OPTICAL FASTENERS HAVING HEADS WITH LENSES
    102.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20200292760A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-09-17

    申请号:US16351928

    申请日:2019-03-13

    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.

    Forming Contoured Elongate Composite Structures

    公开(公告)号:US20200061947A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-02-27

    申请号:US16113987

    申请日:2018-08-27

    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.

    GRAPHENE-AUGMENTED COMPOSITE MATERIALS
    105.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20190338087A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-11-07

    申请号:US16512463

    申请日:2019-07-16

    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.

    Magnetic carbon nanotube cluster systems and methods

    公开(公告)号:US10457410B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-10-29

    申请号:US15140386

    申请日:2016-04-27

    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.

    SYSTEM AND PROCESS FOR CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION

    公开(公告)号:US20190301008A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-10-03

    申请号:US16434053

    申请日:2019-06-06

    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.

    Methods for making prepreg composite sheets including contoured charges

    公开(公告)号:US10384405B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-08-20

    申请号:US15708688

    申请日:2017-09-19

    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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