A support platform 600 supports a component, such as an aircraft landing gear assembly (fig.3,300), at a location for assembly to a body. The support passively assists movement of the component in a vertical direction reducing the need for an external force to reposition the component from an approximate alignment position into a final alignment position, for example when aligning pintle mounting lugs of a landing gear during installation. The support may have a resilient part 631, utilising springs, for example, and guide members assisting vertical movement of the component, supported on an arrangement of four horizontal tables on guides for movement along X and Y axes. Preferably the support is used when assembling a heavy component such as a landing gear, for example to reposition a pintle orifice of a landing gear assembly into a position where it aligns with a pintle mounting orifice of an aircraft body.
Assembly of components to bodies
2025-02-19
Patent
Electronic Resource
English
IPC: | B64F GROUND OR AIRCRAFT-CARRIER-DECK INSTALLATIONS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR USE IN CONNECTION WITH AIRCRAFT , Boden- oder Flugzeugträgerdeckeinrichtungen besonders ausgebildet für die Verwendung in Verbindung mit Luftfahrzeugen / B66F HOISTING, LIFTING, HAULING, OR PUSHING, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR, e.g. DEVICES WHICH APPLY A LIFTING OR PUSHING FORCE DIRECTLY TO THE SURFACE OF A LOAD , Hub-, Verhol- oder Schubvorrichtungen, soweit nicht anderweitig vorgesehen, z.B. Vorrichtungen mit unmittelbarer Krafteinwirkung auf die Last |