CN104925519A - Automatic feeding machine and feeding method thereof - Google Patents

Abstract

An automatic feeding machine comprises a turntable mechanism, an absorbing mechanism and a lifting mechanism located between the turntable mechanism and the absorbing mechanism, wherein the turntable mechanism comprises a turntable and at least two placing devices arranged on the periphery of the turntable and used for placing materials, hole structures are arranged at the bottoms of the placing devices, the lifting mechanism comprises a lifting frame for lifting the materials upwards from the hole structures at the bottoms of the placing devices, the absorbing mechanism comprises a sucker, and the sucker can move to the position above the placing device on the side of the lifting mechanism through program control to absorb the materials; the problem that prior art material loading efficiency is low, make mistakes easily can effectively be solved to this application.

Description

A kind of automatic feeding machine and feeding method thereof

technical field

The application relates to the field of automation, in particular to an automatic feeding machine and a feeding method thereof.

Background technique

For some shape-specific components, such as metal middle frames and metal back covers used in mobile phones, tablet computers, smart watches and other wearable devices, usually after forming rough blanks by forging or die-casting, it is necessary to Perform other machining processes such as cutting, injection molding, mounting nuts and other components.

The middle frame and the metal back cover generally have a roughly rectangular parallelepiped structure with a relatively thin thickness. The traditional feeding method generally puts the rough product into the processing jig manually by the operator. This method is inefficient and wastes a lot of labor costs , and manual operation is prone to errors, which will further reduce the processing efficiency.

Description of drawings

Fig. 1 is the perspective view of the automatic feeding machine of the present application;

Fig. 2 is a three-dimensional combination diagram of the automatic feeding machine turntable and lifting mechanism of the present application;

Fig. 3 is another perspective view of the automatic feeding machine of the present application;

Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the lifting mechanism of the automatic loading machine of the present application.

Contents of the invention

The purpose of the present application is to provide an automatic feeding machine and a feeding method thereof that can improve feeding efficiency and reduce erroneous operations.

To this end, the application provides an automatic feeding machine, including a turntable mechanism, a suction mechanism, and a lifting mechanism between the turntable mechanism and the suction mechanism, the turntable mechanism includes a turntable, and At least two placement devices for placing materials, the bottom of the placement devices is provided with a hole structure, and the lifting mechanism includes a lifting frame for lifting the materials upward from the hole structure at the bottom of the placement device. The suction mechanism includes a suction cup, and the suction cup can be moved to the top of the placement device on the side of the lifting mechanism to suck materials through program control. After the suction mechanism sucks a material, the lifting mechanism lifts the material upward according to the program. A predetermined distance, after the turntable mechanism has sucked the materials in the placement device near the lifting mechanism side, the rotating turntable will rotate another placement device filled with materials by the operator to the side of the lifting mechanism.

For this reason, the application also provides a kind of feeding method of automatic feeding machine, comprises the steps:

Step 1. The operator loads some materials on several placement devices of the turntable, and the turntable automatically rotates the placement devices filled with materials in the middle frame of the mobile phone to the position corresponding to the lifting mechanism;

Step 2, the suction mechanism is provided with a suction cup, and the suction cup is driven by program control and moved to the top of the placement device on the side of the lifting mechanism to suck materials;

Step 3. After each material is sucked by the suction mechanism, the lifting mechanism automatically lifts the material in the placement device by a predetermined distance, and the predetermined distance is equal to the thickness of one material;

Step 4. The suction mechanism moves the sucked material to the jig for processing the material and then moves to the top of the placing device to absorb the material. When the material of the placing device on the side of the lifting mechanism is At zero time, the turntable rotates, and the next placement device filled with materials rotates to the side of the lifting mechanism.

Compared with the prior art, the present application uses an automatic feeding machine and its feeding method to rotate a number of placing devices loaded with materials on it to the side of the lifting mechanism through the turntable mechanism, and the lifting mechanism is set according to the program. The material is lifted up in a direction to cooperate with the suction mechanism to absorb the material. The operator only needs to load a number of materials on the placement device at one station to complete the loading, which improves the processing efficiency and reduces labor costs. The error rate is greatly reduced.

Detailed ways

Please refer to FIGS. 1 to 4, the automatic feeding machine of the present application includes a turntable mechanism 10, a suction mechanism 40 located above one side of the turntable mechanism 20, and a suction mechanism 40 located near the turntable mechanism 20. Side lifting mechanism 60.

