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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:
Dec. 19, 2023

Filed:

Mar. 12, 2018
Applicant:

The Boeing Company, Chicago, IL (US);

Inventors:

James R. Kendall, Mount Pleasant, SC (US);

Raviendra Sidath Suriyaarachchi, Daniel Island, SC (US);

Paul D. Shaw, Charleston, SC (US);

Assignee:

The Boeing Company, Chicago, IL (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B29D 99/00 (2010.01); B29C 70/34 (2006.01); B29C 70/30 (2006.01); B29K 105/08 (2006.01); B29L 31/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B29D 99/0003 (2013.01); B29C 70/304 (2021.05); B29C 70/34 (2013.01); B29K 2105/089 (2013.01); B29K 2105/0881 (2013.01); B29L 2031/3076 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method for fabricating a composite structure. A first section for the composite structure is formed in which the first section has a first end with a chevron shape, wherein first composite layers in the first section has a first step pattern at the first end. A second section for the composite structure is formed in which the second section has a second end with a counterpart shape to the chevron shape and in which second composite layers in the second section have a second step pattern at the second end. The first end the second end are positioned such that a first composite layer in the first composite layers in the first step pattern overlap the second composite layers in the second step pattern at a splice location.


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