Block material counter and method of counting
Technical field
The present invention relates to the production line flow control, the material counting assembly of vanning (bag) and other products packaging field particularly, relates to accurate block material counter and the method for counting that detects and control material quantity of a kind of needs.
Background technology
Along with developing rapidly of each industry of industrial circle, the large-scale pipeline mode of production of product is in vogue day by day, and a certain series products dense convergence is in a factory, a village, a town even counties and cities' centralized production, thereby the production base of formation various product.In production-scale expansion, automatic degree of production line is required also to improve constantly.Yet because the every profession and trade historical Source of Development, the equipment of every profession and trade production line equipment does not reach the needs of development far away.Most typical characteristics are the preceding road equipment of production line, as needs starting material are processed, and product such as is packed at equipment because must adopt machining, these equipment development startings early, device category is more complete at present.But the latter equipment of streamline, as the counting of product, vanning, the equipment such as joint sealing of unpacking automatically owing in the process of development, often adopted the labour of " cheapness " to finish, cause at present a lot of industries to exist machine preceding, the intensive labor after the production line pattern.Typical industry comprises food service industry, product of rubber and plastic industry, Steel Wire Products Industry, agricultural product (aquatic products) processing industry or the like.
But it is no longer cheap that the situation of reality is the labour, and the cost of labor that the change of society and intense market competition force labour-intensive enterprise inevitably becomes this enterprise's great burden; Simultaneously, venomous injurant confrontation production line employees' such as food sanitation safe, rubber plastic and metal powder, chemical residue infringement, labourer also of new generation day by day selects the significant consideration in green work position; Again and, neozoic labourer can not adhere to being similar to the work that chicken pecks simple like the rice, repetition, poor efficiency again.The existence of multiple factor when economic recovery gets warm again after a cold spell, causes the labor-intensive enterprises recruitment waste, very reluctantly treatment and the welfare of increasing wage of enterprise, head it off that can not be perfect.
The technological difficulties that influence automation equipment development in road after the production line are mainly in counting (or flow control of fluid) and vanning (the bottling pack of fluid).The detection technique developing history of fluid flow is long, has formed the flowmeter that satisfies the required various theory structures in market substantially now.But to solid, especially lump material, because of its profile, the attitude of on production line, advancing, surface may adhesive water, powder, may overlap and adhesion or the like objective factor, so practical at present method of counting is to be in space state at present basically in above-mentioned industry.
Solution lump material counting can adopt weigh (detection quality of material) on principle, also can realize detecting from the physical dimension and the volume aspect of lump material.Adopt weighing technology, often be subject to the influence of depositions such as the speed of dynamic weighing and material surface moisture, powder, simultaneously because of its special principle, the cost of dynamic weighing is very high, and domestic so far also do not have a ripe high speed dynamic weighing machine.Adopt the profile detection technique, several easy detection modes that adopt comprise photoelectricity, ultrasound wave, condenser type, contact etc. now, basically all rely on certain precondition, or need almost fixed, need determine, have abundant interval, material overlappingly not to link together or the like between material and the material in the position of walking on the streamline as the lump material profile.These restrictions cause road counting vanning link behind the streamline of above-mentioned industry, can't promote the use of substantially.
Summary of the invention
The object of the present invention is to provide a kind of block material counter and method of counting, a kind of applicability of material counter that is provided is wide, can be implemented on the same production line block material counter that the lump material of plurality of specifications is counted and the method for counting that possesses general applicability.
For achieving the above object, technical scheme of the present invention is as follows:
Block material counter comprises the fixed frame of being located at streamline material outlet position, and described framework is provided with the optical fiber head of correlation, the signal that optical fiber head scanning streams is crossed, and with signal conveys to counter-controller.
The optical fiber head of described correlation comprises the launching fiber head that respectively has the row setting of one's own and receives optical fiber head.
The optical fiber head of described one-tenth row is walked horizontal, the vertical or oblique unidirectional setting of hopper or the vertical bidirectional setting that intersects along material; The optical fiber head of described one-tenth row is the settings that intersect vertically substantially.
Spacing distance between each optical fiber head of described every row optical fibre set is less than 1/4 of the minimum dimension of lump material, and the quantity of optical fiber head can cover width and the height that production line is walked hopper simultaneously.Described optical fiber head is small-bore optical fiber head, and the optical fiber head diameter is less than single material minimum dimension 1/10.Receive to add on the fibre-optical probe and be used for light-absorbing reception sleeve.
