Low-cost diffusion welding tool and application method thereof
Technical Field
The invention relates to the technical field of diffusion welding, in particular to a low-cost tool for diffusion welding and a using method thereof.
Background
Along with the gradual increase of the power density of electronic components, the use frequency of the series of heat control products such as the micro-channel liquid cooling plate, the micro-channel heat exchanger, the evaporation cavity temperature equalizing plate, the solid state temperature equalizing plate and the like is higher and higher, and the corresponding use range is wider and wider. However, because of strict quality requirements, vacuum diffusion welding and other processes are generally required to be adopted in the thermal control products.
The vacuum diffusion welding process has the advantages of good quality of a diffusion welding head, high precision of a welding piece, small deformation, small plastic deformation of the whole welding piece, no mechanical processing of the welded workpiece, welding of workpieces with large cross sections, complex structure, difficult accessibility of joints and large thickness difference, and simultaneous welding of a plurality of joints in an assembly. However, vacuum diffusion welding equipment is very expensive, especially in a variety of small-volume production, which results in very high production costs for such thermal control products. The invention aims to solve the problems of high production cost and the like caused by adopting expensive vacuum diffusion welding equipment for thermal control products.
Disclosure of Invention
The invention aims to solve the problem of high production cost caused by the adoption of expensive equipment such as vacuum diffusion welding and the like in the prior art, and provides a low-cost tool for diffusion welding and a use method thereof, which have the advantages of simple process, cost saving and high welding yield. The invention can not only greatly reduce the production cost, but also effectively ensure the welding quality of the product, and can also realize the one-time welding of the multi-layer product.
In order to achieve the above purpose, the technical scheme adopted by the invention is as follows:
the utility model provides a low-cost diffusion welding is with frock, includes closing cap, vacuum cavity, sleeve, depression bar, bellows, clamp plate, locating pin, vacuum bellows and take liquid cooling function's adapter.
The vacuum cavity consists of five solid wall surfaces and one opening surface. A through hole (defined as a through hole 1) for vacuumizing is formed at the edge of the wall surface of any one solid body. A positioning groove (defined as positioning groove 1) is formed on the outer surface of the wall surface of the solid body where the through hole 1 is located. The positioning groove 1 is coaxial with the through hole 1.
A through hole (defined as a through hole 2) is opened at a center of a wall surface perpendicular to the opening surface and close to the through hole. Two positioning grooves (respectively defined as positioning groove 2 and positioning groove 3) are formed on the outer surface of the wall surface of the solid body where the through hole 2 is located. The positioning groove 2 and the positioning groove 3 are coaxial with the through hole 2. The depth of the positioning groove 2 is larger than the depth of the positioning groove 3.
The vacuum corrugated pipe is a vacuum corrugated pipe with flanges at two ends. One end flange of the connecting rod is matched with the positioning groove 1, and is connected in a sealing welding mode after being inserted into the positioning groove 1. The flange at the other end is connected with an adapter with a cooling function.
The adapter with the liquid cooling function is formed by integrally welding a water cooling sleeve, a vacuum pipeline and a flange. The water-cooled jacket is wound on the vacuum pipe and is connected together by welding. One end of the vacuum pipeline is connected with the flange, and the other end of the vacuum pipeline is connected with the flange of the vacuum corrugated pipe in a sealing welding mode.
The sleeve is an annular pipe. The outer diameter of the sleeve is equal to the diameter of the positioning groove 2, and the sleeve and the positioning groove are matched and installed. One end of the sleeve is embedded into the positioning groove 2, and an annular seam formed by connecting the sleeve and the positioning groove 2 is fixedly connected in a welding mode.
The telescopic corrugated pipe is a vacuum corrugated pipe with flanges at two ends. The outer diameter of the flange is equal to the diameter of the positioning groove 3. One end flange of the telescopic corrugated pipe is embedded into the positioning groove 3, and an annular seam formed by the telescopic corrugated pipe and the positioning groove 3 is connected in a sealing welding mode. The other end flange of the telescopic corrugated pipe is connected with the compression bar.
The compression bar consists of five parts, namely a tray, a positioning circular boss, a pressure bar, a positioning through hole (defined as a positioning through hole 1) and a hemispherical body. The tray is a flat cylinder. Along the same direction, a positioning circular boss, a pressure rod and a hemisphere are sequentially constructed on the tray. The pressure rod is a cylinder. And the tray is used for positioning the circular boss and the pressure rod coaxially. The diameter of the positioning circular boss is equal to the inner diameter of the telescopic corrugated pipe flange. A hemisphere is built at the bottom end of the pressure rod, the diameter of the hemisphere being equal to the diameter of the pressure rod. A positioning through hole 1 is formed on the pressure rod side near the boundary line between the hemispherical body and the pressure rod.
