser beam forms a pulsed laser beam focal line in the transparent workpiece, the pulsed laser beam focal line inducing absorption in the transparent workpiece, the induced absorption producing a defect in the transparent workpiece. The pulsed laser beam focal line includes a wavelength ?, a spot size wo, and a Rayleigh range ZR that is greater than F D ? ? ? w o 2 ? , where FD is a dimensionless divergence factor comprising a value of 10 or greater.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
May 25, 2021
Date of Patent:
February 25, 2025
Assignee:
CORNING INCORPORATED
Inventors:
Valdemaras Juzumas, Reinhard Moritz Malchus, Sasha Marjanovic, Garrett Andrew Piech, Vytautas Sabonis, Ralf Joachim Terbrueggen
Abstract: An information processing device includes a support extraction unit that extracts a support supporting an object corresponding to a cutout region at an outermost position among one or more supports supporting the object based on cutout region information indicating the cutout region as a region to be cut out by a laser processing machine and support information indicating the one or more supports supporting the object corresponding to the cutout region and a judgment unit that judges whether the object will incline and rise by being supported by the one or more supports or not based on a support count as the number of supports supporting the object at outermost positions.
Abstract: A method and apparatus for producing a three-dimensional body are disclosed herein. The apparatus is capable of producing an inorganic material-containing formed body having improved quality. In some embodiments, the apparatus includes a stage, a supply unit configured to intermittently or continuously supply a composition to a stage, the composition containing an inorganic material, a heating unit including a thermal solidification heat source configured to perform at least thermal solidification on the composition, an information acquisition unit configured to acquire information on at least one among the geometric state, physical state, and chemical state of the thermally solidified composition, and a control unit configured to control the supply unit and the heating unit to repeat supply and thermal solidification of the composition, and to control the supply unit and the heating unit based on the acquired information.
Abstract: The present invention discloses a method of constructing a high-frequency vibratory stress relief device for eliminating residual stress of a small work-piece. The method comprises the following steps: fabricating a high-frequency vibration energy amplification device; fabricating a clamping device; mounting the high-frequency vibration energy amplification device; obtaining surface residual stress distribution on the small work-piece by means of X-ray diffraction; establishing a finite element model of the small work-piece; determining a target frequency f, determining the structural dimensions of the high-frequency vibration energy amplification device; analyzing the displacement mode to obtain loci of the vibration node lines and number of the vibration node lines; clamping the small work-piece; attaching strain gauges; connecting all devices.
Abstract: Methods for creating a conductive pillar on a receiver substrate may include forming a dried metal paste pillar by printing metal paste over an area of a receiver substrate, drying the metal paste, and repeating the printing and drying steps. The dried metal paste pillar may be inspected so as to determine a height of the dried metal paste pillar. If the height of the dried metal paste pillar is less than a desired height, additional metal paste may be printed onto to the dried metal paste pillar and dried. If the height of the dried metal paste pillar exceeds the desired height, a portion of the dried metal paste pillar may be ablated. The dried metal paste pillar may be sintered so as to form the conductive pillar. Conductive pillars that are produced according to the methods may be used as part of the formation of a flip-chip assembly.
Abstract: A patterning device performs patterning in manufacture of a display panel in which thin films including an organic film are laminated above a substrate. The patterning device includes a chamber, light transmissive plates, and a laser emitter. The chamber has a light transmissive window including a first light transmissive plate through which a laser beam is transmitted and accommodates a thin film laminated substrate. A second light transmissive plate through which the laser beam is transmitted is in the chamber between the first light transmissive plate and the thin film laminated substrate at a position spaced away from the thin film laminated substrate. The laser emitter is outside the chamber and emits the laser beam towards the thin film laminated substrate, through the first light transmissive plate and the second light transmissive plate, to irradiate and remove a portion of the thin film.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 26, 2019
Date of Patent:
July 16, 2024
Assignee:
JDI DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT G.K.
