A first metal member (1) and a second metal member (2) are joined together using a rotary tool (F1D) comprising a base side pin (F3) and a tip side pin (F4), comprising an overlapping and abutting process of forming an overlapped portion (J1a), a top side abutted portion (J1b) and a back side abutted portion (J1c), and a friction stirring process of inserting the tip side pin (F4) that is rotating into the top side abutted portion (J1b) to join the top side abutted portion (J1b) and the overlapped portion (J1a) with a flat face (F5) vertical to a rotation axis of the rotary tool (F1D) being in contact with both the first metal member (1) and the second metal member (2) and with a tip face (f7) of a protruding portion (F6) protruding from the flat face (F5) being inserted deep over the overlapped portion (J1a).

A terminal joining structure including: a first member that is made of a metal material and has a connection to be connected to an electric wire; a second member that is made of a metal material; and an abutment where an end edge or a side edge of the first member and an end edge or a side edge of the second member abut against each other, wherein the abutment is provided with a joint formed through solid-state joining.

A device for depositing a material layer on a surface of a workpiece has a deposition facility with a hollow shoulder that is rotatable about an axis relative to a base. The shoulder has an indentation that is limited by a circumferential annular face. A passage opening, which is smaller in diameter than the indentation, is formed in the shoulder along the axis. The shoulder is rotated and a deposition material is fed through the passage opening into the indentation where it is plasticized in the indentation. The deposition facility is moved over the surface in such a way that the indentation points towards the surface and a workpiece plane runs tangentially to the surface at the point at which the axis intersects the surface. The annular face is distanced from the surface such that plasticized deposition material is deposited on the surface. A related deposition method is also provided.

An ironing plate is attached to a friction stir welding apparatus in such a manner that the ironing plate surrounds an outer peripheral portion of a rotating tool and does not rotate together with the rotating tool, an inside diameter of a portion of the ironing plate into which the rotating tool is inserted is larger than the diameter of the rotating tool, and a material inflow path through which an excessive material of two metallic plates flows in is formed between the ironing plate and the rotating tool when the ironing plate is disposed to surround the outer peripheral portion of the rotating tool.

Methods are disclosed for forming metal workpieces made from a heat-treatable metal that has been shaped and tempered according to specified protocols that facilitate formation of large contoured unitary metal structures having welds that are retained in the finished structure, and finished metal structures made according to such methods.

Described are enclosures for electronic devices; the enclosures include a cover, a base, and a snap-fit engagement between the cover and the base; also described are methods of preparing the devices.

Described are methods for forming a friction stir weld between a steel piece and an aluminum piece, with specific examples of the steel piece and the aluminum piece being a cover and a base of an enclosure.

A friction stir welding apparatus and method maintains a depth of a welded part constant without varying a depth-direction position of a welding tool leading end part relative to welded members. A control device controls an operation of the friction stir welding apparatus, and a holder unit is connected to a swing mechanism unit via a revolving mechanism section, and a welding tool is held to the holder unit. The control device has a first welding mode in which friction stir welding is performed on the basis of a welding condition signal for deciding a welding condition of the welding tool, a swing control signal for controlling the swing mechanism unit, a first hold position decision signal, and a second welding mode in which friction stir welding is performed on the basis of the welding condition signal, the swing control signal, and a second hold position decision signal.

The present disclosure relates to the technical field of welding, and particularly relates to a welding method for sealing a cooling-water channel of an electric-machine housing. The method includes the steps of: 1) seal the opened ends of the cooling-water channel using the sealing parts to form an S-shaped sealed cooling water channel inside the electric-machine housing; and 2) weld each of the sealing parts and the electric-machine-housing together by using the friction-stir-welding, in one single and complete single-welding-seam mode. The present disclosure utilizes the stirring head having a larger diameter to sufficiently stir-weld each of the sealing parts and the electric-machine housing all at once, i.e., welding in the single-welding-seam mode, so that the welding can be completed at one time, which, as compared with the conventional mode of double-welding-seam mode, has a higher operation efficiency, a better stability, and reduces welding duration by ½ to ⅓.

A method for forming a large-diameter special-shaped cross section thin-wall tubular part. A tailor welded barrel blank is adopted as an original blank for forming of the large-diameter special-shaped cross section thin-wall tubular part. After a desired shape is formed, the original weld joint is removed and butt joint tailor welding is performed on the tubular part again. Since the tailor weld joint of the original barrel blank is removed from the final part, there is no need to consider the consistency or coordination of the microstructure of the weld joint and the base metal during the forming process and the subsequent thermal treatment process.