Loading patent…
AssigneeThe Boeing Company
InventorsAllen B. Hagen, Merrill W. Hogg, Alan K. Jones, Alan S. Locke, Paul J. Shirron, Wei-Pai Tang, Roger L. Williams
Estimating the term…
A composite part program generator includes a computer-aided design (CAD) system interface, a path generator, a course head manager, a post-processor and a machine simulator. The composite part program generator produces composite part programs for use on a multihead composite material application machine, such as a composite tape lamination machine or an automated fiber placement (AFP) machine, to manufacture a complex composite parts, including relatively flat, contoured, or generally cylindrical composite parts. This programming method can reduce the labor and time required to produce a composite part program for a multihead composite material application machine by an order of magnitude with respect to manual or existing automated programming methods.
A computer-implemented method of programming a multihead composite material application machine, comprising:
A computer program product for programming a multihead composite material application machine, including a computer-readable medium encoded with instructions configured to be executed by a processor in order to perform predetermined operations comprising:
A composite part program generator stored on a computer readable medium for programming a multihead composite material application machine, comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.