Patent ID: 7044706
Filing Date: 2006-05-16
Classification: B25J,B62D,B65G

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for manipulating a vehicle body panel, the apparatus being mounted to an arm of a robot for moving a vehicle body panel to a required mounting position of a vehicle body, the apparatus comprising: a base plate connected to an arm of a robot; left and right screw rods rotatably mounted below the base plate by bearing blocks, each of the screw rods having a driven helical gear at an interior end thereof; a motor disposed central to and above the base plate and having a rotating shaft of which an end has a driving helical gear engaged with both of the driven helical gears of the left and right screw rods; clamping means for clamping the vehicle body panel by laterally moving with respect to the base plate, and for moving the vehicle body panel up and down, wherein the clamping means comprises: a suction unit for holding the vehicle body panel, the suction unit being adjacent and interior to the clamping unit and also being below the base plate; and a gap adjusting unit for adjusting a gap between the vehicle body and the vehicle body panel, the gap adjusting unit being adjacent and interior to the clamping means.