13013results about "Welding/soldering/cutting articles" patented technology

A vacuum insulating panel may include: a first glass substrate; a second glass substrate; a plurality of spacers provided in a gap between at least the first and second substrates, wherein the gap is at a pressure less than atmospheric pressure; a seal provided between at least the first and second substrates, the seal including a first ceramic seal layer and a second ceramic seal layer, wherein the second ceramic seal layer is located between at least the first ceramic seal layer and the first glass substrate; and wherein one or more of: (i) a thermal (TC) conductivity of the first ceramic seal layer is be less than a thermal conductivity of the first glass substrate, and wherein the thermal conductivity of the first glass substrate is less than a thermal conductivity of the second ceramic seal layer, so that the thermal conductivity of the second ceramic seal layer is greater than the thermal conductivity of the first substrate and greater than the thermal conductivity of the first ceramic seal layer; (ii) a thermal conductivity of the second ceramic seal layer is greater than a thermal conductivity of the first ceramic seal layer; and / or (iii) a ratio TDp1 / TDg, where TDp1 represents a thermal diffusivity (TD) of the second ceramic seal layer and TDg represents a thermal diffusivity of the first glass substrate, is at least 1.020 and wherein the thermal diffusivity of the second ceramic seal layer is greater than a thermal diffusivity of the first ceramic seal layer.

The invention relates to the technical field of welding processing, and discloses a dissimilar metal welding joint temperature field optimization control method and system. Real-time temperature field scanning is conducted on the dissimilar metal welded joint, image segmentation processing is conducted on a temperature field image obtained through scanning, temperature data of a weld joint area, a heat affected area and a base metal area are extracted, and whether the temperature gradient exceeds a preset threshold value or not is judged; aiming at an area with non-uniform distribution of heat input quantity, analyzing the performance of the welding joint under the combined action of thermal stress and mechanical stress, obtaining the difference between residual stress distribution and plastic deformation capacity, and analyzing a stress concentration area by combining with the yield strength of the material; and a mapping relation between the welding process parameters and temperature field distribution is established, and a welding process parameter adjustment prediction model is obtained through historical welding process parameters and corresponding temperature field data training in combination with heat flux density distribution. The problems of uneven heat input, stress concentration and the like in dissimilar metal welding are effectively solved, and the welding quality and efficiency are improved.

A vacuum insulating panel may include: a first substrate; a second substrate; a plurality of spacers provided in a gap between at least the first and second substrates, wherein the gap is at pressure less than atmospheric pressure; a pump-out / evacuation tube extending at least partly into an aperture in one of the substrates; and a pump-out / evacuation tube seal. The pump-out / evacuation tube seal may include at least one of: (a) from about 20-80 wt. % tellurium oxide, the tellurium oxide comprising TeO4 and TeO3, wherein the pump-out tube seal comprises more TeO3 than TeO4 by wt. %; and / or (b) tellurium oxide and from about 10-50 wt. % vanadium oxide, wherein the pump-out tube seal by wt. % comprises more tellurium oxide than vanadium oxide, and wherein the vanadium oxide comprises VO2 and V2O5, and wherein more V in the pump-out tube seal is in a form of VO2 than V2O5. A substantially donut-shaped laser beam may be used to heat pump-out tube material in order to form a pump-out tube seal.

A vacuum insulating panel may include: a first substrate; a second substrate; a plurality of spacers provided in a gap between at least the first and second substrates, wherein the gap is at a pressure less than atmospheric pressure; a seal provided between at least the first and second substrates, the seal including a first seal layer and a second seal layer, wherein, for at least one location of the seal, the first seal layer has a first width and the second seal layer has a second width, wherein the first width of the first seal layer may be from about 2-20 mm, more preferably from about 3-10 mm, and possibly from about 4-8 mm.

The invention provides an aluminum alloy auxiliary frame welding accurate positioning and quality control method and system. The method comprises the steps that S4, welding gun track control parameters are updated through a dynamic adjustment instruction, laser tracking data are fused to optimize the welding path angle in real time, and the accurate movement track of each section of welding seam is determined; s5, acquiring real-time thermal expansion data during welding execution, monitoring temperature field distribution of a welding seam area by adopting an optical measurement technology, and judging whether thermal deformation adjustment exceeds a preset threshold value or not; s7, micron-sized welding spot positioning operation is executed according to the stable positioning state, the dynamic path optimization result is fused to generate a final welding instruction, and consistent welding seam quality data is output; and S8, after weld joint quality data are obtained, weld joint deviation and geometric consistency are detected through a laser tracking technology, whether welding quality meets design requirements or not is judged, and a quality verification report is generated. According to the method, the precision and consistency of intelligent welding of the aluminum alloy auxiliary frame are remarkably improved.

