Forming method of cylindrical composite material, inner surface layering device, and cylindrical composite material

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10974484-B2
Application number	US-201916279365-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 19, 2019
Priority date	Mar 13, 2018
Publication date	Apr 13, 2021
Grant date	Apr 13, 2021

Abstract

A forming method of a cylindrical composite material includes layering a plurality of composite material sheets in a cylindrical shape with splices formed between ends of adjacent composite material sheets such that phases of the splices in a circumferential direction differ from each other; heating the composite material sheets layered at the layering while pressurizing the composite material sheets in a state where the layered composite material sheets are disposed along an inner surface of a composite material cylindrical mold to cause a resin included in the composite material sheets to react to combine the composite material sheets to be formed in a cylindrical shape; and performing an adhesion pretreatment that is performed before the heating and allows the inner surface of the composite material cylindrical mold to adhere to an outermost composite material sheet of the layered composite material sheets.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A forming method of a cylindrical composite material, the forming method comprising:
layering a plurality of composite material sheets in a cylindrical shape with splices formed between ends of adjacent composite material sheets such that phases of the splices in a circumferential direction differ from each other;
heating the composite material sheets layered at the layering while pressurizing the composite material sheets in a state where the layered composite material sheets are disposed along an inner surface of a composite material cylindrical mold to cause a resin included in the composite material sheets to react to combine the composite material sheets to be formed in the cylindrical shape; and
performing an adhesion pretreatment that is performed before the heating and allows the inner surface of the composite material cylindrical mold to adhere to an outermost composite material sheet of the layered composite material sheets.

2. The forming method of a cylindrical composite material according to claim 1 , wherein, at the layering, the composite material sheets are inwardly layered on the inner surface of the cylindrical mold.

3. The forming method of a cylindrical composite material according to claim 1 , wherein, at the layering, the composite material sheets are outwardly layered on an outer surface of another cylindrical mold different from the cylindrical mold used at the heating, and after the layering, the other cylindrical mold is pulled out.

4. The forming method of a cylindrical composite material according to claim 1 , wherein, at the heating, dam members having a ring shape are disposed at positions on both end sides in an axial direction of the composite material sheets disposed on the inner surface of the cylindrical mold and inside a pressurization-heating case used in pressurization and heating, the dam members have the same linear expansion as the cylindrical mold used at the heating and protect both end sides of the composite material sheets in the axial direction of the composite material sheets.

5. A forming method of a cylindrical composite material, the forming method comprising:
layering a plurality of composite material sheets in a cylindrical shape with splices formed between ends of adjacent composite material sheets such that phases of the splices in a circumferential direction differ from each other; and
heating the composite material sheets layered at the layering while pressurizing the composite material sheets in a state where the layered composite material sheets are disposed along an inner surface of a composite material cylindrical mold to cause a resin included in the composite material sheets to react to combine the composite material sheets to be formed in the cylindrical shape,
wherein, at the heating, dam members having a ring shape are disposed at positions on both end sides in an axial direction of the composite material sheets disposed on the inner surface of the cylindrical mold and inside a pressurization-heating case used in pressurization and heating, and the dam members have the same linear expansion as the cylindrical mold used at the heating and protect both end sides of the composite material sheets in the axial direction of the composite material sheets.

6. The forming method of a cylindrical composite material according to claim 5 , wherein, at the layering, the composite material sheets are inwardly layered on the inner surface of the cylindrical mold.

7. The forming method of a cylindrical composite material according to claim 5 , wherein, at the layering, the composite material sheets are outwardly layered on an outer surface of another cylindrical mold different from the cylindrical mold used at the heating, and after the layering, the other cylindrical mold is pulled out.

Assignees

• Mitsubishi Heavy Ind Ltd

Inventors

• Shimono Kodai
• Okabe Ryoji

Classifications

• B32B5/26

  another layer {next to it} also being fibrous or filamentary {(relative arrangement of fibres or filaments of different layers B32B5/12)} · CPC title

• B32B2605/18

  Aircraft · CPC title

• B32B2262/106

  Carbon fibres, e.g. graphite fibres · CPC title

• B32B2260/023

  Two or more layers · CPC title

• B32B2262/103

  Metal fibres · CPC title