Disclosure of Invention
In order to at least solve one of the technical problems in the prior art, the invention provides an automatic material feeding device, which is used for reducing waiting waste and labor waste in automobile production, effectively pushing lean production and improving the production efficiency of automobile assembly.
In order to achieve the purpose, the invention adopts the following technical scheme:
an automatic material feeding device comprises a material turnover vehicle, a lifting guide mechanism, a conveying guide mechanism, a right-angle reversing mechanism, a material taking table and a material box; the material turnover vehicle comprises a material placing pedal mechanism and an object stage, wherein the material placing pedal mechanism is used for discharging the material on line; the lifting guide mechanism comprises a lifting device, a lifting roller way and a guardrail and is used for lifting the materials so that the materials slide to the rear section along the lifting roller way and the guardrail under the action of self gravity; the conveying and guiding mechanism comprises a blocking device and a conveying roller way, the blocking device is used for blocking and separating materials, and one end of the conveying roller way is connected with the rear end of the lifting roller way and is used for conveying the materials sliding from the lifting and guiding mechanism; the right-angle reversing mechanism comprises a material box detection mechanism, an ejection mechanism and a reversing mechanism, the material box detection mechanism is used for detecting the position of a material box, the ejection mechanism is used for driving materials to be reversed, and one end of the reversing mechanism is connected with the tail end of the conveying roller way and is used for changing the conveying direction of the conveyed materials; the material taking table comprises a cache vacancy detection mechanism and a material taking roller way, wherein the cache vacancy detection mechanism is arranged below the material taking roller way and is used for sensing whether a cache vacancy exists on the material taking table or not so as to meet the requirement of automobile assembly production; the material box is used for loading materials required by automobile assembly production.
Further, the discharging pedal mechanism comprises a pedal, a first connecting rod, a reset device, a second connecting rod, a lever swing arm and a first limiting rod; the middle section of the pedal is connected to a cross bar at the bottom of the material turnover vehicle, one end of the pedal is vertically connected with the lower end of the first connecting rod, and the first connecting rod can rotate around a connecting point relative to the pedal; the upper end of the first connecting rod is connected with one end of the lever swing arm, and the lever swing arm can rotate around a connecting point relative to the first connecting rod; the upper end of the reset device is connected to one end, close to the pedal, of the lever swing arm, the lower end of the reset device is fixed to the lower end of the second connecting rod, and the lever swing arm is pulled to return to the original position through the elasticity of the reset device; the lower end of the second connecting rod is fixed on a cross rod at the bottom of the material turnover vehicle, and the upper end of the second connecting rod is connected to the middle position of the lever swing arm and used for supporting the lever swing arm; the lower end of the first limiting rod is vertically connected with one end, far away from the reset device, of the lever swing arm, and the upper end of the first limiting rod upwards extends to a position higher than the lower side of the carrying roller way and is used for limiting materials on the carrying roller way.
Further, the step is positioned 10-40 cm from the ground, and further, the step is positioned 20-30 cm from the ground.
Further, the reset device is one of elastic plastic, elastic rubber and a spring, and further, the reset device is a reset spring.
Furthermore, the object stage comprises an object carrying roller way which is obliquely arranged and used for placing the assembly materials;
further, the material turnover device comprises universal wheels, and the universal wheels are arranged at the bottom of the material turnover vehicle and used for supporting the material turnover vehicle and pushing the material turnover vehicle in any direction.
Furthermore, the lifting device comprises a lifting cylinder, the lifting cylinder is arranged below the lifting roller way, and the upper end of the lifting cylinder is connected with the lifting end at the front end of the lifting roller way and used for lifting the lifting end of the lifting roller way, so that the material on the lifting roller way slides backwards along the lifting roller way under the action of the self gravity of the material.
Furthermore, the lifting roller way is arranged at the upper part of the lifting guide mechanism and used for supporting the material to slide.
Furthermore, the guardrails are arranged on two sides of the roller way and used for preventing the materials from sliding off the lifting guide mechanism.
Furthermore, a roller way is arranged on the inner side of the guardrail and used for enabling materials to slide more smoothly.
Furthermore, the blocking mechanism comprises a second limiting rod, the second limiting rod is arranged at the tail end of the conveying roller way, the second limiting rod is connected with a limiting cylinder, the limiting cylinder drives the second limiting rod to block materials conveyed to the tail end of the roller way from sliding forwards, and blocking and separating functions are implemented on the conveyed materials.
