Rolls-royce Corporation

Mark Hugh Raffles

Dragos Aurelian Axinte

James Kell

Helen L Llewellyn-Powell

Stewart Lowth

Adam Nagy

Kiran Kolluru

Thomas Frederick Danvers

Amir Rabani

Salvador Cobos-Guzman

Xin Dong

Graeme Eric Rigg

Iulian Marinescu

Mark Daine

Colin J High

Ming Chu Kong

Samantha Helen Davies

Ian J McGill

Peter D Winton

Christopher R J Herbert

Helen Louise Llewellyn-Powell

Colin John High

A tool for machining an object including a first part including a rotatable member that is rotatable to cause rotation of a machine tool, a second part, a joint coupling the first part and the second part to enable relative movement between the first part and the second part, and a sensor to sense an object to be machined.

Tool having rotatable member for machining an object and sensor to sense object

A tool for machining an object comprising: a first part including a rotatable member, the rotatable member being rotatable to cause rotation of a machine tool; a second part; a joint coupling the first part and the second part to enable relative movement between the first part and the second part; and a sensor to sense an object to be machined.

A flexible tool comprising: a plurality of rigid members spaced along a longitudinal axis; a plurality of flexible members extending between the plurality of rigid members and being arranged to enable the plurality of rigid members to diverge from the longitudinal axis and define a work volume for the flexible tool, at least some of the plurality of flexible members being unevenly spaced around the longitudinal axis, and/or a physical characteristic of at least some of the plurality of flexible members varying along the longitudinal axis, to cause the work volume and/or stiffness of the flexible tool to be asymmetric relative to the longitudinal axis.

Flexible tools and apparatus for machining objects

A method of supporting a cantilevered component mounted to a hub by locating a cassette in proximity to the cantilevered component, the cassette defining a volume for filling with an encapsulant; filling the volume with an encapsulant material; and causing the encapsulant to solidify to the cantilevered component to support the cantilevered component. The cantilevered component is preferably a blade on a bladed disc and the encapsulant provides support to change the vibration response of the blade during a subsequent machining step.

Method and apparatus for supporting blades

Fixture Apparatus and methods of manufacturing fixture apparatus. Fixture apparatus comprising: a first body to at least partially support an object, the first body including a structure having variable stiffness along at least a first axis of the first body.

Fixture apparatus

A fixture for stiffening a thin-walled component comprises linking elements which support respective biasing parts and pressure parts. The biasing parts are arranged to urge the pressure parts to press on a thin-walled component, and the linking elements are rigidly connected to one another to resist a reaction force exerted on the pressure parts by the thin-walled component.

Fixture

An adhesive fastening element () for holding a workpiece (), the adhesive fastening element () comprising: an adhesive delivery tube () embedded in the adhesive fastening element () for supplying adhesive () to an exterior surface of the adhesive fastening element ().

Adhesive fastening elements for holding a workpiece and methods of de-bonding a workpiece from an adhesive fastening element

A flexible tool comprises stiffening means switchable in use from a first state of relatively low stiffness to a second state of relatively high stiffness, and subsequently switchable from the second state back to the first state.

Flexible tool

An adhesive fastening element () for holding a workpiece (), the adhesive fastening element () comprising: a body () defining a recess () for receiving a protrusion () of the workpiece (); wherein, in use, adhesive is applied between an end surface of the recess () and an end surface of the protrusion () and between a side surface of the recess () and a side surface of the protrusion () to bond the workpiece () to the adhesive fastening element (). The workpiece () may be aligned with a reference point on the adhesive fastening element () and the adhesive cured to fix the position of the workpiece () relative to the adhesive fastening element ().

Adhesive fastening elements for holding a workpiece

An adhesive fastening element () for holding a workpiece (), the adhesive fastening element () comprising: an outer member (); and a consumable inner member () disposed inside the outer member () and releasably movable relative to the outer member () along a longitudinal axis of the adhesive fastening element (); wherein the consumable inner member () comprises a bonding surface which, in use, is bonded by an adhesive () to the workpiece () and is removed and replaced to detach the workpiece () from the adhesive fastening element ().

An adhesive fastening element includes a first member and a second member adjacent to the first member and movable relative to the first member along a longitudinal axis of the adhesive fastening element, wherein a bond is formed by an adhesive between the workpiece and the first and second members of the adhesive fastening element. A method for de- bonding a workpiece from an adhesive fastening element includes moving the second member away from the workpiece and breaks the bond between the second member and the workpiece and moving the first and second members such that the second member moves towards the workpiece and applies a force to the workpiece so as to break the bond between the first member and the workpiece, and lo de-bond the workpiece from the adhesive fastening element.

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Mark Hugh Raffles