Rotary driving device for polishing steering wheel
Technical Field
The invention relates to the technical field of steering wheel processing, in particular to a rotary driving device for polishing a steering wheel.
Background
A steering wheel is a wheel-like device that steers the direction of travel of an automobile, ship, airplane, or the like. The steering wheel is generally connected with a steering shaft through a spline, and the function of the steering wheel is to convert the force applied to the edge of the steering wheel by a driver into torque and then transmit the torque to the steering shaft; the main part of steering wheel is annular skeleton, and the skeleton is general for integrative die-casting shaping or panel beating shaping, and the surface is often rough after integrative die-casting shaping's steering wheel skeleton is preliminary shaping, has defects such as burr and overlap. In order to ensure the subsequent installation accuracy of other parts on the framework, the surface of the steering wheel framework needs to be polished to remove the flash. To the polishing work of steering wheel, the enterprise adopts artifical manual polishing a bit, but inefficiency, and the enterprise adopts semi-automatic equipment to polish a bit, but this kind of equipment is more troublesome to the location of skeleton, and it is more time-consuming to go up unloading (skeleton) process promptly, polishes to a skeleton at the machine and finishes the back, and the manual work need go on going up unloading, and the equipment of polishing need shut down the wait this time, so frequent stack, and the time of shutting down is longer, influences machining efficiency and output.
Disclosure of Invention
The invention aims to provide a rotary driving device for polishing a steering wheel, which can realize more automation of a polishing process of the steering wheel, reduce manual participation and save manpower.
In order to achieve the purpose, the invention adopts the following technical scheme: a rotary drive device for steering wheel sanding, comprising:
a processing table;
a rotating plate rotatably supported on the processing table, wherein the rotating axis of the rotating plate is horizontally arranged;
the two clamping structures are used for clamping a steering wheel to be polished and are arranged at two ends of the rotating plate, and the two clamping structures positioned on the rotating plate are positioned at the same side of the rotating plate along the direction of the rotating axis and are symmetrically arranged relative to the rotating axis;
the method is characterized in that: each clamping structure comprises:
the mounting disc is mounted on the rotating plate;
the inner clamping structure is rotatably installed on the installation disc and used for clamping the steering wheel from the inner ring of the steering wheel, the inner clamping structure comprises an annular hollow end head and three positioning arms arranged on the side wall of the hollow end head, the three positioning arms are located on the same plane and extend along the radial direction of the hollow end head, one end of each positioning arm is inserted into the inner part of the hollow end head, the other end of each positioning arm is used for abutting against the inner ring of the steering wheel, and the positioning arms can move back and forth along the axis of the positioning arms.
Preferably, a first ball head is arranged at one end, extending into the hollow end, of each positioning arm, a second ball head is arranged on the axis of the hollow end and abutted against the first ball head, the second ball head can move back and forth along the axis of the hollow end, the axis of the hollow end and the axis of the mounting disc are collinear, a matching pressing block used for abutting against an inner ring of a steering wheel is arranged at one end, far away from the hollow end, of each positioning arm, a return spring is sleeved on each positioning arm, one end of each return spring abuts against the hollow end, the other end of each return spring abuts against the matching pressing block, and each return spring is always in a stretched state.
Preferably, a transmission block is arranged on one side, away from the mounting disc, of the hollow end head, a threaded hole is formed in the transmission block, the threaded hole is located on the axis of the hollow end head, a transmission screw rod is connected to the threaded hole in a threaded manner, and one end of the transmission screw rod extends into the hollow end head and is connected with the second ball head.
Preferably, a first through hole is formed in the position of the axis of each mounting disc, a second through hole is formed in the position, corresponding to the axis of each mounting disc, on the rotating plate, the diameter of each first through hole is the same as that of each second through hole, a linkage shaft is arranged on one side, close to the mounting disc, of each hollow end, the linkage shafts are located in the first through holes and the second through holes and are coaxially arranged, the diameter of each first through hole is larger than the outer diameter of each linkage shaft, a driving motor capable of moving back and forth along the axis of each hollow end is arranged at the position corresponding to the polishing station, a transmission shaft is arranged on an output shaft of the driving motor, and the transmission shaft and the linkage shafts can be selectively connected.
