DE102018103568A1 - Magazine and handling technology for thin-layered flexible workpieces - Google Patents

Abstract

The invention relates to a handling technique for flexible and thin-layered workpieces (20). The workpieces (20) are stored in a magazine (1), transported and provided for a production process from the magazine (1). The magazine (1) has a base body (2) and a plurality of juxtaposed register shelves (4, 4 '), which are connected via pivot bearings (10) to the base body (3, 3') and have a machine register engagement (24) , One and preferably each register bottom (4, 4 ') has a receiving area (6) for holding a workpiece (20) on a first bottom surface and a sliding surface (5) on the opposite bottom surface. The register shelves (4, 4 ') are each movable individually between a storage position and an open position. The handling technique includes a loading method, a loading device, a delivery method, and a delivery device.

Description

The invention relates to a handling technique for thin-layered and in particular flexible workpieces. The handling technique comprises a magazine for holding a plurality of workpieces, a loading device and a provisioning device for introducing or removing workpieces from the magazine, and a handling method in which the magazine is used. The handling method includes a loading method and / or a delivery method. The invention furthermore comprises a production method for an electrical conversion device whose workpieces are handled by a device and / or a method according to the disclosure.

In practice, there are various fields of application in which a plurality and in particular a multiplicity of thin-layered and in particular flexible and / or sensitive workpieces are to be transported, stored and provided, for example, for a production process. A need for such manipulations exists, for example, in the production of battery modules or their battery cells as driving energy storage for fully or partially electrically powered vehicles and in the production of battery modules for stationary energy storage devices and in the production of fuel cells. In the aforementioned cases, in particular blanks of electroactive films, separator films or permeation films are used, which are joined in a stack arrangement. For example, for the production of a fuel cell between 50 and 500 layers of flexible and electroactive layer composite elements must be stacked in a stack. Any electrically insulating or other intermediate layers may be introduced between the layer composite elements.

The hitherto known handling techniques, in particular for the transport, the intermediate storage and the provision of such workpieces are not optimally formed.

It is an object of the present disclosure to provide an improved handling technique and magazine for thin-layer flexible workpieces and related apparatus and methods for inserting or removing workpieces. The invention solves this problem by the features of the independent claims.

A workpiece according to the present disclosure may be of any design, and in particular may be a single-layer or multi-layer sheet comprising one or more sheets and / or one or more textile layers. The workpiece may alternatively or additionally include one or more sheets and / or a carbon fiber structure and / or a plastic structure. The workpiece may additionally comprise further components, for example frame elements, seals, coatings or connecting means. As part of the production of a fuel cell, the workpiece may be an electrode assembly. An electrode assembly may include at least two membranes including, for example, one or more gas permeation films and one or more catalyst coated films. In the manufacture of a battery module, the workpiece may be an electrode assembly, a (single) electrode, a separator or an electrolyte membrane. An electrode arrangement may for example comprise at least two of the following elements, namely an anode foil, a cathode foil, an electrolyte layer, a separator layer and / or an insulator layer. Two or more elements may be present in single or multiple numbers in the workpiece and be present for example as a prefabricated layer composite.

The disclosed technology has particular advantages for the handling of such workpieces which are easily deformable and / or have at least one sensitive surface and therefore should not be handled or only in the case of particularly sensitive contacting by suction or gripping. Due to the disclosed technology, it is possible to introduce the workpieces into the magazine with particularly low mechanical load, to transport them in the magazine or to store them and to release them from the magazine. The workpieces can be separated and protected from each other at any time, as well as environmental influences, so that negative events such as corrosion, surface damage, deformation, swelling can be avoided without hindering flexible and rapid handling or logistics in a production environment.

The magazine according to the present disclosure is designed to receive a plurality of workpieces, which in particular have a thin-layered shape and / or can be flexible. The magazine has a base body and a plurality of juxtaposed register shelves. The register shelves are connected to the base body via pivot bearings and have a machine register engagement. The register shelves preferably form a stack in which there can be at least two sets of register shelves with predetermined positions.

The register shelves together form a recording register, in which the individual trays are stacked flat next to each other. Preferably, each of the register shelves is a separate pivot bearing movable. In addition, one or more cover bottoms may be present in the take-up register, in particular as outermost movable bottoms in the stack.

The basic form of a register floor can be designed as desired. Preferably, a register bottom and in particular each register bottom has the basic shape of a disk or plate body with two parallel main surfaces, which are referred to below as bottom surfaces, and a peripheral edge. A register bottom can be made for example of a sheet or a plastic plate.

A register bottom and in particular each register bottom has a receiving area for holding a workpiece on a first bottom surface and a sliding surface on the opposite bottom surface.

The register shelves can have a completely or predominantly closed surface, so that a workpiece is fully supported during storage, during transport and, if necessary, during the provision. This is particularly advantageous for handling easily deformable or flexible workpieces. The advantage can also be achieved if a largely closed surface is present, which has small recesses or openings.

The height of the receiving area or the clear height between two adjacent register shelves can essentially correspond to the thickness of the workpieces and can optionally be adjusted. Thus, the workpieces can be received and held in the magazine in a flat orientation. In particular, can be avoided by the flat storage that workpieces, for example, consist of two or more layers of material by environmental influences such as heat input, moisture entry or drying arch or roll up, which could complicate or prevent subsequent handling.

The register shelves are preferably arranged with a matching orientation, wherein in each case one receiving area on a first register bottom can be brought into touching contact with the sliding surface of an adjacent register shelf. The contacting contact between a sliding surface and an adjacent receiving region is present in particular when two adjacent register trays are in the same position.

The register shelves are each movable at least between a storage position and an open position, preferably by a single movement. Alternatively, a whole set of adjacent register shelves may be movable from one predetermined position to another predetermined position, particularly from the stored position to the open position and vice versa.

According to a preferred variant, a Einzelbewegbarkeit the register floors can be forcibly specified or a joint mobility as a group or set of register floors excluded. In other words, a magazine according to the present disclosure may include at least one blocking means that allows only a single movement of a register bottom. Optionally, two concurrent individual movements of two or more non-adjacent register shelves may be permitted.

For the specification or restriction of the register floor mobility any means may be provided on the magazine or a provision device or a loading device, in particular blocking means which prevent a common movement of two or more register shelves and allow only a single movement of a register bottom. A blocking means may for example be formed by relative stops and / or relative receptacles which define a relative position of adjacent register shelves in one of the predetermined positions, in particular a parallel orientation.

A loading apparatus according to the present disclosure is configured to load thin-layered flexible workpieces into a magazine. The loading device has at least one magazine receptacle with a loading point and a separating device. It is designed to move at the loading point in each case a register bottom individually between an open position and a storage position, so that the moving register bottom covers the receiving area of an underlying register shelf and in particular a workpiece inserted therein. Preferably, the loading device on an offset drive, which is adapted to offset the magazine or the loading point relative to each other by a neighboring distance of the register shelves. The loading apparatus is configured to perform a loading method according to the present disclosure.

The movement of a register bottom is preferably carried out at the loading point from the open position to the storage position, wherein the movement is triggered by a corresponding movement means and then further by the weight of the register bottom. For this purpose, in particular at least one separating device may be provided on the loading device.

The loading device may comprise a conveying means and / or loading means for moving one or more workpieces into a receiving area on a register bottom, for example in the form of a conveyor belt and / or an air cushion conveyor and / or a manipulator-guided picking tool.

A delivery device according to the present disclosure is configured to provide flexible and thin-layered workpieces from a magazine. The delivery device has at least one magazine receptacle with a removal point. It is designed to move at the removal point in each case a register bottom individually between a storage position and a Ausgleitstellung. This movement preferably takes place from the storage position to the discharge position. By the movement of the register bottom, a workpiece is released, which was previously recorded between the moving bottom of the register and an adjacent register floor. This workpiece slides out of the magazine on a sliding surface of the lower register bottom.

Particularly preferably, the movement of a register bottom is triggered by a suitable movement means and then takes place essentially due to the dead weight of this register bottom. The slide-out movement of the register base takes place essentially on the sliding surface of the moved or offset in the Ausgleitstellung register bottom, in particular due to the weight of the workpiece and the skew of the sliding surface in the Ausgleitstellung.

