Disclosure of Invention
The invention provides a locker, which aims to solve the problems that the existing locker is low in space utilization rate and poor in use effect, and a higher locker in a locker group is difficult to use for part of users. It firstly achieves the following purposes: firstly, the space utilization rate of the locker is improved; secondly, a cabinet door with a proper size can be arranged at a proper position of the cabinet body, so that the cabinet is convenient and practical; thirdly, the stability of the articles moving in the cabinet body is ensured.
In order to achieve the purpose, the invention adopts the following technical scheme.
An intelligent distribution locker comprising:
the cabinet body is internally provided with a cache chamber, a movable mechanism and a plurality of rod units;
the rod unit forms an object placing unit;
the movable mechanism comprises a driving group, a grabbing plate and two wall plates which are longitudinally arranged, the grabbing plate is clamped between the two wall plates, and the driving group can drive the grabbing plate and the wall plates to synchronously move up and down, left and right and move back and forth in a translation mode;
the side wall of the wall plate is provided with a fourth motor, the fourth motor is matched with a fourth screw rod horizontally arranged front and back, the fourth screw rod penetrates through the grabbing plate and is fixedly connected with the wall plate, and the fourth motor drives the fourth screw rod to rotate so as to drive the grabbing plate to horizontally move front and back;
the front end of the cache chamber is fixedly connected with the front side wall of the cabinet body, a cabinet door is arranged on the front face of the cabinet body corresponding to the cache chamber, a bottom plate of the cache chamber consists of two sliding plates capable of horizontally sliding, a gap is formed between each sliding plate and the front side wall of the cabinet body, and the width of the gap is larger than or equal to the thickness of each grabbing plate;
the grabbing plate and the rear side wall of the cabinet body are respectively provided with a clamping piece, the clamping pieces are provided with front slots, the rod units are provided with inserting blocks corresponding to the front slots, and the rod units can be inserted into the cabinet body or grabbed by the grabbing plate;
the cabinet door is provided with a control panel, and the control panel drives the movable mechanism to move through a PLC control system.
As a preference, the first and second liquid crystal compositions are,
the driving group comprises a first screw rod, a second screw rod, a third screw rod, a first motor, a second motor and a third motor;
the first screw rod and the first motor are matched to drive the grabbing plate and the wall plate to horizontally translate left and right;
the second screw rod and the second motor are matched to drive the grabbing plate and the wall plate to horizontally translate back and forth;
and the third screw rod and the third motor are matched to drive the grabbing plate and the wall plate to vertically translate.
As a preference, the first and second liquid crystal compositions are,
the first motor, the second motor, the third motor and the fourth motor are all stepping motors.
As a preference, the first and second liquid crystal compositions are,
the side wall of the cache chamber is provided with an opening and closing motor, and the opening and closing motor drives the sliding plate to translate.
As a preference, the first and second liquid crystal compositions are,
the notch of the front slot is non-circular;
the clamping piece is divided into an outer layer and an inner layer, and the outer layer is fixedly connected with the grabbing plate or the rear side wall of the cabinet body;
the inner layer can rotate relative to the outer layer along the axis, and the front slots of the outer layer and the inner layer are staggered after the inner layer rotates.
As a preference, the first and second liquid crystal compositions are,
the thickness of the outer layer is half of the depth of the front slot.
As a preference, the first and second liquid crystal compositions are,
be equipped with the rotation motor on the wallboard, rotate the inner layer rotation that the motor can drive joint spare on the grabhook board.
As a preference, the first and second liquid crystal compositions are,
and the upper side wall and the left side wall or the right side wall in the cache chamber are both provided with infrared sensing arrays.
As a preference, the first and second liquid crystal compositions are,
the front end of the cabinet body is also provided with a key cabinet, and the key cabinet is provided with an electric control lock and is communicated to the PLC control system and the control panel.
The invention has the beneficial effects that:
1) the stability of the articles in the cabinet body during conveying and moving can be ensured;
2) the storage unit in the cabinet body can be effectively and reasonably regulated and controlled according to the size of stored articles;
3) the storage positions of the articles can be reasonably arranged;
4) convenient to use is swift, can set up single cabinet door and make things convenient for the shorter user of height to use at suitable height.
Detailed Description
The invention is described in further detail below with reference to specific embodiments and the attached drawing figures. Those skilled in the art will be able to implement the invention based on these teachings. Moreover, the embodiments of the present invention described in the following description are generally only some embodiments of the present invention, and not all embodiments. Therefore, all other embodiments obtained by a person of ordinary skill in the art based on the embodiments of the present invention without any creative effort shall fall within the protection scope of the present invention.
