A method for synchronous powder-feeding space laser cladding and three-dimensional forming includes: dividing a three-dimensional solid into a plurality of forming units according to a form simplification and nozzle cladding scanning accessibility principle, and dividing each forming unit into a plurality of layers; employing a single-beam gas-carried power-feeding mode in a hollow annular laser; controlling a mechanical arm (7) to drive an in-laser powder-feeding nozzle (1) to move and scan along a predetermined trajectory in a filling area and a boundary area of the layer; and sequentially conducting cladding and stacking formation of the layer for the entire unit. A device includes an inside-laser powder-feeding nozzle (1), a laser generator (6), a mechanical arm (7), a control module (4), a transmission optical fiber (5), a gas-carried powder feeder (3) and a gas source (2).

A remote controlled, tele-operated welder includes a multi-axis robot arm, video cameras, sensors a specialized control station that allows an operator to perform flood-fill welding operations at a remote location to avoid the heat, smoke and other environmental effects produced through typical flood-welding operations. The operator accesses the control unit (OCU) using a GUI and mouse, keyboard, joystick, or other custom controls, and observe the piece via the cameras (visual, thermal, or other) placed in the welding station via a feed displayed on the OCU display(s). Audio, video, and/or tactile feedback may be provided to indicate arm, welder, or other system status, for collision warning and arm motion singularity avoidance. Augmented reality informational graphic/textual overlays may provide guidance to an operator, and the apparatus may further include the ability to repeat series of steps needed to handle flood-weld on a given piece, repeatedly across many pieces.

A workpiece having a first plate-shaped part and a second plate-shaped part connected to the first plate-shaped part in a direction to cross the first plate-shaped part is cut with a laser beam. A cutting line across the first plate-shaped part and the second plate-shaped part is set. In the second plate-shaped part, a notch portion that opens to a tip end portion of the second plate-shaped part and is along the cutting line is formed by cutting with the laser beam so that a cutout piece that is cut out by forming the notch portion is divided into a tip end portion and a base portion. The first plate-shaped part is cut along the cutting line by irradiation with the laser beam from one direction.

The invention refers to a machine for 3D processing of volumetric metal objects with random shapes and sizes, in particular for thermal and/or laser cutting of holes and random contours in metal cabinets in their assembled state. The machine consist frame /1/, on the horizontally oriented beams /5/ are fixed linear guide ways, on which are placed two vertical oriented carriages /6/, wherein at their upper end the carriages /6/ are connected with a cross beam /7/ oriented toward axis X and perpendicular to axis Y, and on the cross beam /7/ are mounted at least two linear guide ways to which a horizontally oriented carriage /8/ is connected, with the possibility of movement along the axis X, as to the carriage /8/ is mounted a ram /9/, which move in the carriage /8/ with the possibility of movement in the vertical direction along axis Z.

Methods for material build-up on a tip of a blade of a gas turbine engine are provided. The method can include inserting a material supply adjacent to the tip and directing a laser onto the interface of the material supply and the tip such that the material supply melts and attaches to the tip. Methods are also provided for remotely stopping a crack in a component of a gas turbine engine. The method can include inserting an integrated repair interface attached to a cable delivery system within a gas turbine engine; positioning the tip adjacent to a defect within a surface of the component; supplying a new material to the fillable area to fill the defect; and directing a laser to the new material within the fillable area to fuse the new material to the component within the defect.

A method for remotely stopping a crack in a component of a gas turbine engine is provided. The method can include inserting an integrated repair interface attached to a cable delivery system within a gas turbine engine; positioning the tip adjacent to a defect within a surface of the component; temporarily attaching the tip adjacent to the defect within the surface on the component; supplying a new material to the area to fill the defect; and heating the new material to fuse the new material to the component within the defect.

Provided are a welding apparatus and a method, including a welding torch, a wire nozzle, a support stand that supports the welding torch and the wire nozzle with a predetermined distance therebetween, and a first support mechanism that supports the support stand so that the support stand is rotatable around a first support axis that is along a direction in which the welding torch and the wire nozzle are arranged.

A laser processing system includes an irradiation device that irradiates a laser beam to a workpiece and includes a housing, a box positioned inside the housing and housing at least a part of a path of the laser beam, and at least one infrared sensor positioned inside the housing and around the box.

According to a method for measuring the distance between a workpiece and a machining head of a laser machining apparatus, a machining head is provided, which has a housing that has an interior and an opening for emergence of the laser radiation from the machining head. The laser radiation is directed on to the workpiece, after it has passed through the interior and the opening. An object beam is directed on to the workpiece by a light source of an optical coherence tomograph in such a manner that the object beam passes through the interior and the opening before being incident upon the workpiece. In addition to the object beam, a measuring beam passes through the interior. The measuring beam is used to compensate falsifications of the measured distance that have been caused by pressure fluctuations in the interior. The measuring beam in this case may be reflected at a reflective face that is formed on an inner face of an outlet nozzle that comprises the opening, which inner face delimits the interior.

Methods are provided for laser processing arbitrary shapes of molded 3D thin transparent brittle parts from substrates with particular interest in substrates formed from strengthened or non-strengthened Corning Gorilla® glass (all codes). The developed laser methods can be tailored for manual separation of the parts from the panel or full laser separation by thermal stressing the desired profile. Methods can be used to form 3D surfaces with small radii of curvature. The method involves the utilization of an ultra-short pulse laser that may be optionally followed by a CO.sub.2 laser for fully automated separation.