Disclosure of Invention
The invention aims to provide a metal bipolar plate laser welding integrated clamping structure, which is characterized in that a metal bipolar plate is welded through a full-automatic welding tooling mechanism, a tooling bottom plate is modified and opened on the reverse side of the bottom plate to form a combined body of the bottom plate and a cover plate, a closed welding path is formed by matching with an opening path of an upper cover plate, only one-time clamping is needed, and two tooling plates are mutually a cover plate and a bottom plate to complete the whole welding work.
In order to achieve the purpose, the technical scheme of the invention is as follows: the metal bipolar plate laser welding integrated clamping structure comprises a welding mechanism base, wherein a sliding block is arranged on one side of the welding mechanism base, two linear guide rails matched with the sliding block are arranged on the surface of the welding mechanism base, a first rotary swing cylinder is arranged at the position of the sliding block and connected with a first pneumatic claw, a mechanical finger is arranged at the position of the first pneumatic claw, a second rotary swing cylinder is arranged at the other side of the welding mechanism base and connected with a second pneumatic claw, the mechanical finger is also arranged at the position of the second pneumatic claw, a metal bipolar plate welding tool mechanism is arranged between the mechanical fingers at two sides, and the metal bipolar plate welding tool mechanism is composed of a welding tool cover plate and a welding tool bottom plate which are mutually overlapped.
Preferably, a cover plate welding opening path is distributed at the position of the cover plate of the welding tool, a base plate welding opening path is distributed at the position of the base plate of the welding tool, and the cover plate welding opening path is matched with the base plate welding opening path to form a closed welding path.
Preferably, a guide rail brake is arranged at the linear guide rail.
Preferably, a first rotary tilt cylinder assembly base plate is arranged on the outer side of the first rotary tilt cylinder, and the lower part of the first rotary tilt cylinder assembly base plate is fixed at the sliding block.
The processing technology related by the scheme comprises the following steps: and processing a corresponding welding tool bottom plate and a corresponding cover plate. After the machining is finished, the metal bipolar plate laser welding device is used for laser welding treatment of a metal bipolar plate, the laser welding treatment comprises three stages, the first stage comprises self-positioning of the metal bipolar plate, a mechanical arm places the metal bipolar plate to be welded on a lower plate of a welding tool, and an electromagnet on the tool carries out self-adaptive positioning; the second stage comprises clamping the welding tooling plate by mechanical fingers and welding the first surface of the metal bipolar plate; and the third stage comprises the steps that the rotary oscillating cylinder controls the pneumatic claw to rotate the welding tool by 180 degrees, the bottom plate of the tool plate is rotated to the working surface, the second surface is welded, and the welding of the metal bipolar plate is completed.
The invention discloses a laser welding integrated clamping structure of a metal bipolar plate, which realizes integrated and automatic welding and realizes high-efficiency welding treatment of the metal bipolar plate of a fuel cell on the premise of not changing a welding path. Compared with the prior art, the invention has the following advantages:
1. the invention adopts two welding tool plates as the lower plate and the cover plate to clamp the metal bipolar plate, thereby reducing the clamping times and avoiding the dislocation risk of the bipolar plate caused by secondary clamping;
2. the machining time is shortened by one-time clamping, the production efficiency is improved, the full-automatic flow is adopted in the welding process, the overall process is simplified, and a feasible treatment method is provided for the laser welding of the metal bipolar plate of the fuel cell.
Detailed Description
In order to make the technical means, the original characteristics, the achieved purposes and the effects of the invention easy to understand, the invention is further described with reference to the figures and the specific embodiments.
The invention discloses a laser welding integrated clamping structure of a metal bipolar plate, which is different from the prior art as shown in figure 1: the welding mechanism comprises a welding mechanism base 1, a sliding block 2 is arranged on one side of the welding mechanism base 1, two linear guide rails 3 matched with the sliding block 2 are arranged on the surface of the welding mechanism base 1, a first rotary swing cylinder 5 is arranged at the position of the sliding block 2, the first rotary swing cylinder 5 is connected with a first pneumatic claw 6, a mechanical finger 7 is arranged at the position of the first pneumatic claw 6, a second rotary swing cylinder 8 is arranged at the other side of the welding mechanism base 1, the second rotary swing cylinder 8 is connected with a second pneumatic claw 9, a mechanical finger 7 is also arranged at the position of the second pneumatic claw 9, a metal bipolar plate welding tool mechanism is arranged between the mechanical fingers 7 at two sides, and the metal bipolar plate welding tool mechanism is composed of a welding tool cover plate 10 and a welding tool bottom plate 11 which are overlapped with each other. The first rotary tilt cylinder 5 and the second rotary tilt cylinder 8 are 180-degree rotary tilt cylinders.
In specific implementation, cover plate welding opening paths 14 are distributed at the welding tool cover plate 10, base plate welding opening paths 15 are distributed at the welding tool base plate 11, and the cover plate welding opening paths 14 cooperate with the base plate welding opening paths 15 to form a closed welding path.
