US Patent Issued to ROHR on Dec. 30 for "Systems and methods for bladder pressure forming a preform into a shaped body" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,747, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to ROHR INC. (Chula Vista, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for bladder pressure forming a preform into a shaped body" was invented by Vijay V. Pujar (San Diego), Katherine E. Waugh (San Diego) and Christopher C. Koroly (Spring Valley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A manufacturing method is provided. A preform is arranged over a surface of an inner mold line. The preform is folded over sides of the inner mold line. An end of the preform is clamped to a floating plate using a bladder-activated clamp. The floating plate is translated in a first direction to tension the preform into a shaped bod...