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Method of repairing an aircraft structure component

US8623160B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

AIRBUS OPERATIONS LIMITED · DE

Inventors

Hermann Benthien · Hamburg, DE
Axel Soeffker · Sottrum, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Dec 6, 2011
Grant date	Jan 7, 2014
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Dec 6, 2031

Classification

Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
CPC primaryB64F5/40
WIPO fieldOther special machines
WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A method is provided for repairing an aircraft structural component which has a component fault in a portion adjoining a cavity of the aircraft structural component. The method includes removing a region of the aircraft structural component that has the component fault, introducing an expansion body into the cavity of the aircraft structural component through an opening that has been formed by the removal of the region of the aircraft structural component having the component fault, wherein the expansion body while being introduced into the cavity of the aircraft structural component is in a non-expanded state, converting the expansion body that has been introduced into the cavity of the aircraft structural component to an expanded state, and closing the opening by means of a repair material.

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