US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Aug. 4 for "Method of manufacturing metal component and laser welding apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,680, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Method of manufacturing metal component and laser welding apparatus" was invented by Hikaru Aoyagi (Miyoshi, Japan) and Hisanori Kaminaga (Komaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The method of manufacturing a metal component includes: generating a laser beam; splitting the laser beam into a first laser beam and a second laser beam; reflecting the second laser beam; irradiating the first laser beam through a first condensing optical system to an irradiation position on a surface of a workpiece made of metal, wherein the first condensing optical system con...