CN103962312A - Sleeve tube carrying device, sleeve tube sorting device and sleeve tube carrying method - Google Patents

Abstract

A sleeve tube carrying device, a sleeve tube sorting device and a sleeve tube carrying method are provided. In sleeve tube carrying processes, sleeve tubes are carried in such a way that the sleeve tubes are enabled to face to the same direction. The sleeve tube carrying device (3) is provided and is provided with a carrying passageway (200) and a posture adjusting mechanism (201), wherein the carrying passage extends from a first position (P1) to a second position (P2), sleeve tubes (F) supplied to the first position are carried to the second position, the posture adjusting mechanism is placed on the carrying passageway between the first position and the second position, orientation of the sleeve tubes being carried is determined, the orientation of the sleeve tubes is adjusted according to the determination results, and therefore the adjusted orientation is unified as a predetermined orientation.

Description

Sleeve pipe carrying device, sleeve pipe sorter and sleeve pipe transport method

Technical field

The present invention relates to sleeve pipe carrying device, sleeve pipe sorter and sleeve pipe transport method.

Background technology

All the time, as the parts for optical fiber being connected each other in exactly the heart yearn endface position of optical fiber being aimed at, adopt sleeve pipe (ferrule).This sleeve pipe is the cylinder-like part that is formed with through hole along its central shaft, runs through and under the state being inserted in through hole, is installed to for example optical connector parts at the heart yearn that makes optical fiber.Therefore, in order in exactly the heart yearn endface position of optical fiber being aimed at, optical fiber to be connected each other, with the circularity of high grade requirements sleeve pipe and the internal diameter of sleeve pipe with respect to precision such as the axialities (concentricity) of external diameter.

Therefore, generally producing after sleeve pipe, carrying out one by one overall dimensions measurement and axiality mensuration etc. for these sleeve pipes, and carrying out according to quality judgement and fine finishining precision as product classify (classification).Particularly the axiality of sleeve pipe is that the optical characteristics of optical fiber is exerted an influence and determines the key element as the performance of the joints of optical fibre, therefore axiality is measured as important operation.

In the past, be known to device described in following patent documentation 1 as the device of axiality of measuring sleeve pipe.

According to this device, can utilize the arm with multiple adsorption sections, by sleeve pipe conveyance, to measuring on the mensuration platform of axiality, and conveyance axiality is measured the sleeve pipe after finishing from measuring platform, therefore can be successfully more carrying out axiality mensuration in casing replacing.Therefore the axiality that, can carry out efficiently mass-produced sleeve pipe is measured.

Patent documentation 1: Japanese kokai publication hei 10-111124 communique

Summary of the invention

Therefore,, in order to measure axiality, need to obtain the photographed images of taking sleeve pipe and obtain.Particularly, from end face side, sleeve pipe is made a video recording, obtain the photographed images of through hole, and the photographed images obtaining according to shooting through hole is carried out the mensuration of axiality.

But according to the kind of sleeve pipe, the shape of end face is different in both sides sometimes, according to its shape, sometimes make a video recording better from an end face side, sometimes make a video recording better from another end face side.Therefore, in this case, require by sleeve pipe towards the unified state for equidirectional, conveyance is to measuring platform.

About this point, in the device described in above-mentioned patent documentation 1, can not tackle such requirement.

The present invention considers that such situation completes, and its object is the sleeve pipe carrying device that provides following: in conveyance sleeve pipe way, this sleeve pipe carried out to conveyance towards unified for equidirectional.

And, sleeve pipe sorter, sleeve pipe transport method, sleeve pipe conveyance program are provided and record the recording medium of this program.

In order to solve above-mentioned problem, the invention provides following technical scheme.

(1) sleeve pipe carrying device of the present invention is characterised in that, this sleeve pipe carrying device has: conveyance passage, and it extends and is set to the 2nd place from the 1st place, and the sleeve pipe conveyance that is fed into described the 1st place is arrived to described the 2nd place; And attitude-adjusting system, it is arranged on the conveyance passage between described the 1st place and described the 2nd place, differentiate described sleeve pipe in conveyance towards, thereby and according to its differentiate result adjust described sleeve pipe towards by unified described sleeve pipe for predetermined towards.

According to sleeve pipe carrying device of the present invention, utilizing conveyance passage to be fed in the way in sleeve pipe conveyance to the 2 places in the 1st place, attitude-adjusting system differentiate sleeve pipe towards, and according to its differentiate result adjust sleeve pipe towards, therefore, no matter sleeve pipe is fed into the 1st place with what kind of attitude, at every turn can both unified for predetermined towards state under, by sleeve pipe conveyance to the 2 places.

Therefore, the processing of the sleeve pipe after can making it becomes easily, for example, can make a video recording to sleeve pipe from definite direction etc.

(2), in the carrying device of the invention described above, preferably, described conveyance passage has: the 1st conveyance passage, and its conveyance direction upstream side is configured in described the 1st place, and, be formed with peristome in conveyance direction downstream; And the 2nd conveyance passage, it is configured to receive described sleeve pipe by described peristome from described the 1st conveyance passage, the conveyance direction downstream of described the 2nd conveyance passage is configured in described the 2nd place, described attitude-adjusting system has: stop wall, it is arranged at described the 1st conveyance passage, and the described sleeve pipe that conveyance is come stops and being positioned at described peristome; Mechanism for identifying, its differentiate the described sleeve pipe that stops because of described stop wall towards; And conveyance opening mechanism again, it limits the movement of passing through described peristome of described sleeve pipe, and, remove this restriction, described sleeve pipe is started to conveyance again to described the 2nd conveyance channel side handing-over, and described conveyance again opening mechanism, according to the differentiation result of described mechanism for identifying, makes described sleeve pipe reversion or nonreversible, thus by unified this sleeve pipe for predetermined towards, and to described the 2nd conveyance channel side handing-over.

In this case, in the time that sleeve pipe has been fed into the 1st place, this sleeve pipe, is temporarily stopped due to stop wall, thereby is positioned at the part that is formed with peristome by conveyance by the 1st conveyance passage.Now, by conveyance again opening mechanism limited the movement by peristome, therefore, sleeve pipe is in being positioned at the state of peristome.In the time that sleeve pipe stops, mechanism for identifying differentiate sleeve pipe towards.In the time differentiating end, above-mentioned restriction is removed in conveyance again opening mechanism, by peristome, sleeve pipe is started to conveyance again to the 2nd conveyance channel side handing-over.Now, conveyance again opening mechanism according to the differentiation result of mechanism for identifying by sleeve pipe reversion or nonreversible, thus, by unified this sleeve pipe for predetermined towards, and carry out to the handing-over of the 2nd conveyance passage.

Thus, at every turn can both unified for predetermined towards state under, by sleeve pipe conveyance to the 2 places.Particularly, due under the state sleeve pipe is temporarily stopped differentiate towards, therefore can differentiate accurately towards.In addition, can utilize the sleeve pipe reversion or the nonreversible and easy action to the 2nd conveyance channel side handing-over by peristome that make temporarily to stop, unify sleeve pipe towards, therefore, easily simplified structure, and can improve conveyance efficiency.

(3) in the sleeve pipe carrying device of the invention described above, preferably, described conveyance again opening mechanism has: a pair of support component, it moves up freely in the side of approach/leaving with respect to the described sleeve pipe stopping because of described stop wall, supports this sleeve pipe respectively by described peristome with the both ends butt of described sleeve pipe; And control part, it controls the action of described a pair of support component, described control part, according to the differentiation result of described mechanism for identifying, makes a support component in described a pair of support component leave from described sleeve pipe, thus described sleeve pipe is joined to described the 2nd conveyance channel side.

In this case, by making the suitably so easy action of mobile a pair of support component of control part, just can unify sleeve pipe towards.

For example, according to the differentiation result of mechanism for identifying, in the case of with the end of the stop wall butt side direction in expecting, the support component that is positioned at this end side is left from sleeve pipe.Thus, can be under the state that does not make sleeve pipe reversion (nonreversible) and sleeve pipe is handed off to the 2nd conveyance passage, under the state in conveyance direction downstream, again start conveyance in the end of butt side.

On the other hand, in the case of with the end of stop wall butt side and the opposite direction of expectation, the support component that is positioned at the end side contrary with this end is left from sleeve pipe.Thus, sleeve pipe can be reversed and be handed off to the 2nd conveyance passage, under the state in conveyance direction downstream, again starting conveyance in the end contrary with butt side.

