Method and mechanism for transporting work

• US 20020152600A1
• Filed: 05/01/2002
• Published: 10/24/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 09/14/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha (Honda Motor Company)
• Original Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha (Honda Motor Company)
• Inventors: Shimizu, Toshiharu
• Granted Patent: US 6,739,031 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 29/430
• CPC Class Codes: B62D 65/18 Transportation, conveyor or haulage systems specially adapted for motor vehicle or trailer assembly lines conveyors and haulage in general B65G
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/49829 Advancing work to successive stations [i.e., assembly line]
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/53048 Multiple station assembly or disassembly apparatus
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/53365 Multiple station assembly apparatus
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/5337 including assembly pallet
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/534 Multiple station assembly or disassembly apparatus
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/53539 including work conveyor

Abstract

There is a module conveyance mechanism 1 projected, which comprises: lift means for transfer 6, in which the module constructed in a subline SL is made to move through a lower part than a floor side FL of a mainline ML; a slide mechanism 5, wherein the module is made to move through a lower part than the floor side of a mainline ML parallel to the floor thereof; the lift means for assembly 4, in which the module transferred from the slide mechanism 5 is made to rise to the assembly zone of the body F.

Claims

1. A work conveyance method, in which a work constructed in a subline is conveyed to an assembly zone of a body moving along a mainline, which includes:

a transfer process, in which the work is transferred from the subline;

a moving process, in which the work is moved in a lower part than a floor side of the mainline parallel to the floor side and supplied to the supply position that is underneath said assembly zone;

a lifting process, in which the work is risen from said supply position to said assembly zone.

2. A work conveyance mechanism that the work constructed in the subline is conveyed to the assembly zone of the body in order to assemble the work to the body moving on the mainline, which comprises:

a moving means, in which said work transferred from the subline is made to move under the floor of said mainline and supplied to a supply position under the assembly zone;

a lifting means, in which the work is risen from said supply position to said assembly zone.

3. The work conveyance mechanism according to the claim 2, wherein said moving means comprises:

a slide mechanism, in which the work is moved parallel to said floor side thereunder;

a lift means for transfer, in which said work can be moved up and down in order to transfer to said slide mechanism from the subline.

4. The work conveyance mechanism according to the claim 3, wherein said lift means for transfer is provided with a turn means for letting a direction of the work turn a fixed angle.

5. The work conveyance mechanism according to the claim 3 or the claim 4, wherein said slide mechanism possesses a first slide part in which a pallet loaded with said work is to be moved to said supply position and a second slide part which is arranged a fixed distance below from said first slide part, and said lift means for assembly can move from said assembly zone to a return position at which said pallet is returned in the second slide part.