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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 28, 2016
Filed:
Apr. 14, 2014
Airbus Operations Gmbh, Hamburg, DE (US);
Robert Alexander Goehlich, Hamburg, DE;
Holger Frauen, Hamburg, DE;
Airbus Operations GmbH, Hamburg, DE;
Abstract
A riveting device for the riveting of components in an overlap joint, with an upper tool for driving a rivet into a rivet hole passing through the components, and with a lower tool as a dolly, which has a deforming section for purposes of plastically deforming the end of a rivet shaft driven through the rivet hole, wherein the riveting device has a magazine with a feed device for purposes of feeding a rivet into a shot passage of the upper tool, an actuator for purposes of accelerating the rivet introduced into the shot passage of the upper tool in the direction of the components, and an adjustment system for purposes of aligning the shot channel with the rivet hole. Also disclosed is a method for the riveting of components in an overlap joint.