Mazda Motor Corporation

Hideyuki Katoh

Takeshi Konishi

Takeshi Yamamoto

Morio Umeda

Nobutaka Tanaka

Tadayoshi Kuronaga

Toshihumi Ogasahara

Shigehiro Furuya

The vehicle door construction contains an inner door panel and an outer door panel with a skeleton juxtaposed by the inner and outer door panels and mounted with interior door parts. The vehicle door construction is assembled with the vehicle body by mounting the interior door parts on the skeleton and then mounting the inner door panel on the skeleton. This vehicle door construction permits a less laborious assembly of the side door and enhances serviceability.

Method of assembling a vehicle door

An automatic spray coating apparatus for vehicle bodies comprises first and second cocating stations, said first coating station being provided with a coating robot for coating a front door on one of the sides and the vicinity thereof and a coating robot for coating a rear door on the other side and the vicinity thereof, said second coating station being provided with two coating robots for respectively coating the other doors and the vicinity thereof, and at least one coating robot which coats the insides of an engine compartment and trunk, while the vehicle body is standing still at least one of the first or second coating stations. According to the present invention, it is possible to reduce the time required for coating vehicle bodies with a smaller number of coating stations and to efficiently coat vehicle bodies without interference between coating robots.

Automatic spray coating apparatus

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Hiroshima, Japan

Hideyuki Katoh