CN113023328A

CN113023328A - Automatic workpiece feeding assembly

Info

Publication number: CN113023328A
Application number: CN202110384761.1A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 邓冬; 陈顺德
Original assignee: Guangdong Xinneng Robot Technology Co ltd
Current assignee: Guangdong Xinneng Robot Technology Co ltd
Priority date: 2021-04-09
Filing date: 2021-04-09
Publication date: 2021-06-25
Anticipated expiration: 2041-04-09
Also published as: CN113023328B

Abstract

The application provides work piece autoloading subassembly, including storage frame, first transport mechanism, lifting mechanism. The storage rack is provided with a storage barrel for storing a plurality of workpieces; the first carrying mechanism is used for carrying the storage barrel; the lifting mechanism receives the storage barrel from the first carrying mechanism and lifts one end of the storage barrel, so that the workpieces slide out of the other end of the storage barrel to a first material table. In this application, utilize the storage cylinder to load a plurality of work pieces, then carry the storage cylinder to lifting mechanism through first transport mechanism, the wherein one end lifting of lifting mechanism lifting storage cylinder, make a plurality of work pieces from the other end roll-off of storage cylinder to a first material bench, compared with prior art, the technical scheme of this application can once only carry a plurality of work pieces, avoid the frequent transport of first transport mechanism, save the transport time, in addition, this application once only provides a plurality of work pieces, the feed speed can follow the production speed of the high-efficient production line of modernization.

Description

Automatic workpiece feeding assembly

Technical Field

The invention relates to the technical field of workpiece feeding, in particular to an automatic workpiece feeding assembly.

Background

In the process of producing products, various small workpieces such as electronic components, circuit boards, chips and the like generally need to be assembled, in the traditional technology, the feeding process of the small workpieces is generally completed by manual operation, the efficiency is low, the labor cost is high, in the prior art, a machine is adopted to replace manual work for feeding, however, the existing feeding equipment can only feed one by one, so that feeding parts of the equipment need to frequently move back and forth between a material tray and a production line, more feeding time is wasted, and for modern increasingly efficient production lines, the feeding efficiency of the equipment can obviously not follow the production speed of the production line, and the production efficiency of the whole production line is influenced.

Therefore, a more efficient workpiece feeding technical scheme needs to be provided.

Disclosure of Invention

The invention provides an automatic workpiece feeding assembly and aims to improve workpiece feeding efficiency.

The technical scheme adopted by the invention is as follows:

an automatic workpiece feeding assembly comprises a storage rack, a first carrying mechanism and a lifting mechanism. The storage rack is provided with a storage barrel for storing a plurality of workpieces; the first carrying mechanism is used for carrying the storage barrel; the lifting mechanism receives the storage barrel from the first carrying mechanism and lifts one end of the storage barrel, so that the workpieces slide out of the other end of the storage barrel to a first material table.

In one embodiment, the lifting mechanism includes a sleeve for the storage cylinder to be inserted and a first lifting driving member, one end of the sleeve is hinged to the first material table, and when the first carrying mechanism inserts the storage cylinder into the sleeve, the first lifting driving member drives the sleeve to drive the sleeve and the storage cylinder to turn up around the hinge point, so that the workpiece in the storage cylinder slides onto the first material table through the sleeve.

In one embodiment, the first material table comprises a plane part and an inclined part inclined upwards from one side of the plane part, the inclined part is hinged with the sleeve, and a baffle is arranged on one side, away from the inclined part, of the plane part.

In one embodiment, the first carrying mechanism comprises a first driving member, a second driving member arranged on the first driving member, and a clamping member arranged on the second driving member; the first driving piece drives the second driving piece to move back and forth along the X axis, the second driving piece drives the clamping piece to move back and forth along the Y axis, and under the driving of the first driving piece and the second driving piece, the clamping piece grabs the storage barrel from the storage rack and carries the storage barrel to the lifting mechanism.

In an embodiment, the storage frame includes the vertical mounting plate that the bisymmetry set up, the recess of vertical extension is seted up on the inboard upper portion of vertical mounting plate and is equipped with the horizontal extended accepting part that borders on the recess lower extreme, one of them horizontal lateral wall of recess lower extreme is seted up jaggedly, the both ends of storage section of thick bamboo are just erect respectively on the accepting part of two vertical mounting plates with the recess cooperation of two vertical mounting plates respectively, when the holder took off the storage section of thick bamboo from the storage frame, the breach of two vertical mounting plates was followed at the both ends of storage section of thick bamboo shifted out.

