Cantilevered assembly work conveyor device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9259835-B2
Application number	US-201214126547-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 23, 2012
Priority date	Jul 14, 2011
Publication date	Feb 16, 2016
Grant date	Feb 16, 2016

Abstract

Running over components such as an electrical wire when displacing a work table is inhibited. An assembly work conveyor device includes a plurality of work tables and a displacement support mechanism that includes a displacement driver causing the work tables to displace along an oval displacement path. The plurality of work tables are displaced along the oval displacement path in a state supported in a cantilevered manner by the displacement support mechanism and in a posture projecting toward an outer periphery of the oval displacement path.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An assembly work conveyor device comprising:
a plurality of work tables; and
a displacement support mechanism that includes a displacement driver causing the work tables to displace along an oval displacement path, wherein
the plurality of work tables are supported in a cantilevered manner by the displacement support mechanism and in a posture projecting toward an outer periphery of the oval displacement path, and wherein
the work tables are cantilevered such that upper surfaces of the worktables are slanted downwardly in a direction from an inner periphery of the work conveyor device towards an outer periphery of the work conveyor device.

2. The assembly work conveyor device according to claim 1 , wherein the displacement driver includes an endless looped member driven to circulatingly rotate along the oval displacement path, and
the plurality of work tables are connected to the endless looped member and are thereby driven to displace along the oval displacement path.

3. The assembly work conveyor device according to claim 1 , wherein the plurality of work tables include a displacement support projecting toward the inner periphery of the oval displacement path, and
the displacement support mechanism further includes a displacement guide member supporting the displacement support in a manner capable of displacing along the oval displacement path.

4. The assembly work conveyor device according to claim 1 , wherein a traveling portion capable of traveling while supporting a weight of one of the plurality of work tables is provided on a bottom portion of each of the plurality of work tables on an inner peripheral side of the oval displacement path.

5. The assembly work conveyor device according to claim 4 , wherein the displacement support mechanism is provided along the oval displacement path and further includes a travel support at a position above a floor surface, the travel support supporting the traveling portion in a manner capable of displacement.

6. The assembly work conveyor device according to claim 1 , wherein the assembly work conveyor device further comprises:
an operation panel fixated on the inner peripheral side of the oval displacement path and above a top end position of the plurality of work tables.

7. The assembly work conveyor device according to claim 1 , wherein a part chock is provided to at least one of the plurality of work tables, the part chock extending further than an end portion of the work table on an outer peripheral side of the oval displacement path and inhibiting a component supplied for assembly work on the work table from infiltrating below the work table.

Assignees

• Shinohara Masayoshi
• Shibayama Kouichi
• Sumitomo Wiring Systems

Inventors

• Shinohara Masayoshi
• Shibayama Kouichi

Classifications

• B25H1/10 Primary

  with provision for adjusting holders for tool or work · CPC title

• B65G19/02 Primary

  for articles, e.g. for containers · CPC title

• H01B13/01209

  Details · CPC title

• Y10T29/53539

  including work conveyor · 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