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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 15, 2020
Filed:
Apr. 12, 2017
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Robert Frank Hoskin, Lawrenceville, GA (US);
Robert Aldo Del Freo, Dingmans Ferry, PA (US);
Joseph William Janssen, Lambertville, NJ (US);
Joseph Leonard Moroso, Greenville, SC (US);
Eric Alan Overholt, Bath, PA (US);
Matthew Ian Van Biervliet, Parsippany, NJ (US);
Joseph Anthony Weber, Simpsonville, SC (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
A fixture for drilling a hole in a superalloy turbine blade includes a mount to selectively hold a root of the superalloy turbine blade with the superalloy turbine blade extending from the mount. The fixture may also include an actuator to apply a force to elastically deform at least a portion of the superalloy turbine blade when held by the mount from a relaxed, initial position to an elastically deformed position, the at least a portion of the superalloy turbine blade having a curvature in the elastically deformed position not present in the relaxed, initial position. The fixture may also include a drill guide configured to guide a drilling element into the superalloy turbine blade in the elastically deformed position.