Discharging device of intelligent warehouse and accurate discharging quantity calculating method
Technical Field
The invention relates to the technical field of intelligent warehouses, in particular to a discharging device of an intelligent warehouse and a method for accurately calculating a discharging quantity.
Background
The intelligent warehouse generally refers to a warehouse which stores unit goods by shelves with the height of several layers, more than ten layers or even dozens of layers and uses corresponding material handling equipment to carry out warehousing and ex-warehouse operation of the goods. With the continuous development of social economy in China, the logistics value is continuously explored by Chinese enterprises, an automatic stereoscopic warehouse is adopted at present, the space can be fully utilized, more goods can be accommodated, an overhead warehouse system for storing goods in multiple layers is adopted, the height can reach more than thirty meters, different overhead types can be placed according to requirements, the heights of all the overhead types are different, the occupied area can be greatly saved compared with that of a flat warehouse, and meanwhile mechanization and automation are conveniently realized, so that the management level of the warehouse can be better improved.
The main body of the intelligent warehouse generally comprises a goods shelf, a discharging transporter, a warehouse entering (exiting) workbench, a peripheral transporting system and an operation control system, wherein the peripheral transporting system is commonly provided with a conveyor, an automatic guide vehicle and the like, and is used for completing the operations of transporting, transferring, sorting and the like of goods by matching with the discharging transporter.
The ejection of compact conveyer generally adopts the centre gripping arm to take off the goods from goods shelves at present, realizes getting the goods operation, but at the in-process of centre gripping arm work, the clamping action of centre gripping arm is unstable, the condition that the goods dropped appears easily, and the security when seriously influencing getting the goods, centre gripping arm itself receives the transmission of carrying the chain in addition, the condition that the chain skidded appears easily, also influences the stability when getting the goods.
Disclosure of Invention
In order to overcome the defects of the prior art, the invention provides the discharging device of the intelligent warehouse and the method for accurately calculating the discharging amount, which can effectively solve the problems in the background art.
The technical scheme adopted by the invention for solving the technical problems is as follows:
the discharging device of the intelligent warehouse comprises an outer supporting frame and a mechanical conveying mechanism arranged inside the outer supporting frame, wherein a cargo clamping mechanism is further arranged on the mechanical conveying mechanism;
the goods clamping mechanism comprises a mounting bottom plate and an inverted L-shaped inserting plate arranged on the outer surface of the mounting bottom plate, a push cylinder is embedded in the inner surface of the mounting bottom plate, a horseshoe-shaped connecting block is mounted at the tail end of an action rod of the push cylinder, the upper plate and the lower plate of the horseshoe-shaped connecting block are both provided with threaded through holes, a through bolt is arranged between the upper threaded through hole and the lower threaded through hole, two crossed clamping arms are sleeved outside the through bolt, two plane guide plates are further arranged between the two crossed clamping arms, one ends of the two plane guide plates are respectively and fixedly connected with the crossed clamping arms, the other ends of the two plane guide plates are respectively provided with a T-shaped limiting upright post and a cutting hole groove, the T-shaped limiting upright posts are inserted into the cutting hole grooves and can slide along the cutting hole grooves, and tensioning expansion springs are further arranged on the installation bottom plate and the crossed clamping arms and the installation bottom plate are parallel to the crossed clamping arms.
According to a preferred technical scheme, the upper end and the lower end of the installation bottom plate are respectively provided with a guide vertical long plate, the guide vertical long plates are further provided with U-shaped open grooves, limit stand columns are arranged in the U-shaped open grooves, corners of the crossed clamping arms are sleeved outside the limit stand columns and can rotate around the limit stand columns, and two-stage hinged connecting rods are further arranged on the two crossed clamping arms and the guide vertical long plates.
According to a preferable technical scheme, the supporting outer frame comprises vertical U-shaped parallel wing plates, cutting guide grooves are formed in the vertical U-shaped parallel wing plates, hollow hole grooves are formed in the side walls of the cutting guide grooves of the vertical U-shaped parallel wing plates, and limiting anti-falling mechanisms are further arranged inside the hollow hole grooves.
