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Thermostructural composite material bowl

a composite material and composite material technology, applied in the direction of rigid pipes, solid state, gel state, etc., can solve the problems of increasing the mass of liquid, increasing the cost of the liquid, and fragile pieces of graphite used as bowls. achieve the effect of low cos

Inactive Publication Date: 2004-10-28
GUIRMAN JEAN MICHEL +2
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[0014] In one of its aspects, an object of the invention is to propose a method of manufacturing a bowl out of thermostructural composite material making it possible to avoid the drawbacks of the prior art, while remaining simple and low in cost.
[0019] The invention is remarkable in that the bowl preform can be made of unitary plies that do not include any slots for enabling them to fit closely to the desired shape. This contributes to providing better mechanical and cohesive behavior to the bowl obtained by densifying the preform, and to providing a high level of safety in the event of the crucible breaking, in the context of the application to drawing silicon ingots.
[0028] In another implementation, one-piece deformable two-dimensional fiber plies are likewise used that are free from any cutouts or slots so as to obtain a complete bowl preform, but a hole is made through the bottom of the preform prior to densification by chemical vapor infiltration. The presence of this hole enhances flow of the gas, thereby making it possible to increase densification efficiency, particularly with bowls of large dimensions. After the preform has been densified, at least in part, the hole is closed with a plug. It is possible to use a plug made of thermostructural composite material. After the hole has been closed by the plug, a final step of densification by chemical vapor infiltration can be performed.

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In addition, in the application in question, very high purity requirements make it necessary to use raw materials that are pure, with methods that do not pollute them, and / or with methods of purification in the finished state or in an intermediate state of bowl manufacture.
The pieces of graphite used as bowls are fragile.
This safety problem becomes more critical with the increasing size of the silicon ingots that are drawn, and thus with the increasing mass of the liquid silicon.
Furthermore, graphite bowls are generally of short lifetime while being very thick and thus bulky and heavy.
Furthermore, C / C composite materials are less exposed than graphite to becoming brittle following corrosion from SiO coming from the crucible.
For pieces that are of hollow shape that cannot be developed, for example pieces that are bowl shaped, a particular difficulty lies in making a fiber preform having the right shape.
The filament-winding technique is very difficult to implement in order to obtain a bowl shape as a single piece.
The technique of draping plies is also difficult to implement for shapes that are this complex when it is desired to avoid forming extra thickness due to folds in the plies.
Cut plies also present the drawback of leaving discontinuities in the yarns of the preform.

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[0048] As already mentioned, a non-limiting example to which the invention applies is that of making bowls of thermostructural composite material for supporting crucibles in installations that produce single crystal silicon ingots.

[0049] Highly diagrammatic FIG. 1 shows such a bowl of composite material, e.g. C / C composite material supporting a crucible 5 which is usually made of silica. The bowl 1 stands on an annular support formed with a ring 2 mounted at the end of a shaft 3 having a setback 4 therein. The bowl has a bottom portion 1a and a surround portion 1b, part of which is substantially cylindrical and is connected to the bottom portion via a region of rounded profile. The bottom portion of the bowl 1 is machined so as to form a centering bearing surface corresponding to the setback 4 and a support surface on the ring 2.

[0050] After the crucible has been filled with silicon, the assembly is placed in a furnace and the temperature in the furnace is raised to a value which is...

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Abstract

A one-piece bowl of thermostructural composite material comprising fiber reinforcement densified by a matrix. The bowl is made by supplying deformable fiber in plies that are whole, being free from slots or cutouts, superposing said plies on a former of shape corresponding to the bowl to be made, deforming the plies, and bonding the superposed plies to one another by means of fibers extending transversely relative to the plies, e.g. by needling so as to obtain a bowl preform which is then densified. The bowl can be used as a support for a crucible in an installation for producing monocrystalline silicon.

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[0001] This application is a divisional application under .sctn.1.53(b) of prior application Ser. No. 09 / 889,862 filed Jul. 23, 2001; which was a .sctn.371 filing of PCT / FR00 / 03276 filed Nov. 24, 2000, entitled: METHOD FOR MAKING A BOWL IN THERMOSTRUCTURAL COMPOSITE MATERIAL, RESULTING BOWL AND USE OF SAME AS CRUCIBLE SUPPORT; which claimed priority under 35 USC .sctn.119(a)-(d) to French Application No. 99 14766 filed Nov. 24, 1999 and to French Application No. 00 10564 filed Aug. 11, 2000.[0002] The invention relates to manufacturing hollow parts out of thermostructural composite material, more particularly parts having a deep stamped shape that cannot be developed, that is not necessarily axially symmetrical, with an end wall portion and a side wall portion interconnected by portions in which the radius of curvature can be relatively small. For convenience, such parts are referred to throughout the remainder of the description and in the claims under the generic term of "bowls". ...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(United States)
IPC IPC(8): B29B11/16B29K105/08C04B35/80C04B35/83D04H3/07C23C16/04C30B15/10C30B35/00D04H1/45D04H1/498D04H1/76D04H3/002D04H3/04D04H3/105D04H3/115D04H3/12D04H13/00
CPCC04B35/806Y10T428/13C23C16/045C30B15/10C30B35/002D04H1/498D04H3/002D04H3/04D04H3/07D04H3/105D04H3/115D04H3/12D04H13/00D04H13/005Y10T428/1317Y10T428/24124Y10T156/1062Y10T428/30C04B35/83D04H18/02Y10T428/249928C04B2235/5256C04B2235/94C04B2235/5268C04B2235/616C04B2235/614C04B2235/483C04B2235/612D04H1/76D04H1/45
Inventor GUIRMAN, JEAN-MICHELCOUPE, DOMINIQUEGEORGES, JEAN-MICHEL
Owner GUIRMAN JEAN MICHEL
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