CN103465134A - Stator slotting equipment - Google Patents
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The invention relates to stator slotting equipment comprising a stator core clamping mechanism, a slotting mechanism, a vertical movement mechanism and an axial movement mechanism. The axial movement mechanism is disposed on a bench. The stator core clamping mechanism is mounted on the axial movement mechanism and driven to axially move by the axial movement mechanism. The slotting mechanism is arranged above the stator core clamping mechanism. The slotting mechanism is connected with the vertical movement mechanism and driven by the vertical movement mechanism to move in the vertical direction. Through the use of the stator slotting equipment, the problem that existing manual slotting results in uncontrollability of quality, time and labor consuming, low labor efficiency, high labor intensity and severe pollution is solved.
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Technical field
The present invention relates to stator core fluting processing technique field, particularly relate to a kind of stator and cut groove equipment.
Background technology
When a kind of stator core technological requirement welding, and the stator punching of this model stator core does not design welding groove, and will machine the stator core cylindrical after welding.For guaranteeing welding quality, increased bonding area, improved weld strength, just need to slot to stator core.In addition, weld strength is except being subject to weldquality affects, also relevant with its geometry, size, stressing conditions and condition of work etc.
At present, to stator core, be all manually to slot with polishing machine, but artificial fluting have a lot of drawbacks, as uneven as notch; Groove depth is deep mixed; Width of rebate is not of uniform size, and these all can affect weldquality, and manually fluting is wasted time and energy, inefficiency, and labour intensity is large, seriously polluted.
Summary of the invention
The invention provides a kind of stator and cut groove equipment, to solve, artificial fluting quality is uncontrollable at present, waste time and energy, and inefficiency, labour intensity is large, with serious pollution problem.
The technical solution adopted for the present invention to solve the technical problems is: provide a kind of stator to cut groove equipment, comprise stator core clamping mechanism, groove cutting machine structure, vertical movement mechanism and axial motion mechanism, described axial motion mechanism is placed on workbench, described stator core clamping mechanism is arranged on axial motion mechanism, and carries out axially-movable under described axial motion mechanism drives; Described stator core clamping mechanism top is provided with the groove cutting machine structure; Described groove cutting machine structure is connected with vertical movement mechanism, and carries out the motion on vertical direction under vertical movement mechanism drives.
Described stator core clamping mechanism comprises spindle top mechanism, tailstock centre mechanism, base connecting mechanism and the first motor; Described base connecting mechanism is connected with axial motion mechanism, and the two ends on described base connecting mechanism are provided with for the spindle top mechanism of clamping stator core and tailstock centre mechanism, and stator core is by described the first driven by motor rotation.
Described groove cutting machine structure comprises grinding wheel and connecting bushing for being connected with vertical movement mechanism; Described connecting bushing inner sleeve has the output shaft of the second motor, and the output shaft of described the second motor is connected with grinding wheel, drives grinding wheel and is rotated.
Described grinding wheel is outside equipped with wheel guard.
Described vertical movement mechanism comprises column, and described column one side is equipped with vertical slide rail, on described vertical slide rail, by slide block moving vertically, is connected with the connecting plate for being connected with the groove cutting machine structure; Described connecting plate can slide along described vertical slide rail under the drive of move both vertically screw mandrel and the 3rd motor.
Described column inside also is provided with balancing weight, and described balancing weight is connected with an end of steel wire rope, and the other end of steel wire rope is walked around the pulley arranged on column and is connected with the suspension ring on connecting plate.
Described axial motion mechanism comprises the axially-movable slide rail, on described axially-movable slide rail, be equipped with for the axially-movable slide block of stator core clamping mechanism is installed, described axially-movable slide block can slide along described axially-movable slide rail under the drive of the 4th motor and axially-movable leading screw.