As a preferred technical scheme, the limiting and anti-falling mechanism comprises a plurality of fixed rectangular plates which are uniformly arranged in the hollow hole grooves and a vertical series connecting rod which penetrates through and is connected with all the fixed rectangular plates, rotating short rods are arranged on two parallel side surfaces of each fixed rectangular plate and are arranged on the side walls of the hollow hole grooves, an installation base is arranged at the upper end of each vertical U-shaped parallel wing plate, a linear motor is arranged on the installation base, and the output end of the linear motor is fixedly installed with the upper end of the vertical series connecting rod.
As a preferable technical scheme of the invention, the mechanical conveying mechanism comprises a conveying circulating chain arranged inside the vertical U-shaped parallel wing plates, a first servo motor and a second servo motor are respectively arranged at the head end and the tail end of the conveying circulating chain, and rotating gears are respectively arranged on output shafts of the first servo motor and the second servo motor.
According to a preferred technical scheme, the conveying circulating chain is formed by mutually hinging a plurality of bearing round rods, an arched mounting plate is arranged on a plurality of adjacent bearing round rods of the conveying circulating chain, a cavity hollow plate for mounting an inverted L-shaped inserting plate is fixedly arranged on the arched mounting plate, an inserting rod arranged in a hollow hole groove is further arranged on the guide vertical long plate, and a triangular three-dimensional lug matched with the clamping rectangular plate in working is further arranged on the inserting rod.
As a preferable technical scheme of the invention, the inner surface of the crossed clamping arm is also provided with an extension clamping plate, and the inner surface of the extension clamping plate is also provided with a wave wear-resistant elastic pad.
In addition, the invention also provides a method for accurately calculating the discharging amount of the discharging device of the intelligent warehouse, which comprises the following steps:
step 100, rotating a first servo motor and a second servo motor in the same direction to drive a mounting bottom plate to move upwards until reaching a designated shelf;
200, pushing an action rod of the air cylinder to act inside and outside, clamping articles on the goods shelf through a telescopic action, synchronously rotating the first servo motor and the second servo motor in opposite directions to drive the mounting bottom plate to move downwards, and supporting the outer frame to turn to place the articles on the discharging conveying table;
and step 300, calculating the cargo quantity by an infrared detection unit on the discharging conveying table, and accumulating the cargo quantity in real time.
As a preferred technical solution of the present invention, in step 300, the specific steps of performing cargo metering are as follows:
301, monitoring a discharging conveying table in real time by using an infrared detector in an infrared detection unit;
step 302, additionally arranging a photographing imaging system on the discharging conveying table, and extracting images photographed by the photographing imaging system by using a video network node;
303, electrically connecting the photosensitive element with the infrared detector, connecting the counter with the photosensitive element through an electric signal, and calculating the discharged cargo quantity in real time by using the change of the photosensitive element as a counting trigger of the counter;
as a preferred technical solution of the present invention, in step 303, a variation value of the photosensitive element is preset, and when the variation value is within a range of detecting the cargo, a counter is triggered to count.
Compared with the prior art, the invention has the beneficial effects that:
(1) the invention has stable structure, effectively prevents the clamping arms from generating displacement difference in the vertical direction, and avoids the falling of goods caused by the clamping force not on the same surface when the clamping arms are in clamping action, thereby ensuring the stability of the crossed clamping arms when clamping the goods;
(2) the invention effectively avoids the clamping mechanism from falling off from the conveying chain, thereby improving the safety of the goods during conveying and preventing the goods from being damaged in the transferring process;
(3) the invention uses two discharging metering modes, can effectively correct the discharging accuracy, avoids the detection error and improves the stability of discharging during operation.
