Patent ID: 8017887
Filing Date: 2011-09-13
Classification: B23K,F16B

Abstract:
1. A method for connecting two or more components, having surface portions overlapping one another, via a laser beam, the method comprising: positively fixing, before the laser welding, the components with respect to one another on at least one of the overlapping surface portions by local cold joining; and subsequently welding the components to one another via the laser beam, with a laser welding seam being arranged in an immediate vicinity of each fixing point provided by cold joining, wherein at least one of rivets and screws is used for the positively fixing, and the laser welding seam is arranged as near as possible to the at least one of rivet and screw and wherein, in a rivet row for connecting the two more surface portions overlapping one another, laser welding of the at least one of rivets and screws is carried out alternately, thereby fixing the at least one rivets and screws.