101 |
WELDING TORCH ELECTRODE |
US15093820 |
2016-04-08 |
US20160221126A1 |
2016-08-04 |
Russell Vernon Hughes |
An electrode includes an elongated body defining a longitudinal axis. A seating end portion includes a first truncated cone. The first truncated cone has a first truncated end and an opposing conical end. A working end portion includes a second truncated cone having a second truncated end. A constant length is defined between the opposing conical end and the second truncated end. The constant length is about 0.875 inch +/−0.001 inch. The elongated body is located between the seating end portion and the working end portion. |
102 |
SOLDER PIECE, CHIP SOLDER AND METHOD OF FABRICATING SOLDER PIECE |
US15075602 |
2016-03-21 |
US20160199946A1 |
2016-07-14 |
Masahiko ABE; Koji WATANABE; Hideaki TAKAHASHI; Masahiko KANNO; Masaya ITO |
A solder piece that has a rectangular parallelepiped shape formed by a punching process. Any one of the four surfaces of the rectangular parallelepiped other than the surface on which the shear droop portion generated by the punching process is formed and a surface opposite to the surface on which the shear droop portion is formed is a vacuum pickup surface. Each vacuum pickup surface is a sheared surface and extends along a longitudinal direction of the rectangular parallelepiped solder piece. The solder piece may be located in an open cavity in a supply tape with one of only the four vacuum pickup surfaces exposed to be available for vacuum pickup. |
103 |
FORMING AND FEEDING DEVICE OF FILLER METAL FOR TIG WELDING |
US14912902 |
2013-12-03 |
US20160193684A1 |
2016-07-07 |
Sang-Myung Cho; Jae-Ho Jun; Jae-Gyu Byun |
To achieve the above, the present invention provides a forming and feeding device of a filler metal for TIG welding which presses a filler metal of plane shape to form as curved cross-section which includes a case; a guide member installed on a front part of the case to guide the filler metal; a rotation roller revolving by a motor to feed the filler metal with supporting a lower surface of the filler metal, the filler metal guided by the guide member; a press roller located over the rotation roller to press a upper surface of the filler metal which is in contact with the rotation roller; and a press member pressing the press roller. |
104 |
Electrodes for resistance welding |
US29428449 |
2012-07-31 |
USD759136S1 |
2016-06-14 |
Yuho Yoshida |
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105 |
Luminescent Braze Preforms |
US14981008 |
2015-12-28 |
US20160158895A1 |
2016-06-09 |
Lawrence A. Wolfgram; Alan Belohlav |
A braze preform is provided that includes a filler metal and a luminescent material that covers at least a portion of the filler metal and that can luminesce when exposed to a black light. The luminescent material may include a luminescent ink and a solvent that are mixed together before being applied to filler metal. Presence of the braze preform may be determined using automated equipment by detecting luminescence of the braze preform with a sensor. A decision may be made on whether to advance a parts assembly for brazing based on the determination of presence or absence of the braze preform on such parts assembly. |
106 |
LOW HEAT FLUX MEDIATED CLADDING OF SUPERALLOYS USING CORED FEED MATERIAL |
US15008893 |
2016-01-28 |
US20160144441A1 |
2016-05-26 |
Gerald J. Bruck; Ahmed Kamel |
Methods are disclosed for melting a cored feed material (31) using a low heat input process. The feed material may be a sheath (34) consisting essentially of pure nickel, nickel-chromium, or nickel-chromium-cobalt, containing a powdered core material (36) having a powdered alloy material (42) and powdered flux material (38) which, when melted, form a desired superalloy material. Flux materials for use with the methods are disclosed. The process may be a cold metal transfer process wherein the feed material is oscillated at greater than 130 oscillations per second. |
107 |
WELDING NOZZLE OF A WELDING TORCH |
US14982014 |
2015-12-29 |
US20160107260A1 |
2016-04-21 |
Russell Vernon Hughes |
A nozzle for a welding torch includes a body portion defining an internal bore, a discharge orifice, and an internal radius on the internal bore proximate to the discharge opening. |
108 |
INDIRECT SPOT WELDING METHOD |
US14783094 |
2014-03-06 |
US20160045976A1 |
2016-02-18 |
Muneo Matsushita; Rinsei Ikeda |
An oval nugget can reliably be obtained with this indirect spot welding method. In this indirect spot welding method, an electrode end portion of a welding electrode includes a tip of the welding electrode, and as viewed from the tip, the electrode end portion has a two-step dome shape formed by a first curved surface with a curvature radius r1 (mm) located within a range of a circle of radius R (mm) centering on the tip and a second curved surface with a curvature radius r2 (mm). 2√t≦R≦6√t (1), 30≦r1 (2), and 6≦r2≦12 (3), where t is the sheet thickness (mm) of a thinner metal sheet. |
109 |
FRICTION WELDING ELEMENT, AND A METHOD FOR CONNECTING THE FRICTION WELDING ELEMENT TO A HOUSING |
US14768477 |
2014-02-04 |
US20160001394A1 |
2016-01-07 |
Michael Stumpf |