In the context of the present disclosure, a distinction is made between different "positions" of the shelf and "orientations" of the magazine. The position of a register bottom (storage position, Ausgleitstellung, open position) initially provides a basic orientation with respect to the spatial directions. The same basic orientation may possibly be achieved in two different spiral turns of the magazine, which are defined as the "orientations" of the magazine, in particular as "loading orientation" and "delivery orientation".

The storage position is preferably a position of the register shelf in which the receiving area is oriented substantially horizontally, regardless of whether the receiving area is currently located on the up or down facing bottom surface.

The Ausgleitstellung is such a position in which the register base with the sliding surface is directed substantially obliquely downward, so that the sliding surface forms an inclined plane with respect to gravity. In the Ausgleitstellung the sliding surface of the register base obliquely upward, while the receiving surface facing downward. The Ausgleitstellung may coincide with an opening position explained below or be different from this. In particular, the Ausgleitstellung be predetermined by an external separating device or an external stop, which are not part of the magazine, but are preferably arranged at a removal point of the delivery device. The exit position may be available only in the delivery orientation of the magazine.

In the context of the present disclosure, in order to simplify the illustration, it is assumed that exactly one workpiece is inserted into the receiving area of a register shelf. By repeatedly and individually moving a register bottom from the storage position to the discharge position, a workpiece is then gradually released from the magazine and provided by the slipping for a subsequent work process. This form of magazine use is particularly favorable for the timely provision of workpieces for a production process. Alternatively, two or more workpieces can be introduced into the receiving region of at least one register bottom, which leads to a corresponding joint provision of two or more workpieces during the removal.

The magazine and the provisioning device according to the present disclosure enable a particularly compact and preferably individual recording of a plurality of workpieces in a common carrier and a speedy and in particular clocked individual provision of the workpieces for a subsequent work process. The workpieces can in particular be assembled as a prefabricated component set and stored, transported and provided in this compilation. The workpieces can be the same or different components of the set. For example, for the manufacture of a fuel cell of a certain type, it is possible to prefabricate exactly the end plates, edge layer parts and electrode modules required for the electroactive stack as a component set in the magazine and, preferably, the number and order in which the parts are required in the subsequent production process. The cycle time for the provision of the workpieces can be flexibly specified, in particular depending on the respective workpiece type. It can be well under 10 seconds, in particular, a deployment at a clock of 1 to 3 seconds or less is possible.

The magazine has a particularly simple and therefore cost-effective design. It may have a modular structure and, for example, have two or more register modules, which can be arranged in cascade and each comprise a plurality and in particular a matching number of register shelves.

The magazine can preferably do without its own drives. For moving the register shelves, one or more drives and in particular driven separating devices are preferably provided on the supply device and / or the loading device, which interact with the machine register engagement. Alternatively, one or more separating devices may be part of the magazine and operated by a separate drive or an external drive.

A handling method according to the present disclosure may include a provisioning method and / or a loading method. The provisioning process is used to remove workpieces from the magazine and the loading process is used to introduce workpieces into the magazine.

The provisioning method preferably comprises at least the following steps.

A magazine filled with workpieces is fed to a removal point, which is provided in particular on the delivery device according to the disclosure. The feeding occurs such that the magazine is in a deployment orientation in which a set of registration shelves of the recording register are substantially horizontally aligned and in the storage position. In the deployment orientation, the magazine is further oriented so that the sliding surfaces face upwards at the register shelves and the receiving area faces downwards. Those register shelves in the magazine, which are in the storage position, form the so-called bearing set.

In each case, a lowermost register bottom is separated from the bearing set and a movement of this register bottom from the storage position to a release position is triggered, in particular by means of a separating device. The further movement of the register bottom is preferably carried out by gravity or the weight of the register bottom, possibly supported by the weight of a resting workpiece. As a result of the movement of the register bottom, a workpiece, which is received between the moved register bottom and the next register base above, moves out of a receiving region of the overlying register bottom and slides out of the magazine on the sliding surface of the moved register bottom.

The magazine is offset (relative to the removal point) by a neighboring distance of the register shelves. Subsequently, the steps of the register bottom movement and the displacement of the magazine can be repeated as often as desired, in particular until a desired number of workpieces are removed from the magazine or the magazine is completely emptied.

A loading method according to the present disclosure preferably includes at least the following steps.

A magazine is fed to a loading station, wherein the magazine is in a loading direction, which may preferably coincide with a storage orientation and transport orientation. In the loading direction, a set of register shelves is oriented obliquely or transversely to a horizontal direction and is in an open position. This set of register shelves is referred to below as a release rate. At least one further register bottom, which is arranged below the release set, is oriented in the storage position and thus substantially horizontally. In the loading direction of the magazine has a receiving area at the at least one register bottom, which is located below the release rate, upwards.

A workpiece is placed in this receiving area on the register bottom, which is located below the release set.

Subsequently, the lowest register bottom is separated from the release set and it is triggered a movement of this register shelf from the open position to a storage position. In this case, the bottom of the register folds onto the register bottom underneath and covers its receiving area and the workpiece located therein. In other words, such movement of the lowermost register shelf from the release set is triggered to cover the workpiece received between the moving register shelf and the next underlying register shelf.

The magazine is offset (relative to the loading point) by a neighboring distance of the register trays.

Subsequently, the steps of workpiece insertion, the register bottom movement and the displacement of the magazine can be repeated as often as desired, in particular until a desired number of workpieces are received in the magazine or the magazine is completely filled.

The loading orientation is characterized in that the workpieces are each inserted in a receiving area, which is located at the (current) top of a register bottom. Thus, the weight of the workpiece contributes to the workpiece remaining in the receiving area.

The deployment orientation is an opposite orientation to the loading orientation (turned 180 degrees from a horizontal axis). Thus, when the magazine is in the deployment orientation, a capture area is at the (current) bottom of a shelf. Thus, in the provisioning orientation of the magazine, the weight of a workpiece contributes to leaving the receiving area.

As long as two adjacent register shelves are in the storage position, i. substantially horizontally aligned and parallel to each other, the workpiece is held between these register shelves, in particular by one or more guides of the receiving area. However, it can come to rest on the now located below the workpiece sliding surface of the respective lower register bottom and lose the surface contact with the overlying register floor or its sliding surface. (First) by the movement of the lower register bottom of the storage position in the Ausgleitstellung the workpiece is released and guided in accordance with the defined position of the sliding surface (Ausgleitstellung) and moved out of the magazine. The movement of the workpiece takes place essentially by its own weight. Alternatively or additionally, the movement of a workpiece may be assisted by a drive means, for example by a controlled air flow.

The loading method utilizes the magazine according to the present disclosure. During loading, the one or more workpieces can be moved by any means and placed in a receiving area on a register floor. The movement can be effected in particular by means of a suction gripper, in particular with a manipulator-guided suction gripper. Alternatively, the movement can take place by means of a conveyor or a gripping device. A further preferred embodiment provides that one or more workpieces are moved by an air cushion conveyor or gas flow conveyor and introduced into a receiving area.

The handling method according to the present disclosure is particularly suitable for flexible and thin-layered workpieces having a sensitive surface. Between two register shelves a workpiece is protected against environmental influences. It may in particular be enclosed between circumferential guides of the receiving area and between the surfaces of the upper and lower register shelves. All surfaces of the magazine and the delivery device which come into contact with a workpiece may have surface properties adapted to the handling requirements of the respective workpiece, for example non-stick properties or antistatic properties.

Further advantageous embodiments of the invention are set forth in the subclaims, the attached drawings and the following detailed description.

• 1: ein Magazin gemäß der vorliegenden Offenbarung in der Beladeausrichtung in perspektivischer Ansicht;
• 2: eine vergrößerte Ansicht auf das Magazin aus 1 in einer Beladesituation;
• 3 und 4: eine vergrößerte perspektivische Darstellung des Magazins aus 1, hier in einer Bereitstellungsausrichtung an einer Entnahmestelle;
• 5: eine Bereitstellungsvorrichtung gemäß der vorliegenden Offenbarung in perspektivischer Darstellung;
• 6: ein Ablaufdiagramm zur Erläuterung des Handhabungsverfahrens gemäß der vorliegenden Offenbarung;
• 7: eine vergrößerte perspektivische Ansicht einer Entnahmestelle an der Bereitstellungsvorrichtung gemäß 5;
• 8: eine alternative Ausführungsform eines Magazins (1) in einer Beladeausrichtung (oben) und einer Bereitstellungsausrichtung (unten);
• 9: ein Ablaufdiagramm analog zu 6 für eine weitere Ausführungsart der Handhabungstechnik;
• 10: verschiedene Varianten von Relativanschlägen, um eine relative Ausrichtung von benachbarten Registerböden in verschiedenen Stellungen vorzugeben.