Preferably, two first bearing rollers and one second bearing roller are arranged on the mounting disc, the two first bearing rollers are immovable relative to the radial direction of the mounting disc, the two first bearing rollers and the two second bearing rollers are respectively spaced by 120 degrees from each other in the diameter of the mounting disc corresponding to the two first bearing rollers and the diameter of the mounting disc corresponding to the two second bearing rollers, the second bearing roller can move back and forth between the first position and the second position along the diameter of the mounting disc corresponding to the second bearing roller, when the second bearing roller moves to the first position, the first bearing rollers and the second bearing rollers are located on the same circumference relative to the axis of the mounting disc so as to clamp the steering disc, the axis of the steering disc is collinear with the axis of the mounting disc, and the distance between the second bearing rollers and the axis of the mounting disc when the second bearing rollers are located at the second position is greater than the distance between the second bearing rollers and the axis of the mounting disc when the second bearing rollers are.
Preferably, when the clamping structure is in the placing position, the axes of the two first carrier rollers are located on the same horizontal plane and are lower than the height of the second carrier roller.
Preferably, a positioning gear is arranged on the hollow end or the linkage shaft, the positioning gear and the linkage shaft are coaxially arranged, a sector rack capable of moving back and forth along the radial direction of the installation disc is arranged on the installation disc, and teeth on the sector rack can be meshed with teeth on the positioning gear.
Preferably, a position sensor for detecting the meshing of the positioning gear and the sector gear is provided on the mounting plate.
The invention also provides a rotary driving method for polishing the steering wheel, which is applied to the rotary driving device and is characterized by comprising the following steps of:
step 1: placing a steering wheel to be polished on a clamping structure at a feeding station, enabling a positioning arm to move outwards along the radial direction of an installation disc until the positioning arm is abutted against an inner ring of the steering wheel, and controlling the positioning cylinder to retract to control the rotation of the steering wheel to be polished on a polishing station;
step 2: after polishing is finished, the positioning cylinder is controlled to extend out to enable the positioning gear to be meshed with the fan-shaped rack;
and step 3: controlling the rotating plate to rotate 180 degrees;
and 4, step 4: and (3) taking off the polished steering wheel positioned on the feeding station, and then executing the step 1.
Preferably, in step 2, whether the teeth in the positioning gear and the sector rack enter into the corresponding tooth grooves is judged through the position sensor, if the teeth do not enter into the corresponding tooth grooves, the positioning cylinder retracts, the positioning cylinder is controlled to retract again after the rotating motor rotates by a distance of half a tooth pitch, meanwhile, the rotating motor is controlled to rotate freely, and after the positioning cylinder completes the action, the rotating motor is controlled not to rotate freely.
Compared with the prior art, the invention has the following beneficial effects:
the rotary driving device can realize the fixation and the rotary driving of the steering wheel to be polished, and can realize the stability when the steering wheel rotates by fixing the inner ring and the outer ring of the steering wheel; the two clamping structures are arranged, so that when the steering wheel on one clamping structure is polished, the steering wheel on the other clamping structure can be fed and discharged; the positioning gear and the sector gear are adopted, so that accurate joint of the transmission shaft and the linkage shaft can be ensured.
Drawings
In order to more clearly illustrate the technical solutions of the embodiments of the present invention, the drawings required to be used in the embodiments of the present invention will be briefly described below. It is obvious that the drawings described below are only some embodiments of the invention, and that for a person skilled in the art, other drawings can be derived from them without inventive effort.
FIGS. 1-5 are perspective views of the present invention;
FIG. 6 is an enlarged view at A;
FIG. 7 is an enlarged view at B;
FIG. 8 is an enlarged view at C;
FIG. 9 is a block diagram of an internal clamping structure;
FIG. 10 is a cross-sectional view at the linkage shaft.
Detailed Description
The technical scheme of the invention is further explained by the specific implementation mode in combination with the attached drawings.
Wherein the showings are for the purpose of illustration only and are shown by way of illustration only and not in actual form, and are not to be construed as limiting the present patent; to better illustrate the embodiments of the present invention, some parts of the drawings may be omitted, enlarged or reduced, and do not represent the size of an actual product; it will be understood by those skilled in the art that certain well-known structures in the drawings and descriptions thereof may be omitted.
Example one
Referring to fig. 1 to 10, a steering wheel grinding driving device based on machine vision includes a processing table 1, a rotating plate 2 rotatably supported on the processing table 1, and a clamping structure for fixing a steering wheel 100 to be ground by setting both ends of the rotating plate 2, wherein a rotation axis of the rotating plate 2 is horizontally disposed, the two clamping structures disposed on the rotating plate 2 are disposed on the same side of the rotating plate 2 in the rotation axis direction and symmetrically disposed with respect to the rotation axis, when grinding, an axis of the steering wheel is parallel to the rotation axis and the steering wheel can rotate around its own axis, and when the steering wheel rotates, the grinding structure such as a grinding wheel or sand paper is contacted with the steering wheel, so that the grinding of the steering wheel can be realized.
