CN114400383A - Device suitable for soft packet of plastic-aluminum battery appearance is handled - Google Patents
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Abstract
The invention discloses a device suitable for processing the appearance of a soft package aluminum-plastic battery, which comprises a battery positioning and clamping structure and a shaping module; the battery positioning and clamping structure is used for performing positioning and clamping operation on the soft package aluminum-plastic battery and driving the battery folding front edge structure and the folding side edge small angle structure to move relatively; one end of an aluminum-plastic shell of the soft package aluminum-plastic battery is provided with a front edge before shaping, a first side edge before shaping and a second side edge before shaping; the shaping module comprises a battery folding side small angle structure and a battery folding front edge structure which are distributed up and down; and the shaping module is used for bending the front edge of the soft package aluminum-plastic battery before shaping and performing corner folding action on the first side edge before shaping and the second side edge before shaping. The invention has scientific structural design, can realize the appearance treatment of the soft package aluminum-plastic battery, can integrate the actions of the folding front edge and the folding side small angle, can efficiently and conveniently complete all shaping actions by operating the handle, and obviously improves the shaping efficiency.
Description
Technical Field
The invention relates to the technical field of manufacturing of soft package batteries, in particular to a device suitable for processing the appearance of a soft package aluminum-plastic battery.
Background
The lithium ion battery has the advantages of environmental protection, long cycle life, good rate capability, safety and reliability, and the like, and is widely applied to various energy storage products, consumer electronic products and power battery cell products. At present, under the intense market competition, the requirements of customers on the energy density of the lithium ion battery cell are higher and higher.
In order to further improve the energy density of the soft package lithium ion battery, the invention provides a soft package aluminum-plastic battery with a single-side double-front-edge structure in the industry at present. However, since the soft package aluminum-plastic battery case is an aluminum-plastic case (i.e., the case is a layer of aluminum-plastic film), unlike the case of an aluminum-case battery, which is a stamped aluminum case, the shape of the soft package aluminum-plastic battery case needs to be processed to be as close as possible to a desired shape (e.g., a rectangular parallelepiped shape) to match the electronic product.
At present, the shaping treatment of the external shape of the soft package aluminum-plastic battery with the single-side double-front-edge structure specifically includes bending front-edge operation and bending side small-angle operation, which are currently realized through manual operation, and fig. 1 and 2 are schematic diagrams of the soft package aluminum-plastic battery with the single-side double-front-edge structure before and after shaping. In fig. 1 and 2, for the soft package aluminum-plastic battery 100, the front edge 21 before shaping is subjected to a vertical upward bending operation to obtain a shaped front edge 31; the first side edge 22 before reshaping and the second side edge 23 before reshaping are subjected to an inward small-angle bending operation to obtain a reshaped first side edge 32 and a reshaped second side edge 33.
The front edge 21 before shaping is integrally formed with the first side edge 22 before shaping and the second side edge 23 before shaping. Of course, the shaped front edge 31, the shaped first side edge 32, and the shaped second side edge 33 are also an integral body, and are only the shaped integral body.
However, the manual operation mode has the defects of poor consistency, poor controllability, low efficiency and the like, and meanwhile, the problem that sharp corners (namely, folding corner sharp points) are easily generated at the positions of the side bending small corners exists, the width size of the battery is influenced, and the popularization and application of the battery with the single-side double-front-edge structure are further influenced.
Disclosure of Invention
The invention aims to provide a device suitable for processing the appearance of a soft package aluminum-plastic battery aiming at the technical defects in the prior art.
Therefore, the invention provides a device suitable for processing the appearance of a soft package aluminum-plastic battery, which comprises a battery positioning and clamping structure and a shaping module;
the battery positioning and clamping structure is used for performing positioning and clamping operation on the soft package aluminum-plastic battery in the shaping process and can drive the battery to move relatively to the folding front edge structure and the folding side edge small angle structure;
one end of an aluminum-plastic shell of the soft package aluminum-plastic battery is provided with a front edge before shaping, a first side edge before shaping and a second side edge before shaping; the first side edge before shaping and the second side edge before shaping are respectively positioned at two sides of the front edge before shaping;
the shaping module comprises a battery folding side small angle structure and a battery folding front edge structure which are distributed up and down;
the shaping module is used for performing vertical upward bending operation on the front edge of the soft package aluminum-plastic battery before shaping by the battery folding side edge small angle structure after the battery positioning and clamping structure performs positioning and clamping on the soft package aluminum-plastic battery, and in the process of the bending operation, the front edge before shaping drives the first side edge before shaping and the second side edge before shaping to perform folding action towards the inner side direction;
for a battery positioning and clamping structure, the device comprises a device base;
a rear box body of the device is vertically arranged at the rear side of the top of the base of the device;
a bottom plate which is horizontally distributed is arranged right above the front side of the top of the device base;
the top of the bottom plate is provided with a profiling positioning plate;
