Abstract:
A car wash conveyor belt lifting system has a ground-level conveyor belt apparatus that is configured to move a vehicle through an automatic car wash system, wherein the conveyor belt has, at intervals along its length in the direction of travel, a plurality of rollers that effectively lift the conveyor belt from wear plates and other elements disposed beneath the conveyor belt to minimize wear on the belts, wear plates, and other elements and to easily allow cleaners and lubricants to be applied thereunder.
Abstract:
A system performs a method of manufacturing a vehicle. The system includes a camera, a transport device, and a processor. The camera obtains an image of a part that is to be assembled to the vehicle. The transport device orients the part with respect to a surface and drops the part onto the surface. The processor creates a first model representing the part and a second model representing the surface from the image, places the first model at a selected drop orientation and a selected drop height with respect to the second model, simulates a drop of the first model onto the second model, and determines a change in a dimension of the first model resulting from the simulated drop. The part is dropped onto the surface at the selected drop orientation and the selected drop height when the change in the dimension of the first model meets a criterion.
Abstract:
A service system for servicing a vehicle includes a service station and a parts locker array disposed in or adjacent the service station and including: a plurality of parts lockers. Each parts locker includes a locker access door configured to alternatively open and close to permit and impede, respectively, access to the parts locker's interior, and a locker locking mechanism configured to alternatively lock and unlock to impede and permit, respectively, opening of the parts locker access door.
Abstract:
In an aspect, a conveyor system for moving a wheeled structure through a service line is provided. The conveyor system comprises at least one endless belt mounted longitudinally through the service line. The belt has an upper transport portion for moving the vehicle through the service line, and a lower return portion with a support deck below the upper transport portion to support the belt. A debris deflector is mounted between the upper transport portion and the lower return portion to protect the lower return portion from debris falling through the support deck.
Abstract:
A system having a link chain, at least one workpiece support being conveyed by the link chain, a secondary winding situated on, in particular fastened on, the workpiece support supplying an electrical load, the secondary winding being inductively coupled to a primary conductor system, the secondary winding being supplied in particular in contactless fashion, in particular inductively, from the primary conductor system, the link chain resting on and/or being movable on a slide plate, the slide plate resting on first and second support plates, the first support plates being made from a less magnetizable and/or less magnetically and/or electrically conductive material than the second support plates, the first support plates accommodating the primary conductor system, the primary conductor system being in particular situated between a respective first support plate and the link chain and/or slide plate.
Abstract:
The platform truck apparatus is provided with: a narrow platform truck for transporting a car body; a left sub-platform truck, which is attached along the left side of the narrow platform truck and is pulled by the narrow platform truck; a left parts shelf carried on the left sub-platform truck; a right sub-platform truck, which is attached along the right side of the narrow platform truck and is pulled by the narrow platform truck; and a right parts shelf carried on the right sub-platform truck. Because the left sub-platform truck is moved backward relative to the narrow platform truck when a car body is loaded onto the narrow platform truck, the left parts shelf does not interfere with the loading of the car body.
Abstract:
A plant for clip-treatment of bodies may include: at least one skid configured to support a body to be treated; at least one tank; a transportation line; and/or a system for overturning and immersing the body on the at least one skid which has been positioned above the at least one tank using the line. The line may include travel ways arranged along lateral edges of the at least one tank. The at least one skid may include lateral mounting elements which rest on the ways for supporting and moving the at least one skid above the at least one tank. The overturning and immersing system may include, on the at least one skid, a support for the body rigidly connected to a shaft transverse to the line, and which is configured to overturn the body between a first position and second position immersed inside the at least one tank.
Abstract:
A system having a link chain, at least one workpiece support being conveyed by the link chain, a secondary winding situated on, in particular fastened on, the workpiece support supplying an electrical load, the secondary winding being inductively coupled to a primary conductor system, the secondary winding being supplied in particular in contactless fashion, in particular inductively, from the primary conductor system, the link chain resting on and/or being movable on a slide plate, the slide plate resting on first and second support plates, the first support plates being made from a less magnetizable and/or less magnetically and/or electrically conductive material than the second support plates, the first support plates accommodating the primary conductor system, the primary conductor system being in particular situated between a respective first support plate and the link chain and/or slide plate.
Abstract:
A chassis dip treatment station may include a process liquid tank; a line configured to convey in sequence a plurality of skids inside and outside of the station, the skids each configured to support a chassis to be treated, the conveying line comprising roller units for displacing the skids, the skids configured to move between an operating position, for supporting and displacing the skids above the tank, and a retracted non-operating position, for immersing one of the skids with the chassis inside the tank; and a system configured to vertically move the skids conveyed above the tank using the conveying line, and configured to move the one of the skids with the chassis inside and outside of the tank. The system configured to vertically move the skids may include a platform configured to support and engage the skids. The platform may be mounted on a motor-driven, transverse, rotational shaft.
Abstract:
In a heating drawing, a base material glass plate is heated and softened in a heating furnace, and drawn to a desired thickness to form a glass strip. In the heating drawing, the base material glass plate is heated so that the base material glass plate has a U-shaped temperature distribution in a width direction. Such process can be realized through heating by a heating element which has a non-heating portion at a position opposite to a central portion of the base material glass plate in the width direction and a heating portion on both sides of the non-heating portion. Thus provided is a method of manufacturing a glass strip, the method includes heating and softening the base material glass plate, and drawing the base material glass plate to a desirable thickness to form a glass strip, and is capable of manufacturing a thin, rod-like glass strip with an excellent flatness.