CN109100890B - Optical alignment equipment and movement and rotation method thereof - Google Patents

Optical alignment equipment and movement and rotation method thereof Download PDF

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CN109100890B
CN109100890B CN201710470547.1A CN201710470547A CN109100890B CN 109100890 B CN109100890 B CN 109100890B CN 201710470547 A CN201710470547 A CN 201710470547A CN 109100890 B CN109100890 B CN 109100890B
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Abstract

The invention provides a light alignment device and a movement and rotation method thereof.A lighting system can be moved out of a working area of the lighting system by adopting a movement device, and the maintenance of a wire grid, a light filter and a light source is realized by rotating the lighting system, an 11 th rotating arm, … …, a 1i th rotating arm, … … and a 1n th rotating arm, so that the maintenance of a specific lighting system is realized, the distance of the whole maintenance and movement of the lighting system is reduced by moving all the lighting systems nearby, the construction volume and the construction cost of a related factory building are reduced, and the economical efficiency is improved.

Description

Optical alignment equipment and movement and rotation method thereof
Technical Field
The invention belongs to the field of flat panel display manufacturing, and particularly relates to optical alignment equipment and a movement and rotation method thereof.
Background
The optical alignment equipment is one of the key equipment in the LCD manufacturing process in the flat panel display field, and along with the continuous increase of the panel size, the size of the manufacturing process equipment is also continuously increased, so that the maintenance space of the equipment is also continuously increased, and the factory area and the factory service cost are directly increased. The lamp tubes, filters and wire grids of the illumination system on the light distribution apparatus need to be regularly maintained or repaired.
At present, the maintenance of the optical alignment equipment mainly comprises that a plurality of lighting systems are integrally and linearly dragged out of the optical alignment equipment, and then maintenance or repair is carried out, and the defects of large occupied space and low maintenance efficiency are caused.
In summary, the maintenance technology of the light alignment apparatus in the prior art has the disadvantages that the single illumination system cannot be maintained in a directional manner, the multiple illumination systems need to be separated from the light alignment apparatus as a whole, and the space required for maintenance is large.
Disclosure of Invention
The invention aims to provide a light alignment device and a movement and rotation method thereof, which are used for solving the technical problem that a single illumination system cannot be maintained in an oriented mode and achieving the purpose of reducing the space required by maintenance.
In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides an optical alignment apparatus and a method of moving and rotating the same, the optical alignment apparatus including: several lighting systems: several lighting systems: the lighting system comprises a No. 1 lighting system, … …, an ith lighting system, … … and an mth lighting system, wherein m is more than or equal to i and more than or equal to 1;
the ith illumination system comprises n carrier layers for carrying elements;
a plurality of rotating units corresponding to the plurality of lighting systems one by one;
the moving device is used for driving the plurality of lighting systems to move along the extending direction of the moving device;
the plurality of rotating units are positioned on the moving device, the ith illuminating system is rotationally connected with the corresponding ith rotating unit, and the ith illuminating system can rotate relative to the moving device by taking one side edge as an axis;
the n layers of cargo can be dragged/pulled out or flipped out of the rotated ith illumination system.
Optionally, the ith cargo layer of the ith lighting system comprises a jth fixed arm, a jth rotating shaft body and a jth rotating arm, one end of the jth fixed arm is fixedly connected with the inner wall of the ith lighting system, the other end of the jth fixed arm is rotatably connected with the jth rotating arm through the jth rotating shaft body, the jth rotating arm can rotate by taking the jth rotating shaft body as a shaft, and n is greater than or equal to j and is greater than or equal to 1.
Optionally, the carrier layer may carry a light source and/or a filter and/or a wire grid and/or a device support.
Optionally, the (j-1) th i-th swing arm meets the requirement of the rotation space of the ji swing arm when rotating to the limit position.
Optionally, lengths of the first ji fixed arm and the first ji rotating arm in the extending directions are respectively Lji1And Lji2The lengths of the (j-1) th i fixed arm and the (j-1) th i rotating arm in the extension directions are L respectively(j-1)i1And L(j-1)i2,Lji1≥L(j-1)i1,Lji2≤L(j-1)i2
Optionally, the ji rotating arm may rotate by 0 to 180 ° with the ji rotating shaft body as an axis.
Optionally, the ith lighting system can rotate around the side edge by 0-90 ° in a direction away from the moving device.
