Disclosure of Invention
In order to overcome the defects in the background technology, the embodiment of the invention provides an online monitoring and analyzing system for the production quality of a power lithium battery based on machine vision, which can effectively solve the problems related to the background technology.
The aim of the invention can be achieved by the following technical scheme:
the invention provides a machine vision-based online monitoring and analyzing system for the production quality of a power lithium battery, which comprises an apparent quality monitoring module, a charging interface quality monitoring module, a charging performance quality monitoring module, a database, a comprehensive production quality analyzing module and a display terminal, wherein the apparent quality monitoring module is connected with the charging interface quality monitoring module;
the comprehensive production quality analysis module is respectively connected with the apparent quality monitoring module, the charging interface quality monitoring module, the charging performance quality monitoring module, the database and the display terminal;
the apparent mass monitoring module is used for monitoring the apparent mass of the finished lithium battery, wherein the apparent mass monitoring module comprises a size mass monitoring unit, a weight mass monitoring unit and an appearance mass monitoring unit;
the charging interface quality monitoring module is used for monitoring the quality of a charging interface of the finished lithium battery, wherein the charging interface quality monitoring module comprises a charging interface position quality monitoring unit, a charging interface size quality monitoring unit and a charging interface appearance quality monitoring unit;
the charging performance quality monitoring module is used for monitoring the charging performance quality of the finished lithium battery, wherein the charging performance quality monitoring module comprises a charging electrical quality monitoring unit and a charging temperature quality monitoring unit;
the database is used for storing standard size parameters, standard weight, standard three-dimensional appearance images, a finished product appearance defect allowed area, standard charging interface position three-dimensional coordinates, standard charging interface size specification parameters, standard charging interface three-dimensional appearance images, charging interface appearance defect allowed areas, standard charging voltages at each charging time point, standard charging current and standard charging electric quantity corresponding to the model of the finished product lithium battery, and storing standard charging temperature change curves;
the comprehensive production quality analysis module is used for evaluating the comprehensive production quality coefficient of the finished lithium battery based on the apparent quality monitoring result, the charging interface quality monitoring result and the charging performance quality monitoring result of the finished lithium battery;
the display terminal is used for displaying the comprehensive production quality coefficient of the finished lithium battery.
As a preferred solution, the size quality monitoring unit is used for quality detection of the external dimensions of the finished lithium battery, and the specific detection process comprises the following steps:
a1, detecting size parameters of a finished lithium battery, wherein the size parameters comprise length, width and height;
a2, comparing the size parameter of the finished lithium battery with the standard size parameter corresponding to the model of the finished lithium battery in the database, and calculating the outline size conformity corresponding to the finished lithium battery, wherein the calculation formula is as follows:lambda is expressed as the corresponding outline dimension compliance of the finished lithium battery, l 0 、w 0 And h 0 Respectively representing the standard length, standard width and standard height corresponding to the model of the finished lithium battery, and l, w and h respectively representing the length, width and height of the finished lithium battery.
As a preferred scheme, the weight quality monitoring unit is used for detecting the quality of the weight of the finished lithium battery, and the specific detection comprises the following steps:
b1, detecting the weight of a finished lithium battery;
b2, comparing the weight of the finished lithium battery with the standard weight corresponding to the model of the finished lithium battery in the database, and calculating the weight-quality conformity corresponding to the finished lithium battery, wherein the calculation formula is as follows:wherein beta is expressed as the weight and quality conformity corresponding to the finished lithium battery, and k 0 The standard weight is expressed as the standard weight corresponding to the model of the finished lithium battery, and k is expressed as the weight of the finished lithium battery.
As a preferred solution, the appearance quality monitoring unit is used for detecting the appearance aspect of the finished lithium battery, and the specific detection comprises the following steps:
c1, acquiring three-dimensional appearance images of a finished lithium battery through a high-definition camera;
c2, comparing the three-dimensional appearance image of the finished lithium battery with a standard three-dimensional appearance image corresponding to the model of the finished lithium battery in a database, judging whether the finished lithium battery has defects, and if so, positioning an appearance defect area from the three-dimensional appearance image, thereby extracting the defect area of the appearance defect of the finished lithium battery;
and C3, comparing the appearance defect area of the finished lithium battery with the preset appearance defect allowable area of the finished lithium battery in a database, and calculating the appearance quality conformity of the finished lithium battery, wherein the calculation formula is as follows:wherein delta is expressed as the appearance quality conformity of the finished lithium battery, s 0 And s is the appearance defect area of the finished lithium battery.
