Apparatus and method for trimming
AssigneeNissan Motor Co., Ltd.
InventorsTeruo Segawa, Masaomi Umezawa, Masayasu Ota
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Abstract
A trimming apparatus and method that can create plural trim shapes using one press die. The trimming apparatus includes a conveying device for conveying a pallet having a workpiece disposed thereon, a trimming device having a press die for trimming the workpiece in a trimming process area, a positioning device for determining the relative position of the press die with respect to the pallet and a position switching device provided in the positioning device to change operable to change the position of the press die with respect to the pallet in the trimming process area.
Claims17
A trimming apparatus, comprising:
- a conveying device for conveying a pallet having a workpiece disposed thereon;
- a press die operable to trim the workpiece in a trimming process area;
- a positioning device operable to determine the position of the press die with respect to the pallet;
- and
- a position switching device operable to change the position of the press die with respect to the pallet in the trimming process area.
A trimming apparatus, comprising:
- means for conveying a pallet having a workpiece disposed thereon;
- means for trimming the workpiece in a trimming process area;
- means for determining the position of the means for trimming with respect to the pallet;
- and
- means for changing the position of the means for trimming with respect to the pallet in the trimming process area.
A method of trimming, comprising:
- conveying a pallet having a workpiece disposed thereon into a trimming process area;
- determining the position of the pallet with respect to a press die disposed within the trimming process area;
- positioning the pallet at either a first predetermined position with respect to the press die or a second predetermined position with respect to the press die;
- trimming the workpiece on the positioned pallet using the press die to form either a first trim shape on the workpiece if the pallet is in the first predetermined position or a second trim shape on the workpiece if the pallet is in the second predetermined position;
- and
- conveying the pallet out of the trimming process area.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.