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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7148444 | Method and system for resistance seam welding of a foil and at least one foil support of a fuel cell system A method and a system for resistance seam welding of a foil and at least one foil support of a fuel cell system. During welding, the thin foil, together with the thicker foil support, is moved relative to the roller electrode while resting on a flat support element.... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7112757 | Programmable resistance seam welding apparatus and method A resistance welding apparatus having a pair of programmable ball electrodes carried on universally movable positioners. The positioners are programmed to move the ball electrodes simultaneously along a seam line so that the ball electrodes clamp and support opposit... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7034247 | Apparatus for handling sheet metal workpieces to be welded An apparatus for handling a pair of sheet metal workpieces to be welded is provided that includes a first workpiece holder, a second workpiece holder, at least one backing element, and at least one squeeze roller. The first and second workpiece holders are positione... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7022933 | Seam welding apparatus A seam welding apparatus enables, even when metallic sheets are arranged in a line in a short distance, the welding electrodes to come into contact only with the metallic sheet to be welded, so as to provide a reliable welding of the metallic sheets to form connecte... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7012213 | Reel wire type of welding device for spot welding A reel wire type of welding device for spot welding includes a first guiding portion rotatably mounted in a front end of the welding device such that the wire is supported and guided in a working area in which the wire contacts a target object. At least one second g... | 03/14/2006 |
| 6931729 | Method for manufacturing a filler neck In response to the recent various requests, the present invention provides a method for manufacturing filler neck to facilitate jointing a mouthpiece and a feeding pipe which were manufactured separately into an integrated filler neck having an excellent hermeticity... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6907912 | Method and device for joining sections of thermoplastic continuous web material The invention relates to a method for joining a number of sections (7) of a thermoplastic continuous web material in order to form an expandable section block (2). Said block is built up by repeatedly carrying out sequences of steps of the method. The ... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6545244 | Conductive heat seam welding A welding arrangement comprises first and second parts to be welded with an edge portion of the first part and an edge portion of the second part juxtaposed to form a weld zone. An electrically-conductive sheet(s) with a higher melting temperature than a ... | 04/08/2003 |
| 6518535 | Device and method for seaming welding This invention relates to an apparatus and a method for manufacturing a member which makes a part of a car body of an automobile or the like by mash-seam welding a plurality of blanks. Standby areas (B) are provided at both right and left sides of an weld... | 02/11/2003 |
| 6396023 | Airtight sealing method and airtight sealing apparatus for semiconductor laser element The present invention provides a method for hermetically sealing a semiconductor laser element, by which the cleanness of a package can be maintained extremely satisfactorily in a stabilized state, in order to prevent organic substances from being adhered... | 05/28/2002 |
| 6281467 | Conductive heat resistance seam welding A welding arrangement (10) consists of first and second parts to be welded (4a, 4b) with a portion of the first part and a portion of the second part juxtaposed to form a weld zone (8a, 8b). An electrically-conductive sheet (2) with a higher melting tempe... | 08/28/2001 |
| 6060681 | Process and apparatus for laser welding In a process and apparatus for laser welding two metal sheets which overlap to form a flange seam and which are pressed together in the area of the flange seam, the metal sheets and the laser beam are moved relative to one another. Welding is performed us... | 05/09/2000 |
| 5866867 | Surface mount package seam welder apparatus and method A seam welder for sealing a cover of a surface mount package to its carrier includes a table for receiving a fixture which itself carried surface mount packages to be welded for sealing an electronic component therein. Electrical current to welding electr... | 02/02/1999 |
| 5811750 | Device for welding motor-vehicle bodies or sub-assemblies thereof A robot for welding motor-vehicle bodies or subassemblies thereof is provided with a head for carrying out wire resistance seam weldings. The welding head includes a pair of counter-rotating welding rollers through which an electric current is passed. A c... | 09/22/1998 |
| 5654992 | Method of repairing structural materials of nuclear reactor internals and apparatus therefor A neutron-irradiated structural material having a defect in a nuclear reactor internals is repaired by covering the structural material to be repaired with a plate to cover over a portion thereof having the defect, and then welding the plate and the struc... | 08/05/1997 |