Specifically, a support arm 11 is provided on the table 1, a rotation shaft 12 that is collinear with the rotation axis is rotatably provided on the support arm 11, an intermediate position in the length direction of the rotation plate 2 is fixed to the rotation shaft 12, and the axes of the steering wheels on the two clamp structures are coplanar with the rotation axis after the steering wheels are fixed to the two clamp structures. A rotation cylinder 111 is provided at one end of the rotation shaft 12 away from the rotation plate 2, and the rotation cylinder 111 rotates at a rotation angle of 180 °.
Each of the clamping structures includes a mounting plate 211 mounted on the rotating plate 2 and an inner clamping structure rotatably mounted on the mounting plate 211 to clamp the steering wheel from an inner ring of the steering wheel 100. Specifically, the inner clamping structure comprises a circular hollow end head 6 and three positioning arms 611 arranged on the side wall of the hollow end head 6, the three positioning arms 611 are located on the same plane and extend along the radial direction of the hollow end head 6, one end of each positioning arm 611 is inserted into the hollow end head 6, the other end of each positioning arm 611 is used for abutting against the inner ring of the steering wheel 100, and the positioning arms 611 can move back and forth along the axis of the positioning arms 611 to clamp or release the inner ring of the steering wheel 100.
Further, a first ball head 612 is arranged at one end of each positioning arm 611 extending into the hollow end head 6, a second ball head 712 abutting against the first ball head 612 is arranged on the axis of the hollow end head 6, when the second ball head 712 moves back and forth along the axis of the hollow end head 6, the second ball head 712 can push the first ball head 612 and can move the positioning arm 611 outwards along the radial direction of the hollow end head 6 so that the other end of the positioning arm 611 abuts against the inner ring of the steering wheel 100, and when the steering wheel 100 needs to be loosened, the second ball head 712 can move in the opposite direction. The axis of the hollow head 6 is collinear with the axis of the mounting plate 211. Certainly, the first ball head 612 and the second ball head 712 may be matched in a conical surface matching manner, the second ball head 712 may be replaced by a conical circular truncated cone, the first ball head 612 is replaced by a fan-shaped cone, the fan-shaped cone is provided with a conical surface matched with the conical circular truncated cone, and when the conical circular truncated cone moves back and forth, the fan-shaped cone can be pushed to move back and forth along the radial direction of the hollow end 6 due to the action of the conical surface.
Preferably, a fitting pressing block 614 is arranged at one end of the positioning arm 611 far away from the hollow head 6, and the fitting pressing block 614 abuts against an inner ring of the steering wheel 100. There are some steering wheels 100 whose inner ring is provided with a projection 101, said projection 101 being produced during the production of the steering wheel 100, for this type of steering wheel 100, the mating pressure piece 614 rests against the projection 101.
The positioning arm 611 is sleeved with a return spring 613, one end of the return spring 613 abuts against the hollow end 6, the other end of the return spring 613 abuts against the matching pressing block 614, and the return spring 613 is always in a stretched state, so that the first ball head 612 can always abut against the second ball head 712 through the return spring 613, and when the second ball head 712 moves towards a releasing direction, the return spring 613 pulls the positioning arm 611 to move towards the central direction of the hollow end 6, and then the steering wheel 100 is released.
Further, a transmission block 713 is arranged on one side, away from the mounting disc 211, of the hollow end head 6, a threaded hole is formed in the transmission block 713, the threaded hole is located on the axis of the hollow end head 6, a transmission screw 7 is connected to the threaded hole in a threaded manner, one end of the transmission screw 7 extends into the hollow end head 6 and is connected with the second ball head 712, and the second ball head 712 can move back and forth by rotating the transmission screw 7. For ease of operation, a handle 711 is provided at the end of the drive screw 7 remote from the hollow tip 6.
