Brazing method and device, relay coil and method for the coil by the brazing method and device

• US 20030010813A1
• Filed: 01/16/2002
• Published: 01/16/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 07/11/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Taga Manufacturing Co., Ltd. (Odawara Engineering Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Taga Manufacturing Co., Ltd. (Odawara Engineering Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Nakaya, Yutaka
• Application Number:
  US10/046,082
• Publication Number:
  US 20030010813A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 228/245
• CPC Class Codes: B23K 2101/36 Electric or electronic devices
• CPC Class Codes: B23K 3/087 Soldering or brazing jigs, fixtures or clamping means
• CPC Class Codes: H01H 50/443 Connections to coils

Abstract

A minute work piece in various mechanical or electric component parts is securely brazed by shooting a thin gas flame toward the work piece at a pinpoint while supplying a thread of soldering metal straight to the work piece to heat the work piece and melt the soldering metal, thereby to braze the soldering metal to the work piece. The pinpoint brazing method and device makes it possible to form reliable connection between the conductive terminal of a relay coil and a lead wire wound on a coil bobbin through a sphere-shaped soldering metal. The relay coil thus produced by the brazing method is suitably applicable to various kinds of machinery bringing about vibration, such as automobiles.

Claims

1. A brazing method comprising placing a work piece and a gas torch at prescribed working positions, shooting a thin gas flame from said gas torch toward a work piece at a pinpoint, and supplying a thread of soldering metal straight to said work piece while heating said work piece with said gas flame to melt said soldering metal, thereby to braze said soldering metal to said work piece.

2. The brazing method set forth in claim 1, wherein inert gas is blown against a basal portion of said work piece.

3. The brazing method set forth in claim 1, wherein said work piece is held vertically so as to allow said soldering metal melted by said gas flame to flow downward by its own weight and assume a sphere shape at a tip end of said work piece.

4. The brazing method set forth in claim 3, wherein inert gas is blown against a basal portion of said work piece.

5. A brazing device comprising a holder for supporting a work piece, a gas torch for shooting out a thin gas flame to said work piece to heat said work piece at a pinpoint, and a solder supplying mechanism for supplying and moving a thread of soldering metal to and fro relative to said work piece.

6. The brazing device set forth in claim 5, further comprises a gas supplying system connected to said gas torch to generate and feed combustion gas to said gas torch.

7. The brazing device set forth in claim 6, wherein said gas supplying system comprises an oxygen-hydrogen generator for generating oxygen and hydrogen, and a mixer for mixing said oxygen and hydrogen fed from said oxygen-hydrogen generator with methyl alcohol vapor.

8. The brazing device set forth in claim 5, wherein said work piece is held vertically by said holder so as to allow said soldering metal melted by said gas flame to flow downward by its own weight and assume a sphere shape at a tip end of said work piece.

9. A brazing device comprising a holder for supporting a work piece, a gas torch for shooting out a thin gas flame to said work piece to heat said work piece at a pinpoint, a moving mechanism for moving said gas torch to adjust the work piece and the gas torch in position, a monitor camera for measuring the positions of said work piece and gas torch, a controller linked to said moving mechanism, solder supplying mechanism and monitor camera, and a solder supplying mechanism for supplying and moving a thread of soldering metal to and fro relative to said work piece.

10. The brazing device set forth in claim 9, further comprises a gas supplying system connected to said gas torch to generate and feed combustion gas to said gas torch.

11. The brazing device set forth in claim 10, wherein said gas supplying system comprises an oxygen-hydrogen generator for generating oxygen and hydrogen, and a mixer for mixing said oxygen and hydrogen fed from said oxygen-hydrogen generator with methyl alcohol vapor.

12. The brazing device set forth in claim 9, wherein said work piece is held vertically by said holder so as to allow said soldering metal melted by said gas flame to flow downward by its own weight and assume a sphere shape at a tip end of said work piece.

13. The brazing device set forth in claim 10, wherein said work piece is held vertically by said holder so as to allow said soldering metal melted by said gas flame to flow downward by its own weight and assume a sphere shape at a tip end of said work piece.

14. The brazing device set forth in claim 9, wherein growth of said soldering metal melted and shaped in a sphere at a tip end of said work piece is observed by said monitor camera and controlled on the basis of measured positional data given by said monitor camera in comparison with predetermined positional data.

15. The brazing device set forth in claim 9, further comprising a gas supplying system for directing inert gas toward a basal portion of said work piece.

17. The relay coil set forth in claim 16, wherein said terminal and wire end portion of said lead wire are embraced within said soldering metal hardened and shaped in a sphere at a tip end of said terminal.

18. The relay coil set forth in claim 17, wherein said soldering metal is silver solder or nonleaded solder.

20. The method set forth in claim 19, wherein said soldering metal is silver solder.

21. The method set forth in claim 19, wherein said soldering metal is nonleaded solder.

16. A relay coil comprising a coated lead wire wound on a bobbin and having wire end portions twined round terminals provided on said bobbin, said wire end portions being brazed to said terminals by pinpoint shooting a thin gas flame toward each of said terminals, and supplying a thread of soldering metal straight to the respective terminals while heating the terminals with the gas flame to melt said soldering metal.

19. A method for producing a relay coil having a lead wire and conductive terminals, comprising twining each of leading ends of said lead wire round each of said conductive terminals, placing said relay coil and a gas torch at prescribed brazing positions, pinpoint shooting a thin gas flame from said gas torch toward said terminal round which said leading end of said lead wire is twined, and supplying a thread of soldering metal straight to said conductive terminal while heating said terminal with said gas flame to melt said soldering metal, thereby to braze said soldering metal to said terminal with said lead wire.

22. A method for producing a relay coil having a lead wire coated with a covering and conductive terminals, comprising twining each of leading ends of said lead wire round each of said conductive terminals, placing said relay coil and a gas torch at prescribed brazing positions, pinpoint shooting a thin gas flame from said gas torch toward said terminal round which said leading end of said lead wire is twined to burn away said covering of said lead wire, and supplying a thread of soldering metal straight to said conductive terminal while heating said terminal with said gas flame to melt said soldering metal, thereby to braze said soldering metal to said terminal with said lead wire.

23. The method set forth in claim 22, wherein said relay coil is held with said terminals directed downward so as to allow said soldering metal melted by said gas flame to flow downward by its own weight and assume a sphere shape at a tip end of each of said terminals.

24. The method set forth in claim 22, wherein said soldering metal is silver solder or nonleaded solder.