CN111675014A

CN111675014A - Full-automatic fiber penetrating and feeding system for optical fiber connector

Info

Publication number: CN111675014A
Application number: CN202010675731.1A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 吴小芳; 曹伟军; 吴晔
Original assignee: Shanghai Huijue Network Communication Equipment Co ltd
Current assignee: Shanghai Huijue Network Communication Equipment Co ltd
Priority date: 2020-07-14
Filing date: 2020-07-14
Publication date: 2020-09-18
Also published as: CN113928918A; CN113928917A; CN214934791U; CN214934792U

Abstract

The invention discloses a full-automatic fiber penetrating and feeding system for an optical fiber connector, which comprises a rack, wherein a fixed strip conveying belt is arranged on the rack, a strip supply in-place device is arranged in the middle of the fixed strip conveying belt on the rack, and a residual strip conveying limiting device is arranged on the rack at the incoming material side of the strip supply in-place device. The plug fixing strip after the glue dispensing is finished is arranged at the feeding end of the fixing strip conveying belt, the strip to be supplied in place device can block and limit the plug fixing strip at the head end of the conveying belt, and the remaining strip conveying limiting device can block and limit the plug fixing strip outside the head end. When a plug fixing strip needs to be input in the fiber penetrating process, the strip supply in-place device releases the blocking limitation, and the plug fixing strip at the head end can reach the fiber penetrating process along with the fixing strip conveying belt. The automatic feeding device realizes automatic feeding of the plug fixing strip, effectively links the glue dispensing process and the fiber penetrating process, and is beneficial to improving the automation degree of the overall production of the optical fiber connector.

Description

Full-automatic fiber penetrating and feeding system for optical fiber connector

Technical Field

The invention relates to the technical field of optical fiber production equipment, in particular to a full-automatic optical fiber connector fiber penetrating and feeding system.

Background

A basic structure of an optical fiber connector, also called an optical fiber jumper, includes an optical fiber line and a plug attached to an end of the optical fiber line. In the production process, the coating layer with a fixed length at the end of the optical fiber is usually stripped, and then the core wire part stripped of the coating layer is inserted into the plug which is glued to form the fiber penetrating operation.

In order to improve the efficiency of fiber penetrating operation and realize automatic operation, the inventor invents an automatic device for batch fiber peeling and fiber penetrating of optical fiber wires, correspondingly, a batch-used plug needs to be fixed on a plug fixing strip, before fiber penetrating, the plug on the plug fixing strip is subjected to glue dispensing operation, and the plug fixing strip subjected to glue dispensing completes batch fiber penetrating operation at the batch automatic fiber penetrating device. Therefore, an automatic feeding system for fiber penetration needs to be designed to connect the dispensing process and the fiber penetration process, so that the automation degree of the overall production of the optical fiber connector is improved.

Disclosure of Invention

The invention aims to solve the technical problem of providing a full-automatic fiber penetrating and feeding system for an optical fiber connector, which realizes automatic feeding of a plug fixing strip, effectively links a dispensing process and a fiber penetrating process and is beneficial to improving the whole production automation degree of the optical fiber connector.

In order to solve the technical problems, the technical scheme of the invention is as follows: the full-automatic fiber penetrating and feeding system for the optical fiber connectors comprises a rack, wherein a fixed strip conveying belt is arranged on the rack, a strip supply in-place device is arranged in the middle of the fixed strip conveying belt on the rack, and a residual strip conveying limiting device is arranged on the incoming material side of the strip supply in-place device on the rack.

As a preferred technical scheme, two vertically arranged fixed strip stacking slideways are fixedly arranged on the frame at the incoming material side of the residual strip conveying limiting device, and the two fixed strip stacking slideways correspond to two ends of the plug fixed strip respectively; the feeding bracket is respectively and transversely installed on the outer sides of the two fixed strip stacking slideways on the rack in a sliding manner, a feeding tray capable of extending into the fixed strip stacking slideways on the corresponding side is arranged on the feeding bracket, the bearing surface of the feeding tray is higher than the conveying surface of the fixed strip conveying belt, and a bearing controller is arranged between each feeding bracket and the rack; the frame is provided with two fixing strips which are stacked between the slideways and are provided with a transfer bracket vertically sliding, the transfer bracket is provided with a transfer saddle, and a transfer controller is arranged between the transfer bracket and the frame.

Preferably, the transfer pallet is connected to a heating device.

According to a preferable technical scheme, the strip to be supplied positioning device comprises a strip to be supplied blocking block vertically installed on the rack in a sliding mode, and a blocking controller is arranged between the strip to be supplied blocking block and the rack.

