Assembly robot for wing

US6428452B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• SAAB AB · SE

Inventors

• Per Dahlstrom · Linköping, SE
• Håkan Andersson · Vimmerby, SE
• Anders Högne · Åtvidaberg, SE
• Ronnie Stensson · Linköping, SE
• Roger Holmstedt · Linköping, SE
• Johan Carlsson · Cologne, DE
• Per Benkowski · Uppsala, SE

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 20, 2000
• Grant date: Aug 6, 2002
• Expiry date: Nov 20, 2020

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T483/1795
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A method and a device for assembling an air-craft wing incorporating at least two of the operations drilling, riveting and fitting of anchor nuts (20), where a robot (7) is mobile relative to the wing in a plane parallel to the wing and where the robot (7) is equipped with an arm (9) designed to accommodate a tool holder (15), where the tool holder (15) is primarily equipped with tools for performing a single work operation, whereby the robot is moved so that the robot arm (9) is positioned at the first work position on the aircraft wing unit, where the robot (7) carries out the first work operation at the said first work position, where the robot arm (9) is manoeuvred in the correct order to new work positions on the wing unit within a work area (10) reachable by the robot arm (9), and carries out the first work operation at these new work positions.