Laying unit, device and method for producing a fiber composite component

• US 10,456,995 B2
• Filed: 11/22/2016
• Issued: 10/29/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 11/24/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Airbus Defence and Space GmbH (Airbus SE)
• Original Assignee: Airbus Defence and Space GmbH (Airbus SE)
• Inventors: Engel, Franz, Weimer, Christian, Orth, Tilman
• Primary Examiner(s): Gross, Carson
• Application Number:
  US15/359,077
• Publication Number:
  US 20170144384A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,071 Days
• CPC Class Codes: B29C 53/8008 specially adapted for winding and joining
• CPC Class Codes: B29C 70/38 Automated lay-up, e.g. using robots, laying filaments according to predetermined patterns application heads for tyres B29D30/28
• CPC Class Codes: B29C 70/388 Tape placement heads, e.g. component parts, details or accessories
• CPC Class Codes: B29L 2031/731 Filamentary material, i.e. comprised of a single element, e.g. filaments, strands, threads, fibres cables B29L2031/707
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 156/1348 Work traversing type
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 156/1788 Work traversing type and/or means applying work to wall or static structure
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 156/1795 Implement carried web supply

Abstract

A laying unit for producing a fiber composite component includes a drive device which is formed for magnetic cooperation with a running face, which provides a magnetic field and/or is ferromagnetic, to advance the laying unit on the running face. A device for producing a fiber composite component comprising a laying unit of this type and a method for producing a fiber composite component comprising a device of this type are disclosed.

Claims

1. A laying unit for producing a fiber composite component, comprising:

a drive device which is formed for magnetic cooperation with a running face, wherein the running face provides a magnetic field and/or is ferromagnetic, to advance the laying unit on the running face,

wherein the drive device comprises at least one ferromagnetic mass element which holds the laying unit on the running face during cooperation with the running face providing a magnetic field and/or which drives the laying unit in a predetermined advancement.

2. The laying unit of claim 1, further comprising a receiving portion formed with a housing.

3. The laying unit of claim 2, wherein the drive device is provided on or in the housing, wherein the housing is configured to be rolled along on the running face to advance the laying unit.

4. The laying unit of claim 3, wherein the ferromagnetic mass element is movable peripherally on the housing.

5. The laying unit of claim 2, wherein the drive device is formed as a drive roller coupled to the housing.

6. The laying unit of claim 2, wherein the receiving portion is configured to hold a supply of fiber material in reserve.

7. The laying unit of claim 1, wherein the drive device is a laying device for laying and/or compacting a fiber material on a tool in a defined manner.

8. The laying unit of claim 1, wherein the drive device includes a heating device for activating a resin or binder of a fiber material.

9. The laying unit of claim 8, wherein the heating device is configured to be heated by eddy currents.

10. A device for producing a fiber composite component, comprising:

a shaping tool; and

a laying unit for laying fiber material comprising a drive device which is formed for magnetic cooperation with a running face, which provides a magnetic field and/or is ferromagnetic, to advance the laying unit on the running face,

wherein the running face is ferromagnetic, and the drive device comprises magnets which are configured to advance on the running face by way of magnetic cooperation of the drive device with the running face, or

wherein the running face contains controllable magnets, which are formed to be actuable to cooperate with the drive device for magnetically driven advancement of the laying unit on the running face.

11. The device of claim 10, wherein the shaping tool is the running face, which is ferromagnetic.

12. The device of claim 10, further comprising:

a hollow body having an inner face which is formed as the running face for the laying unit,

the shaping tool being arrangeable inside the hollow body such that the laying unit advancing on the running face winds or twists the fiber material around the shaping tool.

13. The device of claim 10, wherein the running face comprises communication devices which are configured to transmit control commands of a control device to actuate the controllable magnets for the advancement of the laying unit.

14. The device of claim 13, wherein the control device is integrated into the laying unit.