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Method for assembling bodywork parts
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Inventors: Negre, Bernard;
Assignee: ABB Preciflex Systems (Beauchamp, FR)
Primary Examiner: Briggs; William
Assistant Examiner:
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Griffin, Butler, Whisenhunt & Szipl, LLP
A method for assembling body parts wherein at least two originally separate elements are brought to an assembly station, where they are held stationary with respect to one another and with reference to the assembly station. Supports, uniquely adapted to handle a plurality of models of parts grip the elements and are used to bring the elements to the assembly station and are thereafter transported to further assembly stations for the addition of additional elements as appropriate. The elements are joined together, for example, by welding. |
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DETAILED DESCRIPTION The invention enables this need to be satisfied by proposing an assembly method using light weight supports transparent to the handling tools, thereby enabling the handling tools to be interchangeable, and thus providing the manufacturer with greater choice.
The supports also carry a portion of the features of the part that is designed to cooperate with the positioning means of the assembly station, thus enabling single-shape type specific stations to be installed with the advantage of their accuracy which is better than that of stations using recyclable pallets, while still making it easy to obtain a degree of standardization concerning the nature and the location of the positioning features carried by the support from one model to another.
More precisely, according to the invention, the method of assembling sheet metal parts, whereby at least two separate elements are brought to an assembly station, then held stationary by positioning tools belonging to the station in a determined relative position and in an overall position that is likewise determined in the frame of reference of the station, and are fixed together, in particular by welding, comprises associating at least one of the elements with a support, which includes means for holding the element, coupling the support to at least one handling device, indexing the support in the frame of reference of the assembly station, bringing the element into the assembly station by means of the support, indexing the element, at least in part, in the assembly station by means of the support, and by actuating the positioning tools so that they co-operate in shared manner both with the element and with the support so as to bring the element into its final position, including, where appropriate, releasing some only of the holding means, and in proceeding to connect the elements together.
It will be understood that this method has the advantage of providing continuity for the successive steps of building an assembly of sheet metal parts
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