Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Alternately direct resistance spot welding of Al-to-Al, al-to-steel, and steel-to-steel with welding electrode having oxide-disrupting structural features
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Application No.: US15492482Application Date: 2017-04-20
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Publication No.: US10675704B2Publication Date: 2020-06-09
- Inventor: David R. Sigler , Blair E. Carlson , Michael J. Karagoulis
- Applicant: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
- Applicant Address: US MI Detroit
- Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
- Current Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US MI Detroit
- Agency: Reising Ethington P.C.
- Main IPC: B23K11/31
- IPC: B23K11/31 ; B23K11/30 ; B23K11/11 ; B23K11/20 ; B23K11/24 ; B23K103/04 ; B23K103/10 ; B23K103/20 ; B23K101/18 ; B23K101/00

Abstract:
A method of resistance spot welding workpiece stack-ups of different combinations of metal workpieces with a single weld gun using the same set of welding electrodes is disclosed. In this method, a set of opposed welding electrodes that include an original shape and oxide-disrupting structural features are used to resistance spot weld at least two of the following types of workpiece stack-ups in a particular sequence: (1) a workpiece stack-up of two or more aluminum workpieces; (2) a workpiece stack-up that includes an aluminum workpiece and an adjacent steel workpiece; and (3) a workpiece stack-up of two or more steel workpieces. The spot welding sequence calls for completing all of the aluminum-to-aluminum spot welds and/or all of the steel-to-steel spot welds last.
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