ROTARY TOOL AND WELDING METHOD

• Main Authors: UTSUMI, Yoshiharu, AOYAMA, Hiroka, TSUDA, Keiichi
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 28.03.2018
• Subjects: CLADDING OR PLATING BY SOLDERING OR WELDING; CUTTING BY APPLYING HEAT LOCALLY, e.g. FLAME CUTTING; MACHINE TOOLS; METAL-WORKING NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; SOLDERING OR UNSOLDERING; TRANSPORTING; WELDING; WORKING BY LASER BEAM

A spot friction welding tool (1) is for performing spot friction welding of a first member and a second member by superposing the first member and the second member and pressing the spot friction welding tool (1) against the first member and the second member from the first member side. Each of the first member and the second member is a steel plate having a tensile strength of not lower than 270 MPa and not higher than 370 MPa. The spot friction welding tool (1) is rotatable around a rotation axis (4). The spot friction welding tool (1) includes a column (2) having a shoulder (5) at a tip end thereof, and a cylindrical or truncated conical probe (3) protruding from the shoulder (5) in a direction of extension of the rotation axis (4). When t (mm) represents a thickness of the second member and a second member insertion volume V (mm 3 ) represents a volume of the probe (3) inserted into the second member at the time of pressing the spot friction welding tool (1) against the first member and the second member, a relationship between V and t satisfies a following equation (1): V ‰¥ 1.73 t 2 + 5.12 t ˆ’ 3.56 t ‰¥ 0.5 mm