Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Susumu Wakou

Ryo Niikawa

Satoshi Kadowaki

Welding apparatus for a motorcar body comprising a pair of welding jig units positioned on opposing sides of a combining station which are movable laterally for positioning and holding thereon side panels of the body and a carrier movable between the combining station and a setting station for positioning and holding thereon the floor panel and the roof panel of the motorcar body. The structures of the carrier and the welding jig units are disclosed. Each welding jig unit can be turnable between an inwardly facing position and an outwardly facing one.

Welding apparatus for motorcar body

An exchanging apparatus for exchanging welding jig units of an automatic welding apparatus on an assembly line. The automatic welding apparatus includes a combining station where a work to be assembled is combined and welded by detachable welding jig units, and a set carrier for moving the work along a conveying railway to and from the combining station. The exchanging apparatus comprises an exchanging railway which crosses the conveying railway through a switch mechanism and at least two exchanging carriers, each having thereon a gripping means for gripping a welding jig unit. Each of the above carriers is mounted on a plurality of wheels, each of which is turnable about a fixed vertical shaft on the respective carrier. The switch mechanism comprises turnable rail portions at the crossing points of the two railways, a rail fixing device for fixing the portions at their switched positions, and a carrier fixing device for positioning and fixing any one of the carriers while the rail portions are turned thereunder.

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Sayama, Japan

Susumu Wakou