Drawings
FIG. 1 is a schematic view of the overall structure of the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a schematic structural view of a limiting anti-drop mechanism of the present invention;
FIG. 3 is a schematic view of the cargo fixture installation of the present invention;
FIG. 4 is a schematic top view of the cargo clamping mechanism of the present invention;
FIG. 5 is a side view of the cargo clamping mechanism of the present invention;
FIG. 6 is a flow chart of a method of calculating a throughput of the present invention;
reference numbers in the figures:
1-supporting an outer frame; 2-a mechanical conveying mechanism; 3-a cargo clamping mechanism; 4-limiting the anti-drop mechanism; 5-a load-bearing round bar; 6-arched mounting plate; 7-hollow plate of cavity; 8-inserting the rod; 9-a triangular three-dimensional bump; 10-extending the clamping plate; 11-wave abrasion resistant elastic pad;
101-vertical U-shaped parallel wing plates; 102-cutting a guide groove; 103-hollow hole grooves;
201-vertical U-shaped parallel wing plates; 202-a first servomotor; 203-a second servo motor; 204-a rotating gear;
301-mounting a base plate; 302-inverting the L-shaped mounting plate; 303-pushing the cylinder; 304-horseshoe shaped connecting block; 305-threaded perforation; 306-through bolt; 307-cross gripper arms; 308-a planar guide plate; 309-T-shaped limiting upright post; 3010-cutting the hole and slot; 3011-tensioning the extension spring; 3012-guiding the vertical long plate; 3013-a U-shaped open slot; 3014-a limit post; 3015-a secondary articulation link;
401-locking a rectangular plate; 402-vertical tandem links; 403-turning the short bar; 404-mounting a base; 405-a linear motor;
Detailed Description
The technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the drawings in the embodiments of the present invention, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are only a part of the embodiments of the present invention, and not all of the embodiments. All other embodiments, which can be derived by a person skilled in the art from the embodiments given herein without making any creative effort, shall fall within the protection scope of the present invention.
As shown in fig. 1 and 2, the invention provides a discharging device of an intelligent warehouse, which comprises an outer supporting frame 1 and a mechanical conveying mechanism 2 installed inside the outer supporting frame 1, wherein a cargo clamping mechanism 3 is further arranged on the mechanical conveying mechanism 2, and the mechanical conveying mechanism 2 can drive the cargo clamping mechanism 3 to move up and down in the outer supporting frame 1, so that cargo transfer is realized.
It should be added that the lower end of the supporting outer frame 1 is provided with a roller moving mechanism, which can drive the supporting outer frame 1 to move, and the existing robot moving technology can be used.
Support outer frame 1 and include vertical U-shaped parallel pterygoid lamina 101, be equipped with cutting guide way 102 on the vertical U-shaped parallel pterygoid lamina 101, vertical U-shaped parallel pterygoid lamina 101 is in be equipped with fretwork hole groove 103 on the lateral wall of cutting guide way 102, the inside of fretwork hole groove 103 still is equipped with the restriction and prevents falling mechanism 4, and goods fixture 3 is when mechanical conveying mechanism 2 removes, and the restriction prevents falling mechanism 4 multiplicable goods fixture 3's of mechanism stability, effectually prevents that goods fixture 3 from landing from mechanical conveying mechanism 2 to improve the security of goods when carrying.
The limiting anti-falling mechanism 4 comprises a plurality of clamping rectangular plates 401 uniformly arranged inside the hollow hole grooves 103 and vertical string connecting rods 402 penetrating and connecting all the clamping rectangular plates 401, two parallel side faces of each clamping rectangular plate 401 are respectively provided with a rotating short rod 403, each rotating short rod 403 is installed on the side wall of each hollow hole groove 103, the upper end of each vertical U-shaped parallel wing plate 101 is provided with an installation base 404, each installation base 404 is provided with a linear motor 405, the output end of each linear motor 405 is fixedly installed with the upper end of each vertical string connecting rod 402, each linear motor 405 can push each vertical string connecting rod 402 to move up and down, and each vertical string connecting rod 403 can drive each clamping rectangular plate 401 to rotate around each rotating short rod when moving up and down.
The mechanical conveying mechanism 2 comprises a conveying circulating chain 201 arranged inside a vertical U-shaped parallel wing plate 101, a first servo motor 202 and a second servo motor 203 are arranged at the head end and the tail end of the conveying circulating chain 201 respectively, rotating gears 204 are mounted on output shafts of the first servo motor 202 and the second servo motor 203, the racks of the rotating gears 204 are meshed with the conveying circulating chain 201 to drive the conveying circulating chain 201 to transmit, and the cargo clamping mechanism 3 is driven to move on the conveying circulating chain 201, so that cargos are transferred to a cargo rack to be stored.
