Disclosure of Invention
In view of this, an object of the embodiments of the present invention is to provide a servo fiber core docking system, which can implement automatic docking of fiber cores.
In order to solve the above problems, embodiments of the present invention provide the following technical solutions:
a servo core interfacing system for enabling interfacing exchanges between optical fibers, comprising:
the device comprises a butt joint plate, at least two pairs of fiber core connectors, a pair of mechanical arms, a pair of first screw rods, a pair of second screw rods and a pair of driving motors; the fiber core connectors, the mechanical arm and the first screw rod are respectively and evenly distributed on two sides of the butt joint plate, and the second screw rod and the driving motor are positioned above the edge of the butt joint plate;
a plurality of through butt joint holes are formed on the butt joint plate;
the mechanical arm is sleeved on the first screw rod and forms a threaded screw rod structure with the first screw rod, and meanwhile, one end of the mechanical arm is movably connected with the fiber core connector and used for clamping the fiber core connector and driving the fiber core connector to move up and down;
the driving motor is sleeved on the second screw rod and forms a threaded screw rod structure with the second screw rod, is movably connected with one end of the first screw rod, and drives the first screw rod to rotate so as to drive the manipulator to drive the fiber core connector to move by utilizing the first screw rod and the threaded screw rod structure of the manipulator;
the fiber core connectors are used for respectively fixing a fiber core at one end of an externally accessed optical fiber or a fiber core at one end of a tail fiber, and the two fiber core connectors for fixing the fiber core at one end of the tail fiber are connected through the tail fiber; the end part of the fiber core of the external access optical fiber or the fiber core of the tail fiber fixed on each fiber core connector is the same as the shape and the size of the butt joint hole.
Preferably, the system further comprises: the device comprises a controller, a grating reading head and a grating ruler; wherein,
the controller is respectively connected with the grating reading head and the manipulator through circuits and is used for sending a driving pulse signal to a driving motor so as to enable the driving motor to drive the first screw rod to rotate and further drive the manipulator to move along the first screw rod; the grating reading head is also used for receiving pulse signals returned by the grating reading head, and the moving state of the manipulator is determined by comparing the ratio of the two pulse signals with a preset threshold value;
one end of the grating reading head is connected with the grating ruler in a sliding mode, the other end of the grating reading head is fixedly connected with the manipulator, when the controller sends a driving pulse signal to the driving motor and then the manipulator is driven to move along the first lead screw through the first lead screw, the grating reading head fixed on the manipulator slides along the grating ruler, and the pulse signal is fed back to the controller.
Preferably, the core connector comprises: the connecting part is clamped by the manipulator, the fixing part is provided with a left side surface and a right side surface which penetrate through the cavity, and the two optical fiber core linking flanges are arranged; wherein, two through holes are arranged at the bottom of the cavity side by side; one end of the optical fiber core linking flange is fixed in the through hole, and the other end of the optical fiber core linking flange is provided with a second cylindrical part for fixing the fiber core; and a through stepped hole is formed in the inside of at least one optical fiber core linking flange.
Preferably, the outer wall of the second cylindrical portion of the optical fiber core linking flange is further provided with a groove portion.
Preferably, the connecting portion of the core connector is composed of an upper portion and a lower portion, wherein in a direction perpendicular to the through direction of the cavity, the thickness of the upper portion of the connecting portion is greater than the thickness of the lower portion of the connecting portion, and the lower portion of the connecting portion, the upper portion of the connecting portion and the fixing portion form a groove shape.
Preferably, the robot arm includes:
the device comprises a first transmission gear and a plug-in device sleeved inside the first transmission gear; the first transmission gear and the sleeving part of the plug-in device are of a threaded screw rod structure, and the lower part of the plug-in device is provided with a clamping part for clamping the fiber core connector;
the second transmission gear is meshed with the first transmission gear and drives the first transmission gear to transversely rotate in the opposite direction when transversely rotating;
the power output end is fixedly connected with the second transmission gear and is used for transmitting kinetic energy; and the number of the first and second groups,
and the motor drives the power output end to further drive the second transmission gear to transversely rotate.
Preferably, the manipulator further comprises two bearings which are respectively sleeved on the first transmission gear and used for fixing the first transmission gear.
