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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:
Oct. 28, 2003
Filed:
Oct. 10, 2001
Applicant:
Inventor:
Andrew Douglas Delano, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Assignee:
Agilent Technologies, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B32B 1/501 ; B23K 2/012 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B32B 1/501 ; B23K 2/012 ;
Abstract
A joining process and friction welded structure is disclosed, including a first member with a conoid recess, and a second member with a second conoid tip that is friction welded to the recess in the first member. One, or both, of the conoids may be a non-spheroid, such as a paraboloid. In addition, the conoid recess may have a vertex angle that is greater than a vertex angle of the conoid tip.