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METAL LASER [17 records]

Record 1 2024-01-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Lasers and Masers
DEF

similar to a gas laser but the laser action occurs in a metal vapour.

Key term(s)
  • metallic vapour laser

French

Domaine(s)
  • Masers et lasers

Spanish

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Record 2 2023-03-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Phraseology
  • Industries - General
CONT

Invented in 1995, the process of direct metal laser sintering(DMLS) is employed in many professional fields as a state-of-the-art manufacturing technique for producing robust parts with complex geometry.

Key term(s)
  • state of the art manufacturing technique

French

Domaine(s)
  • Phraséologie
  • Industries - Généralités
CONT

[Les scientifiques] ont étudié diverses techniques de fabrication de pointe pour transformer des nano-charges de nanotubes [...] en vue de les utiliser dans des structures de [polymère renforcé de fibres de carbone].

Spanish

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Record 3 2020-11-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Industrial Techniques and Processes
CONT

... direct metal laser melting(DMLM), the latest technology for 3D printing and additive manufacturing of metal parts.... Utilizing the DMLM process, metal parts of the most complex geometries are built layer-by-layer(down to 20 microns) directly from 3D CAD [computer-aided design] data. Parts built using DMLM have excellent mechanical properties equivalent to wrought materials, high detail resolution, and exceptional surface quality. The metal powder is melted entirely to create a fully dense, fine, homogenous structure. Unique geometric freedom of design enables DMLM to form cavities and undercuts, which with conventional machining methods, can only be produced with great difficulty, if at all.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Techniques industrielles
OBS

DMLM : de l'anglais «direct metal laser melting».

Spanish

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Record 4 2017-08-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Industrial Techniques and Processes
DEF

[An additive manufacturing process that consists in] selectively melting fine layers of powdered plastic or metal into solid objects using a laser.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Techniques industrielles
DEF

Procédé de fabrication additive dans lequel l'objet est obtenu par la fusion sélective de certaines zones d'un lit de poudre.

CONT

[En] fabrication additive, la «fusion sur lit de poudre» désigne les procédés [où] on utilise l'énergie thermique (laser ou faisceau d'électrons) pour faire fondre et fusionner les particules [de sections] bien déterminées d'un lit de poudre.

OBS

L'énergie thermique nécessaire à la fusion sur lit de poudre est notamment fournie par un faisceau laser ou un faisceau d'électrons.

OBS

fusion sur lit de poudre : terme et définition publiés au Journal officiel de la République française le 1er juillet 2017.

Spanish

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Record 5 2017-03-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Various Proper Names
  • Printing Processes - Various
Universal entry(ies)
9471
classification system code, see observation
OBS

This unit group includes workers who operate laser printers, computerized high speed colour copiers and other printing machines to print text, illustrations and designs on a wide variety of materials such as paper, plastic, glass, leather, and metal. They are employed in rapid printing services, newspaper and magazine publishing companies, commercial printing companies and in manufacturing and other establishments that have in-house printing facilities.

OBS

9471: classification system code in the National Occupational Classification.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Appellations diverses
  • Procédés d'impression divers
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
9471
classification system code, see observation
OBS

Ce groupe de base comprend les opérateurs qui font fonctionner des machines à imprimer au laser, des copieurs couleur automatisés à haute vitesse et d'autres machines à imprimer pour imprimer des textes, des illustrations et des motifs sur une gamme de matériaux tels que le papier, le plastique, le verre, le cuir et le métal. Ils travaillent dans des établissements de service d'imprimerie rapide, dans des compagnies de publication de journaux et revues, des sociétés d'imprimerie commerciale, des industries de fabrication et d'autres établissements qui possèdent leur propre service d'imprimerie.

OBS

9471 : code du système de classification de la Classification nationale des professions.

Spanish

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Record 6 2016-05-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Industrial Techniques and Processes
CONT

Selective laser melting(SLM) is a nonlinear process which involves melting of powder metal using laser to manufacture intricate metallic parts.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Techniques industrielles
CONT

La fusion sélective au laser [...] est un [procédé] constructif par couches qui permet de réaliser prototypes et pièces de série en métal en utilisant directement les données 3D du client. [...] Ce [procédé] technologique permet de réaliser sans outil ni dispositif d'aucune sorte une pièce de géométrie complexe, qui serait difficilement réalisable, voire irréalisable avec des méthodes conventionnelles de fabrication.

Spanish

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Record 7 2015-04-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Industrial Techniques and Processes
CONT

Laser Deposition Technology(LDT) is a blanket name that encompasses many "like" processes—direct metal deposition(DMD), laser additive manufacturing(LAM), laser metal deposition, and others—that use a focused laser beam as the heat source for depositing powdered metals.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Techniques industrielles

Spanish

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Record 8 2015-04-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Industrial Techniques and Processes
CONT

Laser Metal Deposition(LMD) is a process which uses a laser beam to form a melt pool on a metallic substrate, into which powder is fed. The powder melts to form a deposit that is fusion bonded to the substrate. The required geometry is built up layer by layer. Both the laser and nozzle from which the powder is delivered are manipulated using a gantry system or robotic arm.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Techniques industrielles
CONT

Dépôt de métal par laser. Le laser assure le frittage ou la fusion. Une buse pulvérise la poudre métallique.

