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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 23, 1989
Filed:
Sep. 08, 1987
Kuniaki Okuma, Sayama, JP;
Ikuo Maezawa, Sayama, JP;
Hideharu Koizumi, Sayama, JP;
Masato Tanaka, Sayama, JP;
Hironobu Kida, Sayama, JP;
Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A system for automatically distributing and supplying parts includes a parts distributing device for delivering an array of parts, and a parts supplying device for feeding the parts to a parts installing device at spaced intervals corresponding to parts installing positions. The parts supplying device has a first positioning member for receiving the delivered array of parts, a second positioning member connected to the first positioning member through flexible tubular members for spacing the parts at the spaced intervals, and a parts feed mechanism movable selectively into confronting relation to the second positioning member and the parts installing device for receiving the parts from the second positioning member and feeding the parts to the parts installing device.