Patent ID: 8434216
Filing Date: 2013-05-07
Classification: F01D,F05D,H02K,Y10T

Abstract:
1. An in-situ vehicle (IV) system for use in maintaining a machine, said system comprising: a vehicle body positionable in the machine from external to the machine; a positioner coupled to said vehicle body and configured to position a storage cassette, adapted to store a plurality of components of the machine each in a respective one of a plurality of storage locations of the storage cassette, in a linear X-direction that extends along a longitudinal direction of said vehicle body and a linear Y-direction that is transverse with respect to the longitudinal direction of said vehicle body, independently, with respect to said vehicle body; and an insertion and removal tool for selectively inserting any one of the components from the storage cassette into the machine and removing the one of the components from the machine, said insertion and removal tool storable within the vehicle body and extendable to a working position away from said vehicle body, said tool configured to engage the one component in the machine to couple and decouple the one component from the machine.