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Date of Patent:
Aug. 27, 2019

Filed:

Jun. 29, 2017
Applicant:

The Boeing Company, Chicago, IL (US);

Inventor:

Jerald A. Hull, Charleston, SC (US);

Assignee:

The Boeing Company, Chicago, IL (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01B 11/24 (2006.01); G01B 11/25 (2006.01); G01B 11/00 (2006.01); G01B 5/008 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01B 11/005 (2013.01); G01B 5/008 (2013.01); G01B 11/24 (2013.01); G01B 11/254 (2013.01); G01B 11/2518 (2013.01);
Abstract

An optical coordinate measuring system (OCMS) for manufactured components having build variations that require splices for accurate integration of the components. The OCMS includes manufacturing the components that include integral three dimensional optical reticle image arrays affixed to predetermined surfaces of the components, such that those surfaces can be optically captured in three dimensional composite measurements associated with various-D scanned poses. Each pose includes an orthogonal pair of grid lines, and each pose involves a single field of view. A plurality of poses can then be collated to form composite measurements that extend out-of-range of any single pose. The three dimensional optical reticle image arrays can be concave or convex, ideally formed as an integral part of each as-manufactured component. The three dimensional aspect enhances scanning clarity of each scanned pose, thus assuring greater accuracies of composite measurements that result from any plurality of collated poses.


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