Composite textiles including spread filaments
AssigneeThe Boeing Company
InventorsKenneth H. Griess, Jack J. Esposito, Gary E. Georgeson
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Abstract
An article comprises a multi-directional textile of first reinforcing fiber tows extending in a first direction and second reinforcing fiber tows extending in a second direction. Filaments in the first fiber tows extend past a boundary of the textile and are spread. The tows are embedded in resin.
Claims20
An article comprising a multi-directional textile of first reinforcing fiber tows extending in a first direction and second reinforcing fiber tows extending in a second direction, portions of filaments in the first fiber tows extending past a boundary of the textile and spread, the tows embedded in resin.
A structure comprising first and second parts joined together, the first part including multiple layers of reinforcing fibers, an outer one of the layers including a multi-dimensional textile of reinforcing of tows having spread filaments that are joined to a surface of the second part.
A method of fabricating a composite structure, comprising:
- mating first and second parts, wherein the first part includes an outer layer having a weave of first tows extending in a first direction and second tows extending in a second direction;
- spreading ends of the tows into individual filaments;
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- joining the spread filaments to a surface of the second part.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.