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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 20, 1993
Filed:
Mar. 13, 1991
Applicant:
Inventors:
Wilfried Prange, Dinslaken, DE;
Joseph Sturm, Duisburg, DE;
Hans Schachheim, Hunxe, DE;
Heinrich Schmitz, Dinslaken, DE;
Manfred Zeimes, Hilden, DE;
Assignee:
Thyssen Stahl Aktiengesellschaft, Duisburg, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B23K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
21912163 ; 21912164 ; 21912183 ; 21912184 ;
Abstract
The invention relates to a process and apparatus for the welding of strips 1, 2 without a filler by means of a laser beam 6. To keep the gap width of the joint edges formed by the strips 1, 2 at the joint as small as possible, disposed downstream of the welding focus in the direction L in which the strips 1, 2 run is a cooling device 10, 11, the cooling intensity is controlled to a constant small gap width in dependence on the gap width measured immediately upstream of the welding focus, referred to the direction L.