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

Claim 5:
6. 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;
inserting the plurality of tooling blocks respectively in the cells of the cell-based composite structure 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.