CN108281695B

CN108281695B - Battery formation equipment

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Publication number: CN108281695B
Application number: CN201711450872.8A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 何幸华; 李政文; 黎少伟; 何可立; 马俊
Original assignee: Guangzhou Zhuoyue Power New Energy Co Ltd
Current assignee: Guangzhou Zhuoyue Power New Energy Co Ltd
Priority date: 2017-12-27
Filing date: 2017-12-27
Publication date: 2020-05-12
Anticipated expiration: 2037-12-27
Also published as: CN108281695A

Abstract

The invention belongs to the technical field of batteries, and particularly relates to battery formation equipment; the device comprises a machine body, a conveyor belt, a conveying mechanism, a transfer mechanism and a plurality of battery boxes for placing batteries, wherein magnets are fixedly connected to the battery boxes; the conveying mechanism comprises a circulating sleeve and a plurality of conveying rollers for enabling the circulating sleeve to be in S-shaped circulating conveying, a plurality of electromagnets capable of adsorbing magnets are fixedly connected to the circulating sleeve, and the conveying rollers are rotatably connected with the machine body; the transfer mechanism comprises a base plate, a guide plate, an ejector rod used for taking out the batteries in the battery box and a blocking rod used for separating the battery box after the batteries are taken out from the electromagnet. The scheme can simultaneously take out the batteries which enter the machine body for charging in the same batch, and effectively improves the working efficiency of transferring the batteries from the machine body.

Description

Battery formation equipment

Technical Field

The invention belongs to the technical field of batteries, and particularly relates to battery formation equipment.

Background

The battery formation is that just after the battery is produced, it is charged once to activate the battery, which acts like "formatting" a floppy disk. The battery can start normal charge and discharge after formation is finished. The principle is to charge the cell for the first time to activate the active materials in the cell and to form a dense film on the anode surface to protect the entire chemical interface. The battery formation equipment is a mechanical device for completing the whole process. The body actually used for charging the batteries is similar to a cabinet in shape, a plurality of charging chambers are arranged in rows and columns in the body, and each charging chamber can be charged with one battery.

In the prior art, after the formation of the battery is finished, a travelling crane is often arranged beside a battery formation machine body, then a manipulator is arranged on the travelling crane, the battery is taken out through the manipulator, and the travelling crane conveys the battery to a conveyor belt for the next procedure. The battery formation equipment has the following defects: after charging is finished, only one battery can be taken out at a time, and the battery needs to be transferred to the rear of the conveyor belt to be taken out of the next battery, so that the working efficiency of transferring the batteries from the machine body is integrally reduced, the charging time of the batteries entering the machine body in the same batch is inconsistent, the batteries taken out firstly are not charged enough, or the batteries taken out later are overcharged, and the normal service life of the batteries is influenced.

Disclosure of Invention

The invention aims to provide battery formation equipment which can simultaneously take out batteries which enter a machine body to be charged in the same batch and effectively improve the working efficiency of transferring the batteries from the machine body.

In order to achieve the purpose, the invention provides the following technical scheme: the battery formation equipment comprises a machine body, a conveyor belt, a conveying mechanism, a transfer mechanism and a plurality of battery boxes for placing batteries, wherein the battery boxes are fixedly connected with magnets; the conveying mechanism comprises a circulating sleeve and a plurality of conveying rollers for enabling the circulating sleeve to be in S-shaped circulating conveying, a plurality of electromagnets capable of adsorbing magnets are fixedly connected to the circulating sleeve, and the conveying rollers are rotatably connected with the machine body; the transfer mechanism comprises a base plate, a guide plate, an ejector rod used for taking out the batteries in the battery box and a blocking rod used for separating the battery box after the batteries are taken out from the electromagnet; the substrate is fixed on the machine body; the guide plate is positioned below the circulating sleeve and is obliquely arranged, the high end of the guide plate is connected with the ejector rod, and the low end of the guide plate extends to the conveying belt; the ejection rod and the blocking rod are fixed on the base plate, and the ejection rod and the blocking rod are located above the guide plate.

The beneficial effects of the above technical scheme are that:

1. the battery box fixedly connected with the magnet and the circulating sleeve are fixedly connected with a plurality of electromagnets capable of adsorbing the magnet, so that after the battery is placed in the battery box and charged, the battery charged in the machine body in the same batch can be taken out at the same time and at one time, and the inconsistency of the charging time caused by the taking-out process of the battery is avoided.