Like this, by the suitable easy structure of mobile a pair of support component only, can unify reliably sleeve pipe towards.Particularly, do not need complicated mechanism, the easy structure that only need make a pair of support component move back and forth, therefore further implementation structure is simplified, and easily realizes cost.

(4) in the sleeve pipe carrying device of the invention described above, preferably, described conveyance again opening mechanism has: support component, it is configured in the gravity direction side of the described sleeve pipe stopping because of described stop wall, and on the length direction of described sleeve pipe, move freely, and support this sleeve pipe by described peristome and described sleeve pipe butt; And control part, it controls the action of described support component, and described control part, according to the differentiation result of described mechanism for identifying, makes described support component move to some end side of described sleeve pipe, thus described sleeve pipe is joined to described the 2nd conveyance channel side.

In this case, control part makes support component suitably move on the length direction of this sleeve pipe along sleeve pipe, by so easy action, just can unify sleeve pipe towards.

For example, according to the differentiation result of mechanism for identifying, in the case of with the end of the stop wall butt side direction in expecting, support component is moved to the end side contrary with its end.Thus, can be under the state that does not make sleeve pipe reversion (nonreversible) and sleeve pipe is handed off to the 2nd conveyance passage, under the state in conveyance direction downstream, again start conveyance in the end of butt side.

On the other hand, in the case of with the end of stop wall butt side and the opposite direction of expectation, support component is moved to this end side.Thus, sleeve pipe can be reversed and be handed off to the 2nd conveyance passage, the state in the end contrary with butt side towards conveyance direction downstream, starts conveyance again.

Like this, by the easy structure that support component is moved along the length direction of sleeve pipe, can unify reliably sleeve pipe towards.Particularly, do not need complicated mechanism, the easy structure that only need make support component move back and forth, therefore, further implementation structure is simplified, and easily realizes cost.

(5) in the sleeve pipe carrying device of the invention described above, preferably, described mechanism for identifying to the end face irradiating and detecting light of the described sleeve pipe of described stop wall butt, and according to differentiate from the catoptrical light quantity of described end face described sleeve pipe towards.

In this case, according to the catoptrical light quantity of the end face from sleeve pipe, differentiate sleeve pipe towards.Particularly, the difference of the end surface shape of sleeve pipe easily shows in catoptrical light quantity, therefore easily differentiate accurately sleeve pipe towards.And, due to can with non-contacting mode differentiate towards, therefore, can differentiate fast and efficiently operation, and be not easy to damage sleeve pipe etc.Therefore, can further improve conveyance efficiency, and easily maintain the quality of sleeve pipe.

(6) sleeve pipe sorter of the present invention is characterised in that, described sleeve pipe sorter has: the sleeve pipe carrying device of the invention described above; Sleeve pipe feedway, it has the host body of accommodating multiple described sleeve pipes, and from this host body, described sleeve pipe is passed out to described the 1st place one by one; Sleeve pipe camera head, its described sleeve pipe of processing place to being fed into is made a video recording; And casing recovery device, it is after shooting finishes, to reclaiming to the described sleeve pipe in handing-over place from described processing place conveyance, and described sleeve pipe is received in multiple packaging containers in some packaging containers, described sleeve pipe carrying device has: conveyance arm, and it extends along the conveyance passage that arrives described handing-over place through described processing place from described the 2nd place; With arm travel mechanism, it makes described conveyance arm move along described conveyance passage, described casing recovery device is according to the photographed images of described sleeve pipe camera head, according to multiple quality grades, described sleeve pipe is classified, and the described sleeve pipe of same quality grade is received in same described packaging container.

According to sleeve pipe sorter of the present invention, in the time that sleeve pipe feedway is sent sleeve pipe one by one from host body to the 1st place, sleeve pipe carrying device unify sleeve pipe towards while by this sleeve pipe from the 1st place conveyance to the 2 places.And, utilize conveyance arm, by unified towards sleeve pipe conveyance to process place.So sleeve pipe camera head is made a video recording to this sleeve pipe, obtains photographed images.Now, due to sleeve pipe towards being unified as equidirectional, therefore, can obtain reliably the photographed images of expectation.

And, in the time that this shooting finishes, sleeve pipe carrying device by sleeve pipe from process place conveyance to handing-over place, and, by new sleeve pipe from the 2nd place conveyance to process place.So repeatedly carry out the shooting of sleeve pipe.

On the other hand, sleeve pipe by conveyance to handing-over when place, after casing recovery device reclaims this sleeve pipe, by its distribution and be received in the packaging container corresponding with quality grade.

Thus, in multiple packaging containers, continuously receive the sleeve pipe that is classified into respectively identical quality grade.Like this, can finally according to quality grade, the multiple sleeve pipes that are housed in host body be classified and they are received in packaging container, therefore, except easy use, can also possess high additive value.

(7) sleeve pipe carrying device of the present invention is the sleeve pipe transport method that has utilized the sleeve pipe carrying device of the invention described above, it is characterized in that, utilize described conveyance passage by the described sleeve pipe conveyance that is fed into described the 1st place in the conveyance operation in described the 2nd place, carry out following operation: differentiate operation, differentiate described sleeve pipe towards; And attitude adjust operation, according to the differentiation result of described differentiation operation, adjust described sleeve pipe towards and unify be predetermined towards.

According to sleeve pipe transport method of the present invention, can play the action effect identical with above-mentioned sleeve pipe carrying device.That is, no matter sleeve pipe is fed into the 1st place with what kind of attitude, at every turn can both unified for predetermined towards state under, by sleeve pipe conveyance to the 2 places.Therefore, the processing of the sleeve pipe after can making it becomes easily, for example, can make a video recording to sleeve pipe from definite direction etc.

(8) sleeve pipe conveyance program of the present invention is characterised in that, utilizing described conveyance passage to be fed in the conveyance operation in the 2nd place described in the described sleeve pipe conveyance in described the 1st place, make the computer of the sleeve pipe carrying device of the invention described above carry out following operation: differentiate operation, differentiate described sleeve pipe towards; And attitude adjust operation, according to the differentiation result of described differentiation operation adjust described sleeve pipe towards and unify be predetermined towards.

According to sleeve pipe conveyance program of the present invention, the computer that can make sleeve pipe carrying device is carried out reliably and is differentiated operation and attitude is adjusted operation in above-mentioned conveyance operation, therefore, can unify sleeve pipe towards and carry out to the conveyance in the 2nd place.

(9) recording medium of the present invention is the recording medium of embodied on computer readable, it is characterized in that, this recording medium recording has the sleeve pipe conveyance program of the invention described above.

According to recording medium of the present invention, for example, by the computer of sleeve pipe carrying device being installed etc., can carry out reliably the conveyance of above-mentioned sleeve pipe.Particularly, can suitably tackle the circulation etc. of program.

According to the present invention, can utilize conveyance passage, by sleeve pipe towards unified be equidirectional, and reliably by sleeve pipe from the 1st place conveyance to the 2 places.

Brief description of the drawings

Fig. 1 is the figure that the embodiment of sleeve pipe sorter of the present invention is shown, and is the simple structure chart of entirety.

Fig. 2 is the overall perspective view of the sleeve pipe sorter shown in Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is the cutaway view of sleeve pipe.

Fig. 4 is the figure that observes the inside of the host body in the sleeve pipe feedway of the sleeve pipe sorter shown in pie graph 1.

Fig. 5 is the stereogram of the brace table of the sleeve pipe sorter shown in pie graph 1.

Fig. 6 is the cutaway view of the sleeve pipe carrying device of the sleeve pipe sorter shown in pie graph 1.

Fig. 7 is the side view of observing the sleeve pipe carrying device shown in Fig. 6 from arrow B direction.

Fig. 8 illustrates the stop wall butt shown in sleeve pipe and Fig. 6 and the figure of the state that stops wherein, (a) illustrates the state of an end face side and stop wall butt, and the state of another end face side and stop wall butt (b) is shown.

Fig. 9 be illustrate by the sleeve pipe stopping with stop wall butt by peristome nonreversible to the figure of the state of the 2nd conveyance channel side conveyance.

Figure 10 illustrates the sleeve pipe stopping with stop wall butt to be reversed by peristome and to the figure of the state of the 2nd conveyance channel side conveyance.