Described counter-controller comprises:
Photoelectric signal processor, it is by control each optical fiber launching site different light dutycycle mode, or adopt serial at interval radiation pattern realize anti-tampering between the optical fiber row; Deposit the data storage area of the sample information of multiple lump material specification; The counting algorithm processor, it is used to receive the data after the Photoelectric Signal Processing, and the record material information after material passes through, is done contrast with the information of record and the sample information of material; Upper Communication processor is used to transmit material information to the upper system of production line and receive the order that upper system adjusts specification.
Described photoelectric signal processor is adjustable haircuts and penetrates light intensity, penetrates the transparent or semitransparent packing of lump material outside, directly detects the dimension information of lump material.Detection in real time respectively receives the light intensity that optical fiber head receives, and obtains the numerical value that the optical fiber head surface is adhered to by rubbish to be influenced.
The sample information of depositing material in the described data storage area comprises: pure, two-fold material information, triple-lap material, doubly-linked material, three connect material and other connects material, two 3 (four material) material, three or four material (five material) information more.
The material information that described counting algorithm processor writes down comprises current material length, width, highly and the blank distance between the material, time that material passes through.
Described upper system communication processor can be connected with upper system by fieldbus mode or point-to-point IO port mode.
Described upper system communication processor real-time transmits material information and gives the upper system of production line.
Described upper system communication processor receives the upper system directive of production line, changes current material specification in real time, extracts new sample of material data automatically as the comparison data.
The present invention is by the optical networking of structure correlation, stereoscanning to lump material, detect the multidimensional physical dimension information of the lump material on the production line in real time, and information is sent to counter-controller, processing by counting algorithm, accurately obtain current number of elements and the out of Memory relevant with material by material in real time, information sends on the streamline behind the level controlling system, can finish flow control as lump material, count automation functions such as vanning, bad part eject automatically.Applicability of the present invention is wide, reliable and stable, applying flexible, to many specifications lump material compatible good, possess self-diagnostic function, can be applicable to the demand of the production line of a plurality of industries.
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Fig. 1 is the structure principle chart of system of the present invention.
Embodiment
As shown in Figure 1, fixed frame 5, correlation optical fiber head group and the counter-controller that is attached thereto 10 constitute complete block material counter.It is firm that the optical fiber head group is installed in rigidity, and on the accurate in size fixed frame 5, fixed frame 5 is installed on the support of production line 7 again.Slightly not rocking of streamline support can impact counting.The installation site of fixed frame 5 can be chosen in the moisture, the powder that are subjected on streamline or the material simultaneously influences smaller position.The optical fiber head of bottom may be affected when some on-the-spot mounting condition is poor, this drawback can by in the counter-controller to the monitoring of light intensity, cross low the warning by light intensity, need to remove surperficial rubbish prompting and solve.
Wherein, the optical fiber head group of described correlation comprises the launching fiber head 1,3 that respectively has the row setting of one's own and receives optical fiber head 2,4.
It is horizontal that the optical fiber head of described one-tenth row is walked hopper along material, or vertically, or oblique unidirectional setting; Or the optical fiber head of described one-tenth row is the two-way settings that intersect vertically substantially.For example, among Fig. 1, form vertical optical fibre set, constitute light plane network longitudinally by launching fiber head 1 and reception optical fiber head 2.Form horizontal optical fibre set by launching fiber head 3 and reception optical fiber head 4, constitute horizontal light plane network.Laterally with light plane network longitudinally, add advancing of 7 materials on the production line, formed the stereoscanning network.
The light emission angle 8 of ordinary optic fibre head is bigger, adopts the correlation method can realize the point-to-point connection of light 9, and refraction, the diffraction that emission light is produced in traveling process enters the influence that receives optical fiber head and can drop to minimum.
Spacing distance between each optical fiber head of described every row optical fibre set is less than 1/4 of the minimum dimension of lump material, and the quantity of optical fiber head can cover width and the height that production line is walked hopper simultaneously.
Optical fiber head adopts small-bore optical fiber head (φ 3 and following), and the principle of choosing is below 1/10 of single material minimum dimension for the optical fiber head diameter.
The light source that adopts in the optical fiber is the light source of single wavelength, does not contain the light source of this wavelength in natural light and the common light substantially.Some novel light may contain the composition of this light source of part, if influence surpasses the proportion of the order of magnitude of light resolution in the counter-controller, then replaceable this environment light.
When the material surface is that minute surface or material are the easy colors that reflect such as white, refinement light reception sleeve 15 on the optical fiber head 2 and 4 can received, the inwall of sleeve will absorb the non-perpendicular light that the overwhelming majority produces because of refraction, diffraction, and what reception optical fiber head 2 and 4 received mainly is the vertical light of launching fiber head 1 and 3 emissions.
