A surgical instrument and related methods are described. The surgical instrument includes a first jaw including a first structural jaw element and a first sealplate fixed to the first structural jaw element and a second jaw including a second structural jaw element and a second sealplate fixed to the second structural jaw element. The second structural jaw element is moveably coupled to the first structural jaw element to facilitate pinching tissue between the first and second sealplates. The first and second sealplates are configured to facilitate sealing tissue pinched therebetween. The first jaw further includes a metallized tie layer between the first sealplate and the first structural jaw element, wherein the first sealplate is fixed to the first structural jaw element via a metal to metal joint between the first sealplate and the metallized tie layer.

A hybrid diffusion-brazing process and hybrid diffusion-brazed article are disclosed. The hybrid diffusion-brazing process includes providing a component having a temperature-tolerant region and a temperature-sensitive region, brazing a braze material to the temperature-tolerant region during a localized brazing cycle, then heating the component in a furnace during a diffusion cycle. The brazing and the heating diffusion-braze the braze material to the component, and the localized brazing cycle is performed independent of the diffusion cycle in the hybrid diffusion-brazing process. The hybrid diffusion-brazed article includes a component, and a braze material diffusion-brazed to the component with a filler material. The filler material has a melting temperature that is above a tolerance temperature of the component.

A bearing component part, a bearing component and a process for manufacturing the bearing component. The bearing component part comprises at least one circumferential peripheral surface, wherein the circumferential peripheral surface presents at least one groove extending along at least a part of the circumference of the peripheral surface, wherein the groove is arranged to receive a second material, the peripheral surface further presenting a first and a second portion located on opposite sides of the at least one groove along the circumference of the peripheral surface, wherein the bearing component part comprises a weldable metallic material.

A method of securing an insert in a preselected region of a workpiece. An opening wall is formed in the workpiece with an opening wall surface defining an opening to produce a remainder segment of the workpiece. The opening encompasses or coincides with the preselected region. An insert is provided to fit in the opening. An insert heated portion and a remainder segment heated portion are heated to a hot working temperature, at which they are plastically deformable. While the insert is subjected to an engagement motion, to move the insert relative to the remainder segment, an insert engagement surface of the insert is pressed against the opening wall surface, for plastic deformation of the insert heated portion and of the remainder segment heated portion, creating a metallic bond between the insert and the remainder segment. The insert and the remainder segment are allowed to cool, to bond them together.

A method of attaching a tube having a tube wall defining a tube channel therein to a workpiece having a workpiece wall. A workpiece opening defined by a workpiece opening wall surface is formed in the workpiece wall. A tube engagement surface is formed on the tube wall for engagement with the workpiece opening wall surface. A workpiece heated portion in the workpiece, and a tube heated portion in the tube, are heated in a non-oxidizing atmosphere by energized heating elements to a hot working temperature. The tube is subjected to an engagement motion, moving the tube engagement surface relative to the workpiece opening wall surface. While the heated portions are at the hot working temperature, and while the tube is subject to the engagement motion, the tube engagement surface is pressed against the workpiece opening wall surface, for plastic deformation of the heated portions, to create a metallic bond.

A semiconductor device includes a first die, the first die including a first dielectric layer and a plurality of first bond pads formed within apertures in the first dielectric layer, and a second die bonded to the first die, the second die including a second dielectric layer and a plurality of second bond pads protruding from the second dielectric layer. The first die is bonded to the second die such that the plurality of second bond pads protrude into the apertures in the first dielectric layer to establish respective metallurgical bonds with the plurality of first bond pads. A reduction in the distance between the respective bond pads of the dies results in a lower temperature for establishing a hybrid bond.

A semiconductor device includes a first die, the first die including a first dielectric layer and a plurality of first bond pads formed within apertures in the first dielectric layer, and a second die bonded to the first die, the second die including a second dielectric layer and a plurality of second bond pads protruding from the second dielectric layer. The first die is bonded to the second die such that the plurality of second bond pads protrude into the apertures in the first dielectric layer to establish respective metallurgical bonds with the plurality of first bond pads. A reduction in the distance between the respective bond pads of the dies results in a lower temperature for establishing a hybrid bond.

A method of manufacturing a hollow aerofoil component 100 for a gas turbine engine 10 comprises joining a first panel 200 to a second panel 300 using bonding, and hot forming the panels into shape. The bonding step and the hot forming step are performed in the same rig, thereby optimizing process time and component quality.

The invention relates to an electrical functional component (01) having at least one electrically conductive conductor strip (02), at least one contact pin (03) being arranged on the conductor strip (02), said contact pin (03) being able to be contacted with a contact element complementary in function, in particular a plug or a socket, and a contact zone being provided between the conductor strip (02) and the contact pin (03), said contact zone electrically connecting the conductor strip (02) and the contact pin (03) to each other, the electrically conductive contact zone being formed in the type of an annular cold-pressure-welded transition zone (11), the surface material of the conductor strip (02) and/or the surface material of the contact pin (03) comprising at least one cold-working area (12, 14) in the transition zone (11), a welding zone (13) being provided at least in sections on or in at least one cold-working zone (12, 14), the contact pin (03) and the conductor strip (02) being connected to each other in the welding zone (13) in an electrically conductive manner by material bonding.

The invention relates to an electrical functional component (01) having at least one electrically conductive conductor strip (02), at least one contact pin (03) being arranged on the conductor strip (02), said contact pin (03) being able to be contacted with a contact element complementary in function, in particular a plug or a socket, and a contact zone being provided between the conductor strip (02) and the contact pin (03), said contact zone electrically connecting the conductor strip (02) and the contact pin (03) to each other, the electrically conductive contact zone being formed in the type of an annular cold-pressure-welded transition zone (11), the surface material of the conductor strip (02) and/or the surface material of the contact pin (03) comprising at least one cold-working area (12, 14) in the transition zone (11), a welding zone (13) being provided at least in sections on or in at least one cold-working zone (12, 14), the contact pin (03) and the conductor strip (02) being connected to each other in the welding zone (13) in an electrically conductive manner by material bonding.