Patent ID: 11904554
Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANY
Field: Other special machines (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B  H | IPC B  H

Claim 8:
9. An induction welding apparatus, the induction welding apparatus comprising:
a heatsink including a carrier sheet and a plurality of tiles bonded to the carrier sheet, the carrier sheet comprising an electrically non-conductive material, the carrier sheet having a contoured profile, the plurality of tiles comprising a thermally conductive and electrically non-conductive material, wherein each tile of the plurality of tiles includes a bonding surface bonded to the carrier sheet and a contact surface opposite the bonding surface;
an induction welding coil;
a clamp configured to apply pressure to two or more composite components to be induction welded, wherein the contact surface is configured to contact one of the two or more composite components to be induction welded; and
a non-conductive tooling block contacting the carrier sheet of the heatsink, wherein the heatsink is between the non-conductive tooling block and the clamp,
wherein the induction welding coil is configured to induction weld the two or more composite components together by generating an electromagnetic current.