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| Class 228 | METAL FUSION BONDING |
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![[List of Pre Grant Publications for class 228 subclass 101]](../as.gif) | ![[List of Patents for class 228 subclass 101]](../ps.gif) | 101 | PROCESS |
| | 102 |  With condition responsive, program, or timing control |
| | 103 | With measuring, testing, indicating, inspecting, or illuminating |
| | 106 | Using a compliant cushioning medium |
| | 107 | Using explosive energy |
| | 110.1 | Using high frequency vibratory energy (e.g., ultrasonic) |
| | 112.1 | Using dynamic frictional energy (i.e., friction welding) |
| | 113 |  Inertia type |
| | 114 | With treating other than heating |
| | 114.5 | By rotating one work surface relative to another about an axis |
| | 115 | Using only pressure (e.g., cold welding) |
| | 118 | Using bond inhibiting separating material |
| | 119 | Repairing, restoring, or renewing product for reuse |
| | 120 | Mechanically joining metal/nonmetal and bonding to the metal |
| | 121 | Bonding nonmetals with metallic filler |
| | 122.1 | Metal to nonmetal with separate metallic filler |
| | 123.1 | Semiconductor-type nonmetallic material |
| | 124.1 | With treating |
| | 124.5 | Active or reactive filler component |
| | 124.6 | Forming hermetic seal (e.g., welding lid to container) |
| | 124.7 | Forming joint of rotary shaft |
| | 125 | With removing or reshaping of filler material or flash after bonding |
| | 126 | Encasing a rodlike core within a substantially coextensive tube by complete bonding therebetween |
| | 127 | Thermally induced pressure weld |
| | 128 | With mechanical interlock |
| | 129 | By bending planar part to form tube around rodlike core |
| | 131 | By fitting rodlike core within tube |
| | 135 | With supplementary mechanical joining |
| | 141.1 | With shaping |
| | 142 | Corner mitering |
| | 143 | Of multilayer tube from single web |
| | 144 | And edge joining of one piece blank or strip |
| | 145 |  To form helically seamed tube |
| | 146 | Progressively bending and joining |
| | 149 | Uniform thickness thin blank or strip |
| | 152 | Irregular thick blank or strip |
| | 153 | Lap joining of parts of nonplanar surfaces |
| | 155 | Subsequent to bonding |
| | 156 | Drawing elongated member through die |
| | 157 | Spreading or expanding work between bond joints (e.g., honeycomb or heat exchanger making, etc.) |
| | 158 | Rolling |
| | 159 | Removing of material |
| | 164 | Prior to bonding |
| | 165 | Forming channel, groove, or aperture for reception of filler material |
| | 170 | By cutting |
| | 173.1 | By deforming |
| | 173.2 |  Pressing first work part against second work part |
| | 173.3 | Preforming work faying surface |
| | 173.4 | Tube or frame member |
| | 173.5 | Rod, bar, or wirelike object |
| | 173.6 | Sheet material |
| | 174 | Forming channel, groove, or aperture |
| | 265 | With concurrent bonding |
| | 175 | Plural diverse bonding |
| | 176 | Combined |
| | 177 | Alternative bonding |
| | 178 | Plural joints |
| | 179.1 | Of electrical device (e.g., semiconductor) |
| | 180.1 | Simultaneous bonding of multiple joints (e.g., dip soldering of printed circuit boards) |
| | 180.5 | Wire bonding |
| | 181 | Honeycomb structure |
| | 182 | Of mechanical article |
| | 185 | Noncoextensive lamina to common base in regular pattern |
| | 186 | Preliminary sealing of joints |
| | 187 | Separate successive bonds at different temperatures |
| | 188 | Including nonmetallic base |
| | 189 | Using bridge or spacer |
| | 190 | Of concurrently bonded stacked laminae |
| | 191 | With disassembling of bonded joint (e.g., desoldering) |
| | 192 | Chain link |
| | 193 | Diffusion type |
| | 194 | Using intermediate diffusion facilitating material |
| | 195 | With incipient melting of bonding surface |
| | 196 | Autogenous fusion |
| | 198 | Chemical reaction produces filler material in situ |
| | 199 | With subsequent treating other than heating of bonded parts and/or filler material |
| | 203 | With pretreating other than heating or cooling of work part of filler prior to bonding and any application of filler |
| | 204 | Applying porous or capillary feed material |
| | 205 | Cleaning |
| | 208 | Applying preliminary bond facilitating metal coating |
| | 211 | Chemical |
| | 212 | With clamping or holding |
| | 214 | With protecting of work or filler or applying flux |
| | 215 | By confining filler |
| | 217 | Using getter |
| | 218 | Using gas, vapor, vacuum, or reactive flame |
| | 222 | Using cooling means (e.g., heat sink or barrier) |
| | 223 | Applying flux |
