Patents by Inventor Alain Cavet

Alain Cavet has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Method for manufacturing a plurality of preforms for reinforcing members
    Patent number: 9802366
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a plurality of reinforcing element preforms, involving the steps of: positioning reinforcing elements on the external surface of a die; assembling the reinforcing elements thus positioned with one another so as to form a textile sleeve with a longitudinal axis and surrounding the die; moving the sleeve longitudinally toward a multi-cavity mandrel having an elongate overall shape, the multi-cavity mandrel having on its external surface a plurality of longitudinal cavities which are distributed, when viewed in cross section, around the periphery of the external surface; forming the sleeve on the plurality of peripheral cavities so that the sleeve conforms to the shape of the multi-cavity mandrel and thus adopts the shape of a set of reinforcing element preforms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: Airbus Operations SAS
    Inventors: Xavier Legrand, Philippe Blot, Pascal Vinot, Christope Marchand, Alain Cavet
  • Method for manufacturing a plurality of preforms for reinforcing members
    Publication number: 20140377491
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a plurality of reinforcing element preforms, involving the steps of: positioning reinforcing elements on the external surface of a die; assembling the reinforcing elements thus positioned with one another so as to form a textile sleeve with a longitudinal axis and surrounding the die; moving the sleeve longitudinally toward a multi-cavity mandrel having an elongate overall shape, the multi-cavity mandrel having on its external surface a plurality of longitudinal cavities which are distributed, when viewed in cross section, around the periphery of the external surface; forming the sleeve on the plurality of peripheral cavities so that the sleeve conforms to the shape of the multi-cavity mandrel and thus adopts the shape of a set of reinforcing element preforms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2014
    Publication date: December 25, 2014
    Inventors: Xavier Legrand, Philippe Blot, Pascal Vinot, Christope Marchand, Alain Cavet