High strength friction stir welding
CA 2685022 C · Owner: The Boeing Company · Inventors: Litwinski, Edward
Overview
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An apparatus for friction stir welding for forming a friction stir welding joint includes a friction stir welding tool in rotatable communication with a rotatable spindle. The friction stir welding tool defines a cavity. At least one heater is at least partially received in the cavity and thermally communicates with the friction stir welding tool to thereby heat the tool and inhibit grain growth in the wedling joint.
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- Filed November 5, 2002 and granted January 6, 2015. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended November 5, 2022.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by November 5, 2024.
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