Spanish

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Record 9 2007-02-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Lasers and Masers
DEF

Laser in which excitation occurs in a semiconductor normally excited by an electric field.

CONT

... the semiconductor laser takes the form of a rectangular slab of semiconductor held between two metal connectors.... Two end faces are optically polished or cleaved parallel to each other....

CONT

Semiconductor lasers. ... Laser action takes place when free electrons in the conduction band are stimulated to recombine with holes in the valence band. ... Suitable materials are the direct-gap semiconductors, such as gallium arsenide.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Masers et lasers
CONT

Lasers à semi-conducteurs. [...] Les cristaux utilisés sont toujours de très petites dimensions et la cavité est le plus souvent constituée par leurs faces terminales, clivées ou polies pour les rendre planes et parallèles. [...] Les diodes lasers les plus couramment disponibles sont les diodes à arséniure de gallium [...]

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Láser y máser
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Record 10 2005-11-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Lasers and Masers
  • Optics
CONT

CNRS [Centre national de la recherche scientifique] physicists working as part of a French-Japanese team obtained the photo-induced transition of a molecular crystal from the insulator phase to the metal phase by exposing it to a laser flash.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Masers et lasers
  • Optique
CONT

Au sein d'une équipe franco-japonaise, des physiciens du CNRS [Centre national de la recherche scientifique] ont fait passer un cristal moléculaire de l'état isolant à l'état métallique en l'exposant à un flash laser.

OBS

Pluriel : des flashs ou des flashes.

OBS

flashs (pl.) : Cette graphie, puisée des Rectifications de l'orthographe recommandées par le Conseil supérieur de la langue française, est attestée dans le Petit Robert (2004).

Spanish

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Record 11 2004-11-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mining Equipment and Tools
CONT

Mining Instrumentation : control and monitoring instrumentation, airflow monitoring; laser alignment, cavity monitoring, tramp metal detection, drillhole surveying, gas and environmental monitoring, geotechnical monitoring.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Outillage et équipement (Exploitation minière)
CONT

Pour le long terme, TAWOMA souhaiterait mettre en place les structures suivantes : un centre de location et d'essai d'équipements et d'instruments miniers [...]

Spanish

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Record 12 2002-07-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Metal Quenching
CONT

The heat applied by the laser to the surface is quickly absorbed by the cold base metal; so the process is self-quenching.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Trempe (Métal)
DEF

Se dit d'un alliage dont la trempe se produit par simple refroidissement à l'air.

Spanish

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Record 13 2001-07-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Computer Memories
DEF

A technique for writing data to optical memory in which a laser burns holes(or pits) into thin metal film.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mémoires (Informatique)
DEF

Action d'un flux de matière ou de rayonnement sur la surface d'un corps, entraînant une perte de substance de celui-ci par décomposition chimique, changement d'état ou érosion mécanique.

Spanish

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Record 14 1998-04-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Printing Machines and Equipment
  • Typesetting and Imagesetting
  • Electronic Publishing
DEF

A machine used for typesetting, e. g. hot metal typesetter, phototypesetter, CRT or laser imagesetter.

OBS

Typesetting: the assembling of typographic material such as type, illustrations and other elements into the final page format for printing or incorporating into a printing plate.

Key term(s)
  • composition system

French

Domaine(s)
  • Équipement (Imprimerie et arts graphiques)
  • Composition (Imprimerie)
  • Éditique
DEF

Machine à composer les textes, p. ex., composeuse-fondeuse, photocomposeuse, composeuse à tube cathodique ou composeuse laser.

Spanish

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Record 15 1997-03-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Platemaking (Printing)
CONT

The newest photomechanical method for exposing images on printing plates is with lasers. EOCOM Corporation's Laserite system uses lasers to expose an image on the coating of a lithographic plate; the plate then requires conventional processing. Another laser platemaking system is the LogEScan, in which lasers are used to transfer the image-area coating onto an uncoated metal plate.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Clicherie (Imprimerie)
CONT

La sortie directe d'ordinateur vers un système de fabrication de plaques au laser est possible aujourd'hui. Par exemple, le matériel EPC d'EOCOM permet de relier un système de composition électronique au système de fabrication de plaques Laserite.

Spanish

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Record 16 1996-07-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Applications of Automation
CONT

With a computer and a laser printer anyone can be a publisher. Now, with only slightly more sophisticated technology, they can be a manufacturer too. The process of 3-D printing, invented at MIT by Emanuel Sachs and Michael Cima, can pass from computer-aided design straight to manufacture(though more conventional machine tools can also do this if a part is merely to be cut from a block of metal). And it can cope with parts that have complicated geometries, with cavities and cooling channels-difficult trick to manage with traditional manufacturing techniques.

OBS

See also 3-D printing.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Automatisation et applications
OBS

Comparer à micro-édition.

Spanish

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Record 17 1992-03-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Dyes and Pigments (Industries)
CONT

Metal salts(e. g. zinc chloride) react with Ruhemann's purple to change colour of ninhydrin print. Zinc chloride causes ninhydrin prints to fluoresce under 488 mm argon ion laser line.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Teintures et pigments (Industries)

Spanish

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