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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 16, 2021
Filed:
Sep. 11, 2017
Applicant:
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota, JP;
Inventors:
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 26/20 (2014.01); B23K 26/082 (2014.01); B23K 103/10 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B23K 26/22 (2013.01); B23K 26/082 (2015.10); B23K 26/206 (2013.01); B23K 26/32 (2013.01); B23K 2103/10 (2018.08);
Abstract
Objects to be welded are joined together by laser welding to form adjacent nuggets. When a distance between central axes of the adjacent nuggets is p and a diameter of the adjacent nuggets in the objects to be welded is d, the adjacent nuggets are formed so as to satisfy an equation 1.0<p/d≤1.6.