Apparatus for inspecting conveyed works

• US 20070024402A1
• Filed: 07/31/2006
• Published: 02/01/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 08/01/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (Honda Motor Company)
• Original Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (Honda Motor Company)
• Inventors: Higuma, Toshirou, Hanaoka, Tadashi, Maruyama, Shuichi
• Application Number:
  US11/495,526
• Publication Number:
  US 20070024402A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 335/17
• CPC Class Codes: G01G 17/00 Apparatus for or methods of weighing material of special form or property determining weight by measuring volume G01F

Abstract

An apparatus for inspecting conveyed works includes a plurality of inspection lines, each of which includes plural kinds of inspection units and a conveyor unit configured to convey the works to each inspection unit one after another. Certain inspection units are commonly used by the inspection lines.

Claims

1. An apparatus for inspecting conveyed works comprising:

a plurality of inspection lines, each line comprising plural kinds of inspection units and a conveyor unit configured to convey the works to each inspection unit one after another,

wherein certain inspection units are commonly used by the inspection lines.

2. An apparatus according to claim 1 further comprising a transfer unit, wherein while an inspection is being conducted by a most time-consuming inspection unit, the transfer unit carries less time-consuming inspection units, each requiring a shorter period of time for inspection than the most time-consuming inspection unit, to each inspection line so that the certain inspection units are commonly used by the inspection lines.

3. An apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the works are connecting rods, the most time-consuming inspection unit is a unit for measuring weight of each connecting rod and the less time-consuming inspection units are a unit for measuring inner diameters of a big-end hole and a small-end hole of each connecting rod and a unit for measuring pitches of the big-end hole and the small-end hole.

4. An apparatus according to claim 3, further comprising for each inspecting line a unit for inserting pin which inserts an attachment component into the small-end hole so as to remove burrs thereof and verifies a fitting condition between the small-end hole and the attachment component.