Advanced Technologies S.r.l.

Dea S.p.a.

Antonio Recupero

Maurizio Ercole

Sergio Cappa

Giorgio Minucciani

A plant is made up of a plurality of automatic stations for the performance of an assembly process of body parts or the like with there being in the stations automatic support and blocking means for the parts to be assembled and automatic assembly means for the parts supported and blocked and comprising in the stations measurement sensors in established measurement points for measurement of geometrical magnitudes of the parts in assembly with the measurement data taken by the sensors being received by a processing unit which takes any deformations of the parts in the various stations and goes back from the detected deformations to the causes thereof in the asembly process and emits a diagnosis signal of the presumed cause.

Method for identification and management of errors and defects in assembly and welding lines for automotive vehicle bodies and body parts or the like and plant in accordance with said method

A welding gun electrode reshaping device includes a head with satellites supported by a satellite holder to identify between them opposing seats for the gun electrode tip. The satellite holder is powered to be rotated around the seats to move the satellites around the electrode tip zone and cause reshaping of the electrode tip. In the seats there is a support member for the electrode tip with a surface designed for simultaneous smoothing of a 'lense' zone on the electrode tip. A movement mechanism enables positioning of the head in an operational zone.

Automatic welding gun electrode reshaping device

A motor vehicle body assembly and welding station comprises a pair of facing tool ( ) support conformators ( ) designed to work on the body and taken between them by a conveyor system ( ). The conformators are movable between a rest position in which the body is free to enter and exit the station and a work position in which the tools are near the body to work on it. At least some of the tools ( ) comprise measurement means ( ) for the relative position of facing body parts and the conformators have an intermediate position between said work and rest positions. On command control means ( ) take the conformator into said intermediate position and activate the measurement means ( ) to determine the agreement of body dimensions with predetermined measurement intervals and issue acceptance or rejection signals ( ) for the body on the basis of the survey result.

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Turin, Italy

Antonio Recupero