Patent ID: 9724881
Date: 2017-08-08
CPC Classifications: B29C,B29K,B29L,E04B,G05B

Claim:
1. A 3D thermoplastic pultrusion system for creating a 3D thermoplastic composite pultrusion from a fiber thermoplastic composite material, comprising: a heated pultrusion die to heat, consolidate, and press the fiber thermoplastic composite material; one or more sets of 3D thermoplastic forming machines located downstream of the heated pultrusion die, the one or more sets of 3D thermoplastic forming machines including one or more pairs of shapeable and flexible actively chilled bands, each pair being capable of applying pressure at a specific thickness to the fiber thermoplastic composite material pultrusion from opposite sides; a CNC control system controlling the one or more sets of 3D thermoplastic forming machines to shape the one or more pairs of flexible actively chilled bands, a 3D thermoplastic pultrusion system computer system includes a computer readable medium configured to store executable programmed modules; a processor communicatively coupled with the computer readable medium configured to execute programmed modules stored therein; one or more computer programmed module elements is stored in the computer readable medium and configured to be executed by the processor, wherein the one or more computer programmed module elements configured to perform the following for a given cross-section of the fiber thermoplastic composite material: