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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8123996 | Wrinkle control for composite tubes In one step of a method of fabricating a composite tube, layers of uncured composite material may be laid over a surface. In another step, spaced-apart strips of at least one of uncured, partially cured, and completely cured composite material may be laid lengthwise... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8114329 | Wing and blade structure using pultruded composites Tapered layers of pre-cured composite material are integrated into a tapered, highly stressed laminate structure in order to provide improved compressive strength. The pre-cured composite material can advantageously be cured under tension as pultruded material, to f... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8105523 | Reinforcement beam as well as method and fiber laminate for manufacturing the reinforcement beam Disclosed is a reinforcement blank, in particular a curved ring frame segment for fuselage cells of aircraft, comprising a synthetic material that is reinforced by at least one fiber laminate. The fiber laminate includes at least one full-area layer with a first fib... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8097198 | Manufacturing method with vacuum bag A method for producing an article of composite material. A female molding tool is provided. A form bag is provided. At least one prepreg is placed in the molding tool. A heel shaped hard tool part. A hard tool part is placed at the female tool close to an edge of th... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8066927 | Method for making a thermoplastic composite part by molding The invention relates to a method for making a thermoplastic composite part by molding. The method includes making several portions of the part according to a molding method, the molding method including placing, in a mold, a composite material containing fibers emb... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8062570 | Method of fabricating a test blade of composite material Fabricating a test blade including defects for calibrating a tomography installation for verifying similar blades. A three-dimensional blank is made by weaving fibers of synthetic material and elements of resin in the solid state are inserted into predetermined loca... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8052910 | Continuous molding method of composite material having stepwise sectional thickness There is provided a continuous molding method capable of varying a thickness of a prepreg molded article. A molding material 10 is prepared such that three plies, for example, of prepreg 31, 32, 33 are laminated with different end face positions... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8017054 | Systems and methods for fabricating composite fiberglass laminate articles A method of fabricating a composite article comprising the following steps. A plurality of support templates is provided. The support templates are arranged to define a shape of the composite article. A plurality of primary panels are provided, where each primary pa... | 09/13/2011 |
| 7968031 | Ceramic composite with integrated compliance/wear layer The integral layer provides a ductile interface for attachment locations of a turbine engine component where a metallic surface is adjacent the attachment location. The ductile layer provides a favorable load distribution through the composite at the attachment loca... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7964131 | Method and apparatus for activating the binder on a semi-finished fiber preform by direct heating of carbon fibers through an applied electrical voltage The present invention relates to an apparatus and a method to activate a binder on a semi-finished fiber material containing carbon fibers or on a preform. The binder is applied to the semi-finished fiber material or the fiber preform and subsequently activated thro... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7943075 | Method for producing fiber-reinforced composite A method for producing a fiber-reinforced composite member from prepregs of reinforcing fibers impregnated with a matrix resin, comprising placing the prepregs in a cavity of a molding die, cutting off excess margins of the prepregs along the edges of the cavity, an... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7943076 | Method of manufacturing curved composite structural elements A curved composite element is laid up over a tool having first and second curved tool surfaces possessing differing radii of curvatures. A plurality of composite fiber ply segments are arranged in substantially side-by-side relationship into a group. The ply segment... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7935290 | Process for making swaged lighting holes in planar areas of preimpregnated composite parts The invention relates to a process for making swaged lighting holes (1) in planar areas of parts (5) made of preimpregnated composite, by means of which the part (5) is arranged between a female tooling (11) with the final shape of the bo... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7906055 | Molding article with reinforced passages An article (10) such as a grid fin that controls the direction of flight of a vehicle, has precisely formed passages (14) with porous locating walls (52A, 52B) and a layer of fibrous material (86) such as graphite cloth lying again... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7858011 | Method and apparatus for producing a rim A method of producing a bicycle rim including, positioning a first quantity of woven fiber strips having a first width and a first length and a second quantity of strips of said woven fibers having a shape different from the first shape to form a first laminated ban... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7858012 | Automated prototyping of a composite airframe A high quality finished prototype fuselage structure of an aircraft is manufactured using a cured female tool and an automated composite layup machine, and then touched up by hand to meet a tolerance or other specification. The female tool is preferably made from a ... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7854874 | Apparatus and methods for forming hat stiffened composite parts using thermally expansive tooling cauls An apparatus and methods for forming a composite part are provided. A method for forming a composite part may include placing initial composite material on a base tool, placing a tooling mandrel on the composite material, placing additional composite material over t... | 12/21/2010 |