The invention is illustrated by way of example and schematically in the drawings. Show it:

• 1 a magazine according to the present disclosure in the loading direction in perspective view;
• 2 : an enlarged view of the magazine 1 in a loading situation;
• 3 and 4 : an enlarged perspective view of the magazine 1 , here in a deployment orientation at a donor site;
• 5 FIG. 2 is a perspective view of a delivery device according to the present disclosure; FIG.
• 6 FIG. 3 is a flowchart for explaining the handling method according to the present disclosure; FIG.
• 7 : An enlarged perspective view of a removal point on the delivery device according to 5 ;
• 8th : an alternative embodiment of a magazine ( 1 ) in a loading orientation (above) and a delivery orientation (below);
• 9 : a flowchart analogous to 6 for another embodiment of the handling technique;
• 10 : Various variants of relative stops, to specify a relative orientation of adjacent register shelves in different positions.

1 shows a magazine ( 1 ) according to the present disclosure in a preferred embodiment. The magazine ( 1 ) comprises a basic body ( 3 ), which is formed for example by a frame, and a recording register ( 2 ). The recording register ( 2 ) contains a plurality of register shelves ( 4 . 4 ' ), which via pivot bearing ( 10 ) with the basic body ( 3 ) are connected. Particularly preferred is each register bottom ( 4 . 4 ' ) about separate pivot bearing ( 10 ) with a hinge strip ( 3 ' ) of the basic body ( 3 ) (compare also 3 and 4 ).

On the magazine ( 1 ) register modules can preferably be provided which can be arranged one above the other and adjacent to each other in order to store the recording register ( 2 ) to build. For example, each 10, 20 or any other suitable number of register shelves with respective pivot bearings ( 10 ) and a module hinge strip to be combined into a register module. On the magazine ( 1 ) may continue to be provided at the top and / or at the bottom of a deck floor. A top floor may have substantially the same design as a register bottom, but it does not have at least one function element (receiving area or sliding area and associated guides, see below) not required according to its peripheral position in the receiving register.

In the example of 1 shows the magazine ( 1 ) a total of 220 register shelves.

Preferably, a register bottom ( 4 . 4 ' ) and in particular each register floor ( 4 . 4 ' ) on a first floor surface a receiving area ( 6 ) for holding a workpiece ( 20 ) and on the opposite bottom surface a sliding surface ( 5 ) on. The recording area ( 6 ) can have any training.

According to a preferred embodiment, the receiving area ( 6 ) by at least one transverse guide ( 7 ), which is arranged in the region of an opening edge and / or the bearing edge on the first floor surface. The bearing edge is one in the area of the pivot bearing ( 10 ) and in particular parallel to the axis of rotation extending edge of the register bottom. The opening edge is a bearing edge opposite the outer edge of a register bottom. The bearing edge and the opening edge can cover as complete contours the entire width or at least a partial width of a register bottom. They can be defined individually or together as virtual contours or as function lines.

A transverse guide ( 7 ) may be formed by any body, for example by a projection on the first bottom surface or edge. In the example of 1 to 4 are the transverse guides ( 7 ) Each formed by applied to the first bottom surface plastic body or foam body, each having a substantially cuboid shape.

Alternatively or additionally, the receiving area ( 6 ) by at least one longitudinal guide ( 8th ), which preferably extends transversely to the opening edge and on the base body ( 2 ) or arranged on the first floor surface. In the 1 to 4 are longitudinal guides ( 8th ), which are each attached to the first bottom surface and whose training is analogous to the above-described embodiment of the transverse guides.

The bottom surfaces of the register floors ( 4 . 4 ' ) and the receiving areas ( 6 ) can have any basic shape. The basic shape of a bottom surface may expediently be a rectangular shape. The basic shape of a receiving region may coincide with or deviate from the basic shape of the bottom surface, which is particularly due to the corresponding placement of transverse guides (FIG. 7 ) and / or longitudinal guides ( 8th ) is reachable. In addition, any other guides can be provided to the position of a workpiece ( 20 ) in the reception area ( 6 ) pretend. In 2 to 4 For example, additional corner guides ( 9 ). Alternatively or additionally, internal guide elements could be provided which, for example, are located in a middle area of the first floor surface of a register floor (FIG. 4 . 4 ' ) and into an internal opening of a workpiece ( 20 ) intervene.

A supernatant height of the one or more guides ( 7 . 8th . 9 ) may be uniform or predetermined differently for the respective guides. Furthermore, the projection height of one or more guides may be variable.

According to a preferred embodiment, at least the projection height of the one or more transverse guides ( 7 ) the lowest intended clear distance between two adjacent register shelves ( 4 ) when they are in the storage position.

A variable projection height can be achieved, for example, by having a guide ( 7 . 8th . 9 ) is at least partially formed of a flexible material, such as a foam, and / or on the respective register bottom ( 4 . 4 ' ) is mounted at least limited mobility. In particular, mobility of at least one leadership ( 7 . 8th . 9 ) may be provided perpendicular to the first bottom surface.

One or more transverse guides and / or longitudinal guides ( 8th' ) may alternatively or additionally be attached to the second floor surface of a register floor ( 4 . 4 ' ) and in particular the sliding surface ( 5 ) limit. Again alternatively or additionally, a guide bar on the transverse sides of the recording register ( 2 ) (not shown) which spans two or more register shelves and in particular all register shelves and as a common longitudinal guide for those in the magazine ( 1 ) recorded workpieces ( 20 ) serves.

The register floors ( 4 . 4 ' ) are preferably individually between at least two defined positions relative to the magazine ( 1 ) or relative to the other register shelves movable. Preferably, at least one storage position and an open position are defined as defined rotational positions. In addition, a further Ausgleitstellung be predetermined.

The specification of the open position, the storage position and / or the Ausgleitstellung can be achieved by any means. One or more stops are preferred on the magazine ( 1 ) and in particular on the main body ( 3 ) provided at which at least one register bottom ( 4 . 4 ' ) or a stack of adjacent register shelves ( 4 . 4 ' ) can be applied. In the case of a stacking system, the position of a first register bottom can be determined by direct contact with the respective stop ( 11 . 13 ). The position of at least one further adjacent register bottom can then be determined by abutment against the first or a further one in the direction of the respective stop (FIG. 11 . 13 ) be established adjacent register floor. For this purpose, at least one stop element can preferably be provided on each register bottom, by means of which a relative position to the next register bottom in the stack can be fixed. In particular, at least one of the above-mentioned guides (transverse guide ( 7 ), Longitudinal guide ( 8th ), Corner guide ( 9 )) act as such a stop element. Alternatively or additionally, one or more separate stop elements on a register bottom ( 4 . 4 ' ) be provided.

Several adjacent register shelves that are in the same position can form one set. In the context of the present disclosure, a set of adjacent register shelves that are in the storage position is referred to as a storage set. A set of adjacent register shelves, each in the open position, is referred to as a release set.

Preferably, during handling at any time a maximum of one register bottom in a state of motion, while all other register shelves are in one of the predetermined positions. In other words, a register bottom is individually separated by a movement, for example, from the bearing set and moved to an open position, so that it is part of the release rate.

As explained below and in FIG 8th A variant can also be defined which has one or more register shelves ( 4 ), which are in the Ausgleitstellung.

The magazine ( 1 ) one or more position backups ( 21 ) to fix one or more register shelves in one of the predetermined positions. In the example of 1 are two position backups ( 21 ), which when activated a plurality of register shelves ( 4 ) and in particular all register floors ( 4 ) in the storage position. For this purpose, the storage backups ( 21 ) at the outermost register floor ( 4 ) of the bearing set, while on the other side of the bearing set outermost register bottom on a stop ( 13 ) is present for the storage position. Thus, the register shelves in the bearing set ( 2 ' ) without play or with very little play between the stop ( 13 ) and the at least one position assurance ( 21 ) clamped.

