Product line assembly

• US 8,474,132 B2
• Filed: 03/24/2011
• Issued: 07/02/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 12/07/2010
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Li, Shen-Chun, Liang, Hsien-Chuan, Hsu, Shou-Kuo
• Primary Examiner(s): Taousakis, Alexander P
• Assistant Examiner(s): YOO, JUN S
• Application Number:
  US13/071,466
• Publication Number:
  US 20120137509A1
• Time in Patent Office: 831 Days
• Field of Search: 297/71, 297/83, 297/91, 297/95, 298/22, 294/29, 294/30, 294/31, 297/86, 297/93, 297/94, 198/860.2, 198/580, 198/346.2
• US Class Current: 29/791
• CPC Class Codes: E04B 1/34815 Elements not integrated in a skeleton
• CPC Class Codes: E04B 2001/34892 Means allowing access to the units, e.g. stairs or cantilevered gangways
• CPC Class Codes: E04H 5/02 Buildings or groups of buildings for industrial purposes, e.g. for power-plants or factories buildings forming part of cooling plants E04H5/10
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/49828 Progressively advancing of work assembly station or assembled portion of work
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/49829 Advancing work to successive stations [i.e., assembly line]
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/53313 Means to interrelatedly feed plural work parts from plural sources without manual intervention
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/53365 Multiple station assembly apparatus
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/534 Multiple station assembly or disassembly apparatus
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/53539 including work conveyor

Abstract

A product line assembly includes a plurality of containers detachably connected. Each of the plurality of containers includes a case and equipment received in the case. Each container is configured for performing an individual working procedure.

Claims

1. A product line assembly, comprising a plurality of containers detachably connected together, wherein each of the plurality of containers comprises a case and equipment received in the case for performing a working procedure;

wherein each of the cases comprises two doors respectively at two distal ends thereof, the doors each being capable of rotating to open or close the corresponding case by one end, each two neighboring cases have one of their doors adjacent and opposite to each other, and a plurality of fixing poles are fixed to and between the opposite two doors.

2. The product line assembly according to claim 1, wherein the plurality of containers each comprises a conveyor received therein, and the conveyors of the plurality of containers are connected by the conveyors.

3. The product line assembly according to claim 1, wherein the plurality of containers are detachably connected into a single storey loop configuration.

4. The product line assembly according to claim 1, wherein the plurality of containers are detachably connected into a multiple storey loop configuration, at least one lifting device and at least one lowering device are provided between two containers of neighboring storey.

5. The product line assembly according to claim 1, wherein each of the cases comprises an upper plate, a bottom plate and side plates interconnecting lateral sides of the bottom plate and the upper plate, and the two doors of each case are respectively formed on the bottom plate and the upper plate at two distal ends.

6. The product line assembly according to claim 5, wherein the side plates have a plurality of window configured thereon.

7. A product line assembly, comprising a plurality of containers capable of being detachably connected and stacked together, wherein each of the plurality of containers comprises a case and equipments received in the case for performing a working procedure;

wherein each of the cases comprises two doors respectively at two distal ends thereof, the doors each being capable of rotating to open or close the corresponding case by one end, each two neighboring cases have one of their doors adjacent and opposite to each other, and a plurality of fixing poles are fixed to and between the opposite two doors.

8. The product line assembly according to claim 7, wherein the plurality of containers are detachably connected into a single storey loop configuration, and the plurality of containers cooperatively transfer products horizontally through each working procedure in succession.

9. The product line assembly according to claim 7, wherein the plurality of containers are detachably connected into a multiple storey loop configuration, and the plurality of containers cooperatively transfer products horizontally and vertically through each working procedure in succession.