the top of the profiling positioning plate is provided with transversely distributed soft package aluminum-plastic battery limiting grooves;
the left side and the right side of the soft package aluminum-plastic battery limiting groove are open;
the soft package aluminum-plastic battery limiting groove is used for transversely placing the soft package aluminum-plastic battery;
a battery pressing block is arranged right above the profiling positioning plate;
the top center position of the battery pressing block is connected with the bottom center position of the horizontally distributed supporting plate through a vertically distributed pressing block supporting column;
the top of the supporting plate is fixedly connected with a compression connecting plate which is horizontally distributed;
the left end and the right end of the rear side of the compression connecting plate are respectively provided with a limiting guide block;
each limiting guide block is provided with a guide through hole, and a guide column vertically penetrates through each guide through hole;
the outer wall of each guide post is sleeved with a spiral first spring at the part between the top surface of the device base and the bottom surface of the limiting guide block;
the top of the guide column is fixedly connected with the top of the rear box body of the device;
the bottom of the guide column is fixedly connected with the rear side of the top of the device base;
the bottom of the left side of the compression connecting plate is fixedly connected with the upper ends of the first connecting rods which are vertically distributed;
the lower end of the first connecting rod is hinged with the front end of the second connecting rod;
the rear end of the second connecting rod is fixedly connected with a handle connecting shaft which is transversely distributed;
the inner walls of the left side and the right side of the rear box body of the device are respectively provided with a bearing;
the left end part of the handle connecting shaft is connected with the inner ring of the bearing on the inner wall of the left side of the rear box body of the device;
the right end of the handle connecting shaft is connected with the inner ring of the bearing on the inner wall of the right side of the rear box body of the device, and the right end of the handle connecting shaft is fixedly connected with the lower end part of one handle after transversely penetrating through the inner ring of the bearing;
the bottom plate is arranged on the left side of the profiling positioning plate and is provided with a shaping processing operation groove which is longitudinally distributed and is communicated up and down;
the shaping module comprises a battery folding front edge structure and a battery folding side edge small angle structure;
the battery folding front edge structure comprises two folding angle functional parts;
the battery folding side edge small-angle structure comprises a folding front edge functional part and two track guide blocks;
for the battery fold front edge structure, the tops of the two fold angle functional parts are respectively connected with the bottom of one functional connecting part;
the top of each functional connecting piece is respectively connected with a sliding block;
the two sliding blocks are in sliding fit with the bottom of one longitudinally distributed guide rail, so that a linear slide rail structure is formed;
the top of the guide rail is arranged at the bottom of a compression connecting plate in the battery positioning and clamping structure;
the bottom surfaces of the two angle folding functional parts are horizontal planes;
the two angle folding functional parts are symmetrically distributed in the front and the back;
the two bevel function pieces are arranged opposite to the shaping processing operation groove in the battery positioning and clamping structure;
for the battery folding side edge small angle structure, the folding front edge functional part is arranged opposite to the shaping processing operation groove in the battery positioning and clamping structure;
the top plane of the functional piece at the front of the folding edge is a horizontal plane;
the front side and the rear side of the folding front edge functional part are respectively provided with a track guide block;
the two track guide blocks are symmetrically distributed in the front and the back;
the side surfaces of one side, opposite to the upper parts of the two track guide blocks, are correspondingly matched with the side surfaces of one side, opposite to the lower parts of the two bevel function parts, in shape and size;
the opposite sides of the upper parts of the two track guide blocks are smooth inclined planes;
the lower back sides of the two bevel function parts are smooth inclined planes;
the transverse distance between the opposite sides of the upper parts of the two track guide blocks is gradually increased from bottom to top;
the transverse distance between the lower back sides of the two angle folding functional parts is gradually increased from bottom to top;
the two angle folding functional parts are respectively provided with reserved gaps with the front side and the rear side of the front folding functional part.
Compared with the prior art, the device for processing the appearance of the soft package aluminum-plastic battery is scientific in structural design, comprises a battery positioning and clamping structure, a battery folding front edge structure and a battery folding side edge small angle structure, can realize the appearance processing of the soft package aluminum-plastic battery, can integrate the folding front edge and the folding side edge small angle actions, can efficiently and conveniently complete all shaping actions by operating a handle, remarkably improves the shaping efficiency of the soft package aluminum-plastic battery, ensures the production quality and consistency of the soft package aluminum-plastic battery, and has great practical significance.
Compared with the prior art, the invention utilizes the characteristic that the aluminum-plastic shell of the soft package aluminum-plastic battery can be stretched and deformed, when the battery is folded, the aluminum-plastic at the small angle positions at the two side edges can be folded towards the middle along with the pulling force at the folding front edge to form the trend of folding angles, the aluminum-plastic can form an arc shape, and the sharp points of the folding angles can not be generated, so that the sharp angles can not be generated, and the influence on the size of the battery can be avoided.
