The Boeing Company

Adam D Lee

Luis Felipe Velasquez

Daniel Johnson

Allen James Halbritter

Richard Alexander Prause

William L Serencsits

Eric Carlton Anderson

A method apparatus, and system method for manufacturing a composite part. A set of composite preforms is placed on a set of slip sheets. The set of slip sheets with the set of composite preforms is attached to a cure mandrel to form a composite preform assembly.

Composite fuselage fabrication

Systems and methods are provided for compacting objects onto tools. One embodiment is a method for compacting an object onto a rigid tool. The method includes placing an object onto a surface of a rigid tool, disposing an end effector over the object, spreading linkages of the end effector, causing a scroll of material between the linkages to be disposed atop the object while surrounding the object, and applying a negative pressure to the scroll that offsets air leaks between the scroll and the object, thereby forming a suction hold that compacts the object onto the rigid tool.

Scrolls that vacuum secure objects to complex surfaces

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Moncks Corner, SC, United States of America

Adam D Lee