2. Through the circulating sleeve and the plurality of conveying rollers for enabling the circulating sleeve to be in S-shaped circulating conveying, the plurality of batteries can be transferred to the conveying belt by the circulating sleeve in a pipeline mode, the problem that the batteries are transferred one by one through a mechanical arm in the prior art is solved, and the work efficiency of transferring the batteries from the machine body is improved.

3. Through the ejector rod, the battery in the battery box can be automatically taken out along with the moving process of the circulating sleeve, the structure is simple, the taking-out process is simple and fast, and the efficiency of transferring the battery is further improved.

4. Through blockking up the pole, can be so that the battery case after being taken out the battery is at the in-process along with the circulation cover continues the removal with the electro-magnet separation on the circulation cover, the recycle battery case of being convenient for, also makes things convenient for the circulation cover to carry out the battery process of taking out next time simultaneously.

5. Through setting up the deflector slope, and the high-end and the knockout pin of deflector are connected, and the low side of deflector extends to the conveyer belt, can not only directly transfer battery and battery case to the conveyer belt on, helps buffering battery and battery case moreover, avoids battery and battery case directly to fall into the conveyer belt, plays certain guard action to battery and battery case.

The first preferred scheme is as the preferred scheme of basic scheme, and the ejector pin is including the bracing piece, horizontal axis pole and the ejector pin that connect gradually, and the bracing piece is fixed on the base plate, and the ejector pin is connected with the deflector, and horizontal axis pole and ejector pin are perpendicular. Simple structure, the process of taking out the battery from the battery case is stable moreover.

In a second preferred embodiment, the blocking rod is L-shaped. Simple structure, the process of separating the battery case from the electromagnet is stable.

Preferably, scheme three, as the preferred scheme of basic scheme, fixedly connected with a plurality of slides on the fuselage, the one end that the fuselage was kept away from to the slide is towards the circulation cover, and the top surface of slide flushes with the bottom surface of electro-magnet. The battery box can be stably transferred to the circulating sleeve from the machine body when the electromagnet on the circulating sleeve adsorbs the magnet on the battery box.

Preferably, as a preferred aspect of the basic aspect, the second preferred aspect or the third preferred aspect, the conveyor belt includes a battery conveyor belt for conveying the battery and a battery case conveyor belt for conveying the battery case. Battery and battery case confusion can be avoided.

Preferably, in a fifth aspect, as a preferred aspect of the fourth aspect, the battery box conveyor belt is also provided with an electromagnet. The battery and the battery case can be quickly separated.

Drawings

FIG. 1 is a side view of an embodiment of the battery formation apparatus of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a front view of FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is a front view of the battery pack of FIG. 1;

FIG. 4 is a rear view of the battery pack of FIG. 1;

FIG. 5 is a schematic view of the conveyor and transfer mechanism (without the body) of FIG. 2;

FIG. 6 is a perspective view of the ejector pin ejecting the battery in the battery compartment;

fig. 7 is a perspective view of the blocking rod blocking the battery case.

Detailed Description

The following is further detailed by the specific embodiments:

reference numerals in the drawings of the specification include: the device comprises a machine body 1, a sliding plate 10, a charging chamber 11, a battery box 2, a magnet 20, an upper baffle plate 21, a lower baffle plate 22, a movable seam 23, a U-shaped opening 24, a strip seam 25, a circulating sleeve 3, a horizontal conveying roller 30, a steering conveying roller 31, a rotating shaft 32, an electromagnet 33, a base plate 4, a guide plate 40, an ejector rod 41, a support rod 410, a transverse shaft rod 411, an ejector rod 412, a blocking rod 42, a battery conveying belt 5, a battery box conveying belt 50 and a second electromagnet 51.

The embodiment is basically as shown in figure 1: the battery formation equipment comprises a machine body 1, a conveyor belt, a conveying mechanism, a transfer mechanism and a plurality of battery boxes 2. As shown in fig. 2, a plurality of charging chambers 11 distributed in rows and columns are disposed on the body 1, and one charging chamber 11 is used for charging one battery, for convenience of description, the number of rows of the charging chambers 11 is five, and the number of columns of the charging chambers 11 is six.