Inventors:
Yasuharu Shinokawa, Kenichi Nendai, Shuhei Yada, Jun Yamaguchi
Abstract: The invention relates to a device (1) for producing three-dimensional workpieces (15), comprising a carrier (7) for receiving raw material powder (9), a build chamber wall (11, 11a, 11b) which extend substantially vertically and which is adapted to laterally delimit and support the raw material powder (9) applied to the carrier (7); an irradiation unit (17) for selectively irradiating the raw material powder (9) applied to the carrier (7) with electromagnetic radiation or particle radiation in order to produce on the carrier (7) a workpiece (15) manufactured from the raw material powder (9) by an additive layer building method, wherein the irradiation unit (17) comprises at least one optical element; and a vertical movement device (31) which is adapted to move the irradiation unit (17) vertically relative to the carrier (7).
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 22, 2023
Date of Patent:
July 9, 2024
Assignee:
Nikon SLM Solutions AG
Inventors:
Toni Adam Krol, Gesa Rolink, Bodo Haack, Birk Hoppe
Abstract: A laser head apparatus that enables switching between a laser beam and a purging stream. The laser head apparatus includes a bracket that provides for translation and rotation of the laser optics and purging nozzle. The laser optics and purging nozzle are located on opposite sides of the bracket and may be rotated to different rotational positions around a center axis of the bracket and translated to different linear positions along a length of the bracket. Methods of removing material using the laser head apparatus to between a laser beam and a purging stream are also provided.
Abstract: There is provided a repair technique capable of repairing interconnect lines and the like in an electronic device with ease and with reliability and capable of suppressing the increase in the number of manufacturing steps associated with the repair to suppress the increase in manufacturing costs. The electronic device having a multi-layer interconnection structure includes: a foundation layer; a patterned interconnect line provided on the foundation layer; and an insulation film formed on the foundation layer and the interconnect line. The insulation film includes at least one thin film part in which at least part of the insulation film which lies on the interconnect line has a thickness less than that of its surroundings.
Abstract: A system controller includes a light source, an optical guiding assembly, a sensor and a feedback controller, and is applied to perform a solder operation with a solder module. The light source emits waveband light guided to a to-be-soldered area for heating. The optical guiding assembly is disposed between the light source and the solder module, and the waveband light is guided to the solder module by the optical guiding assembly. The sensor is disposed on another side of the optical guiding assembly for receiving a sensing light beam and then generating a sensing signal. The sensing light beam is guided to the sensor by the optical guiding assembly. The feedback controller is connected with the sensor and the light source for receiving the sensing signal and then controlling the light source. The system controller is a static part, and the solder module is a dynamic part.
Abstract: A beam machining head (10; 100; 200) for beam cutting of a workpiece is provided, having an interface (12) for an energy beam source (14; 14, 201) for generating a focused machining energy beam (15; 206) selected from a particle beam source, a fuel fluid beam source, a plasma beam source and/or a source for electromagnetic radiation; an exit opening (16) for the machining energy beam bounded by an opening edge (18); an optical detector unit (19) for recording at least one image of an electromagnetic radiation (17) emitted from the workpiece (11) through the exit opening into the beam machining head (10; 100; 200) and induced in the workpiece by the machining energy beam; and a monitoring unit (30) connected in a data-transmitting manner to the optical detector unit for monitoring a positional relationship between a centre of the emitted electromagnetic radiation and the exit opening, wherein the monitoring unit (30) has: a first determination module for determining at least one position (180; 182) of the exit
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 15, 2021
Date of Patent:
May 7, 2024
Assignee:
BYSTRONIC LASER AG
Inventors:
Christoph Fahrni, Stefan Kaltenbach, Titus Haas, Andreas Luedi
Abstract: In a control device for a laser machining apparatus including a plurality of lasers and a plurality of scanners which respectively scans laser beams outputted from the plurality of lasers, the control device includes: a laser control unit which controls the plurality of lasers, in which the laser control unit includes: a machining program analysis unit which analyzes a machining program, and generates a machining condition command for setting a machining condition of the plurality of lasers, a storage unit which stores machining condition information in which a plurality of the machining conditions and a plurality of the machining condition commands are respectively associated, and a plurality of machining condition reading units which references the machining condition information and reads a machining condition corresponding to a machining condition command analyzed by the machining program analysis unit, and sets the machining condition which was read in a laser of a control target.
