CN114952002B

CN114952002B - Welding equipment

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Publication number: CN114952002B
Application number: CN202210672352.6A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 徐善军
Original assignee: Shanghai Jdt Technology Corp ltd
Current assignee: Shanghai Jdt Technology Corp ltd
Priority date: 2022-06-14
Filing date: 2022-06-14
Publication date: 2023-03-10
Anticipated expiration: 2042-06-14
Also published as: CN114952002A

Abstract

The invention provides welding equipment, which relates to the technical field of power battery welding and comprises a first conveying line and a second conveying line connected with the first conveying line; the second conveying line is provided with a first feeding station, a code scanning station, a second feeding station, a welding station and a discharging station on a conveying path; a carrying mechanism is arranged between the first conveying line and the second conveying line; a code scanning module is correspondingly arranged on the code scanning station; the second feeding station is correspondingly provided with a material moving mechanism; the welding station is correspondingly provided with a welding mechanism; the blanking station is correspondingly provided with a blanking mechanism. The technical problem that in the prior art, welding of the explosion-proof sheet on the battery cover can be completed only through multiple processes, and more time is wasted due to transfer, positioning and the like among the processes, so that the working efficiency is low is solved, and the technical effect of improving the working efficiency is achieved.

Description

Welding equipment

Technical Field

The invention relates to the technical field of power battery welding, in particular to welding equipment.

Background

The explosion-proof piece is a key part for ensuring the safety of the power battery, and whether the explosion-proof piece can release pressure in time when the pressure in the battery is increased and exceeds a safety threshold value is very important, so that the stability of the explosion value of the explosion-proof piece is a key factor for ensuring the safety of the battery. In recent years, in the process of assembling and producing batteries, an explosion-proof sheet needs to be welded on a battery cover to realize the explosion-proof and sealing functions of the batteries.

Laser welding adopts laser as the welding heat source, and the robot is as the moving system. The laser heat source has the special advantages that the laser heat source has an extraordinary heating capacity, can concentrate a large amount of energy on a small action point, has the characteristics of high energy density, concentrated heating, high welding speed, small welding deformation and the like, and can realize the quick connection of thin plates. In the process, a plurality of working procedures are needed to complete the welding of the explosion-proof sheet on the battery cover, and much time is wasted in the transferring, positioning and the like among the working procedures, so that the working efficiency is low.

Disclosure of Invention

The invention aims to provide welding equipment to solve the technical problems that in the prior art, welding of an explosion-proof sheet on a battery cover can be completed only through multiple processes, and much time is wasted in transferring, positioning and the like among the processes, so that the working efficiency is low.

The present invention provides a welding apparatus comprising: the conveying line comprises a first conveying line and a second conveying line connected with the first conveying line;

the first conveying line is used for conveying the welding body piece;

the second conveying line is provided with a first feeding station, a code scanning station, a second feeding station, a welding station and a discharging station on a conveying path;

a conveying mechanism is arranged between the first conveying line and the second conveying line and used for conveying the welding body piece to the first feeding station;

the code scanning station is correspondingly provided with a code scanning module used for acquiring corresponding information of the welding body piece;

the second feeding station is correspondingly provided with a material moving mechanism used for moving a to-be-welded piece to the welding body piece of the second feeding station;

the welding station is correspondingly provided with a welding mechanism for welding the piece to be welded to the welding body piece;

and the blanking station is correspondingly provided with a blanking mechanism for moving the welding finished product out of the second conveying line.

Further, the carrying mechanism is arranged below the first conveying line;

the carrying mechanism comprises a carrying gripper and a carrying driving module for driving the carrying gripper to move, and the carrying driving module comprises a carrying horizontal module and a carrying lifting module and is used for driving the carrying gripper to move along the conveying direction of the first conveying line and to move along the vertical direction.

Furthermore, a plurality of groups of bulges are arranged on the conveying path of the conveying table of the second conveying line at intervals, and the distance between every two adjacent groups of bulges is matched with the width size of the welding body piece;

the second conveying line comprises two groups of conveying lines which are arranged in parallel, the two groups of conveying lines are in transmission connection through a transmission shaft, a gap is formed between conveying platforms of the two groups of conveying lines, and the maximum distance between the conveying platforms of the two groups of conveying lines is matched with the length dimension of the welding body piece.

Further, the code scanning module is arranged below the second conveying line;

the code scanner of the code scanning module is located at the code scanning station and faces the gap, so that the code scanner can scan corresponding information on the bottom surface of the welding body piece through the gap.

