METHOD OF ASSEMBLY USING MOVING SUBSTRATES, INCLUDING CREATING RFID INLAYS

摘要

A method of assembling products selects first and second planar substrates, each having a plurality of articles respectively positioned on each substrate, which articles are to be assembled together. While one of the substrates moves at a generally linear speed, the other substrate moves in a spiral fashion through an assembly location such as a nip roller to thereby match their respective speeds, resulting alignment of respective articles for assembling of the two different types of articles together from two substrates having differing pitch placement of their respective articles thereon. The non-spiraling substrate is a plurality of flights of articles in an array, and the other substrate has a block of the other articles. Typically, the number of flights corresponds to the number of articles in the block.

主权项

1. An assembly method, comprising:
selecting a first planar substrate that is flexible and has a plurality of first articles disposed in a linear array thereon with a first spacing between adjacent first articles; selecting a second planar substrate with a plurality of second articles disposed in an array of a plurality of linear flights thereon with a second spacing between adjacent second articles; routing the first planar substrate in a spiral form through an assembly location thereby aligning a first one of the first articles with a first one of the second articles on a first of one of the flights; assembling the first one of the first articles and the first one of the second articles from the first flight to provide a first assembled article; continued routing the first planar substrate in a spiral form through the assembly location thereby aligning a second one of the first articles with a first one of the second articles of a second one of the flights; assembling the second one of the first articles and the first one of the second articles of the second flight to provide a second assembled article; and continued further routing and further assembling of first articles and of second articles from flights of the array to provide multiple further assembled articles.