CN112086615A

CN112086615A - Tab shaping device

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Publication number: CN112086615A
Application number: CN202011084371.4A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 李新宏; 马千波; 刘高亮; 陈争亮
Original assignee: Dongguan Ali System Co ltd
Current assignee: Dongguan Ali System Co ltd
Priority date: 2020-10-12
Filing date: 2020-10-12
Publication date: 2020-12-15

Abstract

The invention relates to the technical field of tab shaping, and particularly discloses a tab shaping device which is suitable for a to-be-shaped battery cell, wherein the to-be-shaped battery cell comprises a soft package and a tab of which one end is fixedly connected with the soft package, and the tab shaping device comprises: the fixing part mechanism is used for fixing the soft package, and the other end of the tab horizontally extends outwards; the upward folding mechanism is positioned below the outward extending part of the lug and is used for jacking up one end of the lug extending outwards so as to enable the lug to be bent upwards; the transverse folding mechanism is located on the lug, the lug is far away from one side of the soft package and is used for horizontally bending the lug, so that the lug is bent upwards and is bent towards the direction close to the transverse folding mechanism, and a Z-shaped structure is formed. The invention provides a tab reshaping device which can bend a flat plate-shaped tab into a Z-shaped structure.

Description

Tab shaping device

Technical Field

The invention relates to the technical field of tab shaping, in particular to a tab shaping device.

Background

Referring to fig. 1, generally, an electric core 1 to be shaped includes a soft package 101 and a tab 102, and when the electric core is produced, the tab 102 is in a flat plate shape, and the tab 102 needs to be bent twice upwards and backwards in a subsequent shaping process, so that the tab 102 forms a Z-shaped structure in fig. 2. Therefore, it is necessary to develop a tab shaping device for bending a tab having a flat plate shape into a Z-shaped structure.

Disclosure of Invention

An object of the present invention is to provide a tab shaping device capable of bending a flat plate-shaped tab into a Z-shaped structure.

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides a tab shaping device, which is suitable for a to-be-shaped battery cell, wherein the to-be-shaped battery cell includes a soft package and a tab, one end of which is fixedly connected to the soft package, and the tab shaping device includes:

the fixing part mechanism is used for fixing the soft package, and the other end of the tab horizontally extends outwards;

the upward folding mechanism is positioned below the outward extending part of the lug and is used for jacking up one end of the lug extending outwards so as to enable the lug to be bent upwards;

the transverse folding mechanism is located on the lug, the lug is far away from one side of the soft package and is used for horizontally bending the lug, so that the lug is bent upwards and is bent towards the direction close to the transverse folding mechanism, and a Z-shaped structure is formed.

Preferably, the firmware mechanism comprises:

the top of the bag sucking component is provided with a plurality of air suction holes for sucking the bottom of the soft bag;

and the press packing component is positioned above the suction packing component and tightly presses the soft pack on the suction packing component.

Preferably, the press pack assembly comprises:

the press-packed silica gel block is positioned above the suction packing component;

and the telescopic end of the press packing cylinder is fixedly arranged with the press packing silica gel block and is used for driving the press packing silica gel block to move up and down.

Preferably, the fastener mechanism further comprises a bag suction traversing assembly, and the bag suction traversing assembly comprises:

the transverse moving guide rail extends along the horizontal direction and is connected with the bottom of the bag sucking assembly in a sliding manner;

inhale a packet sideslip cylinder, inhale the drive end of a packet sideslip cylinder with inhale a packet subassembly rigid coupling, inhale a packet sideslip cylinder and be used for ordering about inhale a packet subassembly and follow inhale a packet sideslip cylinder and be close to or keep away from press a packet subassembly.

Preferably, the folding-up mechanism includes:

the upper top plate is horizontally arranged;

and the telescopic end of the upper jacking cylinder is fixedly connected to the bottom of the upper top plate and is used for driving the upper top plate to move up and down.

Preferably, the transverse folding mechanism comprises:

the transverse folding assembly is positioned above the upward folding mechanism;

the transverse folding cylinder is fixedly connected with the telescopic end of the transverse folding cylinder and used for driving the transverse folding assembly to be close to or far away from the firmware mechanism along the horizontal direction.

