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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 01, 2015
Filed:
Jan. 02, 2013
The Boeing Company, Seal Beach, CA (US);
Daniel M. Rotter, Lake Forest Park, WA (US);
Jennifer Sue Noel, Kent, WA (US);
Brian G. Robins, Renton, WA (US);
Kimberlee Madden, Redmond, WA (US);
Henry Macias, Auburn, WA (US);
Brad A. Coxon, Everett, WA (US);
Stephen K. Kirchmeier, Bothell, WA (US);
Joseph D. Anderson, Seattle, WA (US);
Kurtis S. Willden, Kent, WA (US);
The Boeing Company, Chicago, IL (US);
Abstract
Methods of assembling a stiffened composite structure include loading, with a stiffener loading tool, a respective stiffener from a supply of stiffeners onto an inner mold line layup mandrel; repeating the loading to load a plurality of stiffeners onto the inner mold line layup mandrel; and following the repeating, affixing a respective skin segment from a supply of skin segments to the plurality of stiffeners loaded on the inner mold line layup mandrel to form at least a portion of the stiffened composite structure. Systems for assembling stiffened composite structures include a supply of stiffeners; an inner mold line layup mandrel; and a stiffener loading tool configured to load the respective stiffener onto the inner mold line layup mandrel.