MUMBAI, India, Nov. 28 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202531110354 A) filed by Nitin Sharma; and Souvik Biswas, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, on Nov. 12, for 'modular automated fibre placement (afp) head.'
Inventor(s) include Nitin Sharma; and Souvik Biswas.
The application for the patent was published on Nov. 28, under issue no. 48/2025.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The invention discloses a detachable, modular automated fibre placement (AFP) head (100) for manufacturing composite structures. The head is designed to be carrier-agnostic, mountable on robotic, gantry, or CNC systems. It integrates four novel closed-loop features: a tape dispensing system (104) with a closed-loop tension control system (108) utilizing load cell unit(s) (110) for precision, which notably avoids the use of mechanical dancers; a temperature control system (112) with a multi-mode heating unit and adaptive temperature control; an integrated cut-clamp-restart system (116) for seamless operations; and an embedded real-time defect monitoring system (118). The head is governed by a computer program that dynamically corrects process parameters (feed rate, tension, heating) in real-time based on monitoring feedback, thereby minimizing overlaps, gaps, and slackness, and achieving superior layup quality, flexibility, and cost-efficiency compared to conventional fixed-head AFP systems."
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