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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 23, 2016
Filed:
Dec. 22, 2011
Michael Dominic Schulte, Montgomery, OH (US);
Eric Joseph Aho, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Peter Kennedy Davis, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Wendy Wen-ling Lin, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Michael Joseph O'brien, Clifton Park, NY (US);
Brian Dominic Stephens, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Michael Dominic Schulte, Montgomery, OH (US);
Eric Joseph Aho, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Peter Kennedy Davis, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Wendy Wen-Ling Lin, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Michael Joseph O'Brien, Clifton Park, NY (US);
Brian Dominic Stephens, Cincinnati, OH (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
Polymer-based materials and processes suitable for producing panels, for example, panels for use in a fan shroud abradable seal of a turbofan engine. Such a process includes introducing constituents of an expandable foam material into a continuous forming apparatus that continuously compounds the constituents into a partially-cured compounded polymeric material, which is then continuously formed with the continuous forming apparatus to produce a continuous form having a constant cross-sectional shape transverse to a continuous forming direction of the continuous forming apparatus. A portion of the continuous form is then deformed to produce a preform, and the preform is cured within a restricted volume to cause the preform to expand and produce the panel.