Patent ID: 11905038
Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANY
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B | IPC B

Claim 14:
15. A fuselage assembly system that comprises:
a track configured to engage bearing edges of a half barrel section of a fuselage;
a drive unit configured to move the half barrel sections along the track;
an indexing unit configured to recognize, via at least one indexing feature in the half barrel section, that a relevant portion of the half barrel section is indexed to a placement point;
a first arch that comprises first wheels configured to extend the first wheels from the first arch and enforce a desired contour of an inner mold line of the half barrel section;
a second arch that comprises second wheels configured to descend from the second arch and enforce a desired contour of an outer mold line of the half barrel section;
a workstation configured to temporarily attach a component to the half barrel section; and
a traveling workstation configured to be coupled to the half barrel section, the traveling workstation configured to fasten the component to the half barrel section during one or more micro pulses and pauses between micro pulses of the half barrel section along the track.