Molding equipment of composite material and molding method of composite material
AssigneesSubaru Corporation, Kabushiki Kaisha Ashida Seisakusho
InventorsYumi Ito, Masanori Nakajima, Takeshi Ashida
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Abstract
According to one implementation, a molding equipment of a composite material includes a vessel, a decompression system and a heating medium supply system. The vessel houses a molding target sealed by a sealing object. The decompression system performs bending forming of the molding target and pressurization on the molding target after the bending forming by decompressing a region surrounded by the sealing object in the vessel. The heating medium supply system supplies a heating medium into the vessel. The heating medium is supplied for the bending forming, and heating and curing of the molding target under the pressurization.
Claims20
A molding equipment of a composite material comprising:
- a vessel that houses a molding target sealed by a sealing object;
- a decompression system that:
- decompresses a region surrounded by the sealing object to a first pressure appropriate for bending forming of the molding target;
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- decompresses the region surrounded by the sealing object to a second pressure appropriate for heating and curing of the molding target;
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- a heating medium supply system that:
- as the region surrounding the sealing object is decompressed to the first pressure, supplies a heating medium at a first temperature appropriate for the bending forming of the molding target into the vessel;
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- as the region surrounding the sealing object is decompressed to the second pressure, supplies the heating medium at a second temperature appropriate for the heating and curing of the molding target into the vessel.
A molding method of a composite material comprising:
- carrying a molding target into a vessel, the molding target being sealed by a sealing object;
- heating the molding target by supplying a heating medium into the vessel at a first temperature, and performing bending forming of the molding target by decompressing a region surrounded by the sealing object in the vessel to a first pressure appropriate for bending forming of the molding target;
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- heating and curing the molding target after the bending forming, the molding target being heated and cured while decompressing the region surrounded by the sealing object to a second pressure appropriate for heating and curing of the molding target, the molding target being heated and cured by supplying the heating medium into the vessel at a second temperature.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.