JOHN PAUL FISCHER
Pilots at Woodlawn Ave, Seattle, WA

6566635, May 20, 2003

Mar 8, 2002

10/094494

Marc R. Matsen - Seattle WA
Ronald W. Brown - Des Moines WA
John R. Fischer - Seattle WA

The Boeing Company - Seattle WA

H05B 612

219633, 219634

An induction heating device for manufacturing a part by heating the part to a predetermined temperature. The induction heating device includes an induction coil connected to an electrical power supply for generating an electromagnetic flux field. A smart susceptor of the heating device is positioned in the electromagnetic flux field and includes a magnetically permeable material supported by a mesh structure. The magnetically permeable material generates heat in response to the flux field. The mesh structure provides support for the magnetically permeable material and closely conforms to the desired outer geometry of the part. The magnetically permeable material may be applied as a powder to the mesh using a hot spray gun, allowing tight conformance of the susceptor to the part geometry while avoiding forming limits of sheet metal susceptors.

5419170, May 30, 1995

Oct 15, 1993

8/138282

Daniel G. Sanders - Sumner WA
John R. Fischer - Seattle WA
Chris J. Takayama - Bellevue WA

The Boeing Company - Seattle WA

B21D 2602

72 60

A gas management system for delivering forming gas under a controlled pressure through a first portion of a piping network to a region of a forming die between a die lid and a blank to be formed in a superplastic forming machine includes a gas pressure regulator in the piping network and two control loops. The first control loop has a first pressure transducer communicating with the piping network downstream of the gas pressure regulator and operatively with the gas pressure regulator. The second control loop includes a pulse controller downstream of the first pressure transducer and a second pressure transducer communicating with the piping network downstream of the pulse controller and operatively with the pulse controller. The gas pressure regulator receives signals from a controller to adjust the pressure at which the gas pressure regulator opens to release gas through the pressure regulator. The system delivers inert gas to a superplastic forming die at a predetermined pressure on a predetermined schedule to achieve optimum forming speed and quality.

5823032, Oct 20, 1998

Apr 7, 1994

8/224212

John Robert Fischer - Seattle WA

The Boeing Company - Seattle WA

B21D 2602

72 60

A process for superplastically forming a part from a blank of superplastic material such as titanium alloy, including enclosing and capturing a sheet of superplastic material having uniform thickness between a die lid and a die base. The die lid has a deep recess where localized prethinning of the blank would minimize excessive thinning of the formed part elsewhere on its topography. The peripheral edges of the blank is clamped between the lid and the base by exerting a squeezing force, typically be a press, and the die is heated, along with the blank, to the superplastic temperature of the blank. The die base is pressurized to preform portions of the blank opposite the lid recess into the recess to form a prethinned bulge. After preforming, the die lid above the blank is pressurized to reverse the prethinned bulge down into the cavity and to form the blank into the cavity. The localized prethinning facilitates forming in areas that would tend to form slowest or least and makes material available for other areas of the part that would normally become excessively thinned by virtue of the shape of the adjacent areas or depth of the die cavity, thereby making possible the tailoring of thickness in particular areas of the formed part.

5647239, Jul 15, 1997

Jun 6, 1995

8/469154

John Robert Fischer - Seattle WA

The Boeing Company - Seattle WA

B21D 2602

72 60

A die for superplastically forming a blank of superplastic material to make a part includes a die base enclosing a cavity having a topography shaped like the part, and a die lid shaped and sized to fit over the die base and engage a peripheral surface of the die base around the cavity. The die lid has an underside communicating with the die cavity and a recess opening in the underside positioned in the die lid to overlie an area on the die cavity at which the blank othewise would experience insufficient thinning during superplastic forming of the blank. Gas vents are provided in the base and the lid for first delivering forming gas under pressure into the cavity to preform the blank into the lid recess to prethin the blank in the thick areas, and thereafter vent the cavity gas pressure and deliver forming gas under pressure to the lid to form the blank into the cavity in the die base. The blank is prethinned in the recess and delivers areas of the blank unthinned to areas of the cavity which otherwise would experience excessive thinning.

5916316, Jun 29, 1999

Nov 14, 1997

8/970819

John Robert Fischer - Seattle WA

The Boeing Company - Seattle WA

B21D 2210, B21D 2602

72 60

A superplastically formed part having tailored thickness in particular areas Includes a formed blank having a preformed portion and a formed portion. The preformed portion is preformed as a bulge into a recess in a die lid, and then the bulge is reversed into a cavity in a die base as a prethinned area which delivers unthinned portions of the blank for final forming to regions of the die base cavity over which thinned portions of the blank would otherwise be formed and further thinned by final forming.

6098438, Aug 8, 2000

Jun 6, 1995

8/466507

John Robert Fischer - Seattle WA

The Boeing Company - Seattle WA

B21D 2602

72 60

A superplastically formed part having tailored thickness in particular areas includes a formed blank having a preformed portion and a formed portion. The preformed portion is preformed as a bulge into a recess in a die lid, and then the bulge is reversed into a cavity in a die base as a prethinned area which delivers unthinned portions of the blank for final forming to regions of the die base cavity over which thinned portions of the blank would otherwise be formed and further thinned by final forming.

6855917, Feb 15, 2005

Dec 6, 2001

10/011090

Marc R. Matsen - Seattle WA, US
Ronald W. Brown - Des Moines WA, US
John R. Fischer - Seattle WA, US
Brad L. Kirkwood - Kent WA, US

The Boeing Company - Chicago IL

H05B006/22

219659, 219634, 219649

A die liner for use in a die having a die body wherein the die body is configured to form a workpiece. The die liner is a discrete structure that is configured to be used in conjunction with the die body. The die liner defines a forming surface for forming the workpiece and is configured to have at least one characteristic that is different than a corresponding characteristic of the die body such that the die liner increases the durability of the die.