The Boeing Company

Brian R Conlan

Thi Q Nguyen

Ryan Walter Throckmorton

Arturo Trejo

Yu-Chin Jou

Jeffrey T Tan

Eli Samuel Horden

Clayton Lynn Munk

Dan Dresskell Day

Christopher Wheaton

Gavin Lloyd Smith

Christopher J Wheaton

Safety architecture for an automated work cell provides a barrier separating a work cell area from an operator or personnel area. The safety architecture enables personnel to conduct routine interactions with nonfunctioning motion platforms or positioning machines located in the work cell area through openings in the barrier separating the personnel area from the work cell area while other motion platforms or positioning machines in the work cell area continues to function.

Safety architecture for an automated work cell

A spray application system and a method of its operation are provided for applying a spray treatment onto a surface of an airframe of an aircraft. The spray application system includes a set of multiple modular hood units that are combinable to form a combined enclosure that defines a shared interior volume. Each modular hood unit of the set includes one or more enclosure walls. At least two airframe-interfacing edges of each modular hood unit define a portion of a spray treatment region of the airframe. At least one inter-unit-interfacing edge of each modular hood unit is configured to interface with another inter-unit-interfacing edge of a neighboring modular hood unit of the set to form at least a portion of the combined enclosure. A spray access port is defined within an enclosure wall of each modular hood unit.

Spray application system and method for applying a spray treatment

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Brian R Conlan