IP Library Granted Patent US 7,862,874
Granted Patent B2
US 7,862,874 · App. 11/867,979 · Granted Jan 4, 2011

Welded resin material

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Patent No.
US 7,862,874
App. No.
11/867,979
Granted
Jan 4, 2011
Kind
B2
Abstract

A method for producing a welded resin material contains steps of: superimposing a resin member having transmissibility to laser light and a resin member having absorptivity to laser light to form a contact part where the resin members are in contact with each other; forming a closed space that is adjacent to the contact part and faces one end of the contact part; and radiating the laser light from the resin member having transmissibility while pressing the resin members to each other through the contact part, so as to heat the contact part to melt a resin at the contact part, housing a resin excluded from the contact part through melting in the closed space, solidifying the resin melted at the contact part to weld the resin members.

Claims (5)

1. A welded resin material comprising a resin member having transmissibility to laser light, a resin member having absorptivity to laser light, a joined part comprising a contact part of the resin members superimposed to each other that has been welded with laser light, and a closed space that is adjacent to the contact part and faces one end of the contact part,

the closed space having housed therein a resin excluded from the contact part melted and solidified;

wherein the contact part of the resin members is formed by making an annular projection of one of the resin members in contact with the other of the resin members, and the other of the resin members has an annular projection that extends from the other resin member toward the one resin member, overlaps a peripheral surface of the annular projection of the one resin member, is interdigitated with the annular projection of the one of the resin members on a side of the contact part opposite to the closed space, and prevents the melted resin from being excluded to a side of the contact part opposite to the closed space.

2. The welded resin material as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the annular projection of the other resin member is radially inwardly relative to the annular projection of the one resin member.

3. The welded resin material as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the annular projection of the other resin member is radially outwardly relative to the annular projection of the one resin member.

Assignments (2)
COMPANY SPLIT Recorded Sep 4, 2024
From: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
To: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC MOBILITY CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 068834/0585 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 5, 2007
From: ASADA, SHINSUKE; HARA, TAKAFUMI; FUJIMOTO, SEIZO
To: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 019925/0736 →