US 11,926,382 B2
Assembly system for automotive lamps and operation method thereof
Miguel Lebrato-Rastrojo, Paderborn (DE); Ludger-Josef Grüne, Lippstadt (DE); Ingo Engler, Soest (DE); Thomas Albert Röbbecke, Erwitte (DE); Jun Yue, Zhejiang (CN); Tao Hu, Zhejiang (CN); and Wei Hu, Zhejiang (CN)
Assigned to Hella GmbH & Co. KGaA, Lippstadt (DE)
Filed by Hella GmbH & Co. KGaA, Lippstadt (DE)
Filed on Mar. 19, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/206,245.
Application 17/206,245 is a continuation of application No. PCT/CN2018/125367, filed on Dec. 29, 2018.
Claims priority of application No. 201811100484.1 (CN), filed on Sep. 20, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0206441 A1, Jul. 8, 2021
Int. Cl. B62D 65/16 (2006.01); G05B 19/41 (2006.01); G05B 19/418 (2006.01)
CPC B62D 65/16 (2013.01) [G05B 19/41805 (2013.01); G05B 19/41815 (2013.01)] 7 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An operation method of an assembly system for automotive lamps, comprising the following steps:
a lamp housing and lamp lens transport station transports an automotive lamp housing to be processed to a processing location, a lamp housing carrying robot grabs the automotive lamp housing from the lamp housing and lamp lens transport station and moves it to a gluing station;
the gluing station dispenses glue to the automotive lamp housing;
the lamp housing carrying robot carries and places the automotive lamp housing to an assembly station;
the lamp housing and lamp lens transport station transports an automotive lamp lens to be processed to the processing location, the lamp housing carrying robot goes back to the lamp housing and lamp lens transport station and grabs the automotive lamp lens, moves it to the assembly station, and fastens the automotive lamp lens to the automotive lamp housing to form a whole lamp;
the lamp housing carrying robot carries the whole lamp to a whole lamp turnover station;
a whole lamp carrying robot carries the whole lamp from the whole lamp turnover station to a first optical test station or a second optical test station;
the first optical test station or the second optical test station conducts an optical test and adjustment for the whole lamp;
the whole lamp carrying robot carries the whole lamp from the first optical test station or the second optical test station to a whole lamp sealing performance test station;
the whole lamp sealing performance test station conducts a sealing performance test on the whole lamp; and
the whole lamp carrying robot carries the whole lamp from the whole lamp sealing performance test station to a whole lamp transport station, and the whole lamp waits to be unloaded here.