Method for bonding components by using energy ray-curable adhesive
AssigneeFanuc Corporation
InventorShunichi Odaka
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Abstract
A method for bonding components to each other according to this invention bonds, to a plate-shaped member or a shaft, an ultraviolet-curable adhesive cured by irradiation with ultraviolet rays and a wavelength conversion element which emits ultraviolet rays by irradiation with X-rays. The plate-shaped member is brought into contact with the shaft through a bonding layer formed by the ultraviolet-curable adhesive and the wavelength conversion element. The X-rays are transmitted through the plate-shaped member or the shaft to the bonding layer located between the plate-shaped member and the shaft to cure the ultraviolet-curable adhesive.
Claims4
A method for bonding a first component containing a material incapable of transmitting an energy ray in a first wavelength range to a second component in fabricating an assembly comprising the first component and the second component, the method comprising:
- bonding, to one component of the first component and the second component, an energy ray-curable adhesive cured by irradiation with the energy ray in the first wavelength range, and a wavelength conversion element that converts an energy ray in a second wavelength range capable of being transmitted through the first component into an energy ray in the first wavelength range and that emits the energy ray in the first wavelength range;
- bringing the other component of the first component and the second component into contact with a portion of the one component attached with the energy ray-curable adhesive and the wavelength conversion element;
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- transmitting the energy ray in the second wavelength range through the first component to the energy ray-curable adhesive and the wavelength conversion element, thus curing the energy ray-curable adhesive.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.