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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 23, 2019
Filed:
Oct. 06, 2015
Applicant:
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B23K 26/142 (2014.01); B23K 26/14 (2014.01); B23K 26/242 (2014.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B23K 26/242 (2015.10); B23K 26/142 (2015.10); B23K 26/1438 (2015.10); B23K 26/1462 (2015.10);
Abstract
According to one embodiment, a welding apparatus includes an irradiation device and a nozzle device. The irradiation device irradiates a target with laser light while scanning the laser light. The nozzle device includes an ejection port and ejects inert gas to an irradiation position of the laser light on the target through the ejection port located at a forward side in a scanning direction of the laser light relative to the irradiation position.