Loading vanes onto a wheel
AssigneeSafran Aircraft Engines
InventorsNicolas Pierre Dylewski, Nathan Schaal
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Abstract
A method for loading blades onto a wheel by an articulated arm, including determining a list of blades which are intended to succeed one another along a guideway of the wheel in the order of this list, in a predefined direction of rotation from a notch until returning to this notch, such that the list has a predefined number of blades at a first end, termed first end blades, and a predefined number of blades at a second end of the list, termed second end blades, each of the first end blades having a circumferential size which is less than each of the second end blades; and—commanding the articulated arm so that the gripper seizes the blades and loads them into the notch according to the order of the list.
Claims8
A method for loading vanes onto a wheel comprising a circular slideway having a notch for loading the vanes, by means of an articulated arm having one end equipped with a vane gripper, the method comprising:
- determining a list of vanes intended to succeed one another along the slideway in the order of this list, following a predefined direction of rotation from the notch until returning to this notch, so that the list has a predefined number of vanes at a first end, referred to as first end vanes, and a predefined number of vanes at a second end of the list, referred to as second end vanes, each of the first end vanes having a smaller circumferential size along the circular slideway than each of the second end vanes;
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- controlling the articulated arm so that the gripper seizes and loads the vanes into the notch in the order listed.
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