Further, the material moving mechanism comprises a rotary feeding bin, a material moving mechanical arm, a lower visual judgment module and an upper visual judgment module;

the rotary feeding bin is used for placing a part to be welded;

the material transferring mechanical arm is used for grabbing a piece to be welded and transferring the piece to be welded to the second feeding station through the lower visual judging module and the upper visual judging module in sequence;

the lower visual judgment module is positioned on one side of the rotary feeding bin and used for acquiring spatial position information of a part to be welded in the process that the rotary feeding bin moves materials to the second feeding station;

the upper visual judgment module is positioned above the second feeding station and used for acquiring second spatial position information of a part to be welded in the process that the rotary feeding bin moves materials to the second feeding station.

Further, the rotary feeding bin comprises a turntable and a feeding clip;

the feeding clips are arranged in a plurality of groups and are arranged at intervals along the circumferential direction of the turntable, the upper end and the lower end of each feeding clip are respectively provided with an opening, and the opening at the upper end is used for discharging;

one side of carousel is equipped with pushing equipment, pushing equipment include the ejector pin and with the ejector pin transmission is connected pushes away the material driving piece, the ejector pin is located the uncovered of lower extreme, and can push away by supreme down under the drive that pushes away the material driving piece wait to weld in the material loading clip.

Further, the welding station comprises a spot welding station and a full-welding station which are arranged at intervals, and correspondingly, the welding mechanism comprises a spot welding module which is arranged corresponding to the spot welding station and a full-welding module which is arranged corresponding to the full-welding station;

a spot welding die and a full-welding die are erected on the second conveying line in the direction perpendicular to the conveying path of the second conveying line, rotatable cams are arranged on the spot welding die and the full-welding die, and the cams can enable welding body pieces reaching the spot welding station or the full-welding station to be abutted against a conveying table on the second conveying line;

the spot welding station is arranged at the corresponding position of the second conveying line and the spot welding die, and the full-welding station is arranged at the corresponding position of the second conveying line and the full-welding die.

Furthermore, a detection station is arranged between the welding station and the blanking station;

the detection station is correspondingly provided with a 3D visual detection mechanism, and the 3D visual detection mechanism is vertically arranged above the detection station through a support and used for detecting the welding effect of a welded finished product.

Further, the blanking stations comprise good product blanking stations and non-good product blanking stations, and the good product blanking stations are arranged close to the tail end of the second conveying line relative to the non-good product blanking stations;

a good product blanking mechanism is correspondingly arranged at the good product blanking station and arranged at the tail end of the second conveying line;

and the non-good product blanking station is correspondingly provided with a non-good product blanking mechanism, and the non-good product blanking mechanism is arranged on one side of the second conveying line.

Further, the good product blanking mechanism comprises a turnover disc and a turnover driving piece for driving the turnover disc to turn over on a vertical plane; a bayonet is arranged on the turnover disc along the radial direction and used for clamping a welding finished product moving to the tail end of the second conveying line and enabling a to-be-welded piece to be separated from the second conveying line under the driving of the turnover driving piece;

and/or the non-defective product blanking mechanism comprises a non-defective product gripper and a non-defective product driving module for driving the non-defective product gripper to act, wherein the non-defective product driving module comprises a non-defective product horizontal module and a non-defective product lifting module and is used for driving the non-defective product gripper to move along a conveying direction vertical to the second conveying line and to move along a vertical direction;

and/or the non-defective product discharging mechanism is also correspondingly provided with a non-defective product collecting cartridge clip, the upper end and the lower end of the non-defective product collecting cartridge clip are both provided with openings, and the opening at the upper end is used for discharging; the bottom that the cartridge clip was collected to the non-defective products is equipped with receiving mechanism, receiving mechanism include push rod and with the top push driving piece that the push rod transmission is connected, the push rod is located the lower extreme of non-defective products collection cartridge clip is uncovered, and can the drive of push rod is removed from top to bottom and is used for supporting the non-defective products in the non-defective products collection cartridge clip.

Has the advantages that:

the welding equipment comprises a first conveying line and a second conveying line connected with the first conveying line, wherein the first conveying line can be used for conveying a welding body piece, the second conveying line is provided with a first feeding station, a code scanning station, a second feeding station, a welding station and a blanking station on a conveying path, and a conveying mechanism is arranged between the first conveying line and the second conveying line, so that the welding body piece can be transferred to the first feeding station through the conveying mechanism, the welding body piece is conveyed to the code scanning station along with the conveying of the second conveying line, and corresponding information of the welding body piece can be obtained through a code scanning module and can be used as a starting point for tracing and for judging the welding stability and the welding rule of a piece to be welded; along with the transport of second transfer chain, welding body spare will be carried to second material loading station, through moving material mechanism, can will wait to weld on the welding body spare that the piece transferred to second material loading station, along with the further transport of second transfer chain, at welding station department, welding mechanism can wait to weld the piece and weld in welding body spare, and the back is accomplished in the welding, along with the transport of second transfer chain, can move out the second transfer chain with the finished product that welds.

