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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 24, 2016
Filed:
Dec. 19, 2008
Joseph D. Brennan, Poway, CA (US);
Donald Chester Darrow, Grand Prairie, TX (US);
Kenneth M. Dull, Puyallup, WA (US);
William S. Hollensteiner, Kent, WA (US);
Jennifer Sue Noel, Kent, WA (US);
Brian G. Robins, Renton, WA (US);
Darrell D Jones, Mill Creek, WA (US);
Joseph D. Brennan, Poway, CA (US);
Donald Chester Darrow, Grand Prairie, TX (US);
Kenneth M. Dull, Puyallup, WA (US);
William S. Hollensteiner, Kent, WA (US);
Jennifer Sue Noel, Kent, WA (US);
Brian G. Robins, Renton, WA (US);
Darrell D Jones, Mill Creek, WA (US);
THE BOEING COMPANY, Chicago, IL (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for manufacturing composite parts. An expandable tool with a transfer system may be moved on a surface of the expandable tool into an outer mold line tool with a composite material laid up on the outer mold line tool. The expandable tool may be expanded in the outer mold line tool to change the surface from a retracted state to an expanded state. The transfer system may be transferred from the expandable tool with the surface in the expanded state to the outer mold line tool.