Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Flexible compactor with reinforcing spine
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Application No.: US13968957Application Date: 2013-08-16
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Publication No.: US09931807B2Publication Date: 2018-04-03
- Inventor: Samuel Ray Stewart
- Applicant: The Boeing Company
- Applicant Address: US IL Chicago
- Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANY
- Current Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANY
- Current Assignee Address: US IL Chicago
- Agency: Yee & Associates, P.C.
- Main IPC: B30B15/00
- IPC: B30B15/00 ; B32B1/04 ; B29C70/44 ; B30B15/02 ; B29C70/38 ; B29C70/34 ; B29D99/00

Abstract:
A device for compacting a contoured elongate composite layup includes flexible first and second fiber reinforced resin flexible sections flexible along their lengths. The first section is flexible within a first plane and the second section is flexible within the first plane as well as within a second plane. The second section includes flexible joints reinforced by a spine.
Public/Granted literature
- US20130333830A1 Flexible Compactor with Reinforcing Spine Public/Granted day:2013-12-19
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