Abstract: An apparatus for orienting and positioning a workpiece (4) relative to a laser beam (3) of a laser processing machine is proposed. The apparatus is equipped with an apparatus base (5), with a workpiece locating device (6) which receives the workpiece (4) to be machined and with a movement device (7) exhibiting at least three axes which moves the workpiece locating device (6) relative to the apparatus base (5). The movement device (7) is equipped with a rigid body (12) and with a first rotary drive which generates a torque around an axis of rotation B and drives the rigid body (12) to rotate around the axis of rotation B relative to the machine base (5). On the rigid body (12) is arranged a first linear drive which displaces a first carriage (13) on the rigid body (12) along the axis Xw.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 4, 2018
Date of Patent:
January 16, 2024
Assignee:
ROLLOMATIC S.A.
Inventors:
Christian Krumm, Pascal Schoenenberger, José Canosa, Mouhamad Ali Freidy
Abstract: A method of producing a workpiece includes obtaining CAD data representing the workpiece in multiple workpiece layers. The CAD data includes multiple workpiece layer definitions corresponding respectively to the workpiece layers. The method includes selecting a first workpiece layer definition, preparing a powder bed of powder material on a build platform, and producing, based on the selected workpiece layer definition, a workpiece layer on the build platform by controlling a layer tool to selectively melt or sinter the powder material on the build platform. The method includes assessing the produced workpiece layer, including measuring the produced workpiece layer using a measuring head, analyzing the measurements of the produced workpiece layer, and, in response to the analysis indicating that the produced workpiece layer is defective, reprocessing the produced workpiece layer by controlling the layer tool to selectively melt or sinter the powder material on the build platform.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
August 23, 2021
Date of Patent:
November 14, 2023
Assignees:
Carl Zeiss Industrielle Messtechnik
GmbH, Carl Zeiss Industrial Metrology, LLC
Inventors:
Marcin B. Bauza, Tobias Held, Richard H. Knebel, Thomas Engel, Nils Haverkamp, Rainer Sagemueller, Dominik Seitz
Abstract: An additive manufacturing method includes cold spraying a powder onto a build area to create a densified powder layer. The method can include high speed machining the densified powder layer after cold spraying to create a smooth layer.
Abstract: A method of processing a workpiece includes supporting the workpiece on a tailstock extending along an axis, thermally processing the workpiece with a processing device, and displacing a portion of the tailstock assembly in response to thermal expansion of the workpiece as a result of processing with the thermal processing device.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 14, 2021
Date of Patent:
September 26, 2023
Assignee:
BAKER HUGHES, A GE COMPANY, LLC
Inventors:
David K. Luce, Crystal A. Parrott, Stephen L. Wiedmann
Abstract: A laser processing apparatus includes a feeding mechanism including at least one feeding roller and winds the electrode sheet around an outer circumferential surface of the feeding roller to feed the electrode sheet in a feeding direction. When an imaginary contact plane surface contacted with a first surface of the electrode sheet on the laser processing points generated on the electrode sheet by a laser irradiation mechanism is determined as a boundary, a region on a side where the electrode sheet is contacted with the imaginary contact plane surface is defined as a first region and a region on an opposite side is defined as a second region. A peripheral edge of an opening portion of the dust collection hood is placed in the first region with respect to the imaginary contact plane surface.
Abstract: A marking device, a medium, a container, and a marking method. The marking device includes a first marker including a first optical system having a first focal point, the first marker being configured to concentrate a first light onto a first area of a non-planar portion of a medium to perform marking on the first area, the non-planar portion including a plurality of areas including the first area and a second area, and a second marker including a second optical system having a second focal point. The second marker is configured to concentrate a second light onto the second area to perform the marking on the second area, and the second focal point of the second optical system is different from the first focal point of the first optical system in a direction parallel to a central axis of the first optical system.
