IP Library Granted Patent US 8,709,188
Granted Patent B2
US 8,709,188 · App. 12/309,896 · Granted Apr 29, 2014

Lay-up arrangement and structural arrangement and method for producing a component for aerospace

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Patent No.
US 8,709,188
App. No.
12/309,896
Granted
Apr 29, 2014
Kind
B2
Abstract

The invention provides a method for producing a component ( 37 ) for aerospace, with the following method steps: supplying a lay-up arrangement ( 1 ) to be laid by means of a tape-laying machine ( 25 ), with a glass-fiber lay-up ( 8 ), which is preimpregnated with a resin matrix ( 10 ), and/or supplying a structural arrangement ( 12 ) to be laid by means of a tape-laying machine ( 25 ), with a structure ( 16 ) which is made of metal and is preimpregnated with a resin matrix ( 18 ), laying the lay-up and/or structural arrangement ( 1; 12 ) on a laminating apparatus ( 23 ) by means of a tape-laying machine ( 25 ), and curing the lay-up and/or structural arrangement ( 1; 12 ) and therefore forming the component ( 37 ).

Claims (9)

1. Method for producing a component for the aerospace industry, comprising:

supplying a structural arrangement comprising a structure which is made of metal and is pre-impregnated with a resin matrix, the structure being formed as a metal net having diamond-shaped, rectangular and/or honeycomb-shaped recesses filled with the resin matrix, and wherein the metal net comprises a fixed and defined structure;

laying the structural arrangement on a laminating apparatus by a tape-laying machine, wherein the structural arrangement is laid along different directions with respect to the laminating apparatus; and

curing the structural arrangement to form the component.

2. Method according to claim 1 , wherein the tape-laying machine is moved along two or three axes.

3. Method according to claim 1 , wherein a plurality of structural arrangements are laid in layers one above another.

4. Method according to claim 1 , wherein at least one layer of CFRP prepreg material is laid on, between or below the structural arrangement.

5. Method according to claim 1 , wherein the structural arrangement is supplied to the tape-laying machine by a feeding device.

6. Method according to claim 1 , wherein the structural arrangement is supplied as a coiled web material.

Assignments (2)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded May 31, 2011
From: AIRBUS DEUTSCHLAND GMBH
To: AIRBUS OPERATIONS GMBH
Reel/Frame 026360/0849 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 12, 2009
From: ROCKER, OLAF; JUNG, MANUEL; BLECK, THORSTEN
To: AIRBUS DEUTSCHLAND GMBH
Reel/Frame 023360/0174 →