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Fig. 1 is a schematic structural diagram of a single-side double-front-edge soft-package aluminum-plastic battery (specifically, a square polymer battery) before reshaping (i.e., performing a front-folding operation and a side-folding small-angle operation);
fig. 2 is a schematic structural diagram of a single-side double-front-edge soft-package aluminum-plastic battery (specifically, a square polymer battery) after shaping (i.e., folding front edge and folding side edge small angle operation);
fig. 3a is a schematic diagram of a three-dimensional structure when viewed from the left side of a device suitable for processing the appearance of a soft package aluminum-plastic battery provided by the invention;
fig. 3b is a schematic perspective view of a device suitable for processing the shape of a soft package aluminum-plastic battery provided by the invention, when viewed from the right side;
fig. 4 is a schematic diagram of the action states of a battery fold front edge structure and a fold side edge small angle structure when performing a fold front edge function and a fold side edge small angle function in the device for processing the appearance of the soft package aluminum-plastic battery provided by the invention;
fig. 5 is a schematic overall structure diagram of a heat setting device in the device for processing the shape of the soft package aluminum-plastic battery provided by the invention;
fig. 6 is a schematic view of the action directions of the front edge before shaping, the first side edge before shaping, and the second side edge 23 before shaping when shaping (i.e. folding the front edge and folding the small angle at the side edge) is performed on a single-side double-front-edge soft package aluminum-plastic battery according to the present invention.
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The technical solutions of the present invention will be described clearly and completely with reference to the following embodiments of the present invention, and it should be understood that the described embodiments 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 the terms "center", "longitudinal", "lateral", "up", "down", "front", "back", "left", "right", "vertical", "horizontal", "top", "bottom", "inner", "outer", and the like, indicate orientations or positional relationships based on those shown in the drawings, and are used only for convenience in describing the present invention and for simplicity in description, and do not indicate or imply that the referenced devices or elements must have a particular orientation, be constructed and operated in a particular orientation, and thus, are not to be construed as limiting the present invention. Furthermore, the terms "first", "second", etc. 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," "second," etc. may explicitly or implicitly include one or more of that feature. In the description of the present invention, "a plurality" means two or more unless otherwise specified.
In the description of the present invention, it should be noted that, unless otherwise explicitly specified or limited, the terms "mounted," "connected," and "connected" are to be construed broadly, e.g., as meaning either a fixed connection, a removable connection, or an integral connection; can be mechanically or electrically connected; they may be connected directly or indirectly through intervening media, or they may be interconnected between two elements. The specific meaning of the above terms in the present invention can be understood by those of ordinary skill in the art through specific situations.
The present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the embodiments with reference to the attached drawings.
Referring to fig. 1 to 6, the invention provides a device suitable for processing the shape of a soft package aluminum-plastic battery, which comprises a battery positioning and clamping structure and a shaping module;
the battery positioning and clamping structure is used for performing positioning and clamping operation on the soft package aluminum-plastic battery 100 in the shaping process and can drive the battery to move relatively to the folding front edge structure and the folding side edge small angle structure;
one end of the aluminum-plastic shell of the soft package aluminum-plastic battery 100 is provided with a front edge 21 before shaping, a first side edge 22 before shaping and a second side edge 23 before shaping; a first side edge 22 before shaping and a second side edge 23 before shaping, which are respectively positioned at two sides of the front edge 21 before shaping;
the shaping module comprises a battery folding side small angle structure and a battery folding front edge structure which are distributed up and down;
the shaping module is used for positioning and clamping the soft package aluminum-plastic battery 100 in the battery positioning and clamping structure, under the driving of the battery positioning and clamping structure, the front edge 21 of the soft package aluminum-plastic battery 100 before shaping is bent vertically upwards by the battery folding side edge small-angle structure, and in the process of the bending operation, the front edge 21 before shaping drives the first side edge 22 and the second side edge 23 before shaping to perform folding action towards the inner side direction, and when the front edge 21 before shaping is turned upwards to be attached to the end face of the soft-package aluminum-plastic battery 100, and then the battery folding front edge structure is matched with the battery folding side edge small angle structure to carry out angle folding action towards the inner side direction of the end surface of the soft package aluminum-plastic battery 100 on the first side edge 22 before shaping and the second side edge 23 before shaping (namely two side edges of the aluminum-plastic shell), and finally the folding front edge and the folding side edge small angle operation are completed.
It should be noted that, for the present invention, when the soft package aluminum-plastic battery 100 is the square polymer battery shown in fig. 1 and fig. 2, only the front edge of the single-side fold and the two side edges of the front end need to be bent, that is, only the front edge 21 before shaping, the first side edge 22 before shaping, and the second side edge 23 before shaping at the front end of the soft package aluminum-plastic battery 100 are bent separately.
For the invention, if the soft package aluminum-plastic battery needing shaping processing is a soft package large cylindrical battery, the front edge of the front end and the rear end and two side edges are required to be bent.
