Supporting profiled element, method for producing a supporting profiled element, and use of said supporting profiled element in a method for producing a reinforced vehicle fuselage component

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9815246-B2
Application number	US-201113704698-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 16, 2011
Priority date	Jun 17, 2010
Publication date	Nov 14, 2017
Grant date	Nov 14, 2017

Abstract

A supporting profiled demerit is configured to support a reinforcing profiled element that is formed from a fiber composite semi-finished product during a curing process of a method for producing a vehicle fuselage component, during which the reinforcing profiled element is bonded to a surface of a fuselage shell that is also formed from a fiber composite semi-finished product. The supporting profiled element includes an air-impermeable profiled hose having two ends and a first end piece that is detachably inserted at a first of the two ends of the profiled hose so as to form an insertion connection. The first end piece is sealed against the profiled hose by the insertion connection.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A supporting profiled element configured to support a reinforcing profiled element that is formed from a fiber composite semi-finished product during a curing process of a method for producing a vehicle fuselage component, in which the reinforcing profiled element is bonded to a surface of a fuselage shell that is formed from a fiber composite semi-finished product, the supporting profiled element comprising:
an air-impermeable profiled hose having two ends; and
a first end piece that is detachably inserted at a first of the two ends of the profiled hose so as to form an insertion connection, the first end piece being sealed against the profiled hose by the insertion connection, the first end piece comprising an air passage opening and an air passage screw with a widened head configured to clamp an air-impermeable film that surrounds the air passage opening between the widened head and an outer portion of the first end piece, the air passage opening being disposed in an oblique face of the first end piece so that the air-impermeable film can be sealed against the oblique face, the air passage opening comprising a threaded hole configured to receive the air passage screw, the air passage screw having a shaft portion, provided with an outer thread, configured to engage through a hole in the air-impermeable film, the air passage screw comprising a sealing disc configured to face the oblique face upon insertion of the air passage screw into the threaded hole of the air passage opening, the air passage screw comprising a central drill-hole that extends in a longitudinal direction of the air passage screw;
wherein an inner portion of the first end piece projects into the first end of the profiled hose, the inner portion comprising a first region and a second region, a cross-section of the second region being comparatively smaller than a cross-section of the first region, the first region including at least one sealing ring for sealing against the attached first end of the profiled hose, and the second region including at least one projection which extends circumferentially around the second region and is formed of the same material as the first end piece,
wherein the outer portion of the first end piece projects out of the first end of the profiled hose and extends a profile of the hose in a flush manner, and
wherein a gradation attaches the inner portion to the outer portion, the gradation being formed with dimensions that correspond to a thickness of the profiled hose.

2. The supporting profiled element according to claim 1 , further comprising a second end piece that is detachably inserted at a second end of the profiled hose so as to form another insertion connection, the second end piece being sealed against the profiled hose by the other insertion connection.

3. The supporting profiled element according to claim 1 , wherein the outer portion of the first end piece has at least a second oblique face, and wherein the oblique faces facilitate laying the air-impermeable film which is used in the curing process.

4. The supporting profiled element according to claim 1 , wherein the air passage opening is configured for applying a predetermined pressure to an interior of the hose during the curing process.

5. The supporting profiled element according to claim 1 , wherein the at least one sealing ring is laid in a circumferential groove which is formed on the first region of the first end piece.

Assignees

• Buerkner Steffen
• Scholler Jochen
• Hansen Erik
• Premium Aerotec Gmbh

Inventors

• Buerkner Steffen
• Scholler Jochen
• Hansen Erik

Classifications

• B29C70/443 Primary

  and impregnating by vacuum or injection · CPC title

• Y10T156/10

  Methods of surface bonding and/or assembly therefor · CPC title

• Y10T29/49826

  Assembling or joining · CPC title

• B29C33/505 Primary

  cores or mandrels, e.g. inflatable (B29C33/0016 takes precedence; for winding and joining B29C53/824; for supporting articles during joining B29C66/634; flexible cores for vulcanizing tyres B29D30/0654) · CPC title

• Y02T50/433

  Cross-Sectional Technologies · mapped topic