The invention discloses a dissimilar metal laser welding device based on swing light beams and molten pool state monitoring. The dissimilar metal laser welding device aims at improving the welding quality and the joint stability. The device comprises a laser welding head with a light beam swinging function, and the laser welding head can implement nonlinear energy scanning in a welding area according to a preset track type, frequency and amplitude; the acquisition module can synchronously acquire a visual image, an excitation spectrum and an infrared thermal imaging signal of the molten pool at a high frame rate, and extracts interface diffusion and metal mixing characteristics through multi-modal fusion; the calculation module performs dynamic feature modeling according to the collected physical feature information and the swing parameters, and quantifies multi-dimensional state indexes of the welding quality; the control module carries out combined adjustment on the laser power, the welding speed and the swing parameters according to the state indexes, closed-loop feedback control is constructed, and therefore real-time stable regulation and control and defect suppression in the dissimilar metal welding process are achieved.

The invention belongs to the technical field of laser processing, and particularly relates to a special-shaped curved glass laser cutting track planning method. According to the method, the instantaneous thermal effect and the historical thermal accumulation effect are subjected to coupling calculation, high-precision prediction and compensation of thermal deformation in the laser cutting process are achieved, the accuracy of the cutting track is improved, contour deviation caused by thermal deformation is avoided, and the geometric precision is improved; according to the local geometric complexity of the special-shaped curved glass, regions are divided, and differential virtual scanning layers and scanning modes are matched, so that the dynamic balance of efficiency and precision is guaranteed, the processing quality of regions with high curvature, thin walls and the like is guaranteed, the cutting speed of flat regions is increased, and the processing period is shortened; by monitoring the temperature and feeding back actual thermal historical parameters during cutting, model parameters are reversely optimized by using contour precision data after cutting is completed, so that robustness and stability are enhanced, and the yield and process reliability of laser cutting of the special-shaped curved glass are improved.

The invention provides a dissimilar material crystallization welding control method based on microwave energy distribution, which comprises the following steps: acquiring a high-density temperature map of a to-be-welded workpiece through a fiber grating array, and acquiring a real-time temperature value from a dissimilar material interface edge to a central area of the to-be-welded workpiece to obtain initial temperature distribution; calculating a temperature difference value between the edge and the central area, identifying a local overheat point position by comparing a temperature gradient or setting a temperature difference threshold value, and comparing the overheat point temperature with a preset material overheat threshold value to judge whether an overheat area exists or not; if the temperature difference value exceeds a temperature difference threshold value or a local overheating area exists, extracting space coordinates of a low-temperature area and a high-temperature area from the high-density temperature map, and identifying an energy distribution target area needing to be adjusted; and extracting temperature distribution from the updated energy distribution diagram, analyzing a temperature gradient to identify a heating power concentration region, and calculating to obtain a target stress distribution state in combination with the heating power concentration region.

A component includes a body having a coupon opening defined therein, and an additively manufactured (AM) metal coupon including a dense region, a porous region adjacent the dense region, and a coupon outer surface. The porous region has a first cross-sectional area at a first location at or near the coupon outer surface and a second cross-sectional area less than the first cross-sectional area at a second location distal from the coupon outer surface. A braze material couples the metal coupon in the coupon opening and infiltrates into the porous region, e.g., based at least on a characteristic of the porosity thereof. The dense region may have a third cross-sectional area at the first location and a fourth cross-sectional area greater than the third cross-sectional area at the second location so it can direct the braze material in the porous region toward an inner surface of the coupon opening.

A method of making a vacuum insulating panel, the vacuum insulating panel comprising a first glass substrate, a second glass substrate, a plurality of spacers provided in a gap between at least the first and second glass substrates, and a seal provided between at least the first and second glass substrates, the seal comprising a first seal layer and / or a second seal layer. The method may include laser heating, using a laser beam from a continuous wave near-IR laser, seal material in order to form the first seal layer; wherein the laser heating may include causing the laser beam to move at a lateral speed of from about 5-70 mm / second relative to the substrates and the first seal material so that the laser beam at least partially passes through at least one of the glass substrates and impinges upon at least the second seal layer in order to heat the second seal layer and fire and / or sinter the first seal material thereby forming the first seal layer.

