LAYING UNIT, DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING A FIBER COMPOSITE COMPONENT

• US 20170144384A1
• Filed: 11/22/2016
• Published: 05/25/2017
• 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: ORTH, Tilman, ENGEL, Franz, WEIMER, Christian
• Granted Patent: US 10,456,995 B2
• Time in Patent Office: 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, which provides a magnetic field and/or is ferromagnetic, to advance the laying unit on the running face.

2. The laying unit of claim 1, wherein the drive device comprises controllable magnets, which are formed to hold the laying unit on the running face during cooperation with the ferromagnetic running face and/or to drive it in a predetermined advancement.

3. The laying unit of claim 1, wherein the drive device comprises a ferromagnetic mass element, which is formed to hold the laying unit on the running face during cooperation with the running face providing a magnetic field and/or to drive it in a predetermined advancement.

4. The laying unit of claim 1, further comprising:

a receiving portion formed with a housing.

5. The laying unit of claim 4, wherein the drive device is provided on or in the housing, the housing being formed to be able to be rolled along on the running face to advance the laying unit.

6. The laying unit of claim 5, the drive device comprising:

magnets which are movable relative to the housing; and

/or

a ferromagnetic mass element.

7. The laying unit of claim 6, wherein the magnets are movable peripherally on the housing.

8. The laying unit of claim 4, wherein the drive device is formed as a drive roller coupled to the housing.

9. The laying unit of claim 4, wherein the receiving portion is configured to hold a supply of fiber material in reserve.

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

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

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

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

a shaping tool; and

a laying unit 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.

14. The device of claim 13, wherein the shaping tool is formed as a running face, in particular as a ferromagnetic running face, the laying unit being able to be advanced on the running face by way of magnetic cooperation of the drive device with the running face.

15. The device of claim 14, further comprising:

a hollow body having an inner face which is formed as a running face for the laying unit, and on which the laying unit can be advanced by way of magnetic cooperation with the running face,

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 tool.

16. The device of claim 14, 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.

17. The device of claim 16, the running face comprising communication devices which are configured to transmit control commands of a control device configured to actuate the controllable magnets for the advancement of the laying unit.

18. The device of claim 17, wherein the control device is integrated into the laying unit.

19. A method for producing a fiber composite component, comprising:

providing a shaping tool and a magnetically drivable laying unit for laying a fiber material on the tool; and

laying the fiber material on the shaping tool in a predetermined fiber arrangement by way of magnetically driven advancement of the laying unit on a running face, which provides a magnetic field and/or is ferromagnetic.