Preferably, the cross-folding assembly comprises:

the cylinder body of the scraper cylinder is fixedly connected with the telescopic end of the transverse folding cylinder;

the connecting piece is fixedly connected with the telescopic end of the scraper cylinder, and the scraper cylinder is used for driving the connecting piece to move up and down;

a compression spring;

the barb scraping plate is positioned below the connecting piece; the barb scraping plate and the connecting piece are hinged around a horizontal axis at one end far away from the fixing piece mechanism, and the other end close to the fixing piece mechanism is connected through the compression spring.

Preferably, the ear pressing mechanism is further included, and the ear pressing mechanism includes:

the lug pressing silica gel block is positioned above the lug;

the cylinder body of the lug pressing cylinder is fixedly connected with the cylinder body of the scraper cylinder; the telescopic end of the lug pressing cylinder is fixedly connected with the top of the lug pressing silica gel block and used for driving the lug pressing silica gel block to downwards compress the lug of the Z-shaped structure.

The invention has the beneficial effects that: the utility model provides a utmost point ear shaping device, fix the soft package of treating plastic electric core in firmware mechanism earlier, guarantee that straight platelike utmost point ear is toward stretching out outward, then go up a jack-up of book mechanism, make straight platelike utmost point ear upwards buckle into the L type, go up a mechanism and reset after that, violently roll over the mechanism and release the back withdrawal to the direction that is close to soft package, make the part that utmost point ear upwards buckled buckle to the direction of keeping away from violently roll over the mechanism buckle, utmost point ear becomes Z type structure from the L type, it resets to roll over the mechanism at last, accomplish the plastic process of utmost point ear. Therefore, the lug shaping device provided by the embodiment can bend the straight plate-shaped lug into a Z-shaped structure, thereby avoiding manual operation and further improving the production efficiency.

Drawings

In order to more clearly illustrate the embodiments of the present invention or the technical solutions in the prior art, the drawings used in the description of the embodiments or the prior art will be briefly described below, and it is obvious that the drawings in the following description are only some embodiments of the present invention, and for those skilled in the art, other drawings can be obtained according to these drawings without inventive exercise.

Fig. 1 is a schematic diagram of a battery cell to be shaped provided in the background art before shaping;

fig. 2 is a schematic diagram of a battery cell to be shaped provided in the background art after shaping;

fig. 3 is a schematic structural diagram of a tab shaping device provided by the embodiment;

fig. 4 is a schematic side view of a tab shaping device provided in an embodiment;

fig. 5 is a schematic side view of a transverse folding mechanism according to an embodiment.

In the figure:

9. a battery cell to be shaped; 901. soft packing; 902. a tab;

1001. a suction bag assembly; 10011. a suction hole;

1002. a bale press assembly; 10021. packing the silica gel block; 10022. a pressing and wrapping cylinder;

1003. a bag sucking and transverse moving component; 10031. transversely moving the guide rail; 10032. a bag sucking and transverse moving cylinder;

11. an upward folding mechanism; 1101. an upper top plate; 1102. an upper jacking cylinder;

12. a transverse folding mechanism;

1201. a cross-folding assembly; 12011. a squeegee cylinder; 12012. a connecting member; 12013. a compression spring; 12014. a barb scraper plate;

1202. a transverse folding cylinder;

13. a lug pressing mechanism; 1301. pressing the ear silica gel block; 1302. and a lug pressing cylinder.

Detailed Description

In order to make the objects, features and advantages of the present invention more obvious and understandable, the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the accompanying drawings in the embodiments of the present invention, and it is apparent that the embodiments described below are only a part of the embodiments of the present invention, and not all of the embodiments. All other embodiments, which can be derived by a person skilled in the art from the embodiments given herein without making any creative effort, shall fall within the protection scope of the present invention.

In the description of the present invention, it is to be understood that when an element is referred to as being "connected" to another element, it can be directly connected to the other element or intervening elements may also be present. When a component is referred to as being "disposed on" another component, it can be directly on the other component or intervening components may also be present.

