Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Radius fillers for composite structures, composite structures that include radius fillers, and systems and methods of forming the same
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Application No.: US13567450Application Date: 2012-08-06
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Publication No.: US09616594B2Publication Date: 2017-04-11
- Inventor: Juan C. Guzman , Robert L. Anderson , Douglas A. McCarville
- Applicant: Juan C. Guzman , Robert L. Anderson , Douglas A. McCarville
- Applicant Address: US IL Chicago
- Assignee: The Boeing Company
- Current Assignee: The Boeing Company
- Current Assignee Address: US IL Chicago
- Agency: DASCENZO Intellectual Property Law, P.C.
- Main IPC: B32B37/00
- IPC: B32B37/00 ; B29B11/16 ; B29C70/52 ; B29D99/00 ; C09J5/06

Abstract:
Radius fillers for composite structures, composite structures that include the radius fillers, and systems and methods of forming the radius fillers. The systems and methods may be configured to create a pre-form that may be utilized to form a radius filler and/or create a radius filler from the pre-form. Creating the pre-form may include extending a plurality of lengths of composite tape from a composite tape source and receiving the plurality of lengths of composite tape in a pre-form forming structure, converging and/or otherwise combining the plurality of lengths of composite tape within the pre-form forming structure to produce the pre-form, and/or withdrawing the pre-form from the pre-form forming structure. Creating the radius filler from the pre-form may include receiving the pre-form in a radius filler forming structure and producing the radius filler from the radius filler forming structure.
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