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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7544912 | Method of robotically welding a motorcycle fuel tank A plurality of attachments having springs hold the outer plate of a fuel tank, and an inner jig positions the inner plate. The attachments are attached to clamp arms which are opened/closed by cylinders. When the overlap portion between the outer and inner plates is... | 06/09/2009 |
| 7423233 | Butt welding device and butt welding method A butt welding apparatus and a butt welding method where end faces of at least one plate member to be welded are butted to each other to form a butt portion, and butt welding can be performed on respective plate members which have various thickness sizes on both sid... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7385156 | Press-fit joint structure A forced-insertion welded structure is provided which is formed by welding members making up a metal component and which is easy to manufacture and has low cost, a good finish precision and a high bonding strength. The forced-insertion welded structure compri... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7368035 | Method for brazing and adhesive bonding An improved method for joining together the edge portions of first and second panels includes applying a heat curable adhesive along the edge portion of the first panel and then abutting the edge portion of the second panel with the edge portion of the first panel s... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7364394 | Break away fastening system A fastening system is providing, the fastening system has a weld stud having an annular weldment portion and a fracturable nut. The fracturable nut and stud construction is configured to fail under torsional load prior to the structural parts failure. ... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7307235 | Butt welding apparatus, butt welding method, and butt welded product A butt welding apparatus, a butt welding method, and a product manufactured by the butt welding method involves two electrode rollers disposed on both the front and back sides of a thick sheet member and a thin sheet member whose end surfaces are butted. The electro... | 12/11/2007 |
| 6976617 | Uninterrupted continuous rolling of bar and rod products Discrete billets are rolled through a plurality of roll stands arranged along a rolling mill pass line to produce successive product lengths having reduced cross sections and front and tail ends. At a selected location along the pass line, the tail end of each produ... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6770834 | Welding machine An improved apparatus and method for the prevention of deformation and buckling of metal plates during welding processes is disclosed. The improved apparatus and method are used to apply pressure to a welded seam created between two metal plates during the welding p... | 08/03/2004 |
| 6703577 | Method of making closed cavity pistons A method of securing a cap on a piston body includes forming a first annular V-shaped surface at an open end of a cylindrical piston body; forming a second annular V-shaped surface on an annular surface of an oil conduit in the interior center of the pist... | 03/09/2004 |
| 6538228 | Method and device for welding A welding device for butt welding of bars as well as blooms, slabs, or billets produced by continuous casting, includes a roller conveyor for simultaneous conveying of at least two bars along a rolling line, jaws for gripping the bars, and electric power ... | 03/25/2003 |
| 6279812 | Method for producing rotational-symmetrical articles of sheet metal with double curved surface and varying thickness of material A method for producing rotational-symmetrical sheet metal articles with double-curved shape and varying thickness, particularly rocket nozzles, in which a number of sheet metal part-blanks in flat condition are cut to partially circular ring-like shape, w... | 08/28/2001 |
| 6228204 | Method and apparatus for welding together fluoropolymer pipe liners An apparatus for welding fluoropolymeric pipe liners together comprising: a plate having first and second opposing surfaces, the first and second opposing surfaces facing away from each other; a temperature-resistant coating overlaying at least one of the... | 05/08/2001 |
| 6188039 | Projection welded panel spacer and method for making the same A method for making a spacer assembly comprises: forming a plurality of projections along an edge of a portion of sheet metal; roll forming the portion of sheet metal into a tubular configuration; positioning the roll formed portion of sheet metal and a m... | 02/13/2001 |
| 6172320 | Welding method for forming chromium oxide passivated film at welded portion An improved method for welding and passivation forms a chromium oxide passivated film over the welded portion during the welding process. In a shielding step, a backshield gas, preferably argon, is flowed around the welding site. In a welding step, an arc... | 01/09/2001 |
| 5770832 | Method for determining and controlling the cooling rate for metal alloys in an electrical resistance welding process The system of the present invention includes a homopolar generator, a hydraulic uniaxial press to hold the metal alloys to be welded, and electrical connections set at selected distances from the weld interface to provide a desired cooling rate for metal ... | 06/23/1998 |
| 5763850 | Welding process with upright noncoaxial orbital transverse motion contact with electric resistance heating An improved welding process in which two metallic pieces are each composed of weld compatible parent metal, one metallic piece has one surface and the other metallic piece has another surface each having prominences positioned thereon and an oxide of pare... | 06/09/1998 |
| 4912295 | Butt welding method A butt welding method is disclosed, which comprises abutting a pair of steel sheets and welding the abutting surfaces by opposing electrodes while preventing gaps from developing between the widthwise outer portions of said steel sheets by suppressing rot... | 03/27/1990 |
| 4785154 | Method and apparatus for joining together the ends of a metallic band by resistance inert gas welding This method of electric welding metal band ends together comprises a fusion cycle with the introduction of inert gas, a cooling cycle with the introduction of cooling air, and an annealing cycle. The method is carried out in a fusion head having grippers ... | 11/15/1988 |
| 4725707 | Flash-butt resistance welding process A flash-butt resistance welding process including a flashing of parts being welded and their upsetting. The direction of speed of motion of the parts during flashing is changed by converging and diverging them. The parts being welded are converged up to t... | 02/16/1988 |