In the present invention, in a specific implementation, referring to fig. 3, a battery positioning and clamping structure includes a device base 101;
a rear device box 102 is vertically arranged on the rear side of the top of the device base 101;
a bottom plate 16 which is horizontally distributed is arranged right above the front side of the top of the device base 101;
the top of the bottom plate 16 is provided with a profiling positioning plate 11;
the top of the profiling positioning plate 11 is provided with transversely distributed soft package aluminum-plastic battery limiting grooves;
the left side and the right side of the soft package aluminum-plastic battery limiting groove are open;
the soft package aluminum-plastic battery limiting groove is used for transversely placing the soft package aluminum-plastic battery 100;
it should be noted that the size and shape of the soft package aluminum-plastic battery limiting groove are correspondingly matched with the size and shape of the main body of the soft package aluminum-plastic battery 100.
It should be noted that the battery positioning and clamping structure is of a copying design at the position contacting with the battery, and the purpose is to tightly attach to the battery so as to ensure that the battery does not move during the shaping process; meanwhile, the situation that other positions of the battery deform in the operation process of the device is avoided, for example, the battery positioning and clamping structure can prevent the side edge of the battery from opening in the process of folding the battery to the front edge.
A battery pressing block 12 is arranged right above the profiling positioning plate 11;
the top center of the battery pressing block 12 is connected with the bottom center of the horizontally distributed supporting plate 150 through a vertically distributed pressing block supporting column 120;
the top of the supporting plate 150 is fixedly connected with the compression connecting plates 15 which are horizontally distributed;
the left end and the right end of the rear side of the compression connecting plate 15 are respectively provided with a limiting guide block 151;
each limiting guide block 151 is provided with a guide through hole, and a guide column 104 vertically penetrates through each guide through hole;
the outer wall of each guide post 104 is sleeved with a spiral first spring at the part between the top surface of the device base 101 and the bottom surface of the limit guide block 151;
the top of the guide post 104 is fixedly connected with the top of the device rear box body 102;
the bottom of the guide column 104 is fixedly connected with the rear side of the top of the device base 101;
the left bottom of the compression connecting plate 15 is fixedly connected with the upper ends of the first connecting rods 141 which are vertically distributed;
the lower end of the first link 141 is hinged with the front end of the second link 142;
the rear end of the second connecting rod 142 is fixedly connected with a transversely distributed handle connecting shaft 105 (specifically, sleeved on the outer wall of the handle connecting shaft 105);
the inner walls of the left side and the right side of the device rear box body 102 are respectively provided with a bearing 106;
the left end of the handle connecting shaft 105 is connected with the inner ring of the bearing 106 on the left inner wall of the device rear box body 102;
the right end of the handle connecting shaft 105 is connected to the inner ring of a bearing 106 on the right inner wall of the device rear case 102, and the right end of the handle connecting shaft 105 is fixedly connected to the lower end of a handle 13 after passing through the inner ring of the bearing 106 in the lateral direction.
The bottom plate 16 is provided with a shaping processing operation groove 103 which is longitudinally distributed and is through up and down on the left side of the profiling positioning plate 11;
in the concrete implementation, four corners of the bottom plate 16 are respectively provided with a guide pillar through hole;
a guide post 17 which is vertically distributed is inserted into each guide post through hole from bottom to top;
the bottom of each guide post 17 is provided with a guide post base 170;
a guide post base 170 fixedly connected to the top front side of the device base 101;
the outer wall of the guide post 17 is covered with a second spring of a spiral type at a portion between the top surface of the guide post base 170 and the bottom surface of the base plate 16.
In the present invention, in terms of specific implementation, referring to fig. 4, the shaping module includes a battery folding front edge structure and a battery folding side edge small angle structure;
a battery fold front structure comprising two fold corner features 42;
the battery folding side edge small-angle structure comprises a folding front edge functional part 41 and two track guide blocks 43;
for the battery folded front structure, the top of two folding function pieces 42 are respectively connected with the bottom of one function connecting piece 44;
the top of each functional connector 44 is connected with a slider 42;
the two sliding blocks 42 are in sliding fit with the bottom of a longitudinally distributed guide rail 43, so that a linear slide rail structure is formed;
the top of the guide rail 43 is arranged at the bottom of the compression connecting plate 15 in the battery positioning and clamping structure;
the bottom surfaces of the two angle functional parts 42 are horizontal planes;
two angle functional parts 42 which are symmetrically distributed front and back;
the two bevel function parts 42 are arranged opposite to the shaping processing operation groove 103 in the battery positioning and clamping structure; before the shaping operation is not performed initially, the battery positioning and clamping structure is positioned right above the shaping processing operation groove 103 in the battery positioning and clamping structure;
for the battery folding side edge small angle structure, the folding front edge functional part 41 is arranged opposite to the shaping processing operation groove 103 in the battery positioning and clamping structure; before the shaping operation is not performed initially, the battery positioning and clamping structure is positioned right below the shaping processing operation groove 103 in the battery positioning and clamping structure;
the top plane of the front folding functional part 41 is a horizontal plane;
a track guide block 43 is respectively arranged at the front side and the rear side of the folding front edge functional part 41;
two track guide blocks 43 which are symmetrically distributed front and back;
the shape and size of the side surface of one side opposite to the upper part of the two track guide blocks 43 are correspondingly matched with the shape and size of the side surface of one side (namely the outer side) opposite to the lower part of the two bevel function parts 42;
the opposite sides of the upper parts of the two track guide blocks 43 are both smooth inclined planes;
the lower back sides of the two bevel function parts 42 are both smooth inclined surfaces;
the transverse distance between the opposite sides of the upper parts of the two track guide blocks 43 is gradually increased from bottom to top;
the transverse distance between the lower back sides of the two bevel function parts 42 is gradually increased from bottom to top;
the two angle folding functional parts 42 respectively have a reserved gap with the front side and the rear side of the front folding edge functional part 41.
