A plastic welding machine for welding plastic parts together is capable of controlling the weld force vector in both magnitude and direction.

A waveguide segment with two sub-segments including a first sub-segment with a first wall and a second wall, each having an inner face by which laser light can be reflected. The inner faces are opposite to each other and a depth of the sub-segment is defined by a distance between the first and the second inner face. Further, each wall has an exit side, and an opposite entry side, a height defined by the distance between the exit and the entry side and a width. At least part of the entry side of each wall extends in an angle to the height, for which applies: 0°<α<90°. The second sub-segment may be formed complementary and the second sub-segment has a portion at the exit side of each wall. Laser light passing through the second sub-segment enters the first sub-segment between the first and the second portion.

The invention describes a flexible light strip, an automotive light unit comprising this flexible light strip, an embossing tool and a method to manufacture the light strip, which comprises multiple solid state lighting units as light sources and a flexible carrier for the solid state lighting units attached to the flexible foil, which further comprises a suitable wiring or the carrier is the wiring connecting the solid state lighting units to enable suitable driving of the lighting units to illuminate an environment with the flexible light strip, wherein the carrier comprises multiple buffer areas arranged between adjacent lighting units, where the buffer area extends along a width of the carrier from one edge to the opposite edge of the carrier and being adapted to be able to be compressed and expanded on demand.

A vehicle lamp includes a lamp housing having an inner space and a welding surface, and a cover that covers the inner space and is joined to the lamp housing by laser welding to be disposed adjacent to another vehicle lamp. The cover includes a design surface portion and a welding leg. An end portion of the outer peripheral portion of the design surface portion on another vehicle lamp side is provided as an adjacent side end portion. The welding leg includes a facing surface portion that protrudes from the adjacent side end portion and faces the other vehicle lamp. The facing surface portion is provided at a position extending from an upper end portion to a lower end portion of the adjacent side end portion.

Disclosed are a new silicone cold-extrusion lamp belt and its manufacturing method. The manufacturing method includes the following steps. S10: Select a PCB and use the PCB as a substrate. S20: Set LED lamp bead spot-welding units arranged in an array formed on the substrate to obtain a target board. S30: Extrude a slurry which is formed by a food-grade silicone and coat the slurry on an outer surface of the target board to form a lamp skin. S40: Cut the target board into at least one lamp belt substrate. S50: Heat and bake the lamp belt substrate to obtain a lamp belt. This disclosure has the advantages of feasible design, low manufacturing cost, high resistance on cracking, wearing, yellowing, high/low temperature, good fire resistance, environmental friendly and harmless to human safety, high transparency, high light emitting efficiency of the lamp, and applicable for indoor/outdoor lamp belts.

There is provided a resin molded product including a first member and a second member which are laser welded. A laser welded portion includes a first welding portion which is welded by laser welding of galvano method and a second welding portion which is welded by laser welding of flash method or laser welding of scanning method.

Exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure are directed towards methods and apparatus for molding-in gaskets that serve as light blockers, within the grooves of a moving planar work material. The gaskets comprise of a hot melt adhesive material that is in a molten state above a particular temperature and gets solidified below a particular temperature. Another exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure is directed towards a planar work material having grooves that are filled with molded-in gaskets, wherein the gaskets are made up of a hot melt adhesive material. The gaskets made of the hot melt adhesive material bond securely with the panels because of inherent adhesive properties, and provide structural stability to the light panels. Another exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure is directed towards the use of a hot melt adhesive material as the molding material for molding-in gaskets within the grooves of a planar work material.

A wire and a stripping method thereof, and a light strip are provided. The stripping method includes the following steps: holding a wire by a holder, the wire including an insulation layer and a conductor covered by the insulation layer; mounting the holder on a worktable of a an optical device; and activating a light emitter of the optical device to emit a light beam irradiating onto the insulation layer to ablate a portion of the insulation layer to form at least one through hole that penetrates the insulation layer to expose a portion of the conductor.

A composite component and methods for producing a composite component are described herein. In some aspects, a method for producing a composite component may include molding a body from a plastic material, such that the molded body has at least one recess arranged adjacent to at least one respective projection. This method may also include pressing the at least one respective projection such that the plastic material of the molded body is thereby displaced into an opening-side region of the at least one recess adjacent thereto. The method may further include introducing flowable filler material into the at least one recess and solidifying the filler material. The filler material may be an electrically conductive filler material.

An apparatus for joining, in particular laser welding, two components, in particular plastics components, comprisestwo workpiece receptacles (1, 3) for respectively holding the two components (2, 4) to be connected, in each case one bearing element, preferably a bearing plate (7), for each of the workpiece receptacles (1, 3), a clamping drive (SA) for at least one bearing element for feeding and bracing of the two components (2, 4) held in the workpiece receptacles (1, 3) during the joining process, a controller (9) for the clamping drive (SA) and in particular a laser welding device (LS), anda mechanically loose coupling between the clamping drive (SA) and bearing element (7) such that the two workpiece receptacles (1, 3) are tiltable towards one another during feeding and bracing. Also disclosed is a method for operating such a joining apparatus during a joining process of two components (2, 4) held in the workpiece receptacles (1, 3), in particular during a laser welding process.