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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 12, 1994
Filed:
Aug. 28, 1992
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Sumitomo Metal Industries, Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B23K / ; B23K / ; B23K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
219118 ;
Abstract
Placing a clad plate, comprising a resistor having a specific resistance at least two times that of aluminum, between two aluminum plates or between an aluminum plate and non-aluminum plate metal plate to be welded, and supplying an electric current through the aluminum plates to be welded and the clad plate. The clad plate itself may have aluminum plates sandwiching the resistor, the thickness each of the aluminum plate of the clad plate is from 1/4 to 6 times that of the resistor. The resistor can be made of iron, steel, titanium, tantalum, nickel, zirconium, and alloys thereof.