Plastic and nonmetallic article shaping or treating: processes – Direct application of electrical or wave energy to work – Producing or treating porous product
Reexamination Certificate
2005-08-02
2005-08-02
Lechert, Jr., Stephen J. (Department: 1732)
Plastic and nonmetallic article shaping or treating: processes
Direct application of electrical or wave energy to work
Producing or treating porous product
C264S413000, C264S029100, C264S029500, C264S029700, C264S154000, C264S482000, C264S040100
Reexamination Certificate
active
06923931
ABSTRACT:
A process is described for the production of holes, particularly of micro-perforations, in a composite material, constituted by fibers embedded in a resinous matrix, characterized in that it consists in a preliminary step of carrying out on a specimen of the composite material, with the help of a laser beam, tests consisting in adjusting the duration of illumination at a predetermined place on the specimen, as well as the focusing and power of said laser beam, so as to confine the temperature in the mass of the material to a range of temperatures both greater than the thermal decomposition temperature of the matrix resin and below the temperature of altering the physical properties of the fibers, so as to carry out the elimination of the resin without affecting the physical integrity of the fibers, then in reproducing on the material (8) to be treated, at each position of a perforation to be made, the operating conditions of the laser (10, 12) so as to constitute in said material a through passage, as a result of only the local burning of the resin of the matrix of the composite material.
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Buge Michel
Dublineau Pascal
Porte Alain
Airbus France
Lechert Jr. Stephen J.
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