WORK TRANSFER APPARATUS, AND WORK MOUNTING METHOD

• Main Authors: MURAYAMA, HIDEYUKI, UCHIHARA, MASAFUMI, USHIO, SHOZO
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 06.04.2016
• Subjects: CHAMBERS PROVIDED WITH MANIPULATION DEVICES; COMBINED OPERATIONS; HAND TOOLS; LAND VEHICLES FOR TRAVELLING OTHERWISE THAN ON RAILS; MACHINE TOOLS; MANIPULATORS; METAL-WORKING NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; MOTOR VEHICLES; OTHER WORKING OF METAL; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PORTABLE POWER-DRIVEN TOOLS; TRAILERS; TRANSPORTING; UNIVERSAL MACHINE TOOLS

According to a work mounting method by the work transfer apparatus of the prior art, a glass plate or a work may fail to abut against a window frame homogeneously at its peripheral edge portion, and the adhesion strength or the sealing property between the glass plate and the window frame may not be retained all over the periphery of the adhered portion. Provided is a work transfer apparatus (1), which grips a rear glass (5) by its gripping member (20) and mounts the rear glass (5) while pushing the gripped rear glass (5) onto the window frame (7a) of a car body (7) by the action of a supporting arm (10). The work transfer apparatus (1) comprises a control device (80), and each of absorption pads (30) of the gripping member (20) includes a force detecting sensor (31) for detecting the force to be applied to the absorption pads (30). The control device (80) controls, when it uses the work transfer apparatus (1) to mount the rear glass (5) on the window frame (7a), the actions of the supporting arm (10) on the basis of the magnitude of the detected value of the force detecting sensor (31) of each absorption pad (30).