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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 25, 2022
Filed:
Sep. 18, 2018
Trumpf Laser- Und Systemtechnik Gmbh, Ditzingen, DE;
Patrick Haug, Gerlingen, DE;
Tim Hesse, Ditzingen, DE;
Steffen Kessler, Stuttgart, DE;
Marcel Schäfer, Ditzingen, DE;
Philipp Scheible, Illingen, DE;
TRUMPF Laser- und Systemtechnik GmbH, Ditzingen, DE;
Abstract
Methods for determining the quality of a weld of a workpiece welded by laser-beam welding, wherein at least a partial region of a molten pool and/or of a surrounding area of the molten pool is observed by means of a measuring system during the laser-beam welding and the quality of the weld of the welded workpiece is determined on the basis of the observation result. At least one characteristic value that correlates with molten pool oscillation of the molten pool is observed during the laser-beam welding and a measure of an amplitude of the molten pool oscillation and/or a measure of a frequency of the molten pool oscillation is determined from the observed time curve of the characteristic value. A probability and/or a frequency for the occurrence of hot cracks at the weld of the workpiece is inferred.