Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Hideo Ishida

Koichi Kimura

Hideaki Tojo

Hisashi Kurota

Keiichi Samekawa

Takao Arasawa

Yoshiki Ishida

Kenichi Katayama

Nobuyuki Okita

Yoshifumi Matsumoto

Satoru Yamada

Hideo Hiroe

There are disclosed a method and apparatus for applying a strippable paint to a large-sized product finished with a sprayed coating, such as an automobile, to form a protective film on the surface of the coating. The product is conventionally kept in stock for a period of time before it is shipped. Contaminations such as dust are washed away from the surface of the product. Then, the strippable paint is applied, preliminarily dried, and non-preliminarily dried to form the protective film out of the strippable paint on the surface of the coating. This protective film is formed easily, appropriately, and reliably. The obtained protective film has a uniform and sufficient thickness. Even if the surface contains unapplied regions to which the paint should not be applied, the paint can be applied to the whole surface of the coating while avoiding the unapplied regions according to the invention. The application can be performed easily and reliably without leaving unapplied portions around the unapplied regions.

Method and machine for forming protective film on sprayed coating of large-sized product

There are disclosed a method and a apparatus for applying a strippable paint to a large-sized product finished with a sprayed coating, such as an automobile, to form a protective film on the surface of the coating. The product is conventionally kept in stock for a period of time before it is shipped. Contaminations such as dust are washed away from the surface of the product. Then, the strippable paint is applied, preliminarily dried, and non-preliminarily dried to form the protective film out of the strippable paint on the surface of the coating. This protective film is formed easily, appropriately, and reliably. The obtained protective film has a uniform and sufficient thickness. Even if the surface contains unapplied regions to which the paint should not be applied, the paint can be applied to the whole surface of the coating while avoiding the unapplied regions according to the invention. The application can be performed easily and reliably without leaving unapplied portions around the unapplied regions.

Method for forming protective film of strippable paint on sprayed coating of automobile or other large-sized product

Producing vehicles by using a plurality of production lines allowing the vehicles to successively pass through a welding step, a coating step and an assembling step in each line, in accordance with an increase or decrease in the number of vehicles to be produced in the respective production lines, some of the vehicles in one of the production lines which has less of a margin for production are transferred, after passing through the welding step, to another production line at a portion between its welding step and coating step which line has more of a margin for production. With this arrangement, when it becomes necessary to increase or decrease the number of vehicles in the lines, it is possible to produce vehicles without changing the production ability in the respective steps after the welding step, only by adjusting the number of vehicles in the welding step of the production line which has a less of a margin for production.

Apparatus for producing vehicles

In producing vehicles by using a plurality of production lines allowing the vehicles to successively pass through a welding step, a coating step and an assembling step, in accordance with an increase or decrease in the production of vehicles in the respective production lines, some of the vehicles in one of the production lines which has less margin for producing vehicles are transferred, after passing through said welding step, to another production line between a welding step and coating step which another production line has more margin for producing vehicles. With this arrangement, when it becomes necessary to increase or decrease the production of vehicles in the respective production lines, it is possible to produce vehicles with high efficiency without changing the production ability in the respective steps after passing through the welding step, only by adjusting the production of vehicles in the welding step in the production line which has less margin for producing vehicles.

Method for producing vehicles in a plurality of production lines

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Saitama-ken, Japan

Hideo Ishida