A laser processing apparatus irradiates a target with a laser light to form a modified region along a virtual plane in the target. The laser processing apparatus includes a support portion, an irradiation portion, a movement mechanism, and a controller. The controller performs a first processing process of irradiating a first portion in the target with the laser light under a first processing condition, and a second processing process of irradiating a second portion more on an inner side than the first portion in the target with the laser light under a second processing condition different from the first processing condition, after the first processing process.

A method of making a vacuum insulating panel including a first substrate, a second substrate, a plurality of spacers provided in a gap between at least the first and second substrates, and a seal provided between at least the first and second substrates, the seal comprising a first seal layer, and optionally second and / or third primer layer(s). The method may include at least one of: (i) laser heating, using a laser beam from a laser, the first seal material for firing and / or sintering the first seal material to form the first seal layer, in a manner that causes TeO4>TeO3 in the first seal material to transform into TeO3>TeO4 due to said laser heating, whereby an amount of TeO4 decreases and an amount of TeO3 increases due to said laser heating, and / or (ii) laser heating in a manner that causes V2O5>VO2 in the first seal material to transform into VO2>V2O5 due to said laser heating whereby an amount of VO2 increases and an amount of V2O5 decreases due to said laser heating, so that after said laser heating the first seal layer comprises more VO2 than V2O5 by wt. %.

A method of making a vacuum insulating panel, the vacuum insulating panel including a first glass substrate, a second glass substrate, a plurality of spacers provided in a gap between at least the first and second glass substrates, and a seal provided between at least the first and second glass substrates, the seal comprising a first seal layer. The method may include: providing first seal material for the first seal layer in a location at least partially between at least the first and second glass substrates; laser heating, using a laser beam from a continuous wave near-IR laser, the first seal material in order to form the first seal layer; wherein said laser heating may comprise using the laser beam, having a size of from about 2-15 mm, so that the laser beam at least partially passes through at least one of the glass substrates to fire and / or sinter the first seal material thereby forming the first seal layer, in a manner so that the first seal layer a density of from about 2.8-4.0 g / cm3; and after forming the first seal layer, evacuating the gap to a pressure less than atmospheric pressure.

Energy is locally supplied to a cutting surface that is formed in an outer circumferential region of a wafer in a trimming step, before a grinding step of grinding the wafer. This can remove or repair at least part of a damage layer formed in the outer circumferential region of the wafer due to the trimming step. As a result, breakage of the wafer that originates from the outer circumferential region in the grinding of the wafer which has been subjected to the edge trimming and generation of dust in a step after this grinding can be suppressed.

A vacuum insulating panel includes first and second substrates (e.g., glass substrates), a hermetic edge seal, a pump-out port, and spacers sandwiched between at least the two substrates. The gap between the substrates may be at a pressure less than atmospheric pressure to provide insulating properties. The vacuum insulating panel may include a multi-layer edge seal structure, including at least one layer including boron oxide (e.g., B2O3 or any other stoichiometry).

An additive manufactured (AM) metal coupon for a turbomachine component is provided. The component includes an airfoil body having a pressure side, a suction side, a trailing edge, and a coupon opening. The AM metal coupon has an AM metal member with at least one slanted coupon side wall at an angle of less than 90° with an exterior surface of the AM metal member. The AM metal member also has a first porous region having a first porosity and a second porous region having a second porosity different than the first porosity. A braze material couples the AM metal coupon in the coupon opening in the airfoil body and infiltrates into at least one of the first porous region based at least on a characteristic of the first porosity and the second porous region based at least on a characteristic of the second porosity.

Provided is a friction stir spot welded joint having high cross tensile strength even in the case where a steel sheet having a soft surface layer is used as a material to be welded. An annular groove is formed on an upper surface of an upper sheet out of overlapping steel sheets, and a shape and hardness of a welded portion are appropriately controlled simultaneously.

A method of additive manufacturing a part having integrated passages is provided. In one aspect, the method includes forming a part having a near net shape by moving a friction stir tool to deposit a filler material in a predetermined formation. The tool can include a rotating spindle having a channel configured to hold the filler material. The method can include machining the near net shape part to form a plurality of grooves extending into a surface of the part, the plurality of grooves sized and shaped to each receive a tube. The method can include placing a tube into each of the plurality of grooves and moving the tool across the surface of the part and depositing additional material configured to secure the tubes within the plurality of grooves. The method can include machining the additional material deposited over the tubes to a predetermined shape.

A component including a body, and an additively manufactured (AM) metal coupon including a first section and a stress-relief section, is disclosed. The stress-relief section includes a porous region having a porosity between 2% to 50% open space volume to total volume of the stress-relief section. The stress-relief section has at least one of thermal conductivity, tensile strength, ductility, or fatigue strength less than first section. A braze material couples the AM metal coupon to a coupon opening in the body. The stress-relief section creates a low-stress zone in the metal coupon that can be located near or adjacent to a high-stress zone. The stress-relief section reduces residual stress in the metal coupon, which reduces the related challenges of coupling the metal coupon to the body of the component, especially where superalloy materials are used.

