Method of installing a fixture
AssigneeAirbus Operations GmbH
InventorRobert Alexander Goehlich
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Abstract
A method of installing a fixture, such as a bracket, in a fuselage structure of an aircraft includes the steps of: providing or generating a three-dimensional digital model of the fixture; arranging a head of an additive manufacturing apparatus in the fuselage structure; and forming the fixture in situ in the fuselage structure with the head of the additive manufacturing apparatus based upon the digital model of the fixture. The fixture is installed in the fuselage structure by bonding or fusing the fixture to the fuselage structure as the fixture is formed. A fixture, such as a bracket, which is generated in situ in a fuselage structure of an aircraft based upon a three-dimensional digital model, wherein the fixture is bonded or fused to the fuselage structure as the fixture is formed.
Claims10
A method of installing a fixture in or on a body or fuselage structure of an aircraft or spacecraft, comprising:
- providing a reference marker in or on the body or fuselage structure;
- generating a three-dimensional digital model of the fixture, the three dimensional digital model including data concerning a predetermined position of the fixture in or on the body or fuselage structure;
- detecting and identifying, by a robot assembly, the reference marker;
- arranging a head of an additive manufacturing apparatus associated with the robot assembly in the fuselage structure to a correct position relative to the reference marker;
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- forming the fixture in situ on the fuselage structure with the head of the apparatus based on the digital model of the fixture,
- wherein the fixture is installed on the fuselage structure by connecting the fixture to the fuselage structure as the fixture is formed.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.