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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 14, 2019
Filed:
Jun. 15, 2016
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota-shi, Aichi-ken, JP;
TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota, JP;
Abstract
A method of determining a quality of a cladding layer according to one aspect of the present invention is a method of determining a quality of a cladding layerformed by irradiating a laser beamwhile a metallic powderis being supplied, the method including: a process of capturing an image of a melt pooland an area around thereof while the cladding layeris being formed; a process of measuring the sizes and the number of ball-shaped metallic powder aggregates absorbed in the melt poolfrom the image that has been captured; and a process of determining the quality of the cladding layerbased on the sizes and the number that have been measured.