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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 31, 2017
Filed:
Sep. 10, 2013
Caterpillar, Inc., Peoria, IL (US);
Kegan Luick, Corinth, MS (US);
Daniel Sordelet, Peoria, IL (US);
Daniel T. Cavanaugh, Chillicothe, IL (US);
Justin Embrey, Morton, IL (US);
Caterpillar Inc., Peoria, IL (US);
Abstract
Cladding and remanufacturing a machine component includes directing cleaning and welding beams split from an incident laser beam toward the machine component, and moving the machine component relative the cleaning and welding beams such that the welding beam trails behind the cleaning beam along a common travel path. A surface of the machine component is decontaminated by the cleaning beam, while a cladding material is melted via the welding beam such that upon solidifying the cladding material forms a coating metallurgically bonded to base material and previously deposited cladding material of the machine component.