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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 14, 2004
Filed:
Sep. 04, 2001
Yoshiteru Kondo, Toyohashi, JP;
Newfrey LLC, Newark, DE (US);
Abstract
A self-piercing type rivet setting system comprises: a rivet swaging assembly ; a robot which moves the rivet swaging assembly to put it in position relative to a predetermined site on a workpiece to be riveted; a single integrated controller made up by an integration of a controller for controlling a riveting operation of the rivet swaging assembly and a controller for controlling the motion of the robot; and a rivet feeder for automatically feeding a self-piercing type rivet to the rivet swaging assembly. From the integrated controller , a interface cable extends to the robot and another interface cable extends to the rivet feeder , and the rivet swaging assembly is integrally incorporated into the robot