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公开(公告)号:US10759159B2
公开(公告)日:2020-09-01
申请号:US15610466
申请日:2017-05-31
申请人: The Boeing Company
IPC分类号: B33Y70/00 , B33Y10/00 , B33Y30/00 , B29C64/20 , B29C70/38 , B29C64/106 , B29C70/06 , B29C64/209 , B29C64/141 , H02G3/04
摘要: A feedstock line for additively manufacturing an object. The feedstock line has a length and comprises a continuous flexible line. The continuous flexible line has a peripheral surface. The feedstock line also comprises a covering. The covering is releasably coupled to the peripheral surface of the continuous flexible line.
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公开(公告)号:US10525635B2
公开(公告)日:2020-01-07
申请号:US15706537
申请日:2017-09-15
申请人: The Boeing Company
发明人: Mark Stewart Wilenski , Michael Patrick Kozar , Samuel F. Harrison , Nick Shadbeh Evans , Faraón Torres
摘要: A system for creating a feedstock line for additive manufacturing of an object comprises a prepreg-tow supply, a prepreg-tow separator, an optical-direction-modifier supply, a combiner, and at least one heater. The prepreg-tow supply dispenses a precursor prepreg tow, comprising elongate filaments and resin. The prepreg-tow separator separates the precursor prepreg tow into individual elongate filaments at least partially covered with the resin. The optical-direction-modifier supply dispenses optical direction modifiers to the elongate filaments. When electromagnetic radiation strikes the outer surface of the optical direction modifiers, at least a portion of the electromagnetic radiation departs the outer surface at an angle. The combiner combines the elongate filaments and the optical direction modifiers into a derivative prepreg tow. At least the one heater heats the resin to cause wet-out of the optical direction modifiers and the elongate filaments in the derivative prepreg tow by the resin.
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公开(公告)号:US20170326575A1
公开(公告)日:2017-11-16
申请号:US15495006
申请日:2017-04-24
申请人: The Boeing Company
IPC分类号: B05C3/02 , B05D1/18 , C01B32/168 , B05D1/28 , B82Y30/00
CPC分类号: B05C3/02 , B05D1/18 , B05D1/28 , B82Y30/00 , C01B32/168 , C01B2202/08
摘要: A system for use in producing a nanotube mesh structure is provided. The system includes a first nanotube collection apparatus including a first substrate configured to collect a plurality of nanotubes substantially aligned in a first orientation on an attachment surface thereof, and a second nanotube collection apparatus including a second substrate configured to collect a plurality of nanotubes substantially aligned in a second orientation on an attachment surface thereof. The first and second nanotube collection apparatuses are configured to combine the pluralities of nanotubes at an interface. The system also includes a first energy source configured to direct energy towards the interface between the pluralities of nanotubes, wherein the energy is configured to join the pluralities of nanotubes to form the nanotube mesh structure.
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公开(公告)号:US11072158B2
公开(公告)日:2021-07-27
申请号:US16578895
申请日:2019-09-23
申请人: The Boeing Company
IPC分类号: B33Y10/00 , B29C64/336 , B29C64/165 , B29C70/38 , B29C64/106 , B29C64/20 , B33Y30/00 , B33Y70/00 , B29C31/04 , B29K105/08
摘要: Systems and methods for additively manufacturing composite parts are disclosed. Methods comprise combining a plurality of pre-consolidated tows to define a macro tow and dispensing the macro tow in three dimensions to define the composite part. Each pre-consolidated tow comprises a fiber tow within a non-liquid binding matrix. The combining comprises actively altering a shape and/or size of a cross-sectional profile of the macro tow along a length of the macro tow as it is being defined.
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公开(公告)号:US20210001552A1
公开(公告)日:2021-01-07
申请号:US17024403
申请日:2020-09-17
申请人: The Boeing Company
IPC分类号: B29C64/314 , B33Y10/00 , B33Y30/00 , B33Y50/02 , B29C64/321 , B29C64/141 , B29C64/393 , B29C70/38 , B29C64/118 , B29C64/336 , B29C64/209 , B29C70/24 , B29C64/147 , B29C70/16 , B29C70/20 , B29C64/295 , B29C64/165
摘要: A system for additively manufacturing an object comprises a source of a feedstock line, a rigidizing mechanism that receives the feedstock line from the source and transforms the resin from a first at least partially uncured state to a rigid at least partially uncured state, a delivery guide that deposits the feedstock line along a print path, a feed mechanism that feeds the feedstock line through the delivery guide, a de-rigidizing mechanism that transforms the resin from the rigid at least partially uncured state to a second at least partially uncured state, and a curing mechanism that transforms the resin from the second at least partially uncured state to an at least partially cured state.