Optionally, the movement device comprises a guide unit.
Optionally, the lighting system further comprises a plurality of sliders corresponding to the plurality of lighting systems one to one, the ith rotating unit is fixedly connected with the corresponding ith slider, and the ith slider can slide along the extending direction of the guide unit.
Optionally, the motion device is a linear motion device.
Optionally, the movement device comprises a motor.
Optionally, if the plurality of lighting systems have the same size, the state of the lighting system when the lighting system is not rotated relative to the movement device is defined as an initial state, in the initial state, one surface of the lighting system close to the movement device is a bottom surface, one surface far away from the movement device is a top surface, and the length of the bottom surface along the extension direction of the movement device is L1The distance between the top surface and the bottom surface is H, the length of the motion device in the extension direction is L, and L is more than or equal to m.L1+H。
Optionally, each of the carrier layers is parallel to each other.
Optionally, the present invention further provides a method for performing movement and rotation by using the optical alignment apparatus, where the movement device includes a first movement end and a second movement end, and includes:
s1: moving the ith lighting system from an initial position in a direction toward the first moving end or the second moving end;
s2: rotating the ith lighting system, dragging/pulling out or turning out the carrier layer to be maintained, and maintaining the ith lighting system;
s3: resetting the object carrying layer to be maintained, and rotating the ith lighting system along the direction opposite to the turning direction of S1 to complete the maintenance of the ith lighting system;
s4: moving the ith lighting system to an initial position.
Optionally, the S1 includes:
s11: when i is 1, moving the ith lighting system from the initial position to the direction close to the first motion end or the second motion end;
s12: when i is 2, moving the 1 st lighting system from the initial position to the direction close to the first moving end or the second moving end, and moving the ith lighting system to the direction close to the 1 st lighting system;
s13: when i is larger than or equal to 3, moving the 1 st to (i-1) th lighting systems and/or the 1 st to ith lighting systems from the initial position to the direction close to the first moving end or the second moving end, and moving the ith lighting system to the direction close to the (i-1) th lighting system.
Optionally, the present invention further provides a second method for performing movement and rotation by using the optical alignment apparatus, where the movement device includes a first movement end and a second movement end, and includes:
s1: when the ith lighting system is positioned on the dividing point, the lighting system moves towards the first moving end or the second moving end; moving toward the first motion end when the ith lighting system is located between the demarcation point and the first motion end; moving toward the second motion end when the ith lighting system is located between the demarcation point and the second motion end;
s2: rotating … … the ith lighting system, rotating … … the 1 i-th rotating arm in the direction opposite to the direction of rotation of the lighting system, and rotating the ji-th rotating arm to perform maintenance on the ith lighting system;
s3: rotating … … the jth rotating arm, rotating 89the 1i rotating arm, rotating the ith lighting system, and completing the maintenance of the ith lighting system;
s4: taking the (i + 1) th lighting system, executing the steps from S1 to S3, completing the maintenance of each lighting system, and moving each lighting system to the initial position towards the direction close to the dividing point.
Compared with the prior art, the optical alignment equipment and the movement and rotation method thereof provided by the invention have the following beneficial effects:
1. the specific lighting system can be maintained without separating the whole lighting systems from the light-emitting alignment equipment;
2. the space required by equipment maintenance is reduced, and the cost for building and maintaining a plant is reduced.
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Fig. 1 is a schematic structural diagram of an optical alignment apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a diagram of an initial state of an ith illumination system in a first method for moving and rotating a light-directing device according to an embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating a rotation state of the ith illumination system in a first method for moving and rotating a light-directing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating a state of an ith illumination system in a first method for moving and rotating a light-directing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 5 is a flow chart of a first method for moving and rotating a photo-alignment device according to an embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 6 is a diagram of an initial state of an ith illumination system in a second method of movement and rotation of a light-directing device according to an embodiment of the invention;
FIG. 7 is a diagram illustrating a rotation state of the ith illumination system in a second method for moving and rotating a light-directing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 8 is a diagram illustrating a state of an ith illumination system in a second method for moving and rotating a light alignment apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 9 is a flowchart of a second method for moving and rotating an optical pointing device according to an embodiment of the present invention.
