Classifications

• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B62—LAND VEHICLES FOR TRAVELLING OTHERWISE THAN ON RAILS
  • B62D—MOTOR VEHICLES; TRAILERS
  • B62D65/00—Designing, manufacturing, e.g. assembling, facilitating disassembly, or structurally modifying motor vehicles or trailers, not otherwise provided for
  • B62D65/02—Joining sub-units or components to, or positioning sub-units or components with respect to, body shell or other sub-units or components
  • B62D65/18—Transportation, conveyor or haulage systems specially adapted for motor vehicle or trailer assembly lines
• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B62—LAND VEHICLES FOR TRAVELLING OTHERWISE THAN ON RAILS
  • B62D—MOTOR VEHICLES; TRAILERS
  • B62D65/00—Designing, manufacturing, e.g. assembling, facilitating disassembly, or structurally modifying motor vehicles or trailers, not otherwise provided for
• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
  • B65G—TRANSPORT OR STORAGE DEVICES, e.g. CONVEYORS FOR LOADING OR TIPPING, SHOP CONVEYOR SYSTEMS OR PNEUMATIC TUBE CONVEYORS
  • B65G21/00—Supporting or protective framework or housings for endless load-carriers or traction elements of belt or chain conveyors
  • B65G21/02—Supporting or protective framework or housings for endless load-carriers or traction elements of belt or chain conveyors consisting essentially of struts, ties, or like structural elements
  • B65G21/06—Supporting or protective framework or housings for endless load-carriers or traction elements of belt or chain conveyors consisting essentially of struts, ties, or like structural elements constructed to facilitate rapid assembly or dismantling
• • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
  • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
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  • Y10T29/00—Metal working
  • Y10T29/49—Method of mechanical manufacture
  • Y10T29/49826—Assembling or joining
  • Y10T29/49828—Progressively advancing of work assembly station or assembled portion of work
  • Y10T29/49829—Advancing work to successive stations [i.e., assembly line]
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  • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
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  • Y10T29/50—Convertible metal working machine
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  • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
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  • Y10T29/00—Metal working
  • Y10T29/51—Plural diverse manufacturing apparatus including means for metal shaping or assembling
  • Y10T29/5124—Plural diverse manufacturing apparatus including means for metal shaping or assembling with means to feed work intermittently from one tool station to another
• • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
  • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
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  • Y10T29/00—Metal working
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  • Y10T29/5136—Separate tool stations for selective or successive operation on work
  • Y10T29/5137—Separate tool stations for selective or successive operation on work including assembling or disassembling station
• • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
  • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
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  • Y10T29/5191—Assembly
• • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
  • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
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  • Y10T29/00—Metal working
  • Y10T29/53—Means to assemble or disassemble
  • Y10T29/534—Multiple station assembly or disassembly apparatus
• • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
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  • Y10T29/00—Metal working
  • Y10T29/53—Means to assemble or disassemble
  • Y10T29/53539—Means to assemble or disassemble including work conveyor

