CN103723514B - Automatic feeding device for bottom support of indoor unit of air conditioner - Google Patents

Abstract

The automatic on-line device for the bottom bracket of the air-conditioning indoor unit includes: a frame; trays arranged on the left and right sides of the frame; a tray shifting mechanism arranged on the rack, and the tray shifting mechanism controls the tray to move along the vertical direction. Move up and down in the vertical direction; the suction cup located on the top of the frame, the suction cup is arranged on the carriage, and the carriage can move along the guide rail on the top of the frame; the suction cup moving mechanism arranged on the frame, the The suction cup moving mechanism controls the carriage to reciprocate along the front and rear directions on the guide rail; the sliding cylinder is arranged at the rear of the frame, and the top of the sliding cylinder is provided with a supporting plate; the pallet moving mechanism, the suction cup, and the suction cup are controlled to move The control box for the mechanism and the sliding cylinder. The invention has a high degree of automation, can cancel manual handling operations, realize staff reduction and increase efficiency, and is beneficial to reduce production costs.

Description

Air conditioner indoor unit bottom support automatic on-line device

technical field

The invention belongs to the technical field of production line automation equipment, and in particular relates to an automatic on-line device for a bottom support of an air-conditioning indoor unit.

Background technique

During the production process of the indoor unit of the cabinet type air conditioner, the bottom bracket needs to be installed on the bottom of the indoor unit. At present, the bottom bracket of the indoor unit is manually transported from the bottom bracket tooling truck to the production line, and then according to the operation process of the production line body, the bottom bracket is placed in an orderly manner for the next step of operation. The production method of the air-conditioning indoor unit bottom support is manually carried on the line. On the one hand, the efficiency is low. On the other hand, as the labor cost is getting higher and higher, the manual operation is not conducive to reducing the production cost.

Contents of the invention

In view of the deficiencies in the prior art, the object of the present invention is to provide an automatic on-line device for the bottom bracket of an air-conditioning indoor unit, to realize the automatic operation of the bottom bracket on-line, improve production efficiency, and achieve the purpose of reducing staff and increasing efficiency.

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention takes the following technical solutions:

The automatic on-line device for the bottom support of the air-conditioning indoor unit includes: a frame; trays arranged on the left and right sides of the frame; a tray shifting mechanism arranged on the rack, and the tray shifting mechanism controls the tray to move along the vertical direction. Move up and down in the vertical direction; the suction cup located on the top of the frame, the suction cup is arranged on the carriage, and the carriage can move along the guide rail on the top of the frame; the suction cup moving mechanism arranged on the frame, the The suction cup moving mechanism controls the carriage to reciprocate along the front and rear directions on the guide rail; the sliding cylinder is arranged at the rear of the frame, and the top of the sliding cylinder is provided with a supporting plate; the pallet moving mechanism, the suction cup, and the suction cup are controlled to move The control box for the mechanism and the sliding cylinder.

Further, a traveling cylinder is arranged on the carriage, and the traveling cylinder controls the upward and downward movement of the suction cup.

Further, the pallet moving mechanism includes an up and down moving motor, a guide wheel, a chain and a transmission shaft, the up and down moving motor is connected to the transmission shaft through a transmission member, the transmission shaft is arranged horizontally along the left and right directions, and the transmission shaft There are transmission wheels at both ends, symmetrically arranged guide wheels are arranged on the left and right sides of the frame, the chains bypass the transmission wheels and guide wheels at the end of the transmission shaft, and the trays are respectively fixed on the chains on the same side superior.

Further, a pair of horizontally arranged guide wheels are provided on the bottom and middle of the left and right sides of the frame respectively, and guide wheels corresponding to the position of the transmission wheel of the transmission shaft are provided on the top of the left and right sides of the frame, and the chain is wound around Through the transmission wheel and the guide wheel, an inverted concave-shaped winding structure is formed.

Further, the gear meshing transmission is used between the up and down moving motor and the transmission shaft.

Further, the suction cup moving mechanism includes a forward and backward moving motor, a transmission guide wheel and a synchronous belt. frame or the top of the frame, the synchronous belt bypasses the output shaft of the forward and backward moving motor and the transmission guide wheel, and the carriage is fixed with the synchronous belt.

Further, the suction cup is a vacuum suction cup.

Further, the bottom of the frame is provided with a photoelectric sensor.