Furthermore, the rollgang is arranged at the upper part of the guide mechanism, and the front end of the rollgang is connected with the rear end of the lifting rollgang and used for receiving the materials transmitted.
Furthermore, the rollgang is arranged in an inclined mode, and one end connected with the lifting guide mechanism is higher in position.
Further, the cartridge position detection mechanism comprises a first sensor and a second sensor; the first sensor is arranged below the guardrail of the right-angle reversing mechanism, is close to the rear side of the material pulling rod and is used for sensing whether the material pulling rod resets or not; the second inductor is arranged below the right-angle adjacent side guardrail of the first inductor and used for inducing whether the material to be reversed is in place or not.
Further, the ejection mechanism comprises a material pulling cylinder and a material pulling rod; the material pulling cylinder is arranged below the material taking table roller way and used for driving the material pulling rod to push the material to the caching vacancy, so that the continuity of the automobile assembling production process is ensured; the material pulling rod is arranged on the side face of the right-angle reversing mechanism, is parallel to the conveying roller way and is used for pushing the material to be reversed to reverse.
Furthermore, the reversing mechanism is arranged on the material conveying plane, distributed on two sides of the material pulling rod running channel, composed of a plurality of universal wheels and used for supporting materials to slide on the right-angle reversing mechanism in a reversing manner.
Furthermore, the reversing mechanism is composed of a plurality of universal wheels.
Furthermore, the buffer vacancy detection device comprises a third inductor, wherein the third inductor is arranged at the front end of the material taking table and used for sensing whether a buffer vacancy exists on the material taking table or not, and the requirement of automobile assembly production is met.
Furthermore, the material taking roller way is arranged at the upper part of the material taking table and used for supporting the material box.
Furthermore, the material taking roller way is obliquely arranged, so that materials on the buffer storage vacant positions can slide forwards without being carried by manpower, and the manpower configuration is reduced.
Furthermore, the material box comprises a material storage grid, a separation block and a positioning fixture block and is used for containing materials required by automobile assembly production; according to the size and the shape of the assembled materials, the material box is divided into a plurality of material storage grids, so that the labor waste of repeatedly searching the assembled materials is reduced, the assembly and production efficiency of the automobile is improved, and a lean single-piece flow production mode is effectively pushed; the separating blocks are arranged on two sides of the long edge of the material box, so that the material box is convenient for workers to carry and helps touch the sensor; the positioning fixture blocks are arranged at four corners of the bottom of the material turnover and are used for supporting the material box to slide on the roller way.
Furthermore, the material of the material box is one of plastic, wood and metal.
Furthermore, the surface of the separation block is wrapped with flannelette, so that the comfort of workers for carrying the material box is improved, the sensitivity of the material box touching the sensor is increased, and the service life of the sensor is prolonged.
Furthermore, the roller way is composed of a plurality of sliding rails.
Furthermore, the slide rail is an aluminum roller fluency strip.
Further, the cylinders are rodless cylinders.
Further, the inductor is connected with the cylinder through a gas path.
The invention also provides a control method of the automatic material feeding device, which comprises the following steps:
(1) loading materials, namely selecting the adaptive material box according to the shape and size of the materials, putting the materials into the material box, and then putting the material box on the material transfer cart;
(2) discharging materials: aligning the lower side of the carrying roller way of the material turnover vehicle with the lifting guide mechanism, and unloading the material box from the material turnover vehicle onto the lifting roller way of the lifting guide mechanism;
(3) lifting materials: starting the lifting cylinder, lifting the lifting roller way, and conveying the material box backwards under the action of the gravity of the material box;
(4) material blocking: when the material box slides to the tail end of the conveying guide mechanism, blocking, separating and sliding are completed under the control of the inductor;
(5) material reversing: when the inductor induces that the material taking table has a cache vacancy, the material pulling cylinder pushes the material box from the material reversing mechanism to the cache vacancy;
(6) material caching: the material box is cached in the caching vacancy, and after production, assembly and use, the empty material box returns to the material sending area for temporary storage and turnover.
Further, in the step (1), the material box is placed on a carrying roller way of the material turnover vehicle.
Further, the step (2) comprises the steps of: when the pedal is stepped on by a foot, the first limiting rod descends, and the material box slides to the lifting roller way under the action of the gravity of the material box.
