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US 11,660,654 B2Granted
Super plastic forming apparatus and method
AssigneeGroup Rhodes Limited
InventorPeter Anderton
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Abstract
A cooling apparatus for a component formed by super plastic forming including a gas source configured to supply a gas to an interior space of the component via a gas inlet, a gas outlet configured to allow the gas to exit the interior space, and a gas column connected to the gas outlet and configured to compensate for changes in an external pressure acting on the component.
Claims8
A cooling apparatus for a component formed by super plastic forming, the cooling apparatus comprising:
- a gas source configured to supply a supplied gas to an interior space of the component via a gas inlet;
- a gas outlet configured to allow the gas to exit the interior space;
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- a gas column connected to the gas outlet at a connection point, the gas column being configured to compensate for changes in an external pressure acting on the component,
- wherein the gas column is a substantially vertically aligned structure and at least a portion of gas column is at a greater height than the connection point of the gas column and the gas outlet, wherein a vertical height of the gas column is greater than a width of the gas column, and wherein the gas column is at least partially filled with a column gas.
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