Method for setting automotive glass

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12539741-B2
Application number	US-202418928630-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 28, 2024
Priority date	Jun 22, 2021
Publication date	Feb 3, 2026
Grant date	Feb 3, 2026

Abstract

Provided is an automotive glass setting apparatus and a method for setting a vehicle glass. The method includes loading a glass having a plurality of edges onto a setting base, scanning, by a scanning unit, the plurality of edges of the loaded glass, and calculating a center of the glass based on data scanned by the scanning unit. The method further includes adjusting, by a plurality of alignment units and a plurality of moving mechanisms, a position of the glass to align the calculated center of the glass with a center of the setting base.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A method for setting a vehicle glass, the method comprising:
loading a glass having a plurality of edges onto a setting base; scanning, by a scanning unit, the plurality of edges of the loaded glass; preliminarily adjusting, by a plurality of alignment units and a plurality of moving mechanisms, a position of the loaded glass with respect to the setting base; calculating a center of the glass based on data scanned by the scanning unit; and adjusting, by the plurality of alignment units and the plurality of moving mechanisms, a position of the glass to align the calculated center of the glass with a center of the setting base; stopping each moving mechanism in the preliminarily adjusting step and the adjusting step, wherein each moving mechanism includes at least one electric actuator having an electric motor, the electric actuator includes a torque sensing control system sensing and controlling a torque acting on the electric motor, and each moving mechanism is stopped when the torque sensed by the torque sensing control system of the electric actuator is higher than or equal to a threshold in a state in which the alignment units contact the edges of the glass.

2 . The method according to claim 1 , further comprising gripping, by a plurality of vacuum cups, the glass between the preliminary adjusting step and the scanning step,
wherein the plurality of vacuum cups are mounted on the setting base, and as a vacuum pressure is provided to the plurality of vacuum cups, the plurality of vacuum cups grip the glass.

3 . The method according to claim 2 , further comprising releasing the glass by releasing the vacuum pressure provided to the plurality of vacuum cups, between the calculating step and the adjusting step.

Assignees

• Hyundai Motor Co Ltd
• Kia Corp

Inventors

• Cho Yong Soo
• Yeum Jung Whan
• Shin Je Uk

Classifications

• B25J15/0616

  with vacuum · CPC title

• B25J13/084

  Tactile sensors (in general G01L5/16, G01L5/22) · CPC title

• B25J9/1694

  characterised by use of sensors other than normal servo-feedback from position, speed or acceleration sensors, perception control, multi-sensor controlled systems, sensor fusion · CPC title

• B25J9/1687

  Assembly, peg and hole, palletising, straight line, weaving pattern movement · CPC title

• B60J1/005 Primary

  using positioning means during mounting · CPC title