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Vehicle body assembly and sequencing system

A body and vehicle technology, applied in motor vehicles, transportation and packaging, data processing applications, etc., can solve the problems of time-consuming spraying changes, large spraying changes, expensive, etc., and achieve the effect of maintaining quality and integrity and reducing complexity

Inactive Publication Date: 2012-05-09
COMAU LLC
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However, this solution requires a large number of spray changes, which are time consuming and expensive
[0008] Also, assembling vehicles in a random mix can be problematic due to the large number of process variations that are often required

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[0025] This article reference Figure 1-12 Discuss examples of vehicle body assembly and sequencing systems. like figure 1 As shown, the example of a manufacturing plant 10 may include various assembly lines 12 for at least partially assembling, for example, a vehicle body in white (BIW) 14, in Figure 5 and 6 The vehicle body-in-white is shown in its entirety in . Manufacturing shop 10 may also include a vehicle body storage area 16 , an automated guided vehicle (AGV) storage and coordination area 17 , and a vehicle body painting area 18 .

[0026] Each assembly line 12 may include workstations connected by tracks (not shown) along which BIWs 14 may be moved and sequenced through various building and assembly operations. Autonomous robots or workers at each workstation may perform operations on the BIW 14 or on the parts that ultimately form the BIW 14 , such as welding, clamping, gluing, and / or bolting operations. like Figure 4 As shown, each BIW 14 may be supported a...

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A vehicle body assembly and sequencing system includes the advantages of a batch vehicle body build sequence with the advantages of a random sequence of vehicle body styles transferred to a painting area. The build system includes using automated guided vehicles which transfer and store assembled, un-painted vehicle bodies in a storage area and sequentially transfers selected bodies from the storage area to the painting area achieving a random or variable supply of different vehicle bodies to be painted a certain color.

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[0001] Cross References to Related Applications [0002] This application claims priority to U.S. Provisional Application Serial No. 61 / 169,5553, filed April 15, 2009, and U.S. Patent Application Serial No. 12 / 760,146, filed April 14, 2010 , which patent application is hereby incorporated by reference in its entirety. technical field [0003] The present invention relates generally to the field of vehicle body assembly, delivery and logical sequencing prior to exterior painting of the vehicle body. Background technique [0004] The structural skeleton of a vehicle, usually made of welded sheet metal components, is commonly referred to in the industry as a body in white (BIW) because the sheet metal is initially painted with an anti-rust paint, usually white in color, before the vehicle's exterior color layer coating. In industry, it is also common for a vehicle assembly shop to have a flexible assembly line that can be changed relatively quickly to build vehicles of differ...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(China)
IPC IPC(8): B62D65/02B62D65/18
CPCG06Q10/06B62D65/18Y10T29/49622Y10T29/49828Y10T29/49829Y10T29/49888Y10T29/49998Y10T29/53539Y10T29/53548
Inventor V·基利巴尔达
Owner COMAU LLC
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