The present invention relates to a method for inspecting a welding quality of an electrode tab-electrode lead welded portion of a pouch-type lithium secondary battery, and the method includes: recognizing welding traces of the welded portion by a vision inspection device; measuring a size of each of the recognized welding traces; and determining whether the welded portion has been weakly welded, excessively welded or normally welded by comparing the measured size with a reference value.

An object of the present invention is to suppress blow holes in welding using tough pitch copper. A welding method includes a first step of heating at least a portion of a first conductor and a second conductor containing copper, and a second step of adding a filler metal containing phosphorus while melting the first conductor and the second conductor so that a phosphorus content rate in a welded portion at which an end portion of the first conductor and an end portion of the second conductor are connected to each other is equal to or more than 0.1%.

A conductive assembly including: a conductive sheet; a metallic plate; and a sheet fixing plate separate from the metallic plate, wherein: a portion of the conductive sheet is sandwiched between the metallic plate and the sheet fixing plate, the sheet fixing plate is overlapped with and fixed to the metallic plate, and a positioning recess is formed in one of the metallic plate and the sheet fixing plate, and a positioning protrusion is formed in the other so as to be positioned in contact with an edge of the positioning recess.

A method of welding and evaluating welds on stator hairpins includes obtaining first data representative of the ends of a first pair of stator hairpins by capturing image data representative of the ends, and processing the image data to obtain a data set representative of a rectangle which fully encloses the end surfaces of the stator hairpins. After the data set is saved, a laser may be used to form a weld on the end surfaces of the stator hairpins. Then, second data is obtained representative of the weld, and the weld is evaluated by comparing the second data to the data set. A system for welding and evaluating welds on the ends of stator hairpins is also disclosed. A digital camera may be used to capture data, and the laser may be used to form the welds on the stator hairpins.

A method for welding copper-including members includes laser-welding a first member that includes copper, and a second member that includes copper and is located adjacent to the first member. A welding surface of the first member and a welding surface of the second member are melted by moving an irradiation position of a laser to turn in a spiral shape while approaching a center of the spiral when irradiating the laser on the welding surface of the first member and the welding surface of the second member.

The invention proposes a method for connecting plate-like components of a bipolar plate, comprising the steps of placing a first plate-like component on a clamping surface, placing a second plate-like component onto the first plate-like component, fitting a plurality of hold-down devices on an outer surface of the second plate-like component, said outer surface facing away from the first plate-like component and the clamping surface, wherein an envisaged seam line is kept free between the hold-down devices, pressing of the plate-like components together using all of the hold-down devices, wherein, for this purpose, a magnetic force acting in the direction of the clamping surface is applied to at least one of the hold-down devices, and welding the plate-like components along the seam line in a continuous operation.

A method for monitoring an attachment area during laser welding of bent bar-type conductors containing copper, includes the steps of arranging a first bar-type conductor relative to a second bar-type conductor in partially overlapping fashion and welding the first and second bar-type conductors to one another using a processing laser beam, the welding including forming a weld bead interconnecting the bar-type conductors to one another. After the welding, at least one measurement variable is measured on at least one portion of the weld bead, wherein the at least one measurement variable changes with the temperature of the weld bead as a function of the time during a cooling down of the weld bead. A parameter depending on a heat capacity of the weld bead is determined from the at least one measured measurement variable, and the attachment area qualitatively or quantitatively determined from the parameter.

The present invention relates to processes of making components for electronic and optical devices using laser processing and devices comprising such components. Such process uses a laser to introduce chemical and/or structural changes in substrates and films that are the raw materials from which components for electronic and optical devices are made. Such process yields components that can have one or more electronic and/or optical functionalities that are integrated on the same substrate or film. In addition, such process does not require large-scale clean rooms and is easily configurable. Thus, rapid device prototyping, design change and evolution in the lab and on the production side is realized.