Systems and methods of servicing equipment
AssigneesGeneral Electric Company, Oliver Crispin Robotics Limited
InventorsAndrew Crispin Graham, David Scott Diwinsky, Byron Andrew Pritchard, Jr., Julian Matthew Foxall
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
A robotic assembly configured to service an engine, wherein the robotic assembly includes an environmental capture device configured to provide information associated with an environment in which the engine is disposed to one or more computing devices, and wherein the one or more computing devices are configured to use the information to inspect the engine before and after repair operations associated with the service to check for repair equipment, or parts thereof, left in the engine after the repair.
Claims20
A method of servicing an engine, the method comprising:
- capturing initial information associated with the engine with an environmental capture device;
- performing a repair operation on the engine;
- capturing post information associated with the engine with the environmental capture device after the repair operation;
- and
- comparing, via one or more computing devices, one or more portions of the initial information captured before performing the repair operation with one or more portions of the post information captured after performing the repair operation to check for domestic and foreign object debris.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.