Therefore, the welding equipment can realize one system operation of loading, code scanning, welding, blanking and the like, and continuous operation is adopted among all the working procedures, so that the time for transferring, positioning and the like among all the working procedures is saved, and the working efficiency is improved.

Drawings

In order to more clearly illustrate the embodiments of the present invention or the technical solutions in the prior art, the drawings used in the description of the embodiments or the prior art will be briefly described below, and it is obvious that the drawings in the following description are some embodiments of the present invention, and other drawings can be obtained by those skilled in the art without creative efforts.

FIG. 1 is a schematic structural diagram of a welding apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a top view of a welding apparatus provided in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 3 is a schematic view of a first conveyor line;

FIG. 4 is a schematic view of a second conveyor line;

FIG. 5 is a schematic structural view of a carrying mechanism;

FIG. 6 is a schematic view of a code scanning module;

FIG. 7 is a schematic structural diagram of a rotary feeding bin;

FIG. 8 is a schematic structural view of the material transferring robot arm;

FIG. 9 is a schematic structural diagram of a lower visual determination module;

FIG. 10 is a schematic structural diagram of an upper visual sense judging module;

FIG. 11 is a schematic view of a spot welding module;

FIG. 12 is a schematic structural diagram of a full-length welding module;

FIG. 13 is a schematic view of a spot welding mold;

FIG. 14 is a schematic structural diagram of a 3D vision inspection mechanism;

FIG. 15 is a schematic view of a non-defective product blanking mechanism;

fig. 16 is a schematic structural view of a non-defective product blanking mechanism;

FIG. 17 is a front view of a non-defective product blanking mechanism;

fig. 18 is a schematic structural diagram of a welding apparatus provided with a housing according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Icon:

100-a first conveyor line;

200-a second conveyor line; 210-a bump;

300-a handling mechanism; 310-a transport gripper; 320-a horizontal handling module; 330-carrying lifting module;

400-code scanning module;

500-a material moving mechanism; 510-rotating the feeding bin; 520-a material moving mechanical arm; 530-lower visual judgment module; 540-upper visual judgment module; 511-turnplate; 512-loading cartridge clips; 513-a pusher bar; 514-material pushing driving piece; 515-a detection sensor;

600-a welding mechanism; 610-spot welding module; 620-full weld module; 630-spot welding mold; 640-full welding mould; 650-cam;

700-a blanking mechanism; 710-good product blanking mechanism; 720-a non-good product blanking mechanism; 711-turn the disc; 712-a tumble drive; 721-a defective product gripper; 722-a non-defective horizontal module; 723-lifting module for non-defective products; 724-defective product collecting cartridge clips; 725-push rod; 726-a pushing drive member; 7111-bayonet;

800-3D vision inspection mechanism;

900-shell.

Detailed Description

In order to make the objects, technical solutions and advantages of the embodiments of the present invention clearer, the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the drawings in the embodiments of the present invention, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are some, but not all, embodiments of the present invention. The components of embodiments of the present invention generally described and illustrated in the figures herein may be arranged and designed in a wide variety of different configurations.

Thus, the following detailed description of the embodiments of the present invention, as presented in the figures, is not intended to limit the scope of the invention, as claimed, but is merely representative of selected embodiments of the invention. 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.

It should be noted that: like reference numbers and letters refer to like items in the following figures, and thus, once an item is defined in one figure, it need not be further defined and explained in subsequent figures.

In the description of the present invention, it should be noted that the terms "center", "upper", "lower", "left", "right", "vertical", "horizontal", "inner", "outer", etc., indicate orientations or positional relationships based on the orientations or positional relationships shown in the drawings, or the orientations or positional relationships that the welding body members of the present invention conventionally place when in use, are merely for convenience in describing the present invention and simplifying the description, and do not indicate or imply that the device or member being referred to must have a particular orientation, be constructed and operated in a particular orientation, and thus should not be construed as limiting the present invention. Furthermore, the terms "first," "second," "third," and the like are used solely to distinguish one from another, and are not to be construed as indicating or implying relative importance.

Furthermore, the terms "horizontal", "vertical" and the like do not imply that the components are required to be absolutely horizontal or pendant, but rather may be slightly inclined. For example, "horizontal" merely means that the direction is more horizontal than "vertical" and does not mean that the structure must be perfectly horizontal, but may be slightly inclined.

