A cutting blade for vegetation is provided for example for use in a straw chopper or rotary mower. The blade body includes a first base material and at least one hard surface bead formed on at least one surface of the base material extending up to a cutting edge of the base material. Beads can be applied longitudinally by the heat energy from the cladding laser system to form pockets so that the blade is serrated by the pockets when supplied with additional wear increasing the pockets to maintain the serrations. The chamfered side face of the blade body forming the cutting edge can also be formed using heat energy from the same laser cutting and cladding system.

A battery manufacturing method and a battery are provided. The battery manufacturing method includes: providing a first housing, including a bottom wall and a side wall, wherein the side wall extends upward from the bottom wall, the side wall encloses to form an opening, the side wall extends outward from the opening to form a first flange, and a first reinforcing part is formed on the first flange; providing a second housing, wherein the second housing includes an intermediate part and a second flange, the intermediate part covers the opening, and the second flange is in contact with the first flange; and welding the first flange and the second flange.

A laser welding apparatus includes a laser medium, an excitation light source and a control unit. The control unit supplies drive power to the excitation light source to inject excitation energy to the laser medium. The control unit supplies preliminary excitation power, which is smaller than pulsed drive power, to the excitation light source over a preliminary supply time, which is longer than a pulse width of the drive power before welding the first weld to be welded. After the preliminary supply time elapses and then an interval, the pulsed drive power is supplied to the excitation light source to weld the first weld.

A rechargeable battery is produced by welding a metal foil to a contact element to make electrical contact with an electrode of the rechargeable battery. An edge region of the metal foil is brought into contact with a first surface of the contact element and welded to the contact element by applying a laser beam to a second surface of the contact element. The second surface being averted from (opposite to) the first surface of the contact element. The metal foil and further planar constituents of the rechargeable battery are wound to provide the rechargeable battery with an at least essentially cylindrical design. The contact element-is oriented at right angles to the metal foil.

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.

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.

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.

This invention provides a laser welding method in which a state where the irradiation energy density becomes excessively high by a plurality of times of irradiation with laser is not caused and a defect, such as a hole, does not occur in a workpiece. In order to achieve the object, a laser welding method for welding a plurality of workpieces by irradiating the workpieces in a stacked state with a laser beam is characterized in that, when the laser beam is reciprocatingly emitted along a fixed welding line, the irradiation positions of a start end A and a termination end A″ of the irradiation are shifted away from each other so that the irradiation energy can be dispersed. Moreover, when the laser beam is emitted a plurality of times in the same direction along the fixed welding line, the irradiation positions of the start ends or/and the termination ends of the irradiation are shifted away from each other so that the irradiation energy can be dispersed.

A method of laser welding together two or more overlapping metal workpieces (12, 14, or 12, 150, 14) included in a welding region (16) of a workpiece stack-up (10) involves advancing a beam spot (44) of a laser beam (24) relative to a top surface (20) of the workpiece stack-up along a first weld path (72) in a first direction (74) to form an elongated melt puddle (76) and, then, advancing the beam spot (44) of the laser beam (24) along a second weld path (78) in a second direction (80) that is opposite of the first direction while the elongated melt puddle is still in a molten state. The first weld path and the second weld path overlap so that the beam spot of the laser beam is conveyed through the elongated melt puddle when the beam spot is advanced along the second weld path.

A method of laser welding together two or more overlapping metal workpieces (12, 14, or 12, 150, 14) included in a welding region (16) of a workpiece stack-up (10) involves advancing a beam spot (44) of a laser beam (24) relative to a top surface (20) of the workpiece stack-up along a first weld path (72) in a first direction (74) to form an elongated melt puddle (76) and, then, advancing the beam spot (44) of the laser beam (24) along a second weld path (78) in a second direction (80) that is opposite of the first direction while the elongated melt puddle is still in a molten state. The first weld path and the second weld path overlap so that the beam spot of the laser beam is conveyed through the elongated melt puddle when the beam spot is advanced along the second weld path.