The Boeing Company

Matthew E Fife

Ryan Walter Throckmorton

Kevin R Krostag

Jonathan B Creed

Harpreet Ghuman

Paul M Sewell

A housing assembly for selectively receiving a part includes a platform and a pad fixed to the platform. The pad has a frictional surface for maintaining a position of the part relative to the pad when the part is disposed on the frictional surface. The housing assembly includes a door apparatus coupled to the platform. The door apparatus surrounds the pad. The door apparatus is movable to an open position in which the frictional surface of the pad is exposed outside of the door apparatus for receiving the part and a closed position in which the frictional surface of the pad is concealed inside of the door apparatus. A method of removing particles from a frictional surface of a pad before performing a manufacturing process has a door apparatus disposed in a closed position to present a chamber that encloses the pad.

Housing assembly for selectively receiving a part and a method of removing particles from a frictional surface of a pad

Disclosed herein is an apparatus for preventing a user from moving beyond a first distance from a support structure. The apparatus comprises an extension member, comprising a first end and a second end that is opposite the first end. The first end is configured to be fixed to the support structure. The second end is movable relative to the first end along a plane and the second end is configured to extend away from the first end to an extended position and retract from the extended position towards the first end to a retracted position. The apparatus also comprises a flexible tether, having a fixed length and comprising an anchor end, attached to the second end of the extension member, and a user end, configured to attach to a user. The extended position is no more than a second distance away from the first end. The sum of the fixed length and the second distance is less than the first distance.

Fall restraint apparatus and associated systems and methods

A safety system alerts individuals to the presence of a floor opening in a floor grid or work platform decking that is supporting the individuals. The safety system is a passive safety system that is operatively connected to a stationary first floor panel that is adjacent a second floor panel. The safety system is automatically operated to deploy a signal flag above the first floor panel (and activate an audio warning signal) when the second floor panel is removed, exposing a floor opening adjacent the first floor panel. The deployed signal flag alerts individuals on the floor grid or work platform decking to the presence of the floor opening.

Floor opening safety system

Systems and methods according to one or more embodiments are provided for a variable length self-locking lifeline system that prevents a user from falling off an elevated surface. In one example, a variable length self-locking lifeline system includes a processor and a lanyard. The lanyard is coupled between an anchor point and a user. One or more sensors determine, in real time, a current length and orientation of the lanyard as the lanyard responds to a user moving on an elevated surface. The processor is configured to trigger a locking mechanism to selectively lock the lanyard from further extension when a determined current length and current orientation exceeds a predefined safety perimeter of the elevated surface.

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Everett, WA, United States of America

Matthew E Fife