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US 12,162,092 B2Granted
Wide path welding, cladding, additive manufacturing
AssigneeIllinois Tool Works Inc.
InventorsWilliam R. Giese, Erik Miller, Kirk Stema, Shuang Liu
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Abstract
A welding or cladding apparatus in which one or more energy beam emitters are used to generate a wide beam spot transverse to a welding or cladding path, and one or more wide feeders feed wire to the spot to create a wide welding or cladding puddle.
Claims20
A metalworking apparatus, comprising:
- a first wire feeding nozzle configured to feed a first wire to a workpiece;
- a second wire feeding nozzle configured to feed a second wire to the workpiece adjacent to the first wire in a direction transverse to a welding path;
- and
- circuitry for controlling two or more energy beam emitters, the circuitry configured to:
- control a first energy beam emitter to direct a first energy spot to the first wire and the workpiece to form a welding puddle;
- and
- control a second energy beam emitter to direct a second energy spot to the second wire and the workpiece adjacent to the first energy spot in a direction transverse to the welding path.
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A metalworking apparatus, comprising:
- a first wire feeding nozzle configured to feed a first wire to a workpiece;
- a second wire feeding nozzle configured to feed a second wire to the workpiece adjacent to the first wire in a direction transverse to a welding path;
- and
- circuitry for controlling two or more energy beam emitters, the circuitry configured to:
- control an energy beam emitter to direct an energy spot to the first wire and the workpiece to form a welding puddle;
- and
- control the energy beam emitter to direct the energy spot to the second wire and the workpiece adjacent the first energy spot in a direction transverse to the welding path, and then to direct the energy spot from the second wire back to the first wire.
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A metalworking apparatus, comprising:
- a first wire feeding nozzle configured to feed a first wire to a workpiece;
- a second wire feeding nozzle configured to feed a second wire to the workpiece, wherein the second wire feeding nozzle is positioned to feed the second wire to the workpiece adjacent to the first wire and in a direction transverse to a welding path;
- and
- circuitry for controlling two or more energy beam emitters, the circuitry configured to:
- control a first energy beam emitter to direct a first energy spot to the first wire and the workpiece to form a welding puddle;
- and
- control a second energy beam emitter to direct a second energy spot to the second wire and the workpiece adjacent to the first energy spot in a direction transverse to the welding path.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.