Riveting tool and method with electromagnetic bucking bar normalization

US9259779B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• The Boeing Company · US

Inventors

• Branko Sarh · Hamburg, DE
• David Hassan Amirehteshami · Rossmoor, US
• Rodney S. Wright · Tecate Mission Road, US
• Harinder S. Oberoi · Snohomish, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 4, 2012
• Grant date: Feb 16, 2016
• Expiry date: Sep 11, 2034

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B21J15/36
• WIPO field: Machine tools
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A riveting tool including a magnet, a magnetically attractive housing, a non-magnetically attractive bucking bar received in the housing, the bucking bar being moveable relative to the housing along a bucking bar axis, and an actuation mechanism to move the bucking bar along the bucking bar axis.