According to the technical scheme provided by the embodiment of the invention, the servo fiber core butt joint system provided by the embodiment of the invention drives the first screw rod to rotate through the driving motor in the system, so that the mechanical arm is driven to respectively clamp and fix the fiber core connector at one end of the external access optical fiber and the fiber core connector at one end of the tail fiber to perform plugging and unplugging movement in the butt joint hole, the butt joint of the fiber core of the external access optical fiber and the fiber core of the tail fiber can be realized, after all the fiber core connectors are inserted into the butt joint hole, the fiber core at one end of the external access optical fiber and the fiber core at one end of the tail fiber in the butt joint hole are physically butted, and then the automatic butt joint exchange of the multi-path external access optical fibers can be realized through the transmission action of the tail fiber.
Detailed Description
In order to make the objects, technical solutions and advantages of the embodiments of the present invention clearer, the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the drawings in the embodiments of the present invention, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are some, but not all, embodiments of the present invention. All other embodiments, which can be derived by a person skilled in the art from the embodiments given herein without making any creative effort, shall fall within the protection scope of the present invention.
Fig. 1 shows a schematic structural diagram of a servo fiber core docking system provided in the first embodiment, and as shown in fig. 1, the system includes: the device comprises a butt joint plate 1, at least two pairs of fiber core connectors 2, a pair of mechanical arms 3, a pair of first screw rods 4, a pair of second screw rods 5 and a pair of driving motors 6; a plurality of through butt-joint holes 11 are formed in the butt-joint plate 1, and the preferred butt-joint holes 11 are cylindrical, and of course, may be in other shapes, and are not described herein again;
the fiber core connectors 2, the mechanical arm 3 and the first screw rod 4 are evenly distributed on two sides of the butt joint plate 1, and the second screw rod 5 and the driving motor 6 are positioned above the edge of the butt joint plate 1; the driving motor 6 is sleeved on the second screw rod 5 and forms a threaded screw rod structure with the second screw rod 5, and meanwhile, the driving motor 6 is movably connected with one end of the first screw rod 4 and drives the first screw rod 4 to rotate; the mechanical arm 3 is sleeved on the first screw rod 4 and forms a threaded screw rod structure with the first screw rod 4, and meanwhile one end of the mechanical arm 3 is movably connected with the fiber core connector 2 and used for clamping the fiber core connector 2 and driving the fiber core connector 2 to move up and down; when the driving motor 6 drives the first lead screw 4 to rotate, the manipulator 3 drives the fiber core connector 2 to move along the first lead screw 4 through a threaded screw structure of the manipulator and the first lead screw 4, and drives the fiber core connector 2 to move up and down after moving to a target butt joint position, so that the fiber core connector 2 is inserted into a butt joint hole 11 in the butt joint plate 1 at the target butt joint position or pulled out of the butt joint hole 11 of the butt joint plate 1;
the fiber core connector 2 is used for fixing a fiber core of an optical fiber and comprises a fiber core at one end of an externally accessed optical fiber or a fiber core at one end of a tail fiber; taking two pairs of fiber core connectors 2 as an example below, a pair of fiber core connectors 2 is distributed on one side of the butt plate 1 to fix one end of a fiber core of an externally accessed optical fiber, and a pair of fiber core connectors 2 is also distributed on the other side of the butt plate 1 to fix one end of the fiber core of the tail fiber; for the purposes of description, the two sides of the butt-plate 1 are referred to herein as the upper and lower sides, and the same applies below; each fiber core connector 2 on the upper side of the butt joint plate 1 is fixed with one end fiber core of an external access optical fiber, and the end part of the fiber core connector 2 for fixing the fiber core can be inserted into the butt joint hole 11 in the butt joint plate 1, namely the end part of the fiber core connector 2 for fixing the fiber core is the same as the shape and the size of the butt joint hole 11; each fiber core connector 2 on the lower side of the butt joint plate 1 is respectively fixed with a fiber core at one end of a tail fiber, and the two fiber core connectors 2 fixed with the fiber cores of the tail fibers are connected through the tail fibers; the end of the core connector 2 for fixing the core of the tail fiber at the lower side can also be inserted into the butt joint hole 11 in the butt joint plate 1, namely, the end of the core connector 2 for fixing the core of the tail fiber is the same as the butt joint hole 11 in shape and size; when a pair of fiber core connectors 2 of the fiber core of the lower fixed tail fiber are respectively inserted into the two butt joint holes 11, the two butt joint holes 11 are connected through the tail fiber; the connection of one tail fiber with a pair of butt holes specifically means that: fiber cores at two ends of the tail fiber are respectively positioned in a pair of butt joint holes at one side of the butt joint plate; it should be noted that the fiber core connectors 2 for fixing the fiber core in the embodiment of the present invention refer to the fiber core connector for fixing the fiber core of the externally accessed optical fiber on the upper side of the docking plate 1 and the fiber core connector for fixing the fiber core of the pigtail on the lower side of the docking plate 1, when the two pairs of fiber core connectors 2 on the upper and lower sides of the docking plate 1 are respectively inserted into the pair of docking holes 11 under the driving of the manipulator 3, the fiber cores at one ends of the two externally accessed optical fibers in the two docking holes 11 are respectively docked with the fiber cores at two ends of the pigtail, and the docking exchange of the fiber cores of the externally accessed optical fibers can be realized through the transmission of the pigtail;
it should be noted that, in the embodiment of the present invention, the driving motor 6 drives the first screw rod 4 to rotate so as to drive the manipulator 3 to drive the fiber core connectors 2 to be inserted into and extracted from the corresponding connecting holes 11, which is consistent with the principle for the components on the upper and lower sides of each connecting plate, so that the following description is provided only by driving the first screw rod 4 to rotate by the driving motor 6 so as to drive the manipulator 3 to drive the fiber core connectors 2 to be inserted into and extracted from the corresponding connecting holes 11.