In the description of the present invention, it should also be noted that, unless otherwise explicitly specified or limited, the terms "disposed," "mounted," "connected," and "connected" are to be construed broadly and may, for example, be fixedly connected, detachably connected, or integrally connected; 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 meanings of the above terms in the present invention can be understood in specific cases to those skilled in the art.

Some embodiments of the invention are described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings. The embodiments described below and the features of the embodiments can be combined with each other without conflict.

Referring to fig. 1 and 2, the present embodiment provides a welding apparatus including a first conveyor line 100 and a second conveyor line 200 disposed to be engaged with the first conveyor line 100; a first conveyor line 100 for conveying welding body pieces; the second conveying line 200 is provided with a first feeding station, a code scanning station, a second feeding station, a welding station and a discharging station on a conveying path; a conveying mechanism 300 is arranged between the first conveying line 100 and the second conveying line 200 and used for transferring the welding body piece to a first feeding station; the code scanning station is correspondingly provided with a code scanning module 400 for acquiring corresponding information of the welding body piece; the second feeding station is correspondingly provided with a material moving mechanism 500 for moving the to-be-welded piece to the welding body piece of the second feeding station; the welding station is correspondingly provided with a welding mechanism 600 for welding the piece to be welded to the welding body piece; the blanking station is correspondingly provided with a blanking mechanism 700 for transferring the welding finished product out of the second conveyor line 200.

In the welding equipment provided by this embodiment, the first conveying line 100 and the second conveying line 200 connected with the first conveying line 100 are provided, wherein the first conveying line 100 can be used for conveying a welding body piece, the second conveying line 200 is provided with a first feeding station, a code scanning station, a second feeding station, a welding station and a blanking station on a conveying path thereof, and because the conveying mechanism 300 is provided between the first conveying line 100 and the second conveying line 200, the welding body piece can be transferred to the first feeding station through the conveying mechanism 300, the welding body piece is conveyed to the code scanning station along with the conveying of the second conveying line 200, and corresponding information of the welding body piece can be obtained through the code scanning module 400 and can be used as a starting point for tracing back and for judging the welding stability and the welding rule of a to-be-welded piece; with the conveying of the second conveying line 200, the welding body piece is conveyed to the second feeding station, the to-be-welded piece can be conveyed to the welding body piece of the second feeding station through the material conveying mechanism 500, the to-be-welded piece can be welded to the welding body piece at the welding station with the further conveying of the second conveying line 200, and after the welding is completed, the to-be-welded piece can be conveyed out of the second conveying line 200 with the conveying of the second conveying line 200 by the welding mechanism 600.

Therefore, the welding equipment of the embodiment can realize a system operation of feeding, code scanning, welding, blanking and the like, and continuous operation is adopted among all the working procedures, so that the time for transferring, positioning and the like among all the working procedures is saved, and the working efficiency is improved.

It should be noted that the aforementioned "first loading station, code scanning station, second loading station, welding station and blanking station" are relatively fixed positions, and corresponding operations can be performed at the corresponding stations.

Referring to fig. 3, the first conveyor line 100 may be a belt conveyor line, and the specific structure thereof may refer to the existing belt conveyor line and will not be described in detail herein; in addition, in order to facilitate the transfer of the welding body pieces to the first loading station by the carrying mechanism 300, the first conveyor line 100 may be provided on a corresponding base, and by setting the height of the base, the first conveyor line 100 may be provided at a suitable height position so as to convey the welding body pieces to the second conveyor line 200.

In this embodiment, the height of the transfer table (i.e., the belt) of the first transfer line 100 is the same as that of the transfer table of the second transfer line 200, or the former is slightly lower or slightly higher than the latter, i.e., the difference between the two is not too large, so that the welded body members are transferred to the first loading station by the transfer mechanism 300.

When the welding device is used specifically, the welding body piece can be manually placed into the first conveying line 100 for conveying, the welding body piece can be a power battery cover plate, and correspondingly, the welding piece to be welded is an explosion-proof piece.

Referring to fig. 4, the second conveyor line 200 may also be a belt conveyor line, which may have a longer conveying length than the first conveyor line 100, so that different and multiple stations are provided at corresponding positions of the second conveyor line 200.

Referring to fig. 1 and 5, the conveying mechanism 300 is provided below the first conveyor line 100; the transfer mechanism 300 comprises a transfer gripper 310 and a transfer drive module for driving the transfer gripper 310 to move, the transfer drive module comprising a transfer horizontal module 320 and a transfer lifting module 330 for driving the transfer gripper 310 to be movable in the transfer direction of the first transfer line 100 and to be movable in the vertical direction.

