The Boeing Company

Mark Charles Iden

Jeffery Lee Marcoe

John Dempsey Morris

Christopher Gary Harris

Lyle Ray Deobald

Karl B Lee

Doan Dinh Pham

America Olsen Schaaf

Richard Allen Miller, Ii

Brian Henry Korenaga

Kevin L Braun

Scott Telford O'Farrell

An apparatus automatically places, forms and compacts an adhesive strip on an edge of a structure in a single pass.

Method and apparatus for applying a strip of material over an edge on a structure

A composite stiffener is fabricated using preforms of laminated, unidirectional composite tape. The stiffener includes a void that is reinforced by a filler wrapped with a structural adhesive. The surfaces of the preforms surrounding the void include a layer of composite fabric which is bonded to the filler by the adhesive, thereby increasing the toughness of stiffeners around the void and improving pull-off strength of the stiffener.

Reinforced stiffeners and method for making the same

A jig apparatus and associated systems and methods for forming a composite wing skin is presented, including providing a frame with a working surface. A plurality of indexing blocks are coupled to the working surface of the frame. Each of the plurality of indexing blocks has a first indexing surface oriented perpendicular to the working surface of the frame and a second indexing surface oriented approximately parallel to the working surface of the frame. A plurality of clamping blocks are also each moveably coupled to one of the plurality of indexing blocks. Each of the plurality of clamping blocks has a clamping surface oriented perpendicular to the working surface of the frame and in facing relation to the first indexing surface of an adjacent indexing block thereby defining a plurality of channels.

Method, system and apparatus for assembling a composite wing skin with stiffeners

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Burien, WA, United States of America

Mark Charles Iden