公开(公告)号：US12285887B2

公开(公告)日：2025-04-29

申请号：US17653624

申请日：2022-03-04

Applicant: The Boeing Company

Inventor： Marc R. Matsen ,  Karl Marius Nelson ,  Bret Alan Mcginness Voss

IPC: B29C35/00 ,  B29C35/08 ,  B29C70/34 ,  B29C70/54 ,  B29L31/30

Abstract: An induction curing system comprises a slip sheet and a power supply. The slip sheet comprises a layup surface configured to receive a composite material, a tool interface surface configured to interface with an upper surface of a tool, a rigid body extending between the layup surface and the tool interface surface, and an induction coil circuit within the rigid body of the slip sheet. The induction coil circuit is configured to heat the layup surface to a temperature sufficient to cure the composite material. The induction coil circuit has a diameter selected to generate heat using a power supply having a frequency below 150 kHz. The rigid body is configured to support the composite material during transport of the composite material. The power supply is coupled with the induction coil circuit, the power supply is selected based on the diameter of the induction coil circuit.

公开(公告)号：US20250115008A1

公开(公告)日：2025-04-10

申请号：US18499107

申请日：2023-10-31

Applicant: The Boeing Company

Inventor： Marc R. Matsen ,  Jeffery Lee Marcoe ,  Gwendolyn Marie Janda

IPC: B29C70/08 ,  B29C70/24 ,  B29C70/30 ,  B29C70/34 ,  B29K305/00 ,  B29L31/30 ,  D04C1/02 ,  D04C1/06

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a composite article comprises forming a braided lay-up including one or more braided layers around a braiding mandrel along at least a portion of a longitudinal axis of the braiding mandrel. Each braided layer may be formed by braiding tape segments of a fiber-reinforced thermoplastic resin tape applied at a tape tow orientation with thread segments applied at a thread tow orientation that is biased at an angle relative to the tape tow orientation. In an example, the thread segments include a thermoplastic resin thread that is integrated into a consolidated form of the braided lay-up following a consolidation process. In another example, the thread segments include a metallic thread that is removed from the braided lay-up prior to consolidation.

公开(公告)号：US20240066762A1

公开(公告)日：2024-02-29

申请号：US18306814

申请日：2023-04-25

Applicant: The Boeing Company

Inventor： Marc R. Matsen ,  John F. Spalding

IPC: B29C35/08

CPC classification number: B29C35/0805 ,  B29C2035/0811 ,  B29C70/44

Abstract: Methods and an induction curing system for curing a composite panel. The induction curing system comprises; a rigid curing tool configured to hold a composite material; a vacuum bagging material sealed to the rigid curing tool; and a dimensional control structure having a lattice and an open casing formed of a rigid material, the lattice positioned within a concavity of the open casing, the dimensional control structure sealed to at least one of the vacuum bagging material or the rigid curing tool.

公开(公告)号：US11584101B2

公开(公告)日：2023-02-21

申请号：US16719357

申请日：2019-12-18

Applicant: THE BOEING COMPANY

Inventor： John R. Hull ,  Marc R. Matsen

IPC: B22F3/02 ,  H05B3/03 ,  H05B3/06 ,  H05B1/02 ,  H01L35/28 ,  B30B15/34 ,  B22F3/00 ,  B22F3/087 ,  B30B11/00 ,  B22F3/105 ,  C22C1/04 ,  H05B3/00 ,  H05B3/60

Abstract: An apparatus includes a first electrode exhibiting a first Seebeck coefficient, a second electrode exhibiting a second Seebeck coefficient greater than the first Seebeck coefficient, and particles between the first and second electrodes exhibiting a third Seebeck coefficient between the first and second Seebeck coefficients. An alternating current power supply is electrically connected to the first and second electrodes. Heat is generated due to the Peltier effect at a junction between the first electrode and the particles and at a junction between the second electrode and the particles. Heat is removed due to the Peltier effect at the junction between the first electrode and the particles and at the junction between the second electrode and the particles. The particles are densified due to heating and cooling phase transitions between a higher-temperature solid phase and a lower-temperature solid phase while compressing the particles.

公开(公告)号：US11541579B2

公开(公告)日：2023-01-03

申请号：US16718775

申请日：2019-12-18

Applicant: The Boeing Company

Inventor： Jeffery Lee Marcoe ,  Marc R. Matsen

IPC: B29C35/00 ,  B32B1/00 ,  B64C1/00 ,  B29C35/08 ,  B64C1/06 ,  B32B1/08 ,  B29K101/12

Abstract: A method and apparatus for forming a composite structure. A plurality of consolidated overbraided thermoplastic preforms are co-consolidated in a circumferential stackup that is circumferentially constrained. Fibers of the plurality of consolidated overbraided thermoplastic preforms are tensioned during co-consolidation.

