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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 27, 2018
Filed:
May. 12, 2016
The Boeing Company, Chicago, IL (US);
Edward John Batt, Mount Pleasant, SC (US);
The Boeing Company, Chicago, IL (US);
Abstract
A method of assembling a detail to a flexible member includes positioning the detail against a plurality of reader pogos, and axially displacing the plurality of reader pogos to substantially conform to a detail contour. The method additionally includes recording reader pogo position data representing the detail contour, clamping a flexible member against a plurality of positioning pogos, and axially displacing the plurality of positioning pogos complementary to the reader pogo position data. In addition, the method includes deflecting, using the positioning pogos, the flexible member into a contour corresponding to the reader pogo position data, and assembling the detail to the flexible member.