Patent ID: 8523731

Claim:
A welded component ( 1 , 30 ) comprising: first and second sheet metal components ( 2 , 3 , 31 , 32 ), the first and the second sheet metal components are connected to each other by at least one weld seam ( 4 , 33 ), the first sheet metal component ( 32 ) being disk-shaped and defining an axis (a) and the second sheet metal component ( 31 ) being pot-shaped, at least one of the first and the second sheet metal components ( 2 , 3 ) having a nominal sheet thickness (s), and one ( 11 , 13 , 15 ; 36 , 41 , 46 , 51 ) of the first and the second sheet component being prepared, with a first tool that is closable in an axial direction and has an end face with a recess, to have surplus material in an axial direction so as to have an increased sheet thickness (S>s) in an area of the at least one weld seam ( 39 , 40 , 45 , 49 , 55 ).