Described workbench one side also is provided with cutting dust cleaning mechanism, and described cutting dust cleaning mechanism comprises protective cover, water pump, current deflecting plate and water tank; Be provided with the current deflecting plate in described protective cover, the corresponding protective cover place, guiding position of described current deflecting plate is provided with perforate, and described perforate has described water tank; Described water pump is fed to water on described current deflecting plate.
The side of described protective cover also is provided with ventilating fan.
Beneficial effect
Owing to having adopted above-mentioned technical scheme, the present invention compared with prior art, has following advantage and good effect: the present invention has effectively solved manually-operated uncontrollable factor, can effectively solve notch by the present invention uneven; Groove depth is deep mixed; The factors such as width of rebate is not of uniform size.Simultaneously, after on the stator core place apparatus, only need to open the system set in advance, just can surface trimming, take off and get final product again after cutting, saved workman's process of grooving repeatedly, can also make the notch in the same size, more effective assurance welding quality, improved operating efficiency, reduced labour intensity, environmental contamination reduction.
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Fig. 1 is structural representation of the present invention;
Fig. 2 is the structural representation of stator core clamping mechanism in the present invention;
Fig. 3 is the structural representation of groove cutting machine structure in the present invention;
Fig. 4 is the structural representation of the vertical movement mechanism of groove cutting machine structure in the present invention;
Fig. 5 is the structural representation of the axial motion mechanism of stator core clamping mechanism in the present invention;
Fig. 6 is the structural representation of cutting dust cleaning mechanism in the present invention.
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Below in conjunction with specific embodiment, further set forth the present invention.Should be understood that these embodiment only are not used in and limit the scope of the invention for the present invention is described.Should be understood that in addition those skilled in the art can make various changes or modifications the present invention after the content of having read the present invention's instruction, these equivalent form of values fall within the application's appended claims limited range equally.
Embodiments of the present invention relate to a kind of stator and cut groove equipment, as shown in Figure 1, comprise stator core clamping mechanism 1, groove cutting machine structure 2, vertical movement mechanism 3 and axial motion mechanism 4 for clamping stator core 6, described axial motion mechanism 4 is placed on workbench, described stator core clamping mechanism 1 is arranged on axial motion mechanism 4, and carries out axially-movable under described axial motion mechanism 4 drives; Described stator core clamping mechanism 1 top is provided with groove cutting machine structure 2; Described groove cutting machine structure 2 is connected with vertical movement mechanism 3, and carries out the motion on vertical direction under vertical movement mechanism 3 drives.Described workbench one side also is provided with cutting dust cleaning mechanism 5.
As shown in Figure 2, described stator core clamping mechanism 1 comprises spindle top mechanism 11, tailstock centre mechanism 12, base connecting mechanism 13 and the first motor 14; Described base connecting mechanism 13 is connected with axial motion mechanism 4, and the two ends on described base connecting mechanism 13 are provided with for the spindle top mechanism 11 of clamping stator core 6 and tailstock centre mechanism 12, and stator core 6 is by described the first motor 14 driven rotary.Clamp fixedly axial direction of stator core frock centre bore by spindle top mechanism and tailstock centre mechanism, because the stator core deadweight is heavier, and cutting groove is axial direction, so only need top clamping, just can guarantee radial direction, determine the distance between spindle top mechanism and tailstock centre mechanism by base connecting mechanism again, thereby stator core is fixed in equipment.
As shown in Figure 3, described groove cutting machine structure 2 comprises grinding wheel 21 and connecting bushing 22 for being connected with vertical movement mechanism; Described connecting bushing 22 inner sleeves have the output shaft of the second motor 23, and the output shaft of described the second motor 23 is connected with grinding wheel 21, drive grinding wheel 21 and are rotated.Described grinding wheel 21 is outside equipped with wheel guard 24.
