公开(公告)号：US11298892B2

公开(公告)日：2022-04-12

申请号：US16459492

申请日：2019-07-01

Applicant: The Boeing Company

Inventor： Jonathan A. Santiago ,  Xiaoxi Wang ,  Gary Ernest Georgeson

IPC: B29C70/34 ,  B29C43/10 ,  B29L31/30

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.

公开(公告)号：US20210370653A1

公开(公告)日：2021-12-02

申请号：US17405831

申请日：2021-08-18

Applicant: The Boeing Company

Inventor： Gary Benham ,  Xiaoxi Wang ,  John Wilde ,  Jason Drexler

IPC: B32B27/08 ,  B32B5/22 ,  B32B27/06 ,  B32B27/12 ,  B32B27/28 ,  B32B3/12 ,  B32B5/24 ,  B32B5/02 ,  B32B27/40 ,  B32B27/30 ,  B32B7/12 ,  B64C1/12

Abstract: Methods and apparatus to couple a decorative layer to a core layer of a panel via a barrier layer are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a decorative layer coupled to a panel. The panel has a core layer. The example apparatus includes a barrier layer disposed between the core layer and the decorative layer. The barrier layer is to impede at least one of gas or vapor from escaping from the core layer to the decorative layer to deter the at least one of gas or vapor from exerting a pressure on the decorative layer to deter a portion of the decorative layer from separating from the panel.

公开(公告)号：US20210276687A1

公开(公告)日：2021-09-09

申请号：US16811729

申请日：2020-03-06

Applicant: The Boeing Company

Inventor： Gary E. Georgeson ,  Xiaoxi Wang

IPC: B64C1/12 ,  B32B5/18 ,  B32B5/06

Abstract: Skinned cell structures and methods of producing the same are disclosed. A disclosed example apparatus includes a placer to place foamable structures together to define a bundle, a restrainer to restrain the bundle, an activator to activate the foamable structures to expand and form a cell structure within the restrainer, a trimmer to trim the cell structure to define a core, and an assembler to couple a skin to the core to define the skinned cell structure.

公开(公告)号：US20210261232A1

公开(公告)日：2021-08-26

申请号：US16796365

申请日：2020-02-20

Applicant: The Boeing Company

Inventor： Gary E. Georgeson ,  Xiaoxi Wang

IPC: B64C1/12 ,  B32B5/18 ,  B29C70/30

Abstract: Fabrication system and associated methods of fabricating a sandwich panel. In one embodiment, a method includes holding a first skin and a second skin of the sandwich panel with a gap between opposing faces of the first skin and the second skin, and expanding a foamable material between the first skin and the second skin to form a foam core of the sandwich panel.

公开(公告)号：US20210245858A1

公开(公告)日：2021-08-12

申请号：US16787115

申请日：2020-02-11

Applicant: THE BOEING COMPANY

Inventor： Xiaoxi Wang ,  Thomas Seth Perkins

IPC: B64C1/06 ,  B32B3/20

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.

公开(公告)号：US10953643B2

公开(公告)日：2021-03-23

申请号：US16837498

申请日：2020-04-01

Applicant: The Boeing Company

Inventor： Xiaoxi Wang

IPC: B32B37/00 ,  B44C1/00 ,  B32B38/00 ,  B29C37/00 ,  B29C63/00 ,  B29B15/00 ,  B29C59/00 ,  B29D24/00 ,  B32B43/00 ,  B32B3/00 ,  B44C1/10 ,  B29C63/02 ,  B32B38/06 ,  B29C59/04 ,  B32B37/12 ,  B29C63/48 ,  B32B3/12

Abstract: Methods and apparatus to form venting channels on a panel for a decorative layer are disclosed. An example method includes contacting an outer surface of a tool to an outer resin layer of a panel. The outer surface of the tool has protrusions. The example method includes moving the outer surface of the tool on the outer resin layer of the panel in a first direction to cause the protrusions of the tool to form first venting channels on the outer resin layer of the panel and coupling a decorative layer to the outer resin layer of the panel via an adhesive layer. The first venting channels are to vent at least one of gas or vapor away from the decorative layer to deter separation of a portion of the decorative layer from the outer resin layer.