Abstract: The present disclosure provides three-dimensional (3D) printing processes, apparatuses, software, and systems for the production of at least one desired 3D object. The 3D printer system (e.g., comprising a processing chamber, build module, or an unpacking station) described herein may retain a desired (e.g., inert) atmosphere around the material bed and/or 3D object at multiple 3D printing stages. The 3D printer described herein comprises one or more build modules that may have a controller separate from the controller of the processing chamber. The 3D printer described herein comprises a platform that may be automatically constructed. The invention(s) described herein may allow the 3D printing process to occur for a long time without operator intervention and/or down time.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
May 22, 2019
Date of Patent:
July 4, 2023
Inventors:
Benyamin Buller, Zachary Ryan Murphree, Richard Joseph Romano, Thomas Blasius Brezoczky, Alan Rick Lappen
Abstract: A method and system for detecting an operating condition of an optical element along a propagation path of a power laser beam in a laser processing machine head are based on a first signal of a back-propagating optical radiation at the wavelength of the laser beam; a second signal of a back-propagating optical radiation having a wavelength in the near infrared; a third signal of an optical radiation emitted by the optical element in the infrared in proximity to its surface; a fourth signal which is a function of the time-of-flight of an acoustic wave launched through the volume of the optical element.
Abstract: A machine-vision-assisted welding system comprises welding equipment, a time of Flight (ToF) camera operable to generate a three-dimensional depth map of a welding scene, digital image processing circuitry operable to extract welding information from the 3D depth map, and circuitry operable to control a function of the welding equipment based on the extracted welding information. The welding equipment may comprise, for example, arc welding equipment that forms an arc during a welding operation, and a light source of the ToF camera may emit light whose spectrum comprises a peak that is centered at a first wavelength, wherein the first wavelength is selected such that a power of the peak is at least a threshold amount above a power of light from the arc at the first wavelength.
Abstract: The invention concerns a device (100) for cleaning the optical surface (162) of at least one optical sensor (160) for a motor vehicle. The cleaning device (100) includes a source (110) for emitting a laser beam and means for guiding the laser beam onto at least a part of the optical surface (162) of an optical sensor (160) so as to clean it.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 29, 2017
Date of Patent:
June 6, 2023
Assignee:
Valeo Systèmes d'Essuyage
Inventors:
Frédéric Bretagnol, Giuseppe Grasso, Marcel Trebouet
Abstract: A system includes a machine tool having a clamp. The system also includes a processing head configured to be temporarily held by the clamp of the machine tool. The processing head is also configured to deposit one or more media onto a workpiece. The processing head includes a guide configured to direct energy from an energy source onto the workpiece and/or the one or more media. The processing head also includes one or more supplies including one or more reservoirs within the processing head. The one or more reservoirs are configured to receive the one or more media, store the one or more media as the processing head is moved from one location to another location, and provide the one or more media.