As shown in Figure 4, described vertical movement mechanism 3 comprises column 31, and described column 31 1 sides are equipped with vertical slide rail 32, on described vertical slide rail 32, by slide block moving vertically, are connected with the connecting plate 33 for being connected with the groove cutting machine structure; Described connecting plate 33 can slide along described vertical slide rail 32 under the drive of move both vertically screw mandrel 35 and the 3rd motor 34.Described column 31 inside also are provided with balancing weight 36, and described balancing weight 36 is connected with an end of steel wire rope, and the other end of steel wire rope is walked around the pulley 37 arranged on column 31 and is connected with the suspension ring 38 on connecting plate 33.After a groove has cut, stator core returns in former point process, in order to prevent groove cutting machine structure and stator core collision, the groove cutting machine structure need to be lifted or returns operating point, therefore need the vertical movement mechanism of groove cutting machine structure, balancing weight connects groove cutting machine structure connecting plate trim left and right weight with steel wire rope, reduces power of motor.
As shown in Figure 5, described axial motion mechanism 4 comprises axially-movable slide rail 41, on described axially-movable slide rail 41, be equipped with for the axially-movable slide block 42 of stator core clamping mechanism is installed, described axially-movable slide block 42 can slide along described axially-movable slide rail 41 under the drive of the 4th motor 44 and axially-movable leading screw 43.When servomotor rotates, drive the screw mandrel rotation, the stator core clamping mechanism is slided along guide rail.
As shown in Figure 6, described cutting dust cleaning mechanism 5 comprises protective cover 51, water pump, current deflecting plate 52 and water tank 53; Be provided with current deflecting plate 52 in described protective cover 51, corresponding protective cover 51 places, the guiding position of described current deflecting plate 52 are provided with perforate, and described perforate has described water tank 53; Described water pump is fed to water on described current deflecting plate 52.The side of described protective cover 51 also is provided with ventilating fan 54.When grinding wheel cutting stator iron core, can produce a large amount of sparks and dust to the current deflecting plate, now by water pump, supply water endlessly, the current on the current deflecting plate constantly take away spark and dust, flow in water tank, and at the bottom of sinking to water tank.
Use the groove operation of being cut of the present invention as follows:
(1) by stator core with traveling crane to the stator core clamping mechanism, two top aligning stator core centre bores, tailstock centre mechanism swinging handle clamps stator core, make stator core fixing with the stator core clamping mechanism in, now the stator core clamping mechanism is positioned at the right side origin position.
(2) now base connecting mechanism is positioned at the equipment right-hand member, after opening switch, servomotor drives the screw mandrel that moves both vertically and rotates, the screw mandrel that moves both vertically drives groove cutting machine structure connecting plate and moves along the slide rail that moves both vertically, because groove cutting machine structure and groove cutting machine structure connecting plate are fixed, so the groove cutting machine structure slides into the system precalculated position along slide rail, motor drives the grinding wheel high speed rotating by connecting bushing.
(3) when the groove cutting machine structure arrives the system precalculated position, servomotor starts to rotate according to the speed of default, drive the axially-movable screw mandrel, by the axially-movable screw body make the stator core clamping mechanism by certain speed along the axially-movable slide rail to left movement, start to cut groove when stator core contacts with grinding wheel.
(4) when stator core, with grinding wheel, contact while starting to cut groove, meeting continuous generation spark and dust protective cover to the left splash, during due to cutting, spark produces shape certain rule, therefore, the current deflecting plate is set on the path of spark process, by the cooling spark of current and constantly take away dust, flow in water tank, ventilating fan also plays guide effect simultaneously, better plays the guide effect to spark and dust.
(5), after cutting trough end, the groove cutting machine structure rises, and return space is provided for the stator core clamping mechanism, the servomotor reversing, the axially-movable screw mandrel drives the stator core clamping mechanism and returns.
(6) after the stator core clamping mechanism is return initial point, servomotor rotates, and drives the angle that the stator core rotary system is set, and now the groove cutting machine structure is got back to last cutting position, prepares to cut groove next time.
(7) repeating step (2)～(6), complete until cut groove.
