Patent ID: 7073241

Claim:
A method of limiting the travel of an assembly tool used within a workstation, the method comprising the steps: (a) setting at least one spatial boundary of a workstation such that the workstation is adapted to sequentially receive movable work-pieces, the workstation being further adapted to receive only a single work-piece at any one time; (b) providing an assembly tool comprising: a base; an end use device adapted to perform an assembly operation upon such work-pieces; a flexible connector having a first end connected to the base and a second end connected to the end use device, the flexible connector extendable to a length that allows travel of the end use device beyond a selected boundary of the workstation; (c) providing a travel limiting assembly adapted to fixedly attach to the assembly tool; and (d) attaching the travel limiting assembly to at least one portion of the assembly tool such that travel of the end use device is restricted to within a tool travel envelope defined, at least in part, by said selected boundary of the workstation.