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| 20090162138 | LONGITUDINAL MEMBER ASSEMBLY WITH JOINT - A longitudinal member assembly having a primary loading direction, including an interior longitudinal member and an exterior longitudinal member, and a method of assembly, is disclosed. The interior longitudinal member has a boxed-section shape including a first side and an opposed second side parallel to the first side. The exterior longitudinal member has a boxed shape including a first exterior side and an opposed second exterior side parallel to the first exterior side. The interior member is telescopically received in the exterior member creating an overlap area, the first exterior side includes a first side welding hole, and the second exterior side includes a second side welding hole. A first side hole weld extends around the first side welding hole, and a second side hole weld extends around the second side welding hole. The first and second holes are parallel to the primary loading direction. | 06-25-2009 |
| 20090208275 | STRUCTURE FOR EXHAUST PIPE CONNECTION SECTION OF MUFFLER - In an exhaust pipe connecting structure of a muffler, a through-hole | 08-20-2009 |
| 20090317179 | FRICTION WELDING JOINT OF A PLURALITY OF TWO-DIMENSIONAL COMPONENTS POSITIONED ON TOP OF EACH OTHER - The invention relates to a friction welding joint of a plurality of two-dimensional components positioned on top of each other, which are held together by a connecting body which rests on the upper component by means of a collar and which, after penetrating the upper component by means of its end face as a friction welding surface, forms a friction welding zone on the lower component by means of the rotation and pressure of the connecting body. This combination includes the following features:
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| 20100040408 | CONNECTION BETWEEN A TUBULAR MEMBER OF STEEL AND A STRUCTURE OF ALUMINUM - In an assembly including a tubular member made of steel and a structure made of aluminum, the tubular member has an end portion for engagement in a recess of the structure. At least one receptacle is provided between the end portion of the tubular member and the structure and filled with a welding filler containing aluminum as base material for effecting a connection between the tubular member and the structure. | 02-18-2010 |
| 20100098483 | Capacitor Discharge Weld for Connecting Tubular Twist Beam Profiles to Cast Trailing Arm Via Adapter Ring - A suspension component for a vehicle includes a cast iron body, a high strength steel tube and an adapter ring. The adapter ring includes a protrusion engaged with a face of the cast iron body. The protrusion is heated to a plasticized state as a capacitor is discharged through the protrusion and the face. The adapter ring is welded to the body upon cooling of the adapter ring. The high strength steel tube is fixed to the adapter ring. | 04-22-2010 |
| 20100119300 | OUTER JOINT MEMBER FOR CONSTANT VELOCITY UNIVERSAL JOINT - Provided is an outer joint member for a constant velocity universal joint, which can be manufactured at low cost. The outer joint member includes a cup member ( | 05-13-2010 |
| 20110170946 | SHEET-METAL COMPOSITE, METHOD FOR JOINING SHEETS AND JOINING DEVICE - A metal sheet composite comprising an outer metal sheet having a flange which is folded over around a flanging edge; an inner metal sheet which forms a joint with the flange; and a welding or soldering seam which is produced on or in the joint and fixedly connects the metal sheets to each other. A method for joining metal sheets and a device for flanging and welding or soldering are also disclosed. The device includes: a tool head; a flanging member, arranged on the tool head, for roll-flanging or slide-flanging; and a welding or soldering tool arranged on the tool head, wherein the flanging member and the welding or soldering tool are arranged such that the flanging member forms a pressing means for a welding or soldering process which can be performed using the welding or soldering tool. | 07-14-2011 |
| 20110182657 | FRICTION WELDING JOINT OF TWO TWO-DIMENSIONAL COMPONENTS POSITIONED ON TOP OF EACH OTHER - The invention relates to a friction welding joint of a plurality of two-dimensional components positioned on top of each other, which are held together by means of a connecting body, which rests on an upper component by means of a collar. The connecting body is configured as a pipe piece, and the upper component is penetrated by the connecting body having a front annular cutting edge by means of rotation and pressure, wherein the connecting body, after cutting through the upper component with the front thereof and receiving the cut-out material of the upper component in the hollow space thereof, together with the lower component forms a friction welding zone created by means of rotation and pressure of the connecting body. | 07-28-2011 |
