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US 10,569,484 B2Granted
Device for transporting, placing and compacting composite stiffeners
AssigneeThe Boeing Company
InventorsSamuel Ray Stewart, Paul James Ballow
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Abstract
A device for compacting a contoured elongate composite layup includes flexible first and second fiber reinforced resin flexible sections flexible along their lengths. The first section is flexible within a first plane and the second section is flexible within the first plane as well as within a second plane.
Claims20
A compactor for use in fabricating a contoured elongate composite structure, comprising:
- a hat portion;
- and
- a cap portion coupled to the hat portion, the cap portion comprising:
- at least a first longitudinal section flexible along its length within a first plane;
- and
- at least a second longitudinal section coupled with the first longitudinal section and flexible along its length within the first plane and within a second plane, wherein the first and second planes are generally orthogonal to each other.
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