{"schema_version":1,"experiment_id":"eoa_inverse_innovation_exp09_archetype_breadth150_20260804","research_id":"eoa_inverse_innovation_exp09_light_prior_art_20260804","cell_id":"disequilibrium_leverage_and_dissipation_management__chemistry_materials","search_lanes":{"direct_problem_and_intervention":{"queries":["thick thermoset composite cure exotherm core edge temperature gradient hotspot","composite cure exotherm heat redistribution thermal bridge mold tooling","composite cure thermal switch exotherm"],"source_ids":["SRC1","SRC3"],"no_result_note":"No exact implementation of sensor-gated, reversible transfer of cure exotherm from a hot region to an undercured cold region was found; directly adjacent zonal-control and hotspot-sink approaches were found."},"synonyms_and_historical_terms":{"queries":["self-heating cure composite exotherm utilization heat transfer cold regions","thick-section resin transfer molding thermal gradient cure control","thermoset mold switchable thermal conductivity heat transfer cure"],"source_ids":["SRC1","SRC2","SRC3"],"no_result_note":null},"products_practices_and_standards":{"queries":["zonal heating cooling smart tool composite cure degree of cure sensors","patent thermal management composite tooling integrated heat sink","ASTM thermoset cure behavior test standard"],"source_ids":["SRC1","SRC3","SRC4"],"no_result_note":null},"component_combination":{"queries":["thermoset cure adaptive cooling embedded sensors exotherm control mold","predictive control temperature homogeneity resin transfer molding tool","phase change material absorb cure exotherm composite tooling","composite curing heat pipe exotherm tool"],"source_ids":["SRC1","SRC2","SRC3"],"no_result_note":"The searched component combinations exposed sensing, zonal heating, model-predictive heater control, passive or fluid-cooled hotspot sinks, and cure testing, but not their combination as a gated hot-to-cold exotherm-routing channel."}},"sources":[{"source_id":"SRC1","title":"Zonally heated tooling for moulding complex and highly tapered composite parts","publisher":"Frontiers in Materials","url":"https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/materials/articles/10.3389/fmats.2023.1126932/full","source_type":"PRIMARY_RESEARCH","claims_supported":["A thick, tapered thermoset part developed substantial spatial temperature and degree-of-cure differences; the reported maximum degree-of-cure difference was approximately 0.43.","Independently controlled heater zones reduced temperature and cure gradients and shortened the cure cycle by 17.5% without worsening the exotherm.","The approach used external zonal heaters, and the authors identified liquid heat exchange as a possible way to add and extract heat more efficiently; it did not route internally generated heat from the thick zone to the thin zone."]},{"source_id":"SRC2","title":"Predictive Control Based on Reduced Order Model for temperature homogeneity in a resin transfer molding tool for thermoset materials","publisher":"arXiv","url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.00913","source_type":"PRIMARY_RESEARCH","claims_supported":["A real RTM mold used multiple thermocouples, spatial temperature estimation, and model-predictive commands to multiple heaters to improve temperature homogeneity.","The model explicitly included heat released by exothermic cure, and molding experiments treated that internal heat source as a perturbation.","The demonstrated actuators supplied heating power and lacked cooling capability; the system did not provide a switchable conductive route from a hotspot to an undercured region."]},{"source_id":"SRC3","title":"EP4382273B1 — Thermal management for composite tooling","publisher":"The Boeing Company / European Patent Office, hosted by Google Patents","url":"https://patents.google.com/patent/EP4382273B1/en","source_type":"OTHER","claims_supported":["The patent discloses composite cure tooling with thermally optimized integrated heat sinks placed at predicted or measured hotspots.","Thermocouple-derived part-tool thermal profiles can inform heat-sink geometry, and modular sink components or fluid-cooled cavities can alter heat removal.","The disclosed pathway dissipates heat away from the composite toward air or coolant and is not sensor-gated transfer into a selected colder, undercured portion of the same part."]},{"source_id":"SRC4","title":"ASTM D4473-08(2021), Standard Test Method for Plastics: Dynamic Mechanical Properties: Cure Behavior","publisher":"ASTM International","url":"https://store.astm.org/d4473-08r21.html","source_type":"OFFICIAL_STANDARD","claims_supported":["The standard provides a small-sample method for characterizing thermoset cure rate, gel time, cure time, processing behavior, and effects of processing treatment.","It supports precharacterizing cure behavior and comparing treatments but does not establish spatial cure uniformity or validate the proposed routing mechanism by itself.","The standard assigns users responsibility for applicable safety, health, environmental, and regulatory controls."]