US 12,459,342 B2
Method and setting arrangement for dispensing tolerance compensation elements
Steffen Sinzel, Weinsberg (DE); Norbert Hornbostel, Talheim (DE); and Alexander Löfflath, Neuenstadt (DE)
Assigned to AUDI AG, Ingolstadt (DE)
Filed by AUDI AG, Ingolstadt (DE)
Filed on Dec. 8, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/544,974.
Claims priority of application No. 102020132626.2 (DE), filed on Dec. 8, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0176790 A1, Jun. 9, 2022
Int. Cl. B65G 47/19 (2006.01); B60K 1/04 (2019.01); B65G 47/14 (2006.01); H01M 50/244 (2021.01); H01M 50/249 (2021.01)
CPC B60K 1/04 (2013.01) [B65G 47/1471 (2013.01); B65G 47/19 (2013.01); H01M 50/244 (2021.01); H01M 50/249 (2021.01); H01M 2220/20 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A setting arrangement for automatically attaching tolerance compensation elements to a respective component, comprising:
a storage unit which is designed to receive the tolerance compensation elements and to position them correctly in a row in such a way that the tolerance compensation elements positioned in the row have the same orientation;
a pushing cylinder, and
a movable setting unit which has a magazine in which the tolerance compensation elements correctly positioned in a row are receivable, wherein the magazine has a first longitudinal extension in which the tolerance compensation elements received in the magazine are arranged adjacent to one another, wherein the magazine has an opening, and wherein the setting unit is designed to dispense the tolerance compensation elements individually through the opening;
wherein the opening is located in an end region of the receiving region of the magazine with respect to the longitudinal extension, so that only one last tolerance compensation element in the row in which the tolerance compensation elements are arranged can be pushed out of the opening by the pushing cylinder, wherein the setting unit is designed in such a way that the magazine is aligned when the last tolerance compensation element is pushed out of the opening such that the last tolerance compensation element represents a lowest tolerance compensation element with respect to gravity.