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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 26, 2017
Filed:
May. 15, 2015
Applicant:
The Boeing Company, Chicago, IL (US);
Inventors:
Michael Robert Chapman, Federal Way, WA (US);
Robert M. Watson, Lynnwood, WA (US);
Stephen Howard Williams, Kent, WA (US);
Assignee:
THE BOEING COMPANY, Chicago, IL (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B29C 70/38 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B29C 70/384 (2013.01);
Abstract
A compaction device for use with an automated fiber placement machine includes multiple compaction rollers mounted for independent displacement on a supporting frame. The attitude of the compaction rollers change relative to each other when fiber tows are laid up at an angle over an edge of a tool in order to maintain compaction pressure on the tows and thereby reduce non-compacted areas of the tows.