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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 13, 2021
Filed:
Jan. 15, 2018
The Boeing Company, Chicago, IL (US);
Claudio Zubin, Winnipeg, CA;
Geoffrey Gibbings, Winnipeg, CA;
Mathew J. Shewfelt, Winnipeg, CA;
Damjan Simonovic, Winnipeg, CA;
Antonio M. Ferreira, Petersfield, CA;
David Boonstra, Dugald, CA;
Arnold J. Lauder, Winnipeg, CA;
Mark F. Gabriel, Renton, WA (US);
The Boeing Company, Chicago, IL (US);
Abstract
A drilling system includes a single robotic drilling unit having a drill end effector positioned inside a barrel section configured as a composite sandwich structure having an inner face sheet. The robotic drilling unit is operable to drill a plurality of perforations into the inner face sheet using the drill end effector. The robotic drilling unit is configured to index a hole pattern of the perforations to one or more cell walls of a honeycomb core of the composite sandwich structure. The robotic drilling unit is configured to form the hole pattern in the inner face sheet such that the perforations are located at a spaced distance from the cell walls of the honeycomb core.