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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 21, 2012
Filed:
Jan. 12, 2010
Leping Zhu, Darmstadt, DE;
Leping Zhu, Darmstadt, DE;
Abstract
An arrangement for the repair of BLISK blades damaged at their leading and trailing edges by use of laser deposition welding, includes a laser source and laser optics for generating a focused laser beam () and a powder line () connected to a powder reservoir for supplying metal powder to be melted by the laser beam to the weld area. A modular, tubularly elongated welding apparatus () with a connection module () which is connected to a laser source and in which the entering laser beam is deflected in longitudinal direction and parallelized, and to the one side of the connection module () is connected to a camera module for a CCD camera () enabling the precise positioning of the welding apparatus and the deposition of the molten metal powder on the respective blade to be monitored and controlled.