| 7833455 | Robot hand member and method of producing the same A robot hand member mounted on an arm unit of an industrial robot and a method of producing the same, wherein there are successively executed a step of laminating prepreg sheets each containing a reinforcing fiber on the outer peripheral surface of a core member hav... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7824591 | Method of forming hockey blade with wrapped, stitched core A construct for a hockey blade that includes a foam core. The foam core includes a first core face, a second core face, and a core edge. A first layer of resin preimpregnated tape is wrapped continuously around the first core face, the core edge and the second core ... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7820092 | Apparatus and methods for forming composite stiffeners and reinforcing structures Methods of forming an elongated composite structural member are provided. One method includes, providing a substantially elongated mandrel having an exterior surface exhibiting a desired geometry. Laying up a first ply of preimpregnated fiber reinforced material ove... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7803302 | Vacuum infusion by means of a semi-permeable membrane Method of producing an oblong shell member made of fiber composite material by means of vacuum infusion, where the fiber material is impregnated with liquid polymer. A mould is applied with a mould cavity, in which a fiber insertion (3) with a first lateral f... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7794640 | Process of draping a non-crimp fabric over a forming tool A method of producing a non-crimp fabric and a non-crimp fabric comprising a layup of fabric plies stitched together by a thread, at least part of which is fusible, is provided. The method can include heating the stitched plies to soften or melt the fusible thread. ... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7790082 | Process for the production of a panel of composite material with stiffening strips and panel thus obtained A process for the production of a panel of composite material with stiffening strips, in which a mold is draped with at least one first ply of fibers pre-impregnated with resin, there is emplaced at desired positions on said ply at least one stiffening strip, the st... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7767128 | Apparatus and methods for forming composite stiffeners and reinforcing structures Method of forming a curved composite structure are provided. In one embodiment, the method includes contacting at least one ply of preimpregnated material on a first surface of a curved mandrel. The first surface of the mandrel has a first radius of curvature. The m... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7754126 | Interlaminar tensile reinforcement of SiC/SiC CMC's using fugitive fibers A method of manufacturing a turbine engine component is disclosed. The method includes the steps of providing a plurality of ceramic cloth plies, each ply having woven ceramic fiber tows and at least one fugitive fiber tow, laying up the plurality of plies in a pres... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7727449 | Method and device for producing fiber-reinforced plastic components Production device and method for producing fiber-reinforced plastic components comprising a semi-finished prepreg product and a dry semi-finished textile product with an aeration and deaeration chamber and an exhaust line opening into the same for producing a vacuum... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7704429 | Method of fabricating a composite material connecting rod The invention relates to a method of fabricating a composite material connecting rod, the method comprising the step of cutting out a pattern presenting two opposite edges from a composite fiber fabric made up of a plurality of superposed primary plies that are bond... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7695662 | Method for producing resin structure A macrocell structure 20 having a honeycomb form is preheated to cure to a cure depth falling within a range where a flexibility of prepregs in the macrocell structure remains. Subsequently, prepregs 31, 32 are arranged along a side wall of the preheat... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7655168 | Tools for manufacturing composite parts and methods for using such tools Tools for manufacturing composite parts and methods for using such tools are disclosed herein. A method in accordance with one aspect of the invention includes manufacturing a fiber-reinforced resin part from a plurality of fibers positioned on a tool having a femal... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7651650 | Composite spar drape forming machine A machine and a method for forming composite materials are provided. The machine includes a frame and at least one forming beam attached to the frame, the at least one beam being arranged to align with a mandrel. The forming beam is pivotally segmented into at least... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7641834 | Method for manufacturing a hollow fiber composite component and intermediate products for the manufacture An intermediate product for the manufacture of a hollow fiber-composite component having a shape and dimensions, includes a three-dimensional, hollow preform of reinforcing fiber material corresponding to the shape and the dimensions with a three-dimensional reinfor... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7625510 | System, method, and apparatus for production-worthy, low cost composite tool fabrication Composite tooling is fabricated with low cost dry fabrics and a neat resin instead of expensive prepregs. Dry, three-dimensional woven joint preforms are placed on a dry tool substrate and dry, 3D preforms are also placed between pre-cured egg crate-like junctions. ... | 12/01/2009 |
| 7601288 | Method of fabricating a lug on a structural element of composite material, in particular a connecting rod The invention provides a method of fabricating a lug on a structural element of composite material made at least locally out of a stack of primary plies of composite fibers defining at least one extension for forming the lug. The method includes the step of separati... | 10/13/2009 |
| 7560060 | Molded safety seat A safety seat comprising a unitary molded shell having a “bucket-seat” shape and a safety restraint system integral to the shell. The molded unitary shell has a bottom portion and a back portion. The shell comprises an inner layer and an outer layer made of a ca... | 07/14/2009 |
| 7527757 | Method of producing polyimide matrix composite parts The invention relates to a method of producing rectifier parts which are made from a laminate composite material comprising reinforcing fibers that are embedded in a heat-polymerized polyimide resin matrix. The aforementioned parts comprise an inner platform, an out... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7419627 | Co-cured vacuum-assisted resin transfer molding manufacturing method According to one embodiment of the invention, a co-cured vacuum-assisted resin transfer molding manufacturing method includes providing a tool base, disposing a prepreg skin panel outwardly from the tool base, disposing one or more tooling details outwardly from the... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7413694 | Double bag vacuum infusion process The double bag vacuum infusion process of the present invention provides a low cost method for producing complex composite assemblies without an autoclave. It also enables the production of highly innovative structures. The quality of the composites produced using s... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7407620 | Method for making bicycle frames A method for making bicycle frames includes a step of preparing a seat tube and a head tube and both of which are then put in concavities of two first movable mold parts on a base board. A top tube and a down tube are prepared by carbon-fiber sheets and connected be... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7407619 | Method for making bicycle frame by composite material A method for making bicycle frames includes a step of preparing initial parts by carbon-fiber sheets and inflatable bladders are inserted into the initial parts which are then arranged to a desired arrangement. The arranged parts are put in a mold which is heated un... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7402269 | Environmentally stable hybrid fabric system for exterior protection of an aircraft A method of forming an exterior surface protective structure (12) for an aircraft (10) includes uniting a loaded surfacer (52) having a carrier (51) to a hybrid prepreg substrate (32). The prepreg substrate (32) includes a c... | 07/22/2008 |
