CN105800303B - A kind of SMT material strips shearing and whole foot all-in-one machine - Google Patents

A kind of SMT material strips shearing and whole foot all-in-one machine Download PDF

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CN105800303B
CN105800303B CN201610303184.8A CN201610303184A CN105800303B CN 105800303 B CN105800303 B CN 105800303B CN 201610303184 A CN201610303184 A CN 201610303184A CN 105800303 B CN105800303 B CN 105800303B
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杨艳军
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    • B65CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
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    • B23MACHINE TOOLS; METAL-WORKING NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • B23DPLANING; SLOTTING; SHEARING; BROACHING; SAWING; FILING; SCRAPING; LIKE OPERATIONS FOR WORKING METAL BY REMOVING MATERIAL, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • B23D15/00Shearing machines or shearing devices cutting by blades which move parallel to themselves
    • B23D15/04Shearing machines or shearing devices cutting by blades which move parallel to themselves having only one moving blade
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    • B65GTRANSPORT OR STORAGE DEVICES, e.g. CONVEYORS FOR LOADING OR TIPPING, SHOP CONVEYOR SYSTEMS OR PNEUMATIC TUBE CONVEYORS
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Abstract

The present invention provides a kind of shearings of SMT material strips and whole foot all-in-one machine, it is related to electronic component processing technique field, it includes rack, the first guide rail being horizontally arranged in rack, cutting mechanism above the first guide rail, the the second guide rail for being tiltedly mounted in rack and being connect with the first guide rail end, pin arrangement mechanism on the second guide rail, it is connected to the discharging mechanism of the second guide rail end, control panel positioned at rack side and the PLC controller that is fixed in rack, the front end of the first guide rail is equipped with pusher cylinder, end is equipped with feed device, the cutting mechanism includes fixing support rack, mechanical beams, blank component and garbage collection disk, the PLC controller and cutting mechanism, pin arrangement mechanism, discharging mechanism, control panel, pusher cylinder, feed device connects.The process that the present invention can disposably complete SMT material strips shearing and whole foot improves working efficiency, reduces labour.

Description

A kind of SMT material strips shearing and whole foot all-in-one machine
Technical field
The present invention relates to electronic component processing technique field, especially a kind of SMT material strips shearing and whole foot all-in-one machine.
Background technology
SMT (surface mounting technology) is electronics assembly technology of new generation, and traditional electronic component is collapsed into body by it The device of product only 1/tens, to realize high density, highly reliable, miniaturization, the low cost of electronic product assembling, with And the automation of production.The process that element is assembled in printing (or other substrates) is known as SMT techniques.Relevant assembling Equipment is then known as SMT equipment.Since SMT has many advantages, such as that packing density is high, electronic product is small, light-weight, at present Advanced electronic product generally uses SMT technologies especially in terms of computer and communication class.The electronic component of SMT techniques It is generally pasted onto on SMT material strips, it is therefore desirable to shear excision material strip by some modes, traditional mode is by manually placing In manually controlling shearing in machine, party's inefficiency, and since the SMT electronic components for having sheared material strip can have pin foots The problem of sub- out-of-flatness, makes that its instep is smooth, pin pitch is correct to need again one by one to carry out it whole foot process again, can be with Find out, such mode of production has not met the rhythm of modern production there are clearly disadvantageous.
Invention content
The purpose of the present invention is to solve the above-mentioned problems of the prior art, provide a kind of SMT material strips shearing with it is whole Foot all-in-one machine, the process for disposably completing SMT material strips shearing and whole foot by automation, intelligentized equipment improve work effect Rate reduces labour.
