System and method for transporting wire components through pneumatic tubes between wire component processing stations
AssigneeThe Boeing Company
InventorsBradley J. Mitchell, Nick S. Evans
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Abstract
In accordance with one or more aspects of the disclosed embodiment, a system for transporting wire components during the assembly of wire bundles includes an air-operated tube network connecting a transport source station to a plurality of transport destination stations, the air-operated tube network comprising a junction coupled between the transport source station and the plurality of transport destination stations, and a system controller that includes a wire bundle assembly program, the system controller programmed to automatically transmit wire components from the source station to at least one of the transport destination stations based on the wire bundle assembly program.
Claims20
A system for transporting wire components during the assembly of wire bundles comprising:
- an air-operated tube network connecting a transport source station to a plurality of transport destination stations, the air-operated tube network comprising:
- a junction coupled between the transport source station and the plurality of transport destination stations;
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- a system controller, wherein the system controller includes a wire bundle assembly program, the system controller is programmed to automatically transmit wire components from the source station to at least one of the transport destination stations based on the wire bundle assembly program.
A method for transporting wire components during the assembly of wire bundles, the methods comprising:
- pneumatically transporting wire components from a transport source station to at least one of a plurality of transport destination stations through an air-operated tube network that includes a junction coupled between the transport source station and the plurality of transport destination stations, wherein the air-operated tube network connects the transport source station and the plurality of transport destination stations based on a wire bundle assembly program, wherein the wire bundle assembly program is included in a system controller and the system controller is programmed to automatically transmit the wire components from the source station to the at least one of the plurality of transport destination stations based on the wire bundle assembly program.
A non-transitory computer readable medium having computer readable program code embodied therein for transporting wire components that, when executed, performs:
- pneumatically transporting a wire component from a transport source station to at least one transport destination station through an air-operated tube network connecting the transport source station and the at least one transport destination station, wherein pneumatically transporting the wire component is based on a wire bundle assembly program.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.