The lighting system comprises a 1-1 st lighting system, an i-i th lighting system, an i 1-i th lighting system inner wall, an i 11-1 i th fixed arm, an i 12-1 i th rotating body, an i 13-1 i th rotating arm, an i 21-2 i th fixed arm, an i 22-2 i th rotating body, an i 23-2 i th rotating arm, an i 14-first wire grid, an i 24-first light filter, an i 25-first lamp tube support, an i 26-first lamp tube, a 3 i-i th rotating unit, a 4-motion device, a 41-guide unit, a 40 i-i th sliding block, a 42-first motion end, a 43-second motion end, an i 2-bottom surface and an i 3-top surface.
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The following describes in more detail embodiments of the present invention with reference to the schematic drawings. Advantages and features of the present invention will become apparent from the following description and claims. It is to be noted that the drawings are in a very simplified form and are not to precise scale, which is merely for the purpose of facilitating and distinctly claiming the embodiments of the present invention.
The present invention provides an optical alignment apparatus comprising: several lighting systems: the lighting system comprises a No. 1 lighting system, … …, an ith lighting system, … … and an mth lighting system, wherein m is more than or equal to i and more than or equal to 1; the ith illumination system comprises n carrier layers for carrying elements; a plurality of rotating units corresponding to the plurality of lighting systems one by one; the moving device is used for driving the plurality of lighting systems to move along the extending direction of the moving device; the plurality of rotating units are positioned on the moving device, the ith illuminating system is rotationally connected with the corresponding ith rotating unit, and the ith illuminating system can rotate relative to the moving device by taking one side edge as an axis; the n carrying layers can be dragged/pulled out or turned out from the rotated ith illuminating system;
preferably, the ith cargo layer of the ith lighting system comprises a ji fixed arm, a ji rotating shaft body and a ji rotating arm, one end of the ji fixed arm is fixedly connected with the inner wall of the ith lighting system, the other end of the ji fixed arm is rotatably connected with the ji rotating arm through the ji rotating shaft body, the ji rotating arm can rotate by taking the ji rotating shaft body as an axis, n is not less than j and not less than 1, j is a positive integer greater than or equal to 1, and n is a positive integer greater than or equal to 2. Let n be 1 for the uppermost carrier layer. The carrier layer can carry a light source and/or a filter and/or a wire grid and/or a flat plate and/or other optical devices, wherein the light source emits a light beam, the filter filters the light beam, the wire grid polarizes the light beam, and the device support flat plate is generally a flat plate structure for supporting the optical devices, is light-permeable or hollow, and can form a structural unit together with other optical elements, thereby facilitating the implementation of engineering.
Preferably, the carrier layer may carry a light source and/or a filter and/or a wire grid and/or a device support.
Preferably, the (j-1) th i-th swing arm satisfies a rotation space requirement of the ji swing arm when rotated to the extreme position.
A general optical alignment apparatus has a plurality of illumination systems, which usually uses two carrier layers to carry optical devices in daily production, and the embodiment of the present invention takes the illumination system with two carrier layers as an example, please refer to fig. 1, taking the ith illumination system i as an example, the ith rotating unit 3i is fixedly connected with the moving device 4, one side (not shown in the figure) of the ith illumination system i is rotatably connected with the ith rotating unit 3i, the ith illumination system i can rotate relative to the moving device 4 with the side as an axis, the ith illumination system i can slide in the extending direction of the moving device 4, the 1i rotating arm i13 is connected with the 1i fixing arm i11 through the 1i rotating body i12, the 1i rotating arm 11 is connected with the ith illumination system inner wall i1, the 1i rotating arm i13 carries the first wire grating i14, the 2i rotating arm i23 is connected with the 2i fixing arm 21 through the 2i rotating body i22, the 2 i-th fixed arm i21 is connected with the i-th lighting system inner wall i1, and the 2 i-th rotating arm i23 carries a first light filter i24, a first lamp tube bracket i25 and a first lamp tube i 26. In the conventional optical alignment equipment maintenance technology, the 1 st to mth lighting systems are generally separated from a working area as a whole, the first wire grid i14, the first optical filter i24 and the first lamp tube i26 are maintained, directional maintenance cannot be performed on a single lighting system, and the distance between the moving lighting systems during maintenance is long, so that the volume and the cost for building a related factory building are increased. By adopting the design, all the lighting systems do not need to be separated from the light-emitting alignment equipment, only the specific lighting system is moved out of the working area, and then the first wire grid i14, the first light filter i24 and the first lamp tube i26 can be maintained by rotating the ith lighting system i, the 1i rotating arm i13 and the 2i rotating arm i 23.