A method of additive manufacturing a structure having integrated passages is provided. In one aspect, the method includes forming first and second parts, each part having a near net shape. The first and second parts are formed by moving a friction stir tool configured to deposit a filler material. An inner surface of each part can be machined to form a generally smooth surface. The first and the second parts are joined to form a structure. The structure is machined to form a generally smooth outer surface. The method includes machining a plurality of grooves extending into the generally smooth outer surface of the structure. A tube is placed into each of the plurality of grooves and a layer of material is deposited to secure the tubes within the plurality of grooves. The method can include machining the outer surface to a predetermined shape.

A method of additive manufacturing a structure having integrated passages is provided. In one aspect, the method includes forming first and second parts, each part having a near net shape. The first and second parts are formed by moving a friction stir tool configured to deposit a filler material. An inner surface of each part can be machined to form a generally smooth surface. The first and the second parts are joined to form a structure. The structure is machined to form a generally smooth outer surface. The method includes machining a plurality of grooves extending into the generally smooth outer surface of the structure. A tube is placed into each of the plurality of grooves and a layer of material is deposited to secure the tubes within the plurality of grooves. The method can include machining the outer surface to a predetermined shape.

The invention provides a method for diffusion bonding of a heterogeneous titanium alloy based on a high-entropy alloy interlayer, and relates to the technical field of heterogeneous titanium alloy bonding, the method comprises the following steps: step 1, rolling and machining a high-entropy alloy ingot to obtain a high-entropy alloy foil; the high-entropy alloy cast ingot is composed of the following elements in atomic percent: Ti <-15 > Co <-15 > Fe <-15 > Mo <-10 > Cr <-10 > Ni <-15 > Zr <-5 > Y, secondly, the Ti150 alloy base material, the high-entropy alloy foil and the Ti180 alloy base material are stacked in sequence, the high-entropy alloy foil is located between the Ti150 alloy base material and the Ti180 alloy base material, and a heterogeneous alloy assembly is obtained; and thirdly, the heterogeneous alloy assembly is subjected to vacuum diffusion welding treatment, and the heterogeneous alloy diffusion welding joint is obtained. According to the method, strengthening and toughening of the heterogeneous titanium alloy diffusion welding joint are achieved through the self-designed Ti-based high-entropy alloy middle layer, the heterogeneous titanium alloy is connected through the Ti-based high-entropy alloy middle layer, and therefore the diffusion welding joint with high toughness is obtained.

The intelligent cutting method comprises the steps that the temperature gradient change rate is analyzed according to temperature distribution data, a key area where an oxidation reaction is likely to happen is determined in combination with geometrical characteristics, and target monitoring area data are obtained; obtaining reflection spectrum information of the cutting area and comparison spectrum information of the adjacent non-cutting area according to the target monitoring area data, and obtaining spectrum characteristic data; performing space-time collaborative analysis on the spectral feature data, extracting a spectral feature change value, and combining the spectral feature change value with the diffusion rate of the oxidation reaction to obtain oxidation state prediction data; and according to the oxidation state prediction data, the cutting power is adjusted in different regions, the flow field parameters of the protective gas are dynamically compensated, and cutting of the titanium alloy structural part is executed. According to the technical scheme, through spectrum monitoring and space-time collaborative analysis, dynamic prediction and accurate regulation and control of the oxidation reaction are achieved, the problem that laser energy coupling is not stable due to the surface oxidation reaction is solved, and the cutting quality is guaranteed.

The invention relates to a component of a brake for a vehicle, comprising a metal main body having a surface (5a, 5b) that is provided with a coating (B) for increasing the wear resistance thereof, said coating comprising an intermediate layer (Z) deposited on the main body (2) and a cover layer (D) deposited on the intermediate layer (Z), the cover layer (D) being formed from a stainless steel matrix (E) having hard material particles (HP) embedded therein. In order to furthermore confer optimized use properties to such a component, the invention proposes that the hard material particles (HP) embedded into the stainless steel matrix (E) of the cover layer (D) have an average particle diameter of 10 µm to 125 µm and that the hard material particles (HP) have a non-molten core region (K) which is composed of uninfluenced material of the hard material particles (HP), said core region being surrounded at least in sections by a mixing zone (M) formed by material of the stainless steel matrix (E) and material of the respective hard material particle (HP), by means of which the hard material particles (HP) are in each case connected to the stainless steel matrix (E) in an integrally bonded manner. The invention also proposes a method, by which such a coated component can be produced.

