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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 29, 2019
Filed:
Apr. 20, 2015
Applicant:
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota-shi, Aichi-ken, JP;
Inventors:
Kohei Hisada, Nagoya, JP;
Shuhei Ogura, Nagakute, JP;
Junichiro Makino, Nagakute, JP;
Kazuyuki Ogusu, Okazaki, JP;
Masahiro Nakata, Susono, JP;
Assignee:
TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B23K 26/22 (2006.01); B23K 26/32 (2014.01); B23K 101/18 (2006.01); B23K 103/10 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B23K 26/22 (2013.01); B23K 26/32 (2013.01); B23K 2101/18 (2018.08); B23K 2103/10 (2018.08);
Abstract
A welding method for joining together a plurality of welding objects by overlapping the plurality of welding objects and performing laser welding includes forming a weld by forming a plurality of nuggets along a virtual closed curve on the welding objects, by laser welding. A ratio of a diameter of the nuggets to a pitch dimension between the nuggets that are adjacent to each other is larger than ½ and no more than 1.