CN114162547A - Article conveying device and method - Google Patents
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Abstract
The present disclosure provides an article transport device and method, the article transport device comprising: the conveying device comprises a second conveying device and first conveying devices symmetrically arranged on two sides of the second conveying device; the two first conveying devices and the second conveying device run synchronously, each first conveying device is provided with a roller facing the second conveying device, and the rollers are used for placing the articles positioned on the first conveying devices in the middle of the second conveying devices.
Description
Technical Field
The disclosure relates to the technical field of logistics, in particular to an article conveying device and method.
Background
With the development planning of intelligent airports and the development of airport logistics technology, whether the transportation and security of the luggage boxes based on traditional belt transportation or the novel transportation modes of the luggage boxes based on trays or automatic guided vehicles and the like, the luggage boxes in upstream equipment are required to be ensured to be centered and have good postures; the suitcase neutralization posture arrangement mode among the prior art is limited to set up direction backplate or swing arm in transfer passage both sides, and its neutralization posture arrangement's efficiency is lower, and easily occupies suitcase transfer passage and causes the damage promptly to the suitcase.
Disclosure of Invention
To solve at least one of the above technical problems, the present disclosure provides an article conveying device and method.
According to one aspect of the present disclosure, an article transport apparatus includes: the conveying device comprises a second conveying device and first conveying devices symmetrically arranged on two sides of the second conveying device;
the two first conveying devices and the second conveying device run synchronously,
each first conveying device is provided with a roller facing the second conveying device, and the rollers are used for placing the articles positioned on the first conveying devices in the middle positions of the second conveying devices.
According to at least one embodiment of the present disclosure, the article conveying device further includes a driving device provided in the first conveying device, and the driving device is configured to drive the roller to rotate in the article conveying direction.
According to at least one embodiment of the present disclosure, the driving device includes a conveying belt moving in a direction opposite to the first conveying device, the conveying belt driving the roller to rotate by friction with the roller.
According to at least one embodiment of the present disclosure, the second conveyor is provided with a ball transfer unit.
According to at least one embodiment of the present disclosure, an included angle between the rotation direction of the roller and the article conveying direction is arranged at an acute angle.
According to at least one embodiment of the present disclosure, when the article transport devices are in the centering mode, the two first transport devices have the same speed of movement of the drive device; and/or the presence of a gas in the gas,
when the article conveying device is in the posture adjusting mode, the movement speeds of the driving devices of the two first conveying devices are different.
According to at least one embodiment of the present disclosure, the system further comprises a visual detection device, configured to process the obtained image of the article and obtain position information and deflection angle information of the article;
and transmitting the position information and the deflection angle information of the article to a controller.
A method of conveying an article using the article conveying device according to any one of the preceding claims, comprising:
the visual detection device acquires the position information and the deflection angle information of the article and sends the information to the controller;
when the article conveying devices are in a centering mode, the controller controls the driving devices of the two first conveying devices to have the same movement speed;
when the article conveying devices are in the posture adjusting mode, the controller controls the movement speeds of the driving devices of the two first conveying devices to be different until the articles are righted.
According to at least one embodiment of the present disclosure, the visual inspection apparatus acquiring position information and deflection angle information of an article includes:
acquiring a picture of an article;
carrying out graying, filtering and denoising and image enhancement processing on the picture in sequence to obtain a target picture;
and calculating the position information and the deflection angle information of the target picture.
According to at least one embodiment of the present disclosure, when the deflection angle of the article is not 0, the article transport device is in the attitude adjustment mode;
when the deflection angle of the article is 0, the article transport device is in the centering mode.
The beneficial effects of this disclosure are: the two first conveying devices provided with the rollers are symmetrically arranged at two sides of the second conveying device, so that one component force applied to the article by the two rollers faces the second conveying device, and the article is centered, namely positioned in the middle of the whole article conveying device; and controlling the conveying speeds of the two first conveying devices according to the deflection angle of the article, so that the speeds of the two ends of the article in the conveying direction are different, and the article rotates in the direction opposite to the deflection direction of the article, so that the article is straightened.