Be not difficult to find, the present invention has effectively solved manually-operated uncontrollable factor, can effectively solve notch by this equipment uneven; Groove depth is deep mixed; The factors such as width of rebate is not of uniform size.Simultaneously, after on the stator core place apparatus, only need to open the system set in advance, just can surface trimming, take off and get final product again after cutting, saved workman's process of grooving repeatedly, can also make the notch in the same size, more effective assurance welding quality, improved operating efficiency, reduced labour intensity, environmental contamination reduction.
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1. a stator cuts groove equipment, comprise stator core clamping mechanism (1), groove cutting machine structure (2), vertical movement mechanism (3) and axial motion mechanism (4), it is characterized in that, described axial motion mechanism (4) is placed on workbench, it is upper that described stator core clamping mechanism (1) is arranged on axial motion mechanism (4), and carry out axially-movable under described axial motion mechanism (4) drives; Described stator core clamping mechanism (1) top is provided with groove cutting machine structure (2); Described groove cutting machine structure (2) is connected with vertical movement mechanism (3), and carries out the motion on vertical direction under vertical movement mechanism (3) drives.
2. stator according to claim 1 cuts groove equipment, it is characterized in that, described stator core clamping mechanism (1) comprises spindle top mechanism (11), tailstock centre mechanism (12), base connecting mechanism (13) and the first motor (14); Described base connecting mechanism (13) is connected with axial motion mechanism (4), two ends on described base connecting mechanism (13) are provided with for the spindle top mechanism (11) of clamping stator core (6) and tailstock centre mechanism (12), and stator core (6) is by described the first motor (14) driven rotary.
3. stator according to claim 1 cuts groove equipment, it is characterized in that, described groove cutting machine structure (2) comprises grinding wheel (21) and connecting bushing (22) for being connected with vertical movement mechanism (3); Described connecting bushing (22) inner sleeve has the output shaft of the second motor (23), and the output shaft of described the second motor (23) is connected with grinding wheel (21), drives grinding wheel (21) and is rotated.
4. stator according to claim 3 cuts groove equipment, it is characterized in that, described grinding wheel (21) is outside equipped with wheel guard (24).
5. stator according to claim 1 cuts groove equipment, it is characterized in that, described vertical movement mechanism (3) comprises column (31), described column (31) one sides are equipped with vertical slide rail (32), and described vertical slide rail (32) is upper is connected with the connecting plate (33) for being connected with groove cutting machine structure (2) by slide block moving vertically; Described connecting plate (33) can slide along described vertical slide rail (32) under the drive of the screw mandrel that moves both vertically (35) and the 3rd motor (34).
6. stator according to claim 5 cuts groove equipment, it is characterized in that, described column (31) inside also is provided with balancing weight (36), described balancing weight (36) is connected with an end of steel wire rope, and the other end of steel wire rope is walked around the upper pulley (37) arranged of column (31) and is connected with the suspension ring (38) on connecting plate (33).
7. stator according to claim 1 cuts groove equipment, it is characterized in that, described axial motion mechanism (4) comprises axially-movable slide rail (41), on described axially-movable slide rail (41), be equipped with for the axially-movable slide block (42) of stator core clamping mechanism (1) is installed, described axially-movable slide block (42) can slide along described axially-movable slide rail (42) under the drive of the 4th motor (44) and axially-movable leading screw (43).
8. cut groove equipment according to the described stator of arbitrary claim in claim 1-7, it is characterized in that, described workbench one side also is provided with cutting dust cleaning mechanism (5), described cutting dust cleaning mechanism (5) comprises protective cover (51), water pump, current deflecting plate (52) and water tank (53); Be provided with current deflecting plate (52) in described protective cover (51), the corresponding protective cover in guiding position (51) of described current deflecting plate (52) locates to be provided with perforate, and described perforate has described water tank (53); Described water pump is fed to water on described current deflecting plate (52).
9. stator according to claim 8 cuts groove equipment, it is characterized in that, the side of described protective cover (51) also is provided with ventilating fan (54).
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