Airbus Operations Gmbh

Airbus Americas, Inc.

Jeffrey Nangle

Dirk Humfeldt

Michael Telkamp

Additive manufacturing systems and methods having an extrusion head with a nozzle. The nozzle extrudes a composite material from an orifice of the nozzle to form a layer of a component. The composite material has at least a matrix material and a reinforcing material. The nozzle extrudes the matrix and reinforcing materials from the orifice simultaneously. The width and height of the orifice are adjustable to control the width and thickness of the layer extruded therefrom. The width and thickness of the layer are the same as the width and height, respectively, of the nozzle orifice, while the nozzle is extruding the composite material through the orifice. The width and height of the nozzle orifice are perpendicular to each other and transverse to an extrusion direction from the nozzle orifice. A majority of a surface area of the reinforcing material is encapsulated within the matrix material after being dispensed from the nozzle.

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Wichita, KS, United States of America

Jeffrey Nangle