In order to solve the above-mentioned technical problem, the present invention adopts the following technical scheme that:A kind of SMT material strips shearing and whole foot are integrated Machine comprising rack, the cutting mechanism above the first guide rail, tilts the first guide rail being horizontally arranged in rack The second guide rail for being connect in rack and with the first guide rail end, the pin arrangement mechanism on the second guide rail, Be connected to the second guide rail end discharging mechanism, positioned at rack side control panel and be fixed in rack PLC control Device, the front end of the first guide rail is equipped with pusher cylinder, end be equipped with can to the feed device of the second guide rail pusher one by one, The cutting mechanism includes fixing support rack, can be moved on fixing support rack and in the vertical direction of the first guide rail Mechanical beams, the blank component below mechanical beams and garbage collection disk in rack side is set, the PLC controller It is connect with cutting mechanism, pin arrangement mechanism, discharging mechanism, control panel, pusher cylinder, feed device.
Further, being equipped in the second guide rail can be to the blowning installation of feed direction jet.
Further, the discharging mechanism include item inductor, below item inductor several are parallel The blow tank of arrangement below the blow tank and the sliding rail vertical with the second guide rail, mounted on blow tank side and can push away The discharging cylinder that dynamic blow tank moves on the slide rail.
Further, aggregate pipe is equipped in the blow tank, the aggregate pipe is snapped connection with blow tank.
Further, the feed device includes optical sensor and jet mechanism, and the optical sensor is mounted on The both sides of first guide rail, the jet mechanism be mounted on the first guide rail top and can into the first guide rail jet.
The beneficial effects of the present invention are:The SMT technique electronic components being pasted onto on material strip, in the cutting mechanism of the device On carry out automation shearing, extractd and material strip and be automatically put into garbage collection disk by blank component, and after extracing material strip SMT electricity become single item in element, carried out whole foot process by being sent into pin arrangement mechanism one by one, last blanking is collected, entirely Process automation, intelligence, improve work efficiency, and reduce worker labour.
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Fig. 1 is the structural schematic diagram before item of the present invention processing;
Fig. 2 is the overall structure diagram in the embodiment of the present invention;
Fig. 3 is the close-up schematic view of discharging mechanism in the embodiment of the present invention.
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1 --- rack 2 --- the first guide rail 3 --- cutting mechanism
311 --- fixing support rack 312 --- mechanical beams 313 --- blank components
314 --- garbage collection disk 4 --- the second guide rail 5 --- pin arrangement mechanisms
6 --- discharging mechanism 611 --- item inductor 612 --- blow tanks
613 --- sliding rail 614 --- discharging cylinder 8 --- pusher cylinders
9 --- feed device 10 --- blowning installation 11 --- aggregate pipes.
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For the ease of the understanding of those skilled in the art, the present invention is made further with reference to embodiment and attached drawing Bright, the content that embodiment refers to not is limitation of the invention.
In the description of the present invention, it is to be understood that, term "center", " longitudinal direction ", " transverse direction ", " length ", " width ", " thickness ", "upper", "lower", "front", "rear", "left", "right", "vertical", "horizontal", "top", "bottom", "inner", "outside", " up time The orientation or positional relationship of the instructions such as needle ", " counterclockwise " is to be based on the orientation or positional relationship shown in the drawings, and is merely for convenience of The description present invention and simplified description, do not indicate or imply the indicated device or element must have a particular orientation, with spy Fixed azimuth configuration and operation, therefore be not considered as limiting the invention.
In addition, term " first ", " second " are used for description purposes only, it is not understood to indicate or imply relative importance Or implicitly indicate the quantity of indicated technical characteristic.In the description of the present invention, the meaning of " plurality " is two or two More than, unless otherwise specifically defined.In the description of the present invention, it should be noted that unless otherwise specified and limited, Term " installation ", " connected ", " connection " shall be understood in a broad sense, for example, it may be mechanical connection or electrical connection, can also be two Connection inside element, can be directly connected, can also indirectly connected through an intermediary, for the ordinary skill of this field For personnel, the concrete meaning of the term can be understood as the case may be.
