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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 08, 2018
Filed:
Mar. 03, 2016
Applicant:
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota-shi, Aichi-ken, JP;
Inventors:
Kohei Hisada, Nagoya, JP;
Toru Hioki, Miyoshi, JP;
Shuichi Matsumoto, Kariya, JP;
Kazuyuki Ogusu, Okazaki, JP;
Assignee:
TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B23K 26/22 (2006.01); B23K 15/00 (2006.01); B23K 26/14 (2014.01); B23K 26/32 (2014.01); B23K 26/082 (2014.01); B23K 101/18 (2006.01); B23K 103/04 (2006.01); B23K 103/10 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B23K 26/22 (2013.01); B23K 15/008 (2013.01); B23K 15/0093 (2013.01); B23K 26/082 (2015.10); B23K 26/1429 (2013.01); B23K 26/32 (2013.01); B23K 2201/18 (2013.01); B23K 2203/04 (2013.01); B23K 2203/10 (2013.01);
Abstract
A welding method according to the present invention is a welding method for irradiating an object to be welded including a plurality of metallic plates that are stacked on each other with a high energy beam and performing welding. The welding method includes: forming a plurality of tack weld nuggets along a virtual closed curve on a part to be welded of the object to be welded; and forming a plurality of main weld nuggets so that the main weld nuggets overlap the plurality of respective tack weld nuggets.