Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Tsutomu Maruyama

Hiroshi Ejiri

Akio Ozeki

An assembly machine including a drive unit and an assembling unit removably coupled to the drive unit so as to be driven by the drive unit to assemble an assembly such as a torque converter case with an assembly part such as a valve body unit. The machine further includes an assembly part conveyance means for supply the assembly part, an assembling unit housing means for housing a plurality of assembling units, and a changeover conveyance means. The assembly part is conveyed from the assembly part conveyance means to the assembling unit by the changeover conveyance means. At the time of the change of the type of the assembly, the assembling unit is removed from the drive unit and conveyed onto the changeover conveyance means and the direction of conveyance of the changeover conveyance means is then changed over to convey the assembling unit into the assembling unit housing means, another assembling unit housed in the housing means is conveyed out of the means onto the changeover conveyance means, and the direction of conveyance of the changeover conveyance means is then changed over again to convey the other assembling unit to the drive unit.

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Saitama, Japan

Tsutomu Maruyama