As a preferable technical solution, the to-be-supplied bar positioning device further includes a to-be-supplied bar clamping device disposed on the incoming material side of the to-be-supplied bar stopper.

As a preferable technical scheme, the surplus strip conveying limiting device comprises two conveying limiting clamping blocks which are relatively slidably mounted on the rack, and conveying limiting controllers are respectively arranged between each conveying limiting clamping block and the rack.

Due to the adoption of the technical scheme, the full-automatic fiber penetrating and feeding system for the optical fiber connector comprises a rack, wherein a fixed strip conveying belt is arranged on the rack, a strip supply in-place device is arranged in the middle of the fixed strip conveying belt on the rack, and a residual strip conveying limiting device is arranged on the incoming material side of the strip supply in-place device on the rack. The plug fixing strip after glue dispensing is arranged at the feeding end of the fixing strip conveying belt, and the plug fixing strip is conveyed to a fiber penetrating process along with the fixing strip conveying belt. The strip to be supplied in-place device can block and limit the plug fixing strip at the head end of the conveying, and the remaining strip conveying limiting device can block and limit the plug fixing strip outside the head end. When a plug fixing strip needs to be input in the fiber penetrating process, the strip supply in-place device releases the blocking limitation, and the plug fixing strip at the head end can reach the fiber penetrating process along with the fixing strip conveying belt. And then the strip supply in-place device returns, the remaining strip conveying limiting device releases the blocking limitation, and the plurality of plug fixing strips integrally convey the plug fixing strips forward by the width of one plug fixing strip due to the conveying effect. At the moment, the remaining strip conveying limiting device restores the blocking limitation of the plug fixing strip outside the head end plug fixing strip, and the head end plug fixing strip becomes the next plug fixing strip ready to be conveyed to the fiber penetrating process. The automatic feeding device realizes automatic feeding of the plug fixing strip, effectively links the glue dispensing process and the fiber penetrating process, and is beneficial to improving the automation degree of the overall production of the optical fiber connector.

Drawings

The drawings are only for purposes of illustrating and explaining the present invention and are not to be construed as limiting the scope of the present invention. Wherein:

FIG. 1 is a schematic perspective view of an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a schematic cross-sectional view in the left-hand direction of FIG. 1;

fig. 3 is a schematic sectional structure view in the front view direction of fig. 1.

In the figure: 1-a frame; 5-fixing a strip conveyer belt; 51-a transport drive motor; 6-a strip to be supplied positioning device; 61-a bar-to-be-supplied stop block; 62-a gear controller; 63-a to-be-supplied strip holding device; 64-bar to be supplied; 7-a residual strip conveying limiting device; 71-a transport-limiting clamp block; 72-a delivery limit controller; 8-fixed strip stacking slide; 81-a feeding receptacle; 82-a feed pallet; 83-bearer control; 84-a transfer receptacle; 85-a transfer pallet; 86-a heating device; 87-a heat insulation seat; 88-transfer controller; 9-plug fixing strip; 91-clamping groove.

Detailed Description

The invention is further illustrated below with reference to the figures and examples. In the following detailed description, exemplary embodiments of the invention are described by way of illustration only. Needless to say, a person skilled in the art realizes that the described embodiments can be modified in various different ways without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention. Accordingly, the drawings and description are illustrative in nature and not intended to limit the scope of the claims.

As shown in fig. 1, fig. 2 and fig. 3, the fully automatic fiber connector fiber feeding system includes a frame 1, where the frame 1 is generally an assembly of aluminum profiles and plates, which is well known to those skilled in the art, and the description is omitted here and the whole structure is not shown in the drawings.

The frame 1 is provided with a fixed strip conveyer belt 5, the fixed strip conveyer belt 5 can convey the plug fixed strip 9, and the output end of the fixed strip conveyer belt 5 corresponds to the fiber penetrating process. This embodiment shows the fixed strip conveyer belt 5 is two, and the plug fixed strip 9 is in when on the fixed strip conveyer belt 5, its both ends can stretch out two the 5 lateral surfaces of fixed strip conveyer belt. Of course, a conveying driving motor 51 and the like are provided between the fixed strip conveying belt 5 and the frame 1, which is a well-known and commonly used technology and will not be described herein again.

The middle part of the fixed strip conveyer belt 5 on the frame 1 is provided with a strip supply positioning device 6, and the incoming material side of the strip supply positioning device 6 on the frame 1 is provided with a residual strip conveying limiting device 7.

