To provide a fitting member, an annular member, a joined member and a method of manufacturing the joined member, which prevent occurrence of a not-joined portion. A fitting member 10 has a fitting protrusion 10p which is protruded outward on an outside face 10s. An annular member 20 contains a space 20h in which the fitting member 10 is to be fitted. An annular member 20 has an annular protrusion 20p on an inside face 20f. When the fitting member 10 is fitted into the space 20h at a predetermined depth, the fitting protrusion 10p and the annular protrusion 20p fill not-joined portions which may be generated assuming that they are not provided. A joined member 30 is produced by fitting the fitting member 10 into the space 20h at the predetermined depth, so that a contact portion between the fitting member 10 and the annular member 20 is joined in solid phase.

A first workpiece and a second workpiece respectively include a first joint portion and a second joint portion which extend linearly. Among the first joint portion and the second joint portion, the second joint portion includes a seating portion that abuts the first joint portion, and an overlapping portion inclined in a direction that moves away from the first joint portion. When joining is to be performed, first the seating portion is butted against the first joint portion, and then the overlapping portion is pressed toward the first joint portion by means of a pressing force applying means. In addition, laser light is radiated at parts of the first joint portion and the overlapping portion that are in proximity to one another.

According to one aspect of the present invention, there is provided a T-joint including a first steel sheet, a second steel sheet, and a fillet welded part, in which the sheet thickness of the second steel sheet is 6.0 mm or less, the second steel sheet is stood on a first surface of the first steel sheet, the fillet welded part joins the first surface of the first steel sheet and a first surface of the second steel sheet to each other, at least one of the first surface of the first steel sheet or the first surface of the second steel sheet includes a zinc-based plating, an abutting end portion of the second steel sheet on a second surface side of the second steel sheet has an inclined surface, and in a cross section taken along a sheet thickness direction of the first steel sheet and a sheet thickness direction of the second steel sheet, the inclined surface forms an acute angle with respect to the first surface of the first steel sheet.

A welding component is provided for welding to a component via at least one welding region. The welding component includes: at least one welding indicator arrangement provided on the welding component; and, the at least one welding indicator arrangement includes a welding region minimum indicator to be covered by the at least one welding region and a welding region maximum indicator not to be covered by the at least one welding region.

A variable gage blank is formed from a set of components joined by a joining process. The set of components include a web, a first flange, and a second flange. The components have respective thicknesses. The first flange and the second flange may be modified to include a transition region with a variable thickness that terminates on an edge having a thickness substantially similar to a thickness of the web.

A tank includes: a bowl-shaped head having a peripheral wall whose base end side is open; and a tubular body member having an end in an axial length direction joined to the head. The peripheral wall of a region of the head close to a base end is an inclined peripheral wall whose inner diameter increases toward the base end. The end of the body member is inserted inside the inclined peripheral wall of the head and is joined to an inner peripheral surface of the inclined peripheral wall via a weld. A mark available for use in determining a position of the end of the body member is provided in a position on an outer peripheral surface of the body member on a central part side of the body member in the axial length direction with respect to the head and away from the end by a predetermined dimension.

A welded steel part obtained by welding a first sheet with a second sheet, at least one with a coating of aluminum alloy. The welding uses a welding wire which, after melting and cooling, constitutes a weld bead connecting the first sheet to the second sheet and being part of said welded steel part. The respective peripheral edge of the first and second sheets are in a joggled edge type configuration in which the peripheral edge of the first sheet is arranged above, and on or near the upper face of an end portion of the peripheral edge of the second sheet which is extended by an inclined junction portion, at least one part of the upper face of the inclined junction portion delimits at least laterally with the edge of the peripheral edge of the first sheet a groove receiving the weld bead, the inclined joining portion extending by a welding portion in longitudinal continuity with the peripheral edge of the first sheet.

A welded steel part obtained by welding a first sheet with a second sheet, at least one with a coating of aluminum alloy. The welding uses a welding wire which, after melting and cooling, constitutes a weld bead connecting the first sheet to the second sheet and being part of said welded steel part. The respective peripheral edge of the first and second sheets are in a joggled edge type configuration in which the peripheral edge of the first sheet is arranged above, and on or near the upper face of an end portion of the peripheral edge of the second sheet which is extended by an inclined junction portion, at least one part of the upper face of the inclined junction portion delimits at least laterally with the edge of the peripheral edge of the first sheet a groove receiving the weld bead, the inclined joining portion extending by a welding portion in longitudinal continuity with the peripheral edge of the first sheet.

Provided is a method and tool for butt welding a first material piece of metal to a second material piece of metal at opposed longitudinal edges. The second material piece has a greater material thickness than the first material piece. The first material piece has a higher tensile strength and/or a higher inching temperature and/or a higher yield strength and/or a higher modulus of elasticity than the second material piece. A thickened longitudinal edge is provided at the first material piece. The thickening of the longitudinal edge is at least partly produced by at least simple folding, beading or winding of the first material piece or at least partly by folding the first material piece at its edge. The two material pieces are friction-stir welded at their front along the opposed longitudinal edges.

A method for watertight welding, and components formed using that welding method, wherein the welding method includes providing a first component half with a groove and a protruding ridge located therein, providing a second component half with a tenon shaped to match the profile of the groove, disposing the tenon inside the groove such that the tenon contacts the protruding ridge, applying an ultrasonic power source near the groove to melt the protruding ridge, and applying opposing vertical force to the first component half relative to the second component half, such that the protruding ridge wedges in a bonding seam between an outside surface of the tenon and an inside surface of the groove.