The turntable mechanism 10 includes a base 11 , a turntable 20 installed above the base 11 , and at least two placing devices 30 for loading materials installed on the outer edge of the turntable 20 . A rotating mechanism 21 is provided below the turntable 20 to drive the turntable 20 to rotate, and the turning mechanism 21 is a servo motor, a cylinder and other equipment. The turntable 20 has a substantially circular structure, and the placement device 30 is disposed on the periphery of the turntable 20 . The material placed on the placement device 30 is, in this embodiment, the middle frame or the back cover 50 of the mobile phone, and in other embodiments, it may also be other rough materials that need to be processed. The placement device 30 includes a bottom plate 31 and a surrounding barrier 32 formed on the outer periphery of the bottom plate 31 , the mobile phone middle frame 50 is placed above the bottom plate 31 and limited by the surrounding barrier 32 . The bottom plate 31 of the placement device 30 is formed at least one hole structure 33 opening radially outside at the position corresponding to the turntable 20 in the up-down direction.

The lifting mechanism 60 is arranged outside the turntable 20 , specifically installed on the base 11 . The lifting mechanism 60 includes a vertically fixed support plate 61, a slide rail 62 on the side of the support plate 61 close to the turntable 20, a slider 63 that can slide up and down on the slide rail 62, and a The slider 63 extends along the opposite direction of the radial direction of the turntable 20 to form a lifting frame 64 . The lifting frame 64 can pass through the hole structure 33 of the placing device 30 in the vertical direction. In this embodiment, the two lifting frames 64 and the hole structure 33 are the best embodiment, and the two lifting frames can stably hold the middle frame 50 of the mobile phone.

The suction mechanism 40 is located on the other side of the lifting mechanism 60 relative to the turntable mechanism 10 , and the suction mechanism 40 includes two suction cups 41 , 42 . The suction cups 41, 42 are driven by cylinders, manipulators or servo motors and can move to the top of the placement device 30 of the turntable mechanism 10, and can move up and down to absorb the middle frame 50 of the mobile phone, and absorb the middle frame 50 of the mobile phone Finally, the suction cup 41 moves above the jig 70 for processing the mobile phone middle frame 50 and then moves downward to place the sucked mobile phone middle frame 50 on the jig 70 .

The rotation frequency of the turntable mechanism 10 , the lifting frequency of the lifting mechanism 60 , and the suction frequency of the suction mechanism 40 are uniformly controlled by a program, and the frequencies of the three mechanisms cooperate with each other.

The automatic feeding method of the present application is carried out under the control of program by described automatic feeding machine, comprises the steps:

S101. The operator loads several mobile phone middle frames 50 on the placement device 30 of the turntable 20. Each placement device 30 can be filled with up to 20 pieces of mobile phone middle frame materials, and then starts the machine, and the turntable 20 automatically Turn the placement device 30 for filling the middle frame material of the mobile phone to a position corresponding to the lifting mechanism 60 .

S102. The suction cups 41 and 42 of the suction mechanism 40 are driven by the program control through a servo motor or a manipulator, and move to the top of the placement device 30 on the side of the lifting mechanism 60 to suck the middle frame material of the mobile phone; wherein, each time a mobile phone is sucked For the middle frame material, the lifting frame 64 of the lifting mechanism 60 lifts the middle frame material of the mobile phone a predetermined distance upwards from the hole structure 33 at the bottom of the placement device 30, and then the suction cups 41, 42 of the suction device 40 again Absorb the middle frame material of the next mobile phone. The lifting mechanism 60 lifts the middle frame material of the mobile phone located in the placing device 30 to generate a displacement relative to the placing device 30, and a predetermined distance lifted by the lifting mechanism 60 each time is equal to the thickness of the middle frame material of the mobile phone .

S103. After the suction device 40 has sucked the material of the middle frame of the mobile phone, it moves to the jig 70 for processing the material of the middle frame of the mobile phone and places the material of the middle frame of the mobile phone on the jig 70 and then again Move to above the placing device 30 . During this process, the lifting mechanism 60 has completed the next lifting action.

S104. After the middle frame material of the mobile phone in the placement device 30 on the side of the lifting mechanism 60 is sucked, the turntable 20 of the turntable mechanism 10 rotates to place the next material of the middle frame of the mobile phone that has been placed by the operator. The placement device 30 moves to the side of the lifting mechanism 60, and the suctioned and empty placement device 30 is refilled by the operator to fill the middle frame material of the mobile phone.

