Patent ID: 11912397
Assignee: EMBRAER S.A.
Field: Materials, metallurgy (Chemistry)
Classification: CPC B  C  F  Y | IPC B  C  F

Claim 0:
1. A method of making a thermally configurable aircraft structural component capable of assuming at least first and second structural configurations which include at least one thermally configurable region comprised of sintered shape memory alloy (SMA) particles, and at least one non-thermally configurable region comprised of sintered non-SMA particles which is unitarily contiguous with the at least one thermally configurable region, wherein the method comprises:
(i) additively sintering layers of sinterable SMA particles to form the at least one thermally configurable region of the component comprised of the sintered SMA particles; and
(ii) additively sintering layers of sinterable non-SMA particles to form the at least one non-thermally configurable region of the component comprised of the sintered non-SMA particles, wherein, steps (i) and (ii) are practiced simultaneously or in any order.