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AssigneesToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Hirata Corporation
InventorsMasanari Matsuura, Sotaro Ol, Tomoyuki Kubota, Masaya Tsuruta
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A conveyance section positioning method has carrier pallets on which workpieces are fixed, a conveyer, a heating furnace for heating the workpieces, and a positioning mechanism for positioning the carrier pallets, and the method stops the carrier pallets at predetermined positions. The heating furnace has halogen heaters for heating the workpieces. The carrier pallets each have projections and output grooves. Comb tooth-shaped stopper projections engaging with the projections are formed on a carrier stopper. When the carrier stopper is moved forward, the stopper projections and the projections are engaged with each other. In this one operation, the carrier pallets are positioned at places corresponding to the halogen heaters, and then the workpieces are heated.
A method of positioning a conveyance section comprising carriers for mounting workpieces, a conveyer for conveying the carriers, a heating furnace for heating the workpieces while covering a part of the conveyer, and a positioning mechanism for positioning the carriers in the heating furnace, the method comprising positioning the carriers conveyed by the conveyer in predetermined places by the positioning mechanism to heat the workpieces,
A conveyance device comprising:
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