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The accompanying drawings, which are included to provide a further understanding of the disclosure and are incorporated in and constitute a part of this specification, illustrate exemplary embodiments of the disclosure and together with the description serve to explain the principles of the disclosure.
Fig. 1 is a schematic view of an article transport apparatus of an embodiment;
FIG. 2 is a schematic view of another embodiment article transport device;
FIG. 3 is a schematic view of the article transport device shown in FIG. 1 or FIG. 2 from another perspective (omitting diagonal roller module belts and ball transfer module belts);
FIG. 4 is a schematic view of a center side article in the article transport device of FIG. 1 or FIG. 2 in a center mode;
FIG. 5 is a schematic view of an article on the other side of the article transport device shown in FIG. 1 or FIG. 2 in a centering mode;
FIG. 6 is a flow chart of a method of article transport;
FIG. 7 is a flow chart of posture arrangement in a method of transporting a product;
fig. 8 is a schematic view of the arrangement of the posture of the article in the posture mode in the article transport apparatus shown in fig. 1 or 2.
Reference numerals: 1-modular belt conveyor; 1.1-modular conveyor belt; 1.1.1-a first oblique roller module belt; 1.1.2-universal ball module belt; 1.1.3-a second oblique roller module belt; 1.2-chain wheel; 1.3-drive shaft; 1.4-driven shaft; 1.5-supporting the backing plate; 1.6 a rotary drive; 2-a drive device; 2.1-a first horizontal conveyor belt; 2.2-a second horizontal conveyor belt; 2.3-a first gear motor; 2.4-a second gear motor; 3-a visual inspection device; 4-a first side baffle; 5-second side baffle.
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The present disclosure will be described in further detail with reference to the drawings and embodiments. It is to be understood that the specific embodiments described herein are for purposes of illustration only and are not to be construed as limitations of the present disclosure. It should be further noted that, for the convenience of description, only the portions relevant to the present disclosure are shown in the drawings.
It should be noted that the embodiments and features of the embodiments in the present disclosure may be combined with each other without conflict. The present disclosure will be described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings in conjunction with embodiments.
According to a first embodiment of the present disclosure, there is provided an article transport apparatus including: the conveying device comprises a second conveying device and first conveying devices symmetrically arranged on two sides of the second conveying device; the two first conveying devices and the second conveying device run synchronously; each first conveying device is provided with a roller facing the second conveying device, and the rollers are used for placing the articles positioned on the first conveying devices in the middle of the second conveying devices.
The first conveying device can be an existing oblique roller module belt conveyor; the conveyer with a similar structure can be designed by referring to the oblique roller module belt conveyer; the rotation direction of the roller of the first conveying device and the conveying direction of the articles form an included angle, so that the friction force applied to the articles by the roller has a component force towards the second conveying device, and the rollers of the first conveying devices on two sides realize the centering of the articles.
According to one embodiment of the present disclosure, the article conveying device further comprises a driving device 2 arranged in the first conveying device, and the driving device 2 is used for driving the roller wheel to rotate along the article conveying direction. In one particular embodiment, the drive means 2 may comprise a conveyor belt moving in the opposite direction of the first conveyor means, the conveyor belt driving the rollers in rotation by friction with the rollers. The driving mode of the conveyer belt is the existing one, such as the driving of the belt, and the description is omitted here.
According to one embodiment of the disclosure, the second conveyor is provided with a ball transfer unit. For example, the second conveyor may employ a ball transfer belt 1.1.2, the width dimension of the ball transfer belt 1.1.2 corresponding to the minimum dimension of the article.
As shown in fig. 1 and 2, both the first conveying device and the second conveying device can be realized by using a modular belt conveying device 1, specifically, as shown in fig. 2, a first side baffle 4 and a second side baffle 5 are oppositely arranged, and a driving shaft 1.3 and a driven shaft 1.4 are respectively rotatably supported at two ends between the first side baffle 4 and the second side baffle 5; the driving shaft 1.3 and the driven shaft 1.4 at the two ends are both connected with a plurality of chain wheels 1.2, the module conveyer belt 1.1 is wound outside the driving shaft 1.3 and the driven shaft 1.4 at the two ends, and one driving shaft 1.3 is in transmission connection with a rotary driver 1.6 such as a speed reducing motor. The speed reducing motor drives one of the driving shafts 1.3 to rotate, so that the module conveying belt 1.1 is driven to rotate through the chain wheel 1.2.