The carrying gripper 310 may adopt a suction cup structure, which is clear and can be realized by those skilled in the art due to the conventional design of the suction cup, and will not be described in detail herein; in addition, it is clear to those skilled in the art that the horizontal transporting module 320 and the lifting transporting module 330 may be an electric cylinder module.

In this embodiment, the moving direction of the horizontal conveying module 320 is the same as the conveying direction of the first conveying line 100, the lifting conveying module 330 is disposed on the horizontal conveying module 320, the lifting conveying module 330 can move along the conveying direction of the first conveying line 100 under the driving of the horizontal conveying module 320, and meanwhile, the gripper 310 is disposed on the lifting conveying module 330, and on the basis of realizing the horizontal movement, the lifting conveying module 330 can also drive the gripper 310 to ascend or descend, so as to realize the conveying operation on the premise of avoiding the interference.

During operation, the welding body piece is sucked by the action of the carrying gripper 310, then the carrying horizontal module 320 drives the welding body piece to move to the first feeding station, and meanwhile, the welding body piece is moved to the first feeding station while avoiding by means of the vertical descending or ascending of the carrying lifting module 330.

In this embodiment, referring to fig. 4, a conveying table of the second conveying line 200 is provided with a plurality of groups of protrusions 210 at intervals on a conveying path thereof, and a distance between two adjacent groups of protrusions 210 is adapted to a width dimension of the welding body member; the second transfer chain 200 is connected through the transmission shaft transmission between two sets of transfer chains including two sets of transfer chains that parallel arrangement, wherein, forms the clearance between the transport platform of two sets of transfer chains, the maximum distance between the transport platform of two sets of transfer chains and the length dimension looks adaptation of welding body spare to the transport platform of transfer chain can not bulge in the both ends of confirming welding body spare.

Further, referring to fig. 1 and 6, the code scanning module 400 is disposed below the second conveying line 200; sweep a yard module 400's bar code scanner and be located and sweep a yard station and set up towards the clearance to make bar code scanner can scan the corresponding information that is located welding body spare bottom surface through the clearance, so set up, but make full use of second transfer chain 200 below space, the overall arrangement is compacter, reasonable.

The code scanning module 400 can be a code scanning module 400 in the prior art, which can be used for scanning the information of the production date, the batch, the manufacturer abbreviation, etc. of the welding body piece.

Referring to fig. 1, 7 to 10, the material moving mechanism 500 includes a rotary upper bin 510, a material moving robot 520, a lower visual judging module 530 and an upper visual judging module 540; the rotary upper bin 510 is used for placing a part to be welded; the material transferring mechanical arm 520 is used for gripping the parts to be welded and transferring the parts to be welded to a second feeding station through the lower visual judging module 530 and the upper visual judging module 540 in sequence; the lower visual judgment module 530 is located at one side of the rotary upper bin 510 and is used for acquiring spatial position information of a part to be welded in the process that the rotary upper bin 510 moves materials to the second feeding station; the upper visual judgment module 540 is located above the second feeding station, and is configured to acquire second spatial position information of the to-be-welded component in the process that the rotary feeding bin 510 moves the material to the second feeding station.

The lower visual judgment module 530 and the upper visual judgment module 540 can be both CCD cameras, the lower visual judgment module 530 reads the spatial position (X, Y, Z) of the part to be welded, the upper visual judgment module 540 reads the spatial position (X1, Y1, Z1) of the part to be welded, and the part to be welded is moved to the second feeding station by the material moving mechanical arm 520 by using an algorithm in the prior art; in addition, a portion of the material transferring mechanical arm 520 for gripping the member to be welded may be provided as a suction cup for sucking the member to be welded.

Referring to fig. 7, the rotary loading bin 510 includes a turntable 511 and a loading magazine 512; the feeding clips 512 are arranged in multiple groups and are arranged at intervals along the circumferential direction of the rotary table 511, the upper end and the lower end of each feeding clip 512 are respectively provided with an opening, and the opening at the upper end is used for discharging; one side of the rotary disc 511 is provided with a material pushing mechanism, the material pushing mechanism comprises a material pushing rod 513 and a material pushing driving piece 514 in transmission connection with the material pushing rod 513, the material pushing rod 513 is positioned at the opening at the lower end and can push a to-be-welded part in the material loading clip 512 from bottom to top under the driving of the material pushing driving piece 514.

When the previous workpiece to be welded is removed, the pushing driving member 514 pushes the workpiece to be welded in the feeding clip 512 from bottom to top, so that the next workpiece to be welded moves to the open position at the upper end of the feeding clip 512.

Further, the openings at the upper end and the lower end of the feeding clip 512 are correspondingly provided with a detection sensor 515, wherein the detection sensor 515 is a top in-place sensor corresponding to the upper end and a bottom out-of-material sensor corresponding to the lower end to judge whether the feeding clip 512 has a to-be-welded part or not.

