ASSEMBLY WORK CONVEYOR DEVICE

• US 20140130345A1
• Filed: 02/23/2012
• Published: 05/15/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 07/14/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sumitomo Wiring Systems Limited (Sumitomo Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Sumitomo Wiring Systems Limited (Sumitomo Corporation)
• Inventors: Shinohara, Masayoshi, Shibayama, Kouichi
• Granted Patent: US 9,259,835 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 29/791
• CPC Class Codes: B23P 21/00 Machines for assembling a multiplicity of different parts to compose units, with or without preceding or subsequent working of such parts, e.g. with programme control
• CPC Class Codes: B25H 1/10 with provision for adjusting holders for tool or work
• CPC Class Codes: B65G 17/16 comprising individual load-carriers which are pivotally mounted, e.g. for free-swinging movement guides inverting or tilting load-carriers for emptying B65G47/38; B65G17/20 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B65G 19/02 for articles, e.g. for containers
• CPC Class Codes: H01B 13/01209 Details
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/534 Multiple station assembly or disassembly apparatus
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/53539 including work conveyor

Abstract

To inhibit running Running over components such as an electrical wire when displacing a work table is inhibited. An assembly work conveyor device includes a plurality of work tables and a displacement support mechanism that includes a displacement driver causing the work tables to displace along an oval displacement path. The plurality of work tables are displaced along the oval displacement path in a state supported in a cantilevered manner by the displacement support mechanism and in a posture projecting toward an outer periphery of the oval displacement path.

Claims

1. An assembly work conveyor device comprising:

a plurality of work tables; and

a displacement support mechanism that includes a displacement driver causing the work tables to displace along an oval displacement path, wherein

the plurality of work tables are supported in a cantilevered manner by the displacement support mechanism and in a posture projecting toward an outer periphery of the oval displacement path.

2. The assembly work conveyor device according to claim 1, wherein the displacement driver includes an endless looped member driven to circulatingly rotate along the oval displacement path, and

the plurality of work tables are connected to the endless looped member and are thereby driven to displace along the oval displacement path.

3. The assembly work conveyor device according to claim 1, wherein the plurality of work tables include a displacement support projecting toward the inner periphery of the oval displacement path, and

the displacement support mechanism further includes a displacement guide member supporting the displacement support in a manner capable of displacing along the oval displacement path.

4. The assembly work conveyor device according to claim 1, wherein a traveling portion capable of traveling while supporting a weight of the work table is provided on a bottom portion of each of the plurality of work tables on an inner peripheral side of the oval displacement path.

5. The assembly work conveyor device according to claim 4, wherein the displacement support mechanism is provided along the oval displacement path and further includes a travel support at a position above a floor surface, the travel support supporting the traveling portion in a manner capable of displacement.

6. The assembly work conveyor device according to claim 1, wherein the assembly work conveyor device further comprises:

an operation panel fixated on the inner peripheral side of the oval displacement path and above a top end position of the plurality of work tables.

7. The assembly work conveyor device according to claim 1, wherein a part chock is provided to at least one of the plurality of work tables, the part chock extending further than an end portion of the work table on an outer peripheral side of the oval displacement path and inhibiting a component supplied for assembly work on the work table from infiltrating below the work table.