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

Claim 0:
1. 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 the plurality tooling blocks are arranged in rows thereof, and inductively heating the susceptors includes:
orienting the induction coil such that the electromagnetic field extends perpendicular to the rows of the tooling blocks, and
coupling the electromagnetic field with the susceptors.