As shown in Figs. 1-3, a kind of shearing of SMT material strips and whole foot all-in-one machine, including rack 1, be horizontally arranged in rack 1 First guide rail 2, the cutting mechanism 3 above the first guide rail 2, be tiltedly mounted in rack 1 and with the end of the first guide rail 2 It holds the second guide rail 4 of connection, the pin arrangement mechanism 5 on the second guide rail 4, be connected to going out for 4 end of the second guide rail Material mechanism 6, the control panel 7 positioned at 1 side of rack and the PLC controller that is fixed in rack 1, the first guide rail 2 Front end, which is equipped with pusher cylinder 8, end is equipped with to be wrapped to the feed device 9 of the second guide rail 4 pusher one by one, the cutting mechanism 3 Include fixing support rack 311, on fixing support rack 311 and can the vertical direction of the first guide rail 2 move mechanical beams 312, mounted on the blank component 313 of the lower section of mechanical beams 312 and garbage collection disk 314 in 1 side of rack is set, it is described PLC controller is connect with cutting mechanism 3, pin arrangement mechanism 5, discharging mechanism 6, control panel 7, pusher cylinder 8, feed device 9, institute It includes optical sensor and jet mechanism to state feed device 9, and the optical sensor is mounted on the both sides of the first guide rail 2, institute State jet mechanism mounted on the first guide rail 2 top and can into the first guide rail 2 jet.
It needs to illustrate in advance, in the present embodiment, the blank component 313 of cutting mechanism 3 can cut the SMT in item Material strip, as shown in Figure 1, material strip is located at the upper end of SMT electronic components, it is in parallel two rows, when blank component 313 cuts material strip Afterwards, material strip can be clamped, material strip is sent into garbage collection disk 314 with the movement of mechanical beams 312, and stay in the first guide at this time SMT electronic components in rail 2 also become single part by multiple connectors.In addition, the PLC controller in the present embodiment is due to setting Inside rack 1, therefore attached it is not shown in figure.
Item is put into the by the shearing of SMT material strips and the whole foot all-in-one machine that the above embodiment provides as shown in Figures 1 and 2 In one guide rail 2, the starting device on control panel 7, at this time pusher cylinder 8 item is pushed into the station of cutting mechanism 3, cut Material component 313 moves down, and is sheared to SMT material strips, and material strip is then clamped and is sent in garbage collection disk 314.It connects It, pusher cylinder 8 continues pusher, has picked-off material strip and has been moved in the first guide rail 2 as the SMT electronic components of single item End incudes item by the optical sensor of 2 end feed device 9 of the first guide rail, and PLC controller sends out instruction at this time, Jet mechanism in feed device 9 one by one carries out jet to item so that item enters in the second guide rail 4.
Further, item enters in the pin arrangement mechanism 5 in the second guide rail 4, and pin arrangement mechanism 5 carries out single item whole Foot-propelled is made, and the sub- instep of pin foots of SMT electronic components is made to reach flatness requirement, and after the completion of whole foot process, item is then fallen Enter to carry out the collection of item in discharging mechanism 6.Whole process is increasingly automated, intelligent, is disposably carried out to SMT electronic components The process of material strip shearing and whole foot, significantly improves working efficiency, reduces worker labour.
In addition it should be noted that, pin arrangement mechanism 5 can block the second guide rail 4, when item complete wherein it is whole After foot process, pin arrangement mechanism 5 can open limitation, and item is made to continue to fall in the second guide rail 4, and in the present embodiment, Second guide rail 4 also interior be equipped with can be located at the upper of pin arrangement mechanism 5 to the blowning installation 10 of feed direction jet, the blowning installation 10 Side, after the completion of the whole foot of item, pin arrangement mechanism 5 opens limitation, and blowning installation 10 can make item to jet in the second guide rail 4 It is rapidly introduced into discharging mechanism 6, further increases efficiency.