| 20110188927 | PROCESSES FOR WELDING COMPOSITE MATERIALS AND ARTICLES THEREFROM - The invention is directed at a method for welding a composite material and to welded structures thus prepared. The method includes a step of contacting a substrate material with a composite material, wherein the composite material includes a pair of spaced apart steel sheets and a core layer between the sheets; the volume of the core layer is about 25 volume % or more, based on the total volume of the composite material; the core layer includes a plurality of steel fibers arranged in one or more masses of fibers that extend the thickness of the core layer so that the core layer is in electrical communication with the steel sheets; and the steel fibers have a cross sectional area perpendicular to the length of the fibers from about 1×10 | 08-04-2011 |
| 20120003035 | FILLET WELD JOINT AND METHOD FOR GAS SHIELDED ARC WELDING - A fillet weld joint of steel having high fatigue strength by improving stress concentration without excessively relying on imparting a compressive residual stress to a toe part by welding materials, free of cracking, and excellent in the toughness, and a method for gas shielded arc welding for obtaining the fillet weld joint are provided. In the fillet weld joint, a martensitic transformation starting temperature (Ms point) of a weld metal is 400° C. or above and 550° C. or below, a value obtained by dividing a toe radius ρ of a toe part of welding by a sheet thickness t of a base metal (ρ/t) is 0.25 or above, an expression below | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120237287 | BUTT-WELDED JOINT AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME - A butt-welded joint includes a pair of steel plates, a first weld metal that is formed at a butting portion of the pair of steel plates from a first surface side of the pair of steel plates to a second surface side opposite the first surface side by irradiation of a first high-energy density beam from the first surface side, and a second weld metal that is formed by a second high-energy density beam to cover an end surface of the first surface side of the first weld metal. Here, a width W | 09-20-2012 |
| 20120288324 | BUTT-WELDED JOINT OF WELDED STRUCTURE, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - The present invention provides a butt-welded joint of a welded structure, including: a pair of target metals; a weld bead formed by irradiating a first high-energy density beam to a butt portion between the pair of the target metals, the weld bead having a width W on an irradiated side surface; and a pair of altered zones formed, on a surface of the butt-welded joint having the first high-energy density beam irradiated thereto, by irradiating a second high-energy density beam to the surface, the pair of the altered zones having a band shape extending in parallel to the weld bead, and the pair of the altered zones consisting of a pair of heat-affected portions and molten and solidified metals located on a right side and a left side relative to the center of the weld bead in the width direction. | 11-15-2012 |
| 20130142566 | ELECTROCHEMICAL METHODS FOR WIRE BONDING - Probe-based methods are provided for wire bonding and joining of structures. The wire bonds are formed via a meniscus-confined electrodeposition technique. The electrodeposition technique of the invention can also be used for fabricating one or more nano-sized or micro-sized elongated structures. The structures extend at least partially upwards from the surface of a substrate, and may extend fully upward from the substrate surface. Apparatus suitable for use with the electrodeposition technique are also provided. | 06-06-2013 |
| 20130272781 | METHOD FOR WELDING STEEL MATERIAL TO NI-BASED SUPERALLOY AND WELDING JOINT - When a turbine impeller ( | 10-17-2013 |
| 20130309003 | WELD METAL WITH EXCELLENT CREEP CHARACTERISTICS - This weld metal has excellent creep characteristics and has a given chemical composition. In the weld metal, the value A defined by equation (1) is 200 or greater, and carbide particles each having an equivalent-circle diameter of 0.40 μm or more have an average equivalent-circle diameter less than 0.85 μm. In the segments that connect the centers of three or more carbide particles which are present on a 6-μm straight line and which each has an equivalent-circle diameter of 0.40 μm or more, the sum of the lengths of the portions where the segments intersect the carbide particles is 25% or more of the overall length of the segments. | 11-21-2013 |
