Patent ID: 11858219
Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANY
Field: Other special machines (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B  H | IPC B  H

Claim 1:
2. A method of curing adhesive bondlines within cells of a cell-based composite structure, comprising:
installing a susceptor in each of a plurality of tooling blocks;, inserting the plurality of tooling blocks respectively in the cells of the cell-based composite structure;
generating an electromagnetic field;
inductively heating the susceptors using the electromagnetic field; and
thermally curing the adhesive bondlines using heated susceptors,
wherein generating the electromagnetic field includes passing high frequency alternating current through an induction coil,
wherein at least certain of the cells contains a heat sensitive component, and inductively heating the susceptors includes avoiding heating of the heat sensitive components by orienting the induction coil such that the electromagnetic field extends parallel to the heat sensitive components.