Weld Inspection System and Method

    公开(公告)号:US20210037196A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-02-04

    申请号:US16525731

    申请日:2019-07-30

    摘要: A weld inspection system is adapted to inspect a weld of a work product via thermographic technology. The weld inspection system includes a heat source assembly, a thermal imaging camera, and a controller. The heat source assembly is adapted to sequentially direct a plurality of heat pulses upon the work product from varying perspectives and within a pre-determined time period. Thea thermal imaging camera is configured to thermally image the weld over the pre-determined time period and collect thermal imaging data of heat dissipation from the work product. The thermal imaging data is associated with the weld and the plurality of heat pulses. The controller is configured to control the heat source assembly and the thermal imaging camera. The controller includes a processor configured to receive and transform the thermal imaging data into a binary image for evaluation of the weld.

    RESISTANCE SPOT WELDING STEEL AND ALUMINUM WORKPIECES WITH ELECTRODE HAVING INSERT

    公开(公告)号:US20170297135A1

    公开(公告)日:2017-10-19

    申请号:US15097821

    申请日:2016-04-13

    IPC分类号: B23K11/20 B23K11/30 B23K11/11

    摘要: A method of resistance spot welding a steel workpiece and an aluminum or aluminum alloy workpiece, and a welding electrode used therein. In one step of the method a workpiece stack-up is provided. The workpiece stack-up includes a steel workpiece and an aluminum or aluminum alloy workpiece. Another step of the method involves contacting the aluminum or aluminum alloy workpiece with a weld face of the welding electrode. The welding electrode has a body and an insert. The insert is composed of a material having an electrical resistivity that is greater than an electrical resistivity of the material of the body. The weld face has a first section defined by a surface of the insert and has a second section defined by a surface of the body. Both the first and second sections make surface-to-surface contact with the aluminum or aluminum alloy workpiece amid resistance spot welding.

    RESISTANCE SPOT WELDING ALUMINUM TO STEEL USING PREPLACED METALLURGICAL ADDITIVES

    公开(公告)号:US20170297134A1

    公开(公告)日:2017-10-19

    申请号:US15491484

    申请日:2017-04-19

    摘要: A method of resistance spot welding a workpiece stack-up that that includes an aluminum workpiece and an adjacent overlapping steel workpiece involves assembling the workpiece stack-up so that an intermediate metallurgical additive is positioned between the faying surfaces of the aluminum and steel workpieces. The intermediate metallurgical additive includes at least one of carbon, silicon, nickel, manganese, chromium, cobalt, or copper, and has the capability to counteract the growth and formation of Fe—Al intermetallic compounds within a molten metal weld pool created within the aluminum workpiece during resistance spot welding of the workpiece stack-up. In certain aspects of the disclosed method, the intermediate metallurgical additive may be one or more metallurgical additive deposits that are deposited onto the faying surface of the aluminum workpiece or the faying surface of the steel workpiece by an oscillating wire arc welding process.