Laser cleaning equipment and a cleaning method for a shaft component are provided. The equipment includes: a supporting base assembly; two driving wheel structures on the supporting base assembly, driving wheels of each of which is configured for being close to or away from each other, and the shaft component to be cleaned is placed between the two driving wheel structures; a friction wheel structure that is tangent to driving wheel structure(s) and uses a friction force thereof to drive driving wheel structure(s) to rotate; a connection shaft assembly that coaxially passes through the friction wheel structure; a power driving mechanism, one end of which that faces toward the connection shaft assembly is in drive connection with the connection shaft assembly and is configured to drive the connection shaft assembly to rotate; and a laser cleaning mechanism configured for performing laser cleaning on the shaft component to be cleaned.

An automated cleaning system for cleaning an object, comprising a laser configured to be directed at the object, to remove contaminants from the object; detection system to identify details about the object; rotation apparatus to rotate the object in a cleaning position; and control apparatus to direct the laser at the object in the cleaning position, and operate the laser to clean the object.

A laser ablation method for engraving a workpiece with a texture by a laser beam emitted by a laser head integrated in a machine tool comprising: a. generating a plurality of machining layers based on the geometry of the workpiece to be machined in succession; b. generating for each machining layer a plurality of patches, each of which defines an area which is to be machined from a single position of the laser head, wherein a first patch and a second patch are positioned adjacent having a common border defined as a patch junction, wherein at least one of the patch includes an non-ablation area and an ablation area based on the texture to be engraved, and the ablation area includes a plurality of laser vectors having two ends defining the path of the laser beam to remove the material of the ablation area, wherein at least one laser vector in the first patch and at least one laser vector in the second patch having a common end at the patch junction are defined as intersected laser vectors and the position of the common end is defined as an intersection position; and c. reducing the number of intersected laser vectors by eliminating at least one intersection position.

Provided is a laser brazing system that can collectively control a robot and devices such as a laser oscillator and a wire feeding device and that can also collectively display the state of the robot and the state of the devices. A laser brazing system 1 that comprises a gas supply device 16, a wire feeding device 17, a laser oscillator 15, a robot 12 that supports a wire feeding nozzle 14 and a laser processing head 13 on the tip of an arm 121, and a robot control device 10 that controls the robot 12. In addition to the robot 12, the robot control device 10 of the laser brazing system 1 controls the wire feeding device 17, the gas supply device 16, and the laser oscillator 15 and has an operation panel 11 that includes a display unit 112 that can display the state of at least one of the wire feeding device 17, the gas supply device 16, and the laser oscillator 15.

The invention relates to a device (2) for working a surface (4) of a workpiece (6) by means of a laser beam (8), comprising a laser system (12) for providing the laser beam (8) and a plasma nozzle (14), which is designed to produce an atmospheric plasma jet (16), wherein the plasma nozzle (14) has a nozzle opening (24, 24′), from which a plasma jet (8) produced in the plasma nozzle (24, 24′) exits during operation, wherein the laser system (12) and the plasma nozzle (14) are arranged in relation to each other and designed in such a way that, during operation, the laser beam (8) exits from the nozzle opening (24, 24′) of the plasma nozzle (14) together with the plasma jet (16). The invention further relates to an assembly (100) having such a device and to a method for operating said device (2).

The invention provides a machine tool (100) having a work table (105) for mounting at least one workpiece (105A), a laser head (101) having a powder nozzle (106) for applying a material to the workpiece and for welding the material to the workpiece (105A), a laser head positioning device for positioning the laser head with respect to the workpiece in order to machine the workpiece (105A) by application and welding of the applied material, an inert gas device (108), fillable with inert gas, for machining the workpiece (105A) by way of the laser head (101) under an inert gas atmosphere, and a positioning device for moving and positioning the inert gas device (108) on the work table (105), said machine tool (100) allowing flexible machining in the scope of subtractive and additive steps of machining a workpiece on a machine tool.

Embodiments of systems and methods of additive manufacturing are disclosed. In one embodiment, a computer control apparatus accesses multiple planned build patterns corresponding to multiple build layers of a three-dimensional (3D) part to be additively manufactured. A metal deposition apparatus deposits metal material to form at least a portion of a build layer of the 3D part. The metal material is deposited as a beaded weave pattern, based on a planned path of a planned build pattern, under control of the computer control apparatus. A weave width, a weave frequency, and a weave dwell of the beaded weave pattern may be dynamically adjusted during deposition of the beaded weave pattern. The adjustments are under control of the computer control apparatus based on the planned build pattern, as a width of the build layer varies along a length dimension of the build layer.

A laser processing device according an embodiment is a laser processing device that irradiates a processing region of a workpiece with pulsed laser light through a liquid to subject the processing region to a laser peening process or a laser forming process. The laser processing device includes: a laser irradiation unit including a laser oscillator that outputs the pulsed laser light; and an accommodation unit that includes an injection port through which the liquid is injected to the processing region, and accommodates the laser irradiation unit. A pulse width of the pulsed laser light is 200 ps to 2 ns, and the pulsed laser light output from the laser oscillator is emitted to the processing region through a liquid that is injected from the injection port.

An NC device 20 determines, in a case where a size of an opening forming region in a predetermined direction is smaller than a predetermined maximum value, that the opening forming region is a first opening forming region, and determines, in a case where the size of the opening forming region in the predetermined direction is larger than a predetermined minimum value, that the opening forming region is an opening forming region where a scrap interfering with a laser head 16 is formed. In a case where the size of the opening forming region in the predetermined direction is smaller than the predetermined maximum value and larger than the predetermined minimum value, the device determines that the opening forming region in an interference width added region obtaining by adding a predetermined interference width to the opening forming region is a second opening forming region, and processes the second opening forming region prior to processing of the first opening forming region.

A method for restoring a blade or vane platform of a gas turbine assembly configured for a power plant by: providing a blade or a vane having a platform with an edge deterioration zone; removing the deterioration zone by electro discharging machining technology; and rebuilding a removed zone by additive manufacturing technology. The removing can be performed to create a recessed plane along a platform edge, the recessed plane being connected to a platform plane by an enter inclined plane and an exit inclined plane arranged opposed along the platform edge.