Horizontal assembly press apparatus

A horizontal assembly press apparatus for performing a press-fit operation of a workpiece assembly along a horizontal axis, the workpiece assembly including a main workpiece and first and second workpieces respectively disposed on opposite sides of the main workpiece along the horizontal axis and rotatable about the horizontal axis relative to the main workpiece, said apparatus comprising:

• a machine body unit including two main machine bodies which are spaced apart from each other in a left-right direction that is parallel to the horizontal axis, and an operating channel which is defined by and between said two main machine bodies and which extends in a front-rear direction that is perpendicular to the left-right direction for movement of the workpiece assembly therein,
• a moving unit disposed on each of said two main machine bodies and at one of left and right sides of said operating channel, and movable relative to said main machine bodies in an up-down direction and the front-rear direction, the up-down direction being perpendicular to both the left-right direction and the front-rear direction;
• a camera unit disposed on each of said two moving units to fetch an image of the workpiece assembly entered said operating channel and output an image signal;
• a pressing bed unit disposed on each of said moving units and respectively operated to press the first workpiece and the second workpiece along the horizontal axis toward the main workpiece;
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• a processing unit in signal connection with said camera units, said moving units and said pressing bed units, wherein, said processing unit receives and analyzes the image signals from said camera units, determines a target position of the horizontal axis in the image signals, controls movement of said moving units according to the target position to bring said pressing bed units to the target position, and controls movement of said pressing bed units to respectively press the first workpiece and the second workpiece to perform the press-fit operation of the first and second workpieces to the main workpiece along the horizontal axis.