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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 23, 2024
Filed:
Feb. 21, 2019
The Boeing Company, Chicago, IL (US);
Roger D. Bernhardt, St. Charles, MO (US);
Donald V. Drouin, Jr., O'Fallon, IL (US);
The Boeing Company, Arlington, VA (US);
Abstract
Structurally integrated energy supply systems for aircraft and methods of forming the structurally integrated energy supply systems. The structurally integrated energy supply systems include an aircraft structural component, a cell array, and a plurality of energy-producing inserts. The aircraft structural component at least partially defines an interior region. The cell array includes a plurality of cell walls that defies a plurality of elongate cell volumes and is positioned within the interior region. Each energy-producing insert in the plurality of energy-producing inserts is positioned within a corresponding elongate cell volume in the plurality of elongate cell volumes and is configured to produce a corresponding insert electric current. The cell array provides structural load distribution to the aircraft structural component via the plurality of cell walls and contributes to a structural stiffness of the aircraft structural component.