Alternatively or in addition to the attack ( 13 ) for the storage position, one or more second position backups ( 21 ) provided at the end of the bearing set ( 2 ' ), that the above-mentioned first position backups ( 21 ) is opposite. In other words, one or more location backups ( 21 , 21 ') and one or more stops ( 11 . 13 ) on the magazine ( 1 ) be provided to set a bearing set or release set of register shelves in the respective storage position or open position.

In the examples shown, the magazine comprises 1 ) two stops each ( 11 ) for specifying an open position of the one or more register shelves ( 4 ' ) as well as two stops ( 13 ) for specifying the storage position of one or more register shelves ( 4 ). Alternatively, only one stop ( 11 ) for specifying the open position and / or only one stop ( 13 ) for specifying the storage position or any other number of stops ( 11 . 13 ) be provided. The attacks ( 11 . 13 ) can be attached to the main body ( 3 ) of the magazine ( 1 ) be releasably fixed and changed, for example, according to the current number of register shelves or register modules in the position. The same applies to the one or more position backups ( 21 . 21 ' ), which fix at least one outermost register bottom of the recording register in the storage position or in the open position.

On the magazine ( 1 ) and in particular on the basic body ( 3 ) are preferably one or more receiving fittings ( 22 ) are provided on which outer receiving means or gripping means can engage at predetermined positions in order to move the magazine and in particular with respect to a sampling point ( 38 ) or loading point ( 39 ). At the one or more receiving fittings, in particular an offset drive ( 34 ) one Provisioning device ( 30 ) or a loading device (not shown).

In addition, one or more turning fittings ( 23 ) be provided. The turning fittings ( 23 ) can be used in particular for the intervention of a separate turning means, which the magazine ( 1 ) from a loading orientation ( A1 ) in a delivery orientation ( A2 ) turns around a substantially horizontal axis (see method step ( S3 ) in 6 and 8th ). Alternatively or additionally, a turning means may be attached to the one or more receiving fittings ( 22 ) to execute the turning operation.

The register floors ( 4 ) or (4 ') have a machine register intervention ( 24 ) on. The machine register intervention ( 24 ) can be configured arbitrarily. It preferably comprises at least one boundary contour of a register floor ( 4 . 4 ' ), which in relation to a corresponding boundary contour on the above and below the adjacent register floor ( 4 . 4 ' ) is spaced, wherein between the boundary contours a space for the intervention of a separating device ( 12 . 35 . 37 ) is left.

In addition, the register floors ( 4 . 4 ' ) a hand register intervention ( 25 ), which offers, for example, in the manner of a tab index each offset between adjacent register floors attack surfaces. The hand register intervention ( 25 ) allows easy and fast manual moving of the register shelves ( 4 . 4 ' ) support or enable.

2 shows a detailed view of the magazine ( 1 ) or the registration register in a loading situation. A plurality of register shelves ( 4 ) is in the storage position and forms the bearing set ( 2 ' ). These register floors ( 4 ) are each aligned substantially horizontally. The magazine ( 1 ) is still in the loading direction, so that in each case the first bottom surface with the receiving area ( 6 ) of the register floors ( 4 ) in the bearing set ( 2 ' ) upwards. Above the bearing set ( 2 ' ) there is at least one further register floor ( 4 ' ) or possibly a top floor, which is in the open position. In the illustration according to 2 there is exactly one register shelf ( 4 ' ) in the open position. Alternatively, two or more adjacent register shelves and optionally a top floor arranged above can be in the open position and a release set ( 2 . 2 ' ) form.

Between the topmost register floor ( 4 ) of the bearing set ( 2 ' ) and the register floor above ( 4 ' ) in the open position, a free space is formed through which the receiving area ( 6 ) of the top register ( 4 ) of the bearing set ( 2 ' ) is accessible. Through this space, a workpiece ( 20 ) and into the receiving area ( 6 ) (see step ( S0 ) in 6 and 8th ).

Then the bottom register floor ( 4 ' ) from the release record ( 2 , 2 ') or possibly a top floor separated, ie selected or gripped for a single movement. It is triggered a movement of this register shelf or deck from the open position in the storage position. The triggering can be done in particular by the fact that a holding force is released, which has held the register bottom against its weight in the open position, so that the register bottom falls by its own weight and the pivot bearing in the storage position in which the workpiece ( 20 ) or the lower register floor ( 4 ) (see step (see S1 ) in 6 and 8th ).

3 and 4 show detailed views of the magazine ( 1 ) or the registration register ( 2 ) in a deployment situation. Here is the magazine ( 1 ) in a deployment alignment ( A2 ), in particular with respect to the loading direction according to 2 turned around a horizontal axis. Accordingly, there is now in each case the first bottom surface of a register base, at which the receiving area ( 6 ) is provided on the downwardly facing side. The upwardly facing second bottom surface each comprises a sliding surface ( 5 ).

3 shows a state in which already a bottom register floor ( 4 ) from the bearing set ( 2 ' ) has been separated and moved to a Ausgleitstellung. However, in 3 the workpiece ( 20 ) within the reception area ( 6 ), which it leaves as a result of its own weight or possibly assisted by a drive in order to reach the sliding surface ( 5 ) at the top of the lower register shelf ( 4 ' ) and on this from the magazine ( 1 ). 4 shows the condition after the workpiece ( 20 ) from the magazine ( 1 ) and before the possibly next lowest register floor ( 4 ) from the bearing set ( 2 ' ) and released for movement.

One or more register shelves ( 4 . 4 ' ) and a top floor can in the region of the first floor surface and / or the second floor surface, ie in the region of the receiving area ( 6 ) and / or the sliding surface ( 5 ) have a closed surface. Alternatively, the surface of the first floor surface and / or the second floor surface may be interrupted, for example if a register floor ( 4 . 4 ' ) as shown in 2 on or in the reception area ( 6 ) or on or in the sliding surface ( 5 ) one or more ventilation openings ( 14 ) and / or one or more ventilation ducts. Such ventilation openings or ventilation ducts can a quick detachment of a workpiece ( 2 ) from the overlying receiving area during the removal and / or a quick and targeted insertion of a workpiece in the receiving area during loading assist. Directional and preferably controlled gas flows may be generated at the ventilation openings and / or ventilation channels in order to prevent a falling and / or sliding movement of a workpiece ( 20 ) to trigger, accelerate and / or delay. In other words, the magazine ( 1 ) comprise a gas flow generating device for controlling the movement of a workpiece ( 20 ) during loading or unloading, support and / or lead.

5 shows a delivery device ( 30 ) according to the present disclosure in an exemplary embodiment. The delivery device ( 30 ) has a magazine holder ( 31 ) with a sampling point ( 38 ) on. At the sampling point ( 38 ) is a register floor ( 4 ) individually moved from the storage position into a Ausgleitstellung so that a workpiece on the sliding surface ( 5 ) of the moving register floor ( 4 ) from the magazine ( 1 ) slides out. In the example of 5 indicates the provisioning device ( 30 ) in the area of the sampling point ( 38 ) an additional slideway ( 32 ), which essentially forms an aligned extension of the sliding surface of the moving register shelf, when the register bottom ( 4 ) is in the Ausgleitstellung.

7 shows an enlarged detail view of the sampling point ( 38 ). One from the magazine ( 1 ) Slid out workpiece slips over the slide ( 32 ) to a discharge device ( 33 ), which can have any training. In the examples shown, the discharge device ( 33 ) from a conveyor belt which is continuously or intermittently movable. In a subsequent work process, a workpiece ( 20 ) in any way from the discharge device ( 33 ) are fed to a further processing step. For example, one of the thin-layered and flexible workpieces can be removed by a manipulator-guided gripping or suction tool and positioned in a stack for the production of a fuel cell or a battery storage. The stack may in particular be the electroactive stack of a battery cell or the fuel cell.

