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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Patent No.:

US 10434687 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Oct. 08, 2019

Filed:

Dec. 10, 2015

Composite laminate tooling and method of forming a composite part using the tooling

Applicant:

Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation, Stratford, CT (US);

Inventors:

Joshua A. Breon, Lafayette, IN (US);

Mario Dipreta, Milford, CT (US);

Assignee:

SIKORSKY AIRCRAFT CORPORATION, Stratford, CT (US);

Attorney:

Cantor Colburn LLP

Primary Examiner:

William P Bell

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B29C 70/38 (2006.01); B29C 70/54 (2006.01); B29C 39/04 (2006.01); B29C 33/30 (2006.01); B29C 64/245 (2017.01); B29C 70/86 (2006.01); B29C 39/10 (2006.01); B29C 39/12 (2006.01); B29C 70/30 (2006.01); B64C 27/473 (2006.01); B29C 70/46 (2006.01); B64F 5/10 (2017.01); B64C 27/48 (2006.01); B64C 27/33 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B29C 39/04 (2013.01); B29C 33/308 (2013.01); B29C 39/10 (2013.01); B29C 39/12 (2013.01); B29C 39/123 (2013.01); B29C 64/245 (2017.08); B29C 70/30 (2013.01); B29C 70/382 (2013.01); B29C 70/386 (2013.01); B29C 70/46 (2013.01); B29C 70/541 (2013.01); B29C 70/86 (2013.01); B64C 27/473 (2013.01); B64F 5/10 (2017.01); B64C 27/33 (2013.01); B64C 27/48 (2013.01);
Abstract

A composite piece tool used to create a composite piece. The tool includes a substrate having a substrate surface, walls disposed on the substrate and extending from the substrate surface in a thickness direction of the composite piece to define opposite locations of longitudinal composite piece ends and composite piece sides, a tooling surface disposed to occupy an entirety of a space delimited by the walls and on which the composite piece formed and a servo controller coupled to the tooling surface and configured to move the tooling surface upwardly and downwardly relative to the substrate surface and walls to form the composite piece.

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