Fastener storage
AssigneeThe Boeing Company
InventorsHarinder Singh Oberoi, Kevin Marion Barrick, Yuanxin Charles Hu, Melissa A. Johnson, Laura Carolyn Foster, Gi Jun Hong, Hwangyu Shin, Youngwoo Koh
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Abstract
Fastener storage is presented. The fastener storage comprises a disc with a plurality of apertures through a first face of the disc and arranged in a plurality of rings concentric with the disc, and a plurality of machine-readable identifiers on the first face of the disc.
Claims22
A fastener storage that comprises:
- a disc with a plurality of apertures through a first face of the disc and arranged in a plurality of rings concentric with the disc;
- and
- a plurality of machine-readable identifiers located on the first face of the disc and configured to indicate a distance that a fastener is elevated above the first face.
A fastener storage that comprises:
- a disc that comprises concentric circles of apertures through a first face of the disc, wherein each of the apertures comprises a respective aperture diameter with a clearance-fit to a predefined fastener and aperture diameters vary between each of the concentric circles;
- and
- machine-readable identifiers on the first face of the disc, each of the machine-readable identifiers configured to identify a distance that a head of a fastener is elevated above the first face.
A method of storing fasteners, the method comprising:
- placing, shaft first, the fasteners into a set of apertures in a first face of a disc so that, respectively, a head of each of the fasteners remains elevated a distance above the first face;
- and
- assigning fastener size data to a set of machine-readable identifiers allocated to the set of apertures and configured to identify the distance above the first face.
A method of storing a fastener, the method comprising:
- placing, shaft first, the fastener into an aperture in a first face of a disc such that a head of the fastener remains elevated a distance above the first face;
- and
- assigning fastener size data for the fastener, comprising the distance above the first face, to a machine-readable identifier allocated to the aperture.
A method of forming a fastener storage, the method comprising:
- analyzing a design for a portion of a structure for fastener quantity, fastener type, and fastener diameter, of a plurality of fasteners in the design;
- forming apertures into a disc, the apertures comprising respective aperture diameters selected to hold the plurality of fasteners based on at least one of the fastener diameter or the fastener type in the disc with, respectively, a head of the fastener elevated a distance above the disc;
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- forming machine-readable identifiers adjacent to each of the apertures, each the machine-readable identifiers identifying, respectively, the distance above the disc for the fastener.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.