The compression bar is inserted into the through hole 2, the compression bar is moved up and down, the positioning circular boss of the compression bar is embedded into the flange at the other end which is not connected with the telescopic corrugated pipe, the section of the port of the flange is contacted with the surface of the tray, and the annular seam formed by the interface of the flange and the tray is connected in a sealing welding mode.
The pressing plate is a block-shaped thick plate which can be placed in the vacuum cavity. And constructing a concentric annular boss at the center of the thick plate. The inner diameter of the annular boss is equal to the outer diameter of the pressure rod. A positioning through hole (defined as a positioning through hole 2) is formed on the annular boss. The diameter of the positioning through hole 2 is equal to the diameter of the positioning through hole 1. The pressing plate is placed in the vacuum cavity, the hemispherical body of the pressure rod is placed in the annular boss, and the positioning through hole 1 is aligned with the positioning through hole 2.
The locating pin passes through the locating through hole 1 and the locating through hole 2 to realize the connection of the pressure lever and the pressure plate, so that the pressure plate can move along with the up-and-down movement of the pressure lever. The outer diameter of the positioning pin is equal to the diameters of the positioning through holes 1 and 2.
The sealing cover is a thin plate and is matched with the opening surface of the vacuum cavity. When the strip weldment is placed in the vacuum cavity, the sealing cover and the vacuum cavity can be connected in a sealing welding mode, so that a sealed vacuum cavity is formed.
Further, the telescopic corrugated pipe is preferably a vacuum welding corrugated pipe.
Further, the height of the sleeve is larger than or equal to the height of the expansion corrugated pipe after the expansion corrugated pipe is compressed in a limiting mode and smaller than the height of the expansion corrugated pipe when the expansion corrugated pipe is stretched to the limit.
Furthermore, the lower end of the pressing rod is provided with a hemisphere, the pressing rod is connected with the pressing plate through the positioning pin, and the pressing plate is allowed to deflect at a small angle locally by taking the positioning pin as an axis, so that the welding working condition when the surface of a workpiece and the surface of the pressing plate are not parallel is met.
The application method of the low-cost tooling for diffusion welding, which is used for the low-cost tooling for diffusion welding, specifically comprises the following steps of:
step 1, lifting a pressing rod, placing a workpiece to be welded in a coverage area below a pressing plate in a vacuum cavity, and then lowering the pressing rod to press the workpiece to be welded by the pressing plate;
Step 2, the sealing cover is matched and connected with the opening surface of the vacuum cavity, and a sealed vacuum cavity is formed through sealing welding;
step 3, putting the tooling for putting the workpiece to be welded into a heating device;
Step 4, connecting a flange of the adapter with a liquid cooling function with a vacuum platform, and extracting air in the vacuum cavity to meet the vacuum degree requirement of welding;
Step 5, connecting a water cooling sleeve of the adapter with a liquid cooling function with a water cooling circulation system for controlling the temperature of the adapter so as to prevent the vacuum platform from being damaged by high-temperature heat conduction to the vacuum platform;
step 6, placing a metal pressing block on the tray to meet the pressure requirement of welding;
Step 7, the heating device starts to heat according to a welding temperature curve so as to meet the temperature requirement required by welding;
And 8, closing the heating device for cooling, disconnecting the water cooling circulation system from the water cooling sleeve after cooling, connecting the adapter with the liquid cooling function with the vacuum platform, and then taking out the welding tool.
Step 9, cutting a sealing cover of the welding tool, and taking out a workpiece;
and 10, polishing the opening surface of the vacuum cavity to enable the opening surface to be flat, and repeatedly using the welding tool.
Furthermore, the sealing welding adopts welding modes such as arc breaking pulse arc welding, laser welding, tig welding (argon tungsten-arc welding), CMT (cold metal transition welding technology) and the like.
Furthermore, the heating device can be low-cost equipment such as an atmosphere furnace or a muffle furnace.
Further, the sealing cover is cut by adopting modes of wire cutting, laser cutting, machining milling and the like.
The beneficial effects generated by adopting the technical scheme are as follows:
1. The workpiece is placed in the tooling for low-cost diffusion welding, the tooling provides pressure and vacuum welding environment for the workpiece, and then the workpiece is integrally placed in heating equipment such as an atmosphere furnace or a muffle furnace with low cost to provide welding temperature, so that the vacuum diffusion welding of the workpiece can be realized. Therefore, the method provided by the invention can replace the purpose of expensive vacuum diffusion welding furnace equipment used in the traditional process, thereby greatly reducing the production cost of the product.