In particular, the front end and the rear end of the top of the front folding edge functional part 41 are respectively provided with a limiting lug 410;
the middle part of one side of the two folding angle functional parts 42 opposite to each other is provided with a limiting groove 420;
the limiting grooves 420 on the two angle functional parts 42 are symmetrically distributed in the front and back direction;
and the limiting lug is used for limiting the downward movement stroke of the bevel function piece 42 by abutting and contacting with the limiting groove 420.
In a specific implementation, the device provided by the invention specifically comprises the following shaping working modes:
when shaping operation is carried out, firstly, the soft package aluminum-plastic battery 100 is placed into the profiling positioning plate 11, then a worker manually operates the handle 13 to rotate, and the handle 13 drives the compression connecting plate 15 to press down, so that the battery compression block 12 presses down;
then, the profiling positioning plate 11 is pushed downwards by the battery pressing block 12 in the battery positioning and clamping structure, so that the profiling positioning plate 11 and the bottom plate 16 move downwards, and meanwhile, the two bevel function pieces 42 move downwards together;
then, as the bottom plate 16 is gradually lowered as it acts on the guide post 17, the fold-front functional element 41 is gradually exposed upward through the truing operation groove 103, the top surface of the folded front edge functional part 41 is contacted with the bottom surface of the front edge 21 before shaping in the soft package aluminum-plastic battery 100 and acts on the bottom surface of the front edge 21 before shaping, so that the bottom surface of the front edge 21 before shaping is folded upwards, in the process of bending the front edge 21 before shaping upwards, due to the plastic property of the aluminum-plastic film, the first side edge 22 before shaping and the second side edge 23 before shaping which are connected with the front edge 21 before shaping into a whole are naturally folded towards the inner side direction of the soft package aluminum-plastic battery 100 along with the process of folding the bottom surface of the front edge 21 before shaping upwards, and the first side edge 22 before shaping and the second side edge 23 before shaping form a folding angle trend, namely, a drawing trend is formed to gradually wrap the end face (for example, the front end face) of the soft-package aluminum-plastic battery 100;
as shown in fig. 6, in the process of bending the front edge 21 before shaping upward along the direction C shown in fig. 6, the first side edge 22 before shaping and the second side edge 23 before shaping gradually converge inward in the directions of arrows a and B in fig. 6, so as to naturally form a trend of a corner, thereby wrapping the end surface of the soft package aluminum-plastic battery 100 to form a smooth transition.
Then, when leading edge 21 bottom surface before the plastic-aluminum battery 100 of the soft package was turned over upwards and is rolled over to the terminal surface with laminating mutually (be promptly upwards when putting in place), and after first side 22 before the plastic and second side 23 before the plastic formed the trend of dog-ear, two dog-ear function pieces 42 moved down along two track guide blocks 43, insert in the clearance between two dog-ear function pieces 42 and the dog-ear function piece 41, thereby two dog-ear function pieces 42 realize the action of drawing in to the inboard direction, carry out the dog-ear operation simultaneously: and continuously pressing the first side edge 22 before reshaping and the second side edge 23 before reshaping which have the folding angle tendency to the end surface direction of the soft package aluminum-plastic battery 100 and finally attaching the first side edge and the second side edge to the end surface of the soft package aluminum-plastic battery 100, so as to obtain the front edge 31 after reshaping, the first side edge 32 after reshaping and the second side edge 33 after reshaping at the same time, namely, finishing the folding front edge and the folding side edge small angle operation at the same time.
It should be noted that, after the folding front edge and the folding corner of the present invention are finished, the handle 13, the functional connecting piece 44 and the bottom plate 16 have the self-rebounding function, and after the hand is released, the whole device automatically rebounds to the original position.
It should be noted that, since the outer wall of each guide post 104 is sleeved with the spiral first spring, after the pressing connection plate 15 is driven by the handle 13 to be pressed down, the functional connection piece 44 and the handle 13 are linked with the pressing connection plate 15, so that when the handle 13 is released again, the functional connection piece 44 and the handle 13 rise together with the pressing connection plate 15, and the springback function is realized.
It should be noted that, for the battery folding front edge structure of the present invention, there is a certain distance from the soft package aluminum-plastic battery 100, and there is a certain dimensional proportion relationship between the width and the front edge width. This proportional relationship is not unique.
It should be noted that, for the battery folding side edge small angle structure of the present invention, the folding angle functional part 42 is a special-shaped structure, and has an avoidance function of successive actions with the track guide block 43 and the folding edge functional part 41 in the battery folding edge structure.