| 5473133 | Projection resistance welding method Two pieces of steel strip are welded together by a method employing projection resistance welding. A portion of one strip is formed with a series of aligned projections and arranged in superimposed relation with a portion of the other strip. The superimpo... | 12/05/1995 |
| 5290990 | Seam welding machine for joining sheet blanks together The seam welding machine with welding arrangement 10 has a lower part (1) and an upper (2). Load-bearing components are upper and lower longitudinal girders (20, 21) with a rigid connection (3, 4) between them. For clamping sheet blanks (7, 8) for welding... | 03/01/1994 |
| 5185511 | Multifunction laser assisted processing apparatus A multifunction laser assisted processing apparatus can perform cutting processes, marking processes and drawing processes on a workpiece material. The apparatus includes a laser beam source, a work face to support the workpiece material, an X-direction m... | 02/09/1993 |
| 5125554 | C-frame sheet splicer A pair of sheetlike members are supported on a pair of support tables disposed on opposite sides of a movable splicing mechanism. The pair of sheets are advanced inwardly from opposite directions into a splicing position wherein the adjacent edge portions... | 06/30/1992 |
| 4902868 | Advanced parallel seam-sealing system An advanced parallel seam-sealing system which includes a control console, computer deck, electronic keyboard and welding robot for automatically sealing electronic and other component packages. The welding robot is designed to have seven (7) degrees of m... | 02/20/1990 |
| 4803325 | Resistance seam welding machine A resistance seam welding machine is described, particularly for the longitudinal seam welding of can bodies, wherein, in the secondary loop (16), feed and return lines are constructed partially as a double line (18, 28) and in all the remaining portion (... | 02/07/1989 |
| 4792317 | Method for making a magnetic shield The specification discloses a method for forming thin metal, television tube magnetic shields by blanking "lazy C" shaped blanks from a strip of thin metal, forming the blanks around a truncated pyramidal form so their edges overlap, mash seam welding the... | 12/20/1988 |
| 4788405 | Weld thickness monitoring in resistance welding apparatus Apparatus, for measuring the thickness of a welding seam produced by resistance welding between a resiliently mounted upper roll and a lower roll, comprises a source of light mounted laterally of the resiliently mounted roll and a light collector mounted ... | 11/29/1988 |
| 4785153 | Process and device for reciprocal guidance of workpieces and tools that move relative to one another, particularly rolling seam welding machines The invention relates to a process for guiding workpieces on a rolling seam welding machine or vice versa. In the process the relatively moved part is driven via its guide means of a continuous path manipulating device in an extra conveyor motion in the s... | 11/15/1988 |
| 4652718 | Workpiece feeding apparatus in seam welding machine A wrist portion assembly for a workpiece feeding apparatus of a seam welding machine wherein a workpiece is supported through a chucking device on an operational end of a robot so that a portion of the workpiece to be welded is fed between a pair of upper... | 03/24/1987 |
| 4652720 | Apparatus for the spot welding of coated sheet-metal members For the welding of tongues (12) onto rupturable can members (10) of tin plate, a pair of welding electrodes (20, 22) is provided which are movable cyclically towards and away from one another and are additionally movable cyclically transversely to this mo... | 03/24/1987 |
| 4652719 | Workpiece feeding apparatus in seam welding machine A combination of a seam welding machine having a machine body and a pair of electrode rolls thereon and a workpiece feeding mechanism for feeding a portion of a three dimensionally curved workpiece between the electrode rolls. The mechanism includes a rob... | 03/24/1987 |
| 4568812 | Device for electric longitudinal-seam mash resistance welding Device for the semiautomatic or fully automatic electric longitudinal-seam mash resistance welding of can bodies from overlapping, cut-to-size sheet-metal blanks rolled into sidewalls (20), with a guide arranged in front of the welding site for determinin... | 02/04/1986 |
| 4376883 | Monitoring weld quality via forging assembly dynamics To measure the relative power during a welding process, a position sensitive transducer is attached to a welding electrode to submit a signal in response to electrode motion. An accelerometer, carried on an axle of an electrode roll for a Soudronics pulse... | 03/15/1983 |
| 4100391 | Portable seam welder A portable seam welder comprising a pair of arms pivoted to one another about a pivot axis and a spindle assembly mounted on each arm. Each spindle assembly includes a shaft rotatably mounted about an axis extending generally parallel to the pivot axis an... | 07/11/1978 |
| 4099044 | Welding apparatus Resistance welding apparatus for simultaneously welding spaced generally parallel seams in sheet metal workpieces, as for example joining a pair of side panels to the back panel of a refrigerator cabinet. The panels are clamped upon a support table with t... | 07/04/1978 |
