# US 10,369,657 B2 · Joining resonator or joining support jig

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- Number: US 10,369,657 B2
- Document ID: US10369657B2
- Status: Granted
- Kind: B2
- Application number: 15/714,312
- Filed: 2017-09-25
- Published: 2018-03-29
- Granted: 2019-08-06
- Earliest claimed: 2016-09-26
- Assignees: Ultex Corporation
- Applicants: Ultex Corporation
- Inventors: Shigeru Sato
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US10369657B2

## CPC

- B23K 20/10: making use of vibrations, e.g. ultrasonic welding
- B23K 20/106: {Features related to sonotrodes}
- B23K: SOLDERING OR UNSOLDERING; WELDING; CLADDING OR PLATING BY SOLDERING OR WELDING; CUTTING BY APPLYING HEAT LOCALLY, e.g. FLAME CUTTING; WORKING BY LASER BEAM

## Abstract

A distal end portion for pressing an object to be joined of one of a resonator and a reception jig is constituted as a protrusion having an outer face not including an angular sharp edge, such as a hog-backed shape or a semispherical shape, and during joining, while metal foils stacked are being laterally thinly stretched with lateral vibration from the resonator and atoms of the metal foils are being moved laterally without the protrusions forcibly holding down the metal foils, a metal amount corresponding to a volume stretched is smoothly discharged along a curved face without breaking the metal foils, and even when the stacked metal foils are used as the object to be joined, breaking of the metal foils is not generated during joining, so that a step of protecting the metal foils with a protection member is unnecessary.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A resonator or a reception jig configured to perform joining of an object to be joined by utilizing ultrasonic vibration or acoustic vibration, wherein a distal end portion of the resonator configured to press down the object to be joined or a distal end portion of the reception jig configured to press down the object to be joined is constituted as a semispherical protrusion having an outer face not including an angular sharp edge;
wherein the resonator or the reception jig further comprises a surrounding protrusion concentrically surrounding the protrusion.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

The resonator or the reception jig according to claim 1, wherein a root portion adjoining the resonator or the reception jig with the surrounding protrusion is constituted as a concave arc-shaped face portion which forms a smooth concave circular arc from the surrounding protrusion to the resonator or the reception jig.

### Claim 3 (depends on 1)

The resonator or the reception jig according to claim 1, wherein at least one break is formed in the surrounding protrusion.

### Claim 4 (depends on 1)

The resonator or the reception jig according to claim 1, wherein the root portion adjoining the resonator or the reception jig with the protrusion includes a smooth surface without including an angular sharp edge.

### Claim 5 (depends on 1)

The resonator or the reception jig according to claim 1, wherein a root portion adjoining the resonator or the reception jig with the protrusion is constituted as a concave arc-shaped face portion which forms a smooth concave circular arc from the protrusion to the resonator or the reception jig.

### Claim 6 (depends on 1)

The resonator or the reception jig according to claim 1, wherein the distal end portion of the resonator configured to press down the object to be joined is constituted as a first semispherical protrusion having an outer face not including an angular sharp edge, and
wherein the distal end portion of the reception jig configured to press down the object to be joined is constituted as a second semispherical protrusion having an outer face not including an angular sharp edge.