APPARATUS FOR MANUFACTURING COMPOSITE AIRFOILS AND COMPOSITE STRUCTURE

• Main Authors: CAMPO, Fritz, Andres, ANDERSON, Todd, Alan, HAYDEN, Paul, Trevor, MCCALIP, Andrew, AYYASAMY, Boobalan, TOBIN, James Robert, SAJOUS, Raphael
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 03.05.2023
• Subjects: ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY; ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING, i.e. MANUFACTURING OFTHREE-DIMENSIONAL [3-D] OBJECTS BY ADDITIVE DEPOSITION, ADDITIVEAGGLOMERATION OR ADDITIVE LAYERING, e.g. BY 3-D PRINTING,STEREOLITHOGRAPHY OR SELECTIVE LASER SINTERING; AFTER-TREATMENT OF THE SHAPED PRODUCTS, e.g. REPAIRING; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PRODUCING PARTICULAR ARTICLES FROM PLASTICS OR FROM SUBSTANCESIN A PLASTIC STATE; SHAPING OF MATERIAL IN A PLASTIC STATE, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDEDFOR; SHAPING OR JOINING OF PLASTICS; TRANSPORTING; WORKING OF PLASTICS; WORKING OF SUBSTANCES IN A PLASTIC STATE, IN GENERAL

A system for forming an article includes a polymer resin formulation formed of a semicrystalline polymer material having a first fiber content and an amorphous polymer material having a second fiber content. The first fiber content is higher than the second fiber content. Further, the semicrystalline and amorphous polymer materials are blended together to form the polymer resin formulation having a blended fiber content of greater than 10% by weight. Moreover, the polymer resin formulation is amorphous. The system also includes a computer numeric control (CNC) device for printing and depositing the polymer resin formulation layer by layer to form the article.