Furthermore, the terms "long", "short", "inner", "outer", and the like indicate orientations or positional relationships based on those shown in the drawings, and are only for convenience of describing the present invention, but do not indicate or imply that the referred devices or elements must have the specific orientations, be configured to operate in the specific orientations, and thus are not to be construed as limitations of the present invention.

The technical scheme of the invention is further explained by the specific implementation mode in combination with the attached drawings.

Referring to fig. 3 and fig. 4, the embodiment provides a tab shaping device, which is suitable for a to-be-shaped battery cell 9, where the to-be-shaped battery cell 9 includes a soft package 1019 and a tab 902 having two ends fixedly connected to the soft package 1019.

The tab shaping device comprises a fixing part mechanism, an upward folding mechanism 11 and a transverse folding mechanism 12. The firmware mechanism is used for fixing the soft package 1019, and the other end of the tab 902 horizontally extends outwards. The upward folding mechanism 11 is located below the outward extending portion of the tab 902, and is used for jacking up the outward extending end of the tab 902, so that the tab 902 is bent upward. The transverse folding mechanism 12 is located on one side of the tab 902 far away from the soft package 1019 and used for horizontally bending the tab 902, so that the tab 902 which is bent upwards is bent towards the direction close to the transverse folding mechanism 12 and forms a Z-shaped structure.

The utmost point ear shaping device that this embodiment provided, the soft package 1019 of treating plastic electric core 9 earlier fixes on firmware mechanism, guarantee straight platelike utmost point ear 902 and outwards stretch out, then go up book mechanism 11 jack-up, make straight platelike utmost point ear 902 upwards buckle into the L type, it resets to turn up book mechanism 11 then, transversely roll over mechanism 12 and release the back to the direction that is close to soft package 1019 and withdraw, make utmost point ear 902 part that upwards buckles buckle to the direction that is close to transversely roll over mechanism 12, utmost point ear 902 becomes Z type structure from the L type, last transversely roll over mechanism 12 and reset, accomplish utmost point ear 902's plastic process. Therefore, the tab shaping device provided by the embodiment can bend the flat plate-shaped tab 902 into a Z-shaped structure, thereby avoiding manual operation and further improving the production efficiency.

The fastener mechanism comprises a bag suction assembly 1001, a bag pressing assembly 1002 and a bag suction and transverse moving assembly 1003. The top of inhaling package subassembly 1001 is equipped with a plurality of suction holes 10011 that are used for holding soft package 1019's bottom. The pressing package assembly 1002 is located above the suction package assembly 1001 and presses the soft package 1019 on the suction package assembly 1001. Specifically, the press pack assembly 1002 includes a press pack silicone block 10021 and a press pack cylinder 10022. The bale of silicone rubber 10021 is located above the bale sucking assembly 1001. The flexible end of the bale cylinder 10022 is fixed to the bale silica gel block 10021, and is used for driving the bale silica gel block 10021 to move up and down. The bag sucking and traversing assembly 1003 comprises a traversing guide rail 10031 and a bag sucking and traversing cylinder 10032. The traverse guide 10031 extends in a horizontal direction and is slidably coupled to the bottom of the suction bag assembly 1001. The driving end of the bag sucking and traversing cylinder 10032 is fixedly connected with the bag sucking assembly 1001, and the bag sucking and traversing cylinder 10032 is used for driving the bag sucking assembly 1001 to be close to or far away from the bag pressing assembly 1002 along the bag sucking and traversing cylinder 10032.

Preferably, the package transverse moving suction cylinder 10032 is a rodless cylinder, and the driving end of the package transverse moving suction cylinder 10032 is a driving slider of the rodless cylinder.

Specifically, the suction bag transverse moving cylinder 10032 drives the suction bag assembly 1001 to be far away from the pressing bag assembly 1002 so as to vacate a space, and the battery cell 9 to be shaped is conveniently placed on the suction hole 10011 of the suction bag assembly 1001; the air suction hole 10011 sucks air to primarily fix the to-be-shaped battery cell 9, and then the suction bag transverse moving cylinder 10032 drives the suction bag assembly 1001 to be close to the pressing bag assembly 1002 until the to-be-shaped battery cell 9 and the suction bag assembly 1001 are located right below the pressing bag assembly 1002; finally, press a packet cylinder 10022 to order about and press a packet silica gel block 10021 to move down, and the cooperation is inhaled a packet subassembly 1001 and is compressed tightly the soft package 1019 of treating plastic battery cell 9, accomplishes the abundant fixed of the soft package 1019 of treating the plastic battery from this.

