Automated repair method and system
AssigneeSiemens Aktiengesellschaft
InventorsTorsten Melzer-Jokisch, Dimitrios Thomaidis, Rolf Wilkenhöner
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Abstract
A method and system for automated repair of a machine component is provided. According to the proposed method, a first geometry of the component, including a damaged portion of the component, is digitalized. A trough is then machined over the damaged portion of the component. The machining is numerically controlled using digitalized geometrical data of the first geometry of the component. A second geometry of the component is then digitalized subsequent to the machining, the second geometry including the trough. Subsequently, a material is deposited over the trough. The deposition of the material is numerically controlled digitalized geometrical data of the second geometry of the component.
Claims16
1-16. (canceled)
A method for automated repair of a component, comprising:
- digitalizing a first geometry of the component including a damaged portion of the component;
- machining a trough over the damaged portion of the component, the machining being numerically controlled using digitalized geometrical data of the first geometry of the component;
- digitalizing a second geometry of the component subsequent to the machining, the second geometry including the trough;
- and
- depositing a material to fill the trough, the deposition of the material being numerically controlled using digitalized geometrical data of the second geometry of the component,
- wherein numerically controlling the deposition includes determining a material deposition path in response to identifying a position of the trough on the component, based on a comparison of the digitalized geometrical data of the second geometry to stored reference geometry data of the component.
A system for automated repair a component, comprising:
- a control means;
- a machining means for machining a trough over a damaged portion of the component using a first numeric control program, wherein the first numeric control program is generated by the control means using digitalized geometrical data of a first geometry of the component that includes the damaged portion;
- and
- welding means for depositing a material to fill the trough using a second numeric control program,
- wherein the second numeric control program is generated by the control means using digitalized geometrical data of a second geometry of the component after the machining, the second geometry including the trough formed on the component.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.