Flexible track positioning machine

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B - Operations, Transporting

23

Q

B23Q 1/26 (2006.01) B23Q 9/00 (2006.01)

Patent

CA 2469617

A flexible track drilling machine employs a pair of rails that are flexible in one direction to conform to a non-flat workpiece surface and are substantially stiff in a direction parallel to the workpiece surface. The rails are attached to the workpiece by vacuum cups spaced along each rail. An X-axis carriage is slidably mounted on the rails by rollers mounted on flexible spring plates affixed to the carriage. A drill or other device to be positioned is mounted on a Y-axis carriage that is slidably connected to the X-axis carriage. The three-dimensional surface of the workpiece is mathematically transformed into a two-dimensional flat pattern, and the positioning of the carriages is controlled based on the flat pattern.

L'invention concerne une machine de perçage à piste flexible comprenant une paire de rails, flexibles dans une direction, afin d'épouser une surface de pièce à percer non plate, et qui sont sensiblement rigides dans une direction parallèle à la surface de la pièce. Les rails sont fixés à la pièce au moyen de ventouses à vide réparties le long de chaque rail. Un chariot d'axe X est monté coulissant sur les rails grâce à des galets montés sur des plaques à ressort souple fixées au chariot. Une perceuse, ou un autre dispositif à positionner, est montée sur un chariot d'axe Y connecté coulissant au chariot d'axe X. La surface tridimensionnelle de la pièce à travailler est mathématiquement transformée en une structure plate bidimensionnelle, et le positionnement des chariots est commandé sur la base de cette structure plate.

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