Apparatus for assembling motorcar body
AssigneeHonda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsSatoshi Kadowaki, Yuzi Ikeda
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Abstract
Apparatus for assembling a motorcar body from the component parts of a floor panel, a roof panel and side panels. A set carrier can reciprocate between a setting station and a welding station having a welding jig mechanism including welders. The set carrier has floor panel holding members for positioning and holding the floor panel and side panel holding members for pressing the side panels against and fixing the side panels to the floor panel, with the roof panel solely being held between receiving upper edges of the side panels. The thus-formed and held predetermined car body framework is conveyed to the welding station on the set carrier and is there transferred as-is to the welding jig mechanism to be welded.
Claims7
An apparatus for assembling a motorcar body including a set carrier able to reciprocate between a setting station and a welding station in front thereof, the welding station having on both sides thereof welding jig means for connecting by welding side panels to a floor panel and a roof panel, characterized in that the set carrier is provided with floor panel holding members for positioning and supporting the floor panel, side panel holding members for pressing the side panels against and fixing the side panels to the floor panel with the roof panel solely being held between receiving upper edges of the side panel thereby forming a predetermined car body frame work, so that the side panels, the roof panel and the floor panel can be conveyed from the setting station to the welding station as said predetermined car body framework set on the set carrier, and the car body framework may be transferred as it is to the welding jig means at the welding station.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.