Preferably, the folding-up mechanism 11 includes an upper top plate 1101 and an upper top cylinder 1102. The upper top plate 1101 is horizontally disposed. The telescopic end of the upper jacking cylinder 1102 is fixedly connected to the bottom of the upper jacking plate 1101 and is used for driving the upper jacking plate 1101 to move up and down.

Specifically, at the beginning, the telescopic end of the upper cylinder 1102 retracts, the upper top plate 1101 is located at the lowest position, the bag sucking and traversing assembly 1003 moves the bag sucking assembly 1001 to the position right below the bag pressing assembly 1002, the bag pressing assembly 1002 presses the soft bag 1019 of the cell 9 to be shaped downwards, the tab 902 of the cell 9 to be shaped extends outwards to the upper side of the upper top plate 1101 and blocks the moving path of the upper top plate 1101 moving upwards and downwards, and therefore when the telescopic end of the upper cylinder 1102 extends out, the upper top plate 1101 moves upwards, and the tab 902 can be bent into an L shape.

Optionally, referring to fig. 5, the cross-folding mechanism 12 includes a cross-folding assembly 1201 and a cross-folding cylinder 1202. The transverse folding assembly 1201 is positioned above the upward folding mechanism 11. The telescopic end of the transverse folding cylinder 1202 is fixedly connected with the transverse folding assembly 1201 and used for driving the transverse folding assembly 1201 to approach or leave the fixing mechanism along the horizontal direction.

Further, the cross-folding assembly 1201 also includes a blade cylinder 12011, a link 12012, a compression spring 12013, and a barb blade 12014. The cylinder body of the scraper cylinder 12011 is fixedly connected with the telescopic end of the transverse folding cylinder 1202. The connecting piece 12012 is fixedly connected with the telescopic end of the scraper cylinder 12011, and the scraper cylinder 12011 is used for driving the connecting piece 12012 to move up and down. The overhead squeegee 12014 is positioned below the connecting member 12012; the ends of the barbed blade 12014 and the connecting piece 12012 away from the fastening mechanism are hinged around a horizontal axis, and the ends of the barbed blade 12014 and the connecting piece 12012 close to the fastening mechanism are connected through the compression spring 12013.

After the tab 902 is bent into the L-shape by the upward folding mechanism 11, the upward pushing cylinder 1102 and the upward pushing plate 1101 are reset, and the upward bent portion of the tab 902 is located on the side of the barb blade 12014 away from the soft bag to block the movement path of the barb blade 12014, so that when the telescopic end of the transverse folding cylinder 1202 retracts, the barb blade 12014 moves horizontally in the direction away from the fastener mechanism, and the L-shaped tab 902 becomes the Z-shaped structure.

Specifically, at the beginning, utmost point ear 902 is L type structure, barb scraper blade 12014 is located utmost point ear 902 and keeps away from one side of firmware mechanism, scraper cylinder 12011 withdraws earlier, make barb scraper blade 12014 be higher than utmost point ear 902, then the horizontal folding cylinder 1202 stretches out, make the barb scraper blade move to utmost point ear 902 and be close to one side of firmware mechanism, scraper cylinder 12011 stretches out again, make barb scraper blade and the part that L type utmost point ear 902 upwards stood up relative, last horizontal folding cylinder 1202 retracts, barb scraper blade 12014 moves to the direction of keeping away from firmware mechanism, just can make L type utmost point ear 902 become Z type structure.