Still further, the step (2) includes:
1) the pedal drives the first connecting rod to move upwards under the action of the pedal force, so that the lever swing arm takes a connecting point with the second connecting rod as a fulcrum to pull the first limiting rod to move downwards, and materials placed on the material turnover vehicle slide downwards to the lifting end of the lifting roller bed under the action of the gravity of the materials;
2) after the discharging is finished, the pedal is released, the lever swing arm is pulled by the return spring to return to the original position, and meanwhile, the first limiting rod 107 is pushed upwards to return to the original position.
Further, the step (3) further comprises: after the material leaves the lifting roller way, a button is started, and the lifting air cylinder drives the lifting roller way to slowly descend and return to the horizontal position.
Further, the step (4) includes:
1) when the second sensor senses that the material box is arranged on the material reversing mechanism, the second limiting rod is driven by the limiting cylinder to lift upwards to jack the front end of the material box to prevent the material box from sliding continuously, and is separated from the adjacent material box on the material reversing mechanism to prevent the adjacent material box from reversing;
2) when the first sensor senses that the material pulling rod returns to the original position, the second limiting rod is driven by the limiting cylinder to descend to the original position, and the material box slides to the reversing mechanism of the material reversing mechanism from the conveying roller way.
Further, the material pulling cylinder in the step (5) completes reversing sliding conveying through a material pulling rod.
Still further, the step (5) includes:
1) when the third sensor senses that a cache vacancy exists on the material taking table, the material pulling cylinder drives the material pulling rod to push the material box to the cache vacancy;
2) after the material box reaches the cache vacancy, the material pulling cylinder drives the material pulling rod to return to the original position;
3) and after the material pulling rod returns to the original position, the first sensor is triggered to perform the operation.
Further, in the step (6), the empty material box slides to a material sending area through a roller way for recovery.
The invention has the following beneficial effects:
(1) according to the invention, the air cylinder and the inductor are arranged, so that the automatic conveying of materials is completed, and the working time waste of manual online transportation, waiting, feeding and the like of logistics is reduced;
(2) by using the material box, the automobile is convenient to assemble and prepare materials, the phenomena of material shortage, material mistake, material searching and the like are avoided, a lean production management mode of single-piece flow is effectively realized, and the poor quality cost is further reduced;
(3) the roller way is used for conveying materials, so that the distance and labor intensity of material conveying are reduced, and a good solution is provided for the automatic distribution and on-line of short-distance parts;
(4) by using the material transfer vehicle, the carrying operation of workers is facilitated, the energy of the workers is saved, and the working efficiency of automobile assembly production is improved;
(5) the device disclosed by the invention is convenient to operate, simple in structure, low in maintenance cost and suitable for large-scale production.
Detailed Description
For the purpose of making the objects, technical solutions and advantages of the present invention more apparent, the present invention will be described in further detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings, which are provided as schematic drawings and are not intended to be limiting.
As shown in fig. 1-6, an automatic material feeding device comprises a material turnover vehicle 1, a lifting guide mechanism 2, a conveying guide mechanism 3, a right-angle reversing mechanism 4, a material taking table 5 and a material box 6. The material turnover vehicle 1 is used for turnover of materials on line and discharging of the materials on line. And the lifting guide mechanism 2 is used for lifting the materials and enabling the materials to slide towards the rear section. One end of the conveying guide mechanism 3 is connected with the lifting guide mechanism 2 and is used for conveying the materials which slide from the lifting guide mechanism 2 to the conveying guide mechanism, and separating and limiting the materials. One end of the right-angle reversing mechanism 4 is connected with the conveying guide mechanism 3 and used for changing the conveying direction of the conveyed materials. Get 5 one ends of material platform and be connected with material reversing mechanism 4 for carry out the buffer memory to the material of transmission, in order to satisfy the automobile assembly production needs. The material box 6 is used for loading materials required by automobile assembly production.
