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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 07, 2023
Filed:
Aug. 26, 2021
Applicant:
Spirit Aerosystems, Inc., Wichita, KS (US);
Inventors:
Mark Anthony Wadsworth, Sedan, KS (US);
Kerrick Robert Dando, Wichita, KS (US);
Assignee:
Spirit AeroSystems, Inc., Wichita, KS (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B29C 65/00 (2006.01); B29C 65/36 (2006.01); B29C 65/32 (2006.01); B29K 701/12 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B29C 66/3474 (2013.01); B29C 65/32 (2013.01); B29C 65/368 (2013.01); B29C 66/0244 (2013.01); B29C 66/1122 (2013.01); B29C 66/45 (2013.01); B29K 2701/12 (2013.01);
Abstract
A system and method for thermoplastic composite welding comprising a cooling means and a heat source. The cooling means cools a heat-side laminate so as to create a thermal gradient in the heat-side laminate. The heat source heats the heat-side laminate after the cooling step is initiated but before the thermal gradient dissipates so that a first side of the heat-side laminate closer to the heat source does not deform as faying surfaces of the heat-side laminate and another laminate farther away from the heat source are welded together.