Panasonic releases "AMP Connect Lab" that proposes blue laser welding technology for copper parts to automobile manufacturers

Panasonic Smart Factory Solutions will hold a briefing session and tour for the news media of the process demonstration center "AMP Connect Lab (Advanced Material Processing Connect Lab)" to be opened from December 1st at the Toyonaka Plant in Toyonaka City, Osaka Prefecture. It was held on the 26th.

The company is a manufacturer that handles mounting machines for industries such as electronic devices, thermal processing systems, and measurement systems, as well as solution businesses and automation / labor-saving systems. Due to the shift to the holding company system that Panasonic has already announced, the company name will be changed to "Panasonic Connect" from April 2022.

The newly opened AMP Connect Lab will demonstrate processing of a blue laser processing machine for processing copper materials used in various electronic devices such as drive motors and secondary batteries installed in electric vehicles with higher quality. Facility to do. The company's blue laser is a "high-power blue DDL (direct diode laser)" jointly developed with its subsidiary Terra Diode, which uses a direct diode as the light source to emit a single beam of laser light using a diffractive lattice instead of an optical lens. Combined with. Achieves high output and high beam quality.

The high-output blue DDL technology itself was announced in January 2020, and after that, we proceeded with improvements for practical use and prepared a demonstration machine to show the technical contents to the person in charge of each manufacturer who will be the user of the company. AMP Connect Lab will be newly established because of the establishment of. From December, we are planning to release the product in 2022 by conducting a demonstration experiment with the person in charge of the manufacturer who is the customer to incorporate and improve the request.