ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,301, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).
"Machining fixture force balancing" was invented by Raja Krishnan Kountanya (Vernon, Conn.), Alexander R. Angyal (Woodbury, Conn.), Jean-Philippe A. Thomas (Wethersfield, Conn.), James M. Levandowski (West Simsbury, Conn.) and Jose A. Lopes (Ellington, Conn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for configuring a fixture for use in machining of sequential parts via a machine tool, for a planned machining movement of the machining element, uses a model of the part and fixture. Respective reaction forces at the plurality of part contact references are computed. Re...