Examples
An intelligent distribution locker as shown in figures 1 to 12 comprising:
the cabinet comprises a cabinet body 1, wherein a cabinet door 11 is arranged on the front surface of the cabinet body 1, and a movable mechanism and a plurality of rod units 3 are arranged in the cabinet body 1;
the clamping rods are matched to form object placing units, the size and the shape of the object placing units depend on the number and the arrangement mode of the rod units 3, namely the object placing units are flexible and variable, and can be automatically distributed according to the size and the shape of the storage objects 7 so as to save the use space of the storage cabinet;
the movable mechanism is used for arranging the rod units 3 and comprises a left-right transverse translation guide rail group, a grabbing plate 41 and wall plates 42 arranged on the left side and the right side of the grabbing plate 41, wherein the translation guide rail group comprises at least two first screw rods 43 arranged in a left-right transverse and equal-height mode and a wire guide rod 45 arranged between the two first screw rods 43;
the two wall plates 42 are parallel to each other and are sleeved on the translation guide rail group, the two screw rods drive the wall plates 42 to translate left and right when rotating, and the wall plates 42 drive the grabbing plates 41 to translate left and right when translating left and right;
two ends of the first screw rod 43 and the wire rod 45 are respectively provided with a front-back guide block 47, the two guide blocks 47 are respectively sleeved on a front-back second screw rod 46, the guide blocks 47 are provided with a first motor 44 for driving the first screw rod 43 to rotate, and the bottom of the side wall of the cabinet body 1 is provided with a second motor 412 for driving the second screw rod 46 to rotate;
the second screw rod 46 rotates to drive the guide block 47 to translate back and forth, so as to drive the translation guide rail set and the grabbing plate 41 and the wall plate 42 which are sleeved on the translation guide rail set to translate back and forth;
the front end and the rear end of the second screw rod 46 are respectively provided with a lifting block 410, the lifting blocks 410 are embedded in the front side wall and the rear side wall of the cabinet body 1 and are sleeved on the third screw rod 48, a third motor 49 for driving the third screw rod 48 to rotate is arranged in the side wall of the cabinet body 1, the lifting blocks 410 are driven to rotate when the third screw rod 48 rotates, and further the guide block 47, the translation guide rail set, the grabbing plate 41, the wall plate 42 and the like are driven to translate up and down together;
the first screw rod 43, the second screw rod 46 and the third screw rod 48 can drive the grabbing plate 41 and the wall plate 42 to synchronously move up and down, left and right and move back and forth in a translation manner under the matching action;
the first motor 44, the second motor 412 and the third motor 49 are all small stepping motors;
the stepping motor is adopted because the stepping motor has a miniature size type with extremely small volume, the power required for driving the screw rod to rotate is small, the storage space in the cabinet body 1 can be saved by adopting the small stepping motor, the power consumption is small, and the stepping motor also has the characteristic of accurately controlling the translational motion of the grabbing plate 41 and the wall plate 42;
a buffer chamber 2 is further arranged inside the cabinet body 1, the buffer chamber 2 is fixedly connected with the front side wall of the cabinet body 1 and is arranged corresponding to the position of the cabinet door 11, the upper side wall and the left and right side walls of the buffer chamber 2 are fixedly connected and sealed with the front side wall of the cabinet body 1, the rear end of the buffer chamber is provided with a rear side wall seal, a gap 24 which is communicated with the front side wall of the cabinet body 1 in a left-right transverse mode and a vertical mode is arranged between the bottom plate of the buffer chamber 2 and the front side wall of the cabinet body 1;
the bottom plate of the buffer chamber 2 consists of two sliding plates 22 which can transversely move left and right to realize opening and closing, the outer side wall of the buffer chamber 2 is provided with an opening and closing motor 23, and the opening and closing motor 23 drives the sliding plates 22 to realize left and right sliding work through a screw rod or a gear;
clamping protrusions 411 are arranged on the left side and the right side of the bottom of the grabbing plate 41, front and back clamping grooves are formed in the wall plate 42 corresponding to the clamping protrusions 411, and the clamping protrusions 411 and the clamping grooves are matched with each other to realize clamping of the grabbing plate 41 between the two wall plates 42;
