Method and apparatus for mounting vehicle window glass

摘要

A bead of hot melt adhesive Ba applied to the periphery of a vehicle window glass B is held by a jig 5 mounted on a robot 3 for subsequent mounting by pushing the said window glass into a window portion Aw of a vehicle A. The adhesive Ba is applied to the window glass B such that upon completion of pushing the window glass it falls within an allowable temperature range. The upper limit is one at which the adhesive agent has a holding force above a predetermined value to prevent deviation of the window glass B after it is released from the jig 5. This obviates the need to hold the glass in place until the adhesive takes hold. The lower limit corresponds to a temperature where the compression reaction force of the adhesive is below a predetermined value. This ensures that the bead can be evenly crushed to the required thickness by a relatively small force. In order to absorb deflections of the robot arm 3a due to its load a coupling member couples the jig 5 to the robot arm 3a such that it is tiltable in a direction opposite to that of the deflection. This ensures that the adhesive bead Ba is evenly crushed around the periphery of the glass B.