公开(公告)号：US20200052454A1

公开(公告)日：2020-02-13

申请号：US16102551

申请日：2018-08-13

Applicant: The Boeing Company

Inventor： Morteza Safai

IPC: H01S3/00 ,  H01S3/225 ,  H01S3/11 ,  G01N29/24 ,  G01N29/04

Abstract: An example laser system includes a laser, a plurality of pulse stretchers coupled together in series, a feedback module, and a lens assembly. The plurality of pulse stretchers is configured to stretch pulse widths of laser pulses provided by the laser and to output stretched laser pulses. The feedback module includes a pulse delay comparator that is configured to compare a first laser pulse of the laser pulses to a corresponding first stretched laser pulse of the stretched laser pulses. The feedback module also includes a computing device that is configured to determine, based on a result of the comparing by the pulse delay comparator, an adjustment to a pulse stretcher of the plurality of pulse stretchers, and apply the adjustment to the pulse stretcher so as to modify a shape of a second stretched laser pulse of the stretched laser pulses.

公开(公告)号：US10454019B2

公开(公告)日：2019-10-22

申请号：US15280096

申请日：2016-09-29

Applicant: THE BOEING COMPANY

Inventor： Keith D. Humfeld ,  Morteza Safai

IPC: H01L41/193 ,  H01L41/316 ,  H01L41/314

Abstract: A micro electromechanical (mem) device includes a first electrode, a second electrode, and a shaped carbon nanotube with a first end and a second end. The first end of the shaped carbon nanotube is conductively connected to the first electrode and the second end is conductively connected to the second electrode. A system for making the device includes a plurality of electrodes placed outside the growth region of a furnace to produce a controlled, time-varying electric field. A controller for the system is connected to a power supply to deliver controlled voltages to the electrodes to produce the electric field. A mixture of gases is passed through the furnace with the temperature raised to cause chemical vapor deposition (CVD) of carbon on a catalyst. The sequentially time-varying electric field parameterizes a growing nanotube into a predetermined shape.

公开(公告)号：US10436724B2

公开(公告)日：2019-10-08

申请号：US15184644

申请日：2016-06-16

Applicant: The Boeing Company

Inventor： Matthew T. Grimshaw ,  Talion Edwards ,  Gary E. Georgeson ,  Daniel J. Wright ,  James E. Engel ,  Morteza Safai ,  Yuan-Jye Wu ,  Taisia Tsukruk Lou ,  Rodney S. Wright

IPC: G01N23/00 ,  G01N23/203 ,  H05G1/26 ,  G01V5/00

Abstract: A system for quantifying x-ray backscatter system performance may include a support; a plurality of rods mounted on the support; the rods of the plurality of rods arranged parallel to each other, having generally curved outer surfaces, and being arranged in groups of varying widths, each group of the groups having at least two of the rods of a same width; and a user interface configured to be connected to receive a backscatter signal from an x-ray backscatter detector associated with an x-ray tube, apply a transfer function to generate a transfer curve representing x-ray backscatter for each rod of the plurality of rods from x-rays transmitted by the x-ray tube.

公开(公告)号：US20190302037A1

公开(公告)日：2019-10-03

申请号：US15940622

申请日：2018-03-29

Applicant: The Boeing Company

Inventor： Morteza Safai ,  Gary Ernest Georgeson

IPC: G01N23/203 ,  G01N23/20025 ,  G01N23/02

Abstract: A method and a system for scanning an elongate structure. A scan of the elongate structure with a fluid in a cavity of the elongate structure is received. The scan is generated by a scanner using an x-ray beam. Data in the scan is filtered to remove a portion of the data in the scan attributable to the fluid to form filtered data, enabling detecting an inconsistency on a wall of the elongate structure in the filtered data.

公开(公告)号：US10317349B2

公开(公告)日：2019-06-11

申请号：US14953689

申请日：2015-11-30

Applicant: THE BOEING COMPANY

Inventor： James E. Engel ,  Gary Georgeson ,  Morteza Safai

IPC: G01N23/203

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide systems and methods for detecting one or more thermal and/or mechanical properties of a structure. The method may include forming one or more test structures from a material that forms the structure, generating and storing calibration data determined from the one or more test structures, emitting X-ray radiation into the structure, detecting X-ray scatter from the structure, and determining the one or more properties of the structure based on the detected X-ray scatter and the calibration data.