The delivery device ( 30 ) preferably has an offset drive ( 34 ), through which a magazine ( 1 ) in the magazine holder ( 31 ) relative to the sampling point ( 38 ) is controlled displaced. Alternatively, the sampling point ( 38 ) relative to a magazine ( 1 ) be displaced controlled by an offset drive. The offset distance is preferably per adjacent workpiece the neighboring distance ( D ) between two register shelves ( 4 . 4 ' ).

The delivery device ( 30 ) preferably has at least one separating device ( 35 ) associated with machine registry intervention ( 24 ) of a magazine ( 1 ) is engageable. The separating device ( 35 ) is preferred in the region of the sampling point ( 38 ) arranged. She can have any training. In the example of 7 are two essentially parallel separating devices ( 35 ), which are adapted to a bottom register floor ( 4 ) from the bearing set ( 2 ' ) and at least the movement of this register ( 4 ) in the Ausgleitstellung trigger. In the example of 7 This is done by two controllable fingers, which are alternately inserted between two limit contours of the machine register engagement. The fingers lead a stilting walking movement between the points of application of the manual register intervention ( 25 ), in which in each case alternately a first register bottom is received between two fingers and thereby separated, wherein the currently upper finger, the overlying register floors of the storage stack ( 2 ' ) secures. The next stepping action causes the currently lower finger of the machine registration ( 24 ), whereby the bottom register floor is released and its movement is triggered in the Ausgleitstellung. The finger then dives into the next space between the hand register interventions ( 25 ) of the lowest and the upper register ( 4 . 4 * ), so that again a bottom register floor is separated.

In the area of the sampling point ( 38 ) is preferably at least one stop ( 37 ) provided that at least the Ausgleitstellung the moving register floor ( 4 ) pretends. The attack ( 37 ) is preferably movable.

In the example of 3 . 4 and 7 is the Ausgleitstellung the register floors in the release register ( 2 ' ) identical to the Ausgleitstellung. In this case, a stop ( 11 ) to specify the opening position at the same time the function of the stop ( 38 ) to specify the Ausgleitstellung. The fitting ( 11 ) is preferred on the magazine ( 1 ) and can be determined by the offset movement of the magazine ( 1 ) are moved.

The delivery device ( 30 ) may further comprise one or more actuators ( 36 ) to the one or more position backups ( 21 . 21 ' ) on a magazine ( 1 ), in particular to activate or deactivate. In the example of 7 is an actuator ( 36 ) each designed as a sliding drive, which by positive locking a projection of a transversely to the recording register ( 2 ) slidable securing position attacks. Activation of the position assurance ( 21 . 21 ' ) is done by a Sliding movement, a locking contour of the position fuse in engagement with the recording register ( 2 ) brings. A deactivation of the position assurance is carried out by a correspondingly reverse movement, which the blocking contour from the movement space of the recording register ( 2 ) away.

The delivery device ( 30 ) preferably has a turning drive (not shown), which is designed to be a magazine ( 1 ) between a bearing orientation ( A1 ) and a delivery orientation ( A2 ) to turn. The turning device can have any training. It may alternatively be independent of the delivery device ( 30 ) be provided.

6 illustrates the steps iteratively prefers to perform in a handling method according to the present disclosure S0 to S6 for loading (step S0 to S2 ) and emptying (step S3 . S4 ) of a magazine ( 1 ).

It is assumed that in the initial state a magazine ( 1 ), in which no workpieces ( 20 ) are included. In this magazine ( 1 ) one or more and preferably all the register trays are brought into the open position so that they receive a release record ( 2 ' ) form. The magazine ( 1 ) is moved to the loading direction ( A1 ).

Preferably, only a single bottom register floor is brought into the storage position, ie in a substantially horizontal orientation, in which the receiving area ( 6 ) points upwards at this register bottom. This initial state is top left in 6 explained. The magazine ( 1 ) is preferably in a loading station ( 29 ), which can have any training. At the loading station ( 29 ) is a loading point ( 39 ) intended. The opening area between the next occupied recording area ( 6 ) and an overlying register bottom in the open position is at the loading point ( 39 ) and preferably positioned.

A workpiece ( 20 ) is displayed in the recording area ( 6 ) of the register ( 4 ), which is below the release rate ( 2 ' ) (step S0 ). A bottom register floor ( 4 ' ) from the release record ( 2 ' ) is separated and there is a movement of this register ( 4 ' ) triggered by the open position in the storage position. As a result, the moving register bottom covers the workpiece previously in the receiving area ( 6 ) of the lower register ( 4 ) has been inserted (step S1 ). Then the magazine ( 1 ) by a neighboring distance ( D ) of the register floors ( 4 ) (step S2 ). Alternatively, the loading point ( 39 ) relative to the magazine ( 1 ) by a neighboring distance ( D ).

Like the three followings on the left side of 6 can explain the steps of workpiece insertion ( S0 ), the register floor movement ( S1 ) and relocation ( S2 ) of the magazine ( 1 ) or the loading point ( 39 ) are repeated as often as desired. In the example of 6 the steps are repeated until all recording areas ( 6 ) of the magazine ( 1 ) are filled. In the present example, therefore, all the register trays and any existing topsoil have been brought into the storage position at the end of the loading process. Preference is given to the one or more position backups ( 21 . 21 ' ) is activated in order to 4 ) in this position. The magazine ( 1 ) remains preferably for transport and storage in the loading direction ( A1 ), so that the workpieces ( 20 ) in each case by their own weight in the receiving areas ( 6 ) remain.

On the right side of 6 a delivery procedure is illustrated. One with workpieces ( 20 ) filled magazine becomes a sampling point ( 38 ), which is preferably located on the delivery device ( 30 ) is located. In order to carry out a deployment procedure, the magazine ( 1 ) preferably in the delivery orientation ( A2 ), ie once turned substantially 180 ° about a horizontal axis. Here, the recorded workpieces tend to move downwards by their own weight, so that they now on the respective underlying sliding surface of the next lower register floor ( 4 ) come to rest. The magazine ( 1 ) is connected to the lowest register bottom of the bearing set ( 2 ' ) at the sampling point ( 38 ). Alternatively, the sampling point ( 38 ) are positioned on the lowest register floor.

Preferably, one or more singulation devices ( 35 ) at the lower end of the bearing set ( 2 ' ) are engaged to grip the bottom register floor and possibly the next located register floor and secure against uncontrolled movement. Subsequently, the one or more position backups ( 21 . 21 ' ) disabled.

Now a bottom register floor ( 4 ) from the bearing set ( 2 ' ) and there is a movement of this register ( 4 ) triggered by the storage position in a Ausgleitstellung. As a result, the workpiece moves between the bottom of the register ( 4 ) and the next register floor ( 4 * ) was or was, from the receiving area ( 6 ) of the register floor above ( 4 * ) and slides on the sliding surface ( 5 ) of the moving register floor ( 4 ) from the magazine ( 1 ) (step S4 ).

Then the magazine ( 1 ) by a neighboring distance ( D ) of the register floors ( 4 ) or alternatively the removal area ( 38 ) relative to the magazine ( 1 ) by a neighboring distance ( D ) (step S5 ).

The steps of the register floor movement ( S4 ) and moving the magazine ( S5 ) can be repeated as often as desired, in particular until a desired number of workpieces ( 20 ) from the magazine ( 1 ) or the magazine ( 1 ) is completely emptied. In the example according to 6 will the magazine ( 1 ) completely emptied, so that at the end of all register floors ( 4 ) are in the open position and the release rate ( 2 ' ) belong. Subsequently, one or more position backups ( 21 . 21 ' ) to prevent uncontrolled movement of the register shelves ( 4 . 4 ' ) to prevent. In other words, the register floors ( 4 . 4 ' ) are fixed or secured in the open position.

The magazine ( 1 ) can now be transported or stored again and then for a repetition of the loading process of a loading station ( 29 ).