Launching fiber head and receive spacing distance between every group of the optical fiber head with being advisable below 1/4 of single material 6 minimum widiths, concrete ratio can be determined according to the recognition resolution of counter-controller needs.
The optical fiber that optical fiber head connects is by the 14 access counter-controller 10 of the opto-electronic conversion on the counter-controller, by the transmission and the reception of the 11 control light of the photoelectric signal processor on the counter-controller.Photoelectric signal processor 11 is by the different dutycycle mode of each launching site of control, or employing serial interval radiation pattern, prevents the phase mutual interference between the optical fiber.Photoelectric signal processor 11 continuous detection receive the intensity of light simultaneously, because long-term use continuously, rubbish can shine into receiving light power in adhering to of optical fiber head surface and weaken, counter-controller sends light intensity and crosses low the warning when light intensity is lower than setting threshold, and prompting needs the conventional maintenance of cleaning optical fiber head.If the external packing of lump material is transparent or translucent, can in counter-controller, adopt the light source that strengthens emissive power, the transparent or translucent external packing of light penetration directly obtains the physical dimension information of material itself.
Counter-controller 10 comprises that also plurality of specifications block sample data storage area 16 can preserve multiple lump material sample information.Sample information comprises following information (or the following information of part): pure, two-fold material information, triple-lap material, doubly-linked material, three connect material and other connects material, two 3 (four material) material, three or four material (five material) and other more information more.
The information of photoelectric signal processor is sent to counting algorithm processor 12.But counting algorithm processor record, the length, width of the current material of accumulative total, highly and the blank distance between the material, time that material passes through, by calculating horizontal vertical physical dimension information, material gait of march and time information, calculate the information such as effective length and width height, volume of the current material that passes through, the lump material sample information of preserving with plurality of specifications lump material sample data memory block 16 contrasts.Comparative information comprises that thin material, two-fold material information, triple-lap material, doubly-linked material, three connect material and other connects material, two 3 (four material) material, three or four material information such as (five material) more.In actual applications, by cooperating with the reasonable of upper production line, only with wherein part comparison information and the precision of counting can be brought up to ten thousand/more than, far surpass the accuracy of detection of fluid.
Possesses the automatic abstraction function of sample characteristics in the counter-controller 10.Before to a kind of new lump material counting, must be by the lump material sample of some.Sample must single only pass through.The quantity of choosing sample is mainly considered the neat appearance degree of material, and whether the attitude on streamline is regular, the counting precision of requirement etc.Simple mode is to choose to require the sample size over half of counting precision denominator to get final product, as requires 1/10000 precision, and then the sample size of freely choosing more than 5000 gets final product.Another kind of mode is to choose to be tending towards two extreme typical samples on the material profile, and the sample size that this mode is chosen can reduce in a large number.
The switching of production line production material is sent instructions by upper system, is sent to counter-controller by bus communication and carries out.
Count information after treatment is sent to upper system by the upper system communication processor 13 in the counter-controller, and upper system can put the case number of elements according to the count information statistics that receives, reject the speed of substandard products or control production line.When the material on the production line passes through the count detection critical point, optical fibre set is with the physical dimension information of the current material of advancing of the velocity sweeping of microsecond level, the effective length and width height that comprises current material, and with the time of passing through, synchronous driving is to counting algorithm processor, the real-time accumulated above-mentioned information of APU.After current material passed through, APU calculated by information such as the high aggregate-value of material length and width, mean value, adhesion degree value, overlapping degree values.Then with internal memory in the sample information of preserving compare, the count results of comparison is sent to upper system by upper system communication processor.
Adopt simple in structure, the fiber optic network that reliable correlation optical fiber constitutes, form the counting critical point in the suitable position of production line, the lump material that passes through is carried out stereoscanning on the profile, after information after will scanning be sent to counter-controller 10, controller is compared the scanning information received and the sample information of internal record, determine the number of elements of the current lump material that passes through, can obtain simultaneously some additional information, if any the lump material of external packing empty bag whether, whether lump material is incomplete or the like, offers the upper system of production line and does bad part eject and use.
Should be pointed out that present embodiment just lists expressivity principle of the present invention and effect are described, but not be used to limit the present invention.Any personnel that are familiar with this technology all can make amendment to the foregoing description under spirit of the present invention and scope.Therefore, the scope of the present invention should be listed as claims.