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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 18, 2005
Filed:
Feb. 06, 2004
Curt D. Gilmore, Fenton, MI (US);
Michael L. Ritchey, Grand Blanc, MI (US);
Curt D. Gilmore, Fenton, MI (US);
Michael L. Ritchey, Grand Blanc, MI (US);
Integrated Technologies, Inc., Fenton, MI (US);
Abstract
A system for controlling and monitoring portable tools at a particular work cell remotely by R-F communication to provide error proofing of various parameters including that the correct tool is to be used at a work cell, the tool is properly calibrated for the operation to be performed, that it is being used a proper number of times per part being assembled or inspected, and that the tool has been calibrated within a selected service interval. The tools will be made actuable only by R-F communication with specific factory apparatus whereby theft of such portable tools will be inhibited.