CA1248331A - Apparatus for fastening door for vehicle - Google Patents

Apparatus for fastening door for vehicle

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CA1248331A
CA1248331A CA000481615A CA481615A CA1248331A CA 1248331 A CA1248331 A CA 1248331A CA 000481615 A CA000481615 A CA 000481615A CA 481615 A CA481615 A CA 481615A CA 1248331 A CA1248331 A CA 1248331A
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door
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Toshifumi Suzuki
Toshio Kawano
Ryoichi Setoguchi
Toshio Ishida
Seiiti Mikami
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Honda Motor Co Ltd
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Abstract

ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE
An apparatus is disclosed for fastening a door of a vehicle of the type wherein a door hinge of a door inserted in a door opening of the vehicle body is bolted to the vehicle body by a nut runner provided on a fastening head which is movable to advance and retreat in relation to the vehicle body. The appara-tus comprises bolt receiving and supplying device comprising a bolt supplying head connected to a parts feeder and a bolt transfer head provided on a side of the fastening head. The transfer head is movable between a bolt-receiving position facing the supplying head and a bolt-delivering position facing the fastening head so that a bolt supplied through the supplying head may be set on the nut runner through the transfer head.

Description

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This invention relates -to an apparatus for fastening a door for a vehicle of the type wherein a door hinge of a door inserted in a door opening portion of a vehicle body may be bol-ted to the vehicle body by a nut runner provided on a fastening head movable -to advance and retreat in relation to the vehicle body.
It has been usual hitherto wi-th this kind of fastening apparatus to provide on a forward end por-tion of a fastening head an opening and closing jaw means for holding a bolt supplied from a parts feeder, so that by advancing a nut runner through the interior of the jaw means, -the bolt can be brought into engagemen-t with the nut runner to enable the door hinge to be bolted.
This apparatus, however, is disadvantageous in that the fastening head becomes larger in diameter a-t its forward end por-tion due to the existence of the jaw means, and consequently it is necessary to provide a comparatively large clearance for allow-ing the jaw means to pass there-through between an end edge of the door and the part to which the door hinge is to be bolted. The degree of freedom in designing the vehicle body is -therefore restricted.
An object of the invention is to provide a fastening apparatus which is free from the foregoing disadvantage.
According to the present invention there is provided an apparatus for fastening a door of a vehicle f the type where in a door hinge of a door inserted in a door opening of the vehicle body is bolted to the vehicle body by a nut runner provided on a fastening head which is movable to advance and retreat in rela-tion to the vehicle bOdyr sa~d apparatus comprising bolt receiving and supplying means comprising a bolt supplying head connected to a parts feeder and a bolt transfer head provided on a side of the fas-tening head, said transfer head being movable ~ 1 --~Z9~833~

between a bolt-receiving position facing the supplying head and a bolt-delivering posi-tion facing the fastening head so tha-t a bolt supplied through the supplying head may be set on the nut runner through the transfer head.
In such an apparatus the bolt can be set on a nut runner through a bolt-receiving and supplying means provided separately from the nut runner, while -the use of the ~aw means is abolished, result-ing in the fact that it is applicable also to the case where the clearance between an end edge of a door and a portion to which a door hinge is to be bolted is comparatively narrow.
The invention will now be described in more detail, by way of example ony, with reference to the accompanying draw-ings, in which:-Fig. 1 is a top plan view of a vehicle door assemblyapparatus provided with one embodiment of the invention;
Fig. 2 is an enlarged side view of an important part thereof in more detail;
Fig. 3 is a top plan view thereof;
Fig. 4 is a sectional view taken along the line IV-IV
in Fig. l; and Fig. 5 is an enlarged front view of an important part of a bolt-receiving and supplying means;
Fig. 6 is a sectional view taken along the line VI-VI
in Fig. 5;
Fig. 7 is a sectional side vlew of an important part thereof illustratlng the bolt setting of a nut runner; and Fig. 8 lS a sectional top plan view of a bolting part of a rear door.
Referring to Figs. 1-4, numeral 1 denotes an assembly station provided in the mlddle of a conveying line for a vehicle body a, and a set jig 2 is provided on each side portion of the station 1 so that a rear door openlng part b and a front - ~ - 2 -.
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opening part b' of the vehicle body a set on the station 1 rnay be assembled with a rear door c and a :~ront door c', in order, through the set jig 2.
Addi-tionally, a pair of fastening heads 3,3', for -the rear door c and the front door c' are disposed in front and rear relationship on a front side of the set jig 2 in the longitudinal direction of the conveying line, so that these doors c, c' can be bolted at their door hinges d, d' to respective parts of the vehicle body a by means of plural nut runners, 3a,3'a provided on the respective fastening heads 3,3'..
In more, detail, the set jig 2 is so supported on a shift table 4 which is shiftable in the vehicle length direction as to be movable in -three direc-tions, tha-t is, in the vehicle length direction, in the vehicle width direction and in the vehicle height direction, by a three dimensional right-angled co-ordinates type robot mechanism 5, and additionally the two fastening heads 3,3' are so provided, through a three dimensional right-angled co-ordinated type robot mechanism 6, which is pro-vided on the shift table 4 located at a front position of the set jig 2, as to be driven to be sent inwards, tha-t is, in the vehicle width direction, by respective feeding cylinders 3b, 3'b.
Additionally, a machine frame 7 located in front of the shift table 4 is provided thereon with a door introducing means 8 comprlsing a palr of inner and outer slide frames 8a, 8b having a booster mechanism so that the operation described below can be carried out. By operating the introducing means 8, the rear door c which is so held by:the outer slide frame 8b thereof as to be set in positlon by a door receiver 8c and a clamp member 8d, which are provided on the slide frame 8b, can be conveyed to a predetermined door introducing positlon facing the sét jig 2 located at its door receivlng position as illustrated. The rear ~our c i~ held by the set jig 2 so as to be set in position :

