Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Akio Hamada

Gen Tsujii

Keizaburo Ohtaki

Takashi Kubo

Genzo Fuse

Morikuni Numata

Toshihiko Nakadate

Hiroshi Sasamoto

Masahide Kondo

An apparatus for assembling a motorcar vehicle body by welding right and left side panels to other vehicle body constituting members such as a floor panel, a roof panel and the like. A movable frame is provided respectively on right side and left side of an assembling station into which the other vehicle body constituting members are brought. The movable frame is movable back and forth between a laterally outward waiting position and a laterally inward welding position. A pair of presetting apparatuses respectively moves a presetting jig into and out of a space between the assembling station and the respective movable frame which is in the waiting position. The presetting jig holds a plurality of parts which constitute the side panel in a predetermined positional relationship. A setting jig is detachably mounted on the respective movable frame and receives the plurality of parts from the presetting jig. A plurality of welding robots are mounted on the movable frame for welding the plurality of parts to thereby assemble the side panel and for welding the side panel to the other vehicle body constituting members.

Apparatus for assembling motorcar vehicle body

A system for assembling a motorcar vehicle body is divided into a first-floor portion and a second-floor portion. The first-floor portion has a main working line provided with a vehicle body assembling station, a floor panel assembling line, and a floor panel parts working line. The second-floor portion has another floor panel parts working line and a roof panel working line. There are provided apparatuses for charging floor panel consitituting parts worked in the floor panel parts working line disposed on the first-floor portion to a floor panel assembling line, and for lowering floor panel constituting parts worked in the floor panel parts working line disposed on the second-floor portion from the second-floor portion to charge them to the floor panel assembling line so that these constituting parts are combined together in the floor panel assembling line to assemble the floor panel. There are also provided apparatuses for charging the floor panel to the vehicle body assembling station, and for lowering the roof panel worked in the roof panel working line form the second-floor portion to a neighborhood of the vehicle body assembling station and charging it to the vehicle body assembling station so that the side panels which are set to welding jigs are combined in the vehicle body assembling station to the floor panel and the roof panel to assemble the motor car vehicle body.

System for assembling motorcar vehicle body

A welding control apparatus and a method for controlling thereof for automatic welding machines having a welding gun successively moved by a robot to a plurality of welding spots on a work object for welding is disclosed. The welding control apparatus and the method for controlling thereof detect any abnormal conditions for preventing damages to the gun or undesired occurrence of holes in the work object.

Welding control apparatus and method

A welding gun apparatus having a gun bracket, a pair of arms pivotally mounted on the bracket, a transformer mounted on the bracket, and a pressure applying mechanism on the bracket for opening and closing the gun arms; characterized in that the gun bracket comprises a frame which extends longitudinally from a front pivot portion for pivotally supporting the gun arms to a rear portion, the transformer being positioned in and fixed to the frame between the front pivot portion and the rear portion.

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Sayama, Japan

Akio Hamada