Spot welding

About: Spot welding is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 12491 publications have been published within this topic receiving 89845 citations. The topic is also known as: Spot_welding.

Gantry-type automatic spot welding system for battery pack

Abstract: The invention provides a gantry-type automatic spot welding system for a battery pack, which comprises a spot welding device and a spot welding jig fixing device which are vertically arranged and are connected with a PLC (programmable logic controller) of the system. The spot welding device comprises a beam, a group of opposite vertical columns in parallel, a spot welding mechanism, an X-axis sliding table, a Y-axis movement mechanism and an X-axis movement mechanism, wherein the vertical columns are used for adjusting the height of the beam, the X-axis sliding table is used for fixing the spot welding mechanism, the Y-axis movement mechanism enables the spot welding mechanism to transversely move, and the X-axis movement mechanism enables the X-axis sliding table to transversely move. The spot welding jig fixing device comprises a spot welding jig platen and a clamping mechanism for clamping a spot welding jig, wherein the clamping mechanism is arranged on the spot welding jig platen and is perpendicular to the spot welding mechanism. By the aid of a gantry-type structure, clamping is performed once, cells are numerous, spot welding parameters are controllable, and the system is fast in running speed, high in spot welding efficiency, highly adaptable to the cells, accurate in positioning and fine in spot welding quality.

Method for checking a spot welded portion and spot welding machine

Abstract: A decrease amount in plate thickness at a spot weld is detected at a predetermined time period when application of pressure is still maintained after termination of power supply to electrodes for spot welding. The decrease amount is correlated with the magnitude of diameter of nugget formed by spot welding, e.g., a larger diameter of nugget signifies a stronger the joint, and therefore, the quality of joint at the spot weld can be examined on the basis of the detected decrease amount. Since a value obtained by integrating plate thickness detection data of the spot weld during the predetermined time period is correlated, as the decrease amount is, with the magnitude of the diameter of a nugget, the quality of the joint may also be examined on the basis of this integrated value. There is provided, in a spot welding machine, a detector for detecting a stroke position of a cylinder for pressing electrodes or a detector for detecting a position of displacement of a tip portion of an arm interlocked with the movement of the electrodes and the distance between the electrodes, i.e., plate thickness, can be indirectly detected by the detector without adversely affecting efficiency of the spot welding work.

Investigation on the resistance spot-welded austenitic/ferritic stainless steel

Abstract: In this work, the effect of weld current on joining capability of austenitic stainless steel (AISI 304) and ferritic stainless steel (AISI 430) sheets with application of resistance spot welding process was investigated. Macrostructure, microstructure, microhardness, tensile shear strength, and failure mode of welded materials were evaluated for different weld currents. The values of weld current were 2.5, 3.75, and 5 kA. It was found that when the weld current increased, the nugget size and the weld strength were increased. Two distinct failure modes including interfacial and pullout were observed during tensile shear test. Finally, an adequate weld current was obtained.

Numerical simulation of friction stir spot welding process for aluminum alloys

Abstract: Thermo-mechanical simulations of the Friction Stir Spot Welding (FSSW) processes were performed for AA5083-H18 and AA6022-T4, utilizing commercial Finite Element Method (FEM) and Finite Volume Method (FVM) codes, which are based on Lagrangian and Eulerian formulations, respectively. The Lagrangian explicit dynamic FEM code, PAM-CRASH, and the Eulerian Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) FVM code, STAR-CD, were utilized to understand the effect of pin geometry on weld strength and material flow under the unsteady state condition. Using FVM code, material flow patterns near the tool boundary were analyzed to explain weld strength difference between welds by a cylindrical pin and welds by a triangular pin, whereas the frictional energy concept using the FEM code had a limited capacity to explain the weld strength difference.