Bonding equipment for joining a thermoplastic strip to a component such as aircraft components or rotor blades, has an elliptical reflector with two focussing points aiming IR light at the joint

摘要

An infra-red (IR) source (3) produces a light beam (5) directed at a connecting point(6) between the strip material (12) and carrier component (10). The IR source is /}3mm from a first focussing point (F1) of an elliptical reflector (1,1') and a second focussing point (F2) directs the light beam at the point being joined.