Figure 11 is the cutaway view that the variation of sleeve pipe carrying device of the present invention is shown.

Figure 12 is the side view of the sleeve pipe carrying device shown in the Figure 11 observing from arrow C direction.

Label declaration

F ... sleeve pipe; P1 ... the 1st place; P2 ... the 2nd place; P3 ... process place; P4 ... handing-over place; K1 ... detect light; K2 ... reverberation; 1 ... sleeve pipe sorter; 2 ... sleeve pipe feedway; 3 ... sleeve pipe carrying device; 4 ... sleeve pipe camera head; 5 ... casing recovery device; 7 ... control part; 7a ... recording medium; 10 ... host body; 40 ... containing box (packaging container); 160 ... conveyance arm; 161 ... arm travel mechanism; 200 ... conveyance passage; 200A ... the 1st conveyance passage; 200B ... the 2nd conveyance passage; 201 ... attitude-adjusting system; 205a ... peristome; 210 ... stop wall; 211 ... mechanism for identifying; 212 ... conveyance is opening mechanism again; 220 ... cylinder (support component).

Detailed description of the invention

Below, with reference to accompanying drawing, embodiments of the present invention are described.

The structure > of < sleeve pipe sorter

As depicted in figs. 1 and 2, the sleeve pipe sorter 1 of present embodiment is as lower device: it is made a video recording one by one to multiple sleeve pipe F, carry out the axiality of sleeve pipe F according to its photographed images and measure (quality inspection), and further classify and be received into containing box (packaging container in the present invention) 40 on one side according to quality grade according to this measurement result on one side, this sleeve pipe sorter 1 has: sleeve pipe feedway 2; Sleeve pipe carrying device 3; Sleeve pipe camera head 4; Casing recovery device 5; Base station 6, it is arranged on not shown ground, and above-mentioned each device is arranged at base station 6; And above-mentioned each device is carried out to the control part 7 of Comprehensive Control.

(sleeve pipe)

First sleeve pipe F is briefly described.

As shown in Figure 3, sleeve pipe F is formed as cylindric, and this sleeve pipe F is formed with the through hole F1 that runs through insertion for the heart yearn of not shown optical fiber along central shaft C.A part of an end face F2 at sleeve pipe F of this through hole F1 becomes the F4 of conical surface portion, and the cross section of the F4 of this conical surface portion is formed as along with the cone-shaped of hole enlargement towards an end face F2 side and gradually from another end face F3 side.

Therefore,, in the sleeve pipe F of present embodiment, the shape of an end face F2 is different from the shape of another end face F3.In addition, sleeve pipe camera head 4 is made a video recording to sleeve pipe F from another end face F3 side, obtains photographed images.

Then, each formation product of above-mentioned sleeve pipe sorter 1 are described.

In the present embodiment, successively sleeve pipe feedway 2, sleeve pipe camera head 4 and casing recovery device 5 are briefly described, then sleeve pipe carrying device 3 are elaborated.

In addition, in the present embodiment, as shown in Figure 1, the direction vertical with the upper surface (horizontal plane) of base station 6 is made as to above-below direction L1, the direction mutually orthogonal upper surface at base station 6 is made as to fore-and-aft direction L2 and left and right directions L3.In addition, in fore-and-aft direction L2, the opening direction of the host body described later 10 in sleeve pipe feedway 2 (arrow FW direction) is made as to front, its rightabout (arrow B A direction) is made as to rear.

(sleeve pipe feedway)

As shown in Figure 1, Figure 2 and Figure 4, above-mentioned sleeve pipe feedway 2 is as lower device: this sleeve pipe feedway 2 has the host body 10 of accommodating multiple sleeve pipe F, and from this host body 10, sleeve pipe F is sent one by one.

Host body 10 is formed as the bottom tube-like that has towards upper opening, and the column sections 11 being erected upward from the upper surface of base station 6 supports.Now, host body 10 rolls tiltedly towards front with respect to the upper surface of base station 6, and its angle of inclination can be adjusted to angle arbitrarily.

In the inside of host body 10, with the state overlapping with the bottom wall part 10a of this host body 10, being equipped with can be around the swivel plate 12 of the central axis rotation of this host body 10.This swivel plate 12 is parts that acceptance is rotated towards a direction (direction of arrow shown in Fig. 4) from the revolving force of not shown drive source, and the diameter of this swivel plate 12 is formed as the surrounding wall portion 10b sliding-contact of periphery edge and host body 10 or approaching degree.In addition,, in illustrated example, swivel plate 12 is the mode of attenuation along with circumference outward and gradually with thickness, is formed as the cross section taper that its upper surface tilts downward gradually.

Periphery edge at swivel plate 12 is formed with housing recess 12a, make in multiple sleeve pipe F of the inside that is housed in host body 10 one enter into described housing recess 12a it is received, and make the sleeve pipe F of this storage along circumferentially mobile along with the rotation of swivel plate 12.In addition, in illustrated example, be upwards spaced apartly formed with multiple housing recess 12a in week of swivel plate 12.

Thus, can pass through the rotation of swivel plate 12, make sleeve pipe F continuously to the side shifting that goes up most in the bottom wall part 10a of the host body 10 that square neck is oblique forward.

In addition, as shown in Figure 4, be formed with outlet 13 in host body 10, this outlet 13 will move to the above-mentioned sleeve pipe F that goes up point most by the rotation of swivel plate 12 and be discharged to the outside of this host body 10.Thus, can one by one send sleeve pipe F from host body 10 by outlet 13.

Therefore, as depicted in figs. 1 and 2, above-mentioned outlet 13 is arranged in the 1st place P1 of sleeve pipe carrying device 3, and this outlet 13 is connected with the discharge pipe 14 in sleeve pipe carrying device 3.Therefore,, by this discharge pipe 14, sleeve pipe F is sent one by one with longitudinal attitude.

(sleeve pipe camera head)

As depicted in figs. 1 and 2, sleeve pipe camera head 4 has: the shooting member 50 that sleeve pipe F is made a video recording; Brace table 51, it makes the central shaft C state lower support sleeve pipe F consistent with the optical axis O of shooting member 50 of sleeve pipe F; Illuminator unit 52, it is configured in the opposition side of shooting member 50 on optical axis O across brace table 51, and along optical axis O to sleeve pipe F irradiating illumination light.

Above-mentioned shooting member 50 has: the barrel 55 of long size, and it is configured along fore-and-aft direction L2, and camera lens terminal part 55a is towards front side; And imaging apparatus 56, it is disposed in the base end part of this barrel 55.

Barrel 55 is built-in with not shown multiple optical systems (lens etc.) in inside, its optical axis O is consistent with fore-and-aft direction L2.And this barrel 55 utilizes multiple optical systems that the picture of the subject being photographed by camera lens terminal part 55a is imaged on imaging apparatus 56.Thus, can, via barrel 55, by imaging apparatus 56, the sleeve pipe F on brace table 51 be made a video recording.

Above-mentioned imaging apparatus 56 is such as ccd image sensor or cmos image sensor etc., according to the instruction from control part 7, sleeve pipe F is made a video recording, and its photographed images is outputed to control part 7.

In addition, barrel 55 is kept by camera lens holding member 60, is configured to thus the state leaving upward from base station 6.

This camera lens holding member 60 is mainly made up of tabular maintenance platform 62, vertical wall piece 64 and maintainance block 65, wherein, keep platform 62 to be arranged on the upper surface of base station 6 across vibrationproof platform 61, the wall piece 64 that hangs down is erect and is arranged on this maintenance platform 62 across tabular way station 63, maintainance block 65 is arranged on the upper end of this vertical wall piece 64, for keeping barrel 55.

Above-mentioned vibrationproof platform 61 is for example to possess the hardness of regulation and the rubber slab of fade performance, disposes multiple between base station 6 and maintenance platform 62.Maintainance block 65 has: the fixed block of overlooking c-shaped shape 66 that is installed on the upper end of the wall piece 64 that hangs down; And and this fixed block 66 between keep two compact heaps 67 of barrel 55 in the mode sandwiching.