In the above example, the magazine ( 1 ) completely filled or emptied. It is also possible to stop the loading process before all recording areas ( 6 ) with workpieces ( 20 ), for example according to the middle state illustration of the magazine ( 1 ) at the loading station ( 29 ). In this case, a register bottom is preferably separated from the release set and moved into the storage position, so that it covers the last inserted workpiece. Subsequently, the register shelves can be secured in their respective position in the bearing set and in the release set, in particular by corresponding activation of the one or more position locks ( 21 . 21 ' ). The proportionately filled magazine may correspond to a delivery device ( 30 ), where a provisioning procedure according to the above explanation also takes place in the middle of the recording register ( 2 ), for example, according to the middle state representation of the magazine ( 1 ) in the delivery device ( 30 ) according to the right representation in 6 ,

In the examples of 1 to 7 was the magazine ( 1 ) both in the loading orientation ( A1 ) as well as in the delivery direction ( A2 ) are oriented substantially vertically, so that the pivot bearing ( 10 ) of the register floors ( 4 ) were arranged one above the other in the vertical direction. This orientation has the advantage that the magazine ( 1 ) and the delivery device ( 30 ) have a slim design and arrangement, so that they are easy to accommodate in the production area.

8th shows an alternative embodiment in which the magazine ( 1 ) both in the loading orientation ( A1 ) as well as in the delivery direction ( A2 ) has an oblique orientation to the vertical direction. Again, it is preferably provided that one or more register floors ( 4 ), which are in the storage position, have a substantially horizontal orientation. One or more register shelves ( 4 ' ), which are in the Ausgleitstellung, preferably have an inclined obliquely downwards to the horizontal plane orientation and thus form an inclined plane for specifying the Ausgleitbewegung a workpiece ( 20 ).

However, the open position differs here from the Ausgleitstellung. The open position may in particular be a substantially vertically oriented position (cf. 4 ' at the top and bottom in 8th ).

An advantage of this alternative type of alignment is that when inserting a register ( 20 ) into a receiving area ( 6 ) a greater freedom can be created. In particular, the opening position of the register floors ( 4 ' ) be opened by about 90 ° or more relative to the substantially horizontal storage position. As a result, a particularly good accessibility for manipulator-managed handling tools is created.

Furthermore, the Ausgleitstellung for the release of a workpiece for only exactly one or a few register floors can be specified separately. This allows a particularly accurate position specification for the Ausgleitstellung.

In the example of 8th are also alternative embodiments of separating devices ( 12 . 35 . 37 ). These are formed here by gears or rotatably mounted on a rotational axis mounted engagement elements. The shape and orientation of the engagement elements or engagement teeth is preferably to the shape and size of the Maschinenregistereingriffs ( 24 ) customized.

Modifications of the invention are possible in various ways. In particular, all the features described, shown or claimed with reference to the exemplary embodiments may be combined with one another in any desired manner, replaced, supplemented or omitted from one another.

An angle between a storage position and an open position is preferably at least 45 ° and in particular more than 60 °. An angle between the storage position and a Ausgleitstellung is preferably at least 30 ° and max. 75 °.

The recording of a workpiece ( 20 ) in a receiving area ( 6 ) can be purely due to the weight of the workpiece. Alternatively or additionally, a controlled or guided and possibly supported by external forces or triggered recording can be provided. A workpiece ( 20 ) may be absorbed in particular by adhesion or with adhesive support. An adhesion force or adhesion effect can be generated by any means. In particular, the magazine ( 1 ) have one or more adhesion devices which have an adhesion or adhesion force to a workpiece ( 20 ) produce. An adhesion device may be, for example, a suction device, a charge generator or an (electro) magnet to generate a suction force, an electrostatic attraction force or a magnetic attraction force. An adhesion device on the magazine ( 1 ) may preferably be provided with a media or energy supply of the loading device ( 29 ) and actuated by the activation or control of the media or power supply.

The disclosure includes a manufacturing method for an electric conversion device, in particular, a battery module or a fuel cell according to the above-described embodiment. The conversion device comprises an electroactive stack having a plurality of electrode arrangements, which is produced by the production method, wherein the production method comprises at least the following steps:

Several thin-layered and flexible workpieces ( 20 ) are assembled as a component set, in particular as a component set for the electroactive stack of the conversion device. In particular, the component set may comprise one or more electrode arrangements or components thereof.

The workpieces ( 20 ) are handled by a handling method according to the present disclosure, ie in particular in a magazine ( 1 ), in the magazine ( 1 ) transported and / or stored, as well as for a joining process from the magazine ( 1 ) provided. Loading and providing the workpieces ( 20 ) preferably takes place individually.

The electroactive stack is determined by individual or group overlapping of the workpieces ( 20 ) or another suitable joining method.

According to a preferred embodiment, the workpieces ( 20 ) at least according to the necessary number and / or order for the formation of the electroactive stack from the magazine ( 1 ) provided. The order of workpieces ( 20 ) in the magazine ( 1 ) may be provided according to the order of provision.

According to the in 6 The magazine (shown and explained above loading / unloading order) can ( 1 ) according to the FILO principle (first in, last out). Alternatively, a fitting according to the FIFO principle (first in, first out) is possible, which can be achieved by various modifications.

9 shows a representation analogous to 6 for an alternative embodiment of the handling technique. The magazine shown here ( 1' ) also has a plurality of register shelves ( 4 ) between which workpieces ( 20 ) are receivable. However, in this example, the recording areas ( 6 ) in the region of the opening edge by a transverse guide ( 7 ' ), which is present as a separate element and, for example, on the main body ( 3 ) of the magazine ( 1' ) is attached. This transverse guide ( 7 ' ) may be preferred with two or more register bottoms ( 4 ) and in particular all register floors ( 4 ) overlap, which are in the storage position. It can be formed for example by a guide surface, which at the opening edges of the register floors ( 4 ) or can be positioned in the immediate vicinity. The separately arranged transverse guide ( 7 ' ) is preferably activatable and deactivatable, in particular with respect to a particular register floor ( 4 ) or a group of adjacent register shelves, for example by the transverse guide ( 7 ' ) parallel to the arrangement plane of the pivot bearing ( 10 ) is moved. Alternatively, the transverse guide ( 7 ' ) be removable by any other movement at least partially or locally from an opening edge, in particular by folding away, rolling away, collapsing, pushing together etc.

By the local or partial activation or deactivation of the lateral guidance ( 7 ' ), a preferably horizontal movement space to or from a single receiving area ( 6 ) or to or from a group of adjacent recording areas ( 6 ) be blocked or released.

In the example of 9 is the separately arranged transverse guide ( 7 ' ) is moved up or down to allow access to at least one receiving area ( 6 ) located at the loading point ( 39 ) or the sampling point ( 38 ) is located.

In the left in 9 As in the above embodiments, loading processes gradually become workpieces ( 20 ) in receiving areas ( 6 ) at the register floors ( 4 ). After inserting a workpiece a respectively arranged above register bottom, which is in the (first) open position, folded down so that he the reception area ( 6 ) of the lower register bottom and a workpiece received therein. Subsequently, the magazine (or the loading point) can be offset by a neighboring distance, wherein preferably parallel, temporally overlapping or subsequently the separately arranged transverse guide ( 7 ' ) for the reception area ( 6 ) is activated, in which (just) a workpiece has been inserted. The aforementioned steps can be repeated as often as desired, in particular until the magazine ( 1' ) completely or with a desired number of workpieces ( 20 ) is filled.

Then the magazine ( 1' ) and / or stored and / or an unloading point ( 38 ).

In the example according to 9 it is not necessary to use the magazine ( 1' ) to turn. It can rather be in the same orientation ( A1 ), in which it was oriented during loading.

The magazine ( 1' ) according to the example in 9 includes register floors ( 4 ), which also have a sliding surface on the first bottom surface, on which the receiving region (FIG. 6 ) educated. This sliding surface may alternatively or in addition to the above-described sliding surface ( 5 ) are present on the second floor surface.

The register floors ( 4 ) are in the magazine ( 1' ) between a first open position (folded upwards), a storage position (horizontally aligned) and a Ausgleitstellung (folded down) back and forth movable. Before and during loading, several register shelves are in the first open position and form a first set ( 2 ' ), the release rate. As a result of the loading process, individual register trays are gradually moved from the first open positions into the storage position, thereby forming a second set ( 2 ' ), the bearing set. In the provision of workpieces ( 20 ), individual register trays are then moved gradually from the storage position to the second open position or Ausgleitstellung and thus form a third sentence ( 2 * ), which is called a Ausgleitsatz.