Further, a photoelectric sensor is arranged on the upper part of the frame.

In the present invention, trays are arranged on both sides of the frame, and the bottom bracket is lifted from the tooling truck by using the synchronous lifting tray, and the bottom bracket is transported to the feeding end of the production line by using the suction cup moving back and forth, so as to complete the function of automatic loading of the bottom bracket and change the It eliminates the production method in which the bottom support of the air-conditioning indoor unit is manually carried and put on the line, realizes automation equipment instead of manual operation, improves the utilization rate of automation equipment, achieves the purpose of reducing staff and increasing efficiency, and is conducive to reducing production costs. At the same time, it uses photoelectric control to achieve automatic Choose up and down motion feeding to improve the automation of the equipment.

Description of drawings

In order to more clearly illustrate the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention or the prior art, the following will briefly introduce the drawings that need to be used in the description of the embodiments or the prior art. Obviously, the drawings in the following description are only For some embodiments of the invention, those skilled in the art can also obtain other drawings based on these drawings without creative effort.

Fig. 1 is the structural representation of the embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a top view of FIG. 1 .

detailed description

The present invention will be described in detail below in conjunction with the accompanying drawings. When describing the embodiments of the present invention in detail, for the convenience of explanation, the accompanying drawings showing the structure of the device will not be partially enlarged according to the general scale, and the schematic diagram is only an example, and it should not be limited here. The protection scope of the present invention. It should be noted that all the drawings are in very simplified form and use imprecise scales, which are only used to facilitate and clearly assist the purpose of illustrating the embodiments of the present invention.

As shown in Fig. 1 and Fig. 2, the bottom support automatic on-line device of the air-conditioning indoor unit in this embodiment includes a frame 1, a tray 2, a tray moving mechanism 3, a suction cup 4, a suction cup moving mechanism 5, a sliding cylinder 6, a moving cylinder 7, Slider 8 and control box 9.

The frame 1 of the present invention is a frame-type frame body, and the tooling vehicle equipped with the bottom support can be pushed in the frame 1 . Trays 2 are arranged on the left and right sides of the frame 1 respectively. The tray 2 has a horizontal bearing surface for holding up the bottom support. The tray 2 can be a flat structure or a fork-tooth structure. The tray 2 can move up and down in the vertical direction under the drive of the tray shifting mechanism 3 . A suction cup 4 is arranged on the top of the frame 1, and the suction cup 4 is a vacuum suction cup. The suction cup 4 is arranged on the carriage 8, and the carriage 8 is arranged on the guide rail 10 on the top of the frame 1. The carriage 8 can move back and forth along the front and back direction driven by the suction cup traveling mechanism 5, and the carriage 8 is provided with a traveling cylinder at the same time. 7. The suction cup 4 can move up and down under the control of the travel cylinder 7. A sliding cylinder 6 is arranged at the rear of the frame 1 (the discharge side of the bottom bracket), and a supporting plate 6a is arranged on the top of the piston rod of the sliding cylinder 6, and the supporting plate 6a can move up and down under the control of the sliding cylinder 6. The control box 9 is arranged on the side of the frame 1, and the control box 9 is electrically connected with the pallet moving mechanism 3, the sucker 4, the sucker moving mechanism 5, the sliding cylinder 6 and the moving cylinder 7, thereby controlling the work of the aforementioned parts.

The pallet moving mechanism 3 of this embodiment includes a vertical moving motor 3-1, a guide wheel 3-2, a chain 3-3 and a transmission shaft 3-4. Moving up and down motor 3-1 and power transmission shaft 3-4 are fixed on the frame 1 top, the side that is positioned at bottom bracket discharge. The transmission shaft 3-4 is arranged horizontally along the left and right directions, and the two ends of the transmission shaft 3-4 are provided with a transmission wheel 3-4a, and the vertical movement motor 3-1 and the transmission shaft 3-4 are driven through gear engagement. A pair of guide wheels 3-2 are respectively arranged on the bottom and middle (upper) part on the left side of the frame 1, and each pair of guide wheels 3-2 is on the same horizontal line. A guide wheel 3-2 corresponding to the position of the transmission wheel 3-4a at the end of the transmission shaft 3-4 is arranged on the top left side of the frame 1, and 5 guide wheels form a chain transmission mechanism together with the transmission shaft 3-4. 3-3 Go around the transmission wheel 3-4a at the end of the transmission shaft 3-4 and the aforementioned five guide wheels 3-2 to form an inverted concave-shaped winding structure. The two ends of the tray 2 are fixed on the chain 3-3, and when the up and down movement motor 3-1 works, the tray 2 moves up or down under the drive of the chain 3-3. A guide wheel 3-2 and a chain 3-3 bypassing the transmission shaft 3-4 and the guide wheel 3-2 are also arranged at the corresponding position on the right side of the frame 1, and the structure on the left side is the same as that on the left side, which is symmetrical The pallet 2 positioned on the right side of the frame 1 is fixed on the chain 3-3, and is also moved up or down by the chain 3-3, and the synchronous lifting of the pallet 2 on both sides is realized by the transmission shaft 3-4.

