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Date of Patent:
Dec. 10, 2024

Filed:

Feb. 27, 2020
Applicants:

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Osaka University, Suita, JP;

Inventors:

Tetsuya Amasaki, Osaka, JP;

Hidetoshi Fujii, Osaka, JP;

Keisuke Murase, Tokyo, JP;

Seiiyu Ishimoto, Tokyo, JP;

Takuya Ikeda, Tokyo, JP;

Muneaki Mukuda, Tokyo, JP;

Takushi Takizawa, Tokyo, JP;

Naohiko Harada, Tokyo, JP;

Shigenobu Tochiyama, Tokyo, JP;

Assignees:
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B23K 20/12 (2006.01); B23K 103/10 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B23K 20/1255 (2013.01); B23K 2103/10 (2018.08);
Abstract

A pressure receiving surface inclined to a rotation axis is provided on the side surface of a stir probe of a rotating tool. The pressure receiving surface includes a pressure receiving region which is always perpendicular to a rotation tangential direction in a cross section perpendicular to the rotation axis. In friction stir processing, the stir probe is caused to rotate in a rotation direction B in which the normal direction of the pressure receiving surface is positive. According to this kind of rotating tool, as it has no shoulder, a joint width does not increase even when a stirring region is deep, and also, a plastic flow in a rotation direction is generated by a pressure receiving surface, so that it is possible to reduce the proportion of the plastic flow in the rotation axis direction, and thus possible to suppress an occurrence of burr.


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