Fixed block 66 is positioned at the height identical with barrel 55, and extends at fore-and-aft direction L2 abreast with this barrel 55 under the state leaving from barrel 55 along left and right directions L3, and the pars intermedia of the fore-and-aft direction L2 of fixed block 66 is installed in the wall piece 64 that hangs down.The both ends of the fore-and-aft direction L2 of this fixed block 66, towards barrel 55 lateral bucklings, are formed with the recess of the semicircle shape corresponding with the external diameter of barrel 55 at its end face.

On the other hand, compact heap 67 is formed as respectively loading and unloading freely with respect to the end face at the both ends of above-mentioned fixed block 66, is formed with the recess of the semicircle shape corresponding with the external diameter of barrel 55 at its installed surface.

Therefore, can two compact heaps 67 be installed to fixed block 66 by for example screwing togather to install to wait, thus, between fixed block 66 and compact heap 67, sandwich and keep barrel 55 to keep it.

In addition, barrel 55 is maintained at two positions spaced apart along fore-and-aft direction L2, the ground such as therefore can not rock and be stablized maintenance.In addition, can, by unload two compact heaps 67 from fixed block 66, unload barrel 55, safeguard and replacing etc.And, the imaging apparatus support 68 that supports imaging apparatus 56 is installed at fixed block 66.

Above-mentioned brace table 51 is configured in the processing place P3 in sleeve pipe carrying device 3, and particularly, above-mentioned brace table 51 is arranged on the front side that keeps the pedestal piece 70 on platform 62 and be configured in camera lens terminal part 55a across setting.

As shown in Figure 1 and Figure 5, brace table 51 forms by separate the 1st brace table 51A and the 2nd brace table 51B that certain interval faces mutually on fore-and-aft direction L2.These the 1st brace table 51A are the plate parts that form in the thickness direction mode consistent with fore-and-aft direction L2 with the 2nd brace table 51B, and the 1st brace table 51A is positioned at camera lens terminal part 55a side, and the 2nd brace table 51B is positioned at the front side of the 1st brace table 51A.

The upper end edge of the upper ora terminalis of the 1st brace table 51A and the 2nd brace table 51B is adjusted to respectively and is positioned at equal height, is formed with respectively the slot part 75 of V word shape at these upper end edge.And then, can utilize these two slot parts 75 supporting sleeve F.

Particularly, can, sleeve pipe F being received under two states in slot part 75, in the mode that is set up in the 1st brace table 51A and the 2nd brace table 51B, this sleeve pipe F be supported.Thus, can under the central shaft C that the makes sleeve pipe F state consistent with fore-and-aft direction L2, support this sleeve pipe F.

And the height of adjustment the 1st brace table 51A and the 2nd brace table 51B, makes the central shaft C of the sleeve pipe F on brace table 51 and the optical axis O of barrel 55 consistent (with reference to Fig. 1).

In addition, as the shape of slot part 75, being not limited to V word shape, can be also semi-circular shape etc. with the shape of sleeve pipe F accordingly.

As depicted in figs. 1 and 2, above-mentioned illuminator unit 52 is built-in with the light source 80 that irradiates above-mentioned illumination light, is configured in the 2nd brace table 51B position of side more on the front than brace table 51 via illuminator support component 85.And this illuminator unit 52 can irradiate the illumination light of sending from light source 80 to brace table 51 sides.

Now, carry out height adjustment, make illuminator unit 52 be positioned at the height identical with optical axis O, thus can be along optical axis O towards brace table 51 side irradiating illumination light.

In addition, as above-mentioned light source 80, be not particularly limited, for example, can adopt LED etc.In addition, as illumination light, be preferably directional light, such as laser etc. are more applicable.In addition, illuminator support component 85 links with the pedestal piece 70 that brace table 51 is supported.

In addition, as shown in Figure 2, the sleeve pipe camera head 4 of present embodiment has rotation and is pressed into member 120, and this rotation is pressed into member 120 and is pressed into this rotation and is pressed between member 120 and this brace table 51 being supported on sleeve pipe F on brace table 51, and this sleeve pipe F is rotated around optical axis O.

This rotation is pressed into member 120 to be had: the rotating band 121 that makes sleeve pipe F rotation; Move up and down plate 124, it can move up and down, and moves up and down plate 124 driving pulley 122 and driven pulley 123 that this rotating band 121 is rotated are installed at this; And move up and down with cylinder 125, it makes this move up and down plate 124 to move up and down in the stroke range of regulation, and makes rotating band 121 be pressed against the sleeve pipe F brace table 51 from top.

Be formed with for avoiding and the notch part 124a of the interference of the camera lens terminal part 55a of barrel 55 moving up and down plate 124, this notch part 124a is towards lower opening.And then, move up and down plate 124 and be disposed at as upper/lower positions: camera lens terminal part 55a is configured under the state in notch part 124a, described in move up and down plate 124 and this camera lens terminal part 55a on a face roughly.Therefore, move up and down in the stroke of regulation even if move up and down plate 124, also can avoid camera lens terminal part 55a and this to move up and down the interference of plate 124.

Moving up and down the front surface by brace table 51 sides of plate 124, the mode of arranging on left and right directions L3 so that notch part 124a is clipped in the middle, disposes above-mentioned driving pulley 122 and driven pulley 123.Driving pulley 122 links with the output shaft of the CD-ROM drive motor 130 that is installed on the rear surface by barrel 55 sides that moves up and down plate 124.

That is, driving pulley 122 is installed on and moves up and down plate 124 via CD-ROM drive motor 130, and follows the driving of this CD-ROM drive motor 130 and rotate.In addition, CD-ROM drive motor 130 is by control part 7 control work.

On the other hand, driven pulley 123 is positioned at the height identical with driving pulley 122, and links via not shown axial region and the front surface that moves up and down plate 124, and is supported for and can rotates by this axial region.

Rotating band 121 is endless belts, and the mode being located between above-mentioned driving pulley 122 and driven pulley 123 with the tension bracket specifying is wound on two belt wheels 122,123.

Thus, rotating band 121 is followed the rotation of driving pulley 122 and is moved on left and right directions L3, can be being received under the state in slot part 75 this sleeve pipe F is rotated around optical axis O being supported on sleeve pipe F on brace table 51.

Move up and down with cylinder 125 be for example cylinder, have: the movable body 131 that can move up and down (can move back and forth) on above-below direction L1; And cylinder main body 132, it is supported for this movable body 131 mobile freely and to utilize the pressure of the air of supplying with that movable body 131 is moved up and down, and this moves up and down and is formed as slim box-shaped by cylinder 125 entirety.

Cylinder main body 132 makes movable body 131 under the state of front side, is installed to erect to be arranged on the vertical panel 133 that keeps platform 62.In addition, in cylinder main body 132, be provided with to two air supply joints 109 of the air of internal feed authorized pressure, can utilize the pressure of the air of any one supply from these two air supply joints 109 that movable body 131 is moved up and down.

That is, can, by from an air supply joint 109 to the interior air supply of cylinder main body 132, make movable body 131 increase, and can, by from another air supply joint 109 to the interior air supply of cylinder main body 132, movable body 131 be declined.

In addition, two air supply joints 109 link with not shown air hose, and never illustrated air-source is by this air hose air supply.

Movable body 131 is arranged on the rear surface that moves up and down plate 124.Thus, can make to move up and down plate 124 and follow moving up and down of movable body 131 and move up and down, thereby rotating band 121 can be pressed against to the sleeve pipe F brace table 51 from top, or rotating band 121 is kept out of the way upward and left from sleeve pipe F.

(casing recovery device)

As depicted in figs. 1 and 2, casing recovery device 5 is as lower device: it is by arm 160 for conveyance described later, the brace table 51 of processing place P3 from being positioned at is reclaimed to the sleeve pipe F of handing-over place P4 by conveyance, and sleeve pipe F is received in the some containing boxs 40 in 5 containing boxs 40.

This casing recovery device 5 has the case travel mechanism 42 that reclaims 41,5 containing boxs 40 of slideway and these 5 containing boxs 40 are moved.

Reclaim slideway 41 along left and right directions L3 configuration, and be configured under the state tilting at the upper surface with respect to base station 6.Particularly, be positioned at than the mode of the position of discharging the top side of end 41b to reclaim the recovery end 41a of slideway 41.Now, reclaiming slideway 41 is configured to reclaim end 41a and is positioned at above-mentioned handing-over place P4.Thus, reclaim slideway 41 and can reclaim end 41a to use arm 160 conveyances to reclaim to the sleeve pipe F of handing-over place P4 by conveyance after in utilization, utilize so that this sleeve pipe F slides into the mode of discharge end 41b and carry out this sleeve pipe of conveyance F.

