CN104416349A - Automatic compensation detection device and method - Google Patents

Automatic compensation detection device and method Download PDF

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CN104416349A
CN104416349A CN201310382543.XA CN201310382543A CN104416349A CN 104416349 A CN104416349 A CN 104416349A CN 201310382543 A CN201310382543 A CN 201310382543A CN 104416349 A CN104416349 A CN 104416349A
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许玉佩
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Abstract

The invention discloses an automatic compensation detection device and an automatic compensation detection method using the automatic compensation detection device. The automatic compensation detection device is used for compensation detection of upper rings of cutters and comprises a placing platform used for placing cutters, a drive mechanism capable of driving the placing platform to rotate along the axis perpendicular to the plane where the placing platform is located, a CCD (Charge Coupled Device) image system used for measuring the cutters, a colloidal particle conveying system capable of conveying colloidal particles to be above the cutters, a colloidal particle downwards pressing system used for downwards pressing the colloidal particles onto the cutters, a computers used for computing and control, and a jacking system used for upwards jacking the cutters to the appointed positions according to the computing result of the computer. The automatic compensation detection device and method replace the traditional manual operation mode, greatly improve the work efficiency, and make the detection accuracy higher by being additionally provided with the CCD image system.

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Auto-compensation checkout gear and automatic compensation detecting method
Technical field
The present invention relates to a kind of on automatically in ring apparatus automatically pressed on ring compensate the device and method detecting tool length, particularly relate to and a kind ofly on single transfer path, set up a streamline to carry out the inspected device and method of transmission cutter.
Background technology
Usually, will take out operations such as carrying out pressed on ring, depth compensation and the detection of cutter footpath from cutter box after new cutter (as drill bit etc.) buys, completing above a few procedure is traditionally all adopt the artificial compacting one by one of special instrument to complete.
But employing manual operation, production efficiency is lower, and accuracy of detection is also poor.
Summary of the invention
The object of the present invention is to provide a kind of auto-compensation checkout gear, its operating efficiency is high, and accuracy of detection is also high.
For realizing above goal of the invention, the present invention adopts following technical scheme: a kind of auto-compensation checkout gear, compensate for cutter pressed on ring and detect, described auto-compensation checkout gear comprises puts material platform in order to arrangement of tool, can drive and put material platform along the driving mechanism rotated perpendicular to the axis putting material platform place plane, in order to measure the CCD image system of cutter, micelle induction system can be carried directly over micelle to cutter, press down colloidal system in order to press on cutter by micelle, computer is in order to calculate and to control, and upper top system in order to according to calculation by computer upwards jack-up cutter to assigned address.
As a further improvement on the present invention, described micelle induction system comprise load micelle vibrating disk, limit micelle conveying track track and drive micelle along rail moving to cutter directly over cylinder.
As a further improvement on the present invention, described in put material platform rounded, described cutter is along the circumferential direction uniformly distributed.
As a further improvement on the present invention, described auto-compensation checkout gear comprises the tool magazine of placement cutter to be detected further and in tool magazine, takes out cutter and be installed to the manipulator put material platform.
As a further improvement on the present invention, described upper top system comprise servomotor, can by the screw mandrel of driven by servomotor, be arranged at the feed screw nut on screw mandrel and be arranged on the upper top axis of guide on feed screw nut.
The present invention also aims to provide a kind of automatic compensation detecting method, its operating efficiency is high, and accuracy of detection is also high.
For realizing above goal of the invention, the present invention adopts following technical scheme: a kind of automatic compensation detecting method, and compensate for cutter pressed on ring and detect, described automatic compensation detecting method comprises:
There is provided and put material platform, described cutter is placed on to be put on material platform;
There is provided driving mechanism, described driving mechanism can drive puts material platform edge perpendicular to the axis rotation of putting material platform place plane;
There is provided CCD image system, described CCD image system is in order to measure cutter, and described driving mechanism drives to put expects that cutter is sent in the measurable angular field of view of CCD image system by platform;
There is provided computer, described computer is in order to calculate and to control;
There is provided micelle induction system, directly over described micelle induction system conveying micelle to cutter;
There is provided and press down colloidal system, described in press down colloidal system micelle pressed on cutter, CCD image system image data passes to computer; And
Top system is provided, described upper top system in order to according to calculation by computer upwards jack-up cutter to assigned address.
As a further improvement on the present invention, described CCD image system again scans cutter and after confirmation cutter reaches compensated position, presses down colloidal system and get back to initial position.
As a further improvement on the present invention, driving mechanism drives and puts material platform by cutter rotation to next station.
As a further improvement on the present invention, described micelle induction system comprises the vibrating disk loading micelle, the track limiting micelle conveying track and cylinder, described vibrating disk transports micelle in track, afterwards described air cylinder driven micelle along rail moving to cutter directly over.
As a further improvement on the present invention, described automatic compensation detecting method comprises further: provide the tool magazine and manipulator of placing cutter to be detected, and described manipulator takes out cutter and is installed to and puts material platform in tool magazine.
Compared to prior art, auto-compensation checkout gear of the present invention and use the automatic compensation detecting method of this device to adopt automatic assembly line pattern to instead of artificial mode, thus improve operating efficiency, use CCD image system that accuracy of detection is also enhanced simultaneously.
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Fig. 1 is the stereogram of auto-compensation checkout gear of the present invention.
Fig. 2 is the right view of the auto-compensation checkout gear shown in Fig. 1.
Fig. 3 is the front view of the auto-compensation checkout gear shown in Fig. 1.
Fig. 4 is the left view of the auto-compensation checkout gear shown in Fig. 1.
Fig. 5 is the top view of the auto-compensation checkout gear shown in Fig. 1.
