US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT on Feb. 10 for "Laser welding method and laser welding device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,858, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Laser welding method and laser welding device" was invented by Jingbo Wang (Hyogo, Japan), Tsutomu Sugiyama (Osaka, Japan), Shunsuke Kawai (Osaka, Japan), Kenzo Shibata (Hyogo, Japan) and Masashi Ishiguro (Hyogo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A laser welding method includes a welding step of applying a laser beam to a surface of a workpiece while the laser beam is caused to advance in an X-direction and scanning with the laser beam is simultaneously performed in a Y-direction intersecting the X-direction. The welding st...