a fourth screw rod 63 arranged in the front and back is arranged on the clamping protrusion 411 in a penetrating manner, the front end and the back end of the fourth screw rod 63 are respectively connected to the front side wall and the back side wall of the clamping groove, a fourth motor 61 is arranged on the outer side of the wall plate 42, the fourth motor 61 is also a stepping motor, and the fourth motor 61 drives the fourth screw rod 63 to rotate so as to drive the clamping protrusion 411 and the integral grabbing plate 41 to move forwards and backwards along the front and back directions of the clamping groove;
the grabbing plate 41 and the rear side wall of the cabinet body 1 are embedded with cylindrical clamping pieces 5, and the clamping pieces 5 are provided with non-circular front slots 51 with openings at the front ends;
the clamping piece 5 is divided into two layers of an outer layer 52 and an inner layer 53, the thickness of the outer layer 52 is half of the depth of the front slot 51, namely the front slot 51 is generally positioned on the outer layer 52 and the half of the front slot 51 on the outer layer 52 is communicated with the front and the back, the outer layer 52 is fixedly connected with the gripping plate 41 or the back side wall of the cabinet body 1 and can be fixed by clamping, gluing or welding, in the embodiment, the outer layer 52 is fixed by gluing, the inner layer 53 can rotate relative to the outer layer 52 along the axis, the outer layer 52 is staggered with the front slot 51 of the inner layer 53 after rotation, the clamping piece 5 on the gripping plate 41 and the front slot 51 of the outer layer 52 of the clamping piece 5 on the cabinet body 1 are staggered at a certain angle, the staggered angle is an angle required for capturing or releasing rotation, for example, the staggered angle is 60 degrees in the embodiment, the rod unit 3 is inserted in the clamping piece 5 on the cabinet body 1 and the inner layer 53 is clockwise rotated by 60 degrees, the front slot 51 of the inner layer 53 is overlapped with the front slots 51 of the inner layer 53 and the outer side 52 of the clamping piece 5 on the grabbing plate 41;
the two ends of the rod unit 3 are respectively provided with an inserting block 31, the inserting blocks 31 are fixedly connected with the front end and the rear end of the rod unit 3 through short rods 32, the shape of each inserting block 31 is the same as that of the front slot 51, and the thickness of each inserting block 31, the thickness of the outer layer 52 of the clamping piece 5 and the length of each short rod 32 are equal;
the outer side wall of the wall plate 42 is further provided with a rotating motor 62, the rotating motor 62 is connected with the inner layer 53 of the clamping piece 5 on the grabbing plate 41, and the electric control rotation of the inner layer 53 of the clamping piece 5 on the grabbing plate 41 is realized, the electric control rotation mode can be as shown in fig. 10, the outer side wall of the inner layer 53 of the clamping piece 5 is provided with arc-shaped permanent magnets in an adherence manner, electromagnets 54 are arranged between the permanent magnets in an adherence manner, the electromagnets 54 are connected with the rotating motor 62, the rotating motor 62 changes the current direction to further change the magnetic poles of the electromagnets 54, the inner layer 53 of the clamping piece 5 is driven to rotate in a mutual attraction or repulsion manner, and the screwing process is as shown in fig. 12;
the rotating motor 62 and the fourth motor 61 are both connected to the cabinet body 1 through spring wires on the wire guide rod 45, and the cabinet body 1 is provided with an embedded circuit communicated with all the motors;
or the gear transmission mode is set conventionally to drive the inner layer 53 of the clamping piece 5 to rotate, but the gear transmission can increase the thickness of the grabbing plate 41, so that the width of the gap 24 between the buffer chamber 2 and the front side wall of the cabinet body 1 is increased, and the object 7 is easy to drop when stored in the buffer chamber 2;
the rod unit 3 is horizontally inserted into the rear side wall of the cabinet body 1 in the initial state, that is, the insertion block 31 at the rear end of the rod unit 3 is clamped in the front slot 51 of the inner layer 53 of the clamping piece 5 on the rear side wall of the cabinet body 1, and at the moment, the short rod 32 penetrates through the front slot 51 of the outer layer 52 of the clamping piece 5;
the upper side wall and the left side wall or the right side wall in the cache chamber 2 are respectively provided with an infrared sensing array consisting of infrared sensors, the infrared sensing array is used for sensing the volume of the object 7 in the cache chamber 2, and the calculated volume is a rectangular volume;
the cabinet body 1 is also provided with a PLC control system which controls each motor, a cabinet door 11 is provided with a conventional electric control lock and a control panel 12, and the control panel 12 is preferably a control panel 12 with a bill printing function;
the specific control mode of the PLC control system comprises the following steps:
s101: receiving a control panel cabinet opening instruction;
s102: judging the residual space inside the cabinet body;
s103-1: when one allowance space which is more than or equal to the capacity of one cache chamber exists in the cabinet body, the cabinet door is opened;
