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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:
Aug. 22, 2023

Filed:

Jan. 15, 2018
Applicant:

Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);

Inventors:

Steven McGinnis, Seattle, WA (US);

Prescott Gee Glynn, Sammamish, WA (US);

Kader Chellabi, Seattle, WA (US);

Adrian Timothy Wallace, Seattle, WA (US);

Ricky Dean Welsh, Seattle, WA (US);

Assignee:

Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B29C 44/42 (2006.01); B29C 44/58 (2006.01); B29C 44/34 (2006.01); B29C 33/50 (2006.01); B29D 99/00 (2010.01); B29C 33/48 (2006.01); B29L 31/30 (2006.01); B29C 33/42 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B29C 44/583 (2013.01); B29C 33/485 (2013.01); B29C 33/505 (2013.01); B29C 44/355 (2013.01); B29C 44/42 (2013.01); B29D 99/0025 (2013.01); B29C 33/424 (2013.01); B29L 2031/3085 (2013.01);
Abstract

Lightweight and strong components may be manufactured using self-skinning foam material compositions by the processes described herein. One or more mandrels may be inserted into a molding tool, and a self-skinning foam material composition may be injected into the molding tool. After closing the molding tool, the self-skinning foam material composition may expand and cure to form a component, and one or more skins may be formed on exterior and/or interior surfaces of the component. For example, an external skin may be formed on an exterior surface of the component in contact with surfaces of the molding tool, and one or more internal skins may be formed on one or more interior surfaces of negative space spars of the component in contact with surfaces of the one or more mandrels.


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