An automatic loading machine and its loading method according to the present application use the turntable mechanism 10 to rotate a number of placement devices 30 filled with mobile phone middle frame materials to the side of the lifting mechanism 60, and the lifting mechanism 60 follows the procedure It is set to lift up the mobile phone middle frame material to cooperate with the suction mechanism 40 to absorb the mobile phone middle frame material, and the operator only needs to load a number of mobile phone middle frame materials on the placement device 30 at one station to complete the loading. materials, which improves processing efficiency, reduces labor costs, and greatly reduces error rates.

Claims (10)

1. An automatic feeding machine, characterized in that it comprises a turntable mechanism, a suction mechanism, and a lifting mechanism positioned between the turntable mechanism and the suction mechanism, the turntable mechanism includes a turntable, and is located on the outer periphery of the turntable for At least two placement devices for placing materials, the bottom of the placement devices is provided with a hole structure, and the lifting mechanism includes a lifting frame for lifting the materials from the hole structure at the bottom of the placement device, and the The suction mechanism includes a suction cup, and the suction cup can be moved to the top of the placement device on the side of the lifting mechanism to suck materials through program control. After the suction mechanism sucks a material, the lifting mechanism lifts the material upwards by one piece according to the program. With a given distance, after the turntable mechanism has sucked up the materials in the placement device near the lifting mechanism, the turntable rotates another placement device filled with materials by the operator to the side of the lifting mechanism. 2. An automatic feeding machine as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that: said material is a middle frame of a mobile phone. 3. An automatic feeding machine according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that: the lifting mechanism lifts the material to generate displacement relative to the placement device, and the distance of each lifting movement is one material thickness. 4. An automatic feeding machine as claimed in claim 1 or 2, characterized in that: the turntable is a circular structure, and the plurality of placement devices are arranged on the outer edge of the turntable, and the placement devices It includes a bottom plate, and a surrounding block for limiting the material on the outer periphery of the bottom plate, the hole structure runs through the corresponding position of the bottom plate of the placement device and the turntable, and the hole structure is located on the turntable Open radially outward. 5. An automatic feeding machine as claimed in claim 4, characterized in that: the lifting mechanism comprises a vertically fixed support plate, a slide rail arranged on one side of the support plate, and can be mounted on the slide rail The sliding block sliding up and down, and the lifting frame extending from the sliding block along the radial direction of the turntable in the opposite direction, the lifting frame can pass through the hole structure of the placement device in the up and down direction. 6. An automatic feeding machine as claimed in claim 5, characterized in that: the turntable mechanism also includes a base, the turntable can rotate on the base, and the support plate of the lifting mechanism is fixedly installed on the side of the base. 7. An automatic feeding machine as claimed in claim 1 or 2, characterized in that: a jig for processing the material is provided under the suction device, and the suction device can be placed between the jig and the Move above the placing device on the lifting mechanism side. 8. The feeding method of automatic feeding machine as claimed in claim 1, is characterized in that: comprises the steps: Step 1. The operator loads some materials on several placement devices of the turntable, and the turntable automatically rotates the placement devices filled with materials in the middle frame of the mobile phone to the position corresponding to the lifting mechanism; Step 2, the suction mechanism is provided with a suction cup, and the suction cup is driven by program control and moved to the top of the placement device on the side of the lifting mechanism to suck materials; Step 3. After each material is sucked by the suction mechanism, the lifting mechanism automatically lifts the material in the placement device by a predetermined distance, and the predetermined distance is equal to the thickness of one material; Step 4. The suction mechanism moves the sucked material to the jig for processing the material and then moves to the top of the placing device to absorb the material. When the material of the placing device on the side of the lifting mechanism is At zero time, the turntable rotates, and the next placement device filled with materials rotates to the side of the lifting mechanism. 9. The feeding method of the automatic feeding machine according to claim 8, wherein the material is the middle frame of the mobile phone, and the lifting mechanism lifts the middle frame of the mobile phone located in the placement device to generate a displacement relative to the placement device , a predetermined distance each time the lifting mechanism lifts is equal to the thickness of the material of the middle frame of the mobile phone. 10. The feeding method of an automatic feeding machine according to claim 8, wherein the rotation frequency of the turntable mechanism, the lifting frequency of the lifting mechanism, and the suction frequency of the suction device are set by a program.