After the several plug fixing strips 9 are placed at the feeding end of the fixing strip conveyer belt 5, they can be continuously conveyed by the fixing strip conveyer belt 5 towards the fiber penetrating process. The plug holding strip 9 conveying the head end is regarded as a plug holding strip 9 waiting to be supplied to the fiber threading process, hereinafter referred to as a strip to be fed 64, which is restricted by the strip to be fed seating device 6, waiting for the one plug holding strip 9 before it to complete the fiber threading. Then, the remaining bar conveying limiting device 7 limits one or more plug fixing bars 9, which are closest to the bar to be supplied 64, among the remaining plug fixing bars 9 conveyed, in this embodiment, it is shown that one plug fixing bar 9 closest to the bar to be supplied 64 is limited, and after the limitation, all the plug fixing bars 9, which are conveyed by the fixing bar conveying belt 5, behind the plug fixing bar 9 can be blocked. After the previous fiber penetrating operation is finished, the to-be-supplied strip positioning device 6 releases the limitation on the to-be-supplied strip 64, and the to-be-supplied strip 64 can be sent to a fiber penetrating process by the fixed strip conveying belt 5 to perform fiber penetrating operation. The remaining strip conveying limiting device 7 releases the blocking limitation, and the subsequent plug fixing strip 9 is conveyed continuously by the fixing strip conveying belt 5. The second plug fastening strip 9 is now converted into the present supply strip 64, and the supply strip positioning device 6 again limits the present supply strip 64. The remaining strip transport limiting device 7 limits the plug fixing strip 9 which is closest to the strip to be supplied 64 at this time, and blocks the remaining plug fixing strips 9. The automatic feeding operation of the plug fixing strip 9 is formed by reciprocating in the way.

The to-be-supplied bar positioning device 6 in this embodiment includes a to-be-supplied bar block 61 vertically slidably mounted on the rack 1, and a blocking controller 62 is arranged between the to-be-supplied bar block 61 and the rack 1. This embodiment shows that the to-be-fed block 61 is located between two fixed strip conveyer belts 5, the blocking controller 62 can be realized by using an air cylinder or an electric cylinder, and the to-be-fed block 61 is directly arranged on a piston rod of the blocking controller 62. When the gear controller 62 controls the bar to be supplied 61 to rise, the blocking effect of the bar to be supplied 61 forms a limiting effect on the bar to be supplied 64.

The surplus strip conveying limiting device 7 comprises two conveying limiting clamping blocks 71 which are relatively slidably mounted on the rack 1, and conveying limiting controllers 72 are respectively arranged between each conveying limiting clamping block 71 and the rack 1. When the blocking restriction of the to-be-supplied bar block 61 is effective, the conveying function of the strip fixing conveyor 5 may align the plurality of plug fixing bars 9 at the to-be-supplied bar block 61. The conveying limiting controller 72 drives the two conveying limiting clamping blocks 71 to clamp and fix the plug fixing strip 9 closest to the strip to be supplied 64, so as to form a blocking limiting effect on the rest plug fixing strips 9. The conveyance limit controller 72 may be implemented by an air cylinder, an electric cylinder, or the like.

In addition, the to-be-supplied bar positioning device 6 of the present embodiment further includes a to-be-supplied bar clamping device 63 disposed on the incoming material side of the to-be-supplied bar block 61. The to-be-supplied bar clamping device 63 comprises two to-be-supplied bar clamping blocks which are installed on the rack 1 in a relatively sliding manner, and force applying devices to be supplied bar clamping are respectively arranged between each to-be-supplied bar clamping block and the rack 1. The arrangement structure of the to-be-fed strip clamping device 63 and the remaining strip conveying limiting device 7 is basically the same, and the description thereof is omitted. After the blocking and limiting function of the to-be-supplied strip stop block 61 is effective, the remaining strip conveying limiting device 7 blocks and limits the remaining plug fixing strips 9, at the moment, the to-be-supplied strip clamping device 63 can clamp the to-be-supplied strip 64, the to-be-supplied strip stop block 61 can be driven to descend, and the blocking and limiting function of the to-be-supplied strip 64 is removed. When the strip to be fed 64 needs to be sent away for fiber penetration, the clamping function of the strip to be fed clamping device 63 is directly released. The arrangement of the to-be-supplied bar clamping device 63 can form engagement with the to-be-supplied bar block 61 with a limiting effect, so that when the to-be-supplied bar block 61 is released from blocking limitation, the conveying posture of the to-be-supplied bar 64 cannot be changed due to the influence of friction force with a contact surface of the to-be-supplied bar 64, on the other hand, the centering posture and the like of the to-be-supplied bar 64 can be adjusted, and when the to-be-supplied bar clamping device 63 is released from clamping, the to-be-supplied bar 64 can be conveyed to a fiber threading process in a correct posture.

