Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho

Toru Yamamoto

Kiyohiro Ichinose

Tadashi Takeo

Ichirou Ishibashi

Masahiko Yomota

Shougo Ozawa

Shizuo Maeda

Yasuji Watanabe

Mituyoshi Obata

Toshikazu Kashida

Toshiyuki Kinugasa

Yoshiki Ishige

Hiroshi Arai

Masayuki Enomoto

Masao Tegawa

Shogo Ozawa

Eiji Kikuchi

Yoshio Ariga

Kyuya Yamazaki

Daizo Shiga

Kenichi Chujyo

Masaaki Syoji

Sachihiro Yamashito

Shogi Satoh

Kengo Shibusawa

The present invention relates to an apparatus for automatically attaching and detaching such exterior parts as doors, a trunk, and a hood, etc. which are openably mounted to a vehicle body by way of tightening devices such as pins, bolts, etc. on the assembling line of a vehicle. The invention relates to a trunk or hood attaching and detaching apparatus in which a trunk or hood is opened with respect to a vehicle body by a trunk or hood opening and closing mechanism. A holding member which constitutes the holding mechanism is closed by a driving device positioned on a base plate, so that the holding member moves and follows the position of the trunk or hood, thereby causing the trunk or hood to be held. Also, the position of the screw member screwed in the vehicle body is detected by a detection mechanism, and simultaneously the position of a nut runner mechanism is compensated on the basis of the position of the screw member detected by the detection mechanism. Thereafter, the screw member can be tightened and loosened by the nut runner mechanism.

Apparatus for attaching and detaching trunk or a hood to and from a

A plurality of paint spray guns are directed substantially perpendicularly toward respective vertically divided surfaces of a side panel of a workpiece such as an automotive body. The paint spray guns are spaced in a direction in which the workpiece is delivered and being disposed at different heights, respectively. Paint sprays are ejected from the paint spray guns toward the workpiece which is being delivered in the direction. Simultaneously, the paint spray guns are displaced back and forth perpendicularly to the direction and substantially parallel to the surfaces of the side panel to coat the surface respectively with the paint spray guns, thereby coating the side panel.

Coating apparatus

A plurality of paint spray guns are directed substantially perpendicularly toward respective vertically divided surfaces of a side panel of a workpiece such as an automotive body. The paint spray guns are spaced in a direction in which the workpiece is delivered and being disposed at different heights, respectively. Paint sprays are ejected from the paint spray guns toward the workpiece which is being delivered in the direction. Simultaneously, the paint spray guns are displaced back and forth perpendicularly to the direction and substantially parallel to the surfaces of the side panel to coat the surfaces respectively with the paint spray guns, thereby coating the side panel.

This invention relates to an apparatus for automatically attaching and detaching such exterior parts as doors, a trunk, and a bonnet, etc. which are openably mounted to a vehicle body by way of such tightening device as pins, bolts, etc. on the assembling line of a vehicle. In a door attaching and detaching apparatus the position of pins for openably attaching a door on a vehicle body is detected by a pin position detection mechanism, and the position of the pin drawing out and inserting mechanism is compensated according to the position thereof. Then, the pins can be drawn out from and inserted in the vehicle body and the door by the corresponding pin drawing out and inserting mechanism. Furthermore, the position of the door holding mechanism is compensated according to the position of the pins detected by the pin position detection mechanism, thereby causing the door to be held by the corresponding door holding mechanism. In this case, the pin drawing out and inserting mechanism and the door holding mechaism are separately installed independently and are individually driven to actuate.

Equipment for attaching and detaching doors to a vehicle body

An automotive body and body panels such as an engine hood, a trunk lid, and doors are assembled together along an assembling line. The automotive body with the body panels removably installed thereon and a feed jig on which the body panels can removably be installed thereon, are alternately fed along a first feed path. Then, the body panels are removed from the automotive body while they are being fed along the first feed path and the body panels are installed on the feed jig which is fed upstream of the automotive body along the first feed path. The automotive body from which the body panels have been removed and the body panels which have been installed on the feed jig are thereafter coated. Thereafter, the coated automotive body and the coated body panels are fed along a second feed path. The body panels are removed from the feed jig while they are being fed along the second feed path and the removed body panels are installed on the automotive body which is also fed along the second feed path. The feed jig is arranged to install the body panels thereon with fasteners which are used to install the body panels on the automotive body.

Method of assembling automotive body and body panels, apparatus for

An automotive body delivered in a direction, and covers such as an engine hood and a trunk lid and doors of the automotive body are opened and held in an open position. Thereafter, prescribed areas of the automotive body are coated, and those doors which are located downstream with respect to the direction in which the automotive body is delivered and those areas of the automotive body which correspond to those doors which are located upstream with respect to the same direction, are coated. Thereafter, the covers and the doors of the automotive body are closed.

Apparatus for coating automotive body

In the first embodiment of this invention, an inner panel portion of a front door region of a vehicle body and an inner panel portion of a rear door region of a vehicle body on each side of a 4-door type vehicle are painted respectively by a pair of front and rear painting robots located on side portions of a painting stage. In the second embodiment, an inner panel portion of the door region of a vehicle body on each side of a 2-door type vehicle is painted by dividing into halves the area to be painted by the front and rear painting robots on each side of the vehicle.

Painting process for inner panel region of motorcar vehicle body and

A welding torch is disclosed in combination with an industrial robot, the industrial robot having an arm and a wrist at one end thereof, the wrist including a rotary casing having a rotary shaft extending in a direction along the axis of the arm and a pair of sprocket members disposed on the sides of the rotary shaft. The torch and robot further have a first central core wire guide within the rotary shaft and extending along the axis thereof, and a second central core wire guide within the welding torch and fixed to the rotary shaft, the second central core wire guide being aligned with and in communication with the first central core wire guide.

Welding torch apparatus

An instrument panel manufacturing system including a press forming device for the unit sheet and the core member having a feeding device and a heating device therefor. The feeding device (2) is provided with a suction device (20) for the unit sheet which is movable up and down, and the running rails (14) for the conveying bogie (21) are arranged between the sheet mounting position for the bogie and the conveying position so as to be movable up and down. The heating unit (3) is provided with lower rails (47) and upper rails (46) and includes a heater (48), and further a drying and melting device (101) having a drying chamber (102) and a melting chamber for the adhesive (65a) coated on the surface of the core member (65) is integrally arranged with the heating device (3). The forming device is provided with auxiliary rams (59) which are moved up and down separately from the lower die (55) and support the bogie running rails (61), the lower die (66) can be moved along the rails (223, 233) on the base block (49, 219) and an item expelling block (68, 232), and further the item expelling block (68, 232) can be inclined.

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Sayama, Japan

Toru Yamamoto