Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Yasuo Watanabe

Yoshinobu Kawasaki

Yoshimichi Matsumoto

Mitsugu Takahashi

Hiroyuki Noguchi

Makoto Urano

Kanji Tominaga

Noriyuki Unose

Yoshimasa Ota

Toshihiro Hijikata

Katsuhiro Yamaguchi

Shigehiro Nakajima

Koichi Kida

In an assembly line in which at least two kinds of workpieces are transported by mixture and in which each of the workpieces is transported by a self-propelling transporting member, a transporting pitch for each kind of workpiece is set in advance based on a difference in the number of assembling man-hours required for each of them. The timing for starting the transporting member off a starting end of the assembly line is controlled according to the transporting pitch such that a pitch between a preceding transporting member and a succeeding transporting member becomes equal to that which is set for a workpiece to be transported by the preceding transporting member.

Method of transporting workpieces in assembly line

A method of and an apparatus for automatically removing deposits such as resin materials adhering to an injection head. According to the method, a liquid reactive resin is poured into a molding cavity internally defined in a mold assembly from an injection head through an injection hole. Then, an automatic cutting device is displaced toward the injection head separated from the injection hole after the reactive resin poured into the molding cavity has been hardened. Thereafter, the automatic cutting device is activated to cut unnecessary hardened resin materials adhering to the injection head. Thus, the hardened resin materials can reliably be removed without subjecting the injection head to damage. It is also possible to effectively prevent the reactive resin from adhering to the injection head when the next molding process is carried out. Further, since a resin material removing process is automatically performed, any burden imposed on an operator can be lightened and the entire molding process can efficiently be carried out.

Method of removing resinous materials adhering to injection head

Method and apparatus for adjusting tension on a timing belt of an engine. The engine includes a driving pulley on its crankshaft, a driven pulley on its camshaft, an auxiliary pulley, a timing belt bridging over the pulleys and a tension pulley pressing against the belt at one side. The driving pulley is first reversely rotated while the driven pulley is held fixed in position thereby tensioning the portion of the belt between the auxiliary pulley and the driven pulley. The driving pulley is then rotated normally to overtension the tension side portion of the belt while the tension pulley is advanced to take up any slack. Thereafter, the tension pulley is retracted while the driving pulley is reversely rotated until deflection of the tension side portion of the belt reaches a predetermined target adjustment value. The tension pulley is then fixed in position.

Method of and apparatus for adjusting tension of timing belt

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Sayama, Japan

Yasuo Watanabe