公开(公告)号：US10751982B2

公开(公告)日：2020-08-25

申请号：US15153338

申请日：2016-05-12

Applicant: The Boeing Company

Inventor： Xiaoxi Wang ,  John Wilde

IPC: B32B37/00 ,  B30B15/00 ,  B29C37/00 ,  B27N7/00 ,  B32B3/00 ,  B32B27/00 ,  B32B5/00 ,  B32B38/00 ,  B29D24/00 ,  B27N3/00 ,  B30B15/06 ,  B32B37/10 ,  B32B37/26 ,  B32B3/12 ,  B32B3/26 ,  B32B5/02 ,  B32B27/42 ,  B32B5/18 ,  B32B5/24 ,  B32B7/12 ,  B32B27/06 ,  B32B5/08 ,  B32B38/06 ,  B44C1/10 ,  B32B37/12 ,  B27N3/08

Abstract: Methods and apparatus to remove gas and vapor from a panel for a decorative layer are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a first press plate of a hot press to engage a first surface of a panel. The hot press is to apply heat to the panel via the first press plate to cure resin of the panel. A first portion of the first press plate is composed of a permeable material to remove at least one of gas or vapor from the panel to deter the at least one of gas or vapor from exerting a pressure on a decorative layer to be coupled to the panel to deter separation of a portion of the decorative layer from the panel.

公开(公告)号：US10562284B2

公开(公告)日：2020-02-18

申请号：US15397169

申请日：2017-01-03

Applicant: The Boeing Company

Inventor： Gary E. Georgeson ,  Xiaoxi Wang ,  Richard Henry Bossi

IPC: B32B41/00 ,  B32B29/00 ,  G01N29/04 ,  G01N29/22 ,  B29C70/30 ,  B29C37/00 ,  B29C70/54 ,  B32B37/18 ,  B32B38/10 ,  B32B38/00 ,  B29L7/00 ,  B29L9/00 ,  B29C44/34 ,  B29K105/24

Abstract: Example systems and methods are described including backing paper for use with uncured pre-impregnated material. An example system includes a backing paper having a first surface and a second surface. The system also includes a coating material positioned on the first surface of the backing paper. A blowing agent is encapsulated within the coating material.

公开(公告)号：US10525685B2

公开(公告)日：2020-01-07

申请号：US15153283

申请日：2016-05-12

Applicant: The Boeing Company

Inventor： Xiaoxi Wang ,  John Wilde ,  Jason Drexler

IPC: B32B7/12 ,  B32B37/12 ,  B32B37/14 ,  B32B5/02 ,  B32B5/10 ,  B32B5/18 ,  B32B27/06 ,  B32B27/08 ,  B32B27/12 ,  B32B27/30

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 and a first reinforcing layer coupled to the decorative layer. The example apparatus includes a coil reduction layer that is to apply a force to the first reinforcing layer to reduce coiling of the first reinforcing layer. The example apparatus includes an adhesive layer applied to the coil reduction layer that is coupled to the first reinforcing layer to enable the decorative layer to be coupled to a panel. A rigidity of the first reinforcing layer is to enable the first reinforcing layer to distribute a force exerted by at least one of gas or vapor disposed between the first reinforcing layer and the decorative layer to impede separation of a portion of the decorative layer from the panel.

公开(公告)号：US20190265140A1

公开(公告)日：2019-08-29

申请号：US16405927

申请日：2019-05-07

Applicant: The Boeing Company

Inventor： Morteza Safai ,  Xiaoxi Wang

IPC: G01N3/24 ,  G01N3/32 ,  G01B11/16

Abstract: A vacuum system and method for inspecting a workpiece that can include use of the vacuum system, where the vacuum system can include a housing defining at least a portion of a vacuum chamber, a piston within the housing that oscillates to vary a volume of the vacuum chamber, a first valve and a second valve in fluid communication with the vacuum chamber, and a hood in fluid communication with the second valve and the vacuum chamber. The vacuum system can include high-speed valves that enable vacuum system cycling and thus vacuum pressure cycling at a rapid frequency.