| 20140079471 | WELDING METHOD AND WELDED JOINT STRUCTURE - The invention is a welding method capable of controlling an arc heat distribution on a groove face of a base metal, which comprises increasing or decreasing the melting rate of a welding wire relative to the feeding rate of the welding wire by changing the characteristic of an arc current to thereby change an arc generating position of a fusing end of the welding wire, wherein an AC arc welding operation is performed by changing the polarity of the welding wire as the characteristic of the arc current; and a welded joint structure formed by the welding method. | 03-20-2014 |
| 20140112709 | DISSIMILAR MATERIAL JOINT, STRUCTURE IN WHICH DISSIMILAR MATERIAL JOINT IS USED, AND METHOD OF PRODUCING THE SAME - A dissimilar material joint is formed by arranging a plurality of joint segments consecutively in a longitudinal direction. Each joint segment is formed by joining and integrating together a first member, an intermediate member, and a second member by explosive welding. A groove is formed in a joint end face of each joint segment, the joint end face being joined to another one of the segments, the groove spacing apart an end face of the first member and an end face of the second member from each other in a stacking direction. In the dissimilar material joint, the end faces of the respective first members of the joint segments that are adjacent to each other are joined together by welding, and the end faces of the respective second members of the joint segments that are adjacent to each other are joined together by welding. | 04-24-2014 |
| 20140169863 | Surface Contouring of a Weld Cap and Adjacent Base Metal Using Ultrasonic Impact Treatment - A method for forming a smooth interface between a weld cap and an adjacent base metal utilizing ultrasonic impact treatment. The method improves the geometric profile of a weld while imparting a compressive residual stress layer on the weld metal and base metal thereby alleviating the tensile residual stresses imparted to the metals during welding. The contouring process does not remove material, as in grinding, but plastically deforms the surface being treated producing a densified surface, in turn providing a smooth weld cap and base metal surface finish without the loss of base or weld metal thickness. | 06-19-2014 |
| 20140199114 | STRUCTURE, METHOD OF MAKING A STRUCTURE, AND METHOD OF REDUCING GALVANIC CORROSION - A structure is disclosed herein. The structure includes a first component including a first material, and a second component joined to the first component. The second component includes a second material that is dissimilar from the first material. A spacer is disposed between the first and second components, and the spacer eliminates galvanic corrosion of the first component at an interface between the first component and the second component. The spacer includes a first layer consisting of the first material, a second layer bonded to the first layer and consisting of a third material, and a third layer bonded to the second layer and consisting of the second material. The third material of the second layer is different from the first material and different from the second material. Also disclosed herein are a method of making the structure, and a method for reducing galvanic corrosion. | 07-17-2014 |
| 20140205369 | JOINT DESIGN WELDING DISSIMILAR MATERIALS - A joint site design for welding of a shaft has a tubular shape composed of a hard material with a hub having a flat shape composed of softer material. The shaft is joined by welding at a connection area located at an end face thereof to a connection area of the hub located at a radial shoulder thereof. | 07-24-2014 |
| 20140234017 | LONG LIGHT METAL BILLET AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A plurality of short light metal billets | 08-21-2014 |
| 20140248077 | METHOD FOR MONITORING A LATERAL OFFSET OF AN ACTUAL WELD SEAM CONFIGURATION RELATIVE TO A DESIRED WELD SEAM CONFIGURATION, ASSEMBLY AND MOTOR VEHICLE SEAT - The invention relates to a method for monitoring a lateral offset of an actual weld seam configuration relative to a desired weld seam configuration, in particular in the motor vehicle sector, comprising the following steps: a) providing at least a first structural part having a geometric deviation in the region of the desired weld seam configuration; b) guiding a laser beam along the first structural part to produce a weld seam, forming a melt pool, thereby producing the actual weld seam configuration; and c) detecting a reflection from the melt pool simultaneously with step b). | 09-04-2014 |