公开(公告)号：US20220396012A1

公开(公告)日：2022-12-15

申请号：US17653624

申请日：2022-03-04

Applicant: The Boeing Company

Inventor： Marc R. Matsen ,  Karl Marius Nelson ,  Bret Alan McGinness Voss

IPC: B29C35/08 ,  B29C70/54 ,  B29C70/34

Abstract: An induction curing system comprises a slip sheet and a power supply. The slip sheet comprises a layup surface configured to receive a composite material, a tool interface surface configured to interface with an upper surface of a tool, a rigid body extending between the layup surface and the tool interface surface, and an induction coil circuit within the rigid body of the slip sheet. The induction coil circuit is configured to heat the layup surface to a temperature sufficient to cure the composite material. The induction coil circuit has a diameter selected to generate heat using a power supply having a frequency below 150 kHz. The rigid body is configured to support the composite material during transport of the composite material. The power supply is coupled with the induction coil circuit, the power supply is selected based on the diameter of the induction coil circuit.

公开(公告)号：US20220361300A1

公开(公告)日：2022-11-10

申请号：US17695246

申请日：2022-03-15

Applicant: The Boeing Company

Inventor： John R. Hull ,  Jeffrey Peter Baucum ,  Landon Henson ,  Marc R. Matsen

IPC: H05B6/36 ,  H05B6/44 ,  B64D15/12

Abstract: An induction-heating system includes a susceptor located proximate to a flight surface of an aircraft. The susceptor comprises an array of wires arranged along a first axis. The array of wires is constructed of a ferromagnetic material having a selected Curie temperature. The induction-heating system also includes an electrically conductive coil including a plurality of coil windings oriented substantially perpendicular with respect to the first axis of the array of wires. The electrically conductive coil is configured to generate a magnetic field oriented substantially parallel with respect to the first axis of the array of wires. The electrically conductive coil is positioned to induce induction heating within the ferromagnetic material of the susceptor when the susceptor is below the selected Curie temperature.

公开(公告)号：US11279092B2

公开(公告)日：2022-03-22

申请号：US16358578

申请日：2019-03-19

Applicant: The Boeing Company

Inventor： Joshua P. Koehn ,  Marc R. Matsen ,  Kirk J. Malmquist ,  David E. Gideon

IPC: B29C33/00 ,  B29C65/00 ,  B21D26/00 ,  B29C65/18 ,  B21D26/033 ,  B29C33/50 ,  B29K101/12

Abstract: A co-consolidation tool, including a heating assembly to receive one or more thermoplastic parts and to apply a consolidation temperature to the one or more thermoplastic parts, a pressure bladder to apply a consolidation pressure to the one or more thermoplastic parts, and a support insert shaped and configured to support and at least partially surround at least one of the one or more thermoplastic parts, wherein at least one of heating assembly and the pressure bladder is shaped to receive and support the support insert.

公开(公告)号：US11035400B2

公开(公告)日：2021-06-15

申请号：US16262324

申请日：2019-01-30

Applicant: The Boeing Company

Inventor： William J. Koch ,  Marc R. Matsen

IPC: B29C65/36 ,  F16B43/00 ,  H05B6/10 ,  H01F5/00 ,  H01F27/28 ,  H05B6/02 ,  F16B5/02 ,  F16B5/04 ,  F16B11/00

Abstract: A shim assembly includes a shim material configured to be positioned between a first component and a second component. A wire is in contact with the shim material. The wire is configured to heat the shim material to above a predetermined temperature, and the shim material becomes moldable above the predetermined temperature such that the shim material is able to conform to the first component and the second component.

公开(公告)号：US20210101365A1

公开(公告)日：2021-04-08

申请号：US16548657

申请日：2019-08-22

Applicant: The Boeing Company

Inventor： Marc R. Matsen ,  Mark A. Negley ,  Landon K. Henson ,  John R. Hull

IPC: B32B15/04 ,  B32B7/08 ,  B32B5/16 ,  B32B7/05

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method of forming a multi-layered metallic part. The method comprises stacking at least two metallic layers, each made of a metallic material having a ductility, to form a multi-layered metallic assembly. The method also comprises interposing a diffusion-bond preventing element directly between adjacent ones of the at least two metallic layers of the multi-layered metallic assembly. The method further comprises diffusion bonding the at least two metallic layers to each other at locations other than a location contiguous with the diffusion-bond preventing element to produce a multi-layered metallic part having a non-bonded region between the at least two metallic layers at the location of the diffusion-bond preventing element.