Michael F Gamble

US Patent:

20040166408, Aug 26, 2004

Filed:

Feb 20, 2003

Appl. No.:

10/369906

Inventors:

David Anderson - Issaquah WA, US
Michael Gamble - Puyallup WA, US
Kenneth Pinyan - Seattle WA, US

Assignee:

The Boeing Company

International Classification:

H01M004/58

US Classification:

429/218100

Abstract:

A wire integrated with a structural member, a structural member having an integrated wire, and a method of manufacturing an integrated wire are provided. The wire is formed of a plurality of nonlinear tows that are disposed on the structural member in a generally longitudinal direction. The tows can be interlaced, for example, in a braided or woven configuration. Each tow is formed of fibers that can be coated with an electrically conductive metal, and strands of electrically conductive metal can also be interlaced with the fibers or tows so that the wire provides electrical communication for transmitting electrical signals or power. A structural material is disposed between the tows and joins the tows to the structural member.

US Patent:

20230046394, Feb 16, 2023

Filed:

May 2, 2022

Appl. No.:

17/661727

Inventors:

- Chicago IL, US
Ben C. Welte - Edmonds WA, US
Michael J. Gamble - Redmond WA, US
Steven F. Hastings - Sammamish WA, US

International Classification:

B64C 1/26

Abstract:

An aircraft has a fuselage, a wing assembly, and a pair of struts. The wing assembly has a center wing structure and a pair of outer wing structures. The center wing structure is coupled to the fuselage at a wing-fuselage joint, and has a pair of engine mounting locations respectively on opposite sides of a wing centerline. Each of the struts is coupled to the fuselage at a strut-fuselage joint, and to one of the outer wing structures at a strut-wing joint. Each strut-fuselage joint is located below and aft of the wing-fuselage joint. Each outer wing structure is coupled to the center wing structure at a mid-wing joint located no further inboard than the engine mounting location, and no further outboard than the strut-wing joint.

US Patent:

20160207607, Jul 21, 2016

Filed:

Jan 15, 2015

Appl. No.:

14/598002

Inventors:

- Chicago IL, US
Jessica L. Watkins - Bothell WA, US
Ryan Christopher Roache - Woodinville WA, US
Michael John Gamble - Redmond WA, US
Tyler W. Downey - Bellevue WA, US
Wendell C.K. Choy - Kirkland WA, US
Gregory M. Santini - Bothell WA, US

Assignee:

The Boeing Company - Chicago IL

International Classification:

B64C 3/18
B64C 3/26

Abstract:

A wing may include a wing skin, a laminate composite first stringer, a rib, and at least one fastener. A majority of the first stringer may be characterized by a stacked plurality of generally planar plies of reinforcement material structurally joined as a stack to an interior surface of the wing skin and extending generally parallel to the interior surface and a span-wise direction of the wing along a substantial portion of the interior surface. The first stringer may have a generally solid trapezoidal cross section when viewed in a plane that is generally perpendicular to the span-wise direction. The rib may be positioned adjacent the interior surface, and may extend generally perpendicular to the span-wise direction. The trapezoidal cross section may be interfaced with the rib flange. The fastener may extend through the wing skin, the trapezoidal cross section, and the rib flange.