It should be easily understood by those skilled in the art that the arrangement rule of the docking holes 11 on the docking plate 1 can be varied in many ways and can be flexibly selected according to the actual needs, and it is preferable that they are arranged in a rectangular array; in practical implementation, the docking holes 11 are arranged on the docking plate 1 in a square matrix; moreover, those skilled in the art will understand that the number of the docking holes 11 in the present embodiment can be adjusted according to the number of externally accessed optical fibers to be docked; meanwhile, in the embodiment, the optical fiber core butt-joint plate 1 is rectangular, and may also be in other shapes during specific implementation, which is not described herein again.
The basic structure of the servo fiber core docking system provided by the second embodiment of the present invention is similar to that of the first embodiment, but on the basis of the basic structure, the servo fiber core docking system may further include a controller 7, a grating reading head 8 and a grating ruler 9, as shown in fig. 2; the controller 1 is respectively in circuit connection with the grating reading head 8 and the manipulator 3, and is used for sending a driving pulse signal to the driving motor 6, so that the driving motor 6 drives the first lead screw 4 to rotate and further drives the manipulator 3 to move along the first lead screw 4, receiving the pulse signal returned by the grating reading head 8, and comparing the ratio of the two pulse signals with a preset threshold value to determine the moving state of the manipulator 3; one end of the grating reading head 8 is connected with the grating ruler 9 in a sliding mode, the other end of the grating reading head 8 is fixedly connected with the manipulator 3, when the controller 7 sends a driving pulse signal to the driving motor 6 and then the manipulator 3 is driven to move along the first lead screw 4 through the first lead screw 4, the grating reading head 8 fixed on the manipulator 3 slides along the grating ruler 9 and feeds back the pulse signal to the controller 7; the specific principle of the pulse signal generated by the sliding of the grating reading head 8 relative to the grating ruler 9 is the same as the existing grating principle, but other existing gratings can be adopted in the embodiment of the present invention, as long as the corresponding pulse signal can be generated relative to the displacement of the manipulator 3, and details are not described here.
