Laser welding head with dual movable mirrors providing beam movement and laser welding systems and methods using same

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 10751835
APP PUB NO 20160368089A1
SERIAL NO

15187235

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A laser welding head with movable mirrors may be used to perform welding operations, for example, with wobble patterns and/or seam finding/tracking and following. The movable mirrors provide a wobbling movement of one or more beams within a relatively small field of view, for example, defined by a scan angle of 1-2°. The movable mirrors may be galvanometer mirrors that are controllable by a control system including a galvo controller. The laser welding head may also include a diffractive optical element to shape the beam or beams being moved. The control system may also be used to control the fiber laser, for example, in response to the position of the beams relative to the workpiece and/or a sensed condition in the welding head such as a thermal condition proximate one of the mirrors.

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IPG PHOTONICS CORPORATION377 SIMARANO DRIVE MARLBOROUGH MA 01752

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Grapov, Yuri Sutton, US 31 111
Hinrichsen, Erik Brighton, US 5 26
Pruyn, Kris Tyngsboro, US 4 26
Stukalin, Felix Southborough, US 20 138

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