Welding system

• US 4,779,787 A
• Filed: 05/01/1987
• Issued: 10/25/1988
• Est. Priority Date: 09/01/1986
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Inventors: Tobita, Hideaki, Naruse, Kazuo
• Primary Examiner(s): ROWAN, KURT C
• Application Number:
  US07/045,053
• Time in Patent Office: 543 Days
• Field of Search: 228/47, 228/49.1, 228/49.2, 198/346.1, 198/346.2, 219/79, 219/80, 219/86.8
• US Class Current: 228/47.1
• CPC Class Codes: B23K 37/047 moving work to adjust its position between soldering, welding or cutting steps B23K37/053 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B23P 2700/50 Other automobile vehicle parts, i.e. manufactured in assembly lines

Abstract

A welding system for welding works such as floor parts of different models of automobiles has a first carrier passage provided at one end thereof with a loading stage and at the other end thereof with a welding stage where an automatic welder is provided, a second carrier passage which intersects the first carrier passage, a turn-over stage provided at the position where the first and the second carrier passages intersect each other, a plurality of jig unit carriages each carrying the parts to be welded and adapted to run along the first and the second carrier passages, linear motors arranged along the first and the second carrier passages, and a lifting device disposed at the turn-over stage and adapted for lifting the carriage as necessitated.

Claims

1. A welding system comprising:

a first carrier passage;

a second carrier passage intersecting said first carrier passage at an intersection thereof with a height difference;

a plurality of carriages for movement along said first and second carrier passages;

a loading stage provided in said first carrier passage, in which a work to be welded is to be loaded on one of said plurality of carriages;

a welding stage provided in said first carrier passage apart from said loading stage, in which a work is to be welded by an automatic welding machine;

a turn-over stage provided in said intersection, in which one of a plurality of said carriages is transferred from one of said first and second carrier passages to the other;

non-revolutional motor means provided in and along said first and second carrier passages for electromagnetically supporting each of said plurality of carriages and for moving said carriages along said first and second carrier passages; and

means for lifting each said plurality of carriages located at said turn-over stage.

2. A welding system according to claim 1, wherein said non-revolutional motor means include, in said turn-over stage, a pair of non-revolutional motors each capable of changing the direction thereof.

3. A welding system according to claim 1, wherein said non-revolutional motor means include, in said turn-over stage, a pair of non-revolutional motors and means for changing-over the polarity of exciting current to be supplied to said nonrevolutional motors.

4. A welding system according to claim 2, wherein each of said non-revolutional motors is a linear motor.