| 20140286698 | WELDING MATERIAL AND WELDING JOINT - There is provided a welding material used for welding of SUS310 stainless steel base metal that contains at least one of Nb and V and is excellent in intergranular corrosion resistance, the chemical composition of the welding material consisting, by mass percent, of C: 0.02% or less, Si: 2% or less, Mn: 2% or less, Cr: 26 to 50%, N: 0.15% or less, P: 0.02% or less, S: 0.002% or less, and Ni: a content percentage satisfying [5≦Ni≦Cr−14], and the balance of Fe and impurities. Also, there is provided a welding joint of an austenitic stainless steel, which consists of the base metal and a weld metal formed by using the welding material. | 09-25-2014 |
| 20140286699 | PROCESSES FOR WELDING COMPOSITE MATERIALS AND ARTICLES THEREFROM - The invention is directed at a method for welding a composite material and to welded structures thus prepared. The method includes a step of contacting a substrate material with a composite material, wherein the composite material includes a pair of spaced apart steel sheets and a core layer between the sheets; the volume of the core layer is about 25 volume % or more, based on the total volume of the composite material; the core layer includes a plurality of steel fibers arranged in one or more masses of fibers that extend the thickness of the core layer so that the core layer is in electrical communication with the steel sheets; and the steel fibers have a cross sectional area perpendicular to the length of the fibers from about 1×10 | 09-25-2014 |
| 20140294490 | WELDING PROCESS, WELDING SYSTEM, AND WELDED ARTICLE - A welding process, welding system and welded article are disclosed. The welding process includes directing energy from one or more fusion beams to join a first element to a second element and to join the first element to a third element. The directing of the energy is at a first lateral angle and a second lateral angle with respect to the first element. The welding system includes an energy emitting device, a first fusion beam and a second fusion beam. The first fusion beam and the second fusion beam are oriented to extend diagonally through an article. The laser welded article includes the first element joined to the second element, and the first element joined to the third element. A fillet weld is formed in a first inaccessible portion between the first element and the second element and a second inaccessible portion between the first element and the third element. | 10-02-2014 |
| 20140294491 | WELD METAL HAVING EXCELLENT TEMPER EMBRITTLEMENT RESISTANCE - A weld metal according to the present invention has a specific chemical composition, contains carbide particles each having an equivalent circle diameter of greater than 0.5 μm in a number of 0.25 or less per micrometer of grain boundary length, and has an A-value as specified by Formula (1) of 0.12 or more, Formula (1) expressed as follows: | 10-02-2014 |
| 20140308070 | WELDED JOINT MANUFACTURED BY METHOD OF RESISTANCE SPOT WELDING - In a welded joint manufactured by a method of resistance spot welding thin steel sheets, when the diameter of a nugget formed from the thin steel sheets is denoted by d, on a horizontal plane passing through a nugget surrounded by a corona bond, distribution of an amount of P in a region in the nugget surrounded by a closed curve at a distance d/100 from an end portion of a weld zone toward the inside of the nugget and a closed curve at a distance d/5 from the end portion of the weld zone toward the inside of the nugget is analyzed by area analysis, and the proportion of the region in terms of area in which the concentration m (mass %) of P is more than twice the concentration M (mass %) of P of a base metal composition is 5% or less. | 10-16-2014 |
| 20140314473 | PROCESS FOR CONNECTING FUNCTIONAL ELEMENTS TO A SHAFT - A method for connecting functional elements ( | 10-23-2014 |
| 20140341642 | BACK-SHIELDED WELDING METHOD AND WELDED STRUCTURE USING THE SAME - A back-shielded welding method according to the present invention includes communicating a front surface-side and a back surface-side of two welding base materials ( | 11-20-2014 |
| 20140348575 | SEAM WELDING - A process is provided for seam welding advanced high strength steel sheets together. Respective end portions of first and second advanced high strength steel sheets are placed in overlapping contact with one another, and subjected to first and second weld passes. In the first weld pass, a seam welder including weld electrodes operate at a first-pass applied current and a first-pass pressure and are moved relative to the overlapping end portions at a first-pass carriage speed to establish a weld seam containing a weld nugget with a martensite phase. In the second weld pass, the weld electrodes operate at a second-pass applied current and a second-pass pressure and move relative to the weld seam at a second-pass carriage speed selected to fuse microcracks, lap openings, and porosity in the seam, relieve the residual stress in the joint, and temper the martensite phase of the weld nugget, and thereby form a weld joint. | 11-27-2014 |
