Method for manufacturing composite materials and mold for the same
AssigneeGlory Wheel Enterprise Co., Ltd.
InventorCHIEN-HAO LEE
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Abstract
A method for manufacturing composite materials including the following steps: preparing an inner mold, wherein the inner mold is hollow, includes an outer surface, and is made of a two-phase material that has the ability to transition between at least two phases, with the two phases including at least a liquid phase and a solid phase, and transitioning from solid phase to liquid phase under phase-change conditions, wrapping the outer surface of the inner mold with a fiber-reinforced material by repeatedly winding or attaching the carbon fiber-reinforced material onto the outer surface, applying a forming temperature and forming pressure to the fiber-reinforced material, and removing the inner mold.
Claims20
A method for manufacturing composite materials, comprising steps of:
- preparing an inner mold, wherein the inner mold is hollow and includes an outer surface, and the inner mold is made of a two-phase material, wherein the two-phase material is able to transition between at least two phases under phase-change conditions, with the two phases comprising at least a liquid phase and a solid phase;
- wrapping the outer surface of the inner mold with a carbon fiber-reinforced material by winding or attaching the carbon fiber-reinforced material onto the outer surface;
- applying a forming temperature and a forming pressure to the carbon fiber-reinforced material;
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- removing the inner mold.
A mold for manufacturing composite materials, wherein the mold is hollow, and the mold comprises a two-phase material, wherein the two-phase material has an ability of transition between at least two phases under phase-change conditions, with the two phases comprising at least a liquid phase and a solid phase.
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