18385675. ADDITIVE MANUFACTURED PARTS BY USING FIBRE CONTAINING FILAMENT CONTROLLING ELASTICITY AND ELONGATION (Airbus Operations GmbH)

ADDITIVE MANUFACTURED PARTS BY USING FIBRE CONTAINING FILAMENT CONTROLLING ELASTICITY AND ELONGATION

Organization Name

Airbus Operations GmbH

Inventor(s)

Michael Telkamp of Hamburg DE

Dirk Humfeldt of Hamburg DE

Jeffrey Nangle of Wichita KS US

ADDITIVE MANUFACTURED PARTS BY USING FIBRE CONTAINING FILAMENT CONTROLLING ELASTICITY AND ELONGATION

This abstract first appeared for US patent application 18385675 titled 'ADDITIVE MANUFACTURED PARTS BY USING FIBRE CONTAINING FILAMENT CONTROLLING ELASTICITY AND ELONGATION

Original Abstract Submitted

A system for making a component having a plurality of layers sequentially deposited via additive manufacturing has a nozzle and a print controller. The nozzle has an orifice. The print controller defines a print pattern for the nozzle for each layer of the component. The print pattern defines a print order in which filaments are deposited from the nozzle to form one of the plurality of layers of the component. A cutter at the orifice of the nozzle is used to cut the filament as required according to the print pattern. The nozzle moves according to the print pattern for the layer of the component being formed and simultaneously coextrude an elastomeric matrix material and a reinforcing material from the orifice of the nozzle as one of the filaments, such that the reinforcing material is entirely internal to the elastomeric matrix material.