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while received an~ attracted respectively hy a door receiver 2a and a vacuum pad 2b, which are provided on the set jig Z.
Thereafter, by a rearward movement of -the shift table 4 and an operation of -the robot mechanism 5, the set jig 2 is moved to a position corresponding -to the rear door opening part b, and thereafter -the same is advanced inwards, that is, in the vehicle width direciton so that the rear door c can be inserted in-to the rear door opening b. Under -this condition, the fastening head 3 for the rear door c which is previously se-t in position by the robot mechanism 6, at its posi-tion corresponding to a part to which the door hinge is to be bolted is driven to be sent for-ward by the feeding cylinder 3b, and the door hinge d is bolted to a center pillar of the vehicle body a, as shown clearly in Fig. 8, by the nut runner 3a provided on the fastening head 3.
Next, in almost the same manner as above, the front door c' introduced by the introducing means 8 is inserted into the front door opening b' through -the set jig 2, and the door hinge d' of the front door c' is bolted to a front pillar portion of the vehicle body a by -the nut runner 3'a provided on the fasten-ing head 3' for the fron-t door c'.
Referring to the drawings, numerals 3c, 3'c denote air driven units for the nut runners 3a, 3'a provided on the respec-tive fastening heads 3,3', and numerals 3d, 3'd denote magnets for bolt attraction provided in socket por-tions of the forward ends of the respective nut runners 3a, 3'a.
The foregoing robot mechanism 6 comprises a first slide frame 6a movable to advance and retreat in the vehicle width direction, a second slide frame 6b provided on the frame 6a so as to be movable to advance and retreat in-the vehicle leng-th direction, and an elevating frame 6c provided on the second slide frame 6b so as to be movable upwards and downwards in the vehicle height direction, and each of the fasten-ing heads 3,3' is~supp rted on a guide frame 6d which is so provided on :
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the elevating frame 6c as to extend long in the vehicle width direction.
If such an arrangemen-t is supported so that the res-pective fastening heads 3, 3' are provided on their forward end portions with jaw means for receiving the respective nut runners so that bolts may be supplied thereto direc-tly from a par-ts feeder, especially when -the gap between the front end edge of the rear door c and the part to which -the door hinge _ is to be bolted is narrowed, as shown in Fig. 8, in view of the rela-tion of the rear door c with the width of the center pillar or -the like, it can often happen that the jaw means becomes a hindrance and thereby the desired bolting cannot be carried out.
Accordingly, in the illustrated example, a bolt-receiv-ing and supplying means 9 is so provided on the machine frame 7 as to be located in front of the fastening heads 3, 3' so that bolts supplied from a parts feeder (not illustrated) can be set on the respective nut runners 3a, 3'a through the foregoing means 9, and the desired bolting may be carried out reliably, without using the jaw means, even when the foregoing clearance 1 is nar-rowed to that corresponding to the radius of the nut runner 3aitself.
The bolt receiving and supplying means 9 comprises a bolt supplying head 10 which is to be conected to a parts feeder and a bol-t transferring head 11, and the supplying head 10 is fixedly provided on the machine frame 7 and the transferring head 11 is a-ttached to a slide frame 12 provided on the machine frame 7 so that, by an operation of a driving cylinder 12a Eor the slide frame 12, the transferring head 11 may be moved reciprocally between its frontward bolt receiving position facing the supply-ing head 10 and its rearward delivering position facing the fore-going fastening head 3,3'. Additionally, as shown in Figs. 5 and - 6, the supplying head 10 is so provided with a plurality of bolt , .

