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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 21, 2016
Filed:
Aug. 28, 2013
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 may include a plurality of robotic drilling units. Each one of the robotic drilling units may include a drill end effector positioned inside a barrel section. The barrel section may be configured as a composite sandwich structure having an inner face sheet. The robotic drilling units maybe operable in synchronized movement with one another to drill a plurality of perforations into the inner face sheet using the drill end effectors in a manner providing a predetermined percent-open-area of the inner face sheet.