Laser-beamwelding

Details Laser-beamwelding Laser-beamwelding

1984-04-18

1987-01-06

Albritton, C. L.

Electric heating

Metal heating

By arc

219121LD, 219121LQ, 219121LV, 219121FS, B23K 2600

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046348328

ABSTRACT:
Contiguous metal plates are welded together without special edge preparation or bevelling e.g. of cut edges 13 from one side using a focussed high intensity laser beam 7. To ensure maintenance of welding conditions even when the plate edges are spaced apart by cutting imperfections or the like a wire 12 is fed to, or near, the beam focus 10 to intercept the beam and give rise to a plasma. This plasma is kept in place by gas supply means 8, the gas supply through ducting 15, 16 of which (a) prevents plasma building up above the weld zone (which would decrease the beam intensity at the weld) but (b) holds some plasma in the region of the beam impingement on the wire so as to allow energy transfer to the adjacent walls.
Butt welds or T welds can be made in this way, even in plate material, in a single pass from one side. The technique thus permits the arrangement of work stations on a production line to be simplified and rationalized when making up multiweld repeat structural units e.g. in shipbuilding.

REFERENCES:
patent: 3860784 (1975-01-01), Brown et al.
patent: 4128753 (1978-12-01), Sharp
patent: 4223201 (1980-09-01), Peters et al.
patent: 4546230 (1985-10-01), Sasaki et al.

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