| 20140356054 | CONNECTION STRUCTURE APPLIED TO A FAN FOR CONNECTING A METAL MEMBER WITH A SHAFT BY MEANS OF LASER - A connection structure applied to a fan for connecting a metal member with a shaft by means of laser. The connection structure includes a metal member and a shaft. The metal member has an opening, a first side and a second side. The opening is formed through a center of the metal member. The shaft is inserted in the opening. An outer circumference of the shaft is welded with a circumference of the opening on the first side to form at least one first welding section between the contact sections of the outer circumference of the shaft and the circumference of the opening on the first side. The first welding section is connected between the outer circumference of the shaft and the circumference of the opening on the first side to integrally connect the metal member with the shaft. The connection structure applied to the fan can lower cost. | 12-04-2014 |
| 20140356055 | JOINING METHOD, JOINT STRUCTURE AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME - When a first joining object and a second joining object are joined to each other, the first joining object has a first metal composed of Sn or an alloy containing Sn, the second joining object has a second metal composed of an alloy containing at least one selected from among Ni, Mn, Al and Cr, and Cu. The first joining object and the second joining object are subjected to heat treatment in a state of being in contact with each other to produce an intermetallic compound at an interface between both joining objects such that both joining object are joined to each other. An alloy containing Sn in an amount of 70% by weight or more is used as the first metal. An alloy containing Sn in an amount of 85% by weight or more is used as the first metal. | 12-04-2014 |
| 20140369741 | JOINING PROCESS AND JOINED ARTICLE - A joining process and a joined article are disclosed. The joining process includes positioning an article having a base material, and friction joining a pre-sintered preform to the base material. The pre-sintered preform forms a feature on the article. The joined article includes a feature joined to a base material by friction joining of a pre-sintered preform. | 12-18-2014 |
| 20140376996 | METAL FORMING METHOD AND FORMED PRODUCT - The metal forming method includes deforming a member to be formed ( | 12-25-2014 |
| 20150016871 | FASTENING STRUCTURE FOR RESIN-FOAM CORE COMPOSITE PLATE - In the present invention, a through-hole ( | 01-15-2015 |
| 20150043962 | TAILORED BLANK FOR HOT STAMPING, HOT STAMPED MEMBER, AND METHODS FOR MANUFACTURING SAME - A tailored blank for hot stamping includes a welded portion formed by butt-welding a first aluminum-plated steel sheet and a second aluminum-plated steel sheet, an Average Al concentration of a weld metal in the welded portion is in a range of 0.3 mass % to 1.5 mass %, an Ac | 02-12-2015 |
| 20150071703 | FILLET ARC WELDED JOINT AND METHOD OF FORMING THE SAME - At least one stiffening bead ( | 03-12-2015 |
| 20150086262 | WELDED ASSEMBLIES AND METHODS OF MAKING WELDED ASSEMBLIES - A welded assembly includes a first sheet and a second sheet. The second sheet is disposed over a portion of the first sheet and defines an overlap portion between the first and second sheets. A weld fastening the second sheet to the first sheet in the overlap area connects the second sheet to the first sheet for distributing stress uniformly across a welded portion of the overlap area. | 03-26-2015 |
| 20150104243 | SPOT WELDED JOINT - In a spot welded joint according to an aspect of the present invention, with respect to a rectangular planar region of 100 μm×100 μm which is perpendicular to a sheet surface of the plurality of the steel sheets and which centers around an inner point spaced away by 100 μm in a direction parallel with the sheet surface from an edge of a nugget, in a case of measuring a P concentration at a pitch of 1 μm to obtain measured values of the P concentration at 100×100 of measurement points, and in a case of repetitively calculating an average value of the measured values of the P concentration at 20 of the measurement points which are adjacent to each other and which are arranged in a row in the direction parallel with the sheet surface among the 100×100 of the measurement points while shifting each one point to obtain 81×100 of the average values, the number of the average values which are more than two times an average P concentration is 0 to 100. | 04-16-2015 |
