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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 07, 2013
Filed:
Jul. 26, 2011
Applicant:
Timothy J. Marx, Macomb, MI (US);
Inventor:
Timothy J. Marx, Macomb, MI (US);
Assignee:
Utica Enterprises, Inc., Shelby Township, MI (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B23P 19/00 (2006.01); B23Q 15/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Vehicle body assembly apparatus () includes a sensor assembly () having a lateral Y axis slide assembly (), a longitudinal X axis assembly () and a vertical Z axis assembly () that respectively include magnetostrictive type linear sensors for sensing X, Y and Z locations of a vehicle body to control vehicle body assembly. Signals of the X, Y and Z locations are sent to a controller () that operates a robot () that supports an end effector.