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Abstract

A device for transforming thermoplastic matrix composite materials or thermosetting materials, includes two mold casings that are mobile relative to each other, electrically conductive, and include a molding zone designed to be in contact with the material to be transformed. The faces of one of the two mold casings are situated so as to be facing magnetic field generator, except for the molding zones, and are coated with a shielding layer made of a non-magnetic material preventing the magnetic field from penetrating into the mold casings. The mold casings are electrically insulated from each other during the molding phase so that the faces of the two mold casings demarcate an air gap wherein flows the magnetic field that induces currents at the surface of the molding zones thus localizing the heating at the interface between the molding zone and the material to be transformed.

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