As shown in fig. 3 to 5, the conveying circulation chain 201 is formed by hinging a plurality of bearing round rods 5, an arch-shaped mounting plate 6 is arranged on a plurality of adjacent bearing round rods 5 of the conveying circulation chain 201, a hollow cavity plate 7 for mounting an inverted L-shaped insertion plate is fixedly arranged on the arch-shaped mounting plate 6, and the hollow cavity plate 7 is used for clamping the cargo clamping mechanism 3.
Goods fixture 3 includes mounting plate 301 and sets up at the L of inversion of mounting plate 301 surface and ann inserts board 302, and the L of inversion ann inserts board 302 is arranged in cavity slab 7, can realize mounting plate 301's fixed to also be convenient for mounting plate 301's dismantlement work simultaneously, the whole maintenance operation in the later stage of being convenient for.
The inner surface of the mounting base plate 301 is inlaid with a pushing cylinder 303, the tail end of an action rod of the pushing cylinder 303 is provided with a horseshoe-shaped connecting block 304, the upper plate and the lower plate of the horseshoe-shaped connecting block 304 are provided with thread through holes 305, a through bolt 306 is arranged between the upper thread through hole 305 and the lower thread through hole 305, two crossed clamping arms 307 are sleeved outside the through bolt 306, when the pushing cylinder 303 pushes the horseshoe-shaped connecting block 304 outwards, the crossed clamping arms 307 can rotate in the horseshoe-shaped connecting block 304, the angle between the two crossed clamping arms 307 is increased, the horseshoe-shaped connecting block is suitable for discharging of goods with different sizes, when the pushing cylinder 303 pulls the horseshoe-shaped connecting block 304 inwards, the crossed clamping arms 307 can rotate in the horseshoe-shaped connecting block 304, the angle between the two crossed.
The upper and lower both ends of mounting plate 301 all are equipped with the vertical long board 3012 of direction, still be equipped with U-shaped open slot 3013 on the vertical long board 3012 of direction, be equipped with spacing stand 3014 in the U-shaped open slot 3013, the corner cover of alternately centre gripping arm 307 is established outside spacing stand 3014 and can be rotated around spacing stand 3014, and spacing stand 3014 can effectually prevent alternately centre gripping arm 307 from producing the displacement difference in upper and lower direction, guarantees the stability when alternately centre gripping arm 307 centre gripping goods, effectively prevents alternately that centre gripping arm 307 clamping action from not dropping at the goods that same surface caused.
Two plane guide plates 308 are further arranged between the two cross clamping arms 307, one ends of the two plane guide plates 308 are respectively fixedly connected with the cross clamping arms 307, the other ends of the two plane guide plates 308 are respectively provided with a T-shaped limiting upright 309 and a cutting hole slot 3010, the T-shaped limiting upright 309 is inserted into the cutting hole slot 3010 and can slide along the cutting hole slot 3010, when the two cross clamping arms 307 are relatively opened, the T-shaped limiting upright 309 slides in the cutting hole slot 3010 to increase the distance between the two plane guide plates 308, when the two cross clamping arms 307 are relatively closed, the T-shaped limiting upright 309 slides in the cutting hole slot 3010 in a reverse direction to decrease the distance between the two plane guide plates 308, so that the distance between the two plane guide plates 308 is adapted to the change of the cross clamping arms 307, and the stability of the cross clamping arms 307 is further limited, ensuring that the cross gripping arms 307 are on the same horizontal surface during operation.
The installation bottom plate 301 is further provided with a tensioning telescopic spring 3011 at a position parallel to the cross clamping arms 307, and two cross clamping arms 307 and the guide vertical long plate 3012 are further provided with a second-stage hinged connecting rod 3015, and the second-stage hinged connecting rod 3015 can be folded and unfolded according to the opening and closing operation of the two cross clamping arms 307, so that the stability of the cross clamping arms 307 in operation is ensured, and in addition, the tensioning telescopic spring 3011 is further used for limiting the stability of the cross clamping arms 307.
