OCT für das Schweißen von Hair Pins
Wegen der immer strengeren Anforderungen an den Umweltschutz müssen die Automobilhersteller den Kraftstoffverbrauch ihrer Fahrzeugflotten reduzieren. Der Übergang zur emissionsfreien Elektromobilität ist ein globaler, technologischer Trend. Der schnell wachsende Markt für Elektromobilität erfordert präzise geschweißte Funktionskomponenten. Das Laserschweißen leistet zusammen
mit Präzisionssensorsystemen wie OCT (Optische Kohärenztomografie, auf Englisch Optical Coherence Tomography) einen großen Beitrag zur Entwicklung von elektrischen Komponenten für voll- oder teilelektrifizierte Fahrzeuge, aber auch für die Batterien selbst.
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Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) Allows Sophisticated Trajectories while Producing High-Quality Laser Welds
Better-quality welds, reduced cost per part, and shorter cycle times are industrial goals that can be achieved by using highly focused laser light. Precise and reliable dynamic sensing technology is required to operate the automated processing laser without direct human manipulation to accomplish safety requirements.
Today, optical coherence tomography (OCT) has gained acceptance as a measurement technique with high precision and reproducibility. OCT as applied to laser welding has already made a step beyond laboratory use, being widely adapted to various laser heads in different branches of the joining industry. OCT brings laser welding to its proper target, ensuring high-quality welds and enabling the reduction of cycle times during welding along sophisticated trajectories or during positioning at challenging joints or low-dimensional e-mobility elements. OCT is beneficial for online omnidirectional seam tracking, exact nondestructive measurement of keyhole depth, and identification of faults and defects at the resulting seam.
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Implementing OCT for industrial weld monitoring
Dr. Nataliya Deyneka-Dupriez describes the benefits that OCT can bring to weld monitoring, and highlights how the technology is starting to find applications in e-mobility.
"OCT technology can be successfully used for fast and exact localisation of hairpins, and fast quantitative quality assessment of the weld bead during processing."
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Tomorrow’s Advanced Technology for Laser Welding – Today
OCT is a perfect technique for seam tracking applications
Abstract
Optical coherence tomography (OCT) becomes a widely accepted technique for precise and consistent seam-guided laser welding. Being advantageous due to its operation principle, OCT has gained a role of innovative seam tracking technology for highly productive, cost-effective laser processing. The industrial tests deliver satisfactory results. Either remote laser welding of body-in-white or gap bridging, OCT is an unbeatable technique for the laser welding applications with extended tracking limits.
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