Patent ID: 6240332
Filing Date: 2001-05-29
Classification: G05B

Abstract:
For use in connection with a fastener installation apparatus having a primary turret tooling head which has a plurality of tools mounted on said primary turret tooling head, each with a tooling center positioned around a centerline of said primary turret tooling head at varying radial distances from the centerline, each of said tools is actuated to operate on a fixed non-moving workpiece, and an opposed reactionary tooling head, a primary tooling head controller comprising:a data acquisition computer;primary turret tooling head computer numerically controlled servo motors operatively connecting said computer to said primary turret tooling head for rotational positioning of said turret, for linear translation of said turret, and for actuating said plurality of tools positioned around the centerline of said primary turret tooling head at varying radial distances from the centerline; andprogramming means operable to cause said computer to instruct said servo motors to perform said rotational positioning of said primary turret tooling head, to instruct said servo motors to perform said linear translation of said primary turret tooling head to compensate for the varying radial distances of said plurality of tools from the centerline of said primary turret tooling head, such that the tooling center for each of said plurality of tools on said primary turret coincides with a same point on the workpiece, and to instruct said servo motors to perform said actuating of one of said tools once the one of said tools is positioned to coincide with the same point on the workpiece.