Preferably, lengths of the first ji fixed arm and the first ji rotating arm in the respective extending directions are Lji1And Lji2The lengths of the (j-1) th i fixed arm and the (j-1) th i rotating arm in the extension directions are L respectivelyji1≥L(j-1)i1,Lji2≤L(j-1)i2. Referring to fig. 1, taking the ith lighting system i as an example, the lengths of the 2 i-th fixed arm i21 and the 2 i-th rotating arm i23 along the extending directions thereof are respectively L2i1And L2i2The lengths of the 1 i-th fixing arm i11 and the 1 i-th rotating arm i13 in the respective extending directions are L1i1And L1i2,L2i1>L1i1,L2i2<L1i2By adopting the design, the mutual interference among different carrying layers is reduced. A length L of the first ji fixing arm and the first ji rotating arm in the respective extending directionsji1And Lji2And L(j-1)i1And L(j-1)i2The magnitude relationship of (d) is determined by actual conditions, namely, is influenced by the rotation angle of the jth rotating arm which can use the jth rotating shaft body as a shaft, and can be one of the relationships greater than, equal to or less than.
The motion device may be a linear motion device or may not be a linear motion device, for example, a section of the motion device has a revolving structure. In this embodiment, the motion device is a linear motion device, and the motion device includes a guide unit (the guide unit may be a linear guide unit), and a plurality of sliders corresponding to the plurality of lighting systems one by one, where the ith rotation unit is fixedly connected to the corresponding ith slider, and the ith slider is responsible for carrying the ith lighting system and can slide linearly along the extending direction of the guide unit. Referring to fig. 1, the moving device 4 includes a guiding unit 41 and a plurality of sliders corresponding to the plurality of lighting systems one by one, for example, an ith lighting system i, an ith rotating unit 3i is fixedly connected to a corresponding ith slider 40i, and the ith slider 40i can drive the ith lighting system i to slide linearly along the extending direction of the guiding unit 41. By adopting the design, each lighting system can realize independent linear movement and independent rotation, and directional maintenance can be carried out on the specific lighting system needing to be maintained.
Preferably, the jth rotating arm can rotate around the jth rotating shaft body, and the rotatable angle range is 0-180 degrees, that is, the internal maintenance of the ith lighting system can be performed when the jth rotating arm rotates around the jth rotating shaft body by 90 degrees or less, for example, 30 degrees, 45 degrees, 50 degrees, 60 degrees, 75 degrees, 80 degrees, 85 degrees, and 90 degrees … … degrees; the maintenance can also be carried out when the rotation angle is larger than 90 degrees according to the working conditions, such as 105 degrees, 120 degrees, 135 degrees, 150 degrees, 165 degrees and 180 degrees … …. In this example, the rotation angle is 90 °, i.e. the said jth rotating arm is parallel or perpendicular to the plane of the said jth fixed arm; the ith lighting system can be rotated by 90 ° in a direction away from the moving device with the side as an axis. Referring to fig. 1, taking the ith lighting system i as an example, the 1 i-th rotating arm i13 can rotate around the 1 i-th rotating body i12 as an axis to make the 1 i-th rotating arm i13 parallel or perpendicular to the plane where the 1 i-th fixing arm i11 is located, and the 2 i-th rotating arm i23 can rotate around the 2 i-th rotating body i22 as an axis to make the 2 i-th rotating arm i23 parallel or perpendicular to the plane where the 2 i-th fixing arm i21 is located; the ith lighting system i can rotate the other side face towards the direction of the motion device 4 by taking the side edge as an axis, and under a general working condition, the rotation angle can be 0-90 degrees, namely the rotation angle can be 30 degrees, 45 degrees, 50 degrees, 60 degrees, 75 degrees, 80 degrees, 85 degrees and 90 degrees … … degrees. The present embodiment is exemplified by 90 °. In special operating modes, for example, when i is 1, the rotation angle may also be greater than 90 degrees. By adopting the design, each rotating arm is parallel or vertical to the extending direction of the moving device 4, so that the stability of the optical devices borne on the rotating arms during maintenance is more facilitated.
Preferably, the moving means 4 may comprise a linear motor, a linear bearing or a linear guide. By adopting the design, the application technology of the moving device for realizing linear motion is more mature, and the stability of the linear motion of the lighting system can be ensured.