Definitions

• the invention relates to a device for the assembly, adjustment and testing of motor vehicles.
• So-called assembly lines are used in automobile plants. Along these assembly lines, components are fed to an automobile to be manufactured, assembled and further processed if necessary. Further processing is done by humans or robots.
• the automobiles to be manufactured are continuously moved on wheels at the end of the assembly lines using an apron conveyor with chain, rope or belt drive or on push platforms (skillet) or suspended in a transport hanger.
• These plate belts or push platform systems can be sunk into the ground, taking either the left, the right or all wheels of the automobile with them. If only one plate conveyor is used, the automobile then rolls on the other two wheels.
• a conveyor belt for vehicle final assembly lines with an outlet-side transfer area which connects the conveyor belt to a downstream transport path, is known, which includes not only a simple and therefore reliable stripper for small parts, but also a safety device forms, which is triggered when, for example, a foot of a worker traveling on the conveyor belt gets between the conveyor belt and the transfer area.
• DE 198 58 989 AI describes an assembly and / or conveyor belt for the assembly or transportation of motor vehicles, individual support elements being provided, each support element being movably mounted and designed to accommodate a motor vehicle. The safety is increased and the assembly effort is reduced in that the support elements are designed and arranged one behind the other in such a way that the belt is designed as an endless belt.
• DE 201 11 684 Ul shows a device for transporting motor vehicles during final assembly, the motor vehicles with mounted front and rear wheels pressurized with compressed air each having support areas on the conveyor belt arrangements for the tires of the front and rear wheels that can be moved synchronously with one another, at least are partially adapted to the contour of the treads of the pressurized tires.
• DE 44 42 155 AI describes a method for the sequence of final assembly or dismantling of motor vehicles, the motor vehicles to be assembled being transported to the next assembly station in each case after passing through one or two assembly stations into a floor above or below.
• a guide rail of an electric monorail conveyor runs along a reworking street, on which trolleys are arranged, each trolley being connected to a ground vehicle for transporting an automobile via a pull rod.
• the object of the invention is therefore to provide a device for the assembly of motor vehicles which can be set up anywhere in a flat hall without changes to the ceiling or floor and which is portable.
• the device can be assembled from transportable, modular, interconnectable individual components which can be set up on a flat surface without pits or ceiling loads, the device comprising the conveying and assembly devices for the motor vehicles to be assembled.
• the individual components are closed, integrated functional units that are standardized and optimized. They are delivered as completely pre-installed and pre-tested as possible and then connected to the overall system via their standard interfaces ("docking points"). With such a device, it is possible to assemble or assemble an assembly line from modular, standardized individual components at short notice without structural changes to the assembly hall (no suspension, therefore no reinforcement of the ceiling statics or suspended system steel construction - floor-level, therefore no provision of pits required) Transport the assembly line from one assembly hall to another (or over longer distances, e.g. from one plant to another).
• the individual components it is expedient for the individual components to have a size which still enables transport even over long distances (road transport).
• Such a modular design significantly increases the flexibility of production and it can be made up of individual components that have already been pre-equipped and can only be coupled an assembly line in any factory dial without any special requirements for the ceiling statics or the presence of pits must be built or (in the case of a model change) changed.
• a complete modular factory is thus created, which includes the conveyor technology, the work stations, the end of the conveyor belt, the assembly of assemblies, vehicle module transport and installation (doors, cockpit, engines, seats, front end, wheels, etc.) as well as social facilities and logistics.
• An embodiment of the invention consists in that means are provided for coupling supply lines running in the individual components.
• a preferred development of the invention consists in that the conveying device is a device for the suspended conveying of the motor vehicles.
• the means for hanging conveying of the motor vehicles are already provided in the individual components, so that there is no need to fasten these conveying devices to the hall ceiling.
• the device comprises a final assembly area.
• the wheels are usually mounted on the motor vehicle and, among other things, Functional tests (acceleration, shift, brake tests and light tests, etc.) carried out. This can also take place within the device according to the invention.
• the device has a vehicle test stand, the motor vehicle being arranged in a hanging manner in the vehicle test stand and the wheels of the motor vehicle in by motor-driven elements of a roll, brake and ABS test stand acting laterally on the wheels Rotation can be offset or braked.
• An embodiment of the invention provides that the motor-driven elements attack the tire.
• Another embodiment of the invention provides that the motor-driven elements attack the rims.
• This can be a vibration test of the motor vehicle or a light test, for example.
• a further development of the invention is that means are provided for hanging the finished motor vehicles from the assembly hall.
• the means for the hanging conveying of the motor vehicles from the assembly hall have the advantage that the motor vehicles can still be transported hanging from the assembly hall to a parking space after the final assembly. As a result, emissions from starting and driving the motor vehicles out of the assembly hall are avoided and, at the end of the suspended conveyance, the finished motor vehicles can be parked in an orderly, automated and detectable manner. If necessary, a branch to a rework station can also be made within the hanging funding, where the vehicles that are still defective are reworked.
• Fig. La is an illustration of an individual component according to the invention.
• Fig. Lb the side view of Fig. La
• FIG. 2b shows the side view of Fig. 2a
• FIG. 3 a shows a representation of an individual component according to the invention
• Cross section height and side adaptation for cockpit handling, 3b shows the side view of FIG. 3a
• FIGS. 3a and 3b are a top view of FIGS. 3a and 3b
• FIG. 5b shows the side view of FIG. 5a
• the individual components (“modular work stations”) have a load-bearing structure made from side members 1 and cross members 2, on which the conveying devices 3 for the motor vehicle to be assembled and the supply lines, such as, for example, power and data cables, Pneumatic supply and other devices such as ropes for information signs and rails for trolleys and pneumatic devices are arranged.
• the supply lines in particular the energy supply, quick connections are provided at the connection points between two individual components, which ensure an energy supply from individual component to individual component of the individual components are connected to the supply lines in the hall and the other individual components are also supplied via the quick connections, without having to carry out a complex individual connection of all individual components s also possible that the individual components are individually connected to the supply lines.
• the individual components also have a worker conveyor belt 4 or alternatively a platform.
• Material can be fed laterally by material trolley 5 or removed from shelves 6.
• 2a and 2b a single component is shown with a height adapter 7, which makes it possible to achieve a height that exceeds the normal height. This can also be achieved by using long supports.
• FIGS. 3a and 3b an individual component with a height adapter 7 and a side adapter 8 is shown in FIGS. 3a and 3b, with which a width that goes beyond the normal overall width can also be achieved.
• the cockpits 9 to be installed in this station are fed laterally.
• FIG. 4 shows a device according to the invention as a series of individual components for assembly assembly, the individual stations being designated as stations 1 to 19.
• 5a and 5b show a rolling, braking, ABS test stand in the hanger (with the vehicle conveyed hanging), load units 10 being moved laterally from the outside to the wheels of the motor vehicle and either to the tires, the rims or the wheel hub attack and means 11 are provided for adjusting the wheelbase. Furthermore, 10 pulsing units 12 are provided under each loading unit, with which a shaking movement can be initiated.

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