US Patent:
20090183350, Jul 23, 2009
Inventors:
Dennis Wulf - Broken Arrow OK, US
Larry Busse - Cincinnati OH, US
Jay Manuel - Tulsa OK, US
Larry Hill - Tulsa OK, US
International Classification:
B23P 6/00
Abstract:
Methods, systems, and devices are provided for the repair of a monolithic array comprised of elements. The method includes processes to identify damaged sections containing damaged elements in a damaged array, where each section contains contiguous elements with at least one damaged element; identify good sections in donor arrays that contain at least as many contiguous elements as those in each corresponding damaged section; removing the damaged sections from the damaged array; removing the good sections from the donor arrays; preparing the damaged array to receive the good sections; affixing the good sections to the damaged array; and testing the damaged array to ensure its characteristics are the same as those of an undamaged array.