US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT on Oct. 28 for "Laser welding method and apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,027, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Laser welding method and apparatus" was invented by Koji Funami (Kyoto, Japan), Kazuki Fujiwara (Osaka, Japan), Kota Shimizu (Osaka, Japan) and Kazumichi Shimizu (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure includes a laser welding method in which a joint surface between a plurality of workpiece members is welded by radiating laser beam LB, and a locus of laser beam LB is controlled so as to perform wobbling scanning Sw by a combination of scanning motion Sa moving along first direction x parallel to the...