In one embodiment, the work piece autoloading subassembly still includes the transfer device that is used for transporting the work piece on the first material platform to next process, and the transfer device includes:

the second conveying mechanism is used for conveying the workpiece of the first material table to a second material table;

and the operation mechanism is used for transporting the workpiece to the next working procedure.

In an embodiment, the second carrying mechanism includes a third driving member, a third lifting driving member disposed on the third driving member, and a suction nozzle disposed on the third lifting driving member, and under the driving of the third driving member and the third lifting driving member, the suction nozzle sucks and fixes the workpiece on the first material table and carries the workpiece to the second material table.

In one embodiment, the second material table comprises a conveying groove for bearing the workpiece from the second carrying mechanism, and an avoiding groove extending along the length direction of the conveying groove is formed in the bottom surface of the conveying groove; the pushing mechanism comprises a fourth driving part, a fourth lifting driving part arranged on the fourth driving part and a pushing sheet arranged on the fourth lifting driving part, and the pushing sheet moves into the transport groove from the avoiding groove and moves along the length direction of the avoiding groove under the driving of the fourth driving part and the fourth lifting driving part so as to push the workpiece in the transport groove to the operating mechanism.

In one embodiment, the operation mechanism includes a rotary driving member and a rotating wheel disposed on the rotary driving member, the rotating wheel is provided with a slot for accommodating the workpiece, and after the workpiece is pushed into the slot by the pushing piece, the rotary driving member drives the rotating wheel to rotate, so as to transfer the workpiece to a next process.

In one embodiment, the transportation tank comprises a first half tank and a second half tank, and the first half tank and the second half tank are arranged at intervals so as to form an avoidance tank between the first half tank and the second half tank; the operating device also comprises a fifth driving piece connected with the first half groove, and the fifth driving piece is used for driving the first half groove to move towards or back to the second half groove; the operation device further comprises a fifth lifting driving piece and a cover plate arranged on the fifth lifting driving piece, the cover plate is located above the notch of the conveying groove, and the cover plate can move up and down under the driving of the fifth lifting driving piece.

The invention has the beneficial effects that:

in this application, utilize the storage cylinder to load a plurality of work pieces, then carry the storage cylinder to lifting mechanism through first transport mechanism, the wherein one end lifting of lifting mechanism lifting storage cylinder, make a plurality of work pieces from the other end roll-off of storage cylinder to a first material bench, compared with prior art, the technical scheme of this application can once only carry a plurality of work pieces, avoid the frequent transport of first transport mechanism, save the transport time, in addition, this application once only provides a plurality of work pieces, the feed speed can follow the production speed of the high-efficient production line of modernization.

Drawings

The accompanying drawings, which are included to provide a further understanding of the invention and are incorporated in and constitute a part of this specification, illustrate embodiments of the invention and together with the description serve to explain the invention without limiting the invention. In the drawings, there is shown in the drawings,

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of an overall structure of an embodiment of the present invention in one of the operating states;

FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of an overall structure of an embodiment of the present invention in one of the operating states;

FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram of an overall structure of an embodiment of the present invention in one of the operating states;

fig. 4 is a schematic view of a combined structure of a storage rack, a first carrying mechanism, a lifting mechanism and a second carrying mechanism according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 5 is a schematic view of a combined structure of the pushing mechanism, the second material table, and the operating mechanism according to the embodiment of the invention.

Reference is made to the accompanying drawings in which: 10. a storage rack; 11. a storage cylinder; 20. a first carrying mechanism; 21. a first driving member; 22. a clamping member; 23. a second driving member; 30. a lifting mechanism; 31. a sleeve; 32. a first lifting drive member; 40. a first material table; 41. an inclined portion; 42. a planar portion; 43. a guide groove; 44. a baffle plate; 50. a material pushing mechanism; 51. a fourth lifting drive member; 52. a fourth drive; 53. pushing the sheet; 60. a second carrying mechanism; 61. a third driving member; 62. a third lifting drive member; 63. a suction nozzle; 70. a second material table; 71. a fifth elevation drive member; 72. a fifth driving member; 73. a first half-tank; 74. a second half-tank; 75. a cover plate; 80. an operation mechanism; 81. a rotating wheel; 82. a slot position; 83. a rotary drive member; 90. a substrate.

