Bond surface testing apparatus and method
AssigneeThe Boeing Company
InventorsEugene Dan-Jumbo, Joel P. Baldwin
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Abstract
A bond surface testing apparatus includes a solution chamber; a plurality of solutions in the solution chamber, the solution chamber adapted to dispense the solutions onto a bonding surface; an information capture module carried by the solution chamber and adapted to capture information relating to bonding surface properties of the bonding surface; at least one analysis module interfacing with the information capture module and adapted to analyze the bonding surface properties of the bonding surface; and a structural wettability factor prediction module interfacing with the at least one analysis module and adapted to predict a structural wettability factor based on the bonding surface properties.
Claims20
A bond surface testing apparatus for testing bonding suitability of a bonding surface, comprising:
- a solution chamber;
- a plurality of solutions in said solution chamber, said solution chamber adapted to dispense said solutions onto the bonding surface;
- an information capture module carried by said solution chamber and adapted to capture information relating to bonding surface properties of the bonding surface;
- at least one analysis module interfacing with said information capture module and adapted to analyze said bonding surface properties of the bonding surface;
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- a structural wettability factor prediction module interfacing with said at least one analysis module and adapted to predict a structural wettability factor based on said bonding surface properties.
A bond surface testing apparatus for testing bonding suitability of a bonding surface, comprising:
- a solution chamber;
- a plurality of solutions in said solution chamber, said solution chamber adapted to dispense said solutions onto the bonding surface;
- a pair of stand-offs adapted to engage the bonding surface;
- an information capture module carried by said stand-offs and adapted to capture information relating to bonding surface properties of the bonding surface;
- a data transfer pathway interfacing with said information capture module;
- a plurality of analysis modules interfacing with said data transfer pathway and adapted to analyze said bonding surface properties of the bonding surface;
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- a structural wettability factor prediction module interfacing with said data transfer pathway and adapted to predict a structural wettability factor based on said bonding surface properties.
A bond surface testing method, comprising:
- providing a plurality of solutions;
- activating functional groups on a bonding surface by dispensing said plurality of solutions onto said bonding surface;
- analyzing bonding surface properties on said bonding surface;
- and
- predicting a structural wettability factor based on said bonding surface properties.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.