Welding joining method and welding joined body

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11806940-B2
Application number	US-202117551347-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 15, 2021
Priority date	Dec 10, 2019
Publication date	Nov 7, 2023
Grant date	Nov 7, 2023

Abstract

Provided is a welding joining method for joining end portions of first and second pipes made of polyamide resin by bonding the end portions to each other by pressure in a molten state. The welding joining method includes: a placing step of placing an infrared radiation lamp between the first and second pipes placed to face each other at an interval; a heating and melting step of heating and melting the end portions of the first and second pipes by emitting infrared; and a pressure bonding step of cooling down the molten end portions in a state where the molten end portions are bonded to each other by pressure.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A welding joined body including a joined portion obtained by bonding, by pressure, end portions of tubular members made of crystalline resin to each other in a molten state, wherein:
a weld bead remains in a vicinity of the joined portion and in a shape folded onto an inner peripheral surface of one of the tubular members from a root of the weld bead, the weld bead being discharged from the joined portion in pressure bonding such that the weld bead projects inwardly in a tubular radial direction and falls down toward the one of the tubular members;
a rate of change in crystallinity in the tubular radial direction in a belt-shaped predetermined region extending outwardly in the tubular radial direction when the predetermined region is viewed in a circumferential direction is a predetermined value or less, the predetermined region being set in a corresponding one of the tubular members so as to start from a boundary portion between the weld bead and the inner peripheral surface of the corresponding one of the tubular members.

2. The welding joined body according to claim 1 , wherein:
when a belt-shaped region extending in the tubular radial direction when the belt-shaped region is viewed in the circumferential direction is taken as a large region, the belt-shaped region being set in the corresponding one of the tubular members so as to include the boundary portion between the weld bead and the inner peripheral surface of the corresponding one of the tubular members, a plurality of regions obtained by equally dividing the large region in the tubular radial direction is taken as medium regions, a plurality of regions obtained by equally dividing each of the medium regions in a tubular axial direction such that the regions are arranged in the tubular axial direction is taken as small regions, and a value obtained by adding up crystallinities of the small regions included in the each of the medium regions is taken as a crystallinity of the each of the medium regions, the predetermined region is set in a range, in the large region, which starts from the boundary portion and in which crystallinities of the medium regions linearly change in the tubular radial direction; and
the rate of change in crystallinity is an inclination of an approximate straight line obtained by linearly approximating the crystallinities changing linearly within the predetermined region.

Assignees

• Toyota Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Baba Youichiro

Classifications

• B29C65/1416 Primary

  Near-infrared radiation [NIR] · CPC title

• B29C65/1432

  direct heating of the surfaces to be joined · CPC title

• B29C66/5221

  for forming coaxial connections, i.e. the tubular articles to be joined forming a zero angle relative to each other · CPC title

• B29C66/71

  characterised by the composition of the plastics material of the parts to be joined (welding bar compositions B29C65/125) · CPC title

• B29C66/91411

  of the parts to be joined, e.g. the joining process taking the temperature of the parts to be joined into account · CPC title