Patent ID: 8304689

Claim:
A method for connecting a first workpiece having a first planar joining surface to a second workpiece having a second planar joining surface, the method comprising: providing a laser welding device that includes a laser treatment head, a receiver carrying the laser treatment head, and a support structure having a linear guideway supported by a first stand element and a second stand element, the receiver being disposed on the linear guideway so as to be displaceable along the linear guideway; placing the first and second workpieces adjacent one another so that the first planar joining surface faces the second planar surface so as to create a treatment seam relative to a mutual upper surface of the first and second workpieces; affixing the first stand element to one of the first and second workpieces; affixing the second stand element to one of the first and second workpieces; positioning the laser head so as to focus a laser beam at a first point on the treatment seam; displacing the receiver along the linear guideway so as to move the laser beam along the treatment seam to a second point on the treatment seam and to thereby weld the first and second workpieces to each other along the treatment seam; and detaching the first and second stand elements from the joined workpieces.