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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 26, 2020
Filed:
Mar. 27, 2018
Arianegroup Sas, Paris, FR;
Hervé Evrard, Le Haillan, FR;
Gareth Clarke, Saint-Medard-en-Jalles, FR;
Edouard Borie, Eysines, FR;
Thierry Constant, Ludon Medoc, FR;
ARIANEGROUP SAS, Paris, FR;
Abstract
A needling installation includes a rotary support on which a fiber texture is wound to form a fiber preform, the rotary support being mounted on a frame that is movable along a second axis Y perpendicular to the first axis X; a stripper including one plate including perforations; a needling module having a needle board carrying needles; a contact force application system connected to the stripper; a contact force sensor for providing information representative of the contact force with which the outside face of the plate of the stripper makes contact against the fiber preform, and a controller to control the contact force application system to apply a force to the plate of the stripper that is predetermined as a function of information provided by each contact force sensor and as a function of a target value for a predetermined contact force.