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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 12, 2019
Filed:
Feb. 29, 2016
The Boeing Company, Chicago, IL (US);
Dennis R. Mathis, Charleston, SC (US);
Jason Kerestes, Summerville, SC (US);
Rachel M. Chow, Ladson, SC (US);
The Boeing Company, Chicago, IL (US);
Abstract
A method of threadably coupling a first fastener with a second fastener using a rotary drive including a tool. The method includes rotationally anchoring the second fastener relative to the tool. The first fastener is received within a socket of the rotary drive co-axially with a fastener-engagement portion of the tool. The first fastener is rotated with the socket relative to a housing of the rotary drive to cause the first fastener to threadably engage the second fastener. When the first fastener is rotated relative to the housing and while the fastener-engagement portion is mated with a receiving portion of the second fastener, the fastener-engagement portion is co-axially translated relative to a tool-change-engagement portion of the tool and relative to the socket so that a fastener-engagement indicator, coupled with the fastener-engagement portion, extends past a surface of a tool retainer, coupled to the tool-change-engagement portion.