In specific implementation, a guide rail brake 4 is arranged at the linear guide rail 3.
In practical implementation, a first rotary tilt cylinder assembly base plate 12 is disposed outside the first rotary tilt cylinder 5, and a lower portion of the first rotary tilt cylinder assembly base plate 12 is fixed to the slider 2.
In specific implementation, a second rotary tilt cylinder assembly substrate 13 is arranged on the outer side of the second rotary tilt cylinder 8, and the lower part of the second rotary tilt cylinder assembly substrate 13 is fixed at the welding mechanism base 1.
In specific implementation, the welding mechanism base 1 is used for supporting the whole metal bipolar plate automatic welding device, and the length of the sliding block on the linear guide rail is controlled through the guide rail brake, so that the length control and support of the metal bipolar plate welding tool are ensured;
in specific implementation, the mechanical finger mechanism is used for connecting a welding tool plate, so that the subsequent positioning and clamping of the metal bipolar plate welding tool are facilitated;
in specific implementation, as shown in fig. 4 and 5, the metal bipolar plate welding tool mechanism includes a welding tool cover plate 10 and a welding tool bottom plate 11, an opening path is formed on the reverse side of the welding tool bottom plate to form a combination of the bottom plate and the cover plate, the opening path of the welding tool cover plate is matched to form a closed welding path, and only one clamping is needed, and the two tool plates are the cover plate and the bottom plate, so that the whole welding operation is completed.
During specific implementation, the rotating mechanism comprises a first rotating tilt cylinder 5 and a second rotating tilt cylinder 8, after welding of the first surface of the metal bipolar plate is completed, the welding tool is rotated by 180 degrees through the rotating tilt cylinders, welding of the second surface is continued, and the whole welding process is completed.
Preferably, the closed welding path is completed by matching the cover plate with the lower bottom plate, and the opening path of the welding tool can be changed according to the welding path of the metal bipolar plate, so that the welding clamping mechanism is not only suitable for the metal bipolar plate with three cavities (a hydrogen gas cavity, an air/oxygen gas cavity and a cooling liquid cavity) arranged at the same end, but also suitable for the metal bipolar plate with cavities arranged at the periphery.
Preferably, the welding and clamping mechanism has no limit on the length and the width of the metal bipolar plate and is suitable for all metal bipolar plate types.
Preferably, the metal bipolar plate rotating mechanism rotates the metal bipolar plate welding tool bottom plate at the lower position to the upper position by rotating 180 degrees by the rotary oscillating cylinder to form a cover plate, and then the subsequent welding treatment of the metal bipolar plate is carried out; or the laser application mode can be changed and the laser can be directly injected from the lower part to carry out double-sided welding after being clamped.
During specific implementation, the slide block is controlled to be positioned through the guide rail brake, and installation preparation work before welding is completed by matching with welding tool equipment. The mechanical arm is to treat that welded metal polar plate is put to the frock bottom plate on, relies on the electro-magnet of installation on the frock to carry out self-adaptation location, makes welding frock apron and frock bottom plate press from both sides tight metal bipolar plate through the manipulator finger, accomplishes the weldment work of upper cover face, later carries out 180 degrees rotations to pneumatic hand claw through rotatory tilt cylinder, and welding frock bottom plate will stop as the apron at the working face, welds, accomplishes whole weldment work.
As shown in fig. 2, the first embodiment of the processing method using the integrated clamping structure includes the following main steps:
(1) according to the welding path of the metal bipolar plate, the shape surface characteristics of a welding tool cover plate and a welding tool bottom plate are designed;
(2) the mechanical finger loosens the welding tool cover plate and the welding tool bottom plate, the mechanical arm places the metal bipolar plate on the welding tool bottom plate, self-adaptive positioning is carried out through the electromagnet, and then the mechanical finger clamps the welding tool cover plate and the welding tool bottom plate to finish clamping of the metal bipolar plate;
(3) the equipment begins to carry out laser welding to the working face (welding frock apron), and after the work above accomplishing, rotatory tilt cylinder control pneumatic hand claw is rotatory 180 degrees, changes welding frock bottom plate to the working face, trades welding frock apron and will act as lower frock board, accomplishes whole weldment work.
The automatic welding process provided by the invention aims at various metalloid bipolar plates, and only needs to modify the surface structures of related components (a welding tool cover plate and a welding tool bottom plate).
As shown in fig. 3, a second embodiment of the processing method using the integrated clamping structure is a double-sided welding processing method, which includes the following specific steps: the mechanical arm is used for placing a metal polar plate to be welded on a welding tool bottom plate, self-adaptive positioning is carried out by means of an electromagnet arranged on the tool, a welding tool cover plate and the welding tool bottom plate clamp the metal bipolar plate through equipment clamping, after clamping is completed, laser can be directly injected from the upper side and the lower side to carry out double-side welding, and welding work is completed.
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 given by way of illustration of the principles of the present invention, and that various changes and modifications may be made without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as defined by the appended claims. The scope of the invention is defined by the appended claims and equivalents thereof.