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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 15, 2017
Filed:
Nov. 02, 2012
Applicant:
The Boeing Company, Seal Beach, CA (US);
Inventor:
William T. Kline, Burien, WA (US);
Assignee:
The Boeing Company, Chicago, IL (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B29C 70/68 (2006.01); B29C 70/54 (2006.01); B29C 70/56 (2006.01); B29C 33/42 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B29C 70/683 (2013.01); B29C 33/42 (2013.01); B29C 70/543 (2013.01); B29C 70/56 (2013.01); Y10T 156/1002 (2015.01); Y10T 428/24628 (2015.01);
Abstract
A wrinkle mitigation system may include at least one tooling rod disposed against a tool surface at a location on the tool where a composite ply is configured to overlap the tooling rod. The tooling rod may have an elongated shape and may be generally oriented along a direction of wrinkle formation in the composite ply. The tooling rod may have a rod width that results in the composite ply assuming a corrugated shape when compaction pressure is applied to the composite ply.