Moulds with integrated heating and methods of making the same
AssigneeGeneral Electric Company
InventorThomas Koerwien
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Abstract
The present invention provides a method of fabricating a mould and the mould fabricated by such method. The mould is fabricated by providing a support structure having a predefined shape; applying a heat distribution layer on the support structure; applying a heating element network upon the heat distribution layer; applying at least one glass composition layer upon the heating element network; applying a resin composition to each of the heating element network and the at least one glass composition layer; and integrating the heat distribution layer, heating element network, the at least one glass composition layer and the resin composition to form a mould unit.
Claims34
A method of fabricating a mould;
- providing a support structure having a predefined shape;
- applying a heat distribution layer on the support structure;
- applying a heating element network upon the heat distribution layer;
- applying at least one glass composition layer upon said heating element network;
- applying a resin composition to each of said heating element network and said at least one glass composition layer;
- and
- integrating said heat distribution layer, heating element network, said at least one glass composition layer and said resin composition to form a mould unit.
A mould body comprising;
- A heat distribution layer;
- at least one heating element network layer disposed on the heat distribution layer;
- at least one glass composition layer disposed on said at least one heating element network layer, wherein said heat distribution layer, said at least one heating element network and said at least one glass composition layers are encapsulated by a cured resin.
A method of fabricating a mould;
- providing a support structure having a predefined shape;
- applying a heat distribution layer on the support structure;
- applying at least one carbon network layer on the heat distribution layer;
- applying at least one glass network layer upon said at least one carbon network layer;
- applying a resin to each of said at least one carbon network layer and said at least one glass netwrok layer;
- and
- integrating said heat distribution layer, carbon network layer, glass network layer and said resin to form a mould unit.
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