}],"problem_evidence":{"status":"SUPPORTED","finding":"Primary studies make the thick-part cure conflict visible: reaction exotherm produces spatial temperature and conversion differences, the thick region can advance much faster than thinner or tool-side regions, and reducing the gradient through conservative or spatially differentiated heating affects cure time. The magnitude is material- and geometry-dependent, so each candidate resin and coupon still requires measurement.","source_ids":["SRC1","SRC2","SRC3"]},"closest_prior_art":[{"name":"Independently zoned heated tooling for thick and tapered composites","source_ids":["SRC1"],"overlap":"Uses embedded thermocouples, separately controlled thermal zones, cure modeling, and spatially differentiated intervention to reduce exotherm and degree-of-cure nonuniformity while shortening the cycle.","remaining_difference":"It advances colder regions with externally generated heater power rather than reversibly coupling already-generated exotherm from the hotter region into them."},{"name":"Sensor-based model-predictive RTM mold heating","source_ids":["SRC2"],"overlap":"Combines multiple temperature sensors, estimated spatial state, cure-exotherm modeling, feedback control, and independently commanded thermal actuators to pursue mold-temperature homogeneity.","remaining_difference":"Its actuators only modulate external heating; it lacks cooling, a hot-to-cold conductive channel, conversion-gated bridge activation, and explicit exotherm-transfer accounting."},{"name":"Thermally optimized integrated heat sinks for composite tooling","source_ids":["SRC3"],"overlap":"Provides tailored conductive paths at composite-cure hotspots, uses measured or modeled thermal profiles, permits modular tooling, and can connect to fluid cooling.","remaining_difference":"It passively or continuously dissipates hotspot heat to an external sink rather than switching that heat first into a selected undercured region and then decoupling it."}],"prior_art_disposition":"ADJACENT_PRIOR_ART","contrastive_claim_remaining":"Within the bounded search, the remaining testable distinction is that a removable or switchable conductive tool path, activated from measured temperature and conversion state, can transfer a useful fraction of naturally generated core exotherm to a colder region with remaining cure demand, then decouple, producing greater edge-cure advancement or lower external-heater demand than matched controls without increasing peak temperature, pressure, cooling burden, voids, residual stress, or final cure nonuniformity. The dissipation ledger and stop logic are evaluation and safety features, not independently established novelty.","contrastive_claim_falsifier":"The claim is falsified if the gated bridge produces no statistically or practically meaningful receiving-zone cure advancement or heater-energy reduction, if measured heat mainly enters tooling or coolant rather than the colder material, or if any apparent benefit is offset by higher peak temperature, pressure, sink load, defects, residual stress, or final conversion spread. Discovery of an earlier system performing sensor-gated, reversible hot-region-to-undercured-region exotherm transfer would also falsify the contrast from prior art.","gates":{"adequate_source_search":{"status":"PASS","rationale":"The screen covered direct phrasing, older thick-section and RTM terminology, zonal tooling and standards, patents, and combinations involving sensors, predictive control, heat sinks, cooling, heat pipes, phase-change media, and thermal switches. Four opened sources span four publishers and include primary research, a patent disclosure, and an official standard.","source_ids":["SRC1","SRC2","SRC3","SRC4"]},"supported_problem":{"status":"PASS","rationale":"Primary experimental and control literature directly shows cure exotherm, thick-versus-thin temperature and conversion differences, and the process-time versus uniformity problem.","source_ids":["SRC1","SRC2","SRC3"]},"distinct_testable_claim":{"status":"PASS","rationale":"Adjacent systems supply zonal external heat, modulate many heaters, or remove hotspot heat to external sinks. The proposed reversible transfer of internally generated heat into a colder region with remaining cure demand remains distinguishable and has measurable counterfactual outcomes.","source_ids":["SRC1","SRC2","SRC3"]},"bounded_next_test":{"status":"PASS","rationale":"Two matched non-structural coupon runs, bridge disabled versus preset gated operation, form a finite comparison. Spatial temperature, cure response, pressure, heater energy, sink load, stop events, final conversion, voids, and warpage or residual-stress indicators directly test both benefit and harm. Material-specific cure characterization can follow ASTM D4473 or the applicable material specification.","source_ids":["SRC1","SRC2","SRC4"]},"no_obvious_safety_or_authority_stop":{"status":"PASS","rationale":"No source reveals a categorical prohibition on a rated, non-production coupon experiment. The proposed hard cutoffs, cooling and pressure relief, sensor-loss stop, quarantine, sink-capacity bound, EHS concurrence, and quality-authority control address the obvious runaway, volatile, pressure, and release risks. Passing this gate does not substitute for resin-specific hazard review, equipment ratings, ventilation approval, or applicable regulations.","source_ids":["SRC1","SRC3","SRC4"]}},"screen_survival":true,"world_novelty_boundary":"This bounded four-source public-web screen supports only an adjacent-prior-art disposition and a researchable contrast. It cannot establish world novelty, patentability or freedom to operate, market size, expert acceptance, scale-up feasibility, qualified-part release, or realized energy, quality, or economic value; phrase misses are not evidence of novelty."}