Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Kan Manufactory Co., Ltd.

Yasuhiro Tokairin

Tadashi Hanaoka

Shuichi Maruyama

Toshirou Higuma

A clamping apparatus for works includes a base, a rotary table which is rotatable relative to the base and rotatively moved to one station after another for various processes, and a pallet unit which is arranged in accordance with the processes and holds a work having a reference hole. The pallet unit further includes a pallet which is provided with a plurality of positioning pins each to be inserted into the reference hole and corresponding to a plurality of kinds or types, and onto which the work is placed, a clamping mechanism part which holds the work by a pressing force of a spring, and a switching mechanism part which performs switching between the plurality of positioning pins. Further, the base is equipped with a clamp drive unit for operating the clamping mechanism part, a switch drive unit for operating the switching mechanism part, and a lift unit for moving the clamp drive unit and the switch drive unit toward and away from the pallet unit to engage with or disengage from the pallet unit.

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Yamagata, Japan

Yasuhiro Tokairin