Invention Application
- Patent Title: Cradle System for Shaping Fuselage Sections
- Patent Title (中): 用于塑造机身部分的摇篮系统
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Application No.: US14489101Application Date: 2014-09-17
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Publication No.: US20160075450A1Publication Date: 2016-03-17
- Inventor: Jeffrey H. Hunt , Stephen A. Walls , David Arthur Whelan , Bentley Edwin Northon , Robert Roland Keever , Jacklyn Ann Holmes , Ordie Dean Butterfield , Grant Joseph Atkinson , Jonathan Kenji Brown , Glenn Scott Bushnell
- Applicant: The Boeing Company
- Main IPC: B64F5/00
- IPC: B64F5/00

Abstract:
A method and apparatus for shaping fuselage sections. A first fuselage section is held in a holding structure in a cradle in a cradle system. Force are applied to the first fuselage section with an actuator system to a portion of the first fuselage section such that a first current shape of the first fuselage section changes towards a first desired shape for the first fuselage section to join the first the fuselage section to a second fuselage section.
Public/Granted literature
- US11273930B2 Cradle system for shaping fuselage sections Public/Granted day:2022-03-15
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