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公开(公告)号:US10766241B2
公开(公告)日:2020-09-08
申请号:US15356420
申请日:2016-11-18
申请人: The Boeing Company
IPC分类号: B29C64/135 , B33Y10/00 , B29C64/264 , B29C64/106 , B29C64/20 , B33Y30/00 , B29C35/08
摘要: Systems for additive manufacturing comprise a delivery guide configured to dispense a curable material to additively manufacture a part in sequential layers of the curable material, and a source of curing energy configured to direct the curing energy to a discrete region of the curable material forward of or at a location where a subsequent layer of the curable material is dispensed from the delivery guide against a preceding layer of the curable material to cure together the subsequent layer and the preceding layer. Methods of additively manufacturing comprise dispensing a subsequent layer of a curable material against a preceding layer of the curable material, and concurrently with the dispensing, directing curing energy to a discrete region of the curable material to cure together the subsequent layer and the preceding layer.
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公开(公告)号:US20200016882A1
公开(公告)日:2020-01-16
申请号:US16578895
申请日:2019-09-23
申请人: The Boeing Company
摘要: Systems and methods for additively manufacturing composite parts are disclosed. Methods comprise combining a plurality of pre-consolidated tows to define a macro tow and dispensing the macro tow in three dimensions to define the composite part. Each pre-consolidated tow comprises a fiber tow within a non-liquid binding matrix. The combining comprises actively altering a shape and/or size of a cross-sectional profile of the macro tow along a length of the macro tow as it is being defined.
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公开(公告)号:US20190009462A1
公开(公告)日:2019-01-10
申请号:US15642705
申请日:2017-07-06
申请人: The Boeing Company
IPC分类号: B29C64/147 , B33Y10/00 , B33Y50/02 , B33Y30/00 , B29C64/336
CPC分类号: B29C64/147 , B29C64/106 , B29C64/165 , B29C64/209 , B29C64/295 , B29C64/336 , B29C70/24 , B29C70/382 , B29K2105/08 , B29K2995/0078 , B29L2031/3076 , B33Y10/00 , B33Y30/00 , B33Y50/02 , B33Y70/00
摘要: A system (100) for additively manufacturing an object (102) comprises a fiber supply (122) that dispenses elongate fibers (108), a resin supply (124) that applies a resin (110) to the elongate fibers (108) to create a feedstock line (106) with the resin (110) in a first non-rigid uncured state, a rigidizing mechanism (112) that transforms the resin (110) from the first non-rigid uncured state to a rigid uncured state, a delivery guide (116) that deposits the feedstock line (106) along a print path (114), a feed mechanism (126) that feeds the feedstock line (106) through the delivery guide (116), a de-rigidizing mechanism (118) that transforms the resin (110) from the rigid uncured state to a second non-rigid uncured state, and a curing mechanism (120) that transforms the resin (110) from the second non-rigid uncured state to an at least partially cured state.
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公开(公告)号:US20180141284A1
公开(公告)日:2018-05-24
申请号:US15356420
申请日:2016-11-18
申请人: The Boeing Company
摘要: Systems for additive manufacturing comprise a delivery guide configured to dispense a curable material to additively manufacture a part in sequential layers of the curable material, and a source of curing energy configured to direct the curing energy to a discrete region of the curable material forward of or at a location where a subsequent layer of the curable material is dispensed from the delivery guide against a preceding layer of the curable material to cure together the subsequent layer and the preceding layer. Methods of additively manufacturing comprise dispensing a subsequent layer of a curable material against a preceding layer of the curable material, and concurrently with the dispensing, directing curing energy to a discrete region of the curable material to cure together the subsequent layer and the preceding layer.
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公开(公告)号:US09713820B2
公开(公告)日:2017-07-25
申请号:US14293092
申请日:2014-06-02
申请人: The Boeing Company
CPC分类号: B05C3/02 , B05D1/18 , B05D1/28 , B82Y30/00 , C01B32/168 , C01B2202/08
摘要: A system for use in producing a nanotube mesh structure is provided. The system includes a first nanotube collection apparatus including a first substrate configured to collect a plurality of nanotubes substantially aligned in a first orientation on an attachment surface thereof, and a second nanotube collection apparatus including a second substrate configured to collect a plurality of nanotubes substantially aligned in a second orientation on an attachment surface thereof. The first and second nanotube collection apparatuses are configured to combine the pluralities of nanotubes at an interface. The system also includes a first energy source configured to direct energy towards the interface between the pluralities of nanotubes, wherein the energy is configured to join the pluralities of nanotubes to form the nanotube mesh structure.
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