Vertical Loop Conveying Line for Compact Vehicle Assembly
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing motor-vehicle assembly plants occupy extensive space and have complex logistics due to passive transverse sections and limited access, making them inefficient and difficult to manage.
Innovation Solution
The plant design features a conveying line with a vertically stacked second section, allowing pallets to move opposite to the first section, with lifting and lowering stations, and bolting stations positioned below, enabling more compact space use and easier access for bolting tools or robots, along with modular pallets for adaptability to different vehicle types and models.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of manufacture
If the conveying line is arranged in a horizontal plane with parallel sections connected by transverse sections, then the assembly operations can be performed, but the plant occupies extensive space and has passive transverse sections
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transitions from a horizontal plane arrangement to a vertical plane arrangement by stacking conveying line sections at different heights. The first section remains at ground level while the second section is elevated on support structures, allowing the system to utilize vertical space and reduce horizontal footprint without compromising assembly operations.
2Ease of manufacture
If transverse sections are used to connect parallel sections, then the endless path is formed, but access to useful sections is difficult and logistics are complicated
Solution Approach 1:
By elevating the second section vertically, the patent creates clear horizontal access paths at ground level alongside the elevated conveying section. This allows logistics vehicles and personnel to access stations without navigating through or under transverse connections, simplifying both access and logistics management.
Data Source
AI summary
A plant for assembling mechanical parts on bodies of motor-vehicles comprises an endless conveying line and a plurality of pallets movable along the conveying line, each receiving mechanical parts of the motor-vehicle along a first section of the line. Means for loading a respective motor-vehicle body on a respective pallet at a loading station, located at the beginning of a second section of the conveying line, downstream of the abovementioned first section with reference direction of movement of the pallets are provided. At least one bolting station for bolting the mechanical parts on the respective body along the abovementioned second section is provided. The abovementioned second section of the line is superimposed to the first section and aligned therewith, so that the pallets move along a closed loop in a vertical plane, moving along the upper section in a direction opposite to their direction of movement along the lower section.