There is provided a an apparatus for manufacturing a display device. An apparatus for manufacturing a display device comprises a body generating ultrasonic vibration; and a horn including a horn body portion connected to the body and amplifying the ultrasonic vibration and a horn tip portion connected to the horn body portion and applying the ultrasonic vibration onto a bonding object, wherein the horn body portion includes at least one body groove surrounded by the horn body portion and completely penetrating the horn body portion in a thickness direction from the surface of the horn body portion.

A single side heating apparatus equipped with a pair of electrodes for heating a workpiece is provided. The apparatus includes: a base portion; the pair of electrodes each having a contact portion configured to contact with the workpiece in one direction continuously or at a plurality of spaced-apart portions thereof; an electrode holder, to which the pair of electrodes are fixed; and a four-bar linkage provided between the base portion and the electrode holder and configured to rotate to tilt the electrode holder around an axis orthogonal to the one direction by a reaction force received by the electrodes from the workpiece. The four-bar linkage includes a first link located closer to the electrode holder, a second link located closer to the base portion, and third and fourth links. The first link is shorter than the second link, and the third link and the fourth link are equal in length.

A robotic wire termination system for efficiently and accurately connecting a plurality of wires to an electrical connector having a plurality of connector pins with corresponding wire receptacles. The system generally includes a housing, a removable alignment plate, a robotic positioner, a heating device, a touch responsive display, and a control unit. The alignment plate removably holds a selected electrical connector in a specific position and orientation with the connector pins exposed in the housing and the wire receptacles exposed outside. The display provides a visual representation of the connector pins and selections of the connector pins. The control unit receives inputs indicating the pin selections and controls the robotic positioner to sequentially move the heating device along three orthogonal longitudinal axes to a series of heating positions relative to the selected connector pins to provide heat for melting solder to connect wires to the wire receptacles.

A production method for welding a copper conductor to an electrical contact element of a workpiece for electrical contacting. The contact element has a first copper alloy, and the method has the following method steps: mechanical contacting between the copper conductor and the contact element at a join of the contact element, the welding of the copper conductor to the contact element being carried out with the aid of a focused laser beam, the laser beam having a wavelength of less than or equal to 0.6 μm, and a welded seam is produced which has a welding depth that is greater than or equal to 100 μm.

Disclosed is a weld portion inspection method using thermal image sensing, wherein the method includes heating the weld portion using Joule heat; and determining whether the weld portion is defective based on a temperature increase pattern of the weld portion by the heating.

There is provided a laser welding method of joining a bus bar and an intermediate member by irradiating a laser beam on a surface of the intermediate member with the bus bar and the intermediate member being overlapped with each other. The laser welding method includes: a first welding step of forming a first welding line by moving the laser beam in a C shape from a welding start point to a welding intermediate point when viewed from a direction orthogonal to a surface of the intermediate member; and a second welding step of forming a second welding line continuous with the first welding line by moving the laser beam from the welding intermediate point to a welding end point located in a welding region formed inside the first welding line from the welding start point and the welding intermediate point.

An embodiment is directed to a contact plate configured to establish electrical bonds between battery cells in a battery module, including at least one primary conductive layer, and a set of bonding connectors that are configured to provide direct electrical bonds between the contact plate and terminals of a group of battery cells, the set of bonding connectors being configured to connect the group of battery cells in parallel with each other, wherein at least one bonding connector in the set of bonding connectors is configured with a higher fuse rating than each other bonding connector in the set of bonding connectors so as to contain arcs among the set of bonding connectors to the at least one bonding connector.

A method for manufacturing a stator for a rotary electric machine including: a process of abutting, on each other, tip end parts of one coil piece and an other one coil piece for forming a stator coil of a rotary electric machine; and a welding process of irradiating a welding target location regarding the tip end part having been abutted with a laser beam having a wavelength of 0.6 μm or less, in which in the welding process, the laser beam is generated for every pulse oscillation in a laser oscillator in a mode of having a laser output of 3.0 kW or more, and in at least a part of a period during one pulse oscillation, the laser beam is moved so that an irradiation position changes linearly parallel to an abutment surface of the tip end part.

Provided are an electronic component, a lead part connection structure, and a lead part connection method which can reduce damage of a lead part and improve joint strength. In this lead part connection structure, a lead part (3) made of a conductor and a conductive wire (5) made of a plurality of core wires (52) are connected to each other through welding, wherein the lead part (3) and the conductive wire (5) are connected to each other through welding in a condition in which the lead part (3) is fitted into the plurality of core wires (52) of the conductive wire (5). In the conductive wire (5), the core wires (52) are not integrated with each other in advance through welding.

A busbar includes: a plurality of members that are platy; and a welding area in which two of the members are welded, the welding area being linear and extending in a first direction, the welding area being provided approximately between both ends of at least one of the two members in the first direction.