Vibration welding system with thin film sensor

Title: Vibration welding system with thin film sensor

Abstract

A vibration welding system includes an anvil, a welding horn, a thin film sensor, and a process controller. The anvil and horn include working surfaces that contact a work piece during the welding process. The sensor measures a control value at the working surface. The measured control value is transmitted to the controller, which controls the system in part using the measured control value. The thin film sensor may include a plurality of thermopiles and thermocouples which collectively measure temperature and heat flux at the working surface. A method includes providing a welder device with a slot adjacent to a working surface of the welder device, inserting the thin film sensor into the slot, and using the sensor to measure a control value at the working surface. A process controller then controls the vibration welding system in part using the measured control value.

Inventors:: Cai, Wayne W; Abell, Jeffrey A; Li, Xiaochun; Choi, Hongseok; Zhao, Jingzhou

Issue Date:: 2014-03-18

Research Org.:: GM Global Technology Operations LLC, Detroit, MI, USA

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE

OSTI Identifier:: 1128523

Patent Number(s):: 8,672,211

Application Number:: 13/474,891

Assignee:: GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit, MI); Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, WI) DOEEE

DOE Contract Number:: EE0002217

Resource Type:: Patent

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 42 ENGINEERING

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                    Cai, Wayne W, Abell, Jeffrey A, Li, Xiaochun, Choi, Hongseok, and Zhao, Jingzhou. Vibration welding system with thin film sensor.  United States: N. p., 2014. 
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                    Cai, Wayne W, Abell, Jeffrey A, Li, Xiaochun, Choi, Hongseok, & Zhao, Jingzhou. Vibration welding system with thin film sensor.  United States.

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Method And System For Online Quality Monitoring And Control Of A Vibration Welding Process
patent-application, May 2011

Cai, Wayne; Abell, Jeffrey; Tang, Jason
US Patent Application 12/898075; 20110108181
URL: http://appft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PG01&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=%2220110108181%22.PGNR.&OS=DN/20110108181&RS=DN/20110108181

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