Non-contact laser welding offers several advantages when it comes to joining one plastic part to another. It works on the principle of partial transmission which lets a laser’s light travel through ...

DuPont Engineering Polymers, Wilmington Del. (www.plastics.dupont.com), for example, offers a wide range of suitable materials for laser welding. It's relatively easy to produce strong welds with ...

Lasers have been used to weld together plastic parts for decades, but until recently the technology had one major disadvantage: it could not be used to weld clear polymers. Recently, high-powered ...

You want welds that stay consistent, but quality can drift when parts shift, fit-up varies, or different operators take over.

Offers an introduction to the fundamentals of laser welding including characteristics, welding defects and evolution of laser welding discusses developments in several techniques including disk, ...

“QualLa” project is partnership of LZH and Institute for Integrated Production, both based in Hannover, Germany. 3D-printed sample component. Effectively welding 3D-printed components by laser is the ...

Medical devices use a variety of metal components that are often welded to form a secure and permanent bond. Options available for welding processes are limited because of certain constraints such as ...

First direct weld method for car seat components; increases manufacturing efficiency. Direct weld measurement for seat rails increases manufacturing efficiency. Fiber laser giant IPG Photonics and ...

For shaft repairs, LBW-W is generally more applicable than LBW-P. The first reason for this is that LBW-W has a lower probability of forming defects, namely porosity, which may result in rejectable ...

Researchers discuss an ambitious project to understand the basic principles of laser welding better than ever before. On its surface, the work is deceptively simple: Shoot a high-power laser beam onto ...