Referring to fig. 1, 11 to 13, in this embodiment, the welding stations include spot welding stations and full-welding stations arranged at intervals, and correspondingly, the welding mechanism 600 includes a spot welding module 610 arranged corresponding to the spot welding stations and a full-welding module 620 arranged corresponding to the full-welding stations; a spot welding mold 630 and a full-welding mold 640 are erected on the second conveying line 200 along a direction perpendicular to the conveying path of the second conveying line, the spot welding mold 630 and the full-welding mold 640 are both provided with rotatable cams 650, and the cams 650 can enable welding body pieces reaching a spot welding station or a full-welding station to be abutted against a conveying table on the second conveying line 200; wherein, the spot welding station is arranged at the corresponding position of the second conveying line 200 and the spot welding mould 630, and the full-welding station is arranged at the corresponding position of the second conveying line 200 and the full-welding mould 640.

The spot welding module 610 and the full-length welding module 620 are both laser welding modules, so that the stability and the output of equipment can be improved; the laser welding module can adopt the laser welding module in the prior art.

The spot welding can be regarded as prewelding, in the embodiment, approximately 12 round holes are arranged on a spot welding die, and 12 points are welded between a welding body piece and a piece to be welded through a spot welding module 610; and then, welding a circle of part where the periphery of the part to be welded is contacted with the welding body part, namely full welding.

In this embodiment, through cam 650, the welding body piece that will reach spot welding station or full-length welding station supports tightly on the transport platform on second transfer chain 200, realizes welding body piece and treats the fixed of welding piece on second transfer chain 200, so set up, can avoid the wearing and tearing that bring with the locating pin location.

Referring to fig. 1 and 14, a detection station is also arranged between the welding station and the blanking station; the detection station is correspondingly provided with a 3D visual detection mechanism 800,3D visual detection mechanism 800 which is erected above the detection station through a support and used for detecting the welding effect of a welded finished product. The 3D vision inspection mechanism 800 may adopt the prior art, and is not described herein again.

The 3D visual detection mechanism 800 is used for detecting, the welding finished product with good welding effect is defined as a good product, and the welding finished product with poor welding effect is defined as a non-good product.

Further, referring to fig. 1, 15 to 17, the blanking stations include a good product blanking station and a non-good product blanking station, and the good product blanking station is arranged close to the end of the second conveyor line 200 relative to the non-good product blanking station; a good-product blanking mechanism 710 is correspondingly arranged at the good-product blanking station, and the good-product blanking mechanism 710 is arranged at the tail end of the second conveying line 200; the non-defective product unloading station is correspondingly provided with a non-defective product unloading mechanism 720, and the non-defective product unloading mechanism 720 is arranged on one side of the second conveying line 200.

Specifically, referring to fig. 15, the good product blanking mechanism 710 includes a turning disc 711 and a turning driving member 712 for driving the turning disc 711 to turn on a vertical plane; the reversing disc 711 is provided with a bayonet 7111 in the radial direction, and the bayonet 7111 is used for clamping the welding finished product moved to the end of the second conveying line 200 and separating the to-be-welded part from the second conveying line 200 under the driving of the reversing driving part 712.

In this embodiment, bayonet socket 7111 sets up to two sets ofly, and two sets of bayonet sockets 7111 cross the diameter of upset dish 711, so set up, can ensure when one of them a set of bayonet socket 7111 is changeed to the right side by the left side and is unloaded, a set of bayonet socket 7111 on right side can be changeed to the left side by the right side and is held the next welding finished product to realize unloading in succession.

Furthermore, the turning discs 711 are arranged into two groups at intervals along the width direction of the second conveying line 200, and the two groups of turning discs 711 are symmetrically arranged to ensure that the two groups of turning discs 711 can simultaneously clamp the same welding finished product, so that discharging is realized, and further the stability of turning discharging is improved.

Referring to fig. 16 and 17, the non-defective product feeding mechanism 720 includes a non-defective product gripper 721 and a non-defective product driving module for driving the non-defective product gripper 721, and the non-defective product driving module includes a non-defective product horizontal module 722 and a non-defective product lifting module 723 for driving the non-defective product gripper 721 to move along a direction perpendicular to the conveying direction of the second conveyor 200 and to move along a vertical direction.

Specifically, the defective product gripper 721 is mounted on the defective product lifting module 723, the defective product lifting module 723 is mounted on the defective product horizontal module 722, and the defective product can be driven by the defective product horizontal module 722 to move out of the second conveyor line 200 along a conveying direction perpendicular to the second conveyor line 200.