The battery box 2 is used for placing batteries, before charging, the batteries are placed in the battery box 2, and then the battery box 2 is placed in the charging chamber 11 to charge the batteries. The specific structure is as shown in fig. 3, it is a cuboid, and the front side surface is adhered with a bar-shaped magnet 20; an upper baffle 21 and a lower baffle 22 are respectively hinged on the left side surface and the right side surface, the baffles and the inner wall of the battery box 2 are connected with tension springs, the baffles can be conveniently reset after being rotated due to external force, and a movable seam 23 is reserved between the upper baffle 21 and the lower baffle 22; as shown in fig. 4, the rear side of the battery case 2 is provided with a U-shaped opening 24 to expose the charging contacts of the battery, so that the battery can be charged well after being placed in the battery case 2; the bottom of the battery case 2 is provided with a strip slit 25.

As shown in fig. 5, the conveying mechanism includes the circulating jacket 3 and a plurality of conveying rollers for allowing the circulating jacket 3 to be conveyed in an S-shaped circulation. Applied to the present embodiment, the circulating jacket 3 has five elements in total, and corresponds to the five-element charging chambers 11, respectively; the surface of the circulating sleeve 3 is adhered with a plurality of electromagnets 33 capable of adsorbing the magnets 20, and the electromagnets 33 are applied to the embodiment, namely, six electromagnets 33 are arranged in each row, and one electromagnet 33 corresponds to one charging chamber 11; the arrangement position of the conveying rollers is preferably that one conveying roller (a horizontal conveying roller 30) is arranged at each end of each row of the circulating sleeve 3, and then one conveying roller (a turning conveying roller 31) is arranged in the middle of the turning conveying roller; the conveying roller is rotatably connected with the machine body 1 through a rotating shaft 32, and a device for rotating the conveying roller can directly select the prior art, such as a motor; and the rotation directions of all the conveying rollers are consistent, thereby ensuring that the circulating sleeve 3 is always conveyed in an S-shaped circulating manner in one direction, as indicated by the arrow in figure 5.

In order to ensure that the battery case 2 can be stably transferred from the charging chamber 11 to the circulation case 3 when the electromagnet 33 on the circulation case 3 attracts the magnet 20 on the battery case 2 in the charging chamber 11, a plurality of sliding plates 10 may be welded to the body 1, as shown in fig. 1, such that the right end of the sliding plate 10 faces the circulation case 3 and the top surface of the sliding plate 10 is flush with the bottom surface of the electromagnet 33.

As shown in fig. 5, the transfer mechanism includes a base plate 4, a guide plate 40, an ejector rod 41, and a stopper rod 42. The substrate 4 is welded on the machine body 1; the guide plate 40 is positioned below the circulating sleeve 3, and the ejection rod 41 and the blocking rod 42 are both positioned above the guide plate 40; the ejecting rod 41 comprises a supporting rod 410, a transverse rod 411 and an ejecting rod 412 which are connected in sequence, the supporting rod 410 is riveted on the base plate 4, the ejecting rod 412 is connected with the guide plate 40, the transverse rod 411 is perpendicular to the ejecting rod 412, when the battery box 2 moves towards the ejecting rod 412 under the action of the circulating sleeve 3, as shown in fig. 6, as the bottom of the battery box 2 is provided with a strip-shaped seam 25, and the blocking pieces on the left side surface and the right side surface of the battery box 2 are hinged on the battery box 2, the ejecting rod 412 and the transverse rod 411 can pass through the movable seam 23 on the battery box 2 and penetrate through the battery box 2 through the strip-shaped seam 25, and in the process, the battery is ejected from the battery box 2 by the ejecting rod 412; the guide plate 40 is disposed to be inclined, and the lower end of the guide plate 40 extends to the conveyor belt, so that the battery can be dropped onto the conveyor belt through the guide plate 40 after being pushed out. The blocking rod 42 is L-shaped, and the blocking rod 42 is riveted to the base plate 4, as shown in fig. 7, when the battery box 2 is turned 90 ° under the action of the circulating sleeve 3 and continues to move upward, the battery box 2 is blocked by the transverse rod of the blocking rod 42, so that the battery box 2 after taking out the battery is separated from the electromagnet 33, and the battery box 2 separated from the electromagnet 33 also falls into the conveyor belt. In order to quickly separate the batteries from the empty battery compartment 2, two conveyor belts may be provided, as shown in fig. 1: namely a battery conveyor belt 5 for conveying the batteries and a battery box conveyor belt 50 for conveying the battery box 2, and a layer of second electromagnet 51 is bonded on the battery box conveyor belt 50, so that after the empty battery box 2 falls into the battery conveyor belt 5, the second electromagnet 33 on the battery box conveyor belt 50 can be transferred onto the battery box conveyor belt 50 by adsorbing the magnet 20 on the battery box 2, and the batteries and the empty battery box 2 are quickly separated.