2. The traditional process adopts a vacuum diffusion welding furnace, the vacuum cavity has a large volume, so that the vacuumizing time is long, more than 4-6 hours are generally required, and the method only needs to extract the space in the diffusion welding tool which is slightly larger than the workpiece, so that the vacuumizing time can be greatly shortened, the production period is shortened, and the production cost is reduced.
3. The tooling for low-cost diffusion welding provided by the invention can be reused, and only the sealing cover needs to be replaced during each welding, so that the production cost can be greatly reduced.
Drawings
Fig. 1 is a schematic structural diagram of a low-cost diffusion welding tool according to embodiment 1 of the present invention.
Fig. 2 is an exploded view of a low cost diffusion welding tooling according to embodiment 1 of the present invention.
Fig. 3 is a schematic view showing the structure of a vacuum chamber according to the present invention in example 1.
Fig. 4 is a schematic structural diagram of a compression bar according to the present invention in embodiment 1.
Fig. 5 is a schematic view of the bellows structure according to the present invention in embodiment 1.
Fig. 6 is a schematic view showing the structure of a platen according to the present invention in embodiment 1.
Fig. 7 is a schematic view of the structure of the vacuum bellows according to the present invention in example 1.
Fig. 8 is a schematic structural diagram of an adapter with liquid cooling function according to embodiment 1 of the present invention.
In the figure, 1, a sealing cover, 2, a vacuum cavity, 3, a sleeve, 4, a compression bar, 5, a telescopic corrugated pipe, 6, a pressing plate, 7, a locating pin, 8, a vacuum corrugated pipe and 9, and an adapter with a liquid cooling function.
Detailed Description
The invention will be further described with reference to the drawings and detailed description.
In order to more clearly illustrate the technical solutions of the embodiments of the present invention, the drawings of the embodiments will be briefly described below, and it will be apparent that the drawings in the following description are only some embodiments of the present invention, and other drawings may be obtained according to these drawings without inventive effort for a person skilled in the art.
In order to solve the problem that the production cost of products is high due to the fact that expensive equipment such as vacuum diffusion welding is adopted in the prior art, the invention creatively provides a low-cost tooling for diffusion welding. The structure comprises a sealing cover 1, a vacuum cavity 2, a sleeve 3, a compression bar 4, a telescopic corrugated pipe 5, a pressing plate 6, a positioning pin 7, a vacuum corrugated pipe 8 and an adapter 9 with a liquid cooling function.
Referring to fig. 1 to 8, the vacuum chamber 2 is composed of five solid wall surfaces and one opening surface. At the edge of the solid wall surface parallel to the opening surface, a through hole (defined as a through hole 1) for vacuum suction is opened. A positioning groove 23 is formed on the outer surface of the wall surface of the solid body where the through hole 1 is positioned. The positioning groove 23 is coaxial with the through hole 1.
A through hole (defined as a through hole 2) is opened at a center of a wall surface perpendicular to the opening surface and close to the through hole. Two positioning grooves, namely a positioning groove 21 and a positioning groove 22, are formed on the outer surface of the wall surface of the solid body where the through hole 2 is located. The positioning groove 21 and the positioning groove 22 are coaxial with the through hole 2. The depth of the positioning groove 22 is greater than the depth of the positioning groove 21.
The vacuum bellows 8 is a vacuum bellows 82 with flanges (flange 81 and flange 83) at two ends. The flange 81 is engaged with the positioning groove 23, and is inserted into the positioning groove 23 and then connected by laser welding. The flange 83 is connected to the adapter 9 with a cooling function.
The adapter 9 with the liquid cooling function is formed by integrally welding a water cooling sleeve 92, a vacuum pipeline 91 and a flange 93. The water jacket 92 is wound around the vacuum line 91 and is joined together by brazing. One end of the vacuum pipe 91 is connected to the flange 93, and the other end is connected to the flange 83 of the vacuum bellows by laser welding.
The sleeve 3 is an annular pipe. The sleeve has an outer diameter equal to the diameter of the positioning groove 22 and is cooperatively installed. One end of the sleeve is embedded into the positioning groove 22, and an annular seam formed by connecting the sleeve and the positioning groove 22 is fixedly connected in a laser welding mode.
The telescopic corrugated pipe 5 is a vacuum corrugated pipe 52 with flanges (a flange 51 and a flange 53) at two ends. The outer diameters of the flanges 51, 53 are equal to the diameter of the positioning groove 21. The flange 51 is fitted into the positioning groove 21, and an annular slit formed between the flange 51 and the positioning groove 21 is connected by laser welding. The flange 53 is connected to the compression bar 4.
