Patent ID: 7950125

Claim:
A cell for automated assembly operations, comprising: a fixed supporting structure defining an assembly station; a conveying device defining a longitudinal direction of conveyance for selectively feeding a work piece along the longitudinal direction into the assembly station for the purpose of assembling thereon one or more accessory elements and for sending the work piece out of the assembly station once the assembly operations are completed; means for referencing in position and supporting the work piece in the assembly station; manipulator means movably mounted on the supporting structure for the execution of the assembly operations on the work piece that is in the assembly station, wherein the means for referencing in position and supporting the work piece in the assembly station comprise a plate having reference elements operable to engage a pallet supporting the work piece, said plate adapted to vertically raise the pallet and position the pallet at a distance from the conveying device; and a selectively oscillating support structure connected to the fixed supporting structure, the oscillating support structure operable to selectively oscillate about an axis parallel to the longitudinal direction of conveyance, wherein said raisable plate is carried by a slide movably mounted on the oscillating support structure in a direction parallel to the longitudinal direction of conveyance.