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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 04, 2024
Filed:
Dec. 22, 2021
Raytheon Technologies Corporation, Farmington, CT (US);
John J. Gangloff, Jr., Middletown, CT (US);
John E. Holowczak, South Windsor, CT (US);
Ying She, Rocky Hill, CT (US);
Kenneth David Smith, East Longmeadow, MA (US);
Haralambos Cordatos, Colchester, CT (US);
Gurkan Gok, Milford, CT (US);
Zissis A. Dardas, Worcester, MA (US);
RTX Corporation, Farmington, CT (US);
Abstract
A reactor furnace for coating fiber tow includes an elongate reactor having a fiber tow inlet and a fiber tow outlet; a thermo-chemical reactor section positioned along the elongate reactor; a first microwave source for directing microwave energy along the reactor from a first end of the reactor toward a second end of the reactor; a second microwave source for directing microwave energy along the reactor from the second end of the reactor toward the first end of the reactor; a gas inlet upstream of the thermo-chemical reactor; and a gas outlet downstream of the thermo-chemical reactor.