Provided are a systems and methods for manufacturing objects by solid freeform fabrication, especially titanium and titanium alloy objects, wherein the deposition rate is increased by using two separate heat sources, one heat source for heating the deposition area on the base material and one heat source for heating and melting a metallic material, such as a metal wire or a powdered metallic material.

Provided are a systems and methods for manufacturing objects by solid freeform fabrication, especially titanium and titanium alloy objects, wherein the deposition rate is increased by using two separate heat sources, one heat source for heating the deposition area on the base material and one heat source for heating and melting a metallic material, such as a metal wire or a powdered metallic material.

A lamination apparatus for a secondary battery comprises a lamination device and a cutting device. The supply unit supplies electrodes disposed on a separation sheet and a bonding unit which bonds the separation sheet and electrodes to manufacture a radical unit sheet. The cutting device cuts the separation sheet of the radical unit sheet to manufacture a radical unit constituted of a separator and the electrodes. The cutting device comprises a transfer conveyor, which transfers the radical unit sheet, a laser cutting unit, which irradiates a laser onto and thereby cuts the separation sheet of the radical unit sheet to manufacture the radical unit, a discharge conveyor, which transfers the radical unit cut by the laser cutting unit, and an adjusting unit which adjusts a speed for cutting the separation sheet passing through the laser cutting unit depending on a spaced distance between the transfer conveyor and the discharge conveyor.

A manufacturing method of a semiconductor device includes: a first step of, after joining a wire to an electrode using a capillary, forming a wire part by moving the capillary to a third target pointwhile feeding out the wire; a second step of forming a bent part by moving the capillary to a fourth target point while feeding out the wire; a third step of processing the bent part into a planned cut part by repeating lowering and raising of the capillary for multiple times; and a fourth step of cutting the wire at the planned cut part by raising the capillary with a wire clamper closed to form a pin wire.

A manufacturing method of a semiconductor device includes: a first step of, after joining a wire to an electrode using a capillary, forming a wire part by moving the capillary to a third target pointwhile feeding out the wire; a second step of forming a bent part by moving the capillary to a fourth target point while feeding out the wire; a third step of processing the bent part into a planned cut part by repeating lowering and raising of the capillary for multiple times; and a fourth step of cutting the wire at the planned cut part by raising the capillary with a wire clamper closed to form a pin wire.

A CNC machining centre is disclosed, with an additive unit that forms an unmachined workpiece by additive production and that comprises an operating member with a rotation axis, and with a subtractive unit that removes material from the unmachined workpiece formed by the additive unit and that comprises a tool-holding spindle with a motorized spindle axis, with a subtractive configuration, in which the spindle axis of the subtractive unit carries a tool for removing material, and with an additive configuration, in which the spindle axis of the subtractive unit is connected to the rotation axis to drive the operating member of the additive unit and in which a prevalent part of the tool-holding spindle is situated next to at least one part of the operating member, where “next to” means in a horizontal direction.

Presented are metalworking systems for joining metallic workpieces, methods for forming and welding such workpieces, and lithium-ion battery pouch cells with anodized aluminum tabs joined via knurling and laser welding. A method for laser welding abutting sections of a workpiece or stackup of workpieces includes receiving, via a workpiece support frame, one or more metallic workpieces each with a surface having applied thereto a treatment layer. This treatment layer releases a gas during welding. A metalworking device forms a knurl pattern into the workpiece surface with the treatment layer. The knurl pattern includes a network of channels, such as one or more series of mutually parallel, rectilinear vent channels, designed to exhaust therethrough the gas released from a welded section of the treatment layer. A laser welding device thereafter welds a joint region of the surface(s) of the one or more metallic workpiece with the knurl pattern.

Presented are metalworking systems for joining metallic workpieces, methods for forming and welding such workpieces, and lithium-ion battery pouch cells with anodized aluminum tabs joined via knurling and laser welding. A method for laser welding abutting sections of a workpiece or stackup of workpieces includes receiving, via a workpiece support frame, one or more metallic workpieces each with a surface having applied thereto a treatment layer. This treatment layer releases a gas during welding. A metalworking device forms a knurl pattern into the workpiece surface with the treatment layer. The knurl pattern includes a network of channels, such as one or more series of mutually parallel, rectilinear vent channels, designed to exhaust therethrough the gas released from a welded section of the treatment layer. A laser welding device thereafter welds a joint region of the surface(s) of the one or more metallic workpiece with the knurl pattern.

A method for the preparation of steel sheets for fabricating a welded steel blank is provided. The method includes a step of removing at least part of the first and second metal alloy layers in first and second peripheral zones of pre-coated steel first and second sheets, respectively, by simultaneously ablating the first and second precoatings in the first and second peripheral zones of the pre-coated steel first and second sheets to define first and second ablation zones, the first and second peripheral zones being zones of the first and second principal faces closest to the median plane and located on either side of the median plane.

A method for the preparation of steel sheets for fabricating a welded steel blank is provided. The method includes a step of removing at least part of the first and second metal alloy layers in first and second peripheral zones of pre-coated steel first and second sheets, respectively, by simultaneously ablating the first and second precoatings in the first and second peripheral zones of the pre-coated steel first and second sheets to define first and second ablation zones, the first and second peripheral zones being zones of the first and second principal faces closest to the median plane and located on either side of the median plane.