Assembly system that assembles insulating plate and mounting bar, and assembly method

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10622645-B2
Application number	US-201715662191-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 27, 2017
Priority date	Dec 6, 2016
Publication date	Apr 14, 2020
Grant date	Apr 14, 2020

Abstract

An assembly system that assembles insulation plates and mounting bars to a stack may include a stack transferring device that discharges a stack pressed by a stack pressing device to the outside; an insulation plate attaching device that attaches insulation plates to a first opposite side and a second opposite side of the stack that is discharged to the outside by the stack transferring device; a mounting bar attaching device that attaches mounting bars to the stack to which the insulation plates are attached; and a bolt assembling device that assembles bolts to the mounting bars that are attached to the stack.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An assembly system that assembles insulation plates and mounting bars to a stack, comprising:
a stack transferring device that is configured to discharge the stack pressed by a stack pressing device to an outside thereof;
an insulation plate attaching device that is configured to attach the insulation plates to a first opposite side and a second opposite side of the stack that is discharged to an outside thereof by the stack transferring device;
a mounting bar attaching device that is configured to attach the mounting bars to the stack to which the insulation plates are attached; and
a bolt assembling device that is configured to assemble bolts to the mounting bars that are attached to the stack.

2. The assembly system that assembles the insulation plates and the mounting bars to the stack of claim 1 , wherein the stack transferring device comprises:
a transferring rail;
a transferring arm mounted to the transferring rail and having a mounting jig where the stack is mounted; and
a mounting jig transferring device that is configured to transfer the transferring arm where the mounting jig is formed while moving along the transferring rail.

3. The assembly system that assembles the insulation plates and the mounting bars to the stack of claim 2 , further including a rotation device that is configured to rotate the stack mounted to the transferring arm at a predetermined angle thereof.

4. The assembly system that assembles the insulation plates and the mounting bars to the stack of claim 1 , wherein the insulation plate attaching device comprises:
an insulation plate magazine where the insulation plates are loaded;
insulation plate adsorption members that are configured to adsorb the insulation plates loaded in the insulation plate magazine;
an insulation plate mounting arm where the insulation plate adsorption members are disposed in lateral sides thereof; and
insulation plate rotation devices that are configured to rotate the insulation plate adsorption members.

5. The assembly system that assembles the insulation plates and the mounting bars to the stack of claim 4 , further comprising:
insulation plate transferring units that are provided in the insulation plate mounting arm to transfer the insulation plate adsorption members;
an arm transferring device that is configured to transfer the insulation plate mounting arm along an arm transferring rail; and
a vertical location adjusting device that is provided to connect the arm transferring rail and the insulation plate mounting arm and to control a distance between the arm transferring rail and the insulation plate mounting arm.

6. The assembly system that assembles the insulation plates and the mounting bars to the stack of claim 1 , wherein the mounting bar attaching device includes:
a mounting bar magazine where the mounting bars are loaded;
a mounting bar adsorption member that is provided to adsorb the mounting bars loaded in the mounting bar magazine;
a mounting bar rotation device that is provided to rotate the mounting bar adsorption member; and
a mounting bar transferring device that is configured to move the mounting bar adsorption member in a vertical direction thereof and a horizontal direction thereof along a vertical rail or a horizontal rail.

7. The assembly system that assembles the insulation plates and the mounting bars to the stack of claim 1 , wherein the bolt assembling device includes:
a bolt feeder that is configured to feed bolts to fix the mounting bars to the stack;
a runner arm through which the bolt supplied from the bolt feeder is configured to be transferred; and
a bolt runner that is provided at a front end portion of the runner arm and is configured to assemble the mounting bars to the stack by rotating the bolts transferred along the runner arm.

8. The assembly system that assembles the insulation plates and the mounting bars to the stack of claim 7 , wherein the bolt assembling device includes a bolt runner transferring device that is configured to move the runner arm in a vertical or horizontal direction thereof.

9. The assembly system that assembles the insulation plates and the mounting bars to the stack of claim 8 , wherein the bolt runner transferring device is configured to move the runner arm along a horizontal rail and a vertical rail through which the runner arm is configured to move in a horizontal direction thereof and a vertical direction thereof.

10. The assembly system that assembles the insulation plates and the mounting bars to the stack of claim 7 , including a runner rotation device that is configured to provide a torque for the runner arm to rotate the bolt runner.

11. The system that assembles the insulation plates and the mounting bars to the stack of claim 1 , further including:
clamps that is configured to fix the insulation plates for a predetermined time to the stack while the insulation plates are attached to the stack; and
clamping cylinders that are provided to move the clamps in a predetermined direction thereof.

Assignees

• Hyundai Motor Co Ltd
• Kia Motors Corp

Inventors

• Kim Min Pyo

Classifications

• H01M8/0297 Primary

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• Y10S903/908

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• H01M2250/20

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• H01M2008/1095

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