The material turnover vehicle 1 comprises a material placing pedal mechanism and an object stage, wherein the material placing pedal mechanism comprises a pedal 101, a first connecting rod 102, a reset spring 103, a second connecting rod 104, a lever swing arm 105, a first limiting rod 107 and a universal caster 108. The pedal 101 is arranged at the bottom of the skip car and is 20-30 cm away from the ground, one end of the pedal is vertically connected with one end of the first connecting rod 102, and the first connecting rod 102 can rotate relative to the pedal 101 around the connecting point. The other end of the first connecting rod 102 is connected with one end of the lever swing arm 105, and the lever swing arm 105 can rotate around the connecting point relative to the first connecting rod 102. One end of a return spring 103 is connected to one end of the lever swing arm 105 close to the pedal, and the other end is fixed to the lower end of the second connecting rod 104, so that the lever swing arm 105 is kept horizontal by spring tension. The lower end of the second connecting rod 104 is fixed on a cross rod at the bottom of the material turnover vehicle, the upper end of the second connecting rod is connected to the middle position of the lever swing arm 105, and the lever swing arm 105 can rotate around a connecting point relative to the second connecting rod 104. The lever swing arm can swing the lever rod by taking a connecting point with the second connecting rod as a fulcrum. First gag lever post 107 one end is connected perpendicularly with the one end that reset spring 103 was kept away from to lever swing arm 105, and the other end upwards extends, surpasss the lower one side of year thing roll table 106 for carry on spacingly to placing the material on year thing roll table 106. The universal wheels 108 are arranged at the bottom of the material turnover vehicle 1 and used for supporting and pushing the material turnover vehicle 1. The objective table comprises an objective table way, and the objective table way 106 is formed by obliquely arranging a plurality of slide rails.
When the material turnover vehicle 1 discharges materials, the pedal 101 is stepped by feet, the first connecting rod 102 is driven to move upwards through the connecting point of the pedal, the lever swing arm 105 takes the point connected with the second connecting rod 104 as a pivot, the first limiting rod 107 is pulled to move downwards, and materials placed on the carrying roller table 106 slide downwards to the lifting end of the lifting guide mechanism 2 under the action of the self gravity of the materials. After the discharging is finished, the pedal is released, the deformed reset spring 103 pulls the lever swing arm 105, so that the lever swing arm 105 returns to the horizontal position, and meanwhile, the first limiting rod 107 is pushed upwards to return to the original position.
As shown in fig. 2, the lifting guide mechanism 2 includes a lifting cylinder 201, a lifting roller table 202, and a guard rail 203. The lifting cylinder 201 is arranged at the bottom of the lifting guide mechanism 2, and one end of the lifting cylinder is connected with the lifting end at the front end of the lifting roller way 202 and used for lifting the lifting end at one end of the lifting roller way 202, so that the material on the lifting roller way 202 slides backwards along the lifting roller way under the action of the self gravity. The lifting roller way 202 is arranged at the upper part of the lifting guide mechanism 2 and is used for supporting the material to slide. When the material leaves the rear lifting guide mechanism 2, the lifting cylinder lowers the lifting roller table 202 to return to the horizontal placement state. The guard rails 203 are arranged on two sides of the roller way and used for preventing the materials from sliding down from the lifting guide mechanism 2. The inner side of the guardrail 203 can be provided with a roller way to ensure that the material slides more smoothly.
As shown in fig. 4, the conveying guide mechanism 3 includes a second stopper rod 301 and a conveying roller table 302. The second limiting rod 301 is connected with a limiting cylinder, and the limiting cylinder drives the second limiting rod 301 to implement blocking and separating functions. The second limiting rod 301 is arranged at the tail end of the conveying roller way 302 and used for preventing the material conveyed to the tail end of the roller way 302 from sliding forwards and separating the material from the material to be reversed. The front end of the conveying roller way 302 is connected with the rear end of the lifting roller way 202 and is used for receiving the materials transmitted.
As shown in fig. 4, the right-angle reversing mechanism 4 includes a cartridge position detecting mechanism, an ejection mechanism, and a reversing mechanism 403. The cartridge position detection mechanism includes a first inductor 402 and a second inductor 404. The first sensor 402 is arranged below a guardrail of the right-angle reversing mechanism 4 and is close to the rear side of the material pulling rod 401, and is used for sensing whether the material pulling rod 401 is reset or not. A second inductor 404 is provided below the adjacent side rail of the first inductor 402 for sensing whether the material to be diverted is in place. The ejection mechanism comprises a material pulling rod 401 and a material pulling cylinder 502. The material pulling rod 401 is arranged on the side surface of the right-angle reversing mechanism 4, is parallel to the conveying roller way 302, and is used for pushing the material to be reversed to reverse. The material pulling cylinder 502 is arranged below the roller way of the material taking table 5 and used for driving the material pulling rod 401 to push the material to the buffer vacant position, so that the continuity of the automobile assembling production process is ensured. The reversing mechanism 403 is arranged on the material conveying plane, distributed on two sides of the running channel of the material pulling rod 401, and composed of a plurality of universal wheels, and is used for supporting materials to slide on the right-angle reversing mechanism 4.
