Systems, Cure Tools, and Methods for Thermally Curing a Composite Part

    公开(公告)号:US20210001518A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-01-07

    申请号:US16459819

    申请日:2019-07-02

    Abstract: An example method for curing a composite part includes placing the composite part onto a topside of a cure tool, and a bottom surface of the composite part contacts the topside of the cure tool and a top surface of the composite part is opposite the bottom surface of the composite part. The method also includes placing the cure tool and the composite part into an autoclave, using the autoclave to apply external heat to the cure tool and the composite part so that air flows over the top surface of the composite part to heat the top surface, and applying additional heat to a backside of the cure tool via radiation provided by at least one heating source of the cure tool, so as to reduce a temperature difference between the backside of the cure tool and the top surface of the composite part being cured.

    Permanent magnet damping and generated light

    公开(公告)号:US10711500B1

    公开(公告)日:2020-07-14

    申请号:US16520173

    申请日:2019-07-23

    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatus for permanent magnet damping and generated light are disclosed. In one or more embodiments, a method for damping and generating light comprises damping, by a permanent magnet (PM) damper connected to a panel (e.g., a door of an aircraft luggage bin), the speed of opening of the panel, while the panel is opened. The method further comprises generating, by the PM damper, electrical power, during the opening of the panel. Also, the method comprises storing the electrical power in an electrical power storage unit, such as a capacitor or a battery. In addition, the method comprises powering, by using the stored electrical power, lighting, such as a lighting emitting diode (LED). Further, the method comprises dissipating any remaining electrical power of the electrical power, which is stored in the electrical power storage unit, when the panel is closed.

    Calibration of pixels for producing super resolution images

    公开(公告)号:US10264191B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-04-16

    申请号:US15668310

    申请日:2017-08-03

    Inventor: Keith D. Humfeld

    Abstract: A method of producing super resolution images includes a detector array capturing images of a scene in which detector array provides pixels for respective portions of the scene, and the detector array captures the images in increments in each of which a lens or the detector array is moved a length of an individual detector. The method also includes a processing unit determining light intensities of the pixels, and calibrating the pixels to a reference pixel based on the light intensities and thereby compensate for any differences in sensitivity of the individual detectors. This calibration is based on a comparison of light intensities of the reference pixel and an other pixel in respectively one and an other of the images in which the portion of the scene is the same for the reference pixel in the one of the images and the other pixel in the other of the images.

    HEATING OPERATION PROCESS CONTROL
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    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20220219411A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-07-14

    申请号:US17505875

    申请日:2021-10-20

    Abstract: Heating operation control includes obtaining sensor data indicating measured temperatures within a heating vessel during a heating operation; determining sets of thermal stack parameters. Each set of candidate thermal stack parameters is descriptive of a respective configuration of a thermal stack modeled by a first machine learning model to generate one or more estimated tool temperature values. The thermal stack includes the tool and a part coupled to the tool. Heating operation control also includes determining a temperature profile for the heating operation. The temperature profile is determined, via a second machine learning model, based on the plurality of sets of thermal stack parameters and one or more process specifications of the thermal stack.

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