ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,673,387, issued on July 7, was assigned to ANDRITZ Soutec AG (Neftenbach, Switzerland).
"Method for welding sheet metal parts" was invented by Daniel Staubli (Wettingen, Switzerland) and Michael Kronthaler (Bachenbulach, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for butt welding of flat metal blanks in a welding machine, where two metal blanks are placed on a conveyor unit by feed devices and secured. Two edges of two metal blanks to be welded together are placed together to form a butt joint with the smallest possible gap and then welded together using a welding laser. The gap width is measured and controlled using the measured...