Method for the manufacture of a fiber-reinforced component
AssigneeAirbus Operations GmbH
InventorsPatrick Bakker, Frank Brueggemann, Klaus Edelmann, Guenter Hoppe
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Abstract
A method for the manufacture of a fiber-reinforced component includes heating a blank of a carbon-fiber-reinforced thermoplastic plastic material to at least a melting temperature of the thermoplastic plastic material; introducing the blank into an at least two-part molding tool; forming the fiber-reinforced component by applying pressure on the blank using the molding tool; and injecting a further thermoplastic plastic material into at least one edge region of the molding tool so as to form an edge seal.
Claims6
A method for the manufacture of a fiber-reinforced component comprising:
- heating a blank of a carbon-fiber-reinforced thermoplastic plastic material to at least a melting temperature of the thermoplastic plastic material;
- introducing the blank into an at least two-part moulding tool;
- forming the fiber-reinforced component by applying pressure on the blank using the moulding tool for reaching a final three-dimensional spatial shape;
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- simultaneously injecting a further thermoplastic plastic material during the forming of the fiber-reinforced component into a cavity of at least one edge region of the moulding tool so as to form an edge seal, wherein the cavity forms as a result of interlaminar gliding of layers of reinforcement fibers within the semifinished fiber-reinforced component during the forming process.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.