LASER WELDING METHOD AND LASER WELDING APPARATUS

    公开(公告)号:US20240326164A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-10-03

    申请号:US18595624

    申请日:2024-03-05

    摘要: A laser welding method includes applying a laser beam to a welded member in which a first metal plate and a second metal plate formed of a material having a melting point lower than a melting point of the first metal plate are superposed, to weld the first metal plate and the second metal plate. The laser beam is caused to pass through a diffractive optical element configured to reduce a spot diameter of a focal point of the laser beam and then to pass through a condenser lens such that the laser beam has the spot diameter of the focal point of 0.3 mm or less. The laser beam is applied to the first metal plate.

    LASER WELDING METAL FOIL STACK TO METAL SUBSTRATE

    公开(公告)号:US20240173800A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-05-30

    申请号:US18277266

    申请日:2022-01-07

    摘要: A method for laser welding a stack of metal foils to a metal substrate includes securing the stack of metal foils between a surface of the metal substrate and a removable clamp such that a side of the stack, formed by edges of the foils, is located on an interior portion of the surface, and the clamp is set back from the side of the stack. A first laser welding step interconnects the foils with an initial laser-weld joint by serially tracing a plurality of lateral paths along the foil edges with a laser beam. A second laser welding step connects the stack of interconnected foils to the substrate by tracing, with a laser beam, a path along the interface between the initial laser-weld joint and the substrate surface. This two-step laser welding process circumvents the difficulties of welding together materials with highly disparate thicknesses in a single laser-welding operation.

    WELDING OPTICAL UNIT FOR THE LASER WELDING OF WORKPIECES, WITH FLEXIBLE SETTING OF THE NUMBER OF AND DISTANCE BETWEEN LASER SPOTS USING CYLINDRICAL LENSES

    公开(公告)号:US20240139867A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-05-02

    申请号:US18409840

    申请日:2024-01-11

    摘要: A welding optical unit includes a collimator for collimating a laser beam, a focusing device for focusing the laser beam toward a workpiece, an adjustable beam shaper configured to shape the laser beam. The beam shaper includes a beam subdivision assembly that includes a cylindrical lens pair comprising two cylindrical lenses with diametrically opposite focal lengths and mutually parallel optical planes. The two cylindrical lenses extend with a curve on at least one side with respect to a common refraction direction perpendicular to the optical planes, and extend translationally invariantly with respect to a common non-refraction direction parallel to the optical planes. The refraction direction and the non-refraction direction extend perpendicularly to the optical axis of the welding optical unit. The welding optical unit further includes a spot distance adjusting device configured to displace the two cylindrical lenses relative to one another with respect to the refraction direction.