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US 6,501,044 B1Granted
Method for welding the surfaces of materials
AssigneeInstitut fur Angewandte Photovoltaik GmbH
InventorsMatthias Klockhaus, Dieter Jestel
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Abstract
A method for welding the surfaces of materials, of which at least one is glass, during which the energy that is required for the welding process is provided by with a laser beam, characterized by the fact that an intermediate sealing glass is applied between the surfaces that are to be welded and that the laser beam is adjusted in such a way that only the intermediate sealing glass melts.
Claims4
A method for welding materials, comprising
- providing a first object having a first surface;
- providing a second object having a second surface;
- arranging an argental intermediate sealing glass on at least a portion of at least one of said first surface and said second surface;
- arranging said first object on said second object such that said at least a portion of at least one of said first surface and said second surface faces at least a portion of the other of said first surface and said second surface and said argental intermediate sealing glass is between said at least a portion of said first surface and a portion of said second surface;
- heating at least a portion of said argental intermediate sealing glass to its melting point using a laser beam, wherein the laser beam is adjusted such that only the argental intermediate sealing glass is melted, and
- the first surface is glass.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.