Apparatus and methods for manufacturing operations using non-contact position sensing
    2.
    发明申请
    Apparatus and methods for manufacturing operations using non-contact position sensing 有权
    使用非接触位置检测制造操作的装置和方法

    公开(公告)号:US20050251985A1

    公开(公告)日:2005-11-17

    申请号:US11165730

    申请日:2005-06-23

    摘要: Apparatus and methods for manufacturing operations using non-contact position sensing are disclosed. In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a track assembly adapted to be attached to a workpiece, a carriage assembly moveably coupled to the track assembly and moveable relative to the workpiece, and a position sensor. The position sensor includes a sensor element adapted to detect at least one edge of an index feature on the workpiece from a distance away from the index feature. In an alternate embodiment, the position sensor may include a sensing circuit that receives an analog signal from the sensing element and provides both analog and digital output signals. In another embodiment, a controller that controls manufacturing operations may be mounted directly on the carriage assembly.

    摘要翻译: 公开了使用非接触位置感测的制造操作的装置和方法。 在一个实施例中,一种装置包括适于附接到工件的轨道组件,可移动地联接到轨道组件并且可相对于工件移动的滑架组件和位置传感器。 位置传感器包括传感器元件,适于从离索引特征的距离检测工件上的折射特征的至少一个边缘。 在替代实施例中,位置传感器可以包括感测电路,其从感测元件接收模拟信号并提供模拟和数字输出信号。 在另一个实施例中,控制制造操作的控制器可以直接安装在滑架组件上。

    Side rack rail system apparatus and method
    5.
    发明申请
    Side rack rail system apparatus and method 失效
    侧架轨道系统装置及方法

    公开(公告)号:US20050263538A1

    公开(公告)日:2005-12-01

    申请号:US10854211

    申请日:2004-05-27

    摘要: A rail system for positioning a toolhead above a workpiece uses a rack cut into one edge of the rail and driven by a pinion gear whose shaft is approximately perpendicular to a workpiece to couple the rail to the toolhead. Multiple rollers placed on the toolhead allow contact between the toolhead and the rail to be effectively continuous despite the cutting away of as much as or more than two-thirds of the rail edge to provide rack teeth. Separating thickness axis containment from transverse with a square rail edge and separate thickness axis and transverse rollers allows the toolhead to follow a rail as the rail flexes over a curved surface with minimal position error. Several variations in rail, bearing, and rack implementation can realize comparable results.

    摘要翻译: 用于将工具头定位在工件上方的轨道系统使用切割到轨道的一个边缘中的齿条并由其轴近似垂直于工件的小齿轮驱动,以将轨道联接到工具头。 放置在工具头上的多个滚子允许工具头和导轨之间的接触有效连续,尽管切割多达或多于轨道边缘的三分之二,以提供齿条齿。 将分离的厚度轴保持与横向的方形轨道边缘和分离的厚度轴和横向辊允许工具头跟随轨道,因为轨道弯曲在弯曲的表面上以最小的位置误差。 轨道,轴承和机架实现方面的几个变化可以实现可比的结果。

    Automatic position-locking tool carrier apparatus and method
    6.
    发明申请
    Automatic position-locking tool carrier apparatus and method 有权
    自动定位锁定工具架设备及方法

    公开(公告)号:US20060159539A1

    公开(公告)日:2006-07-20

    申请号:US11037377

    申请日:2005-01-19

    IPC分类号: B23C1/20

    摘要: An automatic position-locking tool carrier apparatus and method include a carriage that rides on a first rail and a second rail translatably connected to the carriage perpendicular to the first rail. Pinion gears that engage with the two rails are attached to the carriage and coupled to position encoders which transmit position signals to a controller. The controller produces control signals to control brake mechanisms coupled to the pinion gears. Translational motion of the carriage and the second rail are limited or prevented when the position of the carriage and the second rail are within predetermined limitations from a predetermined location, fixing the position of an end-effector head attached at one end of the second rail. The carriage and the second rail are propelled by forces external to the system.

    摘要翻译: 一种自动定位锁定工具托架装置和方法包括一个滑架,该托架可以与第一导轨平行地平行地连接到托架上的第一导轨和第二导轨上。 与两个导轨接合的小齿轮被连接到滑架上,并连接到将位置信号传送到控制器的位置编码器。 控制器产生控制信号以控制联接到小齿轮的制动机构。 当滑架和第二导轨的位置处于预定位置的预定限制内时,滑架和第二导轨的平移运动被限制或防止,固定安装在第二导轨的一端的末端执行器头部的位置。 滑架和第二导轨由系统外部的力推动。

    Conformal vacuum cup apparatus and method
    7.
    发明申请
    Conformal vacuum cup apparatus and method 有权
    保形真空杯装置及方法

    公开(公告)号:US20050263949A1

    公开(公告)日:2005-12-01

    申请号:US10854209

    申请日:2004-05-27

    IPC分类号: B25B5/16 B25B11/00

    摘要: A conformal vacuum cup provides a machine tool attachment fitting usable in a flexible-track drill system. Using multiple, independently articulated stiffeners, the conformal vacuum cup conforms to the contour of complex aerostructure surface shapes. The individual stiffeners are decoupled from each other to some extent by grooves and slots molded into resilient overmolding material to support long-axis curving. Spacing pins employ a domed shape consonant with the elastic deformation of the workpiece surface under load. The pins employ a hard material to prevent particle embedment in use and to control position tolerance for drill heads and other tools traveling on the flexible track. Partial holes in each vacuum cup are blocked by diaphragms. Interconnection from a vacuum system manifold to the vacuum cups can be realized by penetrating the diaphragms and inserting barbed fittings connected by vacuum tubing.

