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Patent No.:

US 6639173 B1

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Date of Patent:
Oct. 28, 2003

Filed:

Apr. 30, 2003
Applicant:
Inventor:

John Thomas Murphy, Niskayuna, NY (US);

Assignee:

General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B23K 1/500 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B23K 1/500 ;
Abstract

A method of forming a welded assembly, wherein an electron beam is used to form a weldment that joins two or more articles to form the welded assembly. The method involves directing a second electron beam onto the weldment in the wake of the welding beam, in a manner that inhibits precipitation of a solutioned precipitation-strengthening phase so as to reduce the incidence of strain-age cracking in the weldment.


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