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supplying openings lOa for being connected to bolt pressure feeding tubes 13 connected to a parts feeder, that the bolt supply-ing openings lOa, lOa may be disposed in accordance with the dis-position of the nut runners 3a, 3a of the respective fastening heads 3, 3'. The transfer head 11 is also provided, in the similar manner as above, with a plurality of bol-t receiving openings lla for receiving bolts supplied through the supplying openings lOa. In addition, each receiving opening lla is provided with a clamp cylinder llb for firmly holding the bol-t inserted therein, and an air introducing opening llc for both cleaning the bolt-receiving opening lla and pushing-out the bolt.
Next, the operation of the foregoing example will be explained as follows:-Prior to introducing the rear door c to the set jig 2,a bolt e is set, through the bolt-receiving and supplying means 9, to each of the nut runners 3a, 3'a of the two fastening heads 3, 3' for the rear door and the fron-t door, respectively.
In more detail, each bolt receiving opening lla of the bolt transfer head 11 is supplied, through each bolt supplying opening lOa of the bolt supplying head 10, with a bolt e from the parts feeder. The transfer head 11 is then moved to the bolt-delivering positian under the condition that each bolt e is fixed in the corresponding receiving opening lla by the operation of each clamp cylinder llb. The two fastening heads 3, 3' are then slightly advanced towards the transfer head 11, and each of the nut runners 3a, 3'a is inserted in each receiving opening lla while being rotated. The head of each bolt e is thereby brought into engagement with the foreward end socket por-tion thereof.
After the engagement thereof, each clamp cylinder llb is released from its holding operation, and at the same time the two fasten-ing heads 3, 3' are withdrawn, whereby each bolt e is drawn out from each ~eceiving opening lla under the condition that the same ,.
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is attracted by each magnet 3d, 3'd pxovided on each nu-t runner 3a, 3'a.
Tnereaf-ter, the respec-tive fastening heads 3, 3' are operated as mentioned above so as to effect-the bolting of-the door hinge d of-the rear door c and the bolting of the door hinge d' of the front door c' In an al-ternative case where, instead oE assembling -the rear door and the fron-t door by the single common set jig 2 as in the foregoing example with -the vehicle body, the rear door and the front door are intended -to be assembled by their individual set jigs mounted on individual robot mechanisms, the fastening head for the rear door and the fastening head for the front door are mounted individually on respective robot mechanisms provided in parallel with the foregoing robot mechanisms. In this case, the bolt-receiving and supplying means 9 for the rear door and that for the front door are provided separately one from another.
The bolt-receiving and supplying means is thus provided on one side of the fastening means so that a bolt supplied from a parts feeder may be set on the nut runner provided on the fas-tening head by way of the bolt transfer head provided on the bolt-receiving and supplying means. Thus, it is no-t necessary for ~0 the fastening head to be provided with a jaw means for holding a bolt supplied ~from a parts feeders, and the bolting can be carried ou-t reliably even if the gap between an end edge of a door and a part to which a door hinge is to be bolted is narrow, so long as there exlsts the in-terval for allowing the nut runner to pass therethrough. Thus, the degree of freedorn in vehicle design can be increased.

Claims (3)

THE EMBODIMENTS OF THE INVENTION IN WHICH AN EXCLUSIVE
PROPERTY OR PRIVILEGE IS CLAIMED ARE DEFINED AS FOLLOWS:
1. In an apparatus for fastening a door of a vehicle of the type adapted to bolt a door hinge of the door inserted in a door opening of the vehicle body to the vehicle body by a nut runner provided on a fastening head which is movable to advance and retreat in relation to the vehicle body, bolt receiving and supplying means comprising a bolt supplying head connected to a parts feeder and a bolt transfer head provided on a side of the fastening head, said transfer head being movable between a bolt-receiving position facing the supplying head and a bolt-delivering position facing the fastening head so that a bolt supplied through the supplying head may be set on the nut runner through the transfer head.
2. An apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the supplying head is fixedly provided on a machine frame, and the transfer head is attached to a slide frame which is so provided on the machine frame as to be movable by a driving cylinder.
3. An apparatus as claimed in claim 2, wherein the supplying head is provided with at least one bolt supplying opening connected to the parts feeder through a bolt pressure feeding tube, and the transfer head is provided with at least one bolt-receiving opening for receiving a bolt supplied through the supplying opening, and the receiving opening is provided with a clamping cylinder for clamping a bolt inserted in the receiving opening.
CA000481615A 1984-03-05 1985-05-15 Apparatus for fastening door for vehicle Expired CA1248331A (en)

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JP59040619A JPS59168029A (en) 1983-03-09 1984-03-05 Manufacture of bifunctional polyphenylene oxide
JP70406/1984 1984-05-16

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