Duct manufacturing method
AssigneeHamilton Sundstrand Corporation
InventorsModest Reszewicz, Tomasz Serafinowicz
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Abstract
A method and apparatus, for manufacturing a duct for a fluid management system of an aircraft. A filament-fed additive manufacturing apparatus is used to perform the additive manufacturing process. The additive manufacturing apparatus comprises a nozzle, wherein the nozzle receives material in the form of a filament and adds said material to the duct in a location proximate to the nozzle location, and wherein the nozzle moves in a generally helical path relative to the duct.
Claims15
A method of manufacturing a duct for a fluid management system of an aircraft using a filament-fed apparatus additive manufacturing apparatus, the method comprising:
- receiving material in the form of a filament at a nozzle of the apparatus;
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- adding the material receive by the nozzle to the duct in a location proximate to the nozzle, wherein the nozzle moves in a generally helical path relative to the duct while adding.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.