Detailed Description

The following detailed description of embodiments of the invention refers to the accompanying drawings. It should be understood that the detailed description and specific examples, while indicating the present invention, are given by way of illustration and explanation only, not limitation.

The embodiment discloses a workpiece automatic feeding assembly which is mainly applied to conveying workpieces such as electronic components, chips, circuit boards and the like and aims to improve workpiece feeding efficiency.

Referring to fig. 1-3, the automatic workpiece feeding assembly disclosed in this embodiment includes a substrate 90, a storage rack 10, a first carrying mechanism 20, a lifting mechanism 30, a first material table 40, and a transferring device. The storage rack 10 is provided with a storage barrel 11 for storing a plurality of workpieces; the first conveying mechanism 20 is used for conveying the storage barrel 11; the lifting mechanism 30 receives the storage barrel 11 from the first carrying mechanism 20 and lifts one end of the storage barrel 11, so that a plurality of workpieces slide out from the other end of the storage barrel 11 onto a first material table 40, and the transfer device carries the workpieces on the first material table 40 to the next process. In this application, utilize storage cylinder 11 to load a plurality of work pieces, then carry storage cylinder 11 to lifting mechanism 30 through first handling mechanism 20, lifting mechanism 30 lifts wherein one end lifting of storage cylinder 11, make a plurality of work pieces from storage cylinder 11's the other end roll-off to a first material platform 40, compared with the prior art, the technical scheme of this application can once only carry a plurality of work pieces, avoid the frequent transport of first handling mechanism 20, save the transport time, in addition, this application once only provides a plurality of work pieces, the feed speed can keep up with the production speed of the high-efficient production line of modernization.

Next, the structure of the automatic workpiece feeding assembly of the present embodiment will be described in further detail.

Referring to fig. 1-5, in the present embodiment, the storage rack 10 includes two vertical supporting plates symmetrically disposed, the first carrying mechanism 20 is located between the two vertical supporting plates, the lower end of the vertical supporting plate is fixed on the base plate 90, the upper portion of the inner side of the vertical supporting plate is provided with a vertically extending groove and a horizontally extending receiving portion adjacent to the lower end of the groove, one of the horizontal side walls of the lower end of the groove is provided with a notch, the storage rack 10 can be used for placing a plurality of storage cartridges 11 simultaneously, two ends of the storage cartridges 11 are respectively matched with the grooves of the two vertical supporting plates, two end portions of the storage cartridge 11 at the lowest layer are respectively mounted on the receiving portions of the two vertical supporting plates, and the other storage cartridges 11 are overlapped on the storage cartridge 11 at the lowest layer. First transport mechanism 20 is located the below of storage barrel 11, when first transport mechanism 20 takes off the storage barrel 11 of lower floor from storage rack 10, the breach of two vertical mounting plates is followed at the both ends of the storage barrel 11 of lower floor shifts out, and the storage barrel 11 that is located above the storage barrel 11 of lower floor moves outward under the action of gravity, and the storage rack 10's of this embodiment simple structure, the cost of manufacture is low, and still storage barrel 11 conveniently takes out, is favorable to improving work efficiency.

