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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 18, 2020
Filed:
Mar. 22, 2017
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Jason Robert Parolini, Anderson, SC (US);
Matthew Troy Hafner, Honea Path, SC (US);
James Joseph Murray, Piedmont, SC (US);
Srikanth Chandrudu Kottilingam, Greenville, SC (US);
Canan Uslu Hardwicke, Greenville, SC (US);
John McConnell Delvaux, Fountain Inn, SC (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
The present disclosure is directed to a method for forming a passage in a composite component. The method includes forming a cavity in a fiber preform. The cavity forms a portion of the passage. The method also includes inserting a core into the cavity and placing one or more fiber plies onto the fiber preform to form a fiber preform assembly. The method further includes thermally processing the fiber preform assembly and densifying the fiber preform assembly to form the composite component. The method also includes removing the core from the composite component.