| 4656328 | Welding fixture A welding fixture by which two elongate members are manipulated in a manner to become butt welded together. Two gripping members in the form of groups of spaced slip assemblies are enclosed in mounted relationship within a housing. The slips of each group... | 04/07/1987 |
| 4645897 | Method and apparatus for aligning two work pieces for welding and for weld upset removal A rail alignment device and a shear head are suspended from a trolley running over a rail welding machine. The alignment device comprises structure forming a downwardly-opening bight and carrying locating stops, clamping cylinders and transducers with sen... | 02/24/1987 |
| 4645898 | Powder welding of two members Method and apparatus for joining two elongated members, such as rails, together by holding the rail ends in fixed relationship respective to one another while ramming powder metal between the confronting ends of the rails. Current flow occurs across the c... | 02/24/1987 |
| 4642869 | Process of attaching a nut to a plate-shaped workpiece To attach a nut to a plate-shaped workpiece, especially to a metal sheet, in such a way that it has self-locking properties without additional aids or parts, the force fastening the nut and acting on a free thrust surface of the nut is divided into at lea... | 02/17/1987 |
| 4626655 | Method and apparatus for welding rolled bands of finite lengths to form continuous bands during a manufacturing operation The average winding diameter of a finite roller band length wound on a supply coil is increased by having the roller band rewound from the supply coil to a storage coil of a larger than the winding diameter, which encloses the supply coil concentrically. ... | 12/02/1986 |
| 4506134 | Flash butt welding method A joint is made between two pieces of steel which have been preheated to a temperature To (°C.) near their abutting surfaces by subjecting first to flashing and then to upsetting. When the ultimate flashing rate is V (mm/sec.), a current whose density I ... | 03/19/1985 |
| 4417121 | Method of flash butt welding The parts to be welded together are caused to continuously approach each other and their ends are fused by an alternating current, and concurrently an oscillatory motion along the direction of approach is imparted to one of the parts, whereby additional r... | 11/22/1983 |
| 4404458 | Attachment of fork fitting to fork leg A method for attaching a bicycle fork fitting to a fork leg is disclosed, using a particular fork fitting means. A steel pipe is formed with a fork leg including its one closed distal end with a joint. The fitting means is provided with projections at the... | 09/13/1983 |
| 4383162 | Electrical control circuits for flash welders An electrical control circuit which provides means of initiating the start of upset of a flash welding machine at an operator selectable value of flashing electrical energy. The energy signal for this circuit is taken from an energy monitor, such as the o... | 05/10/1983 |
| 4352972 | Method of resistance flash butt welding A method consists in that the workpieces to be welded together are at first continuously moved towards each other with the welding current on and the ends of the workpieces are fused, the thermal state of the ends being monitored in terms of current, or o... | 10/05/1982 |
| 4321452 | Flash welders Method and apparatus for detecting whether or not the gap in adjoining ends of a ring-like workpiece to be flash welded is of normal size, or is so much larger as to produce an unsatisfactory weld. The invention provides means whereby the amount the movab... | 03/23/1982 |
| 4280040 | Method of arc welding porous sheet metal A method for manufacturing a gas turbine combustion chamber that preserves cooling fluid holes therein. Passages are formed in one surface of each of two metal sheets. A plurality of cooling fluid holes are drilled through the passages to the other surfac... | 07/21/1981 |
| 4266119 | Hairpin-type electric resistance heating element An electric resistance heating element of the hairpin type is provided by a molybdenum disilicide resistance wire loop transversely connected to molybdenum disilicide terminals. The resistance wire is sandwiched between the ends of two pieces of terminal ... | 05/05/1981 |
| 4233484 | High frequency current welding of metal strip to a metal part Method and apparatus for welding a metal part, e.g. a tube or strip, to a thin, flexible metal strip using high frequency electric currents in which the part and strip are continuously advanced to a weld point where they are pressed together. In advance o... | 11/11/1980 |
| 4151392 | Method of manufacturing electrical connector A method for manufacturing an electrical connector is disclosed in which the connector itself comprises an aluminum barrel member having a first and a second end, with the barrel member having a recess in its first end adapted to receive an electrical cab... | 04/24/1979 |
| 4129771 | Method for butt-welding cylindrical metallic rods The disclosure relates to a method and a device for butt-welding rotational cylindrical metallic rods without filler metal and without forming a rim or deformation in the welded area. The method consists of bringing the two ends coaxially to be welded int... | 12/12/1978 |
| 4122326 | Method of welding a spiral spring to produce a toroidal ring A toroidal ring made from a spiral spring with contiguous turns, such as those used for constituting the inner core of a metal sealing ring. The ring has a weld without filling metal connecting together the two end turns of the spring, this weld being suc... | 10/24/1978 |
| 4052585 | Butt welding process and apparatus for effecting same Disclosure is made of a butt welding process, whereby butt ends of articles to be welded together are placed one opposite the other in a chamber containing a shielding medium. The butt ends are then heated until a layer of molten metal is formed on their ... | 10/04/1977 |
| 4048461 | Apparatus for welding contact beads on an electrically conductive substrate Contact beads of noble metal are welded to a substrate of less corrosion-resistant metal in an apparatus in which one electrode formed with a receptacle is moved cyclically between a welding position adjacent another, stationary electrode and a remote fee... | 09/13/1977 |
| 4044219 | Method and apparatus for controlling flashing speed during resistance butt welding A method for controlling flashing speed during resistance butt welding comprises measuring values of current density for at least two joints between parts being welded, converting them into d-c. voltages, detecting a maximum voltage value, comparing it to... | 08/23/1977 |
| 3988563 | Welding method and means using foil electrode A welding method and means is disclosed utilizing a conductive foil disposed between or adjacent members to be welded together with the foil serving as one electrode and one or both of the members serving as another electrode of the welding circuit and wi... | 10/26/1976 |
