Patent ID: 7300693
Filing Date: 2007-11-27
Classification: B29C,B29K,B29L,B32B,B64C,Y02T,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A light weight aircraft fuselage skin panel having an array of integrated optically clear single pane window assemblies, the skin panel comprising: one metal sheet having a central cutout portion and a perimeter portion having a plurality of spaced apart perforations; a fiber reinforced preform disposed against the one metal sheet, the fiber reinforced preform extending continuously across one dimension of the metal sheet such that fibers of the fiber reinforced preform reinforce the skin panel along a periphery of the central cutout portion; a portion of the metal sheet at least partially covering the preform and forming a portion of an outer surface of at least one of the window assemblies; and a resin filling the cutout portion saturating the preform and filling the perforations in the metal sheet to form an unitary optically clear fiber reinforced window assembly having an optically transparent skin panel portion exhibiting a resin bonded integrated structure that substantially reduces a weight of said optically clear, fiber reinforced window assembly.