Abstract: An optical arrangement converts an input laser beam into a line-like output beam, which propagates along a propagation direction and which has, in a working plane, a line-like beam cross section extending along a line direction. The optical system includes: a reshaping optical unit having an input aperture, through which the input laser beam is radiated, and an elongate output aperture, elongatedly extending along an aperture longitudinal direction, the reshaping optical unit converting the input laser beam radiated through the input aperture into a beam packet exiting through the output aperture; and a homogenization optical unit which converts the beam packet into the line-like output beam, different beam segments of the beam packet being intermixed and superimposed along the line direction. The aperture longitudinal direction extends in a manner rotated about the propagation direction by a non-vanishing angle of rotation with respect to the line direction.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 5, 2019
Date of Patent:
December 27, 2022
Assignee:
TRUMPF LASER- UND SYSTEMTECHNIK GMBH
Inventors:
Torsten Beck, Daniel Flamm, Andreas Heimes, Julian Hellstern, Christian Lingel, Felix Marschall, Silke Thierfelder, Christoph Tillkorn
Abstract: A laser beam alignment system includes at least one mirror with a surface pattern configured to receive and reflect a laser beam, at least one detector configured to detect a deflected portion of a laser beam from the mirror, and at least one controller configured to communicate with the at least one mirror and the at least one detector and to control the mirror position on the basis of the deflected portion of the laser beam.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 20, 2019
Date of Patent:
December 20, 2022
Assignee:
Southwest Research Institute
Inventors:
Stanley L. Ream, Craig T. Walters, William C. Flannigan
Abstract: A method for producing a coated and printed glass panel, includes a) providing a glass substrate having a metal-containing coating on a first surface and a polymeric protective layer with a thickness d arranged on this metal-containing coating, b) removing the polymeric protective layer in a first region using a carbon dioxide laser, c) removing the metal-containing coating within the first region only in a second region using a solid-state laser such that an edge region is created, in which the metal-containing coating is intact and in which the polymeric protective layer was removed in step b), d) applying a ceramic ink only in the first region, e) heat treating the glass panel at >600° C., wherein the polymeric protective layer is removed on the entire first surface, in the edge region, the metal-containing coating is dissolved by the ceramic ink lying above it, and the ceramic ink is fired.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 9, 2018
Date of Patent:
December 13, 2022
Assignee:
SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCE
Inventors:
Hans-Werner Kuster, Sebastian Janzyk, Li-Ya Yeh, Stephane Auvray
Abstract: A lens module including a lens barrel and a plurality of lenses having refractive power is provided. The lenses are arranged in the lens barrel from an object side to an image side. The lens barrel has an inner-wall surface and an outer-wall surface opposite to each other, and has an air outlet communicating with outside. The air outlet is located between the inner-wall surface and the outer-wall surface. A first lens of these lenses is a lens closest to the object side. The first lens has an object-side optical surface facing the object side. At least over 95% of the surface area of the object-side optical surface of the first lens is exposed to outside, and a material of the first lens is glass. Furthermore, another lens module is also provided.
Abstract: This present invention comprises a Galilean tele-microscope lens assembly configured to attach to the front of a binocular indirect ophthalmoscope (BIO) either permanently or by means of a clip or other suitable detachable mechanism, and to enhance an image of a patient's ocular fundus produced by a condensing lens hand-held by the examiner, at their arm's length, in front of the patient's eye. The lens assembly of the present invention magnifies the examiner's view of the hand-held condensing lens itself, and thus magnifies the fundus image produced by the hand-held condensing lens, enabling improved appreciation of finer details in an examination. In addition to improving BIO examinations in general, the present invention is especially advantageous for patients who have disabilities, are wheelchair bound, are children, or are patients of “mission” based ophthalmoscopy services provided in developing, “emerging economy” countries where other examination equipment may not be available.
Abstract: A method of manufacturing a light-emitting element includes condensing a laser beam inside a substrate provided with a semiconductor structure to form modified portions including first and second modified portions, including scanning the substrate along a predetermined planned cleavage line to form the first modified portions on the planned cleavage line inside the substrate and cracks generated from the first modified portions, and then scanning the substrate with a laser beam along a first predetermined imaginary line parallel to the planned cleavage line in a top view and is offset from the planned cleavage line in an in-plane direction of the substrate by a predetermined distance to perform second irradiation to form the second modified portions on the first predetermined imaginary line inside the substrate to facilitate development of the cracks generated from the first modified portions. The method then includes cleaving the substrate starting from the first modified portions.
Abstract: The invention relates to a method for predicting the tilt inclination of a workpiece part that is being cut free from a remaining workpiece using a machine tool during a machining process, and that rests on one or more supports, said method comprising the following steps: determining one or more possible tilt edges about which the workpiece part being cut free might tilt. For at least one potential tilt edge, particularly for each potential tilt edge, determining tilt moments that act on the workpiece part in different states of the machine tool, and on the basis of the determined tilt moments, determining whether the workpiece part would tilt about a tilt edge.
Abstract: A system utilizing an antenna generating an electromagnetic (EM) wave to interact with a solar EM wave to streamline magnetic flux in the polar cusp and to facilitate the flow of solar plasma through the Polar Cusp, resulting in an elevated plasma flux at the exit of the Polar Cusp. The elevated plasma flux intercepts and removes small space debris from Low Earth Orbit (LEO), Geosynchronous Earth Orbit (GEO) and Geosynchronous Transfer Orbits (GTO) transiting the LEO altitude regimes.
Abstract: A method for laser keyhole welding of metal alloys is disclosed. The method independently adjusts power in a focused center beam and power in a concentric focused annular beam. At the termination of a weld, the power in the center beam is initially ramped up and then ramped down, while the power in the annular beam is ramped down. Increasing the power in the center beam enables a controlled and prolonged contraction of the keyhole and melt pool, thereby preventing undesirable cracking.
Abstract: A spot welding jig is provided. The spot welding jig presses electrode leads of battery cells to be closely adhered onto a bus bar when spot welding is performed to the electrode leads interposed on the bus bar along a width direction of the electrode leads. The spot welding jig includes a passing portion through which a welding laser passes, and a predetermined number of barriers configured to vertically partition an inner space of the passing portion.
Abstract: A method for producing three-dimensional components by successively solidifying layers of a powder construction material solidified by means of electromagnetic radiation, in particular bundled radiation such as laser radiation or electron radiation, at the locations corresponding to the respective cross-section of the component, in particular SLM or SLS. A device comprising a support device, the height of which can be adjusted within a construction chamber, is provided for supporting the component including a coating device for applying layers of the construction material onto the support device or onto a previously formed layer and comprising an irradiating device for irradiating layers of the construction material in some regions to solidify layers. A surface section to be coated is scanned with respect to the evenness of the section prior to the application of a new layer. In the event of an unevenness exceeding a known tolerance range, the unevenness is removed or leveled out.
Abstract: Controlling a beam cutting device having a cutting tool is disclosed. A workpiece part can be cut out of a workpiece along a cutting contour. A cutting plan for the workpiece having a cutting contour for a workpiece part to be cut out of the workpiece is specified. Subsequently, the relative position of the workpiece and/or of the cutting plan and/or of the workpiece part to be cut out is determined. The relative position of the at least one support point of the workpiece support is determined. Subsequently, at least one risk region on the cutting contour of the workpiece part to be cut out is determined, followed by the defining of at least one starting-cut point and/or one cut-away point for the cutting tool on the cutting contour of the workpiece part to be cut out. A computer-implemented method and a beam cutting device is also disclosed.
Abstract: The invention relates to the field of the additive manufacturing of components, which are formed by the direct deposition of a substance, in the form of granules of a metal or non-metal, which passes from a reservoir into a melt bath, produced by the thermal energy of a laser or electron beam, and subsequently crystallizes. The granules enter the melt bath without the intervention of a gas stream, the path and rate of travel of said granules changing while they are in flight under the effect of an electromagnetic field. The granules travel within a chamber, falling into the melt bath from above from a reservoir, from which they are fed at a set speed by the rotation of an adjustable screw feed, and passing through a system of electromagnetic devices, which control the path of the granules by means of electromagnetic fields.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 8, 2016
Date of Patent:
June 14, 2022
Assignee:
OBSCHESTVO S OGRANICHENNOY OTVETSTVENNOSTYU “ADIRUT”
Abstract: A processing state detecting device for detecting a processing state of a workpiece processed by laser processing includes: a sound collecting unit that measures sound while the workpiece is being processed by laser processing; an installation position evaluating unit that determines whether an installation position of the sound collecting unit needs to be changed, on the basis of the sound measured by the sound collecting unit; and an evaluation result informing unit that provides information on a result of evaluation of the installation position evaluating unit.