As shown in fig. 4, the material taking table 5 includes a buffer vacancy detection mechanism and a material taking roller table. The buffer vacancy detection mechanism comprises a third inductor 501, the third inductor 501 is arranged at the front end of the material taking table and used for sensing whether a buffer vacancy exists on the material taking table 5 or not, and the requirement for automobile assembly production is met. The material taking roller way is arranged at the upper part of the material taking table and is used for supporting the material box to be distributed to each assembly point. As shown in fig. 5, the material-fetching roller way is arranged to be inclined, so that the material on the buffer storage vacant position can slide forwards without manual carrying, and the labor is saved.
As shown in fig. 6, the magazine 6 is made of PVC, and includes a storage compartment 601, a separation block 602, and a positioning fixture block 603, and is used for containing materials required for automobile assembly and production. According to the size and the shape of the assembled materials, the material box 6 is divided into a plurality of material storage grids 601, so that the labor waste of repeatedly searching the assembled materials is reduced, the assembly and production efficiency of the automobile is improved, and a lean single-piece flow production mode is effectively pushed. The separating block 602 is arranged on the side face of the long side of the material box 6 and used for preventing friction and collision between the material box 6 and a guardrail, flannelette is wrapped on the surface of the separating block, the comfort level of workers for carrying the material box 6 is improved, the sensitivity of the material box 6 touching the sensor is increased, and the service life of the sensor is prolonged. The positioning fixture blocks 603 are arranged at four corners of the bottom of the material box 6 and are used for supporting the material box to slide on the roller way.
The working principle and the using method of the automatic material feeding device are as follows:
(1) load material
1) An operator prepares for material distribution by using a proper material box 6 in a material distribution area according to the requirements of assembling and producing materials;
2) putting materials required by automobile assembly production into the material box 6 according to the size and the shape of the materials;
3) the material box 6 filled with the materials is put on a carrying roller way 106 of the material turnover vehicle 1, and the material turnover vehicle 1 is pushed to the lifting guide mechanism 2.
(2) Discharge of material
1) Aligning the lower end of the carrying roller way 106 of the material turnover vehicle 1 with the lifting end of the lifting guide mechanism 2;
2) the pedal 101 is stepped on, the first limiting rod 107 descends, and the material box 6 slides to the lifting end of the lifting roller way 202 of the lifting guide mechanism 2 from the carrying roller way 106 under the action of the gravity of the material box;
3) the pedal 101 is released and the first stopper rod 107 is raised to the home position.
(3) Material lifting
1) An operator presses a button of the lifting cylinder 201 with hands to start the lifting cylinder 201;
2) the lifting cylinder 201 lifts up the lifting end of the lifting roller bed 202;
3) the material box 6 slides backwards to the conveying roller way 302 under the action of the gravity of the material box;
4) the operator presses the button of the lifting cylinder 201 with his hand, the lifting cylinder 201 is closed, and the lifting roller table 202 descends slowly to return to the horizontal position.
(4) Material separation
1) The material box slides to the tail end of the conveying roller way under the action of the gravity of the material box;
2) when the second sensor 404 senses that a material box is arranged on the material reversing mechanism 4, the second limiting rod 301 is driven by the limiting cylinder to lift upwards to jack the front end of the material box to prevent the material box from sliding continuously, and meanwhile, the second limiting rod is separated from an adjacent material box on the material reversing mechanism 4 to prevent the adjacent material box from reversing;
3) when the first sensor 402 senses that the material pulling rod 401 returns to the original position, the second limiting rod is driven by the limiting cylinder to descend to the original position, and the material box slides from the conveying roller way 302 to the reversing mechanism 403 of the material reversing mechanism.
(5) Material reversing
1) When the third sensor 501 senses that a cache vacancy exists on the material taking table 5, the material pulling cylinder 502 drives the material pulling rod 401 to push the material box to the cache vacancy;
2) after the material box reaches the cache vacancy on the material taking table 5, the material pulling cylinder 502 drives the material pulling rod 401 to return to the original position;
3) after the pulling rod 401 returns to the original position, the first sensor 402 is triggered.
(6) Material buffer memory
1) After the material box reaches the buffer vacancy, sliding to each assembly point for temporary storage;
2) after an operator takes and assembles materials, an empty material box is placed on a material taking roller way of a material taking table;
3) the empty material box is conveyed back to the material sending area to wait for the next material sending.
The foregoing is a more detailed description of the invention in connection with specific preferred embodiments and is not intended to limit the practice of the invention to these embodiments. For those skilled in the art to which the invention pertains, several simple deductions or substitutions can be made without departing from the spirit of the invention, and all shall be considered as belonging to the protection scope of the invention.