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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 16, 2020
Filed:
May. 01, 2018
Divergent Technologies, Inc., Los Angeles, CA (US);
Thomas Samuel Bowden, Jr., Los Angeles, CA (US);
Jon Paul Gunner, Palos Verdes Estates, CA (US);
Antonio Bernerd Martinez, El Segundo, CA (US);
Ian Hawthorn Ashdown, San Clemente, CA (US);
DIVERGENT TECHNOLOGIES, INC., Los Angeles, CA (US);
Abstract
A system and method is provided for manufacturing a composite structure. In an exemplary aspect, the system includes multiple flexible tooling plates that are interlocked to each other to form a tooling surface for forming a composite structure to be manufactured. Moreover, the system includes an actuator array connected to the flexible plates and that can move the flexible plates relative to each other to adjust a contour of the tooling surface to correspond to a design contour of the composite structure to be manufactured.