Patents by Inventor Edward Albert Wen

Edward Albert Wen 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).

  • Multi-cell heating blankets that facilitate composite fabrication and repair
    Patent number: 11623418
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for curing a composite part. The method includes the steps of: disposing a heat blanket at a composite material; applying, with a controller, power to heaters distributed across multiple cells of a heat blanket to heat the composite material at the heat blanket; monitoring, with the controller, a temperature of the composite material at each of the multiple cells via thermocouples distributed across the multiple cells; and individually adjusting, with the controller, an amount of power applied to the heaters, for each of the multiple cells, in response to the monitored temperature and a target temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: The Aurora Flight Sciences Corporation
    Inventors: Chathuranga Kuruppuarachchige, Edward Albert Wen, Josiah Hughes, Michelle Mahon
  • MULTI-CELL HEATING BLANKETS THAT FACILITATE COMPOSITE FABRICATION AND REPAIR
    Publication number: 20210008766
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for curing a composite part. The method includes the steps of: disposing a heat blanket at a composite material; applying, with a controller, power to heaters distributed across multiple cells of a heat blanket to heat the composite material at the heat blanket; monitoring, with the controller, a temperature of the composite material at each of the multiple cells via thermocouples distributed across the multiple cells; and individually adjusting, with the controller, an amount of power applied to the heaters, for each of the multiple cells, in response to the monitored temperature and a target temperature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2019
    Publication date: January 14, 2021
    Inventors: Chathuranga Kuruppuarachchige, Edward Albert Wen, Josiah Hughes, Michelle Mahon