CN114275288A - Keycap packaging material pipe and keycap feeding method - Google Patents
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Abstract
A key cap packaging material pipe and a key cap feeding method are provided, the key cap packaging material pipe comprises a pipe body used for stacking and containing a plurality of key caps, a first end piece located at the end part of the pipe body, and a sliding block contained in the pipe body, the first end piece is provided with a through hole, and an ejector pin penetrates through the through hole to enable the ejector pin to push the sliding block to move, so that the key caps are driven to move. According to the key cap packaging material pipe and the key cap feeding method, the pipe body is arranged to stack and contain the plurality of key caps, and the first end piece with the through hole is used for enabling the thimble to penetrate through the first end piece so as to push the key caps to move, so that product damage caused by stacking and manual processing can be avoided, product quality can be effectively improved, automatic feeding can be achieved, and production efficiency can be remarkably improved.
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Technical Field
The invention relates to the technical field of keyboard manufacturing, in particular to a key cap packaging material pipe and a key cap feeding method.
Background
The computer keyboard is usually manufactured by injection molding/painting/laser etching/assembling. In the injection molding process, the keycaps which are subjected to injection molding are required to be packaged for materials stored in a station and transferred to a subsequent process for use, the materials are generally stored in a packaging bag or a material tray, the packaging bag is inconvenient to automatically link, the blanking in the injection molding process and the feeding in the subsequent process are required to be manually completed, the efficiency is low, extra labor cost is increased, and the product quality cannot be guaranteed when all products are stacked together; the storage amount of the charging tray is small, the occupied space is large, the size of the matched automatic equipment is large, and the utilization rate of a factory site is reduced.
The foregoing description is provided for general background information and is not admitted to be prior art.
Disclosure of Invention
The invention aims to provide a keycap packaging material pipe capable of improving the product quality and the production efficiency in the keycap production process and a keycap feeding method.
The invention provides a keycap packaging material pipe which comprises a pipe body used for stacking and containing a plurality of keycaps, a first end piece positioned at the end part of the pipe body, and a sliding block contained in the pipe body, wherein the first end piece is provided with a through hole used for enabling an ejector pin to penetrate through so that the ejector pin pushes the sliding block to move, and the keycaps are driven to move.
Furthermore, at least one end of the sliding block is provided with a vacuum breaking groove for preventing the sliding block from being sucked by vacuum.
Furthermore, the pipe body is provided with chamfers around the pipe orifice at one end for taking and placing the keycap.
Furthermore, a groove is formed in the middle of the peripheral wall of the pipe body.
Further, a bar code label is attached to the groove.
Further, the first end piece is provided with a fool-proof groove which extends inwards from the outer end face and is used for being matched with the automatic boss to achieve fool-proof.
Furthermore, the device also comprises a second end piece positioned at the other end part of the tube body, and the second end piece and the tube body are detachably fixed.
Furthermore, arc-shaped grooves for fingers to put in and place the second end piece are formed in two sides of the outer portion of the second end piece.
Further, the inner end part of the second end part is provided with an elastic part for pressing the keycap.
The invention also provides a keycap feeding method, which comprises the following steps: providing a keycap packaging tube as described above; removing the second end piece; loading a plurality of keycaps into the tube; mounting said second end piece; placing the material pipe with the keycap into automatic equipment and detaching the second end piece; a thimble in the automation equipment penetrates through the through hole to prop against the sliding block; the thimble passes through the slider promotes the key cap rebound of upper end to the absorption position, supplies the vacuum suction nozzle to absorb, and the key cap of top is absorb the back, and next key cap becomes the key cap of top, the thimble passes through again the slider promotes this key cap rebound to the absorption position, circulates according to this until all key caps are absorbed in the material pipe, and the pay-off is accomplished.
According to the key cap packaging material pipe and the key cap feeding method, the pipe body is arranged to stack and contain the plurality of key caps, and the first end piece with the through hole is used for enabling the thimble to penetrate through the first end piece so as to push the key caps to move, so that product damage caused by stacking and manual processing can be avoided, product quality can be effectively improved, automatic feeding can be achieved, and production efficiency can be remarkably improved.
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FIG. 1 is an exploded view of a keycap packaging material tube according to an embodiment of the invention.
Fig. 2 is an assembled schematic view of the keycap packaging cartridge of fig. 1.
FIG. 3 is a cross-sectional view of the end of the body of the keycap packaging sleeve of FIG. 1 coupled to the second end piece.
Fig. 4 is a side view of the tubular body of fig. 3.
FIG. 5 is an enlarged fragmentary view of the end of the body of FIG. 3 attached to a first end member.
