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公开(公告)号:US20200047477A1
公开(公告)日:2020-02-13
申请号:US16659101
申请日:2019-10-21
Applicant: The Boeing Company
Inventor: Jason W. Drexler , John Christopher Wilde , Xiaoxi Wang
Abstract: Methods and apparatus to form venting pathways in pressure sensitive adhesives for laminate stacks are disclosed. An example method includes forming a laminate stack including a gas permeable nonwoven layer and a pressure sensitive adhesive layer. The pressure sensitive adhesive layer has a first surface and a second surface located opposite the first surface. The first surface contacts the gas permeable nonwoven layer. The method further includes processing the laminate stack by reducing a ductility of the pressure sensitive adhesive layer such that venting pathways are formed in the pressure sensitive adhesive layer in response to a mechanical strain applied to the pressure sensitive adhesive layer via a trapped gas. The venting pathways extend through a thickness of the pressure sensitive adhesive layer to enable the trapped gas to pass through the pressure sensitive adhesive layer from the second surface to the first surface.
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公开(公告)号:US20190084689A1
公开(公告)日:2019-03-21
申请号:US16160471
申请日:2018-10-15
Applicant: The Boeing Company
Inventor: Abhishek Pradeep Kulkarni , John Christopher Wilde , Xiaoxi Wang , Nathanial C. Cuddy
Abstract: An embedded light source in a composite panel. A first electrode and a second electrode are associated with a first layer of material. A light source is positioned in electrical communication with the first electrode and the second electrode. An assembly comprising the first layer of material, the first electrode, the second electrode, and the light source is processed to form a multilayer panel with an embedded light source.
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公开(公告)号:US10173394B2
公开(公告)日:2019-01-08
申请号:US15153297
申请日:2016-05-12
Applicant: The Boeing Company
Inventor: Xiaoxi Wang , John Wilde
Abstract: Methods and apparatus to vent gas and vapor from a panel via venting channels for a decorative layer are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a decorative layer, an adhesive layer to couple the decorative layer to a panel, and a resin layer disposed between the decorative layer and the adhesive layer. The adhesive layer is coupled to a first side of the resin layer. The decorative layer is coupled to a second side of the resin layer. The first side of the resin layer defines venting channels to vent at least one of gas or vapor away from the decorative layer to deter the at least one of gas or vapor from exerting a pressure on the decorative layer to deter separation of a portion of the decorative layer from the resin layer. The venting channels have a depth to impede the adhesive layer from filling the venting channels.
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公开(公告)号:US12269574B2
公开(公告)日:2025-04-08
申请号:US16787115
申请日:2020-02-11
Applicant: THE BOEING COMPANY
Inventor: Xiaoxi Wang , Thomas Seth Perkins
Abstract: A method includes providing a structure having a surface, treating a portion of the surface to modify a wettability of the portion of the structure, and forming at least one liquid flow path on the surface through said treating.
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公开(公告)号:US12233631B2
公开(公告)日:2025-02-25
申请号:US16687249
申请日:2019-11-18
Applicant: The Boeing Company
Inventor: Xiaoxi Wang , John Wilde , Jason Drexler
IPC: B32B7/12 , B32B5/02 , B32B5/10 , B32B5/18 , B32B27/06 , B32B27/08 , B32B27/12 , B32B27/30 , B32B37/12 , B32B37/14
Abstract: Methods and apparatus to couple a decorative composite having a reinforcing layer to a panel are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a decorative layer to couple to a panel. The decorative layer including a first tile, a second tile, and an adhesive liner positioned between the first tile and the second tile to couple respective edges of first and second tiles.
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公开(公告)号:US12208585B2
公开(公告)日:2025-01-28
申请号:US18493789
申请日:2023-10-24
Applicant: The Boeing Company
Inventor: Jonathan A. Santiago , Xiaoxi Wang , Gary Ernest Georgeson
Abstract: Methods of manufacturing composite workpieces that include adding an expandable element to an internal volume of a constraining container proximate to a uncured composite workpiece supported on a rigid form, where the expandable element is configured to expand when a predetermined change is produced in an attribute of the expandable element; expanding the expandable element by producing the predetermined change in the attribute of the expandable element, so that an expansion of the expandable element applies pressure to the workpiece supported on the rigid form within the internal volume, and curing the composite workpiece while the resulting pressure is applied to the workpiece supported on the rigid form.
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公开(公告)号:US12053943B2
公开(公告)日:2024-08-06
申请号:US17370375
申请日:2021-07-08
Applicant: The Boeing Company
Inventor: Xiaoxi Wang , Gary E. Georgeson
CPC classification number: B29C73/10 , B29C73/30 , B64F5/40 , B29L2031/3076
Abstract: A method for repairing a composite structure, includes creating a repair cavity in a composite structure, placing foamable media in the repair cavity, placing a replacement skin over the repair cavity, and expanding the foamable media placed in the repair cavity.
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公开(公告)号:US20240092041A1
公开(公告)日:2024-03-21
申请号:US18518530
申请日:2023-11-23
Applicant: The Boeing Company
Inventor: Xiaoxi Wang , Gary Ernest Georgeson , Jonathan A. Santiago
CPC classification number: B29C70/44 , B29C33/40 , B29C35/02 , B29C44/3442 , B29C44/3461 , B29C44/36
Abstract: Methods of recovering and/or recycling expanded polymer tooling, the methods including collecting expanded polymer tooling, reducing the collected expanded polymer tooling into smaller particles, treating the reduced expanded polymer tooling in order to yield an at least partially purified recovered polymer composition, and then collecting the at least partially purified recovered polymer composition. The at least partially purified recovered polymer composition can then be used to form new expandable polymer tooling.
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公开(公告)号:US11426951B2
公开(公告)日:2022-08-30
申请号:US16237912
申请日:2019-01-02
Applicant: The Boeing Company
Inventor: Xiaoxi Wang , Gary E. Georgeson
IPC: B29C70/34 , B29C33/48 , B29K105/08 , B29K307/04 , B29L31/30
Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for utilizing pellet-loaded bladders to consolidate and/or harden composite parts. One embodiment is a method for fabricating a composite part. The method includes laying up a preform that is made of fiber reinforced material and that includes a cavity, inserting one or more bladders that are loaded with expandable pellets into the cavity, inflating the bladders in response to a triggering condition, consolidating the preform while the bladders are inflated, deflating the bladders, and removing the bladders from the cavity.
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公开(公告)号:US11325282B2
公开(公告)日:2022-05-10
申请号:US16459505
申请日:2019-07-01
Applicant: The Boeing Company
Inventor: Xiaoxi Wang , Gary Ernest Georgeson , Jonathan A. Santiago
Abstract: Methods of manufacturing composite workpieces that include positioning a heat-generating element proximate to an uncured composite workpiece, triggering the heat-generating element to produce an exothermic chemical reaction or exothermic physical reaction so that the temperature of the uncured composite workpiece is raised to a predetermined first temperature, and curing the composite workpiece while it is at a temperature that is at least the predetermined first temperature.
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