Laying die, laying device and method for manufacturing a laying die

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11007729-B2
Application number	US-201916583919-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 26, 2019
Priority date	Apr 24, 2013
Publication date	May 18, 2021
Grant date	May 18, 2021

Abstract

A laying die, for picking up and laying of substrates, comprising an elastically deformable substrate receiving structure providing an engagement surface for releasable receiving of substrates, an attaching element comprising a gas channel for providing positively or negatively pressurized gas for picking up and blowing off the substrates, and a carrier body made from elastically deformable material and sandwiched between the substrate receiving structure and the attaching element which is arranged to distribute the positively or negatively pressurized gas over the carrier body. The carrier body comprises breakthroughs to transfer the pressurized gas from the attaching element to the substrate receiving structure that comprises an elastically deformable distribution plate to distribute the positively or negatively pressurized gas over the engagement surface. Also, a laying device which changes the position and/or orientation of substrates to predetermined values can comprise the laying die and a method for manufacturing the laying die.

First claim

What is claimed:

1. A method for manufacturing a laying die, comprising:
providing an elastically deformable substrate receiving structure with an elastically deformable distribution plate;
providing a carrier body made from an elastically deformable material;
providing an attaching element comprising a gas channel;
distributing a plurality of breakthroughs into the carrier body;
sandwiching the carrier body between the substrate receiving structure and the attaching element; and
providing a cambering device including a rope attached to the substrate receiving structure, wherein the cambering device configured to pull at least one of the carrier body and the substrate receiving structure into a predetermined deformation.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the providing the elastically deformable structure comprises:
providing two elastically deformable films;
arranging a heating element between the two elastically deformable films to provide a stack; and
distributing a plurality of holes into the stack.

Assignees

• Airbus Defence & Space Gmbh

Inventors

• Coquel Maxime
• Akif Öztzan

Classifications

• B29C70/38 Primary

  Automated lay-up, e.g. using robots, laying filaments according to predetermined patterns {(application heads for tyres B29D30/28)} · CPC title

• B29C70/388 Primary

  Tape placement heads, e.g. component parts, details or accessories · CPC title

• B29C31/08

  of preforms {to be moulded, e.g. tablets, fibre reinforced preforms, extruded ribbons, tubes or profiles; Manipulating means specially adapted for feeding preforms, e.g. supports conveyors (B29C31/066, B29C37/001, B29C43/085 take precedence)} · CPC title

• B29B11/16

  comprising fillers or reinforcement {(non-woven fabrics per se D04H1/00, D04H3/00)} · CPC title

• B29B13/023

  Half-products, e.g. films, plates · CPC title