Abstract: An ornamental device includes: diamonds disposed on a single support element in a specific physical arrangement, all the diamonds in the specific physical arrangement having a blue fluorescent equal to or stronger than strong blue, wherein all the diamonds in the specific physical arrangement shining clear under a visible light, and shining blue under ultraviolet radiation keeping the specific physical arrangement distinguished from a group of diamonds in the specific physical arrangement, the group of diamonds comprising a mixture of a diamond or diamonds having a blue fluorescence equal to or stronger than strong blue and a diamonds or diamonds not having a blue fluorescent equal to or stronger than strong blue.
Abstract: An apparatus including a process chamber accommodating a carrier for receiving a raw material powder. An irradiation device of the apparatus is configured to selectively irradiate electromagnetic or particle radiation onto the raw material powder on the carrier in order to produce a work piece by an additive layer construction method, wherein a transmission element allows the transmission of the electromagnetic or particle radiation into the process chamber. The apparatus further includes a gas inlet and a gas outlet for supplying and discharging gas to and from the process chamber which are configured to generate a protective gas stream for protecting the transmission element from being contaminated by impurities present in the process chamber. The gas inlet includes a gas permeable, porous component forming a gas inlet area.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
May 13, 2019
Date of Patent:
March 22, 2022
Assignee:
SLM SOLUTIONS GROUP AG
Inventors:
Isabell Huebinger, Jan Wilkes, Naveed Iqbal, Andreas Wiesner, Eduard Gieser
Abstract: An object cutting method includes a first step of preparing an object including a single crystal material substrate and a functional device layer provided on a first main surface side, a second step of irradiating the object with laser light to form at least one row of modified regions in the substrate and to form a fracture in the object so as to extend between the at least one row of modified regions and a second main surface of the object, and a third step of performing dry etching on the object from the second main surface side to form a groove opening to the second main surface, in the object. In the third step, the at least one row of modified regions is removed to form an uneven region which has an uneven shape and in which single crystal silicon is exposed, in an inner surface of the groove.
Abstract: A method and device for a radially expandable downhole tool for bearing axial loads upon radial expansion into anchoring and sealing engagement with a downhole tubular positioned in a subterranean wellbore. The device may comprise a radially expandable tubular defining an interior passageway and an exterior surface. The device may further comprise an axial load bearing assembly positioned on the exterior surface of the expandable tubular and having an anchoring sub-assembly for engaging the downhole tubular and bearing axial loads placed on the downhole tool, the anchoring sub-assembly having a plurality of radially extending ridges, each ridge having a hardened anchoring surface and corners, for penetrating into the downhole tubular and a plurality of longitudinally extending milled grooves formed in each ridge, and a sealing sub-assembly for, after the radial expansion, engaging the downhole tubular and sealing the annulus defined between the downhole tubular and the radially expandable downhole tool.
Abstract: This invention provides a method for manufacturing decorated-parts of high design-quality and reliability, since the exposed surface of the base coat-layer is not bulged, and thus the color of said coat-layer is distinct. The method for manufacturing decorated-parts of this invention comprises a base coat-layer-forming process, a surface coat-layer-forming process and a laser-decorating process. In the base coat-layer-forming process, a resin-base material of a highly light color at a lightness-level of 70 or more or a clear and colorless resin base-material is formed. In the surface coat-layer forming process, the surface coat-layer of a less-bright color at a lightness-level of 20 or less is formed on the base coat-layer. In the laser-decorating process, the first laser-processed groove penetrating the surface coat-layer and exposing partially the base coat-layer is made by irradiating the infrared laser onto such surface coat-layer, thus providing a fine decoration onto the surface of said decorated-part.
