Method for heating a webbing reinforced by carbon fibers

US4385957A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Messerschmitt Bolkow Blohm GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Peter Wackerle · Ottobrunn, DE
• Dieter Franz · Ludwigshafen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 1, 1980
• Grant date: May 31, 1983
• Expiry date: Jul 1, 2000

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T29/49083
• WIPO field: Other special machines
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A webbing reinforced by carbon fibers is heated during its resin impregnation by passing an electric current through the carbon fibers whereby the carbon fibers act directly as heating mats in a system of layers of fiber reinforced material. Thus, the use of heated molds has been obviated which is of particular advantage especially for large scale structural components, especially if such components have a complicated configuration.