Wedgelock system
AssigneeRaytheon Company
InventorsPaul A. Danello, Joseph A. Mirabile, Anthony Carrara
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Abstract
A symmetric wedgelock system includes a compression device having a longitudinal axis; a plurality of segments arranged along the compression device including at least one drive segment at each end and at least one working segment in between each working segment including at least two sections having diverging sides forming a concave wedge facing an associated drive segment; each drive segment having converging sides forming a convex wedge facing an associated working segment; the compression device includes an adjustment device for applying a compressive force along the longitudinal axis to drive the convex wedges of the drive segment into the concave wedges of the working segment to drive apart laterally the sections of the working segment.
Claims10
A symmetric wedgelock system comprising:
- a compression device having a longitudinal axis;
- a plurality of segments arranged along said compression device including at least one drive segment at each end and at least one working segment in between;
- each working segment including at least two sections and having diverging sides forming a concave wedge facing an associated drive segment;
- each drive segment having converging sides forming a convex wedge facing an associated working segment;
- said compression device including an adjustment device for applying a compressive force along the longitudinal axis to drive said convex wedges of the drive segments into the concave wedges of the working-segments to drive apart laterally the sections of the working segment.
A wedgelock system for simultaneously symmetrically applying the same contact pressure distribution to two separate electronics modules comprising:
- a compression device having a longitudinal axis;
- a plurality of segments arranged along said compression device including at least one drive segment at each end and at least one working segment in between;
- each working segment including at least two sections and having diverging sides forming a concave wedge facing an associated drive segment;
- each drive segment having converging sides forming a convex wedge facing an associated working segment;
- said compression device including an adjustment device for applying a compressive force along the longitudinal axis to drive said convex wedges of the drive segments into the concave wedges of the working segments to drive apart laterally the two sections of the working segment.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.