Based on the technical scheme, the functions of folding the side edge of the battery and folding the front edge of the battery are completed by only one step of operation (after the battery is placed, only the action of rotating the operating handle 13 is needed), and other functions are all in a linkage structure. The device is not limited to the manual activation function described in this patent and all similar activation means are contemplated herein, such as changing manual to pneumatic.
In the invention, in a specific implementation, the device suitable for processing the shape of the soft package aluminum-plastic battery, see fig. 5, further comprises a heat setting device;
a heat setting device including a heat setting base 50;
the top of the heat setting base 50 is provided with heat setting support plates 53 which are longitudinally distributed;
the top of the heat setting supporting plate 53 is provided with heat setting positioning grooves 51 which are longitudinally distributed;
a heat-setting positioning groove 51 for placing the soft-package aluminum-plastic battery 100 which has finished the shaping operation (i.e. has finished the operation of folding the front edge and folding the small corner at the side edge);
a hot stamping functional part 52 is arranged right behind the heat setting positioning groove 51;
the hot-ironing functional part 52 is used for contacting the end faces of the front edge 31 after shaping, the first side edge 32 after shaping and the second side edge 33 after shaping on the soft package aluminum-plastic battery 100, so that the hot-ironing treatment on the end face of the soft package aluminum-plastic battery 100 is realized, and the final shaping is completed.
In particular, the blanching function 52 may be an existing heating tube (e.g., a heating tube of the aitda manufacturer) or other element having a function of heating the contacted object.
In particular, the front side and the rear ends of the left and right sides of the heat-setting positioning groove 51 are respectively provided with an anti-scald protection block;
the height of the anti-scald protection block is higher than the top surface height of the soft package aluminum-plastic battery 100 in the heat setting positioning groove 51.
In particular, the left and right sides of the blanching function part 52 are respectively provided with a heat setting guide groove which is longitudinally distributed;
the left and right sides of the heat setting support plate 53 are in sliding fit with the heat setting guide grooves.
And a heat-setting guide groove formed in the heat-setting housing 54 at the rear side of the top of the heat-setting base 50.
It should be noted that the heat setting device has a main function of heating and setting the front edge of the shaped battery. The heat setting device comprises a temperature-adjustable heating function, a battery positioning function and an anti-scald protection function.
In the present invention, the shaped battery may be further placed in a heat setting positioning groove 51 of a heat setting device, and pressed against a hot stamping function 52 along the heat setting guide groove to perform a heat setting operation on the battery.
For the invention, the main work flow is as follows: placing the soft package aluminum-plastic battery 100 before treatment in a fixture (i.e. a profiling positioning plate) shown in the device figure 1, manually pulling the handle 13, and performing device action to fold the front edge of the battery; then the handle is loosened, the device rebounds to the initial state, the shaping action is completed, and the shaped battery is taken out. And (4) putting the shaped battery into a heat setting device for hot ironing and setting. And taking out the battery after shaping, and finishing the shaping action of the whole front edge.
Compared with the prior art, the device suitable for the appearance processing of the soft package aluminum-plastic battery provided by the invention has the advantages that the structural design is scientific, the device comprises a battery positioning and clamping structure, a battery folding front edge structure and a battery folding side edge small angle structure, the appearance processing of the soft package aluminum-plastic battery can be realized, the folding front edge and the folding side edge small angle can be integrated, all shaping actions can be efficiently and conveniently completed through operating a handle, the shaping efficiency of the soft package aluminum-plastic battery is remarkably improved, the production quality and consistency of the soft package aluminum-plastic battery are ensured, and the device has great practical significance.
Compared with the prior art, the invention utilizes the characteristic that the aluminum-plastic shell of the soft package aluminum-plastic battery can be stretched and deformed, when the battery is folded, the aluminum-plastic at the small angle positions at the two side edges can be folded towards the middle along with the pulling force at the folding front edge to form the trend of folding angles, the aluminum-plastic can form an arc shape, and the sharp points of the folding angles can not be generated, so that the sharp angles can not be generated, and the influence on the size of the battery can be avoided.
The foregoing is only a preferred embodiment of the present invention, and it should be noted that, for those skilled in the art, various modifications and decorations can be made without departing from the principle of the present invention, and these modifications and decorations should also be regarded as the protection scope of the present invention.