A friction welding method for fastening a connection bushing, such as a threaded bushing for example, in a housing. In order to improve the quality of the connection, the connection bushing is attached to the housing using a friction welding element. The friction welding element consists of the connection bushing, on which a friction welding shell with a radially outer friction welding contour is formed or molded. Connecting and sealing portions are produced between the friction welding element and the housing during the friction welding process by means of a special design of the friction welding contour. |
110 |
TILE FOR FABRICATION AND REPAIR OF THERMAL BARRIERS |
US14818491 |
2015-08-05 |
US20150345313A1 |
2015-12-03 |
Anand A. Kulkarni; Ahmed Kamel; Stefan Lampenscherf; Jonathan E. Shipper, JR.; Cora Hitchman; Gary B. Merrill |
A thermal barrier tile (34) with a braze layer (46) co-sintered to a ceramic layer (48), optionally with a layer of MCrAlY bond material (74) disposed there between. The tile can be brazed to a substrate (26) of a component for fabrication or repair of a thermal barrier coating (28). The tile may be fabricated by disposing a first layer of a metal brazing material in a die case (40); disposing a second layer of a ceramic powder on the metal brazing material; and co-sintering the two layers with spark plasma sintering to form the co-sintered ceramic/metal tile. The tile may include an interlocking structural pattern (56) at the ceramic/braze interface, and further may include mirror image contoured edges (70) for interlocking of tiles that are disposed side-by-side. Heights of adjacent tiles (34F, 34G) may be different to improve abradability of the surface. |
111 |
Method of soldering an electronic component with a high lateral accuracy |
US14414918 |
2013-07-17 |
US09198302B2 |
2015-11-24 |
Gordon Patrick Rudolf Elger |
The present invention relates to a method of soldering an electronic component (3) to a substrate (1) with high accuracy using transient liquid phase soldering. The component (3) is exactly positioned above the substrate (1) with a handling tool, placed in the melted solder (2) and pressed against the substrate (1). The component (3) is then released and the solder (2) allowed solidifying. Due to the use of a solder (2) having a sufficiently high amount of a second metal or metal alloy of a higher melting point which only partly dissolves in the melted first metal or metal alloy of a lower melting point, a solid framework forms during the liquid phase soldering which inhibits a lateral movement of the placed component (3) during soldering. Since the positioning of the component (3) is made using exact reference features on the substrate (1), the whole soldering process results in a highly accurate lateral position of the soldered component. |
112 |
Brazing method |
US14132491 |
2013-12-18 |
US09162328B2 |
2015-10-20 |
Tomoko Ogasahara; Kosuke Nishikawa; Noriyuki Hiramatsu; Akira Fukushima |
A brazing method includes fixing a padding plate on a base material such that the padding plate is arranged in a lower position from a groove formed in a repair region of the base material, and heating the base material such that a base material powder is melt, after a paste that base material 1 contains the base material powder which is formed from a same material as the base material is filled into the groove. The base material powder filled into groove can be prevented from flowing out from the groove even if being fused since the padding plate is arranged for the base material. Thus, a repair region can be repaired more appropriately. |
113 |
PLATE HEAT EXCHANGER |
US14382639 |
2013-03-27 |
US20150060030A1 |
2015-03-05 |
Per Sjödin; Kristian Walter |
Disclosed is a method for producing a permanently joined plate heat exchanger comprising a plurality of metal heat exchanger plates having a solidus temperature above 1100° C., provided beside each other and forming a plate package with first plate interspaces for a first medium and second plate interspaces for a second medium, wherein the first and second plate interspaces are provided in an alternating order in the plate package, wherein each heat exchanger plate comprises a heat transfer area and an edge area comprising bent edges which extend around the heat transfer area, wherein a first surface of the plates forms a convex shape and a second surface of the plates forms a concave shape, wherein the heat transfer area comprises a corrugation of elevations and depressions, wherein said corrugation of the plates and the bent edges are provided by pressing the plates. Also disclosed is a plate heat exchanger produced by the method. |
114 |
METAL JOINING COMPONENT AND METHOD FOR IMPROVED RECYCLING |
US13975891 |
2013-08-26 |
US20150053048A1 |
2015-02-26 |
Joseph W. Harris |
A consumable metal joining component having identification for improved recycling has an elongated element formed from a filler metal alloy with a predetermined alloying characteristic. The elongated element has a pair of end portions and an intermediate portion extending therebetween. Each of the end portions has a compositional indicium indicative of the predetermined alloying characteristic. One of the pair of end portions and the intermediate portion of the elongated element are configured to be consumed by heat in a metal joining process. As such, the other of the pair of end portions with the respective compositional indicium remains intact to enable recycling of the remaining end portion regardless of which end portion is consumed. |
115 |
NOVEL COATING CONCEPT |
