Method and device for producing a textile preform

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9919480-B2
Application number	US-201414511454-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 10, 2014
Priority date	Apr 12, 2012
Publication date	Mar 20, 2018
Grant date	Mar 20, 2018

Abstract

A method for producing a textile preform includes manufacturing a multi-layer fiber fabric, which includes a first flange portion and a web portion connected to the first flange portion, deforming a first fiber layer of the first flange portion with respect to the web portion, such that the first fiber layer is at a first flange portion angle to the web portion, a web height of the web portion being set in a variable manner during the deformation of the first fiber layer, and depositing a unidirectional fiber fabric only on the deformed first fiber layer of the first flange portion.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A method for producing a textile preform, comprising:
manufacturing a multi-layer fiber fabric, which comprises a first flange portion and a web portion connected to the first flange portion;
deforming a first fiber layer of the first flange portion with respect to the web portion, such that the first fiber layer is at a first flange portion angle to the web portion, a web height of the web portion being set in a variable manner during the deformation of the first fiber layer; and
depositing a unidirectional fiber fabric only on the deformed first fiber layer of the first flange portion.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein after the deposition of the unidirectional fiber fabric, a second fiber layer of the first flange portion is deformed with respect to the web portion, such that the second fiber layer is at the first flange portion angle to the web portion, the second fiber layer being positioned on the unidirectional fiber fabric after the deformation.

3. The method according to claim 2 , wherein a number of fiber layers of the first flange portion are deformed such that the fiber layers are at the first flange portion angle to the web portion, and in that after each deformed fiber layer, a unidirectional fiber fabric is deposited only on the correspondingly deformed fiber layer of the first flange portion.

4. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the unidirectional fiber fabric and the deformed fiber layer are fixed by a thermoplastic binder after or during the deposition of the unidirectional fiber fabric on the deformed first fiber layer of the first flange portion.

5. The method according to claim 1 , wherein during the manufacture of the multi-layer fiber fabric, a second flange portion is provided, the web portion being arranged between the first flange portion and the second flange portion and interconnecting the flange portions.

6. The method according to claim 5 , wherein during the manufacture of the multi-layer fiber fabric, fiber layers of the second flange portion are deformed with respect to the web portion such that the second flange portion is at a second flange portion angle to the web portion and is of a predetermined second flange height.

7. The method according to claim 6 , wherein during the manufacture of the multi-layer fiber fabric, the fiber layers of the second flange portion and the web portion are fixed at least in portions by a thermoplastic binder.

8. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the first flange portion is trimmed to a predetermined second flange height.

9. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the multi-layer fiber fabric is curved with a fiber fabric radius of curvature during the manufacture thereof.

10. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the unidirectional fiber fabric is deposited on a support before the deformation of the first fiber layer of the first flange portion.

11. The method according to claim 10 , wherein fiber layers of the first flange portion are deformed by a guiding device, the web height of the web portion being set in a variable manner in that the guiding device is displaced towards or away from the support in a transverse direction thereof.

Assignees

• Airbus Operations Gmbh

Inventors

• Witte Tassilo
• Gillessen Alexander
• Huelnhagen Jan

Classifications

• B29C70/02 Primary

  comprising combinations of reinforcements, {e.g. non-specified reinforcements, fibrous reinforcing inserts} and fillers, {e.g. particulate fillers}, incorporated in matrix material, forming one or more layers and with or without non-reinforced or non-filled layers {(combinations of fibrous reinforcement only B29C70/04; combinations of fillers only B29C70/58; combinations with non reinforcing inserts, e.g. foam blocks, B29C70/68)} · CPC title

• B29C53/02

  Bending or folding (B29C53/22, B29C53/34, B29C53/36, B29C53/56 take precedence) · CPC title

• B29C53/04

  of plates or sheets {(B29C63/04 takes precedence; bending or folding paper B31F1/0003; folding films B65H45/00)} · CPC title

• B32B2605/18

  Aircraft · CPC title

• B29L2031/3076

  Aircrafts (blades, propellers B29L2031/08) · CPC title