Method for producing a transmission shaft, preferably for an accessory box system of an aircraft turbomachine

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9850939-B2
Application number	US-201414764871-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 3, 2014
Priority date	Feb 4, 2013
Publication date	Dec 26, 2017
Grant date	Dec 26, 2017

Abstract

A method for producing by pultrusion a hollow main body of a rotary movement transmission shaft made of a composite material, the method including: impregnating a reinforcement; arranging a reinforcing fabric around a pultrusion chuck to wrap the pultrusion chuck, the fabric including circumferential fibers arranged in planes orthogonal to a longitudinal axis of the chuck; and then depositing the impregnated reinforcement around the reinforcing fabric.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A method for producing by pultrusion a hollow main body of a rotary movement transmission shaft made of a composite material, the method comprising:
impregnating a reinforcement with a resin, the reinforcement being made from plural unidirectional fibers;
arranging a reinforcing fabric around a pultrusion chuck to wrap the pultrusion chuck, the reinforcing fabric comprising circumferential fibers arranged in planes orthogonal to a longitudinal axis of the pultrusion chuck; and then
depositing the impregnated reinforcement around the reinforcing fabric such that each of the unidirectional fibers of the impregnated reinforcement is put into contact with the reinforcing fabric arranged around the pultrusion chuck.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the arranging the reinforcing fabric is made by fitting in a sleeve-shaped reinforcing fabric around the pultrusion chuck.

3. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the reinforcing fabric is deposited in a dry state around the pultrusion chuck, and then impregnated with a resin of the impregnated reinforcement brought into contact therewith.

4. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the reinforcing fabric is a 2D fabric with orthogonal fibers.

5. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the circumferential fibers of the reinforcing fabric represent more than 80% of all fabric fibers.

6. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising, after the impregnating the reinforcement, a shaping of the reinforcement during which the depositing the impregnated reinforcement around the reinforcing fabric is performed, and curing an assembly formed by the reinforcement and the reinforcing fabric.

7. The method according to claim 6 , further comprising, after the curing, cutting-out an obtained tubular element, to obtain a main body of a rotary movement transmission shaft.

8. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the reinforcement includes plural layers in which all of the fibers in each layer is unidirectional, and a first layer of the fibers of the reinforcement are deposited parallel to the longitudinal axis of the chuck.

9. The method according to claim 8 , wherein a second layer of the fibers of the reinforcement cover the first layer of the fibers of the reinforcement and are deposited at an angle less than 45 degrees with respect to the longitudinal axis of the chuck.

Assignees

• Safran

Inventors

• Thomas Cedric
• Dunleavy Patrick
• Balk Wouter

Classifications

• B29C70/52

  Pultrusion, i.e. forming and compressing by continuously pulling through a die · CPC title

• F16C3/026 Primary

  Shafts made of fibre reinforced resin · CPC title

• B29C53/58

  helically · CPC title

• B29K2105/0809

  Fabrics · CPC title

• B29K2063/00

  Use of {EP, i.e.} epoxy resins {or derivatives thereof}, as moulding material · CPC title