Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Yuichi Wakabayashi

Atsushi Osada

Kenichi Asamizu

Toshihiro Tsuji

Fumiaki Suga

Mitsuo Maeda

A workpiece mounting system mounts a sunroof member to an inner panel of a body. The workpiece mounting system is provided with a first robot, a second robot, and a control device for controlling the first and second robots. The control device performs a step of calculating as positional information the position of the sunroof member and the position of the inner panel by a CCD camera of the first robot, a step of holding and conveying the sunroof member by the first robot on the basis of the positional information and positioning the sunroof member relative to the inner panel, a step of temporarily fixing the sunroof member to the inner panel by the first robot, and a step of finally fixing the sunroof member to the inner panel by the second robot on the basis of the already calculated positional information.

Workpiece mounting system, workpiece mounting method, sunroof unit holding device, and sunroof unit holding method

A work carrier includes a movable clamp unit () having resiliently connected first and second sliders () mounted on a guide rail (), a lock lever () mounted on the second slider and normally urged in a direction to move a toothed portion () into meshing engagement with a rack (), an operating lever () pivotally mounted on the second slider, and a cam mechanism () operable in response to pivotal movement of the operating lever in one direction such that the second slider is locked in position against movement relative to the guide rail via meshing engagement between the toothed portion and the rack and, subsequently, the first slider and clamp member carried thereon are forcibly displaced away from the second slider while the second slider remains locked on the guide rail.

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Tochigi, Japan

Yuichi Wakabayashi