Claims (5)
1. A device suitable for processing the appearance of a soft package aluminum-plastic battery is characterized by comprising a battery positioning and clamping structure and a shaping module;
the battery positioning and clamping structure is used for positioning and clamping the soft package aluminum-plastic battery (100) in the shaping process and can drive the battery to move relatively to the folding front edge structure and the folding side edge small angle structure;
one end of an aluminum-plastic shell of the soft package aluminum-plastic battery (100) is provided with a front edge (21) before shaping, a first side edge (22) before shaping and a second side edge (23) before shaping; a first side (22) before shaping and a second side (23) before shaping, which are respectively positioned at two sides of the front edge (21) before shaping;
the shaping module comprises a battery folding side small angle structure and a battery folding front edge structure which are distributed up and down;
the shaping module is used for conducting positioning and clamping on the soft package aluminum-plastic battery (100) through the battery positioning and clamping structure, conducting vertical and upward bending operation on the front edge (21) of the soft package aluminum-plastic battery (100) before shaping through the battery folding side edge small-angle structure under the driving of the battery positioning and clamping structure, driving the first side edge (22) and the second side edge (23) before shaping to conduct furling action towards the inner side direction through the front edge (21) before shaping in the bending operation process, conducting corner folding action towards the inner side direction of the end face of the soft package aluminum-plastic battery (100) on the first side edge (22) before shaping and the second side edge (23) before shaping through the battery folding front edge structure matched with the battery folding side edge small-angle structure when the front edge (21) before shaping is folded upwards and attached to the end face of the soft package aluminum-plastic battery (100), finally, finishing the operation of folding the front edge and folding the small angle of the side edge;
for a battery positioning and clamping structure, it comprises a device base (101);
a rear device box body (102) is vertically arranged on the rear side of the top of the device base (101);
a bottom plate (16) which is horizontally distributed is arranged right above the front side of the top of the device base (101);
the top of the bottom plate (16) is provided with a profiling positioning plate (11);
the top of the profiling positioning plate (11) is provided with soft package aluminum-plastic battery limiting grooves which are transversely distributed;
the left side and the right side of the soft package aluminum-plastic battery limiting groove are open;
the soft package aluminum-plastic battery limiting groove is used for transversely placing the soft package aluminum-plastic battery (100);
a battery pressing block (12) is arranged right above the profiling positioning plate (11);
the top center of the battery pressing block (12) is connected with the bottom center of the horizontally distributed supporting plate (150) through a pressing block supporting column (120) which is vertically distributed;
the top of the supporting plate (150) is fixedly connected with a compression connecting plate (15) which is horizontally distributed;
the left end and the right end of the rear side of the compression connecting plate (15) are respectively provided with a limiting guide block (151);
each limiting guide block (151) is provided with a guide through hole, and a guide column (104) vertically penetrates through each guide through hole;
the outer wall of each guide post (104) is sleeved with a spiral first spring at the part between the top surface of the device base (101) and the bottom surface of the limiting guide block (151);
the top of the guide post (104) is fixedly connected with the top of the device rear box body (102);
the bottom of the guide post (104) is fixedly connected with the rear side of the top of the device base (101);
the bottom of the left side of the compression connecting plate (15) is fixedly connected with the upper ends of the first connecting rods (141) which are vertically distributed;
the lower end of the first connecting rod (141) is hinged with the front end of the second connecting rod (142);
the rear end of the second connecting rod (142) is fixedly connected with a handle connecting shaft (105) which is transversely distributed;
the inner walls of the left side and the right side of the rear box body (102) of the device are respectively provided with a bearing (106);
the left end part of the handle connecting shaft (105) is connected with the inner ring of a bearing (106) on the inner wall of the left side of the device rear box body (102);
the right end of the handle connecting shaft (105) is connected with the inner ring of a bearing (106) on the inner wall of the right side of the device rear box body (102), and the right end of the handle connecting shaft (105) is fixedly connected with the lower end part of a handle (13) after transversely penetrating through the inner ring of the bearing (106);
the bottom plate (16) is arranged on the left side of the profiling positioning plate (11) and is provided with a shaping processing operation groove (103) which is longitudinally distributed and is through up and down;
the shaping module comprises a battery folding front edge structure and a battery folding side edge small angle structure;
the battery folding front edge structure comprises two folding corner functional pieces (42);
the battery folding side edge small-angle structure comprises a folding front edge functional part (41) and two track guide blocks (43);
for the battery fold front structure, the tops of the two fold angle functional parts (42) are respectively connected with the bottom of one functional connecting part (44);
the top of each functional connecting piece (44) is respectively connected with a sliding block (42);
the two sliding blocks (42) are in sliding fit with the bottom of a longitudinally distributed guide rail (43) to form a linear slide rail structure;
the top of the guide rail (43) is arranged at the bottom of the compression connecting plate (15) in the battery positioning and clamping structure;
the bottom surfaces of the two angle folding functional parts (42) are horizontal planes;
two angle functional parts (42) which are symmetrically distributed front and back;
the two angle folding functional parts (42) are arranged opposite to the shaping and processing operation groove (103) in the battery positioning and clamping structure;
for the battery folding side edge small angle structure, the folding front edge functional part (41) is arranged opposite to the shaping processing operation groove (103) in the battery positioning and clamping structure;
the top plane of the front folding functional part (41) is a horizontal plane;
the front side and the rear side of the folding front edge functional part (41) are respectively provided with a track guide block (43);
two track guide blocks (43) which are symmetrically distributed front and back;
the side surfaces of one side, opposite to the upper parts of the two track guide blocks (43), are correspondingly matched with the side surfaces of one side, opposite to the lower parts of the two angle folding functional parts (42), in shape and size;
one sides of the upper parts of the two track guide blocks (43) opposite to each other are smooth inclined planes;
the lower back sides of the two bevel function parts (42) are both smooth inclined planes;
the transverse distance between the opposite sides of the upper parts of the two track guide blocks (43) is gradually increased from bottom to top;
the transverse distance between the lower back sides of the two angle folding functional parts (42) is gradually increased from bottom to top;
two angle folding functional parts (42) are respectively provided with a reserved gap with the front side and the rear side of the front folding edge functional part (41).
