摘要:
A method and apparatus for micromachining and microdrilling which results in a machined part of superior surface quality is provided. The system uses a near diffraction limited, high repetition rate, short pulse length, visible wavelength laser. The laser is combined with a high speed precision tilting mirror and suitable beam shaping optics, thus allowing a large amount of energy to be accurately positioned and scanned on the workpiece. As a result of this system, complicated, high resolution machining patterns can be achieved. A cover plate may be temporarily attached to the workpiece. Then as the workpiece material is vaporized during the machining process, the vapors condense on the cover plate rather than the surface of the workpiece. In order to eliminate cutting rate variations as the cutting direction is varied, a randomly polarized laser beam is utilized. A rotating half-wave plate is used to achieve the random polarization. In order to correctly locate the focus at the desired location within the workpiece, the position of the focus is first determined by monitoring the speckle size while varying the distance between the workpiece and the focussing optics. When the speckle size reaches a maximum, the focus is located at the first surface of the workpiece. After the location of the focus has been determined, it is repositioned to the desired location within the workpiece, thus optimizing the quality of the machined area.
摘要:
In a laser machining device for cutting a round hole in a workpiece employing a machining program, a movement path includes a section from point P.sub.1 to point P.sub.2 (passing a hole previously formed in a workpiece) and reaches point P.sub.3 on a circle (40) to be cut. A section P.sub.2 -P.sub.3 of the path is not a simple circular arc but is a curve whose radius of curvature gradually becomes approximate to the radius of a circle 40 to be cut as it gradually decreases towards the end point (P.sub.3) from the start point (P.sub.2) where the radius of the curvature is largest. Thus, the change in acceleration at points P.sub.2 and P.sub.3 of the section P.sub.1 -P.sub.2 -P.sub.3 of the path can be controlled to low levels.
摘要:
The output of a continuously pumped, Q-switched, Nd:YAG laser (10) is frequency converted to provide ultraviolet light (62) for forming vias (72, 74) in targets (40) having metallic layers (64,68) and a dielectric layer (66). The invention employs a first laser output of high power density to ablate the metallic layer and a second laser output of a lower power density to ablate the dielectric layer. The parameters of the output pulses (62) are selected to facilitate substantially clean, sequential drilling or via formation. These parameters typically include at least two of the following criteria: power density first above and then below the ablation threshold of the conductor, wavelength less than 400 nm, a temporal pulse width shorter than about 100 nanoseconds, and a repetition rate of greater than about one kilohertz. The ability to generate ultraviolet light output pulses at two power densities facilitates the formation of depthwise self-limiting blind vias in multilayer targets, such as a target composed of a layer dielectric material covered on either surface by a layer of metal.
摘要:
Air diffuser openings are machined in hollow gas turbine blades. The blade is supported in alignment with a laser machining beam and rotatable around several perpendicular axes. It is simultaneously rotated about both axes whereby a substantially hourglass shape is machined out of the blade. The root of the hourglass shape may thereafter be enlarged.
摘要:
The present invention relates to an assembly for material processing using a laser beam, in particular for laser drilling, comprising a dynamic deflection device (AE) for the laser beam (LS), and an optical assembly, with which a laser beam (LS) exiting the deflection device (AE) is focused onto a processing plane (W). Along an optical axis, the optical assembly has a first optical system (OS1) and a second optical system (OS2), which are designed and arranged such that the laser beam (LS) forms an intermediate focus (ZF) between the first and the second optical system (OS1, OS2), and intersects the optical axis when entering the first optical system (OS1) at an angle to the optical axis and at a distance therefrom between the second optical system (OS2) and the processing plane (W). The suggested assembly has a simple, stable structure, with which efficient ablation of large and deep boreholes or cuts in a workpiece is enabled.
摘要:
A process is provided for forming a plurality of apertures in a fiber-reinforced composite object using a laser. The apertures include at least a first aperture and a second aperture. During the process, a scanner head of the laser is operated from a location to selectively scan a laser beam over the object to form a first portion of the first aperture and to form a first portion of the second aperture. The scanner head is also operated from the location to selectively scan the laser beam over the object to form a second portion of the first aperture and to form a second portion of the second aperture.
摘要:
The present disclosure is directed toward a machine tool configured to perform small-scale, high-accuracy drilling operations for small-hole applications. The small-hole applications for which the machine tool is designed includes holes with one or more diameters. A part may have a larger-diameter hole that penetrates through a fraction of the thickness of a part and a smaller-diameter hole that penetrates from the bottom of the larger-diameter hole through the remainder of the part thickness. Additionally, the machine tool may be used with parts in any of the following categories: (i) both the step-hole and the flow-hole are created using the machine tool; or, (ii) the step-hole is created with an up-stream process and the machine tool may accept the part, measure the step-holes and create the flow-holes; or, (iii) no step-hole is used and the machine tool may accept the part, measure the raw surface and create the flow-holes.
摘要:
A substrate having one or more shaped effusion cooling holes formed therein. Each shaped cooling hole has a bore angled relative to an exit surface of the combustor liner. One end of the bore is an inlet formed in an inlet surface of the combustor liner. The other end of the bore is an outlet formed in the exit surface of the combustor liner. The outlet has a shaped portion that expands in only one dimension. Also methods for making the shaped cooling holes.
摘要:
Laser systems and methods insert a settling time before and after each tooling action. A peak AOD excursion generally occurs at the transition in velocity between inter-feature moves and tooling moves. This transition occurs both before tooling (on the approach to the tooling location) and after tooling (on the departure from the completed tooling location to the next location). By adding a settling delay on each end of the tooling period, the AOD excursion is allowed to settle to a lower value. This then allows higher inter-tooling velocities (for high throughput) while keeping the AOD travel excursion within the bounds of the system's AOD configuration.
摘要:
The invention relates to a drilling device comprising a light source configured to provide a light beam and a diffractive beam propagation device having a substantially planar surface, wherein the light source is configured such that the light beam is incident on the planar surface of the diffractive beam propagation device, and wherein the diffractive beam propagation device is configured to propagate the light beam as one or more propagated beams such that the one or more propagated beams, at least when being integrated over time, surround an area with a substantially circular shape. A use of the drilling device for drilling a hole in a work piece and a method suitable for drilling a hole in a work piece are also provided.