The Boeing Company

Scott David Billings

Robert James Miller

Marc Rollo Matsen

John A Mittleider

James M Kestner

Mark Alan Negley

Stephen G Moore

William Preston Geren

Cameron Kai-Ming Chen

A processing apparatus such as a heating and/or debulking apparatus that may be used to debulk a plurality of uncured composite layers to form an article such as an aircraft component may include a plurality of interconnected smart susceptor heater blankets. The plurality of smart susceptor heater blankets may be connected in series or in parallel, and may be controlled to uniformly heat the component during formation.

Large scale smart susceptor heater blankets requiring multi zone control

Methods and systems for heating forming dies by an induction coil, including a pair of electromagnetic (EM) field stabilizers, each EM field stabilizer configured to be adjacent one end of the forming die while the forming die is within the induction heating coil.

System and methods for heating a forming die

A heating system includes a structure to be heated, and a heating apparatus disposed to heat the structure. The heating apparatus includes a housing member, a plurality of resonant frequency power sources, and a plurality of associated controls. The plurality of resonant frequency power sources are attached to the housing member. The plurality of associated controllers is configured to separately operate the plurality of resonant frequency power sources at resonant frequencies matching heating requirements of the structure.

Distributed transistor-based power supply for supplying heat to a structure

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Des Moines, WA, United States of America

Scott David Billings