A gas powered tool (70) comprising a housing (73) and a soldering tool element (72) releasably coupled to the housing (73). A latching element (105) pivotally mounted on a pivot pin (106) in the housing (73) is retained in a non-latching state (FIG. 26) by an abutment element (102) which is urgeable into the housing (73) by the soldering tool element (72) when the soldering tool element (72) is coupled to the housing (73). The latching element (105) is spring biased in the direction of the arrow E from the non-latching state to a latching state (FIG. 27) for latching a switching element (89) in a first state to in turn retain an isolating valve (86), which supplies fuel gas from a reservoir (78) in the housing (73) to the soldering tool element (72), in the isolating state. On decoupling of the soldering tool element (72) from the housing (73), the abutment element (102) is spring urged outwardly and disengages the latching element (105). The latching element (105) pivots about the pivot pin from the non-latching state to the latching state engaging the switching element (89) in the first state, thereby retaining the isolating valve (86) in the isolating state isolating the soldering tool element (72) from the fuel gas in the fuel gas reservoir (78) in the housing (73).

A method of furnace-less brazing of a substrate is provided. The method includes providing a substrate having a brazing region thereon; disposing braze precursor material containing a nickel powder, an aluminum powder, and a platinum group metal powder on the brazing region; and initiating an exothermic reaction of the braze precursor material such that the exothermic reaction produces a braze material that reaches a braze temperature above the liquidus temperature for the braze material. A braze precursor material is also provided.

A method of furnace-less brazing of a substrate is provided. The method includes providing a substrate having a braze region thereon; disposing braze precursor material containing a nickel powder, an aluminum powder, and a platinum group metal powder on the braze region; and initiating an exothermic reaction of the braze precursor material such that the exothermic reaction produces a braze material that reaches a braze temperature above the solidus temperature of the braze material. A braze precursor material is also provided.

A brazing system includes a touch screen display and a controller circuit board having a processor and a memory. The controller circuit board is configured to be manually set by an operator to support a single torch configuration or a multiple torch configuration. The single torch configuration includes a first integrated software having first computer-executable instructions stored in the memory and configured to execute on the processor, and the multiple torch configuration includes a second integrated software having second computer-executable instructions stored in the memory and configured to execute on the processor. The multiple torch configuration supports the independent setting up of multiple brazing torches and the simultaneous use of the multiple brazing torches by multiple users during multiple independent brazing processes. The controller circuit board is operatively connected to the touch screen display and configured to allow user interaction with the controller circuit board via the touch screen display.

An evaluating device for evaluating a joining operation of joining a first base material with a second base material includes: a camera that capture images of the joining operation; a processor that acquires, from the images, time-series data of one or more of a position of the first base material, a position of the second base material, a position of a flame, a position of a brazing filler metal, a temperature of the first base material during the joining operation, and a temperature of the second base material during the joining operation, and evaluates data before a wire feeding start timing and data after the wire feeding start timing among the time-series data; and a display that outputs results of evaluation.

A method of furnace-less brazing of a substrate is provided. The method includes providing a substrate having a brazing region thereon; disposing braze precursor material containing a nickel powder, an aluminum powder, and a platinum group metal powder on the brazing region; and initiating an exothermic reaction of the braze precursor material such that the exothermic reaction produces a braze material that reaches a braze temperature above the liquidus temperature for the braze material. A braze precursor material is also provided.

A method of furnace-less brazing of a substrate is provided. The method includes providing a substrate having a braze region thereon; disposing braze precursor material containing a nickel powder, an aluminum powder, and a platinum group metal powder on the braze region; and initiating an exothermic reaction of the braze precursor material such that the exothermic reaction produces a braze material that reaches a braze temperature above the solidus temperature of the braze material. A braze precursor material is also provided.

The disclosure provides a joining process line monitoring system capable of preventing joining quality deterioration and operation delay. A joining process line monitoring system 100 includes a joining phenomenon data acquisition part 111 configured to acquire a joining phenomenon of a joining subject member as phenomenon data; an operation state data acquisition part 112 configured to acquire a joining operation state of the joining subject member as operation state data; an evaluation data calculation unit 120 configured to perform time synchronization of the acquired phenomenon data and the acquired operation state data, and associate the acquired phenomenon data and the acquired operation state data with each joining operation location, so as to calculate evaluation data; a difference data extraction unit 130 configured to extract a difference between the evaluation data and reference data set in advance as difference data; an abnormal location determination unit 140 that determines that a portion having a large difference from the joining phenomenon is an abnormal location; and a presentation unit 150 configured to present the abnormal location of a joining portion of the joining subject member based on the difference data.

The invention relates to a system for treating hydrogen and/or oxygen gas produced by water electrolysis and serving to supply a combustion process, characterised in that it comprises at least one heat exchanger, in which the one or more gases circulate so as to be cooled or heated, said heat exchanger being submerged in a reactive compound through which the one or more gasses pass in turn.

The disclosure provides a joining process line monitoring system capable of preventing joining quality deterioration and operation delay. A joining process line monitoring system 100 includes a joining phenomenon data acquisition part 111 configured to acquire a joining phenomenon of a joining subject member as phenomenon data; an operation state data acquisition part 112 configured to acquire a joining operation state of the joining subject member as operation state data; an evaluation data calculation unit 120 configured to perform time synchronization of the acquired phenomenon data and the acquired operation state data, and associate the acquired phenomenon data and the acquired operation state data with each joining operation location, so as to calculate evaluation data; a difference data extraction unit 130 configured to extract a difference between the evaluation data and reference data set in advance as difference data; an abnormal location determination unit 140 that determines that a portion having a large difference from the joining phenomenon is an abnormal location; and a presentation unit 150 configured to present the abnormal location of a joining portion of the joining subject member based on the difference data.