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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 28, 2022
Filed:
Mar. 30, 2020
The Boeing Company, Chicago, IL (US);
Amy Elizabeth Bahe, Tukwila, WA (US);
Megan E. Bliss, SeaTac, WA (US);
William Hollensteiner, Auburn, WA (US);
William Henry Ingram, Jr., Puyallup, WA (US);
John Dempsey Morris, Seattle, WA (US);
Jonathan Santiago, Seattle, WA (US);
Benjamin Jeffrey Stephenson, Seattle, WA (US);
Samuel Ray Stewart, Redmond, WA (US);
Charles William Thomas, Issaquah, WA (US);
The Boeing Company, Chicago, IL (US);
Abstract
A structure comprising a plurality of walls defining a bladder cavity, the bladder cavity comprises an initial cross section size. A first plurality of wave features provided along at least one of the plurality of walls defining the bladder cavity. In one arrangement, the first plurality of wave features allow the structure to expand from the initial cross section size to a second cross section size after the structure becomes inflated during a composite charge cure, the second cross section size larger than the initial cross sectional size.