| | 225 | Plural filler applying |
| | 227 | Plural heat applying |
| | 228 | And applying pressure |
| | 229 | Separate and distinct heating of work and filler |
| | 230 | Diverse heating |
| | 231 | Including post-heating |
| | 232 | Including preheating |
| | 233.1 | Specific rate of varying pressure or schedule of distinct pressures |
| | 233.2 | Specific rate of varying temperature or schedule of distinct temperatures |
| | 234.1 | Specific mode of heating or applying pressure |
| | 244 | Feeding unfused filler into fusing contact with work part |
| | 245 | Preplacing solid filler |
| | 256 | Applying or distributing fused filler |
| | 257 | By gravity |
| | 258 | By capillary action |
| | 259 | By immersing in stagnant pool |
| | 260 | Using pumped stream or jet |
| | 261 | Using spray |
| | 262 | With agitating or vibrating (e.g., using ultrasonic energy) |
| | 262.1 | Critical work component, temperature, or pressure |
| | 264 | PROCESS OF DISASSEMBLING BONDED SURFACES, PER SE (E.G., DESOLDERING) |
| | 1.1 | MEANS TO APPLY VIBRATORY SOLID-STATE BONDING ENERGY (E.G., ULTRASONIC, ETC.) TO WORK |
| | 2.1 | INCLUDING MEANS TO PROVIDE HEAT BY FRICTION BETWEEN RELATIVELY MOVING SURFACES (I.E., FRICTION WELDER) |
| | 2.5 | EXPLOSIVE WELDING MEANS |
| | 3.1 | MEANS TO BOND BY APPLYING ONLY PRESSURE (E.G., FOR COLD WELDING, ETC.) |
| | 4.1 | WITH MEANS TO JUXTAPOSE AND BOND PLURAL WORKPIECES |
| | 4.5 | Wire lead bonder |
| | 5.1 | With means to treat workpieces (e.g., cutting, deforming, etc.) |
| | 5.5 | Including compliant cushioning medium |
| | 5.7 | Strip leading end to trailing end bonder |
| | 6.1 | Plural discrete workpieces |
| | 7 | WITH MACHINE PART RESPONSIVE TO TEMPLATE OR PATTERN OR TO INDICIA CARRIED BY AUXILIARY RECORD (E.G., TAPE, CARD, ETC.) |
| | 8 | WITH CONTROL MEANS RESPONSIVE TO SENSED CONDITION |
| | 9 | Work-responsive (e.g., temperature, orientation of work, etc.) |
| | 12 | Responsive to position of work carrier |
| | 13 | WITH MEANS TO CUT OR SEPARATE WORK, FILLER, FLUX, OR PRODUCT |
| | 15.1 | WITH MEANS TO DEFORM WORK, FILLER, OR FLUX PORTION BEFORE FUSION |
| | 16 | By a funnel-shaped conduit (e.g., welding bell, etc.) |
| | 17 | By roller means |
| | 17.5 | Comprising means forming one-piece blank into a tubular shape |
| | 18 | COMBINED |
| | 19 | WITH MEANS TO REMOVE, COMPACT, OR SHAPE APPLIED FLUX OR FILLER |
| | 24 | INCLUDING REPETITIVE IMPACT FUSION-BONDING MEANS |
| | 25 | INCLUDING APPLICATOR MOVABLE DURING FUSION |
| | 26 | Including "flying" applicator engaging moving work |
| | 27 | With lateral oscillation along path of seam |
| | 28 | Reciprocatory or oscillatory motion |
| | 29 | Orbital or plane curvilinear motion |
| | 32 | Means to move applicator |
| | 33 | INCLUDING MEANS TO APPLY FLUX OR FILLER TO WORK OR APPLICATOR |
| | 34 | With means to skim dross |
| | 35 | By brush, wick, or pad |
| | 36 | By partial or total immersion of work or applicator into liquid |
| | 37 | Flowing flux or filler (e.g., wave former, etc.) |
| | 38 | With means to roll or orbit work portion |
| | 39 | With means to mask or stop work |
| | 40 | Comprising work immersion |
| | 41 | Solid flux or solid filler |
| | 42 | Gaseous flux |
| | 43 | Moving work |
| | 44.3 | INCLUDING MEANS TO FORCE OR CLAMP WORK PORTIONS TOGETHER DURING BONDING |
| | 45 | INCLUDING MEANS TO MOVE OR GUIDE APPLICATOR |
| | 46 | WITH MEANS TO COOL WORK OR PRODUCT |
| | 47.1 | WITH MEANS TO HANDLE WORK OR PRODUCT |
| | 48 | Including means to rotate cylindrical work |
| | 49.1 | Including means to orient work or position work portion relative to another work portion |
| | 49.2 | Means to rotate work and to position work about a different axis |
| | 49.3 | Pipe joint aligner |
| | 49.4 | Sheet aligner |
| | 49.5 | Work portion comprises electrical component |
| | 49.6 | Work portion comprises can body |
| | 50 | SEAM BACKUP MEANS |
| | 51 | METALLIC HEAT APPLICATOR (E.G., SOLDERING IRON, ETC.) |
| | 52 | With means to handle flux or filler |
| | 54 | Tip or head alloy or polymetallic structure |
| | 55 | Adjustable or detachable head or tip |
| | 56.1 | SPECIALIZED POT |
| | 56.3 | SOLDER FORM |
| | 56.5 | WITH SIGNAL, INDICATOR, GAUGE, OR STOP |
| | 58 | APPARATUS FOR BONDING BATTERIES (I.E., PLURAL CELLS) |
| | 59 | HEAT SHIELD |
| | 60 | TUBE END CLOSING |
| | 57 | MISCELLANEOUS |
| CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS | ||
| | 901 | PROCESS OF BONDING BATTERIES |
| | 902 | USING FLAME |
| | 903 | METAL TO NONMETAL |
| | 904 | WIRE BONDING |
| FOREIGN ART COLLECTIONS | ||
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