Detailed description of the invention
As shown in Figures 1 to 5, auto-compensation checkout gear 100 of the present invention compensates detection for the pressed on ring of cutter 200.Described auto-compensation checkout gear 100 comprises expects platform 10 in order to putting of arrangement of tool 200, can drive and put material platform 10 along the driving mechanism 20 rotated perpendicular to the axis putting material platform 10 place plane, in order to the CCD(Charge-coupled Device of the external diameter value and offset of measuring cutter 200, charge coupled cell) image system 30, micelle induction system 40 can be carried directly over micelle 41 to cutter 200, press down colloidal system 50 in order to press on cutter 200 by micelle 41, computer (not shown) is in order to calculate and to control, upper top system 60 is in order to according to calculation by computer upwards jack-up cutter 200 to assigned address.Described auto-compensation checkout gear 100 is also provided with to place the tool magazine (not shown) of cutter 200 to be detected further and in tool magazine, takes out cutter 200 and be installed to the manipulator put material platform 10.In the present invention, the cutter 200 of indication is the to be measured or inspected object on pressed on ring cutter apparatus, and this to be measured or inspected object comprises the drill and milling cutter that PCB rig and gong machine use, can as the cutter use of boring or milling in PCB boring running.
Describedly put material platform 10 horizontal positioned, described in put the circular in cross-section of material platform 10, described cutter 200 is uniformly distributed along the circumferencial direction putting material platform 10, thus puts material platform 10 and change different cutters 200 detect by rotating.Described put material platform 10 be circumferentially evenly distributed with some erecting beds 11, each erecting bed 11 is provided with the opening for holding cutter 12 of mounting cutter 200, the cutter 200 in described manipulator gripping tool magazine cutter 200 is put in opening for holding cutter 12.Described cutter 200 is put on material platform 10 along being placed on perpendicular to horizontal direction.
Described driving mechanism 20 is for being arranged on the servo-actuating device put below material platform 10, described driving mechanism 20 drives to put expects that platform 10 rotates along perpendicular to the axis putting material platform 10 place plane, on the one hand to be transported in the angular field of view measured of CCD image system 30 by cutter 200 to be measured, the replacing of cutter 200 to be measured can be realized on the other hand.
Described CCD image system 30 comprises the CCD31 of the data of scanning collection cutter 200 to be measured.With rotary putting, described CCD image system 30 expects that platform 10 combines to realize pressed on ring to cutter 200, depth compensation and cutter footpath and detects.The external diameter value of cutter 200 and offset all by computer to CCD31 scanning collection to data carry out computing and draw.
Described micelle induction system 40 comprise load micelle 41 vibrating disk 42, limit micelle 41 and carry the track 43 of track and drive micelle 41 to move to cylinder 44 directly over cutter 200 along track 43, described cylinder 44 comprises cylinder push-rod 440.After described cutter 200 is transported to appointed area (CCD image system 30 can be measured in angular field of view), micelle 41 pushes in the track 43 of transport micelle 41 by described vibrating disk 42, is pushed to directly over cutter 200 by micelle 41 by cylinder push-rod 440 by cylinder 44.
The described pressing element 52 pressing down colloidal system 50 and comprise lower air cylinder 51 and be connected with lower air cylinder 51.Micelle 41 pushed to cutter 200 after, described lower air cylinder 51 drives pressing element 52 to press on cutter 200 by micelle 41, now CCD31 scanning collection data.
Described upper top system 60 comprises servomotor 64, the screw mandrel 61 that can be driven by servomotor 64, is arranged at the feed screw nut 62 on screw mandrel 61 and is arranged on the upper top axis of guide 63 on feed screw nut 62, and described upper top system 60 is positioned at immediately below cutter 200.Computer to CCD31 scanning collection to data carry out computing and draw external diameter value and offset, after drawing offset, computer sends instruction to servomotor 64 again, servomotor 64 rotates and drives the feed screw nut 62 upwards ejection on screw mandrel 61, and the upper top axis of guide 63 promotes cutter 200 to assigned address under the promotion of feed screw nut 62.After shifting assigned address onto, after CCD31 again scans and confirms that offset is correct, lower air cylinder 51 drives pressing element 52 to unclamp micelle 41 and rises to topmost, screw mandrel 61 drives the upper top axis of guide 63 on feed screw nut 62 to get back to original position, and driving mechanism 20 drives to be put material platform 10 and cutter 200 is rotated the region left immediately below lower air cylinder 51 to next station.Be connected step cycle subsequently to implement.
Described automatic compensation detecting method comprises:
There is provided and put material platform 10, described cutter 200 is placed on to be put on material platform 10;
There is provided driving mechanism 20, described driving mechanism 20 can drive to put expects that platform 10 rotates along perpendicular to the axis putting material platform 10 place plane;
There is provided CCD image system 30, described CCD image system 30 is in order to measure cutter;
There is provided computer, described computer is in order to calculate and to control;
There is provided micelle induction system 40, described micelle induction system 40 is carried directly over micelle 41 to cutter 200;
There is provided and press down colloidal system 50, described driving mechanism 20 drives to be put material platform 10 and to be sent to by cutter 200 in the measurable angular field of view of CCD31 and to be positioned at and press down immediately below colloidal system 50, micelle 41 presses on cutter 200 by the described colloidal system 50 that presses down, and CCD image system 30 image data also passes to computer; And
There is provided top system 60, described upper top system 60 is in order to according to calculation by computer upwards jack-up cutter 200 to assigned address.
Described CCD image system 30 again scans cutter 200 and after confirmation cutter 200 reaches compensated position, presses down colloidal system 50 and get back to initial position.
Described driving mechanism 20 drives to put expects that cutter 200 rotates to next station by platform 10.
Described automatic compensation detecting method comprises further: provide the tool magazine and manipulator of placing cutter 200 to be detected, and described manipulator takes out cutter 200 and is installed to and puts material platform 10 in tool magazine.
Compared to prior art, auto-compensation checkout gear 100 of the present invention and automatic compensation detecting method instead of traditional manual operation pattern, operating efficiency is had and significantly promotes, and add CCD image system 30 simultaneously and also make accuracy of detection higher.
In sum, these are only preferred embodiment of the present invention, should not limit the scope of the invention with this, namely every simple equivalence done according to claims of the present invention and description of the invention content changes and modifies, and all should still remain within the scope of the patent.