The first conveyor of both sides is slant running roller module conveyer belt 1.1, is first slant running roller module conveyer belt 1.1 and second slant running roller module conveyer belt 1.1 respectively. The second conveyor can be universal ball module area 1.1.2, is provided with the support backing plate 1.5 that supports universal ball and drive ball pivoted in the universal ball module area 1.1.2.
As shown in fig. 2 and 3, the driving device 2 may be a belt conveyor, specifically, the conveyor belts of the two driving devices 2 are a first horizontal conveyor belt 2.1 and a second horizontal conveyor belt 2.2, respectively, for driving a first oblique roller module belt 1.1.1 and a second oblique roller module belt 1.1.3 at two sides, respectively. The first and second horizontal conveyor belts 2.1, 2.2 can be driven by the first and second gear motors 2.3, 2.4, respectively, in a direction opposite to the conveying direction of the modular belt conveyor 1.
According to one embodiment of the present disclosure, the rotation directions of the rollers of the first and second oblique roller module conveyors 1.1 and 1.1 are arranged at an acute angle to the included angle of the article conveying direction to quickly center the article.
According to one embodiment of the present disclosure, as shown in fig. 4 and 5, when the article transport apparatus is in the centering mode, the two first transport apparatuses have the same movement speed of the driving device 2; and/or the presence of a gas in the gas,
as shown in fig. 8, when the article transport apparatus is in the posture adjustment mode, the two first transport apparatuses have different movement speeds of the drive device 2.
It is noted that fig. 2, 4 and 5 cut away a part of the modular conveyor belt 1.1 so as to expose the first horizontal conveyor belt 2.1, the second horizontal conveyor belt 2.2 and the support mat 1.5.
When the article conveying device is in the centering mode, the driving device 2 drives the conveying belts to move at the same speed, and the rollers of the first conveying devices on the two sides move at the same speed, so that the articles are centered;
when the article conveying device is in the posture adjustment mode, the speed of the driving device 2 driving the conveying belt to move is different, the rotating speeds of the rollers of the first conveying devices on the two sides are unequal, and then the article is rotated towards the direction opposite to the deflection direction of the article, so that the article is straightened.
According to one embodiment of the present disclosure, the system further includes a visual detection device 3, configured to process the obtained object image, and obtain position information and deflection angle information of the object; and transmitting the position information and the deflection angle information of the article to a controller. The visual inspection device 3 may adopt an existing visual system, such as a CCD system, and the specific principles and the like thereof are well known, and the disclosure does not modify the same, and therefore, the details thereof are not described herein. As shown in fig. 1, the visual inspection device 3 includes a bracket connected to the first side barrier 4 and the second side barrier 5, respectively, and a CCD camera fixed to the bracket, and the CCD camera is electrically connected to a visual processing device.
The device comprises a controller such as a PLC (programmable logic controller) or a single chip microcomputer, wherein the controller is respectively electrically connected with the driving devices 2 and the visual detection device 3 of the two first conveying devices, the speed difference between the two driving devices 2 is calculated after the position information and the deflection angle information of the article are acquired by the visual detection device 3, the speed difference between the two driving devices 2 is transmitted to the controller, and the controller controls the two driving devices 2 to drive the conveying belt to move according to the calculated speed difference.
As shown in fig. 6 and 7, the present disclosure also provides an article carrying method using the article carrying device of any one of the preceding claims, including:
the visual detection device 3 acquires the position information and the deflection angle information of the article and sends the information to the controller;
when the article conveying device is in the centering mode, the controller controls the driving devices 2 of the two first conveying devices to have the same movement speed;
when the article conveying device is in the posture adjusting mode, the controller controls the movement speeds of the driving devices 2 of the two first conveying devices to be different until the articles are righted.
