Patent ID: 8079818

Claim:
A method for manufacturing a fiber reinforced laminate, comprising: building up a part of the laminate to a determined thickness, the part of the laminate comprising one or more fibre layers; placing a layer of a pre-cured material on top of the partially completed laminate, wherein the layer of pre-cured material has a greater stiffness than the stiffness of a layer of similar thickness of a uncured laminate; building up a new part of the laminate to a determined thickness; and increasing the thickness of the laminate if a desired thickness of the laminate is bigger, by: at least once or repeatedly placing a layer of the pre-cured material on top of the partially completed laminate, wherein the layer of the pre-cured material has a greater stiffness than the stiffness of a layer of similar thickness of the uncured laminate, and once or repeatedly building up a new part of the laminate to a determined thickness, until the thickness of the laminate built up is equal to the desired thickness of the completed laminate.