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AssigneeAirbus Operations S.L.
InventorsJorge Juan Soto Martinez, Juan Francisco Garcia Amado, Marta Gimenez Olazabal, Jose Gorrotxategi Txurruka, Jokin Lekunberri Urkidi, Jon Ander Altamira Ugarte
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A head of a riveting device—for Hi-Lite type rivets—of at least two components of a structure for installing automatically collars on pins previously inserted in the structure. The head comprises: a collar installation tool; a collar supply to supply collars to the collar installation tool; a tool actuating device; a linear displacement device to linearly move the tool during the threading operation; a withdrawal device arranged to withdraw the second part of the collars; a control arrangement configured to automatically perform the installation of collars on pins and after this the withdrawal of the second part of the collars, using tools and collars appropriate for the pins. Also a robot having as end-effector the head and to a method of riveting two components of an aircraft fuselage are provided.
A head of a device for riveting together at least two components of a structure and for installing collars on pins previously inserted in the structure, said collars having a first part which is designed to be threadingly attached to the pins and a second part separable from the first part by a frangible zone which is designed to break when a torque applied to the collars reaches a predetermined value, the head comprising:
A robot for riveting at least two components of a structure for installing collars on pins previously inserted in the structure, said collars having a first part which is designed to be attached to the pins and a second part separable from the first part by a frangible zone which is designed to break when a torque applied to the collars reaches a predetermined value, comprising:
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