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Aircraft maintenance systems and methods using wearable device

  • US 10,065,750 B2
  • Filed: 02/10/2015
  • Issued: 09/04/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/10/2015
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for managing maintenance activities by a maintenance module on an aircraft coupled with a wearable device receiving both audio and video data, comprising:

  • configuring the maintenance module to receive both the audio and video data from one or more input devices for use with obtaining data of maintenance activities from a plurality of computing systems coupled to the maintenance module, the computing systems comprising;

    onboard aircraft systems, airline operation systems, and inventory systems wherein the inventory systems store information about aircraft parts and tools used in maintenance activities;

    generating, by a part data determination module within the maintenance module, part data from an interaction by use with the one or more input devices wherein the input devices comprise devices capable of receiving a voice interaction by use and a video interaction by use;

    processing, by the one or more input devices, the voice and video interaction by the use to identify the part data wherein the voice interaction comprise;

    voiced data of the part data by use and the video interaction comprise;

    image data of the part data by use;

    receiving, by the part data determination module at the wearable device, voice and image data of the part data from at least the one or more input devices which further comprise;

    a video recording device and an audio recording device associated with the wearable device wherein the video recording device determines the part data by image processing solutions of at least the image data and the audio recording device determines a part number by speech processing solutions of at least the voice data;

    confirming, by the part data determination module, at least a number of a replacement unit from the part data determined by either the image processing or speech processing solutions wherein the confirming is based on at least information which comprise;

    aircraft information and maintenance information loaded into the maintenance module;

    communicating, after the confirming by the part data determination module, by the wearable device via an information processing module coupled to the part data determination module, requests for part information associated with the part data to the computing systems, the information processing module further configured to perform the step of;

    receiving part information related to the part data from the computing systems, processing the part information from the computing systems to generate user interface data to integrate, in a first instance the part information into a user interface for display and in a second instance the part information into audio data for audio notifications;

    presenting maintenance information, by the information processing module, via the user interface for display by a display system, and audio notifications by an audio system of the wearable device;

    configuring, by the information processing module from the maintenance information presented, a part option from a user selection of a set of part options via the one or more input devices, the set of part options comprising;

    to order a new part, to request a maintenance procedure for a part, and to report a maintenance activity status to one or more of the computing systems; and

    receiving part option data in response to the user selection of the part option wherein the information processing module communicates maintenance procedure data with the part option data to the computing systems.

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