From World Lasers, Inc.
Fiber lasers have now matured into exceptionally reliable and stable industrial tools. These lasers have unique capabilities that enable a wide range of high quality micro-machining processes; of interest here is their ability to produce high quality welds between plastics. Many different methods of plastic welding have been found since the need to join plastic parts became of great importance. Methods like vibration, linear/orbital, ultrasonic, spin, and hot plate welding have been used but with the development of the fiber laser, it has been noticed that laser welding is very efficient, precise and time saving. Several methods of making plastic welds with fiber lasers are: Contour Welding, Mask Welding, Simultaneous Welding, Quasi-imultaneous Welding, Globo Welding, and Radial Welding.
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Fiber lasers have now matured into exceptionally reliable and stable industrial tools. These lasers have unique capabilities that enable a wide range of high quality micro-machining processes; of...
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