The basic structure of the servo core docking system provided by the third embodiment of the present invention is similar to that of the first embodiment, but differs from the basic structure in that the core connector 2 in the servo core docking system is composed of a connecting portion 210 and a fixing portion 220, as shown in fig. 3A and 3B; a cavity 221 with a through left side surface and a through right side surface is arranged in the fixing part 220, and two through holes 222 which are parallel and penetrate through the fiber core connector 2 are arranged at the bottom of the cavity 221; in addition, two optical fiber core linking flanges 230 are further disposed at one end of the fixing portion 220 of the optical fiber core connector 2, wherein a through stepped hole 231 is disposed inside at least one optical fiber core linking flange 230, and the stepped hole 231 is communicated with the cavity 221; one end of the optical fiber core link flange 230 is fixed inside the through hole 222; the fiber core linking flange 230 is composed of a first cylindrical portion 232 and a second cylindrical portion 233 which are concentric, the first cylindrical portion 232 is fixed inside the through hole 222, and the diameter of the first cylindrical portion 232 is the same as that of the through hole 222 and is larger than that of the second cylindrical portion 233; in a specific operation, the first cylindrical portion 232 and the second cylindrical portion 233 may be integrally formed, or may be separately formed and then combined, and this embodiment is not particularly limited;
in specific implementation, one end core of the external access optical fiber is inserted into the through cavity 221 from one side of the upper core connector 2, is inserted into the link flange 230 from the step hole portion corresponding to the first cylindrical portion 232 of the link flange 230, and is penetrated out from the step hole portion corresponding to the second cylindrical portion 233 of the link flange 230, wherein the second cylindrical portion 233 of the upper core connector 2 is used for fixing one end core of the external access optical fiber; the core at one end of the tail fiber is inserted into the through cavity 221 from one side of the lower core connector 2, is inserted into the link flange 230 from the step hole part corresponding to the first cylindrical part 232 of the link flange 230, and is penetrated out from the step hole part corresponding to the second cylindrical part 233 of the link flange 230, wherein the second cylindrical part 233 of the lower core connector 2 is used for fixing the externally accessed optical fiber core; when the driving motor 6 drives the first lead screw 4 to rotate so as to drive the manipulator 3 to respectively clamp the fiber core connectors 2 and move to a target butt joint position, and when the manipulator 3 clamps the connecting parts 210 of the fiber core connectors 2 and moves up and down, the fiber core connectors 2 insert the second cylindrical parts 233 of the link flanges 230 into the butt joint holes 11 when moving down, so that the fiber cores at one end of the external access optical fiber fixed by the upper fiber core connector 2 and the fiber cores at one end of the tail optical fiber fixed by the lower fiber core connector 2 are butted in the butt joint holes 11. In addition, those skilled in the art should understand that the size of the cavity 121 in this embodiment can be adjusted according to actual requirements; meanwhile, in the present embodiment, the through hole 122 is cylindrical, and may also be in other shapes in specific implementation, which is not described herein again.
The basic structure of the servo core butting system according to the fourth embodiment of the present invention is similar to that of the third embodiment, except that on the basis of the basic structure, the outer wall of the second cylindrical portion 233 of the link flange 230 of the core connector 2 is further provided with a groove portion 234, as shown in fig. 4; when the mechanical arm 3 clamps the fiber core connector 2 and inserts into the butt joint hole 11, if the corresponding fixing parts, such as snap springs, for engaging with the groove parts 234 are arranged in the butt joint hole 11, in the process that the fiber core connectors 2 of the plurality of pairs of fixed fiber cores are inserted into the butt joint hole 11 to enable the fiber cores of the external access optical fibers to be in butt joint with the fiber cores of the tail fibers, the fiber core connectors 2 can be well fixed in the vertical direction by engaging the fixing parts in the butt joint hole 11 with the groove parts 234 on the fiber core connectors 2, and the fiber core connectors 2 are prevented from moving in the butt joint process, so that the accuracy of the butt joint of the fiber cores of the external access optical fibers and the fiber cores of the tail fibers is improved when the fiber core connectors 2 of the plurality of pairs are inserted into the butt joint hole 11.
It should be noted that, on the basis of the third embodiment, in order to facilitate the manipulator to better clamp the connection portion 210 in the fiber core connector 2 and to drive the fiber core connector 2 to move up and down through the connection portion 210, a fifth preferred embodiment of the present invention proposes that the connection portion 210 of the fiber core connector 2 is composed of an upper portion and a lower portion, wherein in a direction perpendicular to the penetrating direction of the cavity 221, the thickness of the upper portion 211 of the connection portion 210 is greater than that of the lower portion 212 of the connection portion 210, so that the cross section of the lower portion 212 of the connection portion 210 relative to the upper portion 211 and the fixing portion 220 is a groove shape, which facilitates the manipulator 3 to conveniently clamp the fiber core connector 2 and drive it to move by using the groove formed by the lower portion 112, as shown in fig. 5A and 5B.