Abstract: Methods for determining the quality of a weld of a workpiece welded by laser-beam welding, wherein at least a partial region of a molten pool and/or of a surrounding area of the molten pool is observed by means of a measuring system during the laser-beam welding and the quality of the weld of the welded workpiece is determined on the basis of the observation result. At least one characteristic value that correlates with molten pool oscillation of the molten pool is observed during the laser-beam welding and a measure of an amplitude of the molten pool oscillation and/or a measure of a frequency of the molten pool oscillation is determined from the observed time curve of the characteristic value. A probability and/or a frequency for the occurrence of hot cracks at the weld of the workpiece is inferred.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 18, 2018
Date of Patent:
January 25, 2022
Assignee:
TRUMPF Laser- und Systemtechnik GmbH
Inventors:
Patrick Haug, Tim Hesse, Steffen Kessler, Marcel Schäfer, Philipp Scheible
Abstract: A laser processing head (100) comprises a first-level nozzle (110) and a second-level nozzle (120) that communicate with each other, wherein the second-level nozzle (120) is arranged downstream of the first-level nozzle (110); an inner diameter of the second-level nozzle (120) gradually decreases in a laser transmission direction, and minimum inner diameter of the first-level nozzle (110) is larger than the inner diameter of a tail end of the second-level nozzle (120). The laser processing head (100) solves the contradiction between high energy density laser and the system reliability through gradual coupling. Also provided are a laser processing system and a laser processing method.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 30, 2015
Date of Patent:
January 11, 2022
Assignee:
Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology & Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Inventors:
Wenwu Zhang, Tianrun Zhang, Chunhai Guo, Yang Yang
Abstract: A laser reflow apparatus capable of reducing tact time for a single bonding object, and accelerating an overall bonding process for all of a plurality of bonding objects is provided. The laser reflow apparatus comprises a bonding object transfer unit including a stage, a laser emission unit, a beam transmission plate, and a beam transmission plate transfer unit.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
July 12, 2018
Date of Patent:
January 4, 2022
Assignee:
LASERSSEL CO., LTD.
Inventors:
Jae Joon Choi, Byoung Cheol Kim, Byung Roc Kim, Nam Seong Kim
Abstract: A laser annealing apparatus includes a laser oscillating structure, an oscillator, a beam expanding telescope, a first power meter, and a second power meter. The laser oscillating structure emits a first laser beam of a first wavelength and first beam cross-section to a substrate in a chamber including an optical window. The oscillator emits a second laser beam, of a second wavelength different from the first wavelength, to the substrate. The beam expanding telescope is on an optical path for the second laser beam and expands the second laser beam to a second beam cross-section. The first and second power meters measure energy of the second laser beam and a third laser beam, generated as the second laser beam is reflected by the substrate. The first beam cross-section and the second beam cross-section may be equal.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 27, 2017
Date of Patent:
November 23, 2021
Assignee:
SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
Inventors:
Joong-han Shin, Supakit Charnvanichborikarn, Bong-jin Kuh, Ki-chul Kim, Jae-hee Lee
Abstract: Provided is a laser processing device capable of detecting that a return light of a laser light reflected by a processing object is incident on a laser light source. The laser processing device includes: a laser light source which outputs a laser light for processing; a light source for inspection which outputs a laser light for inspection having a wavelength different from that of the laser light for processing; an optical waveguide in which the laser light for processing and the laser light for inspection are incident from an incident surface, and the laser light for processing and the laser light for inspection are emitted from an emission surface toward a processing object; and a detector which detects a return light of the laser light for inspection reflected by the processing object, incident from the emission surface of the optical waveguide and emitted from the incident surface.
Abstract: The invention relates to a method for pulsed laser deposition including the steps of: providing a target and a substrate facing the target; irradiating a spot on the target with a pulsed laser beam to generate a plasma plume of target material and depositing the plasma plume on the substrate; and smoothing the surface structure of the spot on the target prior to irradiating the spot with a pulsed laser beam.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 11, 2019
Date of Patent:
November 16, 2021
Assignee:
Solmates B.V.
Inventors:
Jan Arnaud Janssens, Jan Matthijn Dekkers, Kristiaan Hendrikus Aloysius Böhm, Jeroen Aaldert Heuver