Patent ID: 8272618

Claim:
An assembly for joining structural components together, said assembly comprising: a substructure having a front side, a back side, a lower side, an upper side, a leading side and a trailing side, and comprising: a first set of spaced-apart circular standoffs fabricated on the front side in a row substantially parallel to the upper side and the lower side and extending from the leading side to the trailing side, each standoff in said first set of spaced-apart circular standoffs having a space location control surface extending above and being substantially parallel to the front side; a second set of spaced-apart circular standoffs fabricated on the front side in a row substantially parallel to first set of standoffs, but offset from the first set of standoffs in a direction from the upper side to the lower side, each standoff in said second set of spaced-apart circular standoffs having a space location control surface extending above and being substantially parallel to the front side; and a third set of spaced-apart circular standoffs fabricated on the back side in a row substantially parallel to the upper and lower sides and extending from the leading side to the trailing side, each standoff in said third set of spaced-apart circular standoffs having a space location control surface extending above and being substantially parallel to the back side; and a member coupled to the substructure, the member comprising a base and a pair of axially elongated legs extending from the base to define a channel therebetween, the channel being formed by a first channel side of a first of the elongated legs, a channel floor, and a second channel side of a second of the elongated legs; the space location control surfaces of the standoffs in the first and second sets of spaced-apart circular standoffs contacting and being substantially parallel to the first channel side and space location control surfaces of the standoffs in the third set of spaced-apart circular standoffs contacting and being substantially parallel to the second channel side to maintain a first standoff distance between the member and the substructure and create a first gap between the member and the substructure.