In this embodiment, the tab shaping device further includes a tab pressing mechanism 13. The lug pressing mechanism 13 comprises a lug pressing silica gel block 1301 and a lug pressing air cylinder 1302. The lug pressing silica gel block 1301 is positioned above the lug 902. The cylinder body of the lug pressing cylinder 1302 is fixedly connected with the cylinder body of the scraper blade cylinder 12011; the telescopic end of the lug pressing cylinder 1302 is fixedly connected with the top of the lug pressing silica gel block 1301 and is used for driving the lug pressing silica gel block 1301 to downwards press the lug 902 of the Z-shaped structure.

Specifically, after the transverse folding mechanism 12 bends the tab 902 into a Z-shaped structure, in order to avoid the bent portion from warping and deforming, the tab pressing mechanism 13 is additionally arranged, the tab pressing cylinder 1302 drives the tab pressing machine silicone block to flatten the portion of the tab 902 bent by the transverse folding assembly 1201 downward, and the tab 902 is further ensured not to warp.

It should be noted that, the complete working process of the tab shaping device provided by this embodiment is as follows:

firstly, when the telescopic end of the upper jacking cylinder 1102 retracts, the upper top plate 1101 is located at the lowest position, and the bag sucking and transversely moving cylinder 10032 drives the bag sucking assembly 1001 to be far away from the bag pressing assembly 1002;

secondly, placing the battery cell 9 to be shaped on an air suction hole 10011 of the suction bag assembly 1001, and sucking the soft bag 1019 by the air suction hole 10011;

thirdly, the sucking bag transverse moving cylinder 10032 drives the sucking bag assembly 1001 to move to the position right below the pressing bag assembly 1002;

the bale pressing cylinder 10022 drives the bale pressing silica gel block 10021 to move downwards, and the bale sucking assembly 1001 is matched to compress the soft package 1019 of the battery cell 9 to be shaped, so that the soft package 1019 of the battery to be shaped is fully fixed; at this time, the tab 902 of the battery cell 9 to be shaped extends out to the upper side of the upper top plate 1101, and blocks the traveling path of the up-and-down movement of the upper top plate 1101;

the upward folding mechanism 11 is lifted upwards to enable the flat plate-shaped tab 902 to be bent upwards into an L shape, and then the upward folding mechanism 11 is reset;

sixthly, the transverse folding mechanism 12 is pushed out towards the direction close to the soft package 1019, and then the scraper cylinder 12011 enables the barb scraper 12014 to move downwards, so that the barb scraper 12014 is positioned between the lug 902 and the fixing mechanism; then the transverse folding cylinder 1202 retracts, and the barb scraping plate 12014 moves in the direction away from the fixing mechanism, so that the L-shaped tab 902 can be changed into a Z-shaped structure;

the lug pressing cylinder 1302 drives the lug pressing silica gel block 1301 to press the lug 902 with the Z-shaped structure downwards, so that the lug 902 is prevented from being warped, and the lug 902 shaping process is completed.

The above examples are only intended to illustrate the technical solution of the present invention, but not to limit it; although the present invention has been described in detail with reference to the foregoing embodiments, it will be understood by those of ordinary skill in the art that: the technical solutions described in the foregoing embodiments may still be modified, or some technical features may be equivalently replaced; and such modifications or substitutions do not depart from the spirit and scope of the corresponding technical solutions of the embodiments of the present invention.

Claims

1. The utility model provides a utmost point ear shaping device, is applicable to and treats plastic electric core, treat plastic electric core include soft package and one end with the utmost point ear of soft package rigid coupling, its characterized in that, utmost point ear shaping device includes:

2. The tab reshaping device according to claim 1, wherein the fixing means comprises:

3. The tab reshaping device according to claim 2, wherein the press pack assembly comprises:

4. The tab reshaping device of claim 2, wherein the fastener mechanism further comprises a bag-sucking traversing assembly, the bag-sucking traversing assembly comprising:

5. The tab shaping device as set forth in claim 1, wherein the folding-up mechanism comprises:

the upper top plate is horizontally arranged;

6. The tab reshaping device according to claim 1, wherein the transverse folding mechanism comprises:

7. The tab reshaping device according to claim 6, wherein the crossfold assembly comprises:

a compression spring;

8. The tab reshaping device according to claim 7, further comprising a lug pressing mechanism, wherein the lug pressing mechanism comprises:

the lug pressing silica gel block is positioned above the lug;