s103-2: if the allowance space is smaller than the capacity of one cache chamber or the allowance space is dispersed along with the inside, the allowance space is judged to be insufficient, the control panel displays that the cabinet is full and cannot store articles, and the operation is finished;
s104: after a cabinet door is opened, a user stores an object in a cache chamber and closes a cabinet door, the infrared sensing array senses the object, then the control panel drives a pickup code, the control panel reminds the user that the object is not sensed on the control panel for sensing the object, the user can open the cabinet door for putting again, if the user does not operate or cancel within 30s, no object is stored, and no pickup code is given;
s105: the infrared sensing array senses the stored object, senses the size of a maximum storage rectangular space required by the object through longitudinal and transverse sensing and records the size as data V, and the grabbing bar units of the grabbing plate are arranged to form the bottoms of the object placing units according to the maximum width of the object during sensing, wherein the width of the bottom is more than or equal to the maximum width of the object;
s106: the PLC control system calculates the storage position of the object at this time according to the position and the space occupied by the previous stored object in the cabinet, operates the rod unit grabbed by the sliding plate opening and grabbing plate to bear the object, conveys the object to the storage position, records the information of the storage position, updates the information of the storage position to the stored position and records the information of the storage position corresponding to the pickup code given by S104;
s201: the recording information of the rod units and the storage positions is recorded in a mode of horizontal and vertical coordinate marks, and the accuracy is high, for example, in the actual product of the embodiment, the rear side wall of the cabinet body is provided with 82 rows marked by numbers from bottom to top and 128 columns marked by numbers from left to right, the original positions of the rod units are full of the bottom 28 rows, the positions where the rod units are inserted are also marked as stored positions, the positions of the rod units are recorded in an X-Y mode, and the positions of the rod units are recorded in an X-Y mode1-Y1/X1-X2Representing a rectangular stored position, i.e. by X1-Y1And X1-X2The rectangles adjacent to the sides are all stored positions, for example, the storage positions 1-128/1-28 are all provided with rod units and marked as the stored positions, for example, one object is stored in the upper right corner of the cabinet body, 3 rod units are needed in the transverse row, 5 rod units are needed in the longitudinal row, and the marked positions 78-128/78-82 are the stored positions;
s301: when the article taking operation is performed, a user inputs an article taking code on the control panel, the PLC control system utilizes the row of clamping pieces at the topmost end of the grabbing plate to grab the rod unit at the bottom of the article placing unit corresponding to the storage position information according to the storage position information corresponding to the article taking code, the rod unit is conveyed to the cache chamber to be issued, the sliding plate is opened, the grabbing plate rises to support the article to the cache chamber, the cabinet door is opened, the grabbing plate resets after the user takes out and closes the cabinet door, and the sliding plate is closed.
The working mode of the intelligent distribution storage cabinet in the storage process is approximately as shown in fig. 13 and fig. 14, a user controls the cabinet door 11 to be opened on the control panel 12, the PLC control system opens the cabinet door 11 after confirming that the cabinet body 1 has a storage space, the user firstly puts an object 7 into the buffer chamber 2 of the cabinet body 1 and closes the cabinet door 11, at the moment, the control panel 12 gives a pickup code to be displayed on the screen of the control panel 12 or prints a bill written with the pickup code, the first motor 44, the second motor 412 and the third motor 49 in the movable mechanism convey the grabbing plate 41 to the position of the pre-grabbing rod unit 3 by driving the first screw rod 43, the second screw rod 46 and the third screw rod 48 to rotate, meanwhile, the PLC control system calculates the storage position, the number and the arrangement mode of the required rod units 3 by combining the conditions in the cabinet body 1, the rod units 3 fixed on the rear side wall of the cabinet body 1 are grabbed by the fourth motor 61, the fourth screw rod 63 and the rotating motor 62 after the calculation is completed, in the grabbing process, firstly, the insertion block 31 at the front end of the rod unit 3 is aligned with the front slot 51 on the grabbing plate 41, the grabbing plate 41 moves until the insertion block 31 at the front end of the rod unit 3 is inserted into the bottom of the front slot 51 on the grabbing plate 41, namely, the inner layer 53 of the front