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US 8,695,217 B2Granted
Hole producing system
AssigneePratt & Whitney Canada Corp.
InventorsNagaraja Rudrapatna, Bhawan Patel
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Abstract
A system for producing a plurality of spaced holes in a component which includes a hole producing machine, a control system in communication with the hole producing machine, and a hole pattern definition module which provides instructions to the control system for operating and controlling the hole producing machine. The hole pattern definition module determines a desired distribution of the holes in the component using predetermined input parameters.
Claims9
A system for producing a plurality of spaced holes in a component, the system comprising:
- a hole producing machine;
- a control system in communication with the hole producing machine;
- and
- a hole pattern definition module which provides instructions to the control system for operating and controlling the hole producing machine, the hole pattern definition module determining a desired hole pattern distribution of the holes in the component using predetermined input parameters;
- wherein the predetermined input parameters including:
- a count of the holes to be separated by spaces in the row of holes along a first axis;
- positional information of a first hole in the row of holes;
- a first length of the row of holes;
- and a first spacing ratio SR relating spacing distances between each adjacent hole within the row of holes;
- and
- wherein the hole pattern distribution of the holes being determined in accordance with the geometric relation
- L1=aL2=a2L3=a3L4=an-1Ln=(SR)Ln,
- where L1 is a first spacing distance, a is a constant, n is a count of the spaces in a row of holes, Ln is a spacing distance associated with a space number n, and, SR is the first spacing ratio which is equal to an-1.
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