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

Claim 12:
13. A method of curing adhesive bondlines within cells of a cell-based composite structure, the method comprising:
installing a susceptor comprising a hollow center, respectively, in each of a plurality of tooling blocks, each tooling block of the plurality of tooling blocks comprising a susceptor and an upper extension that is configured to facilitate installation and removal of the tooling blocks from the cell-based composite structure;
inserting the plurality of tooling blocks respectively in the cells of the cell-based composite structure using the susceptor and the upper extension such that an opening of the hollow center faces away from an electromagnet underlying the cells, the electromagnet comprising an induction coil oriented in a plane perpendicular to a length of the susceptor;
generating, using the electromagnet, an electromagnetic field across the cells and parallel to the length of the susceptor; and
inductively heating, using the electromagnetic field, each susceptor and thereby uniformly heating and thermally curing the adhesive bondlines.