The compression bar 4 consists of five parts, namely a tray 41, a positioning circular boss 42, a pressure bar 43, a positioning through hole 44 and a hemispherical body 45. The tray 41 is a flat cylinder. Along the same direction, a positioning circular boss 42, a pressure rod 43 and a hemispherical body 45 are sequentially constructed on the tray 41. The pressure lever 43 is a cylinder. The tray 41, the positioning circular boss 42 is concentric with the pressure bar 43. The diameter of the positioning circular boss 42 is equal to the inner diameter of the bellows flange 53. A hemisphere 45 is constructed at the bottom end of the pressure rod 43, the diameter of the hemisphere 45 being equal to the diameter of the pressure rod 43. A positioning through hole 44 is formed on the pressure rod 43 side in the vicinity of the boundary line between the hemispherical body 45 and the pressure rod 43.
The compression bar 4 is inserted into the through hole 2, the compression bar 4 is moved up and down, the positioning circular boss 42 of the compression bar 4 is embedded into the flange 53 of the telescopic corrugated pipe 5, the port section of the flange 53 is contacted with the plane of the tray 41, and the annular seam formed by the interface of the flange and the plane is connected in a laser welding mode.
The pressing plate 6 is placed in the vacuum cavity 2 and consists of a block thick plate 61, an annular boss 62 and a positioning through hole 63. A concentric annular boss 62 is formed at the center of the bulk slab 61. The inner diameter of the annular boss 62 is equal to the outer diameter of the pressure rod 43. A positioning through hole 63 is constructed on the annular boss 62. The diameter of the positioning through hole 63 is equal to the diameter of the positioning through hole 44. The platen 6 is placed in the vacuum chamber 2, and the hemispherical body 45 of the pressure rod 43 is placed in the annular boss 62, aligning the positioning through hole 63 with the positioning through hole 44.
The positioning pin 7 passes through the positioning through hole 63 and the positioning through hole 44 to realize the connection of the pressing rod 4 and the pressing plate 6, so that the pressing plate 6 can move along with the up-and-down movement of the pressing rod 4. The outer diameter of the positioning pin 7 is equal to the diameters of the positioning through hole 63 and the positioning through hole 44.
The sealing cover 1 is a thin plate and is matched with the opening surface of the vacuum cavity 2. When the strip weldment is placed in the vacuum cavity 2, the sealing cover 1 and the vacuum cavity 2 can be connected in a laser welding mode to form a closed vacuum cavity.
In this embodiment, the bellows 5 is a vacuum welded bellows.
In this embodiment, the height of the sleeve is equal to the height of the bellows 5 after extreme compression.
In this embodiment, a hemisphere 45 is designed at the lower end of the pressing rod 4, and the pressing rod 4 and the pressing plate 6 are connected by a positioning pin 7, so that the pressing plate 6 is allowed to deflect at a small angle locally by taking the positioning pin 7 as an axis, and the welding method is suitable for welding conditions when the surface of a workpiece and the surface of the pressing plate are not parallel.
The application method of the low-cost tooling for diffusion welding specifically comprises the following steps:
step 1, lifting a pressing rod 4 to place a workpiece to be welded into a vacuum cavity 2 in a coverage area below a pressing plate 6, and then putting down the pressing rod 4 to enable the pressing plate 6 to press the workpiece to be welded;
Step 2, the sealing cover 1 is matched and connected with the opening surface of the vacuum cavity 2, and a closed vacuum cavity is formed through laser welding;
Step 3, putting the tooling for putting the workpiece to be welded into a muffle furnace heating device;
Step 4, connecting the flange 93 of the adapter 9 with the liquid cooling function with a vacuum platform, and extracting air in the vacuum cavity to meet the vacuum degree requirement of welding;
Step 5, connecting a water cooling sleeve 92 of the adapter 9 with a liquid cooling function with a water cooling circulation system for controlling the temperature of the adapter 9 so as to prevent the vacuum platform from being damaged by high-temperature heat conduction to the vacuum platform;
step 6, placing a metal pressing block on the tray 41 to meet the pressure requirement of welding;
Step 7, operating the muffle furnace to start heating according to a welding temperature curve so as to meet the temperature requirement required by welding;
And 8, closing the muffle furnace for cooling, disconnecting the water cooling circulation system from the water cooling sleeve 92 and connecting the flange 93 with the vacuum platform after cooling, and then taking out the welding tool.
Step 9, milling off the sealing cover 1 of the welding tool in a machining and milling mode, and taking out a workpiece;
and 10, polishing the opening surface of the vacuum cavity to enable the opening surface to be flat, and repeatedly using the welding tool.
The above embodiments are merely preferred embodiments of the present invention and are not intended to limit the present invention, and any modifications, equivalent substitutions and improvements made within the spirit and principles of the present invention should be included in the scope of the present invention.