Method for repairing a damaged composite component having fibre optics
AssigneeAirbus Operations GmbH
InventorAlexander Weisser
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Abstract
The invention is directed to a method for repairing a damaged composite fiber component of an aircraft having at least one integrated fiber optic, the damaged area including both a damaged composite structure and a damaged optical fiber, comprising mechanically removing material from the damaged area, to form a removed area, exposing ends of the damaged composite fiber component in an edge area of the removed area, splicing-in a bridging fiber optic portion for restoring an optical connection, laying the bridging fiber optic along an edge area of the removed area, and pressing and gluing-in a repair patch into the removed area.
Claims10
A method for repairing a damaged composite fibre component of an aircraft having at least one integrated fibre optic, wherein said damaged area includes both a damaged composite structure and a damaged optical fibre, comprising:
- a) mechanically removing material from the damaged area, to form a removed area;
- b) exposing ends of the damaged composite fibre component in an edge area of the removed area;
- c) splicing in a bridging fibre optic portion for restoring an optical connection;
- d) laying the bridging fibre optic along an edge area of the removed area;
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- (e) pressing and gluing-in a repair patch into the removed area.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.