Patents by Inventor Thomas RIGUIDEL

Thomas RIGUIDEL 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 AND APPARATUS FOR FORMING A COMPOSITE LAMINATE STACK USING A BREATHABLE POLYETHYLENE VACUUM FILM
    Publication number: 20190232576
    Abstract: A method for forming a shaped composite structure. The method includes laying a composite laminate stack onto a mold, where the composite laminate stack comprises fabric laminate and resin and wherein the mold presents a predetermined shape, draping a vacuum film comprising polyethylene onto the composite laminate stack, thereby establishing an evacuatable volume between the vacuum film and the mold, applying suction to the evacuatable volume between the mold and the vacuum film to establish at least a partial vacuum within the evacuatable volume, thereby compressing the composite laminate stack via pressure applied to the vacuum film responsive to the at least partial vacuum within the evacuatable volume, and heating the composite laminate stack while applying suction to the evacuatable volume, thereby at least partially consolidating the laminate stack.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2019
    Publication date: August 1, 2019
    Inventors: Louis FERNANDES, Thomas RIGUIDEL
  • Method and apparatus for forming a composite laminate stack using a breathable polyethylene vacuum film
    Patent number: 10293559
    Abstract: A method for forming a shaped composite structure. The method includes laying a composite laminate stack (12) onto a mold (18), where the composite laminate stack (12) comprises fabric laminate (14,16) and resin and wherein the mold (18) presents a predetermined shape, draping a vacuum film (22) comprising polyethylene onto the composite laminate stack (12), thereby establishing an evacuatable volume between the vacuum film (22) and the mold (18), applying suction to the evacuatable volume between the mold (18) and the vacuum film (22) to establish at least a partial vacuum within the evacuatable volume, thereby compressing the composite laminate stack (12) via pressure applied to the vacuum film (22) responsive to the at least partial vacuum within the evacuatable volume, and heating the composite laminate stack (12) while applying suction to the evacuatable volume, thereby at least partially consolidating the laminate stack (12).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: BOMBARDIER INC.
    Inventors: Louis Fernandes, Thomas Riguidel
  • METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR FORMING A COMPOSITE LAMINATE STACK USING A BREATHABLE POLYETHYLENE VACUUM FILM
    Publication number: 20160368229
    Abstract: A method for forming a shaped composite structure. The method includes laying a composite laminate stack (12) onto a mold (18), where the composite laminate stack (12) comprises fabric laminate (14,16) and resin and wherein the mold (18) presents a predetermined shape, draping a vacuum film (22) comprising polyethylene onto the composite laminate stack (12), thereby establishing an evacuatable volume between the vacuum film (22) and the mold (18), applying suction to the evacuatable volume between the mold (18) and the vacuum film (22) to establish at least a partial vacuum within the evacuatable volume, thereby compressing the composite laminate stack (12) via pressure applied to the vacuum film (22) responsive to the at least partial vacuum within the evacuatable volume, and heating the composite laminate stack (12) while applying suction to the evacuatable volume, thereby at least partially consolidating the laminate stack (12).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2015
    Publication date: December 22, 2016
    Inventors: Louis FERNANDES, Thomas RIGUIDEL