According to one embodiment of the present disclosure, the visual inspection apparatus 3 acquiring the position information and the deflection angle information of the article includes:
acquiring a picture of an article;
carrying out graying, filtering and denoising and image enhancement processing on the picture in sequence to obtain a target picture;
and calculating the position information and the deflection angle information of the target picture.
According to one embodiment of the present disclosure, when the deflection angle of the article is not 0, the article transport device is in the attitude adjustment mode;
when the deflection angle of the article is 0, the article transport device is in the centering mode.
In the description herein, reference to the description of the terms "one embodiment/mode," "some embodiments/modes," "example," "specific example," or "some examples," etc., means that a particular feature, structure, material, or characteristic described in connection with the embodiment/mode or example is included in at least one embodiment/mode or example of the application. In this specification, the schematic representations of the terms used above are not necessarily intended to be the same embodiment/mode or example. Furthermore, the particular features, structures, materials, or characteristics described may be combined in any suitable manner in any one or more embodiments/modes or examples. Furthermore, the various embodiments/aspects or examples and features of the various embodiments/aspects or examples described in this specification can be combined and combined by one skilled in the art without conflicting therewith.
Furthermore, the terms "first", "second" and "first" are used for descriptive purposes only and are not to be construed as indicating or implying relative importance or implicitly indicating the number of technical features indicated. Thus, a feature defined as "first" or "second" may explicitly or implicitly include at least one such feature. In the description of the present application, "plurality" means at least two, e.g., two, three, etc., unless specifically limited otherwise.
It will be understood by those skilled in the art that the foregoing embodiments are merely for clarity of illustration of the disclosure and are not intended to limit the scope of the disclosure. Other variations or modifications may occur to those skilled in the art, based on the foregoing disclosure, and are still within the scope of the present disclosure.
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1. An article conveying apparatus, characterized by comprising: the conveying device comprises a second conveying device and first conveying devices symmetrically arranged on two sides of the second conveying device;
the two first conveying devices and the second conveying device run synchronously,
each first conveying device is provided with a roller facing the second conveying device, and the rollers are used for placing the articles positioned on the first conveying devices in the middle positions of the second conveying devices.
2. The article transport apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a drive device (2) provided in the first transport device, the drive device (2) being configured to drive the roller to rotate in the article transport direction.
3. The article conveying device according to claim 2, wherein the driving means (2) comprises a conveyor belt moving in the opposite direction of the first conveying means, the conveyor belt driving the rollers to rotate by friction with the rollers.
4. The article transport apparatus of claim 1, wherein the second conveyor is provided with ball transfer units.
5. The article transport apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the rotation direction of the roller is arranged at an acute angle to the article transport direction.
6. The device for transporting objects according to claim 2, characterised in that when the device is in the centering mode, both the first transport devices have the same speed of movement of the drive means (2); and/or the presence of a gas in the gas,
when the article conveying device is in the posture adjustment mode, the two first conveying devices have driving devices (2) with different movement speeds.
7. The article conveying device according to claim 1, further comprising a visual detection device (3) for processing the obtained image of the article and obtaining position information and deflection angle information of the article;
and transmitting the position information and the deflection angle information of the article to a controller.
8. A method of conveying an article, characterized by using the article conveying device according to any one of claims 1 to 7, comprising:
the visual detection device (3) acquires the position information and the deflection angle information of the article and sends the information to the controller;
when the article conveying device is in a centering mode, the controller controls the driving devices (2) of the two first conveying devices to have the same movement speed;
when the article conveying devices are in the posture adjusting mode, the controller controls the movement speeds of the driving devices (2) of the two first conveying devices to be different until the articles are righted.
9. The article conveying method according to claim 8, wherein the visual detection device (3) acquiring the position information and the deflection angle information of the article includes:
acquiring a picture of an article;
carrying out graying, filtering and denoising and image enhancement processing on the picture in sequence to obtain a target picture;
and calculating the position information and the deflection angle information of the target picture.
10. The article conveying method according to claim 8, wherein when the deflection angle of the article is not 0, the article conveying device is in the attitude adjustment mode;
when the deflection angle of the article is 0, the article transport device is in the centering mode.
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