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1. an auto-compensation checkout gear, compensate for cutter pressed on ring and detect, it is characterized in that: described auto-compensation checkout gear comprise in order to arrangement of tool put material platform, can drive put material platform along the driving mechanism rotated perpendicular to the axis putting material platform place plane, in order to measure the CCD image system of cutter, micelle induction system can be carried directly over micelle to cutter, press down colloidal system in order to micelle is pressed on cutter, computer in order to calculate and control and upper top system in order to according to calculation by computer upwards jack-up cutter to assigned address.
2. auto-compensation checkout gear as claimed in claim 1, is characterized in that: described micelle induction system comprise the vibrating disk loading micelle, the track limiting micelle conveying track and drive micelle along rail moving to cutter directly over cylinder.
3. auto-compensation checkout gear as claimed in claim 1, is characterized in that: described in put material platform rounded, described cutter is along the circumferential direction uniformly distributed.
4. auto-compensation checkout gear as claimed in claim 3, is characterized in that: described auto-compensation checkout gear comprises the tool magazine of placement cutter to be detected further and in tool magazine, takes out cutter and be installed to the manipulator put material platform.
5. auto-compensation checkout gear as claimed in claim 1, is characterized in that: described upper top system comprise servomotor, can by the screw mandrel of driven by servomotor, be arranged at the feed screw nut on screw mandrel and be arranged on the upper top axis of guide on feed screw nut.
6. an automatic compensation detecting method, compensate for cutter pressed on ring and detect, described automatic compensation detecting method comprises:
There is provided and put material platform, described cutter is placed on to be put on material platform;
There is provided driving mechanism, described driving mechanism can drive puts material platform edge perpendicular to the axis rotation of putting material platform place plane;
There is provided CCD image system, described CCD image system is in order to measure cutter, and described driving mechanism drives to put expects that cutter is sent in the measurable angular field of view of CCD image system by platform;
There is provided computer, described computer is in order to calculate and to control;
There is provided micelle induction system, directly over described micelle induction system conveying micelle to cutter;
There is provided and press down colloidal system, described in press down colloidal system micelle pressed on cutter, CCD image system image data passes to computer; And
Top system is provided, described upper top system in order to according to calculation by computer upwards jack-up cutter to assigned address.
7. automatic compensation detecting method as claimed in claim 6, is characterized in that: described CCD image system again scans cutter and after confirmation cutter reaches compensated position, presses down colloidal system and get back to initial position.
8. automatic compensation detecting method as claimed in claim 7, is characterized in that: driving mechanism drives puts material platform by cutter rotation to next station.
9. automatic compensation detecting method as claimed in claim 6, it is characterized in that: described micelle induction system comprises the vibrating disk loading micelle, the track limiting micelle conveying track and cylinder, described vibrating disk transports micelle in track, afterwards described air cylinder driven micelle along rail moving to cutter directly over.
10. automatic compensation detecting method as claimed in claim 9, it is characterized in that: described automatic compensation detecting method comprises further: provide the tool magazine and manipulator of placing cutter to be detected, described manipulator takes out cutter and is installed to and puts material platform in tool magazine.
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