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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 09, 2026
Filed:
May. 30, 2024
The Boeing Company, Arlington, VA (US);
Colin Noronha, Burien, WA (US);
Jonathan Young Ahn, Seattle, WA (US);
Christopher Robert Brown, Seattle, WA (US);
Ricardo Andreas Fritzke, Sammamish, WA (US);
Brian Gregory Robins, Renton, WA (US);
Kurtis Shuldberg Willden, Kent, WA (US);
Elizaveta Leonardovna Manevich, Auburn, WA (US);
The Boeing Company, Arlington, VA (US);
Abstract
A pick and place end effector configured to form a kink in a composite laminate. The pick and place end effector comprises a vacuum lift face configured to hold the composite laminate and move from a flat configuration to a forming configuration with an angle in the vacuum lift face to form the kink in the composite laminate; a number of motors configured to move the vacuum lift face between the flat configuration and the forming configuration; and a number of restraints configured to clamp portions of a composite laminate on opposite sides of the kink on the vacuum lift face during movement between the flat configuration and the forming configuration.