When the up and down travel motor 3-1 works, the up and down travel motor 3-1 drives the transmission shaft 3-4 to rotate, and the transmission shaft 3-4 is driven to the chain 3-3 that is wound around its two ends, and is wound by an inverted concave-shaped chain. In this way, the chains 3-3 drive the pallets 2 on both sides to move up or down synchronously, so that one motor controls the four points of the pallet to rise and fall at the same time.

The sucker moving mechanism 5 of this embodiment includes a forward and backward moving motor 5-1, a transmission guide wheel 5-2 and a synchronous belt 5-3. The front and rear traveling motor 5-1 is fixed on the top of the frame 1, the transmission guide wheel 5-2 is fixed on the carriage 8, and the synchronous belt 5-3 bypasses the output shaft of the front and rear traveling motor 5-1 and the transmission guide wheel 5-2, Slide rack 8 is fixed with synchronous belt 5-3. When the front and rear moving motor 5-1 works, it transmits to the synchronous belt 5-3, so that the synchronous belt 5-3 drives the slide frame 8 to move back and forth along the guide rail 10, and then drives the suction cup 4 to move back and forth. The installation positions of the transmission guide wheel 5-2 and the front and rear travel motor 5-1 can be exchanged, that is, the front and rear travel motors can be arranged on the slide frame, and the transmission guide wheel can be arranged on the frame.

In order to improve the degree of automation of the equipment, as a preferred technical solution of the present invention, this embodiment is provided with photoelectric sensors (not shown) on the bottom and upper part of the frame 1, which are used to sense the material, and realize the automatic lifting and lowering of the tray 2 according to the material condition. Suction cup 4 automatically grabs/discharges.

The working process of the bottom support automatic on-line device of the present invention will be further described below:

When the tooling vehicle with the bottom support is pushed into the designated position in the frame 1, start the start button on the control box 9, and when the photoelectric sensor at the bottom of the frame 1 senses the bottom support, the up and down movement motor 3-1 starts to work, and the pallet 2. Under the control of the up and down moving motor 3-1, it rises automatically, lifts the bottom bracket located between the trays 2 and moves upward, when the photoelectric sensor on the upper part of the frame 1 senses that the bottom bracket moves upward to the predetermined position, the up and down moving motor 3-1 stops working and pallet 2 stops moving. The forward and backward travel motor 5-1 starts to work, and the control carriage 8 drives the sucker 4 to move to the top of the bottom support, and starts to grab. Preferably, the grabbing sequence of the suction cup 4 is set as when two rows of bottom brackets are housed on the tooling vehicle, the front row is grabbed first, and then the rear row is grabbed. When the suction cup 4 moves to the top of the bottom bracket, the moving cylinder 7 controls the suction cup 4 to move downward to grab the bottom bracket. After the suction cup 4 grabs the bottom bracket, the forward and backward movement motor 5-1 controls the suction cup 4 to move backward. When there is no material on it, the suction cup 4 stops working, and the bottom support falls off from the suction cup 4. When the pallet falls, the supporting plate 6a on the top of the sliding cylinder 6 catches the falling bottom support, slows down the falling speed of the bottom support, and the bottom support after buffering is formed by The fluent strips are guided to predetermined positions on the production line. After one grab is completed, when the photoelectric sensor on the upper part of the frame 1 senses that there is no material, the up and down moving motor 3-1 starts to work, driving the tray 2 to continue to rise to the predetermined position, and when the photoelectric sensor senses the material again, the tray 2 stops moving , repeat the above actions until the automatic on-line process of the bottom support is completed.

