IP Library Granted Patent US 7,056,402
Granted Patent B2
US 7,056,402 · App. 10/432,197 · Granted Jun 6, 2006

Technical production method, tension module and sewing material holder for creating textile preforms for the production of fibre-reinforced plastic components

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Patent No.
US 7,056,402
App. No.
10/432,197
Granted
Jun 6, 2006
Kind
B2
Abstract

A ready-made technical process for manufacturing fiber-reinforced plastic building components envisions the use of a link and, optionally, a flange and/or a base using textile blanks as starting material. Initially, at least two layers of the textile blanks are positioned vis-á-vis one another, clamped in and undergo a first sewing-up process. A preform is fashioned featuring the architecture of the product that is to be manufactured, and subsequently the preform is infiltrated with resin in order to realize the plastic building component. A tension module realizes a flange on a textile preform and a sewing material holder receives a textile preform in order to implement the steps referred to.

Claims (11)

1. A process for manufacturing a fiber-reinforced plastic building component comprised of a link and at least one base that extends linearly in a longitudinal direction using textile blanks as starting material comprising:

positioning, clamping in, and initially sewing-up at least two layers of textile blanks in order to fix the layers into place relative to one another and realize a preform, and

infiltrating the preform with resin in order to manufacture the plastic building component,

wherein, following initially sewing-up the at least two layers of textile blanks, a contour seam is inserted along an end area of the preform, the end area is turned up at a predetermined angle in order to realize a course of the at least one base that is to be created, a gusset extending in a longitudinal direction of the contour seam is inserted between the at least two layers, and the at least two layers are sewed up in at least one sewing window in a sewing material holder, and

wherein the end area is fixed in place by way of stiffening elements.

2. The process as claimed in claim 1 wherein a fastening seam is inserted in the at least two layers in order to fix the gusset in place.

3. The process as claimed in claim 1 wherein the gusset is pressed against the contour seam by way of a pressing element.

4. The process as claimed in claim 2 wherein the gusset is pressed against the contour seam by way of a pressing element.

5. The process as claimed in claim 1 wherein a flange is realized on another end area by clamping in and turning up the other end area extending in the longitudinal direction of the at least two layers by a predetermined angle, the turned up edge area is applied against a linearly extending contact area of a form element, and the link is fixed in place relative to the turned up edge area inside the sewing material holder.

6. The process as claimed in claim 2 wherein a flange is realized on another end area by clamping in and turning up the other end area extending in the longitudinal direction of the at least two layers by a predetermined angle, the turned up edge area is applied against a linearly extending contact area of a form element, and the link is fixed in place relative to the turned up edge area inside the sewing material holder.

7. The process as claimed in claim 3 wherein a flange is realized on another end area by clamping in and turning up the other end area extending in the longitudinal direction of the at least two layers by a predetermined angle, the turned up edge area is applied against a linearly extending contact area of a form element, and the link is fixed in place relative to the turned up edge area inside the sewing material holder.

Assignments (2)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Feb 7, 2019
From: EADS DEUTSCHLAND GMBH
To: AIRBUS DEFENCE AND SPACE GMBH
Reel/Frame 048284/0694 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 21, 2003
From: KOERWIEN, THOMAS; BAUER, ERNST-JOACHIM; FILSINGER, JUERGEN
To: EADS DEUTSCHLAND GMBH
Reel/Frame 014610/0819 →