公开(公告)号：US20190127615A1

公开(公告)日：2019-05-02

申请号：US15794328

申请日：2017-10-26

Applicant: The Boeing Company

Inventor： Keith D. Humfeld ,  Eileen O. Kutscha ,  Morteza Safai

IPC: C09J161/06 ,  B32B27/08 ,  B32B37/12 ,  G01N29/11 ,  G01N29/34 ,  B32B7/12

Abstract: A composite material joined with a curable phenolic resin adhesive, with the phenolic resin adhesive comprising a stiffening agent precursor, and with the stiffening agent precursor selected to react with reaction by-products of the phenolic resin adhesive during curing to produce a reaction product stiffening agent in a cured bonding layer that is detectable by ultrasound, resins comprising the stiffening agent precursor, bonding layers comprising the reaction product stiffening agent, and methods for making the composite material joints and inspecting the composite material joints are disclosed.

公开(公告)号：US10240909B2

公开(公告)日：2019-03-26

申请号：US15295628

申请日：2016-10-17

Applicant: The Boeing Company

Inventor： Morteza Safai ,  Melissa McQueen

IPC: G01B7/14 ,  G01B7/00

Abstract: An electronic feeler gauge comprises a sensor blade, a transmitting system, and a receiving system. The sensor blade comprises transmission induction coils, reception induction coils, and measurement sites, spaced in two dimensions about the sensor blade. Each of the measurement sites is associated with at least one of the transmission induction coils and at least one of the reception induction coils. The transmitting system is configured to drive direct electrical current across the transmission induction coils to produce transmitted probe signals from the transmission induction coils. The receiving system is configured to receive response signals from the reception induction coils due to the transmitted probe signals.

公开(公告)号：US10213964B2

公开(公告)日：2019-02-26

申请号：US14708158

申请日：2015-05-08

Applicant: The Boeing Company

Inventor： Morteza Safai ,  Kimberly Meredith

IPC: B29C65/08 ,  B29C65/00 ,  B29C65/48 ,  B29C73/10 ,  B29C73/12 ,  B29C73/34 ,  B29C35/02 ,  B29L31/30 ,  B29L31/00 ,  B29C65/50 ,  B29C73/14 ,  B29C65/82 ,  B29L31/10

Abstract: A method of bonding materials may comprise defining a bond interface between two materials in a cure zone on a surface of an object and heating the bond interface with sound waves. Heating the bond interface may include applying ultrasonic sound waves to the bond interface.

公开(公告)号：US10184840B2

公开(公告)日：2019-01-22

申请号：US14591348

申请日：2015-01-07

Applicant: THE BOEING COMPANY

Inventor： Morteza Safai ,  Gary E. Georgeson

IPC: G01J5/28 ,  G01K11/00 ,  G01K11/12

Abstract: A portable device for quantification of thermochromatic coating signatures is provided. The portable device includes a directing component configured to direct light to a target having a thermochromatic coating. Additionally, the portable device includes a conditioning component configured to condition reflected light from the target, the reflected light including thermochromatic coating signatures. The portable device also includes an image detector configured to generate images from the conditioned reflected light, and a processor configured to receive and analyze images from the image detector and identify at least one portion of the target that has exceeded a predefined temperature or predefined temperature variance based on the analyzed images.

公开(公告)号：US09995288B2

公开(公告)日：2018-06-12

申请号：US15009223

申请日：2016-01-28

Applicant: The Boeing Company

Inventor： Morteza Safai ,  Kimberly D. Meredith

IPC: F03G7/06 ,  B64C13/30 ,  F16G1/20 ,  G05D23/275

CPC classification number: F03G7/065 ,  B64C13/30 ,  F16G1/20 ,  G05D23/27535

Abstract: Described herein is a motor comprising a first rotatable member and an anchor, spaced apart from the first rotatable member. The motor also comprises a belt, in tension about the first rotatable member and the anchor. The belt is co-rotatably engaged with the first rotatable member. Further, the belt is made from a shape-memory alloy. Additionally, the motor comprises a thermal regulation device, positioned between spaced-apart first and second portions of the belt. The thermal regulation device is also configured to concurrently cool the first portion of the belt to contract the first portion of the belt and heat the second portion of the belt to expand the second portion of the belt. Concurrent contraction and expansion of the first and second portions of the belt cause rotation of the belt.