Material or article handling – Apparatus for charging a load holding or supporting element... – With simultaneous charging and discharging of plural load...
Patent
1990-04-02
1991-04-16
Brown, David H.
Material or article handling
Apparatus for charging a load holding or supporting element...
With simultaneous charging and discharging of plural load...
104252, 1984651, 901 7, B65G 2120, B65G 6702
Patent
active
050077830
ABSTRACT:
Disclosed is an automatic carrier system having one or more self-propelled robotic carriers for carrying products-in-assembly between assembly stations of an automated assembly line. The running speed and stopping position of individual carriers is controlled by command indicators. The carriers are capable of stopping within a small distance of a desired position relative to an assembly station. Each carrier supports a pallet upon which is slidably disposed a subpallet. Each assembly station has a robotic arm upon which is located a positioning member and an assembling tool. Accurate positioning of product-in-assembly is effected by lowering the positioning member, which comprises two cylinders with tapered openings, over a pair of positioning projections mounted on the slidable subpallets. As the positioning projections slide within the tapered opening of the positioning member cylinders, the sloped surface of the tapered opening causes the positioning projections to move toward the center of the cylinders. When the positioning member reaches its lowermost point, the positioning projections are centered in the cylinders, thus causing the subpallet and workpiece to be in the desired position relative to the assembling machine.
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Alps Electric Co. ,Ltd.
Brown David H.
Shoup Guy W.
Winters Paul J.
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