FRICTION STIR WELDING TOOL
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Oct 14, 2010
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Oct 31, 2008
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Nov 16, 2007
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The invention relates to a friction stir welding tool (1) with an essentially cylindrical shank (2), which has a peg (3) with a smaller diameter projecting on one end (5) starting from a shoulder region (4) of the shank (2). According to the invention it is provided in order to create a friction stir welding tool (1) for welding steel, that the friction stir welding tool (1), at least in the region of the peg (3) and in the shoulder region (4), is made of a hard metal containing 80% by weight to 98% by weight tungsten carbide with an average grain size of more than 1 .mu.m and up to 20% by weight cobalt as well as optionally a total of up to 18% by weight titanium carbide, tantalum carbide, niobium carbide and/or mixed carbides thereof and at least in one of the referenced regions has a coating of one or more layers.
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