Preferably, the plurality of lighting systems have the same size, and a state when the lighting systems are not rotated relative to the moving device is defined as an initial state, in which a side of the lighting systems close to the moving device is a bottom side and a side far from the moving device is a top side, please refer to fig. 1, taking an ith lighting system i as an example, a length of the bottom side i2 along an extending direction of the moving device 4 is L1The distance between the top surface i3 and the bottom surface i2 is H, and the movement device 4 extendsThe length in the stretching direction is L which is more than or equal to m.L1+ H. By adopting the design, the illumination system can be prevented from rotating in a small space when rotating away from the movement device 4, or the adjacent illumination systems collide with each other to cause maintenance faults of the optical alignment equipment.
The carrier layers may not have a definite parallel or oblique relationship, for example, the carrier layers may be designed to be non-parallel to other carrier layers when carrying wedge-shaped structures, and in addition, some other conditions may cause some two or more carrier layers to be non-parallel. Preferably, each carrier layer is parallel to each other. By adopting the design, the difficulty of manufacturing the illumination system is reduced, and the optical imaging of the optical device carried on the carrying layer is facilitated.
Preferably, the present invention provides a method for moving and rotating a light alignment apparatus, referring to fig. 2, fig. 3, fig. 4 and fig. 5, taking an example that an ith illumination system i has two carrier layers and the ith illumination system i can rotate 90 ° with the side as an axis, so as to facilitate apparatus maintenance for a specific illumination system, where the moving device 4 includes a first moving end 42 and a second moving end 43, and specifically includes:
s1: moving the ith lighting system i from the initial position toward the direction close to the first moving end 42 or the second moving end 43;
s2: rotating the ith lighting system i by 90 degrees by taking the side edge as an axis, enabling the bottom surface of the ith lighting system i to be perpendicular to the moving device 4, rotating the 1 i-th rotating arm i13 by taking the 1 i-th rotating unit i12 as an axis until the 1 i-th rotating arm i13 is perpendicular to the plane of the 1 i-th fixing arm i11, and rotating the 2 i-th rotating arm i23 by taking the 2 i-th rotating unit i22 as an axis until the 2 i-th rotating arm i23 is perpendicular to the plane of the 2 i-th fixing arm i21, so as to maintain the ith lighting system;
s3: rotating the 1 i-th rotating arm i13 to enable the 1 i-th rotating arm i13 to be parallel to the plane where the 1 i-th fixing arm i11 is located by taking the 1 i-th rotating unit i12 as an axis, rotating the 2 i-th rotating arm i23 to enable the 2 i-th rotating arm i23 to be parallel to the plane where the 2 i-th fixing arm i21 is located by taking the 2 i-th rotating unit i22 as an axis, rotating the i-th lighting system i to 90 degrees by taking the side edge as an axis, enabling the bottom surface of the i-th lighting system i to be parallel to the extending direction of the moving device 4, and completing the maintenance of the i-th lighting system i;
s4: the ith illumination system i is moved to the initial position. By adopting the method, the device maintenance is carried out on the ith lighting system in a directional manner without separating all the lighting systems from the light-emitting alignment device, so that the maintenance workload is reduced, and the maintenance efficiency is improved.
Preferably, S1 further includes:
s11: when i is equal to 1, moving the ith lighting system i from the initial position to a direction close to the first moving end 42 or the second moving end 43;
s12: when i is 2, moving the 1 st lighting system 1 from the initial position to a direction close to the first moving end 42 or the second moving end 43, and moving the i-th lighting system i to a direction close to the 1 st lighting system 1;
s13: when i is larger than or equal to 3, the 1 st lighting system 1 to the (i-1) th lighting system (not shown in the figure) are moved from the initial position to the direction close to the first moving end 42 or the second moving end 43, and the ith lighting system i is moved to the direction close to the (i-1) th lighting system.
