Provided is a clad welded pipe or tube that has improved pipe or tube mechanical properties by reducing the width of a weld without its function as a clad pipe or tube being impaired. A clad welded pipe or tube comprises: a first layer made of base metal; and a second layer placed on one surface of the first layer, and made of first cladding metal that is a material different from the base metal, wherein a pipe or tube circumferential length L1 of weld metal at a pipe or tube inner surface and a pipe or tube circumferential length L2 of the weld metal at a pipe or tube outer surface in a weld are each 0.0010 mm or more and 1.0 mm or less, and the base metal is not exposed at a first cladding metal-side surface of the clad welded pipe or tube in the weld.

Disclosed are a pillar anchor for an automobile and a method of manufacturing the same. According to an embodiment of the disclosure, the pillar anchor for an automobile includes a pair of first and second anchor plates including metal, integrated in one body, and guiding a movement of a seat belt of a vehicle, wherein each of the first and second anchor plates includes a belt movement guide recess portion protruding toward one side of the first and second anchor plates through drawing processing, and guiding the movement of the seat belt, and a reinforcement flange formed at edge portions of the first and second anchor plates to reinforce the first and second anchor plates.

A welding apparatus includes a welding rod; a temperature measuring jig to measure a temperature of the welding rod; and a welding rod cooler to cool the welding rod.

This disclosure relates to weldability of steel alloys that provide weld joints which retain hardness values in a heat affected zone adjacent to a fusion zone and which also have improved resistance to liquid metal embrittlement due to the presence of zinc coatings.

A ring forming step includes welding opposite ends of a band saw blade including a body part having a band shape, and a tooth part including a plurality of teeth formed on one side part of the body part, to form a ring shape. A polishing step includes polishing an inner surface, an outer surface, and an end face on a side opposite to the tooth part in the ring-shaped band saw blade subjected to the ring formation. A tip tooth tip forming step includes positioning, after the polishing step, the ring-shaped band saw blade subjected to the ring formation by use of one of the inner surface and the outer surface, and the end face as references, joining a cutting tip to tooth tips of the plurality of teeth by welding, and polishing the joined cutting tip to form a tooth tip shape.

A portable stud welder apparatus is provided for welding a stud onto a work piece. The portable stud welder apparatus includes a housing and an energy storage device. A weld stud gun that is configured to hold a weld stud is electrically connected to the energy storage device for receiving energy from the energy storage device to pass a current through the stud and the work piece to form a weldment. At least one battery of the lithium ion type is removeably coupled to the housing to establish an electrical connection with said energy storage device and provide energy to the energy storage device.

The invention relates to a device (2) for welding hard material elements (4) onto teeth (6) of a saw blade (8), comprising a saw blade feed device (12) for moving the saw blade (8) in a feed direction (14), such that a tooth (6a) of the saw blade (8) can be brought into a target position (16) in a working region (10) of the device (2), comprising a first centering device (30) for centering the saw blade (8) transversely to the feed direction (14), comprising a second centering device (32) for centering a respective hard material element (4) transversely to the feed direction (14), comprising a resistance welding device (24) having a welding electrode (26) that can be deployed into and withdrawn from the working region (10), comprising a supply device (28) for supplying and transferring a respective hard material element (4) to the welding electrode (26), and it being possible for the welding electrode (26) to be deployed in such a way that the hard material element (4) can be brought toward the tooth (6a) to abut the tooth (6a). According to the invention, the hard material element (4) can be centered relative to the centered and fixed saw blade (8) by means of the second centering device (32), and the first and second centering device (30) are provided in a common assembly (38), such that the centering of the saw blade (8) by the first centering device (32) predetermines a centering position for the subsequent centering of the hard material element (4) by the second centering device (32).

The present invention relates to steel used for a sash component and the like of a vehicle and, more specifically, to a hot-rolled steel sheet for a high-strength electric resistance welded steel pipe having excellent expandability and a method for manufacturing same, the hot-rolled steel sheet having a smaller decrease in the strength of a welding heat-affected zone (HAZ) formed during electric resistance welding, in comparison with a base material.

A resistance welder controller controls a welding current flowing through an inverter transformer, detects the welding current flowing through the inverter transformer, measures an energizing time and a point time interval of the detected welding current, calculates a usage rate of the inverter transformer using the energizing time and the point time interval, stores an equivalent current curve indicating a relationship between a current value of the welding current and the usage rate of the inverter transformer when the inverter transformer is operated at a rated capacity, and determines whether a relationship between the current value and the calculated usage rate of the inverter transformer exceeds the rated capacity of the inverter transformer based on the equivalent current curve, continues an operation when the relationship does not exceed the rated capacity of the inverter transformer, and stops the operation when the relationship exceeds the rated capacity of the inverter transformer.

Method for the continuous production of mesh mats made of steel wire having a plurality of parallel longitudinal wires that are welded to transverse wires extending in a manner spaced apart from one another, wherein hot- or cold-rolled wire material is used as the longitudinal and transverse wires, wherein the longitudinal wires are stretched in a stretching apparatus while being fed to the welding operation, wherein the longitudinal wires are drawn through the stretching apparatus by means of a capstan drum, and wherein the transverse wire material is also stretched in a separate stretching apparatus while being fed to the welding operation, and an installation for carrying out the method.