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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:
Sep. 12, 1995
Filed:
Mar. 15, 1993
Michael Black, Foster City, CA (US);
Vladimir Kupershmidt, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Reliant Laser Corporation, Foster City, CA (US);
Abstract
A mirror-based laser processing system, e.g., for laser welding, provided with manual control of movements of a laser welding spot W on an object O being treated. The system includes a laser source (10) which generates a laser beam capable of treating the object (O), a mirror-based micromanipulator (14) which consists of a concave mirror (18) and a convex mirror (16) facing each other, and a laser beam splitter (20) which is located on the path of the laser beam reflected from concave mirror (18). The object is located in a focusing position of the laser beam reflected from the laser beam splitter (20). The system has a sensor head (32) for controlling the positions and temperature of the welding spot W. The sensor head is provided with a laser unpenetrated protective window (34), a neutral-density filter (36) which attenuates the infrared scattering light reflected from object O being treated, an infrared narrow-band filter 38 which passes only thermal components of the scattered infrared light, and photodetectors (40) and (42), which convert the intensity of the received light into electrical signals which carry information about the spatial temperature distribution in the vicinity of welding spot W.