The basic structure of the servo core docking system according to the sixth embodiment of the present invention is similar to that of the first embodiment, as shown in fig. 6, and is different in that, on the basis of the basic structure, the manipulator 3 of the servo core docking system includes a first transmission gear 310, a motor 351, a second transmission gear 352, and a power output end 353; the first transmission gear 310 is sleeved with a plug 320 concentric with the first transmission gear 310, an inner thread is arranged at a joint of the first transmission gear 310 and the plug 320, an outer thread matched with the inner thread of the first transmission gear 310 is arranged at a corresponding part of the plug 320, a screw structure is formed at the upper part of the plug 320, and the first transmission gear 310 and the plug 320 are matched to form a threaded screw structure; the lower part of the pluggable unit 320 is provided with a clamping part 321, and the clamping part 321 is used for clamping the fiber core connector 2; those skilled in the art should readily understand that, in the present embodiment, the connection between the first transmission gear 310 and the plug 320 through the threaded screw structure is only one preferable condition of many connection manners, and for other connection manners, as long as the plug 320 can be driven to move up and down by the transverse rotation of the first transmission gear 310, the connection manner of the plug is not specifically limited in the present embodiment; the second transmission gear 352 is engaged with the first transmission gear 310 and is fixedly connected with the power output end 353 of the motor 351, so that the motor 351 can drive the second transmission gear 352 to transversely rotate, and further drive the first transmission gear 310 to transversely rotate, and the motor 351 is preferably a stepping motor in this embodiment, but is not limited thereto;
in the working process, the rotation of the stepping motor 351 is transmitted to the second transmission gear 352 through the power output end 353, so as to drive the second transmission gear 352 to transversely rotate along with the second transmission gear 352, because the second transmission gear 352 is meshed with the first transmission gear 310, when the second transmission gear 352 transversely rotates, the first transmission gear 310 transversely rotates in the direction opposite to the rotation direction of the second transmission gear 352, and because the plug 320 is connected with the first transmission gear 310 through the threaded screw structure, when the first transmission gear 310 transversely rotates, the plug 320 moves along the up-and-down direction, that is, the plug 320 generates relative displacement relative to the first transmission gear 310, so as to clamp the fiber core connector 2 to move up and down to be inserted into or pulled out of the butt joint hole of the butt joint plate; finally, the power of the stepping motor 352 is converted into the up-and-down movement of the plug 320 through several stages of transmission, and the connection portion 210 holding the fiber core connector 2 drives the fiber core connector 2 to make the plug movement in the docking hole 11.
In order to better control the up-and-down movement of the inserting and pulling device 320, on the basis of the sixth embodiment, it is necessary to ensure that the position of the first transmission gear 310 is relatively unchanged, that is, only after the first transmission gear 310 is relatively fixed, the inserting and pulling device 320 can be driven to move relatively in the up-and-down direction by using the threaded connection structure between the first transmission gear 310 and the inserting and pulling device 320; based on this, the seventh embodiment proposes a servo fiber core docking system, the basic structure of which is the same as that in the sixth embodiment, as shown in fig. 7, and the difference is that the manipulator of the servo fiber core docking system further includes two bearings 330 respectively sleeved on the upper and lower sides of the first transmission gear 310 and used for fixing the first transmission gear 310; when the first transmission gear 310 is driven by the outside to rotate transversely, due to the up-and-down fixing action of the two bearings 330 which play a fixing role, the first transmission gear 310 can only rotate transversely around the circle center at the original position, and simultaneously, due to the fact that the first transmission gear 310 is in threaded connection with the plug 320, when the first transmission gear 310 rotates transversely, the plug 320 can only move up and down relatively under the action of a threaded structure, and the clamping of the mechanical arm 3 on the fiber core connector 2 is only kept in the up-and-down direction;
of course, those skilled in the art understand that the bearing 330 for fixing the first transmission gear 310 in the seventh embodiment is only a preferred embodiment, and is not a specific limitation to the fixing component of the first transmission gear 310, and other devices in the prior art may be adopted as long as the bearing can fix the first transmission gear 310 and does not affect the lateral rotation of the first transmission gear 310, and therefore, the description is omitted here.
It should be noted that the concepts of the "upper" side and the "lower" side of the butt plate in the system of the above embodiment are not absolute, and the original "upper" side may be regarded as a new "lower" side when viewed from another perspective. Therefore, it should be understood by those skilled in the art that the "upper" and "lower" described in the present embodiment are only exemplary illustrations and can be interchanged with one another, and the embodiments of the present invention are not limited thereto.
It can be seen that, with the servo fiber core butt joint system of the embodiment of the present invention, the first lead screw is driven to rotate by the driving motor in the system, and then the mechanical arm is driven to respectively clamp and fix the fiber core connector at one end of the external access optical fiber and the fiber core connector at one end of the tail fiber to perform a plugging and unplugging motion in the butt joint hole on the butt joint plate, so that the butt joint of the fiber core of the external access optical fiber and the fiber core of the tail fiber can be realized.
The foregoing is only a preferred embodiment of the present invention, and it should be noted that, for those skilled in the art, various modifications and decorations can be made without departing from the principle of the present invention, and these modifications and decorations should also be regarded as the protection scope of the present invention.