Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Takuo Kobayashi

Izuru Hori

Shin Yoshida

Kenichi Fukami

Masahiro Koike

Takanori Sato

Takeshi Sano

Yoshito Otake

Takuya Furuno

Keiichiro Nakao

Nobuhiro Nanba

Tetsuro Yamanobe

Yasuhiko Kitano

Masafumi Goto

Keisuke Oya

The guidepath includes: a magnet guide tape which carries S pole, and guides a carrier vehicle in a first direction by the S pole by being arranged on a floor so as to extend in the first direction; a magnet guide tape which carries S pole, and guides the carrier vehicle in a second direction by the S pole by being arranged on the floor so as to extend in a second direction which intersects the first direction; and a magnetic body tape which is arranged at a side of the magnet guide tape at a position above which a marker sensor passes upon the carrier vehicle being guided by the magnet guide tape, and suppresses N pole.

Guidepath of carrier vehicle

A workpiece support apparatus is provided with a plurality of support members. The support members support a workpiece. Each support member moves along a moving path to a machining position while the support member is held at a first holding position for supporting the workpiece or a second holding position which is spaced apart from the first holding position. At least one support member is displaced from the first holding position to the second holding position or from the second holding position to the first holding position along a machining trajectory, before the support member arrives at the machining position whenever each support member is moved to the machining position.

Workpiece support apparatus

A laser machining apparatus is provided with: a workpiece support unit; a machining head; and a machining head moving unit. The workpiece support unit includes: an end support part that supports a width end of a workpiece; and an inside support part that supports an inside portion of the workpiece in a width direction. The end support part is movable in a longitudinal direction independently from the inside support part in response to a movement of the machining head.

Laser machining apparatus

A conveyor system is provided with a plurality of support members which are erected and spaced apart from each other, a plurality of holding units on which the plurality of support members are held, and a drive unit that moves the holding units in a conveying direction. A supporting plane on which a workpiece is supported and conveyed is formed by distal end portions of the support members. The support members are movable in parallel with respect to the supporting plane.

Conveyor system

A device for forming a tailored blank platehaving a thick plateconnected to a thin plateto a desired configuration is provided with a press deviceand a re-strike device. The press deviceis provided with a first punch part, a first die partand holder partsand. Between the first punch partand the first die part, the tailored blank plateis mounted and positioned so that a stepped partintersects orthogonally to punch protruding partsandof the first punch partand punch recessed partsandof the first die partto press-form the tailored blank plate. Then, the press-formed tailored blank plateis moved to the re-strike deviceto carry out a re-striking process by a second punch partand a second die part, so as obtain the tailored blank plateof a final shape.

Method and apparatus of forming tailored blank plate

A second pressirons a plate-like steel plate W. This second presscomprises a base blockfor supporting the lower surface of the steel plate W, a roddisposed on the upper surface of the steel plate W, an upper dieincluding a guide rail, a first camand a second camand a lifting mechanismfor moving the rodalong the surface of the steel plate W. The base blockregulates the movement of the rodin a thickness direction of the steel plate W by contacting the upper surface of the rodover the movement range of the ironing member in the surface direction of the steel plate W.

Ironing apparatus

A bulge forming method includes arranging a raw material tube inside a die having an inner surface shape, in which plural crest portions and root portions are alternately formed, and providing a rod inside the raw material tube in the axial direction of the raw material tube, and the rod has a pressurized liquid supply opening. The bulge forming method further includes providing a pair of sealing portion having the pressurized liquid supply opening therebetween, and the sealing portions seal a space between the raw material tube and the rod. The bulge forming method further includes moving the rod in the axial direction while applying compressive stress to the raw material tube in the axial direction and supplying a pressurized liquid from the pressurized liquid supply opening into the raw material tube, whereby the raw material tube is formed into the shape of the inner surface of the die.

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Tochigi, Japan

Takuo Kobayashi