Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Composite stringer beam joint structure of an aircraft
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Application No.: US13962974Application Date: 2013-08-09
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Publication No.: US10479475B2Publication Date: 2019-11-19
- Inventor: Zeaid Fouad Hasan , Jeffrey F. Stulc , Phillip Roger Pratt , James A. Backlund, Jr. , Nickolas Scott Ellerbeck , Lyle Ray Deobald
- Applicant: The Boeing Company
- Applicant Address: US IL Chicago
- Assignee: The Boeing Company
- Current Assignee: The Boeing Company
- Current Assignee Address: US IL Chicago
- Agency: Kunzler Bean & Adamson
- Main IPC: B64C3/18
- IPC: B64C3/18 ; B64C1/06 ; B64C1/26

Abstract:
A stringer beam joint structure of an aircraft formed from fiber-reinforced composites includes a wing and a wing box. The wing is joined to the wing box at a side of a joint structure. The wing and the wing box each includes a lower skin. A plurality of stringers is coupled to the lower skin and all made of fiber-reinforced composites. A first end of at least one of the plurality of stringers at the side of the joint structure features a web cutout with a taper formed in the base flange that spans longitudinal to the respective stringer and the taper located at the end of each respective stringer, where the taper runs from a knife edge of a base flange of the respective stringer to a full height of the base flange. The tapered surface of the base flange is contiguous with an edge of the web cutout.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150041589A1 AIRCRAFT SIDE OF BODY JOINT Public/Granted day:2015-02-12
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