Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Makoto Urano

Yukihiro Yaguchi

Chitoshi Kato

Yoshinobu Kawasaki

Kunio Nokajima

Mitsugu Takahashi

Yasuo Watanabe

Noriyuki Unose

Masayuki Fukumori

Shizuo Kimura

Yoshimasa Ota

Hidetaka Murai

Yuki Mori

Yuichi Hirata

Shinji Ikeda

Yasuo Hashimoto

Kazunao Uchiyama

Koichi Kida

Hideo Saito

Satoru Matsuo

Takeshi Endo

Shigehiro Nakajima

A car side panel assembly line capable of increasing a productivity by shortening an operation time and having a set station ST, a welding station ST, and a next operation station STdisposed in series in this order, comprising a set carriagehaving, thereon, a set jigcapable of holding the side panel W in upright attitude from the side and installed reciprocatingly between the set station STand the welding station STand a frame carriagehaving a lower frameand an upper frame, capable of holding, between both frames, the side panel W in upright attitude through clamp members () mounted on the frames, installed reciprocatingly between the welding station STand the next operation station ST, and allowing to exchange the side panel W with the set carriage.

Side panel assembly line

In an assembly line in which at least two kinds of workpieces are transported by mixture and in which each of the workpieces is transported by a self-propelling transporting member, a transporting pitch for each kind of workpiece is set in advance based on a difference in the number of assembling man-hours required for each of them. The timing for starting the transporting member off a starting end of the assembly line is controlled according to the transporting pitch such that a pitch between a preceding transporting member and a succeeding transporting member becomes equal to that which is set for a workpiece to be transported by the preceding transporting member.

Method of transporting workpieces in assembly line

An apparatus for shaping a workpiece of a super-plastic metal has a shaping die assembly for holding the workpiece therein to shape the workpiece with a pressurized gas while the workpiece is being heated, and a furnace assembly surrounding outer surfaces of the dies. The shaping die assembly includes a plurality of dies separable from and joinable to each other, the dies having flanges extending from mating surfaces thereof. The furnace assembly includes a plurality of furnaces separable from and joinable to each other, the furnaces being detachably mounted on the dies, respectively. The shaping die assembly is housed in the furnace assembly with the flanges projecting out of the furnace assembly when the dies are joined to each other. Heaters for heating the shaping die assembly are mounted on inner wall surfaces of the furnaces in a space defined between the furnace assembly and the shaping die assembly. While the workpiece is being held between the dies which are joined to each other, the flanges are gripped by clamping mechanisms.

Apparatus for shaping superplastic metal workpiece

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Makoto Urano