Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Laminate composite wing structures
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Application No.: US14598002Application Date: 2015-01-15
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Publication No.: US10040537B2Publication Date: 2018-08-07
- Inventor: Jordan Charles , William M. Sampedro-Thompson , Jessica L. Watkins , Ryan Christopher Roache , Michael John Gamble , Tyler W. Downey , Wendell C. K. Choy , Gregory M. Santini
- Applicant: The Boeing Company
- Applicant Address: US IL Chicago
- Assignee: The Boeing Company
- Current Assignee: The Boeing Company
- Current Assignee Address: US IL Chicago
- Agency: Kolisch Hartwell, P.C.
- Main IPC: B24C1/06
- IPC: B24C1/06 ; B64C3/18 ; B64C1/06 ; B64C1/12 ; B64C3/20 ; B64C3/26

Abstract:
A wing may include a wing skin, a laminate composite first stringer, a rib, and at least one fastener. A majority of the first stringer may be characterized by a stacked plurality of generally planar plies of reinforcement material structurally joined as a stack to an interior surface of the wing skin and extending generally parallel to the interior surface and a span-wise direction of the wing along a substantial portion of the interior surface. The first stringer may have a generally solid trapezoidal cross section when viewed in a plane that is generally perpendicular to the span-wise direction. The rib may be positioned adjacent the interior surface, and may extend generally perpendicular to the span-wise direction. The trapezoidal cross section may be interfaced with the rib flange. The fastener may extend through the wing skin, the trapezoidal cross section, and the rib flange.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160207607A1 LAMINATE COMPOSITE WING STRUCTURES Public/Granted day:2016-07-21
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