A first through hole 212 is provided at a position of an axis of each mounting disk 211, and a second through hole 213 is provided at a position corresponding to the axis of each mounting disk 211 on the rotating plate 2, the first through hole 212 and the second through hole 213 having the same diameter. A linkage shaft 5 is arranged on one side, close to the mounting disc 211, of the hollow end head 6, the linkage shaft 5 is positioned in the first through hole 212 and the second through hole 213 and is coaxially arranged, and the diameter of the first through hole 212 is larger than the outer diameter of the linkage shaft 5. In order to support the hollow end 6 and the linkage shaft 5, a plurality of L-shaped connecting rods 214 are arranged on one side of the mounting disc 211 facing the hollow end 6, one end of each L-shaped connecting rod 214 is fixed on the mounting disc 211, the other end of each L-shaped connecting rod 214 is provided with a fixing sleeve 215, a bearing is arranged between the linkage shaft 5 and the fixing sleeve 215, and the plurality of L-shaped connecting rods 214 are arranged at equal angles relative to the axis of the hollow end 6.
The position department that corresponds the station of polishing is provided with the driving motor 9 that can follow the axis reciprocating motion of cavity end 6, is provided with transmission shaft 8 on driving motor 9's output shaft, after installing steering wheel 100 on the clamping structure, through making rotor plate 2 rotatory, after the one end that will centre gripping remain the steering wheel 100 of polishing is rotatory to the station of polishing, driving motor 9 towards the direction removal of rotor plate 2 makes transmission shaft 8 and universal driving shaft 5 cooperation, then driving motor 9 is rotatory, and then can drive steering wheel 100 rotatory, through making the rotatory equipment friction of polishing such as steering wheel 100 and emery wheel, abrasive paper and realize polishing to steering wheel 100. The first through hole 212 and the second through hole 213 have a diameter larger than the outer diameter of the drive shaft 8.
Further, a groove 51 extending along the axial direction of the linkage shaft 5 is formed in the surface of the linkage shaft 5, the transmission shaft 8 is of a hollow structure, a protrusion 81 is formed in the inner surface of the transmission shaft 8, when the driving motor 9 moves towards the rotating plate 2, the linkage shaft 5 can be inserted into the transmission shaft 8, the protrusion 81 can be inserted into the groove 51, and the transmission shaft 8 can drive the linkage shaft 5 to rotate through the matching of the protrusion 81 and the groove 51.
Preferably, a bracket 91 is provided on the table 1, and a motor holder 92 is provided on the driving motor 9, the motor holder 92 being supported on the bracket 91 by a combination of a guide rail extending along the axis of the drive shaft 8 and a slider. Further, a first air cylinder 911 is arranged on the bracket 91, a cylinder rod of the first air cylinder 911 is connected with the motor frame 92, and the connection or the separation of the transmission shaft 8 and the linkage shaft 5 can be realized by controlling the expansion and contraction of the cylinder rod.
Three rotatable supporting rollers 311 are arranged on the mounting disc 211, two of the supporting rollers 311 are immovable relative to the radial direction of the mounting disc 211, one of the supporting rollers 311 is movable relative to the radial direction of the mounting disc 211, and the diameters of the mounting disc 211 where the three supporting rollers are located are spaced by 120 degrees in pairs. For convenience of description, two carrier rollers 311 immovable in the radial direction of the mounting plate 211 are referred to as a first carrier roller, and the other carrier roller 311 is referred to as a second carrier roller. The two first supporting rollers are located on the same circumference relative to the axis of the mounting disc 211, the mounting disc 211 is provided with a second air cylinder 4, the air cylinder rod of the second air cylinder 4 is parallel to the diameter of the mounting disc 211 where the second supporting roller is located, the second supporting roller is mounted on the air cylinder rod of the second air cylinder 4 through a roller frame, when the air cylinder rod of the second air cylinder 4 extends out, the first supporting roller and the second supporting roller are located on the same circumference, and the steering wheel 100 clamped between the first supporting roller and the second supporting roller is located on the axis of the mounting disc 211.
When the steering wheel needs to be placed or taken out, the cylinder rod of the second cylinder 4 retracts, the distance between the second supporting roller and the axis of the mounting plate 211 is larger than the radius of the steering wheel 100, and the steering wheel can be placed between the three supporting rollers 311 or taken out.
In order to facilitate the placement of the steering wheel 100, when the clamping structure is in the placement position, the axes of the two first carrier rollers are located on the same horizontal plane and lower than the height of the second carrier roller, so that the steering wheel 100 can be directly placed on the two first carrier rollers, then the positioning arm 611 is driven to move outwards and abut against the steering wheel 100, and then the cylinder rod of the second cylinder 4 is extended out, so that the second carrier roller is pressed on the steering wheel 100. By simultaneously pressing the inner ring and the outer ring of the steering wheel 100, the stability of the steering wheel 100 when rotating can be ensured.