US14385120 |
2013-03-27 |
US20150044507A1 |
2015-02-12 |
Per Sjödin |
The present invention relates to composition comprising a blend of at least one boron source and at least one silicon source, and the composition further comprises particles selected from particles having wear resistance properties, particles having surface enhancing properties, particles having catalytic properties or combinations thereof, wherein the blend comprises boron and silicon in a weight ratio boron to silicon within a range from about 3:100 wt:wt to about 100:3 wt:wt, wherein silicon and boron are present in the blend in at least 25 wt %, and wherein the at least one boron source and the at least one silicon source are oxygen free except for inevitable amounts of contaminating oxygen, and wherein the blend is a mechanical blend of particles in and the particles have an average particle size less than 250 μm. The present invention relates further to a method for providing a coated product and a coated product obtained by the method. |
116 |
COMPOSITE ELECTRO-SPARK ELECTRODE AND METHODS OF ITS USE |
US13963067 |
2013-08-09 |
US20150041450A1 |
2015-02-12 |
Mark Lawrence Hunt |
Composite electro-spark electrodes, along with methods of their use in an electro-spark deposition process, are provided. The composite electro-spark electrode can include an electrode tip that is mechanically and electrically attached to a shank. The shank comprises a resistive material, and the electrode tip comprises a metal, with the metal of the electrode tip being less electrically resistive than the resistive material of the shank. Additionally, the metal of the electrode tip can be more thermally conductive than the resistive material of the shank. |
117 |
Brazing piece, a method of making a brazing piece, and a method of brazing and components made from said brazing piece |
US12595942 |
2008-03-14 |
US08871356B2 |
2014-10-28 |
Andrew Josef Widawski Ogilvy; Douglas Kenneth Hawksworth; Elisabeth Abom |
The invention relates to a self-fluxing brazing piece. The piece comprises a composite material comprising at least one inorganic material distributed in a metal or metal alloy matrix, the inorganic material forming a flux during brazing to promote the formation of a thermally induced metallic bond. The matrix may be an aluminum silicon brazing alloy and the inorganic material may be a potassium-fluoro-aluminate flux. The piece is made by spray forming. |
118 |
Fixing Element, Method for Welding a Fixing Element to a Component and Component Connection |
US14305670 |
2014-06-16 |
US20140294488A1 |
2014-10-02 |
Johann VAN NIEKERK; Hannes VASOLD; Stefan AIGNER |
A fixing element has a base area that is provided for the purpose of being welded to a component, and a functional head protruding from a base area that is formed by at least one spherical, or sphere-like element. The fixing element may be welded to a first component and function as a male fixing element that cooperates with a female fixing element of a second component such that the first and second components are detachably connectable via the fixing elements. |
119 |
Process for producing a roll for supporting and conveying hot material, process for repairing a worn roll |
US12988856 |
2009-03-02 |
US08845501B2 |
2014-09-30 |
Stefan Lechner; Marinko Lekic-Ninic; Johann Poeppl; Guoxin Shan; Heinrich Thoene; Karl Trnka; Franz Wimmer |
A roll (1) for supporting and conveying hot material, including a roll element that has a roll jacket (2) made of a basic material and a wear coat which is applied to the basic material by means of a surface welding process (4) using a welding additive which surrounds the surface of the roll jacket. In order to increase the service life of the wear coat, improve the resistance to wear, and reduce the cost for producing the welded-on surface. The basic material of the roll jacket (2) is steel and contains up to 0.45 percent of C. The welded-on surface (4) is designed as a single-layer weld, and the wear coat contains 12.5 to 14.0 percent of Cr at least in an external zone that surrounds the surface of the roll jacket. Also disclosed are a method for producing the roll (1), a method for repairing a used roll (1), a welding additive and a welding rod for producing the welded-on surface. |
120 |
METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR FABRICATION AND REPAIR OF THERMAL BARRIERS |
US13827233 |
2013-03-14 |
US20140263579A1 |
2014-09-18 |
Anand A. Kulkarni; Ahmed Kamel; Stefan Lampenscherf; Jonathan E. Shipper, Jr.; Cora Schillig; Gary B. Merrill |
A thermal barrier tile (34) with a braze layer (46) co-sintered to a ceramic layer (48) is brazed to a substrate (26) of a component for fabrication or repair of a thermal barrier coating (28) for example on a gas turbine ring segment (22, 24). The tile may be fabricated by disposing a first layer of a metal brazing material in a die case (40); disposing a second layer of a ceramic powder on the metal brazing material; and co-sintering the two layers with spark plasma sintering to form the co-sintered ceramic/metal tile. A material property of an existing thermal barrier coating to be repaired may be determined (90), and the co-sintering may be controlled (93) responsive to the property to produce tiles compatible with the existing thermal barrier coating in a material property such as thermal conductivity. |