Before charging, the battery is placed in the battery box 2, and then the battery box 2 is placed in the charging chamber 11 for charging. After the charging is finished, the conveying roller is started, the electromagnet 33 on the circulating sleeve 3 is electrified, the electromagnet 33 absorbs the battery box 2 with the battery onto the circulating sleeve 3 and conveys the battery box to the bottom of the circulating sleeve 3 along with the circulating sleeve 3 (in the transmission sequence of each row of battery boxes 2 in fig. 5, the fifth row, the third row, the first row, the second row and the fourth row are counted from top to bottom). When the battery case 2 is transferred to the bottom of the circulating case 3 and moved toward the ejector rod 41, the battery is pushed out by the ejector rod 41, and falls onto the battery conveyor 5 along the guide plate 40, and is conveyed to the next process by the battery conveyor 5; when the empty battery box 2 moves upwards continuously along with the circulating sleeve 3, the battery box 2 is stopped by the stopping rod 42 and also falls onto the battery conveyor belt 5 along the guide plate 40, at the moment, the second electromagnet 51 on the battery box conveyor belt 50 is electrified, and the battery box 2 on the battery conveyor belt 5 is adsorbed onto the battery box conveyor belt 50, so that the next charging recycling is facilitated. When all the battery cases 2 are separated from the circulating sleeve 3, which indicates that the batteries have all passed through the battery conveyer belt 5 to the next process, the conveyer belt is stopped to finish the battery formation process.

The foregoing is merely an example of the present invention and common general knowledge of known specific structures and features of the embodiments is not described herein in any greater detail. It should be noted that, for those skilled in the art, without departing from the structure of the present invention, several changes and modifications can be made, which should also be regarded as the protection scope of the present invention, and these will not affect the effect of the implementation of the present invention and the practicability of the patent. The scope of the claims of the present application shall be determined by the contents of the claims, and the description of the embodiments and the like in the specification shall be used to explain the contents of the claims.

Claims

1. Battery formation equipment, including fuselage and conveyer belt, its characterized in that: the transfer device also comprises a conveying mechanism, a transfer mechanism and a plurality of battery boxes for placing batteries, wherein the battery boxes are fixedly connected with magnets; the conveying mechanism comprises a circulating sleeve and a plurality of conveying rollers for enabling the circulating sleeve to be in S-shaped circulating conveying, a plurality of electromagnets capable of adsorbing the magnets are fixedly connected to the circulating sleeve, and the conveying rollers are rotatably connected with the machine body; the transfer mechanism comprises a base plate, a guide plate, an ejector rod used for taking out the batteries in the battery box and a blocking rod used for separating the battery box after the batteries are taken out from the electromagnet; the substrate is fixed on the machine body; the guide plate is positioned below the circulating sleeve and is obliquely arranged, the high end of the guide plate is connected with the ejection rod, and the low end of the guide plate extends to the conveying belt; the ejection rod and the blocking rod are fixed on the base plate, and the ejection rod and the blocking rod are located above the guide plate.

2. The battery formation apparatus of claim 1, wherein: the ejector rod comprises a support rod, a transverse shaft rod and an ejector rod which are sequentially connected, the support rod is fixed on the base plate, the ejector rod is connected with the guide plate, and the transverse shaft rod is perpendicular to the ejector rod.

3. The battery formation apparatus according to claim 2, characterized in that: the blocking rod is L-shaped.

4. The battery formation apparatus of claim 1, wherein: the machine body is fixedly connected with a plurality of sliding plates, one end, far away from the machine body, of each sliding plate faces the circulating sleeve, and the top surfaces of the sliding plates are flush with the bottom surfaces of the electromagnets.

5. The battery formation apparatus of claim 1, 3 or 4, wherein: the conveyor belt comprises a battery conveyor belt for conveying batteries and a battery box conveyor belt for conveying battery boxes.

6. The battery formation apparatus of claim 5, wherein: and the battery box conveyor belt is also provided with an electromagnet.