5 containing boxs 40 are containers that have bottom tube-like of opening up, are disposed at the position on the lower than the discharge end 41b that reclaims slideway 41, and on fore-and-aft direction L2, are configured to row.

In illustrated example, for example configure successively the 1st containing box 40A(40 of the sleeve pipe F of storage good A grade best in quality towards rear side from front side), storage quality is inferior to the 2nd containing box 40B(40 of the sleeve pipe F of the colory B grade of A grade), storage quality is inferior to the 3rd containing box 40C(40 of the sleeve pipe F of the colory C grade of B grade), storage quality is inferior to the 4th containing box 40D(40 of the sleeve pipe F of the colory D grade of C grade), and storage quality is inferior to the 5th containing box 40E(40 of the sleeve pipe F of the colory E grade of D grade).

And these 5 containing boxs 40 are arranged on the moving body 44 moving along guide rail 43.

Guide rail 43 is fixed on the upper surface of base station 6, and extends along fore-and-aft direction L2.Moving body 44 can move back and forth on fore-and-aft direction L2 along guide rail 43 by not shown driving mechanism.Driving mechanism can be according to from the instruction of control part 7, moving body 44 suitably being moved on fore-and-aft direction L2, thus some containing boxs 40 are configured to the discharge end 41b that reclaims in slideway 41 under.

Thus, the sleeve pipe F of mutually the same quality can be received into each containing box 40.In addition, guide rail 43, moving body 44 and driving mechanism are brought into play function as above-mentioned case travel mechanism 42.

(sleeve pipe carrying device)

As shown in Fig. 1, Fig. 6 and Fig. 7, sleeve pipe carrying device 3 is unified devices for equidirectional conveyance to the 2 place P2 of sleeve pipe F that the outlet of the host body from sleeve pipe feedway 2 10 13 is sent here, sleeve pipe carrying device 3 has: conveyance passage 200, it is set to the 2nd place P2 from above-mentioned outlet 13 extensions that are positioned at the 1st place P1, and will be supplied to sleeve pipe F conveyance to the 2 place P2 of outlet 13; And attitude-adjusting system 201, it is arranged on the conveyance passage between the 1st place P1 and the 2nd place P2, differentiate sleeve pipe F in conveyance towards, and, according to its differentiate result adjust sleeve pipe F towards, unify be predetermined towards.

(conveyance passage)

Above-mentioned conveyance passage 200 has: the 1st conveyance passage 200A, and it forms by above-mentioned discharge pipe 14 with the connecting piece 205 that the terminal part of this discharge pipe 14 links; And the 2nd conveyance passage 200B, it receives the sleeve pipe F coming by the 1st conveyance passage 200A conveyance, and by its conveyance to the 2 place P2.

The conveyance direction upstream side of discharge pipe 14 is positioned at outlet 13, and this discharge pipe 14 is directed to connecting piece 205 by supply with the sleeve pipe F coming by this outlet 13.The state that connecting piece 205 tilts with upper surface with respect to base station 6 is configured, and in a part for the side face in its conveyance direction downstream, is formed with than the peristome 205a of the mode opening of the large circle of the profile of sleeve pipe F.

In addition as mentioned above, by discharge pipe 14 and connecting piece 205, play a role as the 1st conveyance passage 200A.

The 2nd conveyance passage 200B is the discharge slideway that conveyance direction upstream side is configured in the below of above-mentioned peristome 205a and conveyance direction downstream and is configured in the 2nd place P2, the following effect of the 2nd conveyance passage 200B performance: receiving sleeve pipe F from the 1st conveyance passage 200A by peristome 205a, making sleeve pipe F finally with lateral attitude conveyance to the 2 place P2.

(attitude-adjusting system)

Above-mentioned attitude-adjusting system 201 is arranged at the connecting piece 205 of the 1st conveyance passage 200A, has: stop wall 210, and it stops the next sleeve pipe F of conveyance and is positioned at peristome 205a; Mechanism for identifying 211, its differentiate the sleeve pipe F that stops because of stop wall 210 towards; And conveyance opening mechanism 212 again, the movement of the sleeve pipe F after its restricted passage peristome 205a, and, remove this restriction, utilize gravity that sleeve pipe F is connect and again starts conveyance to the 2nd conveyance passage 200B top-cross.

Stop wall 210 is set to seal connecting piece 205, has been formed centrally therein through hole 210a, and this through hole 210a is greater than the through hole F1 of sleeve pipe F and is less than the profile of sleeve pipe F.

Therefore,, as shown in Fig. 8 (a) and Fig. 8 (b), in the time that sleeve pipe F stops because of stop wall 210, can make to expose with an end face F2 of sleeve pipe F or the part of another end face F3 of stop wall 210 butts by through hole 210a.

As shown in Figure 6, mechanism for identifying 211 has: optical sensors 211a, its towards with end face (an end face F2 or another end face F3) the irradiating and detecting light K1 of the sleeve pipe F of stop wall 210 butts, and, detect the light quantity from the reverberation K2 of end face; And the 211b of discriminating direction portion, its according to the light quantity that detected by this optical sensors 211a differentiate sleeve pipe F towards.

The 211b of discriminating direction portion is assembled in control part described later 7 (with reference to Fig. 2), for example, compare by a reference value to predefined light quantity (threshold value) and the light quantity that detects, differentiate sleeve pipe F towards.

Particularly, as shown in Fig. 8 (a), in the case of the end face F2 and stop wall 210 butts of sleeve pipe F, become the state that the F4 of conical surface portion is exposed by through hole 210a.Therefore, detecting light K1 is not reflected efficiently.On the other hand, as shown in Fig. 8 (b), in the case of another end face F3 and stop wall 210 butts of sleeve pipe F, the face except through hole F1 nearly all exposes in the mode of stopping up through hole 210a, therefore, can reflect efficiently and detect light K1.

Therefore, the light quantity of reverberation K2 is according to an end face F2 and the situation of stop wall 210 butts and the situation of another end face F3 and stop wall 210 butts and different, by comparing with a reference value, can differentiate sleeve pipe F towards.

As shown in Figure 6 and Figure 7, above-mentioned conveyance again opening mechanism 212 possesses a pair of cylinder (support component in the present invention) 220, this conveyance again opening mechanism 212 is following mechanisms: its differentiation result according to mechanism for identifying 211 makes sleeve pipe F reversion or nonreversible, thus by unified sleeve pipe F to predetermined towards, and it is connect to the 2nd conveyance passage 200B top-cross.

In addition, in the present embodiment, predetermined towards refer to another end face F3 towards conveyance direction downstream, i.e. the attitude of the 2nd place P2 side.

A pair of cylinder 220 has respectively movable rod 220a and cylinder main body 220b, and movable rod 220a can move back and forth, and cylinder main body 220b is supported for this movable rod 220a to move freely, and, utilize the pressure of the air being supplied to that movable rod 220a is moved.

And this pair of cylinder 220 is configured to: move freely in the horizontal direction that movable rod 220a approach/leaves at the sleeve pipe F with respect to stopping because of stop wall 210, and be connected to respectively the both ends of sleeve pipe F by peristome 205a, from supported underneath sleeve pipe F.

Now, be configured near the movable rod 220a of the cylinder 220 at stop wall 210 places and be configured to, depart from from the imaginary plumb line Q of the position of centre of gravity G of the sleeve pipe F by stopping because of stop wall 210.

Cylinder main body 220b is by not shown supporting units support.And, in this cylinder main body 220b, be provided with to two air supply joints 109 of the air of internal feed authorized pressure, utilize the pressure of the air of any one supply from these two air supply joints 109, can make movable rod 220a move back and forth.

; by air supply in from an air supply joint 109 to cylinder main body 220b; can make movable rod 220a move and supporting sleeve F in the mode of extending; by air supply in from another air supply joint 109 to cylinder main body 220b, can make movable rod 220a move and leave from sleeve pipe F in the mode shortening.

In addition, two air supply joints 109 link with not shown air hose, and never illustrated air-source is by this air hose air supply.