Further, be provided with positioning gear 33 on cavity end 6 or universal driving shaft 5, positioning gear 33 and universal driving shaft 5 coaxial setting are provided with sector rack 34 that can follow the radial reciprocating motion of installation disc 211 on installation disc 211, the tooth on sector rack 34 can mesh with the tooth on the positioning gear 33, and cavity end 6, universal driving shaft 5 can not rotate when the meshing, can avoid universal driving shaft 5 to make recess 51 and arch 81 can not align owing to rotate wantonly like this. Further, a positioning cylinder 35 is disposed on the mounting plate 211, a cylinder rod of the positioning cylinder 35 is parallel to the moving direction of the sector rack 34, and the sector rack 34 is fixed on the cylinder rod of the positioning cylinder 35. When the electric grinding wheel is used, after grinding is finished and the steering wheel stops rotating, the fan-shaped rack 34 is meshed with the positioning gear 33 immediately, then the transmission shaft 8 is separated from the linkage shaft 5, and the control driving motor 9 cannot rotate at the moment, so that the situation that the groove 51 and the protrusion 81 cannot be aligned when the transmission shaft 8 cannot be connected with the linkage shaft 5 next time due to rotation is avoided.
Of course, since the sector rack 34 and the positioning rack 33 must be engaged, tooth grooves and teeth must be aligned, and if the teeth of the sector rack 34 are aligned with the teeth of the positioning gear 33, the engagement cannot be achieved at this time, for this reason, a position sensor for detecting whether the sector rack 34 is in place is provided on the mounting plate 211, and when the position sensor detects that the sector rack 34 is not in place, the cylinder rod of the positioning cylinder 35 is retracted, the driving motor 9 controls the transmission shaft 9 to rotate by a distance of half a pitch, and the cylinder rod of the positioning cylinder 35 is extended again, so that the teeth of the sector rack 34 can be inserted into the tooth grooves of the positioning gear 33. However, although the teeth can be inserted into the corresponding tooth grooves, it is not always ensured that the teeth can be aligned with the tooth grooves, since the positioning cylinder 35 will push the sector rack 34 all the time, if the transmission shaft 8 is disengaged from the linkage shaft 5, the sector rack 34 will make the positioning gear 33 have a slight rotation under the action of the pushing force to be completely engaged, at this time, the groove 51 and the protrusion 81 will not be aligned any more, and the next engagement of the transmission shaft 8 and the linkage shaft 5 will be affected, and for this reason, when the sector rack 34 is engaged with the positioning gear 33, the driving motor 9 can be controlled to rotate freely, so that the complete engagement can be realized under the action of the positioning cylinder 35.
Example two
Although the alignment of the groove 51 and the protrusion 81 can be achieved by certain measures during the use of the first embodiment, the alignment must be manually determined before each machining process, which is troublesome, and therefore, the first embodiment provides a more effective solution.
The first camera 13 is arranged on the workbench 1 and on the opposite side of the rotating plate 2 relative to the mounting disc 211, the first camera 13 is arranged on the axis of the linkage shaft 5 at the loading station of the steering wheel, the controller shoots an image of the linkage shaft 5 through the first camera 13, and the angle of each groove 51 can be obtained through image processing. It is also possible to provide a second camera (not shown) on the bracket 91 for photographing toward the drive shaft 8 to obtain the angle of the projection 81 therein, and if the angle of the recess 51 does not coincide with the angle of the projection 81, the recess 51 can be aligned with the projection 81 by controlling the rotation of the driving motor 9. Since the drive motor 9 needs to be moved back and forth, the second camera may be configured to be able to move back and forth to be able to move to the axis of the drive shaft 8 to take an image of the drive shaft 8 and to be able to move out of the path of movement of the drive motor 9. The method of obtaining the angles of the grooves 51 and the protrusions 81 by imaging is known in the art and will not be described in detail herein.
Automatic alignment of the groove 51 and the protrusion 81 can be achieved by the first camera and the second camera, which further facilitates automation. Moreover, an automatic mechanical arm can be used for placing and taking out the steering wheel 100, the handle 71 is detached, and the mechanical arm is also used for controlling the transmission screw 7, so that the automation of the whole process can be realized, manual participation is not needed, and the labor is saved.
It should be understood that the above-described embodiments are merely preferred embodiments of the invention and the technical principles applied thereto. It will be understood by those skilled in the art that various modifications, equivalents, changes, and the like can be made to the present invention. However, such variations are within the scope of the invention as long as they do not depart from the spirit of the invention. In addition, certain terms used in the specification and claims of the present application are not limiting, but are used merely for convenience of description.