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公开(公告)号:US10933598B2
公开(公告)日:2021-03-02
申请号:US15877628
申请日:2018-01-23
Applicant: The Boeing Company
Inventor: Keith Daniel Humfeld , Scott Hartshorn
IPC: B29C70/48 , B29C70/86 , B29C70/08 , B29C70/54 , B32B27/08 , B32B27/12 , B29L31/30 , B29K105/26 , B29K105/08 , B29K105/12 , B29K307/04
Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for fabricating composite parts that include both chopped fiber and continuous fiber components. One embodiment is a method that includes laying up a laminate comprising at least one ply of continuous fiber-reinforced polymer onto a first surface of a mold, filling a cavity of the mold with chopped fibers and resin that contact the laminate, curing the chopped fibers and the laminate together into an integral composite part, and separating the integral composite part from the mold.
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公开(公告)号:US20200292760A1
公开(公告)日:2020-09-17
申请号:US16351928
申请日:2019-03-13
Applicant: THE BOEING COMPANY
Inventor: Joseph Andrew Bolton , Keith Daniel Humfeld
Abstract: A fastener includes a head that is configured to be engaged by a tool, and a shaft extending from the head. The shaft includes a distal end that is opposite from the head. At least one optical component is coupled to one or both of the head or the shaft. The optical component(s) is configured to allow light to pass through the fastener. A window system includes a panel that includes an exterior surface and an interior surface, and the fastener extending between the exterior surface and the interior surface of the panel. A screen is coupled to the interior surface. The screen receives light from the optical component(s) of the fastener.
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公开(公告)号:US20200218861A1
公开(公告)日:2020-07-09
申请号:US16239096
申请日:2019-01-03
Applicant: THE BOEING COMPANY
Inventor: Joseph Andrew Bolton , Keith Daniel Humfeld
IPC: G06K7/10 , H01Q1/22 , H01Q9/06 , G06K19/077
Abstract: A radio-frequency identification (“RFID”) device includes a substrate and a load formed in the substrate, where the load includes at least one microchannel and at least one body of fusible metal contained within the at least one microchannel. The RFID device also includes an antenna electrically connected to the load, and a protective layer covering at least a portion of the substrate.
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公开(公告)号:US20200061947A1
公开(公告)日:2020-02-27
申请号:US16113987
申请日:2018-08-27
Applicant: The Boeing Company
Inventor: Keith Daniel Humfeld , Joseph Andrew Bolton
Abstract: A composite structure forming system configured to form a contoured elongate composite structure in a continuous process is presented. The composite structure forming system comprises a plurality of charge forming stations and a plurality of conveyor systems. The plurality of charge forming stations is configured to operate in parallel, each charge forming station of the plurality of charge forming stations is configured to form a respective composite charge of the contoured elongate composite structure. Each conveyor system of the plurality of conveyor systems is configured to transport a respective composite charge through a respective charge forming station.
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公开(公告)号:US20190338087A1
公开(公告)日:2019-11-07
申请号:US16512463
申请日:2019-07-16
Applicant: The Boeing Company
Inventor: Keith Daniel Humfeld
Abstract: Graphene fibers made from a graphene film formed into an elongated fiber-like shape and composite materials made from the graphene fibers. The elongated fiber-like shape may be the graphene film in a rolled spiral orientation or the graphene film in a twisted formation. The graphene film has imide groups formed on at least an outer surface of the graphene film. Methods of increasing strength of a composite material include combining a resin matrix with a plurality of the graphene fibers to form a prepreg material and curing the prepreg material to form the composite material.
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公开(公告)号:US10457410B2
公开(公告)日:2019-10-29
申请号:US15140386
申请日:2016-04-27
Applicant: The Boeing Company
Inventor: Keith Daniel Humfeld , Morteza Safai
Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for systems and methods to provide magnetic carbon nanotube clusters configured to form electrically conductive coatings. A magnetic carbon nanotube cluster is formed by receiving a magnetic particle, forming a plurality of carbon nanotube catalyst nanoparticles on an outer surface of the magnetic particle, and forming a plurality of carbon nanotubes extending from the catalyst nanoparticles while the magnetic particle is levitated within a nanotube growth chamber to form the magnetic carbon nanotube cluster. A plurality of magnetic carbon nanotube clusters are suspended in a carrier fluid, the carrier fluid is flowed over a surface of an object, and a magnetic field is applied to the carrier fluid while it is flowing over the surface to cause the plurality of magnetic carbon nanotube clusters to form a coating on the surface of the object.
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公开(公告)号:US20190315091A1
公开(公告)日:2019-10-17
申请号:US15953144
申请日:2018-04-13
Applicant: The Boeing Company
Inventor: Keith Daniel Humfeld , Scott Hartshorn
Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for fabricating composite parts. One embodiment is a method of forming a composite part. The method includes laying up opposing composite facesheets, placing a viscous material between the facesheets, increasing a distance between the facesheets, and solidifying the facesheets and the viscous material into an integral composite part.
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公开(公告)号:US20190301008A1
公开(公告)日:2019-10-03
申请号:US16434053
申请日:2019-06-06
Applicant: The Boeing Company
Inventor: Keith Daniel Humfeld , De'Andre James Cherry
Abstract: A chemical vapor deposition method comprises flowing a carrier liquid through a reactor. A fluid comprising one or more reactants is introduced into the carrier liquid. The fluid is at a first temperature and first pressure and is sufficiently immiscible in the carrier liquid so as to form a plurality of microreactors suspended in the carrier liquid. Each of the microreactors comprise a discrete volume of the fluid and have a surface boundary defined by an interface of the fluid with the carrier liquid. The fluid is heated and optionally pressurized to a second temperature and second pressure at which a chemical vapor deposition reaction occurs within the microreactors to form a plurality of chemical vapor deposition products. The plurality of chemical vapor deposition products are separated from the carrier liquid. A system for carrying out the method of the present disclosure is also taught.
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公开(公告)号:US10399400B2
公开(公告)日:2019-09-03
申请号:US15667497
申请日:2017-08-02
Applicant: The Boeing Company
Inventor: Scott Hartshorn , Keith Daniel Humfeld
IPC: B60F5/02 , B63G8/00 , B63G8/08 , B63G8/22 , B64B1/58 , C25B1/00 , C25B1/04 , G05D1/04 , B63B35/00 , B64C39/02 , C25B15/02 , H01M10/46 , H02S10/40 , H02S40/38
Abstract: Autonomous craft capable of extended duration operations as lighter-than-air craft, having the ability to alight on the surface of a body of water and generate hydrogen gas for lift via electrolysis using power derived from a photovoltaic system, as well as methods of launching an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) having a deployable envelope from a surface of a body of water.
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公开(公告)号:US10384405B2
公开(公告)日:2019-08-20
申请号:US15708688
申请日:2017-09-19
Applicant: The Boeing Company
Inventor: Keith Daniel Humfeld
Abstract: A method of making a prepreg composite sheet comprising contoured charges includes receiving, at a computer-numerically-controlled (CNC) device, a mapping, corresponding to shapes of layers of a laminated precursor article to be formed from the contoured charges. The method also includes forming, by the CNC device using the mapping, precursor outline regions in a resin film layer, wherein the precursor outline regions have the shapes of the layers of the laminated precursor article, and wherein the resin film layer has a viscosity. The method further includes impregnating a fiber reinforcement having fibers with the resin film layer to form non-impregnated outline regions that define the contoured charges in the prepreg composite sheet, wherein the non-impregnated outline regions correspond to the precursor outline regions in the resin film layer.
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