Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Nobuhiro Kozasa

Hidetoshi Takahashi

Gentoku Fujii

Hitoshi Yoshimichi

Katsuyoshi Tsutsumida

Takafumi Ikeda

Tomonori Iwasaki

Katsutoshi Ebana

Michio Kamiyama

Koichi Sano

Eisaku Hasegawa

Yohei Yamada

Hideari Kamachi

Yuji Kawamura

Tomohiro Sugimoto

Daisuke Hashimoto

Kunihiko Oba

Tadao Kurosawa

Yoshiki Asano

Shunsuke Ishii

Yoshio Nagasawa

Koki Sanada

Kenji Tatsuda

Hitoshi Suzukawa

Mamoru Miyamura

A moving device is provided with a first moving body and a second moving body. First cord-shaped bodies are fed out from first feed-out length changing units provided on first feed-out units. The first cord-shaped bodies are connected to the first moving body. Second cord-shaped bodies are fed out from second feed-out length changing units provided on second feed-out units. The second cord-shaped bodies are connected to the second moving body. Further, the first moving body and the second moving body are connected to each other through a third cord-shaped body.

Moving device

The platform truck apparatus is provided with: a narrow platform truck for transporting a car body; a left sub-platform truck, which is attached along the left side of the narrow platform truck and is pulled by the narrow platform truck; a left parts shelf carried on the left sub-platform truck; a right sub-platform truck, which is attached along the right side of the narrow platform truck and is pulled by the narrow platform truck; and a right parts shelf carried on the right sub-platform truck. Because the left sub-platform truck is moved backward relative to the narrow platform truck when a car body is loaded onto the narrow platform truck, the left parts shelf does not interfere with the loading of the car body.

Platform truck apparatus, workpiece transfer method, and workpiece conveyor equipment

A vehicle body component mounting system is provided with, along a conveyance path for a vehicle body, an upstream component mounting work area using a cell production system, a central component mounting work area in which the vehicle body is conveyed by an overhead conveyor, and a downstream component mounting work area using the cell production system in this order. Components other than principal components are mounted to the vehicle body using the cell production system. The cell production system is adaptable by increasing the number of component boxes, and thus an increase in the length of the line is prevented. The increase in the length of the line is prevented by using a line production system as a base and also using the cell production system as a part thereof.

Vehicle body component mounting system

A part mounting facility is provided with substantially U-shaped conveyance paths having return bends, and the substantially U-shaped conveyance paths are formed by providing conveyance paths, which are in part mounting work regions, with the return bends. The substantially U-shaped conveyance paths are connected to each other, and the upstream-most substantially U-shaped conveyance path among the connected substantially U-shaped conveyance paths is connected to the downstream-most substantially U-shaped conveyance path to enable a workpiece conveyance dolly to circulate along the conveyance paths.

Part mounting facility and part mounting method

A panel positioning apparatus is provided with an outer panel supporting deviceadapted to support the outer panelfrom a lower side of the outer paneland an inner panel supporting deviceadapted to support the inner panelfrom an upper side of the inner panel. The outer panel supporting devicehas a lower-surface contact sectionadapted to abut against a lower surface of the outer panel. The inner panel supporting devicehas an upper-surface contact sectionadapted to expose below the inner paneland to abut against an upper surface of a part of the outer panelagainst which the lower-surface contact sectionabuts. The outer paneland the inner panelare overlaid with each other, and a bending partA of the outer panelis bent by pinching the outer panelby the lower-surface contact sectionand the upper-surface contact section

Panel positioning apparatus and panel integration method

An inspection system for inspecting a processing accuracy of a work piece is provided. The inspection system includes a supporting mechanism which supports the work piece in a same posture as a posture in which the work piece is assembled to a body; a load reproduction device which applies a load to the work piece along a substantially vertical direction; and a measurement device which measures positions of at least one characteristic portion of the work piece while the load is being applied to the work piece.

Inspection system and inspecting method

An outer panel and an inner panel are integrated by placing peripheral parts of the outer panel on a top surface of a lower mold such that bending parts formed by bending the peripheral parts of the outer panel are set up upward; placing a central portion of the outer panel on a top surface of a lifting device; lifting the central portion of the outer panel by the lifting device to open leading end sides of the bending parts of the outer panel outward; placing the inner panel on the top surface of the outer panel so as to superimpose those onto each other; lowering the central portion of the outer panel by the lifting device; and pressing the bending parts toward the lower mold by an upper mold to further bend the bending parts, and making the bending parts to closely contact with the peripheral parts of the inner panel.

Panel integrating method

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Tochigi, Japan

Nobuhiro Kozasa