FIG. 6 is a schematic view of the second end piece of the key cap housing material tube of FIG. 1.
Fig. 7 is a schematic view of a slider in the keycap packaging cartridge of fig. 1.
FIG. 8 is a schematic view of the first end member of the key cap housing sleeve of FIG. 1.
FIG. 9 is a schematic diagram of a key cap feeding method according to an embodiment of the invention.
Fig. 10 is a partial enlarged view of a portion a in fig. 9.
Fig. 11 is a partial enlarged view of fig. 9 at B.
Detailed Description
The following detailed description of embodiments of the present invention is provided in connection with the accompanying drawings and examples. The following examples are intended to illustrate the invention but are not intended to limit the scope of the invention.
As shown in fig. 1 to 8, in the present embodiment, the keycap packaging material tube includes a tube body 1, a first end piece 2 and a second end piece 3 located at two end portions of the tube body 1, and a slider 4 accommodated in the tube body.
As shown in fig. 3 to 5, the tube 1 is used to stack and accommodate a plurality of key caps 5 (see fig. 9 and 10), and is in a long strip shape, and a barcode label 11 is pasted on the outer surface of the tube for identification in cooperation with a tracing system. The tube body 1 can also be marked with characters or visually distinguished by adopting different colors so as to distinguish the types of the accommodated keycaps. In this embodiment, the pipe body 1 is formed with a housing space by a peripheral wall 12 having a substantially square cross section. The middle part of each peripheral wall 12 is provided with a groove 121 to reduce the contact surface with automatic positioning, reduce the wear probability of the pipe body and protect the bar code label 11. The pipe body 1 is provided with a chamfer 13 around the pipe orifice connected with the end part (namely one end for taking and placing the keycap) of the second end part 3, so that the product can be taken and placed automatically. The end of the tube body 1 connected to the first end member 2 is provided with two engaging grooves 14.
As shown in fig. 6, the second end piece 3 acts as a plug, comprising two parts, an inner and an outer part. The inner dimension is smaller than the outer dimension and can be accommodated in the tube body 1. Inside both sides are equipped with wedge arch 31, through the protruding 31 and the 1 inner wall interference fit of body of wedge, realize the detachable fixed of second end piece 3 and body 1, ensure that can not drop in the transportation. The inner end of the second end member 3 is further provided with a concave hole 32, and an elastic member (such as a foam plug, not shown) can be embedded in the concave hole 32 to press the keycap 5 after the keycap 5 is filled with the elastic member, so as to ensure that each keycap 5 is stable in the whole tube body 1. The second end member 3 is provided with arc-shaped slots 33 on both sides of the exterior thereof for fingers to be put in so as to conveniently take and place the second end member 3. The second end piece 3 is mainly used for protecting the keycaps from falling in transportation, and if the keycaps move stably in transportation, the second end piece does not need to be arranged, and particularly when the keycap packaging material pipe is only used for feeding in a subsequent procedure, the second end piece does not need to be arranged.
As shown in fig. 7, the slider 4 is cube-shaped, and vacuum breaking grooves 41 are formed at both ends of the slider to prevent the slider 4 from being sucked as a keycap when the keycap is used up in the process of vacuum suction of the keycap in the subsequent process, which causes abnormal equipment and affects production. In this embodiment, the vacuum breaking groove 41 includes a long groove penetrating front and back and two short grooves perpendicular to the long groove. In other embodiments, the vacuum breaking groove may be formed only at one end, and when the device is placed in the tube, the end with the vacuum breaking groove needs to face the keycap. However, if the broken vacuum grooves are formed at the two ends of the vacuum box, the vacuum box can be placed regardless of the direction, and is more convenient and faster.
As shown in fig. 8, the first end member 2 is also detachably fixed to the tubular body 1. The two ends of the tube body are provided with buckles 21 to be matched and fixed with the clamping grooves 14 of the tube body 1. The first end piece 2 has a through hole 22 at a radial middle portion thereof for allowing the thimble 6 to pass through so that the thimble 6 pushes the slider 4 to move, thereby driving the key cap 5 to move (see fig. 9 and 11). First end piece 2 still is equipped with from outer terminal surface inwards extension prevent slow-witted groove 23 for with automatic boss cooperation realize preventing slow-witted, with distinguish that the product size is close and the key cap of different kinds. Thus, the first end piece may be referred to as a dead head prevention.
