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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 17, 2023
Filed:
Aug. 13, 2021
The Boeing Company, Chicago, IL (US);
Kristopher William Talcott, Seattle, WA (US);
Mark Abdouch, Mukilteo, WA (US);
Matthew McKinley Whitmer, Seattle, WA (US);
Fernando L. Perez Diaz, Everett, WA (US);
Mark Edmund Richardson, Issaquah, WA (US);
Alexander S. Sukhomlinov, Mukilteo, WA (US);
The Boeing Company, Arlington, VA (US);
Abstract
Methods of assembling an aircraft wing includes adhering fuel dams to stringers and adhering the fuel dams to ribs. Fuel dams include a fuel-dam body that defines a channel shaped to receive a portion of a stringer of an aircraft wing. The fuel-dam body includes a stringer adherent surface, a rib adherent surface, and a pair of spaced-apart flanges extending from the rib adherent surface and positioned to project from the rib adherent surface on opposing sides of a notch of a rib.