Apparatus for assembling door handle
AssigneeHonda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsHiroyuki Noguchi, Darrell Stofford, Lewis Sandridge
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Abstract
A handle case and a handle which are substantially assembled are clamped on a pallet with respective first and second clamping means on the pallet, and the pallet is conveyed along a looped conveyor. The handle case and the handle are connected operatively to each other with hinge means in a first assembling station disposed alongside of the conveyor. Then, the pallet is conveyed successively through other assembling stations disposed along the conveyor to install other door handle components on the handle case and the handle in the other assembling stations.
Claims3
An apparatus for assembling a door handle primarily from a handle case and a handle in an assembling station disposed alongside of a looped conveyor, said apparatus comprising:
- means for clamping a handle case and a handle which are assembled on a pallet;
- stopper supply means for receiving a stopper in a vertically movable socket and moving said stopper into engagement with a needle on a robot wrist;
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- a jig for temporarily unclamping said handle case and turning said handle case when said stopper is to be installed on said handle case.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.