US 12,270,133 B1
Needling system for producing a textile preform
Gareth Clarke, Le Haillan (FR); Julien Bardy, Le Haillan (FR); Franck Laffargue, Le Haillan (FR); Nicolas Maisonnave, Le Haillan (FR); David Bitonneau, Le Haillan (FR); and Jean-Marc Dupillier, Le Haillan (FR)
Assigned to ARIANEGROUP SAS
Appl. No. 18/846,972
Filed by ARIANEGROUP SAS, Les Mureaux (FR)
PCT Filed Mar. 8, 2023, PCT No. PCT/FR2023/050307
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Sep. 13, 2024,
PCT Pub. No. WO2023/175255, PCT Pub. Date Sep. 21, 2023.
Claims priority of application No. 2202206 (FR), filed on Mar. 14, 2022; and application No. 2202207 (FR), filed on Mar. 14, 2022.
Int. Cl. D04H 18/02 (2012.01); D04H 1/46 (2012.01)
CPC D04H 18/02 (2013.01) [D04H 1/46 (2013.01); D10B 2505/02 (2013.01)] 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A needling system for making a textile preform comprising:
a needling head;
a robotic arm movable in several degrees of freedom, carrying the needling head and configured so as to move the needling head following the predetermined trajectories and orientations;
a textile strip feeding device, mounted on the needling head and configured to deposit the textile strip on a support and cut it, and
a monitoring unit configured to control the robotic arm, the actuation of the needling head and the deposition of the textile strip according to a predefined program for making the textile preform.