As in the right representation in 6 is illustrated, is for releasing a workpiece ( 20 ) Separates a bottom register bottom of the bearing set and it is triggered a movement of this register bottom from the storage position to the Ausgleitstellung, in particular by a separating device, which may be formed according to one of the above examples.

This will change the recording area ( 6 ) of the register base with the sliding surface there moves down and held in the Ausgleitstellung in a (predetermined) imbalance. That in the reception area ( 6 ) arranged workpiece slides by the movement of the register bottom and its own weight analogous to the above explanations on the sliding surface of the magazine ( 1' ) and is thus provided for a subsequent operation. Then the magazine ( 1' ) (or the sampling point) by a neighboring distance ( D ). The above-mentioned steps of the register bottom movement and the offset can be repeated as often as desired, in particular until a desired number of workpieces have been removed from the magazine or the magazine has been emptied.

Before or during the movement of a register base, the separately arranged transverse guide (if necessary) is 7 " ), especially for the recording area ( 6 ) from which the next workpiece ( 20 ) can be seen.

A particularly simple embodiment provides that the separately arranged transverse guide ( 7 ' ) is formed by a flat body, in particular a sheet metal or plastic disc, which during transport or storage in a first reference position ( R ) can be arranged, in particular by fixation relative to the main body ( 3 ). In this reference position, the transverse guide ( 7 ' ) all recording areas ( 6 ) of the register floors ( 4 ), which are in the storage position. These can in particular all register floors ( 4 ) of the magazine ( 1' ) his. For this purpose, the transverse guide ( 7 ' ) in particular a parallel plane to the arrangement plane of the pivot bearing ( 10 ) and as close as possible to or in direct contact with the opening edges.

For a loading or deployment process, the transverse guide ( 7 ' ) from the reference position ( R ), for example by being picked up by a suitable gripping or holding means on a delivery device or loading device according to the present disclosure and placed in an inactive position (R ', R ") be static position (cf. 6 ), in relation to which the magazine is displaced in such a way as a result of the offset movements such that in each case one receiving area is cyclically ( 6 ) is released or blocked. At the end of a loading or provisioning operation, the separately arranged transverse guide ( 7 ' ) preferably again in the reference position ( R ) and on the magazine ( 1' ) fixed.

In the example of 9 can according to step S7 one or more register shelves ( 4 ) between the end of a provisioning operation and the beginning of a further loading operation from the second open position or Ausgleitstellung or from the Ausgleitsatz ( 2 * ) in the first Opening position or the release rate 2 ' be moved back. This can be caused for example by any movement means. Preferably, a folding device can be provided on the supply device and / or on the loading device, which moves two or more register shelves together from one position to the other position. Alternatively, the folding of the register shelves can be done manually or by an external means. By folding down the register shelves it is not necessary to load the magazine ( 1' ) to turn. It can always be in the same orientation ( A1 ) remain.

According to a further modification, the magazine ( 1' ) according to the example 9 but to be turned around a horizontal axis to the Ausgleitsatz ( 2 * ) in the position of a release rate ( 2 ' ) bring to.

In the example according to 6 is also a flow operation possible, the always new magazines ( 1' ) on the delivery device ( 30 ) and / or the loading device ( 29 ) tracked from above and removed below. When the magazines ( 1' ) have the above-mentioned register modules each having a plurality of register shelves and pivot bearings, a magazine ( 1' ) can also be extended or shortened by one or more modules as required during a loading or provisioning process. The one or more stops ( 11 . 13 . 37 ) for specifying the different positions of the register shelves ( 4 ) can be released, relocated and re-attached as needed during a loading or provisioning operation. The same applies to the one or more position backups ( 21 . 21 ' ).

FIG. 10 shows two schematics of two adjacent register trays (FIG. 4 . 4 ' ), each in an upper open position, a storage position and a lower open position. The outer end areas of the register floors ( 4 . 4 ' ) are shown in the left-hand illustration in a partially cut-away sectional view. At the register floors ( 4 . 4 ' ) are each one or more relative stops ( 40 . 40 ' ) intended. In the left example, stop stops ( 41 . 42 ), into which a relative stop ( 40 ) can exchange. Due to the relative stops are desired relative positions of adjacent register floors ( 4 . 4 ' ) especially in one sentence ( 2 . 2 ' . 2 ' . 2 * ) and thus absolute positions of the register floors ( 4 . 4 ' ), which will be explained below.

For a larger number of register shelves ( 4 ) in one sentence ( 2 ' . 2 ' . 2 * ) it may be advantageous to use one or more relative stops ( 40 . 40 ' ) by which a desired relative orientation of several register trays within the set ( 2 . 2 ' . 2 ' . 2 * ) defined, in particular a parallel orientation. An outermost register floor or top floor can also be physically attached to one of the abovementioned stops ( 11 . 13 . 37 ) be brought into the predetermined position. The respective adjacent register floors ( 4 . 4 ' ) in the sentence ( 2 ' . 2 ' . 2 * ) can then be determined by the one or more relative stops ( 40 . 40 ' ) are aligned in the respective matching position, in particular by physical contact from one register floor to the next.

The relative stops can thus be provided as separate elements, which are each attached to a register floor to specify its position relative to the next adjacent register floor by adjacent contact. 10 explains two preferred embodiments for such relative stops. In the left-hand illustration, relative stops (in each case relative stops) are located on a bottom surface of the register bottoms, here the lower bottom surface ( 40 ) appropriate. Their supernatant height corresponds to the adjacent distance of two register bottoms minus the thickness of a register shelf and thus corresponds to the largest clear parallel distance, which is perpendicular to the arrangement plane (transverse position) of the pivot bearings (register position) 10 ) is reachable. On the other floor surface, here the upper floor surface, are one or more stop recordings ( 41 . 42 ) intended. Due to the rotational movement of adjacent register shelves from the transverse position into a position oriented obliquely to the plane of arrangement of the rotary bearing, the clear parallel spacing between the register shelves is reduced. Accordingly, an adjustment of the effective length of a relative stop depending on the skew angle of the desired position relative to the arrangement plane of the pivot bearing is required for the relative parallel alignment of the register shelves.

This adjustment of the effective length is in the left example of 10 achieved by the fact that the relative stop ( 40 ) in the storage position of the register shelves ( 4 ' ) directly on the surface of the adjacent register ( 4 ) so that its overall length is effective. In the first or second open position, the relative stop ( 40 ) but in one of the stop recordings ( 41 . 42 ), which are provided on the surface of the adjacent register bottom, so that only the difference between the length of the relative stop and the immersion depth in the stop receiving acts as an effective length for the specification of the clear distance. The depth of a stop 41 . 42 ) can be calculated from the length of the relative stop ( 40 ) and the skew angle. In particular, different immersion depths can be provided for the first open position and the second open position if these positions provide different angles of inclination.

In the right example of 10 are an upper and a lower relative stop ( 40 . 40 ' ), which in the storage orientation of the register shelves ( 4 . 4 ' ) or in the transverse position come to lie directly on each other so that the effective length of the sum of the lengths of the relative stops ( 40 . 40 ' ) corresponds. In one of the oblique to the arrangement levels of the pivot bearing ( 10 ) oriented positions, the relative stops ( 40 . 40 ' ) rest on the surface of the adjacent shelf, so that only the supernatant height of a relative stop forms the effective length.

The cross-sectional shape of the relative stops ( 40 . 40 ' ) can be chosen arbitrarily. It may be particularly advantageous to choose a substantially sinusoidally extending cross-sectional shape. This can be achieved that the relative stops in each intermediate orientation between the transverse position and a (by a stop 11 . 13 . 37 ) predetermined oblique position by touching contact of the obliquely extending faces on the sinusoidal cross-sectional shape are aligned exactly parallel to each other. So it is made possible by moving an outermost register of a sentence ( 2 . 2 ' . 2 ' . 2 * ) to take along the neighboring and contact-based or adjoining register shelves and thus a complete set ( 2 ) of register shelves from a predetermined position to another position. This is especially true at step S7 according to 9 useful.

A substantially cuboidal or otherwise angular cross-sectional shape of the relative stops ( 40 . 40 ' ) and possibly the stop receptacles ( 41 . 42 ), on the other hand, may have the advantage that these elements can act as blocking means in order to allow a common movement of several adjacent register trays ( 4 . 4 ' ) to prevent. Such blocking means are, for example, in the embodiment of 6 advantageous in which no joint movement needed or even desired.

