System for mounting ultrasonic tools

• Main Authors: Soloff, Robert S, Vargas, Sr., Sigfredo, Patrikios, Michael
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 30.10.2013
• Subjects: AFTER-TREATMENT OF THE SHAPED PRODUCTS, e.g. REPAIRING; CLADDING OR PLATING BY SOLDERING OR WELDING; CUTTING BY APPLYING HEAT LOCALLY, e.g. FLAME CUTTING; FOR PERFORMING MECHANICAL WORK IN GENERAL; GENERATING OR TRANSMITTING MECHANICAL VIBRATIONS IN GENERAL; MACHINE TOOLS; METAL-WORKING NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; METHODS OR APPARATUS FOR GENERATING OR TRANSMITTING MECHANICALVIBRATIONS OF INFRASONIC, SONIC, OR ULTRASONIC FREQUENCY; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; SHAPING OF MATERIAL IN A PLASTIC STATE, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDEDFOR; SHAPING OR JOINING OF PLASTICS; SOLDERING OR UNSOLDERING; TRANSPORTING; WELDING; WORKING BY LASER BEAM; WORKING OF PLASTICS; WORKING OF SUBSTANCES IN A PLASTIC STATE, IN GENERAL

An ultrasonic tool (300) having a sonotrode (320) having a single weld region (325) and two nodal regions (340) formed on either side of the weld region. Two rigid mount boosters (330, 345) are each coupled to either side of the weld region (325). One transducer (305) is coupled to one of the rigid mount boosters (330). Two ultrasonic stack mounting rings (310) are each configured to be coupled to a housing assembly at a non-nodal region (335) and coupled to one of the rigid mount boosters (330, 345) at a nodal region (340).