1278 results about "Dissimilar metal" patented technology

A drum washing machine and a clothes dryer equipped with a thermoelectric module are disclosed. The thermoelectric module includes a heat absorption side and a heat dissipation side which absorbs and dissipates heat at a junction between two dissimilar metals depending on direction of current flow through the junction. The heat absorption side is disposed at a hot air flowing passage. Accordingly, the drying apparatus can increase energy efficiency with minor structural modification and becomes environmentally friendly unlike a conventional drying apparatus using a heat pump.

There is provided method for joining dissimilar metals of a steel product and a light metal product with each other, wherein the light metal product and a rivet made of an iron-base metal are connected with each other beforehand in a previous process preceding spot welding, and subsequently, the rivet and the steel product are spot welded with each other. Then, a cavity for use in clinching the light metal product is formed, and upon the stem of the rivet is embedded into the light metal product to penetrate therethrough, light metal is caused to undergo plastic flow into the cavity of the rivet, for clinching the light metal product to be thereby clinched with the rivet whereupon spot welding for forming a weld nugget only within the scope of an interface between the stem of the rivet, and the steel product is carried out. Thus, the present invention can implement the spot welding between iron-iron similar metals, without a constraint on, and a problem with conditions applicable to the spot welding and a high joint strength can be obtained owing to the synergistic effect of the spot welding and connection by clinching of the aluminum alloy product with the iron-base rivet, added thereto.

Disclosed is a method of manufacturing an assembly of components joined by brazing, comprising the steps of:(i) forming the components of which at least one is made from a multi-layered brazing sheet product, the multi-layered brazing sheet product comprising a core sheet (a) having on at least one surface of the core sheet an aluminium clad layer (b), the aluminium clad layer being made of an aluminium alloy comprising silicon in an amount in the range of 2 to 18% by weight, a layer (c) comprising nickel on the outer surface of the aluminium clad layer, and a layer (d) comprising zinc or tin as a bonding layer between the outer surface of the aluminium clad layer and the layer comprising nickel;(ii) forming at least one other component of a metal dissimilar to the core sheet of the multi-layered brazing sheet product and selected from the group consisting of titanium, plated titanium, coated titanium, bronze, brass, stainless steel, plated stainless steel, coated stainless steel, low-carbon steel, plated low-carbon steel, coated low-carbon steel, high-strength steel, coated high-strength steel, and plated high-strength steel;(iii) assembling the respective components into an assembly such that the layer (c) comprising nickel of the multi-layered brazing sheet product faces in part or in whole the at least one other component of a metal dissimilar to the core sheet of the multi-layered brazing sheet product;(iv) brazing the assembly under a vacuum or in an inert atmosphere in the absence of a brazing-flux at elevated temperature for a period long enough for melting and spreading of the aluminium clad layer and all layers exterior thereto;(v) cooling the brazed assembly.The invention further relates to an assembly manufactured using the method of this invention.

According to a metal joining method of the present invention, first and second dissimilar metals are joined together by interposing between the first and second metal materials a third metal material dissimilar to the first and second metal materials and causing eutectic melting at least either at an interface between the first and third metal materials or at an interface between the second and third metal materials.