US 12,257,744 B2
Tool apparatus for producing a composite material component part and method for producing a component part from a composite material
Marvin Schneider, Herrenberg (DE); and Markus Kaden, Stuttgart (DE)
Assigned to Deutsches Zentrum fuer Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V., Cologne (DE)
Filed by Deutsches Zentrum fuer Luft-und Raumfahrt e.V., Cologne (DE)
Filed on Sep. 9, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/447,216.
Application 17/447,216 is a continuation of application No. PCT/EP2020/056470, filed on Mar. 11, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2019 106 107.5 (DE), filed on Mar. 11, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0072807 A1, Mar. 10, 2022
Int. Cl. B29C 33/06 (2006.01); B29C 35/08 (2006.01); B29C 70/30 (2006.01); B29C 70/54 (2006.01); H05B 3/34 (2006.01); H05B 6/10 (2006.01); H05B 6/14 (2006.01); H05B 6/36 (2006.01); H05B 6/44 (2006.01)
CPC B29C 33/06 (2013.01) [H05B 3/34 (2013.01); H05B 6/105 (2013.01); H05B 6/14 (2013.01); H05B 6/36 (2013.01); H05B 6/44 (2013.01); B29C 2035/0816 (2013.01); B29C 70/30 (2013.01); B29C 70/54 (2013.01); H05B 6/362 (2013.01)] 21 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. Tool apparatus for producing a composite material component part, said tool apparatus comprising:
a forming tool having a contact region for a workpiece;
wherein the forming tool is made, in at least a portion thereof, of an electrically conductive material; and
an induction heating apparatus having an inductive heating mat;
wherein the inductive heating mat is a mat that comprises a coil apparatus;
wherein the inductive heating mat is flexurally flexible;
wherein the heating mat is positioned in spaced relation to the forming tool;
wherein a positioning of the workpiece is provided between the heating mat and the forming tool, in contact with the forming tool; and
wherein heating of the forming tool is provided, in at least a portion thereof, by the induction heating apparatus.