Method for manufacturing a part made of a composite material comprising at least one portion forming a force-insertion portion or local thickened portion

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11072432-B2
Application number	US-201515315654-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 2, 2015
Priority date	Jul 7, 2014
Publication date	Jul 27, 2021
Grant date	Jul 27, 2021

Abstract

A method for manufacturing of a part made of composite material including pre-compacting to a predetermined shape of a mixture of a first thermosetting resin with discontinuous long fibers so as to form a first preform, pre-curing the first preform until an intermediate conversion stage corresponding to a solidification of said first resin, contacting the first preform with a second preform including a fiber structure of continuous fibers impregnated with a second thermosetting resin, polymerizing the first and second preforms so as to form a part made of composite material including a body made of composite material including reinforcement made of continuous fibers consolidated by an organic matrix provided with a portion made of composite material including reinforcement made of discontinuous long fibers consolidated by an organic matrix.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A method for manufacturing a part made of composite material comprising:
precompacting to a predetermined shape of a mixture of a first thermosetting resin with discontinuous long fibers of length between 8 mm and 100 mm so as to form a first preform, the first preform consisting of the first thermosetting resin and the discontinuous long fibers,
pre-curing the first preform until an intermediate conversion stage of the first thermosetting resin corresponding to a solidification of said first resin,
contacting the first preform with a second preform comprising a fiber structure of continuous fibers impregnated with a second thermosetting resin, and
polymerizing the first and second preforms so as to form a part made of composite material comprising a body made of composite material comprising reinforcement made of continuous fibers consolidated by an organic matrix provided with a portion made of composite material comprising reinforcement made of discontinuous long fibers consolidated by an organic matrix.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the first and second resins are identical.

3. The method according to claim 2 , wherein the first and second resins are selected from among at least the following resins: epoxy type resins, cyanate-ester type resins and polybismaleimide type resins.

4. The method according to claim 2 , wherein the first and second resins are different.

5. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising drilling the body and the portion of the part made of composite material to allow passage of an attachment screw.

6. A structure part comprising a body made of composite material comprising reinforcement made of continuous fibers densified by a first organic matrix and at least one portion comprising reinforcement made of discontinuous long fibers of length between 8 mm and 100 mm densified by a second organic matrix, said portion comprising at least one surface in continuous contact with the body of the part wherein the structure part is made from a first preform, the first preform consisting of a first thermosetting resin and the discontinuous long fibers.

7. The part according to claim 6 , wherein the first and second organic matrices are formed from a same thermosetting resin.

8. The part according to claim 6 , wherein the first and second organic matrices are formed from different thermosetting resins.

9. The part according to claim 6 , wherein the portion forms a force-introduction portion.

10. The part according to claim 6 , wherein the portion forms a local thickened portion of the body.

11. The part according to claim 10 , wherein the body and the local thickened portion are each provided with bores which are aligned one with the other for passage of an attachment screw.

12. The part according to claim 10 , comprising two local thickened portions each having a surface in continuous contact with a different face of the body of the part.

13. The part according to claim 6 , wherein the part corresponds to a structure part of an aircraft selected from among at least one of the following parts: front frame of the nacelle of an aircraft engine, reverser beam of the nacelle and ram support.

Assignees

• Safran

Inventors

• Mandel Robin
• Dunleavy Patrick
• Trousset Emilie

Classifications

• B29C70/84 Primary

  by moulding material on preformed parts to be joined {(joining plastic parts by moulding B29C65/70)} · CPC title

• B29C70/74

  Moulding material on a relatively small portion of the preformed part, e.g. outsert moulding {(B29C70/845 takes precedence)} · CPC title

• B29C70/44

  using isostatic pressure, e.g. pressure difference-moulding, vacuum bag-moulding, autoclave-moulding or expanding rubber-moulding · CPC title

• B29C70/08

  comprising combinations of different forms of fibrous reinforcements incorporated in matrix material, forming one or more layers, and with or without non-reinforced layers · CPC title

• B29C66/524

  Joining profiled elements · CPC title