The invention adopts the synchronous lifting tray to lift the bottom bracket from the tooling truck, and uses the suction cup to transport the bottom bracket to the feeding end of the production line, so as to complete the function of automatic loading of the bottom bracket. The use of this equipment can eliminate manual handling operations, reduce staff and increase efficiency, which is conducive to reducing production costs. At the same time, the photoelectric control is used to automatically select the up and down motion feeding, which improves the automation of the equipment.

The above embodiments are only used to illustrate the technical solutions of the present invention and not to limit them. Although the present invention has been described in detail with reference to the above embodiments, those of ordinary skill in the art should understand that the specific implementation methods of the present invention can still be modified Or equivalent replacement, such as the pallet moving mechanism and the suction cup moving mechanism can not only use gears and chains for transmission, but also use transmission parts such as screw rods and racks for transmission, or use transmission components such as hydraulic cylinders to control the reciprocation of pallets or carriages move. Therefore, any modification or equivalent replacement that does not deviate from the spirit and scope of the present invention shall fall within the scope of the technical solution of the present invention.

Claims (7)

1. The automatic on-line device for the bottom bracket of the air-conditioning indoor unit is characterized in that it includes: frame; Trays arranged on the left and right sides of the rack; a pallet moving mechanism arranged on the frame, and the pallet moving mechanism controls the vertical movement of the pallet up and down; a suction cup located on the top of the frame, the suction cup is arranged on a slide frame, and the slide frame can move along the guide rail on the top of the frame; a suction cup moving mechanism arranged on the frame, and the suction cup moving mechanism controls the sliding frame to reciprocate along the front and rear directions on the guide rail; The sliding cylinder arranged at the rear of the frame, the top of the sliding cylinder is provided with a supporting plate; A control box for controlling the operation of the pallet moving mechanism, the suction cup, the suction cup moving mechanism and the sliding cylinder; The pallet moving mechanism includes an up and down moving motor, a guide wheel, a chain and a transmission shaft; The up and down moving motor and transmission shaft are arranged on the top of the frame, the transmission shaft is arranged horizontally along the left and right directions and transmission wheels are arranged at both ends of the transmission shaft, and the up and down movement motor is connected with the transmission shaft through transmission parts ; A pair of guide wheels are respectively arranged at the bottom and the middle part of the left and right sides of the frame, and the guide wheels on the left and right sides of the frame are arranged symmetrically; wheel, After the chain goes around the guide wheel at the top of the frame and the drive wheel at the end of the drive shaft in turn, it goes around the guide wheel at the bottom of the frame below the drive wheel at the end of the drive shaft, and then goes around the drive wheel at the middle of the frame. A pair of guide wheels, after going around the guide wheels at the bottom of the other frame, go back up to form the guide wheels at the top of the frame, forming an inverted concave structure, and the trays are respectively fixed on the chains on the same side. 2 . The device for automatically loading the bottom support of an air-conditioning indoor unit according to claim 1 , wherein a traveling cylinder is arranged on the sliding frame, and the traveling cylinder controls the upward and downward movement of the suction cup. 3 . 3 . The automatic wiring device for the bottom bracket of the air-conditioning indoor unit according to claim 1 , characterized in that: the up and down movement motor and the transmission shaft are driven by gear meshing. 4 . 4. The automatic on-line device for the bottom bracket of an air-conditioning indoor unit according to claim 1, characterized in that: the suction cup travel mechanism includes a front and rear travel motor, a transmission guide wheel and a timing belt, and the front and rear travel motor is arranged on the frame On the top or the slide frame, the transmission guide wheel is correspondingly arranged on the slide frame or the top of the frame, the synchronous belt bypasses the output shaft of the forward and backward moving motor and the drive guide wheel, the The carriage is fixed with the timing belt. 5. The automatic on-line device for the bottom bracket of an air-conditioning indoor unit according to claim 1, wherein the suction cup is a vacuum suction cup. 6 . The automatic on-line device for the bottom bracket of an air-conditioning indoor unit according to claim 1 , wherein a photoelectric sensor is arranged at the bottom of the frame. 7. The automatic on-line device for the bottom bracket of an air-conditioning indoor unit according to claim 1 or 6, wherein a photoelectric sensor is arranged on the upper part of the frame.