The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document.
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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 05, 2024
Filed:
Mar. 16, 2022
The Boeing Company, Chicago, IL (US);
University of Washington, Seattle, WA (US);
Shuonan Dong, Seattle, WA (US);
Silas L. Studley, Redmond, WA (US);
Samuel F. Pedigo, Lake Forest Park, WA (US);
Nathan A. Secinaro, Seattle, WA (US);
Lukas Wavrin, Seattle, WA (US);
Kevin Hsu, Seattle, WA (US);
James Hutchinson, Seattle, WA (US);
Connor Burch, Kaneohe, HI (US);
Nini Hong, Renton, WA (US);
Devin Ide, Seattle, WA (US);
Lucky Singh, Seatac, WA (US);
Santosh Devasia, Seattle, WA (US);
The Boeing Company, Arlington, VA (US);
University of Washington, Seattle, WA (US);
Abstract
A manufacturing system includes a cutting machine, an adhesion machine, and a pick-and-place system. The cutting machine sequentially cuts a continuous length of a unidirectional prepreg into prepreg segments. Each prepreg segment has an opposing pair of segment cut edges that are non-parallel to a lengthwise direction of the unidirectional prepreg. The adhesion machine has a conveyor belt and an adhesion station. The pick-and-place system sequentially picks up the prepreg segments from the cutting machine, and places the prepreg segments in end-to-end relation on the conveyor belt, and in an orientation such that the segment cut edges are generally parallel to a lengthwise direction of the conveyor belt. The conveyor belt feeds the prepreg segments to the adhesion station. The adhesion station adheres the prepreg segments to a continuous length of a backing material, thereby resulting in a continuous length of a backed cross-ply prepreg.