Preferably, referring to fig. 6, 7, 8 and 9, taking an ith lighting system i having two carrier layers as an example, the invention further provides a second method for moving and rotating the optical alignment apparatus, in which the moving device 4 includes a first moving end 42 and a second moving end 43, and specifically includes:
s1: when the ith lighting system i is located on the dividing point 6, the lighting system i moves towards the first moving end 42 or the second moving end 43 by taking the middle point of the extending direction of the moving device 4 as a dividing point; when the i-th illumination system is located on the side of the dividing point 6 and the first motion end 42, it moves toward the first motion end 42; when the i-th lighting system is located at the dividing point 6 and on the side of the second motion end 43, it moves towards the second motion end 43;
s2: rotating the ith lighting system i by 90 degrees by taking the side edge as an axis, enabling the bottom surface of the ith lighting system i to be perpendicular to the moving device 4, rotating the 1 i-th rotating arm i13 by taking the 1 i-th rotating unit i12 as an axis until the 1 i-th rotating arm i13 is perpendicular to the plane of the 1 i-th fixing arm i11, and rotating the 2 i-th rotating arm i23 by taking the 2 i-th rotating unit i22 as an axis until the 2 i-th rotating arm i23 is perpendicular to the plane of the 2 i-th fixing arm i21, so as to maintain the ith lighting system;
s3: rotating the 1 i-th rotating arm i13 to enable the 1 i-th rotating arm i13 to be parallel to the plane where the 1 i-th fixing arm i11 is located by taking the 1 i-th rotating unit i12 as an axis, rotating the 2 i-th rotating arm i23 to enable the 2 i-th rotating arm i23 to be parallel to the plane where the 2 i-th fixing arm i21 is located by taking the 2 i-th rotating unit i22 as an axis, rotating the i-th lighting system i to 90 degrees by taking the side edge as an axis, enabling the bottom surface of the i-th lighting system i to be parallel to the extending direction of the moving device 4, and completing the maintenance of the i-th lighting system i;
s4: taking i +1, S1 to S3 are performed, maintenance of each lighting system is completed, and each lighting system is moved to an initial position in a direction close to the demarcation point 6. By adopting the method, the maintenance of all the lighting systems is realized, meanwhile, the whole lighting system is not required to be separated from the light emitting and alignment equipment, and the lighting systems are sequentially maintained in a step-by-step maintenance mode, so that the space for maintaining the light alignment equipment and the distance for moving each lighting system are reduced, the volume and the cost for building a relevant factory building are further reduced, and the maintenance efficiency for maintaining all the lighting systems is improved.
In summary, in the optical alignment apparatus and the movement and rotation method thereof provided by the embodiments of the present invention, the lighting system can be moved out of the working area of the lighting system by using the movement device, and the maintenance of the wire grid, the optical filter, and the lamp tube is realized by rotating the lighting system, the 11 th rotating arm, … …, the 1i th rotating arm, … …, and the 1n th rotating arm, so that the maintenance of the specific lighting system is realized.
The above description is only a preferred embodiment of the present invention, and does not limit the present invention in any way. It will be understood by those skilled in the art that various changes, substitutions and alterations can be made herein without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as defined by the appended claims.

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1. An optical pointing device, comprising:
several lighting systems: the lighting system comprises a No. 1 lighting system, … …, an ith lighting system, … … and an mth lighting system, wherein m is more than or equal to i and more than or equal to 1;
the ith illumination system comprises n carrier layers for carrying elements;
a plurality of rotating units corresponding to the plurality of lighting systems one by one;
the moving device is used for driving the plurality of lighting systems to move along the extending direction of the moving device;
the plurality of rotating units are positioned on the moving device, the ith illuminating system is rotationally connected with the corresponding ith rotating unit, and the ith illuminating system can rotate relative to the moving device by taking one side edge as an axis;
the n carrying layers can be dragged/pulled out or turned out from the rotated ith illuminating system;
the ith cargo layer of the ith lighting system comprises a ji fixed arm, a ji rotating shaft body and a ji rotating arm, one end of the ji fixed arm is fixedly connected with the inner wall of the ith lighting system, the other end of the ji fixed arm is rotatably connected with the ji rotating arm through the ji rotating shaft body, the ji rotating arm can rotate by taking the ji rotating shaft body as a shaft, and n is more than or equal to j and is more than or equal to 1.
2. A light-alignment device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the carrier layer may carry a light source and/or a light filter and/or a wire grid and/or a device support.
3. An optical alignment apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the rotation space requirement of the (j-1) th rotating arm is satisfied when the (j-1) th rotating arm rotates to the extreme position.