In addition to this, discharging mechanism 6 include item inductor 611, positioned at the lower section of item inductor 611 several are parallel The blow tank 612 of arrangement, mounted on the lower section of blow tank 612 and the sliding rail 613 vertical with the second guide rail 4, be mounted on blow tank 612 sides and the discharging cylinder 614 that blow tank 612 can be pushed to be moved on sliding rail 613.When item enters discharging mechanism 6, sense Answer device 611 that will carry out counting statistics to it, when the blow tank 612 of lower section is full of item, inductor 611 will transmission data To PLC controller, the blow tank 612 of the promotion of discharging cylinder 614 at this time moves on sliding rail 613 so that adjacent vacates hopper 612 To the inductor 611 of 4 end of the second guide rail to continue the collection of item, which not only increases item collection Amount also replaces blow tank 612 for staff and provides the sufficient time.In addition, aggregate pipe 11 is additionally provided in blow tank 612, Aggregate pipe 11 is snapped connection with blow tank 612, can quickly and easily be replaced after facilitating aggregate pipe 11 to collect item.
Above-described embodiment is the preferable implementation of the present invention, and in addition to this, the present invention can be realized with other manner, Do not depart from the technical program design under the premise of it is any it is obvious replacement within protection scope of the present invention.
In order to allow those of ordinary skill in the art more easily to understand the improvements of the present invention compared with the existing technology, this Some attached drawings of invention and description have been simplified, and for the sake of clarity, present specification is omitted some other members Element, those of ordinary skill in the art should be aware that the element that these are omitted also may make up present disclosure.

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1. a kind of SMT material strips shearing and whole foot all-in-one machine, including rack(1), be horizontally arranged at rack(1)On the first guide rail (2), be located at the first guide rail(2)The cutting mechanism of top(3), be tiltedly mounted on rack(1)It is upper and with the first guide rail(2)End Hold the second guide rail of connection(4), be mounted on the second guide rail(4)On pin arrangement mechanism(5), be connected to the second guide rail(4) The discharging mechanism of end(6), be located at rack(1)The control panel of side(7)And it is fixed on rack(1)Interior PLC controller, It is characterized in that:The first guide rail(2)Front end be equipped with pusher cylinder(8), end be equipped with can be to the second guide rail(4)One by one The feed device of pusher(9), the cutting mechanism(3)Including fixing support rack(311), be mounted on fixing support rack(311)On And it can be in the first guide rail(2)Vertical direction movement mechanical beams(312), be mounted on mechanical beams(312)The blank group of lower section Part(313)And it is arranged in rack(1)The garbage collection disk of side(314), the PLC controller and cutting mechanism(3), whole foot Mechanism(5), discharging mechanism(6), control panel(7), pusher cylinder(8), feed device(9)Connection.
2. SMT material strips shearing according to claim 1 and whole foot all-in-one machine, it is characterised in that:The second guide rail(4) Interior be equipped with can be to the blowning installation of feed direction jet(10).
3. SMT material strips shearing according to claim 2 and whole foot all-in-one machine, it is characterised in that:The discharging mechanism(6)Packet Include item inductor(611), be located at item inductor(611)The blow tank of several parallel arrangements of lower section(612), be mounted on Blow tank(612)Lower section and with the second guide rail(4)Vertical sliding rail(613), be mounted on blow tank(612)It side and can push Blow tank(612)In sliding rail(613)The discharging cylinder of upper movement(614).
4. SMT material strips shearing according to claim 3 and whole foot all-in-one machine, it is characterised in that:The blow tank(612)It is interior Equipped with aggregate pipe(11), the aggregate pipe(11)With blow tank(612)It snaps connection.
5. the SMT material strips shearing according to any one of claim 1-4 and whole foot all-in-one machine, it is characterised in that:It is described to send Expect device(9)Including optical sensor and jet mechanism, the optical sensor is mounted on the first guide rail(2)Both sides, institute It states jet mechanism and is mounted on the first guide rail(2)Top and can be to the first guide rail(4)Interior jet.
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