The Boeing Company

Marc J Froning

Arash Ghabchi

Stephen P Gaydos

Waynie Mark Schuette

Arnold J Lauder

Brian L Riedel

Alan S Thompson

Gregory Matthew Newbloom

Lisa Ann Cardon

Stefan Ozog

Matthew W Smith

Matthew Carl Johnson

William A Thompson

Arash Ghabachi

Alan Thompson

A laser system includes a controller, a laser source, a laser scanner, and a laser containment apparatus. The laser containment apparatus includes a mounting structure for the laser scanner, a shroud assembly coupled to the mounting structure, and a seal interface coupled to the shroud assembly at an opposite end from the laser scanner. The shroud assembly surrounds a working volume of the laser scanner and includes a vacuum port connected to a vacuum source and a purge port that guides purge gas from a purge gas source toward the laser scanner. A distal end of the seal interface is formed of a pliable material that compresses to seal the shroud assembly to a target surface of a workpiece upon establishment of a negative pressure differential between a vacuum pressure inside the shroud assembly and ambient atmospheric pressure.

Laser system and methods for containing a laser beam and manufacturing a laser containment apparatus

A method for repairing a damaged portion of a steel member that includes at least one of a coating and a plating. The method includes applying to the damaged portion of the steel member a coating composition to produce a repair coating. The coating composition includes nickel, chromium, and carbon.

Repair coating and method for repairing a damaged portion of a steel member

A method for forming a hydrophobic coating on a substrate by a thermal spray deposition process is described. The method may comprise feeding a thermal spray apparatus with a coating precursor consisting of particles having an initial particle morphology, and heating the particles with the thermal spray apparatus to cause the particle to at least partially melt. The method may further comprise accelerating the particles towards the substrate, and forming the hydrophobic coating on the substrate by allowing the particles to impact the substrate in a partially melted state in which a fraction of the initial particle morphology of at least some of the particles is retained.

Thermal spray for durable and large-area hydrophobic and superhydrophobic/icephobic coatings

A co-curable thermoset acoustic liner and method of forming the same includes a sound attenuating core having a plurality of core cells. An inner face sheet having a plurality of face sheet apertures is coupled to the core by an inner thermoset adhesive sheet, which has a plurality of adhesive sheet apertures. Each of the plurality of adhesive sheet apertures is aligned within a corresponding one of the plurality of face sheet apertures so that the plurality of core cells are placed in fluid communication with airflow over the inner face sheet to create a Single Degree of Freedom (SDOF) acoustic liner.

Structural single degree of freedom face sheet acoustic liner

A method of forming a surface coating on a composite article may include applying a thermal spray to a tool surface of a tool in such a manner as to form a surface coating having a releasable bond with the tool surface. The method may further include applying composite material over the surface coating, curing the composite material to form a cured composite article, and removing the cured composite article from the tool in a manner that releases the surface coating from the tool surface and retains the surface coating with the cured composite article.

In-mold metallization of composite structures

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Seattle, WA, United States of America

Marc J Froning