Reconfigurable maintenance apparatus
AssigneeGeneral Electric Company
InventorsTodd William Danko, Mark John Zajkowski, Don Mark Lipkin
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Abstract
A reconfigurable maintenance apparatus includes a body configured to operate within a cavity. The body has a first shape in a first configuration and a second shape in a second configuration. The first configuration facilitates the body entering the cavity. The reconfigurable apparatus also includes at least one maintenance device operably coupled to the body. The second configuration facilitates the at least one maintenance device of the reconfigurable apparatus performing a maintenance operation.
Claims14
A method of operating a reconfigurable maintenance apparatus configured to operate within a cavity, the reconfigurable maintenance apparatus including a body having a first configuration and a second configuration, said method comprising:
- moving the body into the cavity while the body is in the first configuration, the body further having a first shape in the first configuration, the first configuration facilitating the body entering the cavity;
- changing the body between the first configuration and the second configuration while the body is within the cavity;
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- operating at least one maintenance device operably coupled to the body while the body is in the second configuration, the body having a second shape in the second configuration.
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