FIBER REINFORCED COMPOSITE MEMBER MOLDING APPARATUS

    公开(公告)号:US20180104862A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-04-19

    申请号:US15844783

    申请日:2017-12-18

    申请人: IHI Corporation

    IPC分类号: B29C33/30 B29C70/46

    摘要: A fiber reinforced composite member molding apparatus comprises a pair of mold parts which are brought nearer to and away from each other, and in a mold clamping state, clamp laminated sheets of prepreg formed of woven fiber fabric impregnated with resin, and heat sources for heating the resin in the prepreg through the pair of mold parts, wherein the two mold parts each comprise a base mold and a design mold which is detachably attached to the base mold and brought into contact with the prepreg, wherein the design molds of the mold parts are made of a metal lower in thermal expansion rate than the base molds. The mold parts having such split structure can reduce the burden on operators handling replacement of the mold parts, and also can suppress, during heating for molding, the influence of thermal expansion of the mold parts upon a to-be-molded fiber reinforced composite member.

    FIBER REINFORCED COMPOSITE MEMBER MOLDING APPARATUS

    公开(公告)号:US20180093398A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-04-05

    申请号:US15832877

    申请日:2017-12-06

    申请人: IHI CORPORATION

    摘要: In a fiber reinforced composite member molding apparatus comprising a lower mold having a cavity, an upper mold having a core which, in a mold clamping state, engages with the cavity in the lower mold and thereby clamps layered prepreg, and heat sources for heating the layered prepreg through the lower mold and the upper mold, and adapted to mold a fiber reinforced composite member from the layered prepreg by applying pressure while heating resin in the layered prepreg between the lower mold and the upper mold by the heat sources, the lower mold is equipped with a cavity heat-escape prevention portion and the upper mold is equipped with a core heat-escape prevention portion. During heating for molding, escape of heat from the periphery of the cavity of the upper mold and the periphery of the core of the lower mold can be prevented, which allows a fiber reinforced composite member to be molded with almost no defects such as wrinkles.