Mold for drying and compacting a fibrous preform
OwnerMaxime Christian Darblade, Sébastien Pierre Roger Dunaudinventors
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Abstract
The invention relates to a mold for drying a fibrous preform, comprising at least one part having inner faces defining a cavity of the mold, against which the fibrous preform, wetted by a wetting liquid, is intended to be brought into contact, said part having an openwork structure allowing the wetting liquid to pass through this part of the mold, the openwork part consisting of a plurality of intersecting filaments defining through-openings allowing the passage of the wetting liquid.
Claims9
A method for drying a fibrous perform, the method comprising at least one step of placing the fibrous preform into a mold for drying a fibrous preform comprising at least one part comprising internal faces defining an imprint of the mold with which the fibrous preform wetted by a wetting liquid comes into contact so as to be shaped, said part having a lacunary structure allowing passage of the wetting liquid through said part of said mold, the part having a lacunary structure comprising a plurality of intersecting filaments defining through openings for the passage of the wetting liquid.
The method according to claim 2, wherein a gap between two adjacent filaments is comprised between 0.2 mm and 2 mm, or even between 0.2 mm and 1 mm.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.