| 20150104244 | LASER JOINT STRUCTURE AND LASER JOINING METHOD - A laser joint structure includes a metal outer cylinder, a metal inner member that is provided inside of the outer cylinder, in which a joining portion is arranged following an inner shape of the outer cylinder, the joining portion being arranged contacting or close to the outer cylinder; and a laser weld that is provided on a mating portion of the outer cylinder and a corresponding mating portion of the joining portion, and in which a circular cylindrical nugget is formed by melting the outer cylinder and the joining portion, which is accomplished by emitting a laser light from outside the outer cylinder. | 04-16-2015 |
| 20150147111 | Structural Component Including A Tempered Transition Zone - The invention provides a hot stamped structural component ( | 05-28-2015 |
| 20150329948 | Abnormal Grain Growth Suppression in AL Alloys - The present invention provides a process for suppressing abnormal grain growth in friction stir welded aluminum alloys by inserting an intermediate annealing treatment (“IAT”) after the welding step on the article. The IAT may be followed by a solution heat treatment (SHT) on the article under effectively high solution heat treatment conditions. In at least some embodiments, a deformation step is conducted on the article under effective spin-forming deformation conditions or under effective superplastic deformation conditions. The invention further provides a welded article having suppressed abnormal grain growth, prepared by the process above. Preferably the article is characterized with greater than about 90% reduction in area fraction abnormal grain growth in any friction-stir-welded nugget. | 11-19-2015 |
| 20150336213 | COMPONENT COMPOSITE, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A COMPONENT COMPOSITE AS WELL AS UTILIZATION OF A COMPONENT COMPOSITE - A component composite includes a first component having a first contact surface and at least one second component having a second contact surface contacting the first contact surface, the first contact surface having a surface structure which has a microstructure which is superposed by a nanostructure, the contact of the second contact surface on the first contact surface taking place by at least partially melting the material of the second component, and the melting point of the material of the first component being higher than the melting point of the material of the second component. | 11-26-2015 |
| 20160008906 | SOLID WIRE FOR GAS SHIELDED ARC WELDING, WELD METAL BY GAS SHIELDED ARC WELDING, WELDED JOINT, WELDMENT, WELDING METHOD, AND PRODUCTION METHOD OF WELDED JOINT | 01-14-2016 |
| 20160031042 | ALUMINUM AND COPPER MATERIAL INTERCONNECTION AND METHOD OF PRODUCING SUCH AN INTERCONNECTION - In a material-interlocking connection between aluminum and copper in a layer assembly comprising an aluminum layer disposed on a copper element and a copper layer disposed on the aluminum layer, a weld seam is formed on the top copper layer so as to form a weld which extends through to top copper layer and the aluminum layer into the copper element so as to form in the weld seam an alloy of copper and aluminum. | 02-04-2016 |
| 20160076568 | CANTED COIL SPRINGS, CONNECTORS AND RELATED METHODS - Connector assemblies formed by attaching two stamped housing sections to form a connector housing having a housing groove with a groove bottom and two side walls are disclosed. Using stamped housing sections can reduce manufacturing costs and simplifies assembly, among other things. The connector housings with a canted coil spring can be used as a mechanical connector and/or as an electrical connector for numerous applications and across numerous industries. The canted coil springs can have complex shapes, with optional dimples. | 03-17-2016 |
| 20160089745 | ALUMINUM SPOT WELDING METHOD - A welding tip ( | 03-31-2016 |
| 20160144450 | SPOT WELDED JOINT - The purpose of the present invention is to provide a spot welded joint with superior joint strength even when the welded joint is obtained by spot welding high strength steel plates to each other. The spot welded joint is a welded joint obtained by superimposing and spot welding two steel plates with plate thicknesses t1 and t2 and is characterized by the diameter of the nuggets formed by spot welding being 3√{(t | 05-26-2016 |
| 20220134404 | ALUMINUM COATED BLANK AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - According to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure, disclosed is an aluminum coated blank that includes a first coated steel sheet; a second coated steel sheet connected to the first coated steel sheet; and a joint portion that connects the first coated steel sheet to the second coated steel plate at a boundary between the first coated steel sheet and the second coated steel sheet. | 05-05-2022 |
