LeTourneau University Patents Microwave Welding, Soldering, and Brazing Device Professors and students at LeTourneau University, Longview, Tex., have patented a new microwavebased system capable of joining difficult-to-weld dissimilar combinations of advanced metals to ceramics and/or polymers. Enhanced by use of predictive simulation software, the plasma-less closed-loop controlled system can be used to solder, braze, or weld combinations of metals, ceramics, polymers, and composites. Engineering Professors Yoni Adonyi and Seung Kim along with two of the university’s engineering alumni, Allen Worcester and Ithamar Glumac, are coinventors of U.S. Patent #9,374,853. “Scaled-up models of our prototype are expected to be developed for joining ad- DECEMBER 2016 / WELDING JOURNAL 15 For info, go to aws.org/adindex For info, go to aws.org/adindex Dr. Yoni Adonyi, pictured above, is one of the coinventors behind a new patent establishing a method for joining two dissimilar materials and a microwave system for accomplishing the same. This system can be used to solder, braze, or weld combinations of metals, ceramics, polymers, and composites (as displayed).
Welding Journal | December 2016
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