As shown in fig. 9 to 11, the embodiment further provides a key cap feeding method, which includes the following steps: providing a keycap packaging tube as described above; the second end piece 3 is disassembled, and the material pipe is opened; a plurality of keycaps 5 are arranged in the tube body 1; mounting the second end piece 3; transporting to a subsequent process (e.g., painting); placing the material pipe 1 provided with the keycap 5 into the automation equipment of the subsequent procedure, detaching the second end part 3 and opening the material pipe; the thimble 6 in the automation equipment passes through the through hole 22 to prop against the slide block 4; vacuum suction nozzle 7 in the automation equipment and 6 cooperations of thimble realize getting the material to the absorption of key cap 5, promptly, thimble 6 promotes the key cap rebound of upper end to absorb the position through slider 4, supplies vacuum suction nozzle 7 to absorb, and the key cap of the top is absorbed the back, and next key cap becomes the key cap of the top, and thimble 6 rethread slider 4 promotes this key cap rebound to absorb the position, circulates according to this, until the whole key caps in the material pipe are absorbed, and the pay-off is accomplished.
According to the key cap packaging material pipe and the key cap feeding method, the pipe body is arranged to stack and accommodate the plurality of key caps, and the first end piece with the through hole is used for enabling the ejector pin to penetrate through the first end piece to enable the ejector pin to push the key caps to move, so that product damage caused by accumulation and manual processing can be avoided, product quality can be effectively improved, automatic feeding can be achieved, and production efficiency can be remarkably improved. And material pipe memory space is big and occupation space is little, the on-the-spot material storage of being convenient for and management, and the material turnover is convenient and the little factory resource of saving of corresponding automatic linking equipment size, and the automatic linking equipment material loading of reduction of also very big degree simultaneously and unloading frequency to reduce production human cost, increase the income. The packaging material pipe can be recycled, and the use cost is reduced.
In this document, the terms "upper", "lower", "front", "rear", "left", "right", "top", "bottom", "inner", "outer", "vertical", "horizontal", and the like indicate orientations or positional relationships based on the orientations or positional relationships shown in the drawings, and are only for the purpose of clarity and convenience of description of the technical solutions, and thus, should not be construed as limiting the present invention.
As used herein, the terms "comprises," "comprising," or any other variation thereof, are intended to cover a non-exclusive inclusion, including not only those elements listed, but also other elements not expressly listed.
The above description is only for the specific embodiments of the present invention, but the scope of the present invention is not limited thereto, and any person skilled in the art can easily conceive of the changes or substitutions within the technical scope of the present invention, and all the changes or substitutions should be covered within the scope of the present invention. Therefore, the protection scope of the present invention shall be subject to the protection scope of the appended claims.
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1. A keycap packaging material pipe is characterized by comprising a pipe body used for stacking and containing a plurality of keycaps, a first end piece located at the end part of the pipe body, and a sliding block contained in the pipe body, wherein the first end piece is provided with a through hole used for enabling an ejector pin to penetrate so as to enable the ejector pin to push the sliding block to move, and then the keycaps are driven to move.
2. The key cap packing tube of claim 1, wherein at least one end of the slider is provided with a vacuum breaking groove for preventing the slider from being sucked by vacuum.
3. The key cap packaging material tube of claim 1, wherein the tube body is provided with a chamfer around a tube opening at one end for taking and placing the key cap.
4. The key cap packing material tube according to claim 1, wherein a groove is provided in the middle of the peripheral wall of the tube body.
5. The keycap packaging tube of claim 4, wherein the recess is labeled with a bar code.
6. A key cap packing material tube according to claim 1, wherein the first end piece is provided with a fool-proof groove extending inwards from the outer end face for realizing fool-proof in cooperation with the automatic boss.
7. A key cap package material tube according to any one of claims 1 to 6, further comprising a second end piece located at the other end of the tube body, the second end piece being detachably fixed to the tube body.
8. The keycap packaging material of claim 7 wherein the second end member is provided with arcuate slots on each side of the exterior for finger access to facilitate access to the second end member.
9. The keycap packaging tube of claim 7, wherein the second end piece inner end portion is provided with a resilient member to compress the keycap.
10. A key cap feeding method is characterized by comprising the following steps: providing a keycap packaging tube as defined in any one of claims 7 to 9; removing the second end piece; loading a plurality of keycaps into the tube; mounting said second end piece; placing the material pipe with the keycap into automatic equipment and detaching the second end piece; a thimble in the automation equipment penetrates through the through hole to prop against the sliding block; the thimble passes through the slider promotes the key cap rebound of upper end to the absorption position, supplies the vacuum suction nozzle to absorb, and the key cap of top is absorb the back, and next key cap becomes the key cap of top, the thimble passes through again the slider promotes this key cap rebound to the absorption position, circulates according to this until all key caps are absorbed in the material pipe, and the pay-off is accomplished.
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