Wherein, the defective product gripper 721 can also adopt a suction cup.

Further, a non-good product collecting clip 724 is correspondingly arranged on the non-good product blanking mechanism 720, the upper end and the lower end of the non-good product collecting clip 724 are both provided with an opening, and the opening at the upper end is used for discharging; the bottom of non-defective products collection cartridge clip 724 is equipped with receiving mechanism, and receiving mechanism includes push rod 725 and the top that is connected with push rod 725 transmission top driving piece 726, and the lower extreme that non-defective products collection cartridge clip 724 was located to push rod 725 is uncovered to can be used for supporting the non-defective products in the non-defective products collection cartridge clip 724 from top to bottom to remove under the drive of push rod 725.

Specifically, after the previous defective product is adsorbed and placed into the defective product collecting clip 724, the pushing driving member 726 drives the pushing rod 725 to move downward to reserve an upper space for placing the next defective product until the pushing rod 725 moves to the lower opening of the defective product collecting clip 724, and at this time, the defective product in the defective product collecting clip 724 is fully collected.

Referring to fig. 18, the welding equipment further includes a housing 900, and each internal mechanism is protected by the housing 900, so that the use safety and the aesthetic property of the welding equipment are improved; in addition, the welding equipment is automatic equipment, and a control module capable of realizing automatic control is arranged on the welding equipment. Wherein, in order to be convenient for the operator to look over some information further, still can set up display module and be used for showing information, for example show yields quantity, yields, non-defective products quantity etc.. In addition, the welding equipment can be additionally provided with a data recording system, the detection data can be traced, and a reserved network port is butted with an MES system.

The specific structure of the housing 900 may not be limited, and the housing may be configured in different structural forms, such as a box shape, a cabinet shape, etc., according to different requirements of users.

In sum, all the working procedures CT (Continuous Time) of the welding equipment are consistent, and the line balance can be more than 95%.

Specifically, the CT is a short term for the output per hour, each station has a time requirement, and the slowest station determines the output of the whole equipment, so the time for designing each station is as close as possible, for example, the time for feeding the parts to be welded is faster than the time for full welding, the full welding is the slowest station of the station, and the other stations are in the rhythm of full welding.

Finally, it should be noted that: the above embodiments are only used to illustrate the technical solution of the present invention, and not to limit the same; while the invention has been described in detail and with reference to the foregoing embodiments, it will be understood by those skilled in the art that: the technical solutions described in the foregoing embodiments may still be modified, or some or all of the technical features may be equivalently replaced; and the modifications or the substitutions do not make the essence of the corresponding technical solutions depart from the scope of the technical solutions of the embodiments of the present invention.

Claims

1. A welding apparatus, comprising: the conveying device comprises a first conveying line (100) and a second conveying line (200) connected with the first conveying line (100);

the first conveying line (100) is used for conveying welding body pieces;

the second conveying line (200) is provided with a first feeding station, a code scanning station, a second feeding station, a welding station and a discharging station on a conveying path;

a conveying mechanism (300) is arranged between the first conveying line (100) and the second conveying line (200) and used for conveying the welding body pieces to the first feeding station;

the code scanning station is correspondingly provided with a code scanning module (400) used for acquiring corresponding information of the welding body piece;

the second feeding station is correspondingly provided with a material moving mechanism (500) which is used for moving a to-be-welded piece to a welding body piece of the second feeding station;

the welding station is correspondingly provided with a welding mechanism (600) for welding the piece to be welded to the welding body piece;

the blanking station is correspondingly provided with a blanking mechanism (700) used for conveying the welding finished product out of the second conveying line (200);

the conveying mechanism (300) is arranged below the first conveying line (100);

the conveying mechanism (300) comprises a conveying gripper (310) and a conveying driving module for driving the conveying gripper (310) to act, wherein the conveying driving module comprises a conveying horizontal module (320) and a conveying lifting module (330) for driving the conveying gripper (310) to move along the conveying direction of the first conveying line (100) and to move along the vertical direction;

a plurality of groups of bulges (210) are arranged on the conveying table of the second conveying line (200) at intervals on the conveying path, and the distance between every two adjacent groups of bulges (210) is matched with the width dimension of the welding body piece;

the second conveying line (200) comprises two groups of conveying lines which are arranged in parallel, and the two groups of conveying lines are in transmission connection through a transmission shaft, wherein a gap is formed between conveying platforms of the two groups of conveying lines, and the maximum distance between the conveying platforms of the two groups of conveying lines is matched with the length size of the welding body piece;

the welding station comprises spot welding stations and full-welding stations which are arranged at intervals, and correspondingly, the welding mechanism (600) comprises spot welding modules (610) which are arranged corresponding to the spot welding stations and full-welding modules (620) which are arranged corresponding to the full-welding stations;

