WO1998019818A1 - Verfahren und prozessgas zum laserschweissen von metallischen werkstücken - Google Patents
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B23—MACHINE TOOLS; METAL-WORKING NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
- B23K—SOLDERING OR UNSOLDERING; WELDING; CLADDING OR PLATING BY SOLDERING OR WELDING; CUTTING BY APPLYING HEAT LOCALLY, e.g. FLAME CUTTING; WORKING BY LASER BEAM
- B23K35/00—Rods, electrodes, materials, or media, for use in soldering, welding, or cutting
- B23K35/22—Rods, electrodes, materials, or media, for use in soldering, welding, or cutting characterised by the composition or nature of the material
- B23K35/38—Selection of media, e.g. special atmospheres for surrounding the working area
- B23K35/383—Selection of media, e.g. special atmospheres for surrounding the working area mainly containing noble gases or nitrogen
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B23—MACHINE TOOLS; METAL-WORKING NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
- B23K—SOLDERING OR UNSOLDERING; WELDING; CLADDING OR PLATING BY SOLDERING OR WELDING; CUTTING BY APPLYING HEAT LOCALLY, e.g. FLAME CUTTING; WORKING BY LASER BEAM
- B23K26/00—Working by laser beam, e.g. welding, cutting or boring
- B23K26/02—Positioning or observing the workpiece, e.g. with respect to the point of impact; Aligning, aiming or focusing the laser beam
- B23K26/04—Automatically aligning, aiming or focusing the laser beam, e.g. using the back-scattered light
- B23K26/046—Automatically focusing the laser beam
- B23K26/048—Automatically focusing the laser beam by controlling the distance between laser head and workpiece
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B23—MACHINE TOOLS; METAL-WORKING NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
- B23K—SOLDERING OR UNSOLDERING; WELDING; CLADDING OR PLATING BY SOLDERING OR WELDING; CUTTING BY APPLYING HEAT LOCALLY, e.g. FLAME CUTTING; WORKING BY LASER BEAM
- B23K26/00—Working by laser beam, e.g. welding, cutting or boring
- B23K26/12—Working by laser beam, e.g. welding, cutting or boring in a special atmosphere, e.g. in an enclosure
- B23K26/123—Working by laser beam, e.g. welding, cutting or boring in a special atmosphere, e.g. in an enclosure in an atmosphere of particular gases
- B23K26/125—Working by laser beam, e.g. welding, cutting or boring in a special atmosphere, e.g. in an enclosure in an atmosphere of particular gases of mixed gases
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B23—MACHINE TOOLS; METAL-WORKING NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
- B23K—SOLDERING OR UNSOLDERING; WELDING; CLADDING OR PLATING BY SOLDERING OR WELDING; CUTTING BY APPLYING HEAT LOCALLY, e.g. FLAME CUTTING; WORKING BY LASER BEAM
- B23K26/00—Working by laser beam, e.g. welding, cutting or boring
- B23K26/14—Working by laser beam, e.g. welding, cutting or boring using a fluid stream, e.g. a jet of gas, in conjunction with the laser beam; Nozzles therefor
- B23K26/1462—Nozzles; Features related to nozzles
- B23K26/1464—Supply to, or discharge from, nozzles of media, e.g. gas, powder, wire
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- the invention relates to a method and a process gas for laser welding metallic workpieces.
- a process gas flows around the weld.
- Laser welding is known from obvious prior use.
- a laser beam is focused on the workpiece to be welded.
- a process gas is supplied to the welding point at the same time, which has to meet several requirements.
- the process gas is fed through a nozzle coaxially to the laser beam, possibly.
- a second nozzle directed transversely to the laser beam can be used instead or in addition.
- inert gases are generally used as the process gas.
- Nitrogen and argon are inexpensive gases available, but have the disadvantage that the laser beam interacts with the nitrogen molecules or the argon atoms and thus forms a process gas plasma which is undesirable in many applications since it reduces the efficiency of the welding.
- Process gases containing about ⁇ 30% helium in argon are therefore often used. Helium suppresses plasma formation in the process gas.
- the invention has for its object to provide a method for laser welding of the type mentioned that enables efficient welding with good weld quality.
- the invention solves this problem in that a mixture of at least one noble gas and at least 0.5% by volume of nitrogen is used as the process gas.
- process gas denotes any gas mixture that is supplied to the area of the welding point during laser welding, for example in order to protect this area from the ambient atmosphere.
- the energy transfer from the laser beam to the material to be welded can take place in two ways.
- the workpiece material evaporates or a metal vapor plasma is formed.
- the laser radiation can interact with the process gas, ionize it and thus form a process gas plasma (not to be confused with the metal vapor plasma).
- This plasma formation in the process gas is called a plasma torch.
- the process gas plasma then transfers part of its energy to the workpiece.
- Helium-argon mixtures with a high helium content are therefore frequently used in the prior art for laser welding (cf. DE 43 29 127 A1).
- the nitrogen portion is ionized and / or dissociated to a certain extent by the laser beam. It has been shown that this process gas plasma formation stabilizes the welding keyhole and suppresses undesired explosive evaporation processes in the workpiece.
- the direct interaction of the laser beam with the metal is somewhat suppressed, the plasma torch, which occurs to a certain extent, probably acts as a kind of buffer that makes the welding process more uniform and thus significantly increases the quality of the weld seam.