In this embodiment, the first conveying mechanism 20 includes a first driving member 23, a second driving member 21, and a clamping member 22. The first driving member 23 and the second driving member 21 are linear modules, and in other embodiments, the first driving member 23 and the second driving member 21 may be a screw mechanism or an air cylinder or other driving members. The first driving member 23 is disposed on the substrate 90, the bottom surface of the second driving member 21 is connected to the movable portion of the first driving member 23, two opposite sides of the bottom surface of the second driving member 21 are slidably connected to the slide rails disposed on the substrate 90, and the second driving member 21 moves back and forth along the X-axis under the driving of the first driving member 23. The clamping member 22 is connected to the movable portion of the second driving member 21, the second driving member 21 drives the clamping member 22 to move back and forth along the Y-axis, the clamping member 22 grabs the storage barrel 11 from the storage rack 10 and carries the storage barrel 11 to the lifting mechanism 30 under the driving of the first driving member 23, the second driving member 21 and the second lifting driving member, in this embodiment, the clamping member 22 is an air cylinder gripper, in other embodiments, the clamping member 22 may be an electric cylinder gripper, the bottom ends of the two claw arms of the air cylinder gripper are hinged to the main body portion of the air cylinder gripper, when the two claw arms of the air cylinder gripper are opened, the two claw arms are turned outwards around the hinge point at the bottom ends thereof, so that the ends of the two claw arms move downward for a certain distance, so that the ends of the two claw arms do not contact with the storage barrel 11 during the movement of the clamping member 22 to the lower side of the storage barrel 11, when the two claw arms are turned inwards around the hinge point at the bottom ends, the two claw arms grab the storage barrel 11.

In this embodiment, the lifting mechanism 30 includes a sleeve 31 and a first lifting driving member 32, which are used for the storage barrel 11 to be inserted, the first material table 40 includes a planar portion 42 and an inclined portion 41 inclined upward from one side of the planar portion 42, the top surface of the first material table is further provided with a guiding groove 43, the guiding groove 43 extends to the planar portion 42 and the inclined portion 41, the bottom surface of the planar portion 42 is connected to the base plate 90 through a column, one end of the sleeve 31 is hinged to the inclined portion 41, a baffle 44 is disposed on one side of the planar portion 42 away from the inclined portion 41, the baffle 44 corresponds to an end of the guiding groove 43, the first lifting driving member 32 is a cylinder with a movable end linearly extending and retracting, a fixed end of the cylinder is hinged to the base plate 90, a movable end of the cylinder is hinged to an end of the sleeve 31 away from the inclined portion 41, when the first carrying mechanism 20 inserts one end of the, the material storage barrel 11 inclines towards the inclined portion 41, the foremost workpiece in the material storage barrel 11 passes through the sleeve 31 and the guide groove 43 and finally slides onto the plane portion 42 and abuts against the baffle 44, the baffle 44 is used for preventing the workpiece from sliding out of the plane portion 42, the rest workpieces stop in the inclined portion 41 and the material storage barrel 11 due to the blocking of the foremost workpiece, after the foremost workpiece is taken away by the second carrying mechanism 60, the next workpiece slides onto the plane portion 42 and abuts against the baffle 44 due to the action of gravity, and the rest is repeated until the last workpiece is taken away.

The transfer device includes a second carrying mechanism 60, a second material table 70, a material pushing mechanism 50, and a running mechanism 80. The second carrying mechanism 60 is used for carrying the workpiece from the first material table 40 to a second material table 70, the pushing mechanism 50 is used for pushing the workpiece from the second material table 70 to a transferring mechanism, and the transferring mechanism 80 transfers the workpiece to the next process.

In this embodiment, the second conveying mechanism 60 includes a third driving element 61, a third lifting driving element 62 disposed on the third driving element 61, and a suction nozzle 63 disposed on the third lifting driving element 62, where the third driving element 61 and the third lifting driving element 62 are both cylinders with movable ends extending linearly, in other embodiments, the third driving element 61 and the third lifting driving element 62 may be a screw mechanism, a moving module, or other driving elements, a fixed end of the third driving element 61 is disposed on the substrate 90 through an upright, a movable end of the third driving element 61 is extendable along an X axis, a movable end of the third driving element 61 is connected to a fixed end of the third lifting driving element 62, a movable end of the third lifting driving element 62 is movable along an up-down direction, the suction nozzle 63 is disposed at a movable end of the third lifting driving element 62, and a height of the suction nozzle 63 is higher than a height of the second material table 70. When the second carrying mechanism 60 carries a workpiece, the suction nozzle 63 sucks and fixes the workpiece on the plane portion 42 of the first material platform 40 by using negative pressure, then the third lifting driving member 62 drives the suction nozzle 63 to move upwards, so as to drive the workpiece to move upwards, the height of the workpiece is higher than that of the baffle 44, then the third driving member 61 drives the third lifting driving member 62 to move towards the second material platform until the suction nozzle 63 moves above the second material platform, the third lifting driving member 62 drives the suction nozzle 63 to move downwards until the workpiece abuts against the second material platform, the suction nozzle 63 releases the workpiece, and finally the suction nozzle 63 is moved above the plane portion 42 of the first material platform by the third lifting driving member 62 and the third driving member 61, and a next workpiece is carried continuously.

