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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 14, 2010
Filed:
Dec. 06, 2007
Curtis M. Ashford, St. Peters, MO (US);
Robert A. Bost, St. Louis, MO (US);
William J. Klunk, Jerseyville, IL (US);
Curtis M. Ashford, St. Peters, MO (US);
Robert A. Bost, St. Louis, MO (US);
William J. Klunk, Jerseyville, IL (US);
The Boeing Company, Chicago, IL (US);
Abstract
A method, apparatus, and computer usable program product for calibrating rivet height gages. In one embodiment, the process calculates a size of sphere required to create a sphere-based ring gage to simulate a contact point between a rivet height gage and a sharp edge of a specified sharp-edged ring gage. The process identifies an expected protrusion height from a top of the rivet height gage to a reference surface formed by tops of a set of spheres of the size of sphere required to simulate the contact point.