And control part 7 is controlled as follows: it makes the movable rod 220a of a cylinder 220 leave from sleeve pipe F according to the differentiation result of mechanism for identifying 211, make thus sleeve pipe F reversion or nonreversible, and sleeve pipe F is connect to the 2nd conveyance passage 200B top-cross.

In addition, as depicted in figs. 1 and 2, the sleeve pipe carrying device 3 of present embodiment has: arm 160 for conveyance, it is after the sleeve pipe F receiving by the 2nd conveyance passage 200B conveyance to the 2 place P2, by its conveyance to being configured on the brace table 51 of sleeve pipe camera head 4 of processing place P3, and, after shooting finishes, by sleeve pipe F from brace table 51 conveyance to handing-over place P4; And arm travel mechanism 161, it moves this conveyance arm 160.

(conveyance arm)

Above-mentioned conveyance is to be that left and right directions L3(is along the conveyance passage that arrives handing-over place P4 from receiving place P1 through processing place P3 along the direction that connects the 2nd place P2, brace table 51 and handing-over place P4 with arm 160) arm of the long size of extending.At this arm 160 for conveyance, be formed with the 1st not shown maintaining part that keeps sleeve pipe F in the position corresponding with the 2nd place P2, and be formed with the 2nd not shown maintaining part that keeps sleeve pipe F in the position corresponding with brace table 51.

(arm travel mechanism)

Above-mentioned arm travel mechanism 161 has: what make that conveyance arm 160 moves back and forth along left and right directions L3 is mobile with cylinder 170; With the cylinder 180 for lifting that conveyance arm 160 is moved up and down.

In addition, these move with cylinder 170 and lifting cylinder 180 be for example cylinder, by the pressure of the air that is supplied to, conveyance arm 160 is moved.

And arm travel mechanism 161 receives and from the instruction of control part 7, these is moved suitably to work with cylinder 170 and lifting cylinder 180, conveyance arm 160 is moved up and down in moving back and forth along left and right directions L3.Thus, can utilize the 1st maintaining part by unified towards state under the sleeve pipe F conveyance of conveyance to the 2 place P2 to brace table 51, and, utilize the 2nd maintaining part by the sleeve pipe F conveyance on brace table 51 to handing-over place P4.

; the sleeve pipe carrying device 3 of present embodiment can unified sleeve pipe F towards state under by this sleeve pipe F conveyance to the 2 place P2, then, further utilize arm 160 for conveyance; by it from the 2nd place P2 conveyance to brace table 51, and from brace table 51 conveyances to handing-over place F4.

In addition, due to unified sleeve pipe F towards state under conveyance sleeve pipe F, therefore,, in the time that this sleeve pipe F is supported on brace table 51, an end face F2 side that can be made as this sleeve pipe F is the state towards shooting member 50 sides towards illuminator unit 52 sides, another end face F3 side.

(control part)

As shown in Figure 2, control part 7 is except such as not shown CPU(Central Processing Unit: central processing unit), RAM(Random Access Memory: random access memory), ROM(Read Only Memory: read-only storage), various interface etc., also there is recording medium 7a described later, the various programs that CPU records by suitable executive logging medium 7a, the above-mentioned various formation product of Comprehensive Control carry out the sorting operations of sleeve pipe F.

Particularly, control part 7 is for sleeve pipe carrying device 3, as an example of its action, for example make CPU read and executive logging medium 7a in the sleeve pipe conveyance program of the present invention of storing, carry out thus conveyance operation of the present invention described later, differentiate operation and attitude is adjusted operation.

In addition, sleeve pipe conveyance program is for making sleeve pipe carrying device 3 carry out the program of following operation: when utilizing conveyance passage 200 by the sleeve pipe F that is fed into the 1st place P1 during to the 2nd place P2 conveyance, differentiate sleeve pipe F towards, and according to its differentiate result adjust sleeve pipe F towards, unify for predetermined towards.This sleeve pipe conveyance program is recorded in the aforementioned recording medium 7a of embodied on computer readable.

In addition, " recording medium of embodied on computer readable " is for example the removable mediums such as floppy disk, photomagneto disk, CD-ROM and semiconductor memory, such as, such as, reads in via drive unit (CD-ROM drive unit etc.) or interface (USB interface etc.).

In addition, " recording medium of embodied on computer readable " is not limited to above-mentioned removable medium, can be to be also built in the storage parts such as the hard disk in computer system (referring to the system that comprises the hardware such as OS and ancillary equipment).

And " recording medium of embodied on computer readable " can also comprise following recording medium: the order wire as sent program via the communication line such as network or telephone line such as internet time, dynamically keep at short notice the recording medium of program; And as become the volatile memory of inside computer system of server now or client, keep within a certain period of time the recording medium of program.

In addition, the control part 7 of present embodiment is except having the above-mentioned discriminating direction 211b of portion, also there is quality judegment part 7b, this quality judegment part 7b measures axiality according to the photographed images of the sleeve pipe F sending from imaging apparatus 56, and according to this measurement result, the quality of sleeve pipe F is differentiated for these 5 stages of A grade～E grade.And control part 7 is controlled casing recovery device 5, make with the corresponding containing box 40 of the quality grade determining be positioned at reclaim slideway 41 under.Thus, sleeve pipe F can be received in the containing box corresponding with quality grade 40.

The effect > of < sleeve pipe sorter

Then, the effect of the sleeve pipe sorter 1 forming is as described above described.

In the present embodiment, to till according to quality grade to be housed in the sleeve pipe F of inside of host body 10 and classify and be received into the corresponding containing box 40 of quality grade in overall flow describe, and describe the effect associated with conveyance in detail especially.

First, as prior preparation, operating personnel is by the inside of as shown in Figure 2 multiple sleeve pipe F being rendered to host body 10, and not shown cover cap prevented on host body 10 to dust etc. is blended into inside.In addition, the multiple sleeve pipe F that throw in gather under the state of the most lower some side that focuses on the host body 10 tilting with respect to the upper surface of base station 6, and wherein 1 is received in housing recess 12a.

In addition, confirm following situation etc., thereby finish to prepare in advance: in 5 containing boxs 40, do not receive sleeve pipe F; The conveyance of sleeve pipe carrying device 3 is positioned at the 2nd place P2 by the 1st maintaining part of arm 160; Thereby moving up and down plate 124 is positioned at utmost lifting position rotating band 121 and significantly leaves and wait for towards the top of brace table 51.

After these prepare to finish in advance, operating personnel works control part 7.So the various programs that control part 7 records according to recording medium 7a start the work of each formation product.

First,, in sleeve pipe feedway 2, make as shown in Figure 4 the swivel plate 12 of the bottom wall part 10a that is configured in host body 10 rotate.Thus, can make to be accommodated in the rotation of the sleeve pipe F accompanying rotation plate 12 in housing recess 12a and move, can under the state that has only taken out 1 sleeve pipe F from multiple sleeve pipe F, this sleeve pipe F be moved upward.

Now, remaining sleeve pipe F wants the rotation of accompanying rotation plate 12 to be moved upward, but because swivel plate 12 tilts, therefore remaining sleeve pipe F can utilize the upper surface landing of gravity along this swivel plate 12.Therefore, can prevent the situation that unnecessary sleeve pipe F is also moved upward.The sleeve pipe F that therefore, can only make to be accommodated in housing recess 12a moves to outlet 13.

Consequently, can be according to certain time interval, sleeve pipe F stable and that only make to be reliably accommodated in housing recess 12a moves into place the outlet 13 in the 1st place P1 one by one, and passes out to discharge pipe 14 by outlet 13 with longitudinal attitude.And then the sleeve pipe F that is sent discharge pipe 14 is being undertaken after conveyance by the inside of this discharge pipe 14 and connecting piece 205, as shown in Figure 6, temporarily stops with stop wall 210 butts.Thus, sleeve pipe F is positioned at the part that is formed with peristome 205a of connecting piece 205.Now, due to conveyance again the movable rod 220a of a pair of cylinder 220 of opening mechanism 212 limited sleeve pipe F by the movement of peristome 205a, therefore, sleeve pipe F maintains the state that is positioned at peristome 205a.

As mentioned above, in the time that sleeve pipe F temporarily stops, optical sensors 211a is by the through hole 210a of stop wall 210, to the end face irradiating and detecting light K1 of the sleeve pipe F of stop wall 210 butts, and detect its reverberation K2.And then the 211b of discriminating direction portion is according to the light quantity of this reverberation K2, differentiate sleeve pipe F towards.That is, differentiate sleeve pipe F towards be as shown in Figure 8 (a) such end face F2 and stop wall 210 butts towards, still as shown in Figure 8 (b) shows such another end face F3 and stop wall 210 butts towards.

