Assembling device for manufacturing a panel assembly
OwnerFrançois-Xavier CORDIER, Matteo FERRARI +1inventors
InventorsFrançois-Xavier CORDIER, Matteo FERRARI, Catarina CARVALHEIRAS
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Abstract
An assembling device for manufacturing a panel assembly, which includes at least two tooling systems, which both include wooden slat gripping, positioning and securing means, and insulation panel gripping and positioning means, and a tooling controller communicatively coupled to the tooling systems, wherein the tooling systems are instructed so that, if the length of a wooden slat exceeds a predetermined threshold, the wooden slat gripping means grip the wooden slat at different parts, and are moved relatively to each other in order to align their centerlines and to correct the straightness of the wooden slat.
Claims21
1-14. (canceled)
An assembling device for manufacturing a panel assembly, the panel assembly including a plurality of wooden slats and insulation panels, each wooden slat having a given length and a given straightness, the assembling device including at least two tooling systems, each tooling system including an articulated arm, a multifunctional tool disposed at an end of the articulated arm, wooden slat gripping means having a centerline and configured to grip a wooden slat, wooden slat positioning means configured to position the gripped wooden slat at an appropriate place on the panel assembly, wooden slat securing means configured to secure the positioned wooden slat to at least one other wooden slat, insulation panel gripping means configured to grip an insulation panel, insulation panel positioning means configured to position the gripped insulation panel at the appropriate place on the panel assembly, the assembling device including a tooling controller communicatively coupled to the tooling systems and programmed to instruct the tooling systems to operate on the wooden slats and the insulation panels in order to assemble the panel assembly, the tooling systems being operable by instruction of the tooling controller so that, if the length of a wooden slat exceeds a predetermined threshold, the wooden slat gripping means grip the wooden slat at different parts of the slat and move relatively to each other in order to align their respective centerlines to one another to correct the straightness of the wooden slat.
A panel assembly manufactured by the method of claim 12.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.