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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.

Date of Patent:
Oct. 05, 2021

Filed:

Oct. 19, 2018
Applicants:

Airbus Operations Sas, Toulouse, FR;

Airbus Sas, Blagnac, FR;

Inventors:

Daniel Kierbel, Toulouse, FR;

Mathias Farouz-Fouquet, Toulouse, FR;

Laurent Malard, Toulouse, FR;

Assignees:

AIRBUS OPERATIONS SAS, Toulouse, FR;

AIRBUS SAS, Blagnac, FR;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B29C 73/10 (2006.01); B64F 5/00 (2017.01); B29C 73/12 (2006.01); G05B 19/18 (2006.01); B33Y 10/00 (2015.01); B33Y 40/00 (2020.01); B33Y 50/02 (2015.01); B29C 64/393 (2017.01); B29C 64/10 (2017.01); B29C 63/00 (2006.01); B29L 31/30 (2006.01); B33Y 70/00 (2020.01); B33Y 80/00 (2015.01); B29K 55/02 (2006.01); B29K 67/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B29C 73/10 (2013.01); B29C 63/0065 (2013.01); B29C 64/10 (2017.08); B29C 64/393 (2017.08); B29C 73/12 (2013.01); B33Y 10/00 (2014.12); B33Y 40/00 (2014.12); B33Y 50/02 (2014.12); B64F 5/00 (2013.01); G05B 19/18 (2013.01); B29K 2055/02 (2013.01); B29K 2067/046 (2013.01); B29L 2031/3085 (2013.01); B33Y 70/00 (2014.12); B33Y 80/00 (2014.12);
Abstract

A filling method for filling surface imperfections on a surface of a wing comprising a scanning step in which a control unit controls a movement of a scanner past the surface of the wing to scan the surface and transmit the collected data to the control unit, a computation step in which the control unit computes a digitized surface from the data, a determination step in which the control unit determines each surface imperfection by comparing the reference surface and the digitized surface, a generation step in which the control unit generates a digital model of the patch intended to fill the surface imperfection, and a printing step in which the control unit controls the movement of a 3D printer past each surface imperfection and commands the activation of the 3D printer in order to make it print the patch.


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