Method of overlaying by laser beam and overlaying structure

• US 6,114,053 A
• Filed: 04/03/1998
• Issued: 09/05/2000
• Est. Priority Date: 04/15/1997
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Telular Corporation (Ametek Incorporated), Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Matsuyama, Hidenobu, Nishino, Shinji, Kanai, Kouichi
• Primary Examiner(s): Jones, Deborah
• Assistant Examiner(s): Koehler, Robert R.
• Application Number:
  US09/054,505
• Time in Patent Office: 886 Days
• Field of Search: 428/599, 428/615, 428/636, 428/652, 123/188.8, 219/76.1, 219/76.12, 427/556, 427/597, 427/554
• US Class Current: 428/652
• CPC Class Codes: B32B 15/017 one layer being formed of aluminium or an aluminium alloy, another layer being formed of an alloy based on a non ferrous metal other than aluminium
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/12382 Defined configuration of both thickness and nonthickness surface or angle therebetween [e.g., rounded corners, etc.]
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/12493 Composite; i.e., plural, adjacent, spatially distinct metal components [e.g., layers, joint, etc.]
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/12639 Adjacent, identical composition, components
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/1275 Next to Group VIII or IB metal-base component

Abstract

A method of overlaying by a laser beam, comprises the steps of: relatively moving and irradiating a laser beam with respect to a base metal and simultaneously putting an other metal material than the base metal material on the base metal surface; and forming an overlay layer by melting the other metal material, wherein the overlay operation is performed in such a manner that an inclined angle θ with respect to the base metal surface of the beginning end portion surface becomes a range of 8°<θ<27°.

Claims

1. An overlay structure by a laser beam, comprising:

a base metal; and

an overlay layer formed such that a laser beam relatively moves and irradiates with respect to the base metal and that another metal material other than the base material is simultaneously put on the base metal surface by melting the another metal material,

wherein the overlay layer is formed by overlapping a terminal end of the overlay layer over a beginning end of the overlay layer,

wherein, when the overlay layer is being formed, a supply amount of the other metal material in the beginning end portion is smaller than a supply amount of the another metal material in a steady portion, an inclined angle θ

is formed with respect to the base material surface of the overlay layer surface in the beginning end portion in a range of 8°

<

θ

<

27°

.

2. The overlay structure by a laser beam according to claim 1 wherein the base metal is an aluminum alloy constituting a valve seat portion in a cylinder head of an engine and the another metal material is a copper alloy.