Method for producing a joining connection via welding and joining connection produced according to said method

Abstract

A joining connection with a weld seam running between a first metal component and a second metal component and produced by a beam welding method. The weld seam has a weld seam main section extending along a joining gap formed between the metal components, the weld seam has a weld seam starting section leading from the direction of the joining gap into the first or second component. The first or second component has a recess in the region of the weld seam starting section that is lowered in relation to the upper edges of the two components forming the joining gap, and/or the weld seam has a weld seam end section leading from the direction of the joining gap into the first or second component.

Claims

1. A joining connection with a weld seam running between a first metal component and a second metal component and produced by a welding method, comprising: the weld seam has a weld seam main section extending along a joining gap formed between two components, wherein the two components are the first metal component and the second metal component; the weld seam has a weld seam starting section leading from a direction of the joining gap into the first or second component, wherein the weld seam starting section is a recess formed in an upper edge of one of the first or second component along the joining gap and creates a lowered surface in relation to the upper edges of the two components forming the joining gap, and/or the weld seam has a weld seam end section leading from the direction of the joining gap into the first or second component, wherein the weld seam end section is a recess formed in the upper edge of one of the first or second component along the joining gap and creates a lowered surface in relation to the upper edges of the two components forming the joining gap.

2. The joining connection as claimed in claim 1, wherein the lowered recess is formed conically broadening, proceeding from the weld seam main section perpendicular to a plane of the joining gap.

3. The joining connection as claimed in claim 1, wherein the first metal component is formed as an extruded profile or a cast component, and the second metal component is formed as a cast component with at least one recess to accommodate the weld seam starting section and/or the weld seam end section.

4. The joining connection as claimed in claim 1, wherein the first metal component and the second metal component are produced from an aluminum material.

5. A method for producing a joining connection comprising a weld seam running between a first metal component and a second metal component and produced by an energy beam, comprising: forming a joining gap between two components, wherein the two components are the first metal component and the second metal component; creating a weld seam starting section of the weld seam formed in the first or second component, wherein the weld seam starting section is formed as a recess in an upper edge of the first or the second component along the joining gap and which creates a lowered surface in relation to the upper edges of the two components forming the joining gap, guiding the energy beam proceeding from the weld seam starting section into the joining gap formed by the metal components, and creating a weld seam main section along the joining gap formed by the metal components.

6. A method for producing a joining connection with a weld seam running between a first metal component and a second metal component and produced by an energy beam, comprising: forming a joining gap between two components, wherein the two components are the first metal component and the second metal component; creating a weld seam main section along the joining gap formed by the metal components by means of an energy beam, and creating a weld seam end section of the weld seam formed in the first or second component, wherein the weld seam end section is formed as a recess in an upper edge of the first or the second component along the joining gap and which creates a lowered surface in relation to upper edges of the two components forming the joining gap, guiding the energy beam proceeding from the weld seam main section into the weld seam end section.

Description

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

(1) The invention shall be described more closely below with the aid of an exemplary embodiment, making reference to the appended figures. Shown are:

(2) FIG. 1 a schematic and perspective partial representation of two components of a subassembly which are to be joined by means of a weld seam and which are prepared according to the invention;

(3) FIG. 2 a schematic and perspective representation of the components of FIG. 1 with a joining connection according to the invention; and

(4) FIG. 3 a schematic and perspective representation of the unjoined subassembly of FIG. 1 in a side view.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION

(5) FIG. 1 shows in a partial representation a portion of a subassembly 10 made from a first metal component 1 and a second metal component 2, wherein these two components 1 and 2 are placed against each other to form a joining gap 3 and are connected according to FIG. 2 by means of a weld seam 4 along this joining gap 3. An arc welding process is used, for example, to produce the weld seam 4.

(6) This weld seam 4 comprises several sections, according to FIG. 2. Thus, a weld seam main section 4.1 forms a weld seam guided along the joining gap 3. The weld seam 4 begins in a starting region 2.1 of the second component 2 with a weld seam starting section 4.2. This starting region 2.1 thus constitutes a starting point for the energy beam, i.e., the electric arc of the arc welding process, and it is guided from that point into the joining gap 3 to create the weld seam main section 4.1. In order to avoid a weld seam elevation forming in this starting region 2.1 by the creating of the weld seam starting section 4.2, this starting region 2.1 of the component 2 is formed as a recess 2.4 which is lowered as compared to the upper edges 1.2 and 2.2 of the two components 1 and 2 forming the joining gap 3, as will be further explained below with the aid of FIGS. 1 and 3.

(7) According to this FIG. 1, the recess 2.4, which is produced in the component 2, and which is lowered as compared to the upper edges 1.2 and 2.2 of the two components 1 and 2 forming the joining gap 3, adjoins the end of the joining gap 3. Hence, the bottom surface 2.40 of this recess 2.4 lies deeper than the adjoining top surfaces 1.3 and 2.3 of the first component 1 and the second component 2, as can be seen in particular in FIG. 3. According to FIG. 2, starting from the weld seam main section 4.1, the weld seam 4 extends out from the joining gap 3 at an acute angle to the direction of the joining gap 3 and perpendicular to its plane into the recess 2.4 which broadens conically into the component 2. The conically broadening contour of the recess 2.4, starting from the joining gap 3, can be recognized in FIGS. 1 and 3.

(8) Hence, the electric arc with starting point of the recess 2.4 is guided at an acute angle to the direction of the joining gap 3, creating the welding beam starting section 4.2, into the joining gap 3 and along it, creating the weld seam main section 4.1, which transitions into a last section of the weld seam 4, namely, into a weld seam end section 4.3.

(9) For this purpose, another lowered recess 2.6 produced in the same way as the recess 2.4 adjoins the opposite end of the joining gap 3, likewise extending from the joining gap 3 and perpendicular to it in a conically broadening contour into the second component 2. This additional recess 2.6 constitutes an end region 2.5 for the weld seam 4.

(10) This additional recess 2.6 also has a bottom surface 2.60, which is lowered relative to the upper edges 1.2 and 2.2 of the two components 1 and 2 forming the joining gap 3. Hence, the bottom surface 2.60 of this recess 2.6 in the same manner lies deeper than the adjoining surfaces 1.3 and 2.3 of the first component 1 and the second component 2.

(11) Hence, the electric arc is guided from the weld seam main section 4.1, which has already been created in the joining gap 3, at an acute angle to the direction of the joining gap 3, creating the weld seam end section 4.3, into the additional recess 2.6. Increased weld material is formed in this end region 2.5 as compared to the joining gap 3, which, thanks to the lowered additional recess 2.6 is taken up so that no weld seam elevation can be formed.

(12) The first metal component 1 is fashioned as an aluminum extruded profile, while the second metal component is produced as a cast aluminum component. Hence, the local recesses 2.4 and 2.6 can be realized in this cast aluminum component at the same time as the casting process. Accordingly, no additional expense is required for the making of these recesses.

(13) A cast component may also be used as the first metal component 1.

(14) The component 2 is produced as cast aluminum nodes for a vehicle bodywork, which is connected to additional components 5 (see FIG. 2) likewise by way of a welded connection.