US Patent Issued to DELTA KOGYO on July 21 for "Laser welding device and laser welding method with improved fillet formation" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,080, issued on July 21, was assigned to DELTA KOGYO Co. LTD. (Hiroshima, Japan).

"Laser welding device and laser welding method with improved fillet formation" was invented by Yukio Yamamoto (Hiroshima, Japan), Tomohito Tsudo (Hiroshima, Japan), Masashi Hiraoka (Hiroshima, Japan) and Seiya Takahashi (Hiroshima, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A laser welding method is a method for joining a first member in the shape of a plate and made of a metal material to a second member made of a metal material by laser welding. The laser welding method includes an arranging step and a laser beam irradiation step. In the arranging step, the ...