AIRCRAFT LEAD WIRE LAYOUT VERIFICATION SYSTEM

• Main Authors: PATRICK EAMES, ALFREDO ZAMORA CAMPOS, MICHAEL PATRICK SCIARRA, BRENT LOUIS HADLEY, JOSHUA M TAYLOR
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 19.12.2013
• Subjects: AIRCRAFT; AVIATION; CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COSMONAUTICS; COUNTING; DESIGNING, MANUFACTURING, ASSEMBLING, CLEANING, MAINTAINING ORREPAIRING AIRCRAFT, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; GROUND OR AIRCRAFT-CARRIER-DECK INSTALLATIONS SPECIALLYADAPTED FOR USE IN CONNECTION WITH AIRCRAFT; HANDLING, TRANSPORTING, TESTING OR INSPECTING AIRCRAFTCOMPONENTS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PHYSICS; TRANSPORTING

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method and apparatus for verifying that lead wires in an aircraft provide a desired level of performance.SOLUTION: Provided is a method and apparatus for verifying routing of an arbitrary number of signal lines in an aircraft 108. An arbitrary number of pathways through a volume 128 of the aircraft 108 are identified for a desired routing 134 of the arbitrary number of signal lines using a preferred system layout 126 for the aircraft 108. It is determined whether a designed routing 136 of the arbitrary number of signal lines in a design of the aircraft 108 is within the arbitrary number of pathways through the volume 128 for the desired routing 134 of the arbitrary number of signal lines. The arbitrary number of signal lines are regarded as having the desired routing 134 in response to a determination that the designed routing 136 is within the arbitrary number of pathways through the volume 128.