The second material table 70 comprises a conveying groove, the conveying groove is used for receiving the workpiece conveyed by the suction nozzle 63 from the first material table 40, the conveying groove comprises a first half groove 73 and a second half groove 74, and the first half groove 73 and the second half groove 74 are arranged at intervals, so that an avoiding groove which is positioned on the bottom surface of the conveying groove and extends along the length direction of the conveying groove is formed between the first half groove 73 and the second half groove 74; the running device further comprises a fifth driving member 72 connected to the first half-groove 73, the fifth driving member 72 is used for driving the first half-groove 73 to move towards or away from the second half-groove 74 so as to adjust the width of the transportation groove to adapt to workpieces with different sizes, the fifth driving member 72 is a linear module, in other embodiments, the fifth driving member 72 can be a screw rod mechanism or an air cylinder or other driving members, the fifth driving member 72 is mounted on the base plate 90 through an upright post, and the first half-groove 73 is connected to a movable part of the fifth driving member 72. The operation device further comprises a fifth lifting driving piece 71 and a cover plate 75 arranged on the fifth lifting driving piece 71, the fifth lifting driving piece 71 is a linear module, in other embodiments, the fifth lifting driving piece 71 can be a screw rod mechanism or an air cylinder or other driving pieces, the fifth lifting driving piece 71 is mounted on the base plate 90 through a support, the cover plate 75 is connected with a movable part of the fifth lifting driving piece 71, the cover plate 75 is located above a notch of the transportation groove, and the cover plate 75 can move up and down under the driving of the fifth lifting driving piece 71, so that a workpiece on the transportation groove can be limited, and the workpiece is prevented from being separated from the transportation groove.

The pushing mechanism 50 includes a fourth driving member 52, a fourth lifting driving member 51 disposed on the fourth driving member 52, and a pushing sheet 53 disposed on the fourth lifting driving member 51, where the fourth driving member 52 and the fourth lifting driving member 51 are linear modules, in other embodiments, the fourth driving member 52 and the fourth lifting driving member 51 may be a screw mechanism, an air cylinder, or other driving members, the fourth driving member 52 is disposed on the substrate 90, the fourth lifting driving member 51 is connected to a movable portion of the fourth driving member 52, the pushing sheet 53 is mounted on the movable portion of the fourth lifting driving member 51 through a connecting rod extending along the X axis, and the pushing sheet 53 moves from below the avoiding groove to the transport groove and then moves toward the transport mechanism 80 along the length direction of the avoiding groove under the driving of the fourth driving member 52 and the fourth lifting driving member 51, so as to push the workpiece in the transport groove to the transport mechanism 80.

The operation mechanism 80 comprises a rotary driving part 83 and a rotating wheel 81 arranged on the rotary driving part 83, the end face of the rotating wheel 81 is perpendicular to the length direction of the conveying groove, a groove 82 used for accommodating a workpiece is formed in the rotating wheel 81, the groove 82 penetrates through two end faces and the circumferential side face of the rotating wheel 81, preferably, the number of the groove 82 is multiple, and the groove 82 is arranged at equal intervals along the circumferential direction of the rotating wheel 81. The rotary driving member 83 is a servo motor, an output shaft of the servo motor is connected to the rotating wheel 81, after the workpiece is pushed into one of the slots 82 by the pushing piece 53, the servo motor drives the rotating wheel 81 to rotate, the workpiece in the slot 82 is transferred to the next process, and simultaneously, the other slot 82 is moved to a position corresponding to the end of the transporting slot, so that the slot 82 accommodates the other workpiece.

Any combination of the various embodiments of the present invention should be considered as disclosed in the present invention, unless the inventive concept is contrary to the present invention; within the scope of the technical idea of the invention, any combination of various simple modifications and different embodiments of the technical solution without departing from the inventive idea of the present invention shall fall within the protection scope of the present invention.

