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Date of Patent:
Nov. 08, 2022

Filed:

Sep. 03, 2018
Applicant:

Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Kobe, JP;

Inventors:

Shunsuke Haruna, Kakamigahara, JP;

Shintaro Fukada, Kobe, JP;

Takashi Ninomiya, Kakamigahara, JP;

Etsuko Yamada, Ichinomiya, JP;

Masaaki Hirano, Kakamigahara, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B23K 20/00 (2006.01); B23K 20/12 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B23K 20/1225 (2013.01); B23K 20/002 (2013.01); B23K 20/127 (2013.01); B23K 20/1255 (2013.01); B23K 20/1265 (2013.01);
Abstract

A friction stir spot welding method includes a welding step of performing friction stir spot welding of a workpiece by using a pin member and a shoulder member while the workpiece is supported and pressed by the end face of a clamp member and a pressing step of causing a friction stir spot welding device to press an obverse surface and a reverse surface of at least one of a friction-stirred region of the workpiece and an adjacent region adjacent to the friction-stirred region of the workpiece from a rotary tool side and an opposite side after the welding step while the pin member and the shoulder member are accommodated in an accommodation space of the clamp member.


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