Furthermore, in this embodiment, the frame 1 is provided with two vertically arranged fixed strip stacking slideways 8 at the incoming material side of the remaining strip conveying limiting device 7, and the two fixed strip stacking slideways 8 correspond to two ends of the plug fixed strip 9 respectively. Because the two ends of the plug fixing strip 9 of this embodiment are provided with the clamping slots 91, the fixing strip stacking slide way 8 of this embodiment is in the form of a slide bar matched with the clamping slots 91. Because the plug fixed strip 9 is in two when carrying on the fixed strip conveyer belt 5, both ends are protractile, so this embodiment two the fixed strip conveyer belt 5 is located two the fixed strip piles up between the slide 8. After the glued plug fixing strips 9 are placed on the two fixing strip stacking slide ways 8, stacking can be formed, so that the buffer connection between the glue gluing process and the feeding of the embodiment is formed.

The frame 1 is last to be located two the outside that the slide 8 was piled up to the fixed strip is horizontal slidable mounting respectively has feeding bracket 81, be equipped with on the feeding bracket 81 and stretch into corresponding side the slide 8 is piled up to the fixed strip feeding saddle 82. This embodiment illustrates that the feeding pallet 82 is a pallet that can be extended from both sides of the fixed strip stacking chute 8. The bearing surface of the feeding supporting platform 82 is higher than the conveying surface of the fixed strip conveying belt 5, and a bearing controller 83 is arranged between each feeding supporting seat 81 and the rack 1. When bearing controller 83 drives feeding saddle 82 stretches into and corresponds the side behind the slide 8 is piled up to the fixed strip, two feeding saddle 82 can be right the fixed strip is piled up a plurality of plug fixed strips 9 on the slide 8 and is carried out the bearing. The plug fixing strip 9 after the glue dispensing is finished can be stacked and stored above the fixing strip conveying belt 5 and is effectively connected with the glue dispensing process. The support controller 83 may also be implemented by an electric cylinder or an air cylinder.

A transfer bracket 84 arranged in a vertical sliding manner is arranged between the two fixed strip stacking slideways 8 on the frame 1, and the embodiment shows that the transfer bracket 84 is arranged between the two fixed strip conveying belts 5. A transfer pallet 85 is arranged on the transfer bracket 84, and a transfer controller 88 is arranged between the transfer bracket 84 and the frame 1. When the transfer bracket 84 is at the lowest position, the support surface of the transfer pallet 85 is lower than the transport surface of the fixed belt 5. After the transfer controller 88 drives the transfer bracket 84 to rise, the transfer pallet 85 contacts the top bottom plug fixing strip 9. The support controller 83 controls the two feeding brackets 81 to be away from each other, the feeding tray 82 releases the supporting function, and the bottommost plug fixing strip 9 is completely supported by the transfer tray 85. The transfer control unit 88 drives the transfer carriage 84 down a distance of the height of one plug strip 9, with all plug strips 9 then down a distance of the height of one plug strip 9. The support controller 83 controls the two feeding brackets 81 to approach each other again, and the feeding tray table 82 supports the plug fixing strip 9 other than the bottommost plug fixing strip 9 again. Here, the re-supporting of the feeding tray table 82 may be realized by arranging a slot on the plug fixing strip 9, and when the plug fixing strips 9 are stacked, the feeding tray table 82 may be easily inserted into the slot, and this technical means is easily obtained by those skilled in the art according to the schematic drawing and the description, and is not described herein again. The transfer controller 88 drives the transfer holder 84 to move down, and the plug fixing strip 9 supported by the transfer holder 85 is allowed to freely rest on the fixing strip conveyor 5 before the lowest position where the transfer holder 84 moves down, and is conveyed by the fixing strip conveyor 5. At this point, a transfer operation from stacking to conveying of the plug fixing strip 9 is completed.

In this embodiment, two fixing strips corresponding to two ends of the same plug fixing strip 9 are stacked into a group, and three groups of fixing strips are arranged on the rack 1 to stack the sliding channels 8, so that the stacking quantity can be increased, and the transfer conveying can be quickly formed.

The transfer pallet 85 is connected to a heating device 86. The heating device 86 comprises a heating rod inserted on the transfer pallet 85, and the heating rod is connected with a temperature controller. It can be right it heats to transmit saddle 85, the plug on the plug fixed strip 9 of bearing can be transferred to the heat energy that transmits saddle 85, makes the colloid of dotting in the plug slow down and solidifies, does benefit to follow-up fine of wearing smoothly. In this embodiment, a heat insulating base 87 is provided between the transfer pallet 85 and the transfer socket 84 to prevent the high temperature of the transfer pallet 85 from affecting other structural members.