slot 51, the rotating motor 62 controls the inner layer 53 of the front slot 51 to rotate, further the rod unit 3 is driven to rotate, so that the insertion block 31 inserted at the rear end of the rod unit 3 drives the inner layer 53 of the front slot 51 on the rear side wall of the cabinet 1 to rotate by the same angle, the outer layer 52 of the front slot 51 on the rear side wall of the cabinet 1 and the front slot 51 of the inner layer 53 are superposed after rotating by the same angle, the rod unit 3 can be separated from the front slot 51 on the rear side wall of the cabinet 1, and then the grabbing plate 41 is conveyed and inserted into a proper position in a gap 24 between the bottom plate of the cabinet 2 and the front cache side wall of the cabinet 1 by the way of driving the first screw 43, the second screw 46 and the third screw 49 to rotate by the first motor 44, the second motor 412 and the third screw 48, the grabbed rod units 3 are close to the bottom of the sliding plate 22, the grabbed rod units 3 serving as object placing units are located below the cache chamber 2, the opening and closing motor 23 controls the sliding plate 22 to open, the objects 7 in the cache chamber 2 fall onto the grabbed rod units 3, the grabbing plate 41, the grabbed rod units 3 and the borne objects 7 further move to the proper placing positions calculated by the PLC control system, the grabbed rod unit 3 rear end insertion blocks 31 are inserted into the inner layer 53 front slots 51 of the clamping pieces 5 on the rear side wall of the cabinet body 1, the rotating motor 62 controls the inner layer 53 of the clamping pieces 5 on the grabbing plate 41 to rotate, the front ends of the rod units 3 are loosened from the grabbing plate 41, the rear ends of the rod units are locked with the front slots 51 of the clamping pieces 5 on the rear side wall of the cabinet body 1, the grabbed rod units 3 are captured by the clamping pieces 5 on the rear side wall of the cabinet body 1, the object placing units are formed preliminarily, and the grabbing plate 41 passes through the first motor 44, The second motor 412, the third motor 49 and the fourth motor 61 are driven to further grab the rod unit 3 to form the side wall of the object placing unit, so that the complete object placing unit is formed, the position, the shape and the size of the object placing unit are recorded at the moment, the serial number of the object placing unit and the serial number of the object taking code are recorded in the PLC control system, and finally the grabbing plate 41 is reset to prepare for the next storage operation.
Similar operation is performed when the stored objects 7 are taken out, the grabbing plate 41 controls the grabbing plate 41 to grab the bottom rod units 3 of the object placing units at corresponding positions by using the row of the topmost clamping pieces 5 according to an object taking code input by a user on the control panel 12, the object 7 and the grabbing plate are conveyed to the lower portion of the cache chamber 2, the sliding plate 22 below the cache chamber 2 is opened under the action of the opening and closing electrodes, the grabbing plate 41 moves upwards to send the objects 7 into the cache chamber 2, the cabinet door 11 is opened, the sliding plate 22 at the bottom of the cache chamber 2 is reset after the user takes the objects 7 and closes the cabinet door 11, and the grabbing plate 41 is reset.
When the whole cabinet body 1 is in an idle state, the PLC control system controls the grabbing plate 41 to carry out arranging operation on the rod units 3 in the cabinet body 1.
The front end of the cabinet body 1 is also provided with a key cabinet 8, the key cabinet 8 is provided with an electric control lock and communicated to a PLC control system and a control panel 12, the control panel 12 is provided with a special key cabinet 8 switch button, and because in places such as a gymnasium, a plurality of users close to living points often only carry keys to go out, the key cabinet 8 is arranged for the users to store keys, mobile phones and other small articles in order to further improve the storage space utilization rate and the working efficiency of intelligent distribution storage cabinets. The key cabinet 8 on the control panel 12 can be automatically unlocked by pressing a switch button of the key cabinet 8 and an idle key cabinet 8 is opened, small articles such as keys, mobile phones and the like can be put in the key cabinet, and the control panel 12 also gives corresponding article taking codes after the cabinet door 11 is closed so as to take out the stored articles.
In a week of trial in a gymnasium outside a school, the test only uses the storage cabinet to store the personal articles such as changing and washing clothes, keys, mobile phones and the like:
the common storage cabinet with equal capacity has 24 grids, and can store 24 character articles, while the average number of the articles stored in the full storage cabinet is 72.3, including 37.8 articles stored in the key cabinet and 34.5 articles stored in the cabinet body 1, thus greatly increasing the number of the articles stored in the storage cabinet with equal volume and greatly saving the space.