LIST OF REFERENCE NUMBERS

1

magazine

1'

magazine

2

recording register

2 '

Set of register shelves in storage position / bearing set

2 '

Set of register shelves in open position / release set

2 *

Set of register shelves in the second open position / Ausgleitstellung

3

Basic body / frame

3 '

hinge strip

4

Register floor in storage position

4 '

Register floor in open position / Ausgleitstellung

4 *

Next register floor over register floor to be moved

5

sliding surface

6

reception area

7

width guide

8th

longitudinal guide

8th'

longitudinal guide

9

corner guide

10

pivot bearing

11

Stop for opening position

12

separating device

13

Stop for storage position

14

vent

20

Workpiece / electroactive layer composite

21

securing the position

21 '

securing the position

22

receiving fitting

23

swivel fitting

24

Machine register intervention

25

Hand register intervention

29

loading

30

Providing device

31

magazine holder

32

slipway

33

Discharge device / conveyor belt

34

offset drive

35

separating device

36

Actuating device for securing position

37

Stop for sliding position / separating device

38

sampling point

39

Loading point

40

First relative stop, lower one

40 '

Second relative stop, upper one

41

First stop recording

42

Second stop recording

A1

Loading orientation / orientation / transport orientation

A2

Deployment orientation

D

Neighboring distance of the register shelves in storage position

R

reference position

Claims (12)

Magazine for holding a plurality of thin-layered and in particular flexible workpieces (20), wherein the magazine has a base body (2) and a plurality of juxtaposed register shelves (4, 4 '), which via pivot bearing (10) with the base body (3, 3 ') and have a machine register engagement (24), wherein a register bottom (4, 4') on a first bottom surface has a receiving area (6) for holding a workpiece (20) and on the opposite bottom surface has a sliding surface (5) , and wherein the register shelves (4, 4 ') are each movable individually between a storage position and an open position. Magazine after Claim 1 , wherein the receiving area (6) - by at least one transverse guide (7, 7 ') is arranged in the region of an opening edge and / or the bearing edge, in particular by attachment to the first bottom surface, and / or - by at least one longitudinal guide (8) is limited, which preferably extends transversely to the opening edge and in particular on the base body (2) or on the first bottom surface is arranged. A magazine according to any one of the preceding claims, wherein the magazine comprises: - A first stop (11) for specifying an open position of one or more register shelves (4 '), and / or - A second stop (13) for specifying a storage position of one or more register shelves (4), and / or - At least one position assurance (21) which fixes at least one outermost register bottom (4, 4 ') or top floor of the recording register (2) in the storage position or in the open position. Magazine according to one of the preceding claims, wherein a register bottom (4, 4 ') on or in the receiving area (6) has at least one ventilation opening (14) and / or at least one ventilation duct. Loading device for introducing thin-layered and in particular flexible workpieces (20) in a magazine (1), which is in particular formed according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the loading device (29) at least one magazine receptacle with a loading point (39) and a separating device (12) and is adapted to move at the loading point (39) each a register bottom (4 ') individually between an open position and a storage position, so that the moving register bottom the receiving area (6) of an underlying register base (4) and in particular covers a workpiece introduced therein, and wherein the loading device comprises an offset drive which is adapted to the magazine (1) or the loading point (39) relative to each other by a neighboring distance (D) of the register shelves (4, 4 ') to move. Providing device for providing thin-layered and in particular flexible workpieces (20) from a magazine (1), which is designed in particular according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the provision device (30) has at least one magazine receptacle (31) with a removal point (38). is formed and at the removal point (38) in each case a register bottom (4) to be moved individually between a storage position and a Ausgleitstellung, so that a workpiece before the movement between the moving register bottom (4) and an adjacent register bottom (4 *), is released as a result of the movement of the register base (4) and slides out of the magazine (1) on the sliding surface (5) of the respective lower register base (4), in particular on a slide track (32) arranged at the removal point (38) ). A provisioning device according to the preceding claim, wherein the providing device (30) - Has an offset drive (34) through which a magazine (1) in the magazine receptacle (31) relative to a removal point (38) or the removal point (38) relative to the magazine (1) is displaced controlled, in particular by a neighboring distance (D ) of the register shelves (4, 4 '), AND / OR - In the region of the removal point (38) has a separating device (35) which is adapted to a lowest register bottom (4) from a set (2 ') of register shelves (4), which are located in the storage position, and at least to trigger the movement of this register shelf (4) into the slide-out position, AND / OR - In the region of the removal point (38) has a stop (37), which specifies at least the Ausgleitstellung for a moving register bottom (4). A provisioning device according to any one of the preceding claims, wherein the providing device (30) comprises a turning drive adapted to move a magazine (1) between a bearing orientation and a bearing In particular, in the storage orientation, the register trays (4) are oriented with the receiving area (6) in a vertical upward direction, and the supply orientation is a horizontally reverse orientation to the storage orientation. A handling method for handling thin-layered workpieces (20) with a magazine (1) according to one of the preceding claims, wherein the handling method comprises a loading method comprising the following steps: - feeding (step S6) a magazine (1) to a loading point (38), wherein the magazine (1) is in a storage orientation (A1) in which a set (2 ", release set) of register shelves (4 ') obliquely or is oriented transversely to a horizontal direction and in the open position (step S6), wherein at least one register bottom (4), which is arranged below the release set (2 "), oriented in the storage position; - Introducing a workpiece (20) in a receiving area (6) on the register bottom (4), which is located below the release set (2 ") (step S1); Separating a lowermost register bottom (4 ') from the release set (2 ") and triggering a movement of this register bottom (4') from the open position to a storage position such that it covers the workpiece (20) which is located between the moved register bottom (4 '). ) and the next underlying register tray (4) (step S2); - Moving the magazine (1) relative to the loading point (39) or offset the loading point (39) relative to the magazine (1) by a neighboring distance (D) of the register shelves (4) (step S2); - Repeating the steps of the workpiece insertion (S0), the register bottom movement (S1) and the offset (S2) of the magazine (1) until a desired number of workpieces (20) is received in the magazine (1) AND / OR wherein the handling method comprises a provisioning method comprising the steps of: - feeding a magazine (1) filled with workpieces (1) to a removal point (38), the magazine (1) being in a supply orientation (A2) in which a set (2 ', bearing set) of register shelves (4) is oriented substantially horizontally and is in the storage position (step S3); - Separating a lowermost register bottom (4) from the bearing set (2 ') and triggering a movement of this register shelf (4) from the storage position to a Ausgleitstellung, so that a workpiece (20) between the moving register bottom (4) and the next above register base (4 *) is received, from a receiving area (6) of the overlying register shelf (4 *) moves and on the sliding surface (5) of the moving register bottom (4 ') from the magazine (1) slides (step S4) ; - Moving the magazine (1) relative to the removal point (38) or offset the removal point (38) relative to the magazine (1) by a neighboring distance of the register shelves (4) (step S5); - Repeating the steps of register bottom movement (S4) and the offset (S5) of the magazine (1) or the removal point (38) until a desired number of workpieces (20) is removed from the magazine (1). Handling method according to the preceding claim, wherein - A magazine (1) after filling (S0, S1, S2) in the storage orientation (A1) is transported or stored and only before the removal of workpieces (20) in the supply orientation (A2) is turned (step S3) AND /OR - A magazine (1) is turned immediately after the emptying of the supply orientation (A2) back to the storage orientation (A1) and transported or stored in the storage orientation (A1). Manufacturing method for an electrical conversion device, in particular a battery module or a fuel cell, wherein the conversion device comprises an electroactive stack having a plurality of electrode assemblies, characterized by the following steps: - assembling a plurality of thin-layered and flexible workpieces (20) as a component set for the electroactive stack of the conversion device, Handling of the workpieces (20) by a handling method according to one of the preceding claims, - Forming of the electroactive stack by individual or groupwise superimposition of the workpieces (20). Manufacturing method according to the preceding claim, wherein the workpieces (20) according to the necessary number and / or order for the formation of the electroactive stack from the magazine (1) are provided, wherein in particular the order of the workpieces (20) in the magazine (1) according to the order of provision is provided.

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