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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 23, 2019
Filed:
Mar. 21, 2017
The Boeing Company, Chicago, IL (US);
Jeffery Lee Marcoe, Bellevue, WA (US);
Marc Rollo Matsen, Seattle, WA (US);
Waeil M. Ashmawi, Bellevue, WA (US);
Jaime C. Garcia, Kent, WA (US);
Sahrudine Apdalhaliem, Seattle, WA (US);
John B. Moser, Bonney Lake, WA (US);
Brett I. Lyons, Seattle, WA (US);
Moushumi Shome, Kent, WA (US);
Kay Y. Blohowiak, Issaquah, WA (US);
The Boeing Company, Chicago, IL (US);
Abstract
Manufacturing a thermoplastic composite tubular structure embedded with a first load fitting comprising the steps of braiding a first plurality of inner layers of thermoplastic composite material around a soluble, expandable mandrel. A first load fitting is positioned on the first plurality of inner layers of thermoplastic composite material. A second plurality of outer layers of thermoplastic composite material is braided around the first load fitting and the mandrel so as to form an overbraided mandrel embedded with the first load fitting. The overbraided mandrel is installed into a matched tooling assembly and heated at a specified heating profile in order to consolidate the first plurality of inner layers of thermoplastic composite material and the second plurality of outer layers of thermoplastic composite material with the first load fitting so as to form a thermoplastic composite tubular structure embedded with the first load fitting. A second load fitting may be positioned on the first plurality of inner layers of thermoplastic composite material.