Still be equipped with the pole of inserting 8 of installing in fretwork hole groove 103 on the vertical long board 3012 of direction, still be equipped with the three-dimensional lug 9 of triangle that matches work with card rectangular plate 401 on the pole of inserting 8, when goods fixture 3 removed, vertical long board 3012 of direction passes through the three-dimensional lug 9 of triangle, realizes the card effect with card rectangular plate 401, prevents that mounting plate 301 from dropping from carrying circulation chain 201, improves the security when the goods ejection of compact, does not influence the normal conveying effect of carrying circulation chain 201 simultaneously.
The extension clamping plate 10 is further installed on the inner surface of the cross clamping arm 307, the wave wear-resistant elastic pad 11 is further arranged on the inner surface of the extension clamping plate 10, the area of the extension clamping plate when clamping goods is increased, on one hand, the extension clamping plate plays a role in protecting the goods, and on the other hand, the stability of the extension clamping plate during clamping is improved.
As shown in fig. 6, in addition, the present invention further provides a method for accurately calculating a discharging amount of an intelligent warehouse discharging device, which specifically includes the following steps:
step 100, the first servo motor and the second servo motor rotate in the same direction to drive the installation bottom plate to move upwards until the installation bottom plate reaches a designated goods shelf, when the installation bottom plate moves upwards, the linear motor pushes the vertical series rod to move downwards, the clamping rectangular plate rotates around the rotating short rod to be inclined upwards, and the triangular three-dimensional bump moves on the clamping rectangular plate to prevent the installation bottom plate from falling off from the conveying circulating chain.
200, the action rods of the pushing cylinders act inside and outside to clamp articles on the goods shelf through a telescopic action, the first servo motors and the second servo motors synchronously and reversely rotate to drive the mounting bottom plate to move downwards, the outer supporting frame turns to place the articles on the discharging conveying table, the action rods of the pushing cylinders are pushed to perform repeated operation of outward pushing and inward pulling, the articles can be clamped, when the mounting bottom plate moves downwards, the linear motors push the vertical series rods to move upwards and reversely, the clamping rectangular plate rotates around the rotating short rods to be inclined downwards, and the triangular three-dimensional lug moves on the clamping rectangular plate.
And 300, calculating the quantity of the goods by an infrared detection unit on the discharging conveying table, accumulating the quantity of the goods in real time, and judging whether the goods exist on the discharging conveying table or not by the infrared detection unit by detecting the heat of the discharging conveying table.
In step 300, the specific steps of cargo metering are as follows:
firstly, an infrared detector in an infrared detection unit is used for monitoring a discharging conveying table in real time;
then, additionally arranging a photographing imaging system on the discharging conveying table, and extracting images photographed by the photographing imaging system by using a video network node;
and finally, electrically connecting the photosensitive element with the infrared detector, connecting the counter with the photosensitive element through an electric signal, and calculating the quantity of the discharged goods in real time by taking the change of the photosensitive element as a counting trigger of the counter.
That is to say, if infrared detector detects the ejection of compact and carries the goods heat on the platform, then photosensitive element can produce corresponding resistance change, when resistance change, then can trigger the counter and count once to analogize from this, can carry the goods on the platform to the ejection of compact and carry out accurate calculation, and also can utilize the imaging system of shooing to count the correction, compare the goods volume of both, thereby guarantee the accuracy of load.
In addition, it is preferable that the change value of the photosensitive element is preset, when the change value is in the range of detecting the goods, the counter is triggered to count, if the infrared detector is detecting the normal discharged goods on the discharged material conveying table, the change value of the photosensitive element is in a dynamic balance state, when the change value of the photosensitive element is in the balance range, the counter is triggered to count once, if there is interference of other goods, for example, when the infrared detector detects a human body, the change value of the photosensitive element is not in a dynamic balance state, the counter cannot count, and therefore stability and accuracy of the infrared detector during detection are improved.
It will be evident to those skilled in the art that the invention is not limited to the details of the foregoing illustrative embodiments, and that the present invention may be embodied in other specific forms without departing from the spirit or essential attributes thereof. The present embodiments are therefore to be considered in all respects as illustrative and not restrictive, the scope of the invention being indicated by the appended claims rather than by the foregoing description, and all changes which come within the meaning and range of equivalency of the claims are therefore intended to be embraced therein. Any reference sign in a claim should not be construed as limiting the claim concerned.