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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 16, 2000
Filed:
Oct. 29, 1992
Yoshinobu Kawasaki, Sayama, JP;
Shigehiro Nakajima, Sayama, JP;
Yoshimasa Ota, Sayama, JP;
Koichi Kida, Suzuka, JP;
Noriyuki Unose, Sayama, JP;
Yasuo Watanabe, Sayama, JP;
Mitsugu Takahashi, Sayama, JP;
Makoto Urano, Sayama, JP;
Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
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.