A method of additive manufacturing a part having integrated passages is provided. In one aspect, the method includes forming a part having a near net shape by moving a friction stir tool to deposit a filler material in a predetermined formation. The tool can include a rotating spindle having a channel configured to hold the filler material. The method can include machining the near net shape part to form a plurality of grooves extending into a surface of the part, the plurality of grooves sized and shaped to each receive a tube. The method can include placing a tube into each of the plurality of grooves and moving the tool across the surface of the part and depositing additional material configured to secure the tubes within the plurality of grooves. The method can include machining the additional material deposited over the tubes to a predetermined shape.

The invention discloses a high-strength silver-free copper-based brazing filler metal which is composed of P, Sn, Ni and Cu. The high-strength silver-free copper-based brazing filler metal is low in cost, safe, environmentally friendly and good in welding effect; through the adding of Sn and Ni, the melting point of brazing filler metal alloy is reduced, and the tensile strength and wettability of the brazing filler metal alloy are enhanced.

A method of additive manufacturing a structure having integrated passages is provided. In one aspect, the method includes forming first and second parts, each part having a near net shape. The first and second parts are formed by moving a friction stir tool configured to deposit a filler material. An inner surface of each part can be machined to form a generally smooth surface. The first and the second parts are joined to form a structure. The structure is machined to form a generally smooth outer surface. The method includes machining a plurality of grooves extending into the generally smooth outer surface of the structure. A tube is placed into each of the plurality of grooves and a layer of material is deposited to secure the tubes within the plurality of grooves. The method can include machining the outer surface to a predetermined shape.

The invention relates to an in-situ alloying method for an electric arc additive ultrahigh-strength aluminum alloy, in particular to an in-situ alloying method for a double-wire feeding electric arc additive ultrahigh-strength aluminum alloy. The invention aims to solve the problems that the microscopic uniformity of the material is poorer and the ideal mechanical property is difficult to realize due to the fact that the aluminum alloy is easy to form a thick organization structure in a deposition state, and the compactness and the quality stability of the material are seriously influenced due to the fact that solidification shrinkage cavities are easy to appear in the deposition process. By adjusting the wire feeding speed and angle of the two wires, it is ensured that the two wires are molten in the same molten pool, and in-situ alloying of ultrahigh-strength aluminum alloy additive manufacturing is achieved. By optimizing the components and the organization structure, the method effectively improves the component uniformity, the forming stability and the mechanical property of the aluminum alloy, and the high-performance aluminum alloy additive component with high strength, excellent toughness and durability is prepared. The invention belongs to the technical field of additive manufacturing.

The invention discloses a 7-series aluminum alloy composite light source laser welding method, which is characterized in that stitch welding is carried out on double-layer 7-series aluminum alloy test pieces by using a composite light beam formed by a near-infrared laser beam and a blue laser beam, the thickness of the upper-layer 7-series aluminum alloy test piece is 1-2mm, and the thickness of the lower-layer 7-series aluminum alloy test piece is 2mm; before welding, removing an oxide layer on the surface of the aluminum alloy, then pressing up and down through a jig, and setting welding parameters and paths; during welding, light spots of a near-infrared laser beam and a blue laser beam are concentric and emitted at the same time, the two laser beams are coupled and focused to a swing welding head, and stitch welding is carried out according to set welding parameters and paths; the light spot diameter of the blue light laser beam is larger than that of the near-infrared laser beam. Near-infrared light and blue light form coaxial composite light spots and emit light at the same time, stitch welding is conducted on the double-layer aluminum alloy test piece in combination with the swing welding head, and the stitch welding device has the advantages of being high in welding efficiency, good in air hole state and few in splashing and cracks.

The invention discloses an electronic assembly welding workbench. Comprising a gantry workbench structure, a smoke suction mechanism, a welding angle adjusting mechanism and a double-station clamping mechanism. A rotating cylinder is arranged on the surface of the smoke suction cylinder through matching of a driving worm and a worm gear ring so as to realize multidirectional angle adjustment of the welding gun; the circuit board is rapidly clamped through the action of the rack, the driving gear and the extrusion convex strip, and double-station cross feeding and discharging are achieved; the smoke suction mechanism concentrates and efficiently discharges smoke through a horn and a corrugated pipe; and automatic multi-angle welding can be implemented by combining a tin wire placing machine and a sensor, so that the welding efficiency and quality are remarkably improved.