- a deliberate deterioration in efficiency due to plasma flare formation is consciously accepted in order to obtain a higher quality weld seam and to enable uniform and reliable process control.
- the noble gas portion of the process gas pure helium is particularly advantageous. Helium can only be ionized to a very limited extent by the laser beam, the process gas plasma then essentially forms through ionization and / or dissociation of nitrogen. An argon content in the noble gas mixture is also possible, but this worsens the efficiency of the method according to the invention, since the ionization potential of argon is lower than the ionization / dissociation potential of nitrogen.
- the nitrogen content is preferably at least 1% by volume, more preferably at least 3% by volume, more preferably at least 5% by volume, particularly preferably 10-50% by volume.
- the range of 10-30% by volume is even more preferred.
- the optimal proportion of nitrogen in the process gas also depends on the materials to be welded. At the Welding aluminum and aluminum alloys has proven to be advantageous with a nitrogen content of 10-15% by volume; when welding steels with austenitic structural components, the preferred content is around 30% by volume. If the nitrogen content is too high, undesirable nitride formation can occur, which can impair the dynamic and static strength properties of the welded joint.
- the method or process gas according to the invention can be used particularly well for welding metallic workpieces made of aluminum or an aluminum alloy.
- Such alloys are, for example, AlMgMn, AlMgSi, AlMg and AlZnMg.
- Other materials which can be welded according to the invention are steels with austenitic structural components, for example austenitic steel or austenitic-ferritic steel.
- duplex or super duplex steels presumably have a further effect in the nitrogen content in the process gas. Dissociated nitrogen is absorbed in the material and helps stabilize the austenite content in the structure of the weld seam.
- the invention further relates to a process gas for the laser welding of metallic workpieces, which consists of a mixture of at least one noble gas and at least 0.5% by volume of nitrogen.
- Helium is preferably used as the noble gas.
- the preferred nitrogen contents of the process gas have already been mentioned above in connection with the explanation of the process.
- a laser beam 1 is directed onto the workpiece 6 to be welded by means of a focusing lens 2. It passes through a nozzle 3 and its mouthpiece 11.
- the laser itself is not shown in the drawing, suitable lasers are familiar to the person skilled in the art. E.g. can be a CO 2 laser or solid laser such.
- B. an Nd: YAG laser can be used. Suitable beam powers are, for example, in the range 1 - 3 kW. Larger laser powers may also be applicable, but then mirror optics are preferably used to focus the laser beam.
- the focusing lens 2 focuses the laser beam onto the upper side of the workpiece 6 to be welded.
- the diameter of the opening of the nozzle mouthpiece 11 can be in the range 3-15 mm, preferably 7-10 mm.
- the distance of the nozzle mouthpiece 11 from the surface of the workpiece 6 is preferably in the range 10-15 mm.
- the nozzle 3 has a feed line 5 through which process gas is fed into a chamber 4.
- An He-N 2 mixture with a nitrogen content of 10% by volume is used as the process gas.
- the amount of process gas supplied is preferably 30 l / min
- the sheet 6 to be welded is supported on a support 9.
- the nozzle 3 can be equipped with a distance sensor 7 (for example an inductive distance sensor system) to keep the working distance constant or to regulate it.
- the sheet 6 is at a speed of z. B. 6 m / min in the direction of the arrow shown in Fig. 1 through the welding device.
- Most of the energy of the laser beam 1 interacts directly with the material of the sheet 6 in the area of the weld.
- An interaction of the laser beam with the process gas through dissociation and ionization of the process gas and the resulting plasma formation occurs to a limited extent to the extent that the welding keyholes are stabilized.
- This advantageous effect of the invention is particularly noticeable when working with high laser powers of more than 3 kW (and accordingly mirror optics for focusing) and a correspondingly high power density in the area of the welding point.
- the process gas can also be supplied differently, for example via a laterally arranged nozzle, not shown in the drawing. Such a nozzle can either be provided in addition to or instead of the nozzle 3.
- An exemplary application of the method according to the invention is the welding of austenitic stainless steel (AISI 304) with a material thickness of 2 mm.
- AISI 304 austenitic stainless steel
- Another material that can advantageously be welded is an aluminum alloy.
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AT97951867T ATE257755T1 (de) | 1996-11-06 | 1997-11-06 | Verfahren und prozessgas zum laserschweissen von metallischen werkstücken |
EP97951867A EP0946331B1 (de) | 1996-11-06 | 1997-11-06 | Verfahren und prozessgas zum laserschweissen von metallischen werkstücken |
US09/297,647 US6281472B1 (en) | 1996-11-06 | 1997-11-06 | Method and process gas for laser welding metal workpieces |
DE59711222T DE59711222D1 (de) | 1996-11-06 | 1997-11-06 | Verfahren und prozessgas zum laserschweissen von metallischen werkstücken |
BR9712902A BR9712902A (pt) | 1996-11-06 | 1997-11-06 | Método e gás de processo para a soldagem a laser de peças metálicas |
NO19992052A NO316811B1 (no) | 1996-11-06 | 1999-04-28 | Fremgangsmate for lasersveising av arbeidsstykker |
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AT (1) | ATE257755T1 (de) |
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DE (2) | DE19645746A1 (de) |
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