Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Aircraft water tank and method for manufacturing same
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Application No.: US16337897Application Date: 2017-09-06
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Publication No.: US11067227B2Publication Date: 2021-07-20
- Inventor: Hayato Kato , Takahiro Ozawa
- Applicant: The Yokohama Rubber Co., LTD.
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., LTD.
- Current Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., LTD.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Thorpe North & Western
- Priority: JPJP2016-189373 20160928
- International Application: PCT/JP2017/032041 WO 20170906
- International Announcement: WO2018/061667 WO 20180405
- Main IPC: F17C13/06
- IPC: F17C13/06 ; B65D88/06 ; B65D90/04 ; F17C1/00 ; F17C1/16 ; B64D11/00 ; B65D88/14 ; F17C13/08

Abstract:
An aircraft water tank includes a conical surface of a skirt portion and a conical surface of an inner liner attached together using an adhesive, with an identical adhesive used in forming a fiber-reinforced resin layer on the inner liner via a filament winding method. When attaching with the adhesive, the adhesive is expelled at the outer circumferential edge of the skirt portion from between the conical surface of the skirt portion and the conical surface of the inner liner. Reinforcement fibers are applied on top of the protruding adhesive, and the adhesive impregnates into the reinforcement fibers. The protruding adhesive and the reinforcement fibers form a reinforcing member which connects a uniform stress surface of the skirt portion to a uniform stress surface of the inner liner located radially outward of the skirt portion.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200024070A1 Aircraft Water Tank and Method for Manufacturing Same Public/Granted day:2020-01-23
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