US Patent Issued to II-VI DELAWARE on Dec. 9 for "Hairpin welding and inspection for quality assurance" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,583, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to II-VI DELAWARE INC. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Hairpin welding and inspection for quality assurance" was invented by Alexander Muller (Ahrensfelde, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of welding and evaluating welds on stator hairpins includes obtaining first data representative of the ends of a first pair of stator hairpins by capturing image data representative of the ends, and processing the image data to obtain a data set representative of a rectangle which fully encloses the end surfaces of the stator hairpins. After the data set is saved, a laser may be used to form a weld on the end ...