2. The device for processing the appearance of the soft package aluminum-plastic battery according to claim 1, wherein the four corners of the bottom plate (16) are respectively provided with a guide post through hole;
a guide post (17) which is vertically distributed is inserted into each guide post through hole from bottom to top;
the bottom of each guide post (17) is provided with a guide post base (170);
a guide post base (170) fixedly connected with the front side of the top of the device base (101);
the outer wall of the guide post (17) is sleeved with a spiral second spring at the part between the top surface of the guide post base (170) and the bottom surface of the bottom plate (16).
3. The device for processing the external shape of the soft package aluminum-plastic battery according to claim 2, wherein the front end and the rear end of the top of the folding front edge functional member (41) are respectively provided with a limit bump (410);
the middle part of one side of the two folding angle functional parts (42) opposite to each other is provided with a limiting groove (420);
the limiting grooves (420) on the two angle folding functional parts (42) are symmetrically distributed in the front and back direction;
and the limiting lug is used for limiting the downward movement stroke of the bevel function piece (42) by abutting and contacting with the limiting groove (420).
4. The device suitable for the shape processing of the soft package aluminum-plastic battery according to claim 2, which specifically comprises the following shaping operation modes:
firstly, placing a soft-packaged aluminum-plastic battery (100) into a profiling positioning plate (11), then manually operating a handle (13) by a worker to rotate, and driving a compression connecting plate (15) to perform downward pressing action by the handle (13) so as to enable a battery compression block (12) to be pressed downward;
then, a battery pressing block (12) in the battery positioning and clamping structure pushes the profiling positioning plate (11) downwards, so that the profiling positioning plate (11) and the bottom plate (16) move downwards, and meanwhile, the two angle folding functional parts (42) move downwards together;
then, as the bottom plate (16) is gradually sunk when acting on the guide post (17), the folding front functional part (41) is gradually exposed upwards through the shaping processing operation groove (103), the top surface of the folding front edge functional part (41) is contacted with the bottom surface of the front edge (21) before shaping in the soft package aluminum-plastic battery (100) and acts on the bottom surface of the front edge (21) before shaping, so that the bottom surface of the front edge (21) before shaping is folded upwards, in the process that the front edge (21) before shaping is bent upwards, due to the plasticity of the aluminum-plastic film, the first side edge (22) before shaping and the second side edge (23) before shaping are connected with the front edge (21) before shaping into a whole, natural folding action towards the inner side direction of the soft package aluminum-plastic battery (100) is simultaneously carried out along with the upward folding process of the bottom surface of the front edge (21) before shaping, and the first side edge (22) before shaping and the second side edge (23) before shaping form a folding angle trend;
then, when the bottom surface of the front edge (21) before shaping is turned upwards to be attached to the end surface of the soft-package aluminum-plastic battery (100), and after the trend that the first side edge (22) before shaping and the second side edge (23) before shaping form a break angle, the two break angle functional parts (42) move downwards along the two track guide blocks (43) and are inserted into a gap between the two break angle functional parts (42) and the break edge functional part (41), so that the two break angle functional parts (42) can be folded inwards, and simultaneously, the break angle operation is executed: the first side edge (22) before reshaping and the second side edge (23) before reshaping, which form the folding angle trend, are continuously pressed to the end face direction of the soft package aluminum-plastic battery (100) and finally attached to the end face of the soft package aluminum-plastic battery (100), so that a front edge (31) after reshaping, a first side edge (32) after reshaping and a second side edge (33) after reshaping are obtained at the same time, and the operations of folding the front edge and folding the small angle of the side edge are completed at the same time.
5. The device for processing the appearance of the soft package aluminum-plastic battery according to any one of claims 1 to 4, further comprising a heat setting device;
a heat setting device comprising a heat setting base (50);
the top of the heat setting base (50) is provided with heat setting support plates (53) which are longitudinally distributed;
the top of the heat setting supporting plate (53) is provided with heat setting positioning grooves (51) which are longitudinally distributed;
the heat-setting positioning groove (51) is used for placing the soft package aluminum-plastic battery (100) which is subjected to the front folding operation and the side folding small angle operation;
a hot stamping functional part (52) is arranged right behind the heat setting positioning groove (51);
the hot-stamping functional part (52) is used for contacting the end faces of the front edge (31) after shaping, the first side edge (32) after shaping and the second side edge (33) after shaping on the soft package aluminum-plastic battery (100), so that hot-stamping treatment on the end face of the soft package aluminum-plastic battery (100) is realized, and final sizing is completed.
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