Repair methods and systems for honeycomb structures in gas turbine engines
AssigneeRaytheon Technologies Corporation
InventorsGuolin Oo, Garimella Balaji Rao
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Abstract
A method of applying a braze component to a honeycomb structure may comprise: applying at least a partial vacuum within a chamber, the chamber defined at least partially by a vacuum device and a cover, the honeycomb structure disposed within the chamber, the braze component disposed between the honeycomb structure and the cover; pulling the cover towards the braze component in response to applying the partial vacuum; and pulling the braze component into a plurality of hexagonal cells defined by the honeycomb structure in response to pulling the cover towards the braze component.
Claims8
A method of applying a braze component to a honeycomb structure, the method comprising:
- applying at least a partial vacuum within a chamber, the chamber defined at least partially by a vacuum device and a cover, the honeycomb structure disposed within the chamber, the braze component disposed between the honeycomb structure and the cover;
- pulling the cover towards the braze component in response to applying the partial vacuum;
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- pulling the braze component into a plurality of hexagonal cells defined by the honeycomb structure in response to pulling the cover towards the braze component.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.