Mitsubishi Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Toshikazu Shimoyama

Masaharu Minami

Shiso Kihara

Seiichi Iida

Michitsune Shima

Osa Matsumoto

Susumu Shono

Genta Takano

Takehiko Imada

Akira Kato

Shozo Sato

Hiromasa Kamei

A narrow gap arc welding process comprises steps of defining a narrow gap between a pair of members to be welded arranged so as to face each other at a predetermined distance, feeding a consumable electrode into a guide cylinder which is movable along the narrow gap, and generating electric arc between the tip of the consumable electrode and the members to be welded to unite them with each other, wherein the consumable electrode, while being deformed plastically to have a wave-like pattern with a pitch of about 10 to 30 mm and a molding width of about 2 to 5 mm depending on welding conditions, is fed into the narrow gap with the direction of the molding width being in line with the direction of the width of the narrow gap and the direction of the tip of the consumable electrode being changed so as to point out one after the other facing edge of the members to be welded alternately at a high frequency. Also, an apparatus for practicing the process is described.

Narrow gap arc welding process and apparatus therefor

An electron beam working apparatus for cylindrical workpieces having a circular working line is improved so that a volume of a vacuum chamber to be maintained can be minimized and the vacuum chamber may not contain a contamination source such as a driving motor. In order to achieve the improvements, two disk-shaped partition plates having inflatable annular seal members disposed along their respective outer peripheral surfaces are placed inside the cylindrical workpieces respectively above and below the working line with said seal members pressed against the inner peripheral surfaces of said cylindrical workpieces to form a first vacuum chamber surrounded by said two partition plates and the inner peripheral surfaces of said cylindrical workpieces. Two annular fixed chamber wall members having inflatable annular seal members disposed along their respective inner peripheral surfaces are placed outside the cylindrical workpieces respectively above and below said working line with said seal members pressed against the outer peripheral surface of said cylindrical workpieces and an annular rotary chamber wall member provided with an electron beam gun is rotatably provided around the two annular fixed chamber wall members so that the inner peripheral surface of the former may make slide contact with the outer peripheral surfaces of the latter via seal members to thereby form a second vacuum chamber surrounded by the outer peripheral surfaces of said cylindrical workpieces, said two annular fixed chamber wall members and the inner peripheral surface of said rotary chamber wall member.

Electron beam working apparatus for cylindrical members

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Takasago, Japan

Toshikazu Shimoyama