a spot welding mold (630) and a full-welding mold (640) are erected on the second conveying line (200) along a direction perpendicular to a conveying path of the second conveying line, each of the spot welding mold (630) and the full-welding mold (640) is provided with a rotatable cam (650), and the cam (650) can abut against a welding body piece reaching the spot welding station or the full-welding station on a conveying table of the second conveying line (200);

wherein the spot welding station is arranged at the corresponding position of the second conveying line (200) and the spot welding mould (630), and the full welding station is arranged at the corresponding position of the second conveying line (200) and the full welding mould (640);

the blanking stations comprise good product blanking stations and non-good product blanking stations, and the good product blanking stations are arranged close to the tail end of the second conveying line (200) relative to the non-good product blanking stations;

a good product blanking mechanism (710) is correspondingly arranged at the good product blanking station, and the good product blanking mechanism (710) is arranged at the tail end of the second conveying line (200);

a non-good product blanking mechanism (720) is correspondingly arranged at the non-good product blanking station, and the non-good product blanking mechanism (720) is arranged at one side of the second conveying line (200);

the good product blanking mechanism (710) comprises a turnover disc (711) and a turnover driving piece (712) for driving the turnover disc (711) to turn over on a vertical plane; the overturning disc (711) is provided with a bayonet (7111) along the radial direction, and the bayonet (7111) is used for clamping a welding finished product moved to the tail end of the second conveying line (200) and separating a to-be-welded part from the second conveying line (200) under the driving of the overturning driving part (712);

the non-defective product discharging mechanism (720) comprises a non-defective product gripper (721) and a non-defective product driving module for driving the non-defective product gripper (721) to act, wherein the non-defective product driving module comprises a non-defective product horizontal module (722) and a non-defective product lifting module (723) for driving the non-defective product gripper (721) to move along a conveying direction perpendicular to the second conveying line (200) and to move along a vertical direction;

the non-defective product blanking mechanism (720) is also correspondingly provided with a non-defective product collecting clip (724), the upper end and the lower end of the non-defective product collecting clip (724) are both provided with an opening, and the opening at the upper end is used for discharging; the bottom that the non-defective products collected cartridge clip (724) is equipped with receiving mechanism, receiving mechanism include push rod (725) and with push rod (725) transmission connection's top pushes away driving piece (726), push rod (725) are located the lower extreme of non-defective products collection cartridge clip (724) is uncovered, and can be in the drive of push rod (725) is from top to bottom removed and is used for supporting the non-defective products in the non-defective products collection cartridge clip (724).

2. Welding apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the code scanning module (400) is arranged below the second conveyor line (200);

the code scanner of the code scanning module (400) is located at the code scanning station and arranged towards the gap, so that the code scanner can scan corresponding information on the bottom surface of the welding body piece through the gap.

3. The welding apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the material moving mechanism (500) comprises a rotary upper bin (510), a material moving mechanical arm (520), a lower visual judging module (530) and an upper visual judging module (540);

the rotary upper bin (510) is used for placing a part to be welded;

the material transferring mechanical arm (520) is used for gripping a piece to be welded and transferring the piece to be welded to the second feeding station through the lower visual judgment module (530) and the upper visual judgment module (540) in sequence;

the lower visual judgment module (530) is positioned on one side of the rotary upper storage bin (510) and is used for acquiring the spatial position information of a part to be welded in the process that the rotary upper storage bin (510) moves materials to the second feeding station;

the upper visual judgment module (540) is located above the second feeding station and used for acquiring second spatial position information of a part to be welded in the process that the rotary feeding bin (510) moves materials to the second feeding station.

4. The welding apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the rotating upper magazine (510) comprises a turntable (511) and an upper magazine (512);

the feeding clips (512) are arranged in a plurality of groups and are arranged at intervals along the circumferential direction of the rotary table (511), the upper end and the lower end of each feeding clip (512) are respectively provided with an opening, and the opening at the upper end is used for discharging;

one side of carousel (511) is equipped with pushing equipment, pushing equipment include push rod (513) and with push rod (513) transmission connection's material pushing driving piece (514), push rod (513) are located the uncovered of lower extreme, and can push away by lower supreme under the drive of pushing material driving piece (514) wait to weld in the material loading cartridge clip (512).

5. The welding equipment according to claim 1, wherein a detection station is further arranged between the welding station and the blanking station;

the detection station is correspondingly provided with a 3D visual detection mechanism (800), and the 3D visual detection mechanism (800) is vertically arranged above the detection station through a support and used for detecting the welding effect of a welded finished product.