Patents by Inventor Mark Abdouch

Mark Abdouch 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 of manufacturing an assembly having a nominal thickness skin panel
    Patent number: 11858661
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a panel assembly includes supporting the panel assembly in a free state using a holding fixture. The panel assembly has a skin panel, and sacrificial material coupled to a skin panel inner surface. The method includes acquiring a free state outer surface contour of the panel assembly by scanning a skin panel outer surface while the panel assembly is supported by the holding fixture. The method also includes developing a numerically controlled (NC) machining program having cutter paths configured for machining the interface locations to an inner surface contour that reflects nominal thicknesses of the panel assembly based off of the free state outer surface contour. In addition, the method includes machining the sacrificial material at the interface locations by moving a cutter along the cutter paths while the panel assembly is supported by the holding fixture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Benjamin S. Merrit, Hsien-Lin Huang, Mark Abdouch, Nathan A. Secinaro, Daniel Bracy
  • Fuel dams, aircraft wing boxes, aircraft, and methods of assembling aircraft wings
    Patent number: 11787555
    Abstract: Methods of assembling an aircraft wing includes adhering fuel dams to stringers and adhering the fuel dams to ribs. Fuel dams include a fuel-dam body that defines a channel shaped to receive a portion of a stringer of an aircraft wing. The fuel-dam body includes a stringer adherent surface, a rib adherent surface, and a pair of spaced-apart flanges extending from the rib adherent surface and positioned to project from the rib adherent surface on opposing sides of a notch of a rib.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Kristopher William Talcott, Mark Abdouch, Matthew McKinley Whitmer, Fernando L. Perez Diaz, Mark Edmund Richardson, Alexander S. Sukhomlinov
  • METHOD OF MANUFACTURING AN ASSEMBLY HAVING A NOMINAL THICKNESS SKIN PANEL
    Publication number: 20230249844
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a panel assembly includes supporting the panel assembly in a free state using a holding fixture. The panel assembly has a skin panel, and sacrificial material coupled to a skin panel inner surface. The method includes acquiring a free state outer surface contour of the panel assembly by scanning a skin panel outer surface while the panel assembly is supported by the holding fixture. The method also includes developing a numerically controlled (NC) machining program having cutter paths configured for machining the interface locations to an inner surface contour that reflects nominal thicknesses of the panel assembly based off of the free state outer surface contour. In addition, the method includes machining the sacrificial material at the interface locations by moving a cutter along the cutter paths while the panel assembly is supported by the holding fixture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2022
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Inventors: Benjamin S. Merrit, Hsien-Lin Huang, Mark Abdouch, Nathan A. Secinaro, Daniel Bracy
  • FUEL DAMS, AIRCRAFT WING BOXES, AIRCRAFT, AND METHODS OF ASSEMBLING AIRCRAFT WINGS
    Publication number: 20230045886
    Abstract: Methods of assembling an aircraft wing includes adhering fuel dams to stringers and adhering the fuel dams to ribs. Fuel dams include a fuel-dam body that defines a channel shaped to receive a portion of a stringer of an aircraft wing. The fuel-dam body includes a stringer adherent surface, a rib adherent surface, and a pair of spaced-apart flanges extending from the rib adherent surface and positioned to project from the rib adherent surface on opposing sides of a notch of a rib.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2021
    Publication date: February 16, 2023
    Inventors: Kristopher William Talcott, Mark Abdouch, Matthew McKinley Whitmer, Fernando L. Perez Diaz, Mark Edmund Richardson, Alexander S. Sukhomlinov