Differentiating while finishing, above-mentioned restriction is removed in conveyance again opening mechanism 212, by peristome 205a, sleeve pipe F is connect and again starts conveyance to the 2nd conveyance passage 200B top-cross.Now, conveyance again opening mechanism 212 makes sleeve pipe F reversion or nonreversible according to the differentiation result of mechanism for identifying 211, thus, by unified sleeve pipe F to predetermined towards, carry out to the handing-over of the 2nd conveyance passage 200B.

Describe this point in detail.

According to the differentiation result of mechanism for identifying 211, in the case of being oriented the state shown in Fig. 8 (b) of sleeve pipe, because this sleeve pipe F is towards the direction of expecting, therefore, make the movable rod 220a shortening near the cylinder 220 of stop wall 210 sides, this movable rod 220a is left from sleeve pipe F.Thus, as shown in Figure 9, can under the state that does not make sleeve pipe F reversion, (nonreversible) be handed off to the 2nd conveyance passage 200B, with another end face F3 side of stop wall 210 butts under the state in conveyance direction downstream, again start conveyance.

On the other hand, according to the differentiation result of mechanism for identifying 211, in the case of being oriented the state shown in Fig. 8 (a) of sleeve pipe F, due to this sleeve pipe F towards with the direction of opposite direction of expecting, therefore, make the movable rod 220a shortening away from the cylinder 220 of stop wall 210 sides, this movable rod 220a is left from sleeve pipe F.Thus, as shown in figure 10, can make sleeve pipe F reversion while be handed off to the 2nd conveyance passage 200B, with another end face F3 side contrary with stop wall 210 butt sides under the state in conveyance direction downstream, again start conveyance.

Like this, at every turn can both by sleeve pipe F unified to predetermined towards state under, by the 2nd conveyance passage 200B by sleeve pipe F conveyance to the 2 place P2.

In addition, as shown in Figure 2, conveyance is waited at the 2nd place P2 by the 1st maintaining part of arm 160.Therefore, with unified towards the state sleeve pipe F that is fed into the 2nd place P2 kept by the 1st maintaining part.Then,, in the time that sleeve pipe F is kept, arm travel mechanism 161 moves along left and right directions L3 after making conveyance arm 160 increase, and makes the 1st maintaining part be positioned at the top of brace table 51.

Then, arm travel mechanism 161 declines conveyance arm 160, makes this conveyance arm 160 on one side by between the 1st brace table 51A and the 2nd brace table 51B, as shown in Figure 5 on one side, handing-over, by the sleeve pipe F of the 1st maintaining part maintenance, is received into the slot part 75 of two brace table 51A, 51B.Thus, complete the conveyance of sleeve pipe F from the 2nd place P2 to brace table 51.

After sleeve pipe F completes to the conveyance of brace table 51, arm travel mechanism 161 make conveyance with arm 160 under the state in equal height to the 2nd place P2 side shifting, temporarily wait in original position.Thus, conveyance by the 1st maintaining part of arm 160 in again returning to the state of the 2nd place P2, for next sleeve pipe F prepares.In addition, about the 2nd maintaining part, become at the state of waiting for than the slot part 75 of two brace table 51A, 51B position on the lower.

After sleeve pipe F is placed on brace table 51, the shooting that sleeve pipe camera head 4 starts sleeve pipe F obtains photographed images.

Particularly, being pressed into member 120 by rotation is pressed into this rotation by sleeve pipe F and is pressed between member 120 and brace table 51, and sleeve pipe F is rotated around optical axis O, in the time that it rotates, as shown in Figure 1, using the illumination light of irradiating from illuminator unit 52 as (back) backlight, obtain the photographed images of several sleeve pipes F by shooting member 50.

And after the shooting of sleeve pipe F finishes, the photographed images being obtained outputs to control part 7.So the quality judegment part 7b of control part 7 measures axiality according to the photographed images sending, and according to its measurement result, the quality grade of sleeve pipe F is categorized into these 5 stages of A grade～E grade.And, control part 7 control cabinet travel mechanisms 42, containing box 40 corresponding to quality grade that makes to classify with this be positioned at reclaim slideway 41 recovery end 41a under.

Thus, for example, if the quality grade of sleeve pipe F is the situation of C grade, can be as shown in Figure 2, the 3rd containing box 40C(40 that C grade is used) be placed into reclaim slideway 41 recovery end 41a under.

On the other hand, during the shooting of carrying out sleeve pipe F in, sleeve pipe carrying device 3 is supplied with next sleeve pipe F to the conveyance in the 2nd place P2 standby by the 1st maintaining part of arm 160.Thus, the 1st maintaining part becomes the state that is keeping next sleeve pipe F.

And after the shooting of sleeve pipe F finishes, arm travel mechanism 161 rises conveyance arm 160.Thus, make the sleeve pipe F being kept by the 1st maintaining part increase from the 2nd place P2, and, after receiving the sleeve pipe F on brace table 51 by the 2nd maintaining part and keeping, make sleeve pipe F increase.And then arm travel mechanism 161 makes conveyance arm 160 move along left and right directions L3 again, make the 1st maintaining part be positioned at the top of brace table 51, and, make the 2nd maintaining part be positioned at the top of the recovery end 41a of the recovery slideway 41 in handing-over place P4.

Then, arm travel mechanism 161 declines conveyance arm 160.Thus, can join as described above the sleeve pipe F(sleeve pipe F that then will make a video recording being kept by the 1st maintaining part) to be received into the slot part 75 of two brace table 51A, 51B, and sleeve pipe F after the sleeve pipe F(being kept by the 2nd maintaining part can make a video recording) be handed off to recovery slideway 41.

Like this, by 1 arm 160 for conveyance, can carry out simultaneously the conveyance from the 2nd place P2 to brace table 51 of sleeve pipe F and sleeve pipe F from brace table 51 to the conveyance of recovery slideway 41 that is positioned at handing-over place P4.

In addition, after above-mentioned conveyance completes, arm travel mechanism 161 make conveyance with arm 160 under the state in equal height to the 2nd place P2 side shifting, temporarily wait in original position.Thus, conveyance becomes by the 1st maintaining part and the 2nd maintaining part of arm 160 state that again returns to respectively the 2nd place P2 and brace table 51, for next sleeve pipe F prepares.Then, repeatedly carry out above-mentioned conveyance.

In addition, be handed off to the sleeve pipe F that reclaims slideway 41 towards discharging end 41b side to move in the mode that reclaims slideway 41 landings, thus be received under in the containing box 40 corresponding with quality grade waited for.

As described above, according to the sleeve pipe sorter 1 of present embodiment, can make a video recording one by one to multiple sleeve pipe F, and carry out the axiality mensuration (quality inspection) of sleeve pipe F according to its photographed images, classify according to quality grade, and be accommodated in special containing box 40.

Thus, operating personnel can easily concentrate the sleeve pipe F of same quality, can carry out using with the differentiation of the corresponding sleeve pipe F of quality grade.Therefore, except easy use and convenience good, can also make sleeve pipe F possess high additive value.

Particularly, according to the sleeve pipe carrying device 3 of present embodiment, can also function as follows effect.

; utilizing the conveyance passage 200 being formed by the 1st conveyance passage 200A and the 2nd conveyance passage 200B; from the 1st place P1 conveyance to the 2 place P2(conveyance operation of the present invention) way; attitude-adjusting system 201 can differentiate sleeve pipe F towards (differentiation operation of the present invention), and according to its differentiate result adjust sleeve pipe F towards (attitude adjustment operation of the present invention).Therefore, no matter with which kind of attitude, sleeve pipe F is supplied to the 1st place P1 from sleeve pipe feedway 2, at every turn can both by sleeve pipe F unified to predetermined towards state under, by sleeve pipe F conveyance to the 2 place P2.

Therefore, by utilize conveyance arm 160 by sleeve pipe F from the 2nd place P2 conveyance to brace table 51, can reliably another end face F3 side be made as to the state towards shooting member 50 sides, thereby can obtain the photographed images of expectation.The axiality of consequently, easily carrying out accurately sleeve pipe F is measured.