In the use of the present embodiment, the plug fixing strip 9 after dispensing is stacked on the fixing strip stacking slideway 8. For the present embodiment, the transfer bracket 84 transfers three plug strips 9 at a time to the strip conveyor 5, and the working principle of the transfer is described above and will not be described herein. The fixed strip conveyer belt 5 sends the three plug fixed strips 9 to the to-be-supplied strip locating device 6, the plug fixed strip 9 at the head end forms a to-be-supplied strip 64, a to-be-supplied strip blocking block 61 in the to-be-supplied strip locating device 6 blocks the to-be-supplied strip 64, and the three plug fixed strips 9 are sequentially arranged at the to-be-supplied strip blocking block 61. The remaining strip conveying limiting device 7 clamps the second plug fixing strip 9, the strip to be supplied clamping device 63 clamps the strip to be supplied 64, and then the strip to be supplied stop block 61 is controlled to be released. When a plug fixing strip 9 needs to be conveyed to the fiber penetrating process, the strip to be supplied clamping device 63 releases clamping, and the strip to be supplied 64 is conveyed to the fiber penetrating process by the fixing strip conveying belt 5. The to-be-supplied bar block 61 is lifted again to block, the remaining bar conveying limiting device 7 releases the blocking limitation, and the remaining two plug fixing bars 9 are conveyed forwards by the width distance of one plug fixing bar 9 and then are blocked again by the to-be-supplied bar block 61. At this time, the holding of the remaining sliver feeding regulation device 7 and the to-be-fed sliver holding device 63 and the subsequent unblocking of the to-be-fed sliver stopper 61 are repeated. This completes the automatic feeding of a plug fastening strip 9. When the number of the plug-in bars 9 at the bar-to-be-supplied block 61 is not large, or when the last one is removed, the transfer bracket 84 transfers three plug-in bars 9 to the bar conveyor 5 again.

The full automation operation of 9 pay-offs of plug fixed strip has effectively linked up some glue processes and the fine process of wearing to this embodiment, does benefit to the degree of automation that improves the whole production of fiber connector.

The foregoing shows and describes the general principles, essential features, and advantages of the invention. It will be understood by those skilled in the art that the present invention is not limited to the embodiments described above, which are described in the specification and illustrated only to illustrate the principle of the present invention, but that various changes and modifications may be made therein without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention, which fall within the scope of the invention as claimed. The scope of the invention is defined by the appended claims and equivalents thereof.

Claims

1. Full automatization fiber connector wears fine feeding system, including the frame, its characterized in that: the automatic strip feeding device is characterized in that a fixed strip conveying belt is arranged on the rack, a strip feeding in-place device is arranged in the middle of the fixed strip conveying belt on the rack, and a residual strip conveying limiting device is arranged on the incoming material side of the strip feeding in-place device on the rack.

2. The fully automated fiber optic connector threading and feeding system of claim 1, wherein: two vertically arranged fixed strip stacking slideways are fixedly arranged on the frame at the incoming material side of the residual strip conveying limiting device, and the two fixed strip stacking slideways respectively correspond to two ends of the plug fixed strip; the feeding bracket is respectively and transversely installed on the outer sides of the two fixed strip stacking slideways on the rack in a sliding manner, a feeding tray capable of extending into the fixed strip stacking slideways on the corresponding side is arranged on the feeding bracket, the bearing surface of the feeding tray is higher than the conveying surface of the fixed strip conveying belt, and a bearing controller is arranged between each feeding bracket and the rack; the frame is provided with two fixing strips which are stacked between the slideways and are provided with a transfer bracket vertically sliding, the transfer bracket is provided with a transfer saddle, and a transfer controller is arranged between the transfer bracket and the frame.

3. The fully automated fiber optic connector threading and feeding system of claim 2, wherein: the transfer pallet is connected with a heating device.

4. The fully automated fiber optic connector threading and feeding system of claim 1, wherein: the device for placing the strip to be supplied comprises a blocking block to be supplied, which is vertically and slidably mounted on the rack, and a blocking controller is arranged between the blocking block to be supplied and the rack.

5. The fully automated fiber optic connector threading and feeding system of claim 4, wherein: the to-be-supplied strip positioning device further comprises a to-be-supplied strip clamping device arranged on the feeding side of the to-be-supplied strip stop block.

6. The fully automated fiber optic connector threading and feeding system of claim 1, wherein: the surplus strip conveying limiting device comprises two conveying limiting clamping blocks which are installed on the rack in a relatively sliding mode, and conveying limiting controllers are arranged between the conveying limiting clamping blocks and the rack respectively.