Patents by Inventor Mark Derren Summers

Mark Derren Summers has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Method and an apparatus for performing a program controlled process on a component
    Patent number: 7813830
    Abstract: A drilling machine drills at a multiplicity of target locations on a component. Two robots, calibrated with calibration data, move the component in a 6-D coordinate system. A metrology system ascertains the position of the component relative to the drilling machine. The movement of the robots is effected by commands generated by off-line programming. The component is moved relative to the drilling machine to a target position, ready for drilling, by a closed-loop process in which the differences in position between the expected position (the target position) and the actual position (as viewed by the metrology system) are corrected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2010
    Assignee: Airbus UK Limited
    Inventors: Mark Derren Summers, Roger Holden, Brett Jason Green
  • Program-Controlled Process
    Publication number: 20080319557
    Abstract: A drilling machine drills at a multiplicity of target locations on a component. Two robots, calibrated with calibration data, move the component in a 6-D coordinate system. A metrology system ascertains the position of the component relative to the drilling machine. The movement of the robots is effected by means of commands generated by means of off-line programming. The component is moved relative to the drilling machine to a target position, ready for drilling, by means of a closed-loop process in which the differences in position between the expected position (the target position) and the actual position (as viewed by the metrology system) are corrected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2006
    Publication date: December 25, 2008
    Applicant: AIRBUS UK LIMITED
    Inventors: Mark Derren Summers, Roger Holden, Brett Jason Green
  • Method and an apparatus for performing a program controlled process on a component
    Patent number: RE45391
    Abstract: A drilling machine drills at a multiplicity of target locations on a component. Two robots, calibrated with calibration data, move the component in a 6-D coordinate system. A metrology system ascertains the position of the component relative to the drilling machine. The movement of the robots is effected by commands generated by off-line programming. The component is moved relative to the drilling machine to a target position, ready for drilling, by a closed-loop process in which the differences in position between the expected position (the target position) and the actual position (as viewed by the metrology system) are corrected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: Airbus Operations Limited
    Inventors: Mark Derren Summers, Roger Holden, Brett Jason Green