Patent · US Expired

Process for producing a fiber-reinforced semifinished product in the form of metal strips, metal sheets or the like and apparatus for carrying out the process

US7005598B2 · kind B2 · utility

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6References

17Claims

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Assignees

Daimlerchrysler AG · US
MTU Aero Engines AG · DE

Inventors

Gerhard Andrees · Munich, DE
Heiko Fietzek · Bernau am Chiemsee, DE
Falko Heutling · Munich, DE
Bertram Kopperger · Dachau, DE
Juergen Wehr · Ottobrunn, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Apr 11, 2003
Grant date	Feb 28, 2006
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Feb 22, 2024

Classification

Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
CPC primaryB23K2103/14
WIPO fieldMachine tools
WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A process for is producing a fiber-reinforced semifinished product in the form of metal strips, metal sheets etc., from at least one layer of fibers which includes a number of long to endless reinforcing fibers spaced apart from one another and arranged in parallel and a metal. A metal jacket applied to the reinforcing fiber by a PVD process (physical vapor deposition) may act for example as the metal. At least certain regions of the metal and the reinforcing fibers run through a welding process in which a bonding takes place by planar melting of the metal to form a matrix surrounding the reinforcing fibers.

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