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US 12,043,006 B2Granted
Semi-permanent vacuum bag breather and installation method
AssigneeThe Boeing Company
InventorsJonathan Santiago, Marco Tullio B. Ciccu, John Dempsey Morris, Derek John Flolid
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Abstract
A breather used for vacuum bag compaction of a composite laminate part is semi-permanently installed on a compaction tool. The breather is a channel member having an internal passageway that routes air and volatiles from the vacuum bag to a vacuum port in the tool.
Claims24
A method, comprising:
- placing a composite layup on a tool;
- installing a vacuum bag breather on the tool comprising:
- installing a channel member against the tool using at least one magnet;
- placing a vacuum bag over the vacuum bag breather, the composite layup and the channel member;
- sealing the vacuum bag to the tool;
- and establishing a vacuum flow from the composite layup into the channel member.
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A method, comprising:
- placing a composite layup on a tool;
- installing a vacuum bag breather on the tool comprising:
- installing a channel member against the tool using at least one magnet;
- placing a vacuum bag over the vacuum bag breather, the composite layup and the channel member;
- sealing the vacuum bag to the tool;
- establishing a vacuum flow from the composite layup into the channel member;
- and
- compacting the composite layup.
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A method, comprising:
- placing a composite layup on a tool;
- installing a vacuum bag breather on the tool comprising:
- installing a channel member against the tool using at least one magnet;
- placing a vacuum bag over the vacuum bag breather, the composite layup and the channel member;
- sealing the vacuum bag to the tool;
- establishing a vacuum flow from the composite layup into the channel member;
- compacting the composite layup;
- terminating the vacuum flow;
- and
- removing from the tool both the vacuum bag and the composite layup.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.