4. The optical alignment apparatus of claim 1, wherein said ji fixed arm and said ji rotating arm are each along a respective one of said ji fixed arm and said ji rotating armThe lengths in the self-extending direction are respectively Lji1And Lji2The lengths of the (j-1) th i fixed arm and the (j-1) th i rotating arm in the extension directions are respectively L(j-1)i1And L(j-1)i2,Lji1≥L(j-1)i1,Lji2≤L(j-1)i2
5. The photoalignment device of claim 1, wherein the ji rotation arm is capable of rotating 0 to 180 ° about the ji rotation axis.
6. A light-directing apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the ith illumination system is rotatable about the side edge by 0-90 ° away from the movement means.
7. A light-registering device according to claim 1, characterized in that the moving means comprise a guide unit.
8. The optical alignment apparatus as claimed in claim 7, further comprising a plurality of sliders corresponding to the plurality of illumination systems, wherein the ith rotating unit is fixedly connected to the corresponding ith slider, and the ith slider is capable of sliding along the extending direction of the guiding unit.
9. The photoalignment device of claim 1, wherein the movement means is a linear movement means.
10. A photoalignment device according to claim 7 or 9, wherein the movement means comprise a motor.
11. A light distribution device as claimed in claim 1, wherein a number of said illumination systems are of equal size, and wherein the state in which said illumination systems are not rotated relative to said movement means is defined as an initial state in which said illumination systems are adjacent to said movement meansThe bottom surface is arranged on one side of the moving device, the top surface is arranged on the other side of the moving device, and the length of the bottom surface along the extending direction of the moving device is L1The distance between the top surface and the bottom surface is H, the length of the motion device in the extension direction is L, and L is more than or equal to m.L1+H。
12. A photoalignment device according to claim 1, wherein each of the carrier layers is parallel to each other.
13. A method of moving and rotating a photoalignment device, using a photoalignment device according to any of claims 1 to 12, the moving means comprising a first moving end and a second moving end, comprising:
s1: moving the ith lighting system from an initial position in a direction toward the first moving end or the second moving end;
s2: rotating the ith lighting system by taking the side edge as an axis, rotating the 1 i-th rotating arm by taking the 1 i-th rotating unit as an axis, rotating the 2 i-th rotating arm by taking the 2 i-th rotating unit as an axis, dragging/pulling out or turning out the carrier layer to be maintained, and maintaining the ith lighting system;
s3: resetting the object layer to be maintained, rotating the 1 i-th rotating arm in the direction opposite to the rotating direction of the step S2 by taking the 1 i-th rotating unit as an axis, rotating the 2 i-th rotating arm in the direction opposite to the rotating direction of the step S2 by taking the 2 i-th rotating unit as an axis, and rotating the i-th illumination system in the direction opposite to the rotating direction of the step S2 by taking the side edge as an axis, thereby completing the maintenance of the i-th illumination system;
s4: moving the ith lighting system to an initial position.
14. The method of claim 13, wherein the step S1 comprises:
s11: when i is 1, moving the ith lighting system from the initial position to the direction close to the first motion end or the second motion end;
s12: when i is 2, moving the 1 st lighting system from the initial position to the direction close to the first moving end or the second moving end, and moving the ith lighting system to the direction close to the 1 st lighting system;
s13: when i is larger than or equal to 3, moving the 1 st to (i-1) th lighting systems and/or the 1 st to ith lighting systems from the initial position to the direction close to the first moving end or the second moving end, and moving the ith lighting system to the direction close to the (i-1) th lighting system.
15. Method for moving and rotating a photoalignment device according to any of claims 1 to 12, the moving means comprising a first moving end and a second moving end, characterized in that it comprises:
s1: when the ith lighting system is positioned on the dividing point, the lighting system moves towards the first moving end or the second moving end; moving toward the first motion end when the ith lighting system is located between the demarcation point and the first motion end; moving toward the second motion end when the ith lighting system is located between the demarcation point and the second motion end;
s2: rotating the ith lighting system, rotating the 1 i-th rotating arm in the direction opposite to the direction of rotation of the lighting system, … …, and rotating the ji-th rotating arm to perform maintenance on the ith lighting system;
s3: rotating … … the jth rotating arm, rotating 89the 1i rotating arm, rotating the ith lighting system, and completing the maintenance of the ith lighting system;
s4: taking the (i + 1) th lighting system, executing the steps from S1 to S3, completing the maintenance of each lighting system, and moving each lighting system to the initial position towards the direction close to the dividing point.
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