    摘要翻译: 保形真空杯提供可用于柔性钻孔系统中的机床附件配件。 使用多个独立铰接的加强件,适形真空杯符合复杂航空结构表面形状的轮廓。 各个加强件在一定程度上通过模制成弹性包覆成型材料的槽和狭槽相互分离,以支撑长轴弯曲。 间距销使用与加载下的工件表面的弹性变形一致的圆顶形状。 销使用硬质材料来防止使用中的颗粒嵌入,并控制钻头和在柔性轨道上行进的其他工具的位置公差。 每个真空杯中的部分孔被隔膜阻挡。 通过穿透隔膜并插入通过真空管连接的倒刺配件,可以实现从真空系统歧管到真空杯的互连。

    Apparatus and methods for manufacturing operations
    8.
    发明授权
    Apparatus and methods for manufacturing operations 有权
    用于制造操作的装置和方法

    公开(公告)号:US07406758B2

    公开(公告)日:2008-08-05

    申请号:US10903713

    申请日:2004-07-30

    IPC分类号: B23B45/14

    摘要: Apparatus and methods for manufacturing operations are disclosed. In one embodiment, a vacuum cup assembly includes a housing having a vacuum generator formed therein, and a compliant sealing member coupled to the housing. The vacuum generator is coupleable to a source of pressurized fluid and is adapted to generate a reduced pressure region. The sealing member forms an enclosable region in fluid communication with the reduced pressure region. In another embodiment, a method of performing a manufacturing operation includes installing a coordinating pin into an indexing hole, the coordinating pin including a quantum of indexing information. The quantum of indexing information is sensed, and a manufacturing operation is performed based at least partially on the quantum of indexing information.

    摘要翻译: 公开了用于制造操作的装置和方法。 在一个实施例中,真空杯组件包括其中形成有真空发生器的壳体和联接到壳体的柔性密封构件。 真空发生器可耦合到加压流体源并适于产生减压区域。 密封构件形成与减压区域流体连通的可封闭区域。 在另一个实施例中,执行制造操作的方法包括将协调销安装到分度孔中,所述协调销包括索引信息量。 感测索引信息的量,并且至少部分地基于索引信息的量来执行制造操作。

    AXIAL CAM AIR MOTOR
    9.
    发明申请
    AXIAL CAM AIR MOTOR 有权
    轴向CAM空气马达

    公开(公告)号:US20070234898A1

    公开(公告)日:2007-10-11

    申请号:US11279215

    申请日:2006-04-10

    IPC分类号: F01L25/02

    摘要: A motor assembly including a body that includes a plurality of cylinders and a plurality of air channels and a conical shaped piston slidably coupled within each of said plurality of cylinders. The motor assembly also includes a rotatable timing shaft positioned concentric to and at least partially housed within the body and in flow communication with an air source and the plurality of air channels and a cam plate coupled to the timing shaft and configured to engage the pistons and generate torque.

    摘要翻译: 一种电动机组件,其包括主体,该主体包括多个气缸和多个空气通道,以及可滑动地联接在所述多个气缸内的圆锥形活塞。 电动机组件还包括可旋转正时轴,其定位成与壳体同心且至少部分地容纳在主体内并且与空气源和多个空气通道流体连通,以及联接到正时轴的凸轮板,并且构造成与活塞接合 产生扭矩。

    Apparatus and methods for manufacturing operations
    10.
    发明申请
    Apparatus and methods for manufacturing operations 有权
    用于制造操作的装置和方法

    公开(公告)号:US20050132560A1

    公开(公告)日:2005-06-23

    申请号:US10903713

    申请日:2004-07-30

    IPC分类号: B23Q9/00 B64F5/00 B23Q7/00

    摘要: Apparatus and methods for manufacturing operations are disclosed. In one embodiment, a vacuum cup assembly includes a housing having a vacuum generator formed therein, and a compliant sealing member coupled to the housing. The vacuum generator is coupleable to a source of pressurized fluid and is adapted to generate a reduced pressure region. The sealing member forms an enclosable region in fluid communication with the reduced pressure region. In another embodiment, a method of performing a manufacturing operation includes installing a coordinating pin into an indexing hole, the coordinating pin including a quantum of indexing information. The quantum of indexing information is sensed, and a manufacturing operation is performed based at least partially on the quantum of indexing information.

    摘要翻译: 公开了用于制造操作的装置和方法。 在一个实施例中,真空杯组件包括其中形成有真空发生器的壳体和联接到壳体的柔性密封构件。 真空发生器可耦合到加压流体源并适于产生减压区域。 密封构件形成与减压区域流体连通的可封闭区域。 在另一个实施例中,执行制造操作的方法包括将协调销安装到分度孔中,所述协调销包括索引信息量。 感测索引信息的量,并且至少部分地基于索引信息的量来执行制造操作。