Method for determining a distance between two components to be joined

US11353314B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignees

• Airbus Defence and Space GmbH · DE
• AIRBUS OPERATIONS LIMITED · DE

Inventors

• Christopher Buchmann · Taufkirchen, DE
• Alois Friedberger · Hamburg, DE
• Thomas Kruse · Stuttgart, DE
• Thomas Körwien · Schweinhub, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 7, 2018
• Grant date: Jun 7, 2022
• Expiry date: Aug 1, 2039

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G01B7/06
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A method for determining a distance between components has the steps of providing a first conductive section in or on the first component in a region directed toward the second component, providing a second conductive section in or on the second component in a region directed toward the first conductive section, feeding a first voltage pulse into a first connection of the first conductive section, capturing a reflection voltage pulse in response to the first voltage pulse at the first connection, determining an impedance profile along the first conductive section by evaluating the reflection voltage pulse, and determining a distance between the components along the first conductive section by calculating a corresponding local distance, associated with the determined impedance profile, between the first conductive section and the second conductive section.