A method of creating a cladded tool with a distributor including a feed mechanism and an energy source. The method includes providing a substrate and distributing particulate material from the feed mechanism onto the substrate. The particulate material includes agglomerated particles with diameters between 30 and 100 microns. The method also includes activating the energy source to produce a beam spot on the particulate material, the substrate, or both and at least partially melting the particulate material, the substrate, or both with the beam spot to form a bonded layer of particulate material on the substrate.

A composition of a nickel-based alloy mixture which can be used for welding via especially liquid metal deposition or as a powder bed of an additive manufacturing method. The metallic powder mixture includes a cobalt (Co) or nickel (Ni) based super alloy, a NiCoCrAlY—X-composition wherein X=Silicon (Si), Tantalum (Ta), Rhenium (Re) and/or Iron (Fe), a metallic braze material, wherein the melting point of the braze material is at least 10K lower than the melting point of the cobalt (Co) or nickel (Ni) based superalloy.

A ball bearing has an outer circumferential surface of an inner ring subjected to a surface treatment by laser cladding in a circumferential direction, forming an annular first build-up layer with which a plurality of balls 4 is brought into contact so that the balls are rolled in the circumferential direction (first build-up layer formation step). An inner circumferential surface of an outer ring is subjected to a surface treatment by laser cladding in a circumferential direction, thereby forming an annular second build-up layer with which the plurality of balls contacts so that the balls can be rolled in the circumferential direction (second build-up layer formation step).

The present disclosure relates to utilizing laser ablation to selectively remove regions of active material from lithium-ion battery electrodes during production, forming channels. These channels may improve the radius of curvature of the lithium-ion battery, form patterns on the surface of the electrode to store excess electrolyte, provide improved access to external sources of lithium during pre-lithiation or re-lithiation, and/or lower the tortuosity of electrodes for enhanced ion transfer between electrodes during cycling in prismatic cells and cylindrical cells.

A system, method, or apparatus for controlling the ignition of a volatile organic compound cloud. The system can include a laser source configured to emit one or more laser beams, one or more fume cells, and a conveyor carrying one or more confectionery products. The system is configured to etch the one or more confectionery products using the one or more laser beams. The etching creates a volatile organic compound cloud above the one or more confectionery products. The system is also configured to control one or more factors of the system, where the one or more factors include at least one of laser power, laser wavelength, geometry of laser beam, etch geometry, or fume extraction air flow. The system is further configured to ignite the volatile organic compound cloud based on the controlled one or more factors.

A shielding gas nozzle for metal forming includes a wire feed line being a path to feed a wire at an inclination angle θ, a first gas ejection hole to jet a shielding gas at an angle equal to or less than the inclination angle θ, and a second gas ejection hole to jet the shielding gas in a direction different from that of the first gas ejection hole. The first gas ejection hole jets the shielding gas toward an intersection along a direction in which the absolute value of the angle to the wire feed direction is less than 90 degrees, and the second gas ejection hole jets the shielding gas toward the intersection along a direction in which the absolute value of the angle to the wire feed direction when viewed in the direction perpendicular to the base material surface is greater than 90 degrees.

A three-dimensional deposition device includes a deposition head provided with a powder jetting port from which powder is jetted, a light beam irradiation port from which a light beam is emitted, and a fiber connection port connected to a fiber guiding the light beam; a head moving part that moves the deposition head along a vertical direction; a base part to which the powder is jetted and the light beam is emitted from the deposition head; a base moving part that moves the base part along a first direction orthogonal to the vertical direction and a second direction orthogonal to the vertical direction and the first direction; and a rotation mechanism that is connected to the deposition head and rotates the deposition head about a rotation axis crossing the vertical direction to switch, by rotating the deposition head, between a first state and a second state.

A powder for ceramic shaping to be used for obtaining a structure by repeating the execution of a process of sequential melting and solidification by irradiation of a laser beam contains inorganic compound particles and an organic compound, the organic compound being provided on the surfaces of the inorganic compound particles, and the organic compound has an absorption band that overlaps the wavelength of the laser beam.

In the three-dimensional deposition device and the three-dimensional deposition method, included are: a powder passage and a nozzle injection opening serving as a powder supply unit that supplies powder toward an object to be processed; a laser path serving as a light irradiation unit that irradiates the powder with a laser beam to sinter or melt and solidify at least a part of the powder irradiated with the laser beam to form a formed layer; an interference information acquisition unit that acquires interference information on the object to be processed with the powder injected from the nozzle injection opening based on the shape of the object to be processed; and a controller that changes the powder passage of the powder that the nozzle injection opening supplies to the object to be processed based on the interference information acquired by the interference information acquisition unit.

There is provided high power laser systems, high power laser tools, and methods of using these tools and systems for cutting, sectioning and removing structures objects, and materials, and in particular, for doing so in difficult to access locations and environments, such as offshore, underwater, or in hazardous environments, such as nuclear and chemical facilities. Thus, there is also provided high power laser systems, high power laser tools, and methods of using these systems and tools for removing structures, objects, and materials located offshore, under bodies of water and under the seafloor.