A tank production method for preventing generation of non-uniform stacked portions in a sheet layer while securing the strength of the tank, the method including a winding step of winding resin-impregnated fiber sheets to form a sheet layer with a predetermined thickness. The winding step includes divided winding steps of winding divided fiber sheets obtained by dividing a fiber sheet into a plurality of divided fiber sheets having a length shorter than the length required to form the sheet layer with the predetermined thickness. The second divided winding step or each of the second and following divided winding step satisfies an Inequality: X>(σ.Math.t.Math.L)/(A.Math.W), where an overlapped length of the start end of a new divided fiber sheet stacked on the terminal end of the divided fiber sheet wound in the preceding divided winding step is X, the tensile stress applied to the tank in the circumferential direction thereof is σ, the thickness and width of each divided fiber sheet are t and W, respectively, the length of a cylindrical portion of the tank is L, and the shearing strength of the resin is A.

A filament winding device includes: a helical winder which winds a fiber bundle around a liner; a bobbin supporting shaft which rotatably supports a bobbin for providing the fiber bundle to the helical winder and a bobbin different from the bobbin in a state in which winding-initiation ends of the fiber bundle wound around the bobbin and winding-termination ends of the fiber bundle wound around the bobbin connect to each other; and a fiber bundle storage unit. The fiber bundle storage unit has a stopper which can switch the fiber bundle storage unit between a storage state in which the fiber bundle is stored in the fiber bundle storage unit and a storage-released state in which the fiber bundle has been released from storage in the fiber bundle storage unit and the fiber bundle is supplied from the fiber bundle storage unit to the helical winding unit.

A method of making a composite pipe has the steps of (a) providing one or more sources of composite tape, the composite tape being formed of reinforcing fibres embedded in a thermoplastic matrix; (b) helically winding the composite tape(s) around a cylinder under the application of heat to form a pipe comprising fused, concentric layers of adjacently positioned, helically-wound composite tape; (c) scanning a region where edges of wound composite tape are expected to be, to generate scanning information; (d) controlling the gap between further adjacent windings by (1) using the scanning information to determine wound composite tape edge position(s), and (2) using the determined wound composite tape edge position(s) to adjust the winding process during winding; (e) repeating steps (c) and (d). The invention also relates to a corresponding apparatus for making a composite pipe.

The present disclosure provides a winding device for producing a fiber composite loop chain and a winding method, and belongs to the field of production equipment. The problem that an existing composite loop chain forming technology has tension defects is solved. The winding device includes a main shaft assembly, a clamp pushing-in mechanism, travel switch assemblies, a mold pushing mechanism, a clamp pulling-out mechanism, a positioning and clamping mechanism and a tension control mechanism which are fixedly connected to a rack. The main shaft assembly includes a driving mechanism, a bearing pedestal, a rotating main shaft, clamp sliding shafts and a supporting block. The driving mechanism is connected with one end of the rotating main shaft, and the other end of the rotating main shaft is connected with the supporting block. The rotating main shaft is connected with the bearing pedestal through a bearing, and the bearing pedestal is fixed to the rack. Two clamp sliding shafts are provided. The two clamp sliding shafts are symmetrically arranged along the rotating main shaft and are in sliding connection with the supporting block, and clamps are installed on the clamp sliding shafts. The winding device and the winding method are mainly used for producing the fiber composite loop chain.

The invention relates to a method and a device for manufacturing a pipe shell from an insulating material by means of which the cycle times can be further reduced while the quality of the pipe shell is simultaneously improved, by at least one web (29) of the insulating material which is provided with a binding agent being wound around a core (19) by means of at least two opposing belts (12, 13) which wrap around the core (19) partially. The method steps are characterized in that the at least one wound-up web (32) of insulating material is removed in a radial direction of the core (19) which is, however, not opposite to the direction in which the at least one web (29) of insulating material was fed by the one belt (12), especially by the wound-up web (32) being discharged through the same belt (12).

The present disclosure provides a high-efficiency filament helical winding device, which includes a frame body and a plurality of multi-filar guides. The frame body is provided with a through-hole, the plurality of multi-filar guides distributed in a circumference along a center of the through-hole are rotationally connected to the frame body and filament is extended out from each multi-filar guide in the plurality of multi-filar guides, and the frame body is provided with a first driving mechanism that drives each multi-filar guide to rotate.

The present disclosure provides a filament winding device, which includes a helical winding device, a circumferential winding device, and a fixing device, a workpiece is clamped through the fixing device that drives the workpiece to rotate radially and move axially, the workpiece is performed helical winding through the helical winding device, and the workpiece is performed circumferential winding through the circumferential winding device.

A fiber composite component has two inner elements arranged at a distance from one another, around which inner elements a fiber-reinforced plastics band is wrapped. In order to simplify the production of the fiber composite component, a first fiber-reinforced plastics band is wrapped around a first inner element, and a second fiber-reinforced plastics band is wrapped around a second inner element. The first and the second fiber-reinforced plastics band are wrapped alternately around the first and the second inner element in such a manner that the distance between the inner elements is bridged by the first and the second fiber-reinforced plastics band.

An automated fiber bundle placement apparatus includes a supply device, a placement head, and an articulated robot. The articulated robot includes a head swing mechanism and a guide mechanism. The guide mechanism includes a position changing mechanism which includes a support member for supporting a tow guide, and which displaces the tow guide corresponding to a change in a position of an introduction section by a head swing mechanism.

A compacter that includes a compacting roller assembly, borne by a support element. The roller assembly includes a straight central shaft, having a longitudinal axis, and a plurality of compacting rollers, mounted parallel to one another about the central shaft, each compacting roller having a peripheral surface rotating around the central shaft about a roller axis. The longitudinal axis of the central shaft is parallel to the central axis of the support element. Each roller axis is inclined by a nonzero incline angle relative to the longitudinal axis of the central shaft.