Claims

1. An automatic workpiece feeding assembly, comprising:

the storage rack is provided with a storage barrel for storing a plurality of workpieces;

the first conveying mechanism is used for conveying the storage barrels;

the lifting mechanism receives the storage barrel from the first carrying mechanism and lifts one end of the storage barrel, so that the workpieces slide out of the other end of the storage barrel to a first material table.

2. The workpiece autoloading assembly of claim 1, wherein the lifting mechanism includes a sleeve to which the magazine is coupled and a first lift actuator, one end of the sleeve is pivotally coupled to the first material table, and when the first handling mechanism couples the magazine to the sleeve, the first lift actuator drives the sleeve to pivot the sleeve and the magazine up the pivot point, such that the workpiece in the magazine slides through the sleeve to the first material table.

3. The workpiece autoloading assembly of claim 2, wherein the first material table includes a planar portion and an inclined portion inclined upwardly from a side of the planar portion, the inclined portion being hingedly connected to the sleeve, a side of the planar portion remote from the inclined portion being provided with a baffle.

4. The workpiece autoloading assembly of claim 1, wherein the first conveyance mechanism includes a first drive member, a second drive member disposed on the first drive member, and a clamp member disposed on the second drive member; the first driving piece drives the second driving piece to move back and forth along an X axis, the second driving piece drives the clamping piece to move back and forth along a Y axis, and under the driving of the first driving piece and the second driving piece, the clamping piece grabs the storage barrel from the storage rack and conveys the storage barrel to the lifting mechanism.

5. The automatic workpiece feeding assembly according to claim 4, wherein the magazine comprises two symmetrically arranged vertical support plates, a vertically extending groove is formed in the upper portion of the inner side of each vertical support plate, a horizontally extending receiving portion is formed adjacent to the lower end of the groove, a notch is formed in one of the horizontal side walls of the lower end of the groove, two ends of the magazine are respectively matched with the grooves of the two vertical support plates and are respectively mounted on the receiving portions of the two vertical support plates, and when the magazine is taken down from the magazine by the clamping member, two ends of the magazine are moved out of the notches of the two vertical support plates.

6. The workpiece autoloading assembly of claim 1, further including a transfer device for transferring the workpiece on the first material table to a next process, the transfer device including:

and the pushing mechanism is used for pushing the workpiece of the second material table to a transfer mechanism, and the transfer mechanism transfers the workpiece to the next working procedure.

7. The automatic workpiece feeding assembly as claimed in claim 6, wherein the second transporting mechanism comprises a third driving member, a third lifting driving member disposed on the third driving member, and a suction nozzle disposed on the third lifting driving member, and under the driving of the third driving member and the third lifting driving member, the suction nozzle sucks and fixes the workpiece on the first material table and transports the workpiece to the second material table.

8. The workpiece automatic feeding assembly according to claim 6, wherein the second material table comprises a conveying groove for receiving the workpiece from the second carrying mechanism, and an avoiding groove extending along the length direction of the conveying groove is formed in the bottom surface of the conveying groove;

the pushing mechanism comprises a fourth driving part, a fourth lifting driving part arranged on the fourth driving part and a pushing sheet arranged on the fourth lifting driving part, the fourth driving part and the fourth lifting driving part are driven to move into the transport groove through the pushing sheet, and the pushing sheet moves along the length direction of the avoiding groove so as to push the workpieces in the transport groove to the operating mechanism.

9. The automatic workpiece feeding assembly as claimed in claim 8, wherein the operation mechanism includes a rotary driving member and a rotary wheel provided on the rotary driving member, the rotary wheel defines a slot for receiving the workpiece, and the rotary driving member drives the rotary wheel to rotate after the workpiece is pushed into the slot by the pushing piece, so as to transfer the workpiece to a next process.

10. The workpiece autoloading assembly of claim 8, wherein the transport slot includes a first half slot and a second half slot, the first half slot and the second half slot being spaced apart to form the avoidance slot between the first half slot and the second half slot; the running device further comprises a fifth driving piece connected with the first half groove, and the fifth driving piece is used for driving the first half groove to move towards or away from the second half groove; the operation device further comprises a fifth lifting driving piece and a cover plate arranged on the fifth lifting driving piece, the cover plate is located above the notch of the conveying groove, and the cover plate can move up and down under the driving of the fifth lifting driving piece.