Auto mounting system of door hinge for vehicle and method thereof

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10155555-B2
Application number	US-201414494307-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 23, 2014
Priority date	Sep 24, 2013
Publication date	Dec 18, 2018
Grant date	Dec 18, 2018

Abstract

The present disclosure relates to an auto mounting system of a door hinge for a vehicle and a method thereof, and more particularly, to an auto mounting system of a door hinge for the vehicle and a method thereof capable of automatically mounting the door hinges on side panels of the vehicle using an auto mounting apparatus of a door hinge to automatically mount the door hinges for front and rear doors on the side panels of the vehicle, thereby improving operation convenience due to the minimization of the number of workers, assembling quality, operating ratio.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An auto mounting system of a door hinge for a vehicle comprising:
an auto mounting apparatus of the door hinge configured to automatically mount the door hinge on a side panel of the vehicle,
wherein the auto mounting apparatus of the door hinge includes:
a door hinge stacking part configured to stack the door hinge;
a door hinge arranging part configured to arrange the door hinge from the door hinge stacking part;
a plurality of door hinge picking parts, each of which is configured to pick any one of different kinds of door hinges; and
an auto robot configured to selectively move any one of the plurality of the door hinge picking parts that is configured to pick the door hinge arranged by the door hinge arranging part to the door hinge arranging part, and to move the any one of the plurality of the door hinge picking parts to the side panel of the vehicle so that the any one of the plurality of the door hinge picking parts mounts the door hinge on the side panel of the vehicle.

2. The auto mounting system according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a controller configured to control the auto robot.

3. The auto mounting system according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a door hinge sliding part configured to be provided under the door hinge stacking part to pick the door hinge from the door hinge stacking part and slidably move the picked door hinge to the door hinge arranging part.

4. The auto mounting system according to claim 1 , wherein the door hinge stacking part guides the door hinge in an up and down direction.

5. The auto mounting system according to claim 4 , wherein the door hinge stacked in the door hinge stacking part includes a bolt.

6. The auto mounting system according to claim 5 , wherein the door hinge picking parts include a fastening part configured to bolt the door hinge on the side panel of the vehicle.

7. The auto mounting system according to claim 6 , wherein the door hinge picking parts and the door hinge are coupled with each other.

8. The auto mounting system according to claim 7 , wherein a space between the door hinge picking parts and the door hinge is set to be less than 0.1 mm.

9. The auto mounting system according to claim 1 , wherein the door hinge arranging part is configured to limit a movement of the door hinge to be less than 1.0 mm.

10. The auto mounting system according to claim 1 , wherein the side panel of the vehicle is provided with a hole in which the door hinge is mounted.

11. The auto mounting system according to claim 1 , wherein the auto robot includes a hanger configured to be fastened with the door hinge picking parts.

12. The auto mounting system according to claim 11 , wherein the auto robot moves in all directions.

Assignees

• Kia Motors Corp

Inventors

• Lee Jun Hee
• Lee Dae Won

Classifications

• Y10T29/49947

  by applying separate fastener · CPC title

• Y10T29/53978

  including means to relatively position plural work parts · CPC title

• Y10T29/53

  Means to assemble or disassemble · CPC title

• B62D65/06 Primary

  the sub-units or components being doors, windows, openable roofs, lids, bonnets, or weather strips or seals therefor {(assembling sealing arrangements with vehicle parts, e.g. doors, windows B60J10/45)} · CPC title

• B23P21/00

  Machines for assembling a multiplicity of different parts to compose units, with or without preceding or subsequent working of such parts, e.g. with program control · CPC title