Apparatus for manipulating a vehicle body panel

Abstract

Manipulating a vehicle body panel includes utilizing a base plate, left and right screw rods, a motor, and clamping units. The base plate is connected to the arm of the robot. The left and right screw rods are rotatably mounted below the base plate by bearing blocks and each of the screw rods has a driven helical gear at an interior end thereof. The motor is disposed central to and above the base plate and has a rotating shaft. A driving helical gear is formed at an end of the rotating shaft and is engaged with both of the driven helical gears. The clamping units are respectively mounted to the left and right screw rods by a screw block. The clamping units clamp the vehicle body panel by laterally moving with respect to the base plate and move the vehicle body panel up and down.

Description

technical field [0001] Generally, the present invention relates to an apparatus for manufacturing vehicles. More specifically, the present invention relates to an apparatus for manipulating body panels during the manufacture of a vehicle. Background technique [0002] When a vehicle is manufactured, up to about 20,000 to 30,000 multiple parts are assembled and / or welded during the manufacturing process. [0003] During the assembly of the vehicle body, for example, an overhead loader is used to manipulate body panels such as the decklid to move to the assembly line. [0004] Such as Figure 7 As shown in , according to the prior art, the equipment used to manipulate body panels such as the trunk lid includes: rotating block 105, which passes at its hinge through the the first cylinder 103 at both sides rotates; and clampers 113 each mounted at each rotary block 107 and clamping one end of the trunk lid 111 in cooperation with one retainer 109 . [0005] Such a device for ...

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Problems solved by technology

[0005] Such a device for manipulating body panels according to the prior art is usually specialized and can only be used for a specific body panel such as a trunk lid

It is also believed that a very complex structure and multiple peripheral devices for such a gripper are required to handle various types of vehicles, which in turn means that a large space is necessary for such a device to handle body panels

[0006] In addition, according to a conventional device for manipulating body panels, after the device has moved the body panels to a desired assembly position, there is a high deviation in the assembly position

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