Eric Vega Lozada

US Patent:

20040016725, Jan 29, 2004

Filed:

Jul 25, 2002

Appl. No.:

10/202814

Inventors:

Dominique Glauser - St-Sulpice, CH
Jose Garcia - Lelocle, CH
Jean-Francois Fischer - Etoy, CH
Stephane Rohrer - Neuchatel, CH
Eric Davila Lozada - Humacao PR, US
Yan Cardineau - Phoenix AZ, US
Claude Brist - Ham Lake MN, US
Chris Paidosh - St. Anthony MN, US

International Classification:

B23K026/12
B23K026/20

US Classification:

219/121630, 219/121860

Abstract:

A welding system with variable environment system is provided that allows devices to be welded in different gas environments. The preferred welding system uses a controllable gas delivery system that provides different gas mixtures to a welding chamber at different times. Thus, welding in different gas mixtures can be performed in a single welding chamber. This allows the devices to be welded both in environments that promote effective welding and in environments that have specific characteristics desirable for gases that remain in the completed device. Thus the system facilitates the formation of different types of devices in a single welding chamber, and in a single manufacturing line.