Yamazaki Mazak Corporation

Masayasu Hachiya

Kazuki Uemura

Eiji Matsubara

Seigo Ouchi

Toru Murakami

A friction stir welding tool includes a housing and a stir pin. The housing includes a first surface, a housing hole formed in the housing and having a housing hole opening on the first surface, and a discharge hole through which the housing hole is in communication with an outside of the housing. The stir pin includes a pin holder and a pin body. The pin holder has a first end portion and a second end portion. The first end portion is configured to be connected to a rotation spindle. The pin body is provided in the housing hole, is detachably attached to the second end portion, and is rotatable together with the pin holder around the rotation axis. The pin body includes a stir portion that protrudes from the first surface via the housing hole opening.

Friction stir welding tool and friction stir welder

A friction stir welding tool includes a stir pin, a pin holder, and a housing. The pin holder supports the stir pin to rotate with the stir pin around a rotation axis of the stir pin and has a front portion and a rear portion opposite to the front portion along the rotation axis. A tip end of the stir pin projects from the front portion. The housing houses the pin holder such that the pin holder is rotatable relatively to the housing. The tip end of the stir pin projects from the housing. The housing includes an engaging portion engageable with a spindle frame of a machining head such that the rear portion of the pin holder is attached to a rotation spindle of the machining head to rotate the pin holder. The rotation spindle is rotatable relatively to the spindle frame.

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Niwa-gun, Japan

Masayasu Hachiya