In addition, determine sleeve pipe F towards rear, the sleeve pipe F reversion that makes temporarily to stop or nonreversible, and sleeve pipe F being connect to the 2nd conveyance passage 200B top-cross by peristome 205a, only by so easy action, just can unify sleeve pipe F towards.

That is, only by the suitable easy structure of the movable rod 220a of mobile a pair of cylinder 220, just can unify reliably sleeve pipe F towards.Therefore, do not need complicated mechanism (such as revolving actuator etc.), only by the easy structure that movable rod 220a is moved back and forth, simplification that can implementation structure, and easily realize cost.

In addition, differentiate sleeve pipe F towards time, under the state that sleeve pipe F is temporarily stopped by stop wall 210, differentiate, therefore easily differentiate accurately towards.

Particularly, the in the situation that of above-mentioned embodiment, according to the light quantity of reverberation K2 differentiate towards.The difference of the end surface shape of sleeve pipe F easily shows in the light quantity of reverberation K2, therefore, easily differentiate accurately sleeve pipe F towards.And, can with cordless differentiate towards, therefore can differentiate rapidly and efficiently operation, and be not easy to damage sleeve pipe F.Therefore, can further improve conveyance efficiency, and easily maintain the quality of sleeve pipe F.

In addition, technical scope of the present invention is not limited to above-mentioned embodiment, not departing from the scope of purport of the present invention, can apply various changes.

For example, in the sleeve pipe sorter 1 of above-mentioned embodiment, possess 5 containing boxs 40, the quality grade of sleeve pipe F was categorized into after 5 stages, be received in some containing boxs 40, but be not limited to this situation.For example, can be for being categorized as 2～4 stages or 6 more than the stage.In this case, prepare containing box 40 according to classification quantity.

In addition, sleeve pipe feedway 2, sleeve pipe carrying device 3 and casing recovery device 5 are examples, are not limited to said structure.

In addition, in the sleeve pipe camera head 4 of above-mentioned embodiment, be formed as possessing rotation and be pressed into the structure of member 120, but that this rotation is pressed into member 120 is optional, also can possess this rotation and be pressed into member 120.

But, be pressed into member 120 by thering is rotation, can make sleeve pipe F around optical axis O rotation while obtain several photographed images, therefore, for example can calculate according to each photographed images the central point of sleeve pipe F, and the rotational trajectory of the central point calculating according to these, carry out more high-precision coaxial degree and measure.In this, preferably possess described rotation and be pressed into member 120.

In addition, in the sleeve pipe carrying device 3 of above-mentioned embodiment, utilize a pair of cylinder 220, suitably make sleeve pipe F reversion or nonreversible, and be handed off to the 2nd conveyance passage 200B side, thus unified sleeve pipe F towards, but be not limited to this situation.

For example, also can be as Figure 11 and as shown in Figure 12, utilize 1 cylinder 220 unify sleeve pipe F towards.Cylinder 220 in this situation is for example formed as: movable rod 220a bending is 90 degree roughly, and moves freely on the length direction of this sleeve pipe F along sleeve pipe F.

Therefore, can make movable rod 220a and stop wall 210 be toward or away from, thereby can play the action effect identical with above-mentioned embodiment.In addition, in this case, only need possess 1 cylinder 220, therefore further simplified structure.

In addition, be not limited to utilize the situation of cylinder 220, also can utilize and for example open and close a pair of paddle member freely, make sleeve pipe F reversion or nonreversible, or to the sleeve pipe F blow air temporarily stopping because of stop wall 210, make this sleeve pipe F reversion or nonreversible by suitably.

In any case, if differentiate sleeve pipe F towards rear, by sleeve pipe F towards adjust unified for predetermined towards.

Claims (7)

1. a sleeve pipe carrying device, is characterized in that,

This sleeve pipe carrying device has:

Conveyance passage, it extends and is set to the 2nd place from the 1st place, and the sleeve pipe conveyance that is fed into described the 1st place is arrived to described the 2nd place; And

Attitude-adjusting system, it is arranged on the conveyance passage between described the 1st place and described the 2nd place, differentiate described sleeve pipe in conveyance towards, and according to its differentiate result adjust described sleeve pipe towards, thereby by unified described sleeve pipe for predetermined towards.

2. sleeve pipe carrying device according to claim 1, is characterized in that,

Described conveyance passage has:

The 1st conveyance passage, its conveyance direction upstream side is configured in described the 1st place, and, be formed with peristome in the conveyance direction downstream of the 1st conveyance passage; And

The 2nd conveyance passage, it is configured to receive described sleeve pipe by described peristome from described the 1st conveyance passage, and the conveyance direction downstream of described the 2nd conveyance passage is configured in described the 2nd place,

Described attitude-adjusting system has:

Stop wall, it is arranged at described the 1st conveyance passage, and the described sleeve pipe that conveyance is come stops and being positioned at described peristome;

Mechanism for identifying, its differentiate the described sleeve pipe that stops because of described stop wall towards; And

Conveyance is opening mechanism again, and it limits the movement of passing through described peristome of described sleeve pipe, and, remove this restriction, described sleeve pipe is started to conveyance again to described the 2nd conveyance channel side handing-over,

Described conveyance again opening mechanism, according to the differentiation result of described mechanism for identifying, makes described sleeve pipe reversion or nonreversible, thus by unified this sleeve pipe for predetermined towards and to described the 2nd conveyance channel side handing-over.

3. sleeve pipe carrying device according to claim 2, is characterized in that,

Described conveyance again opening mechanism has:

A pair of support component, it moves up freely in the side of approach/leaving with respect to the described sleeve pipe stopping because of described stop wall, supports this sleeve pipe respectively by described peristome with the both ends butt of described sleeve pipe; And

Control part, it controls the action of described a pair of support component,

Described control part, according to the differentiation result of described mechanism for identifying, makes a support component in described a pair of support component leave from described sleeve pipe, thus described sleeve pipe is joined to described the 2nd conveyance channel side.

4. sleeve pipe carrying device according to claim 2, is characterized in that,

Described conveyance again opening mechanism has:

Support component, it is configured in the gravity direction side of the described sleeve pipe stopping because of described stop wall, and moves freely on the length direction of described sleeve pipe, and supports this sleeve pipe by described peristome and described sleeve pipe butt; And

Control part, it controls the action of described support component,

Described control part, according to the differentiation result of described mechanism for identifying, makes described support component move to some end side of described sleeve pipe, thus described sleeve pipe is joined to described the 2nd conveyance channel side.

5. according to the sleeve pipe carrying device described in any one in claim 2～4, it is characterized in that,

Described mechanism for identifying to the end face irradiating and detecting light of the described sleeve pipe of described stop wall butt, and according to differentiate from the catoptrical light quantity of described end face described sleeve pipe towards.

6. a sleeve pipe sorter, is characterized in that,

Described sleeve pipe sorter has:

Sleeve pipe carrying device claimed in claim 1;

Sleeve pipe feedway, it has the host body of accommodating multiple described sleeve pipes, and from this host body, described sleeve pipe is passed out to described the 1st place one by one;

Sleeve pipe camera head, its described sleeve pipe of processing place to being fed into is made a video recording; And

Casing recovery device, it to reclaiming to the described sleeve pipe in handing-over place from described processing place conveyance, and is received into the some packaging containers in multiple packaging containers by described sleeve pipe after shooting finishes,

Described sleeve pipe carrying device has:

Conveyance arm, it extends along the conveyance passage that arrives described handing-over place through described processing place from described the 2nd place; With

Arm travel mechanism, it makes described conveyance arm move along described conveyance passage,

Described casing recovery device, according to the photographed images of described sleeve pipe camera head, is classified to described sleeve pipe according to multiple quality grades, and the described sleeve pipe of same quality grade is received in same described packaging container.

7. a sleeve pipe transport method, it is the sleeve pipe transport method that has utilized sleeve pipe carrying device claimed in claim 1, it is characterized in that,

Utilize described conveyance passage by the described sleeve pipe conveyance that is fed into described the 1st place in the conveyance operation in described the 2nd place, carry out following operation:

Differentiate operation, differentiate described sleeve pipe towards; And

Attitude is adjusted operation, according to the differentiation result of described differentiation operation, thereby adjust described sleeve pipe towards by unified described sleeve pipe for predetermined towards.