As a preferred solution, the charging interface position quality monitoring unit is configured to perform quality detection on a charging interface position of a lithium battery, where the specific detection includes the following steps:
d1, establishing a three-dimensional coordinate system of a finished lithium battery;
d2, positioning three-dimensional coordinates of the charging interface position from the three-dimensional appearance image of the finished lithium battery based on the established three-dimensional coordinate system;
and D3, comparing the three-dimensional coordinates of the charging interface position of the finished lithium battery with the three-dimensional coordinates of the standard charging interface position corresponding to the model of the finished lithium battery in the database, and calculating the setting conformity of the charging interface position corresponding to the finished lithium battery, wherein the calculation formula is as follows:mu represents the charging interface position setting conformity degree of the finished lithium battery, and x 0 、y 0 And z 0 And the three-dimensional coordinate values of the charging interface positions of the finished lithium battery on the x axis, the y axis and the z axis are respectively represented as the three-dimensional coordinate values of the standard charging interface positions of the finished lithium battery on the x axis, the y axis and the z axis corresponding to the model of the finished lithium battery.
As a preferred solution, the charging interface size and quality monitoring unit is used for quality detection of the charging interface size specification of the finished lithium battery, and the specific detection comprises the following steps:
e1, detecting size specification parameters of a charging interface of a finished lithium battery, wherein the size parameters comprise diameter and protrusion height;
and E2, comparing the size specification parameters of the charging interface of the finished lithium battery with the standard size specification parameters corresponding to the model of the finished lithium battery in the database, and calculating the outline size conformity of the charging interface corresponding to the finished lithium battery, wherein the calculation formula is as follows:wherein sigma is expressed as the outline dimension compliance of the charging interface of the finished lithium battery, and d 0 And g 0 The diameter and the protruding height of the standard charging interface are respectively represented as the diameter and the protruding height of the standard charging interface corresponding to the model of the finished lithium battery, and d and g are respectively represented as the diameter and the protruding height of the charging interface of the finished lithium battery.
As a preferred scheme, the charging interface appearance quality monitoring unit is used for detecting the appearance quality of the charging interface of the finished lithium battery, and the specific detection comprises the following steps:
f1, extracting a three-dimensional appearance image of a charging interface of the finished lithium battery from the acquired three-dimensional appearance image of the finished lithium battery;
f2, comparing the three-dimensional appearance image of the charging interface of the finished lithium battery with the three-dimensional appearance image of the standard charging interface corresponding to the model of the finished lithium battery in the database, judging whether the charging interface has defects, and if so, positioning an appearance defect area from the three-dimensional appearance image, thereby extracting the defect area of the appearance defect of the charging interface of the finished lithium battery;
f3, comparing the appearance defect area of the charging interface of the finished lithium battery with the allowable area of the appearance defect of the charging interface preset in the database, and calculating the appearance quality conformity of the charging interface of the finished lithium battery, wherein the calculation formula is as follows:wherein alpha is represented as the appearance quality conformity of a charging interface of the finished lithium battery, and r 0 The charging interface appearance defect allowable area of the model of the finished lithium battery is represented, and r is represented as the charging interface appearance defect area of the finished lithium battery.
As a preferred scheme, the charging electrical quality monitoring unit is used for detecting the charging electrical quality of the finished lithium battery, and the specific detection steps are as follows:
the method comprises the steps of G1, carrying out charging operation on a finished lithium battery, dividing a charging process according to preset intervals to obtain a plurality of charging time points, and extracting charging voltage, charging current and charging electric quantity of the finished lithium battery at each charging time point;
and G2, comparing the charging voltage, the charging current and the charging electric quantity of the finished lithium battery at each charging time point with the standard charging voltage, the standard charging current and the standard charging electric quantity of the model of the finished lithium battery stored in the database at each charging time point, and calculating a charging operation parameter fluctuation value corresponding to the finished lithium battery, wherein the calculation formula is as follows:wherein xi is expressed as the fluctuation value of the charging operation parameter of the finished lithium battery, U 0 、I 0 And P 0 The standard charging voltage, standard charging current and standard charging capacity corresponding to the preset finished lithium battery at each charging time point are respectively represented, and U, I and P are respectively represented as the charging voltage, charging current and charging capacity of the finished lithium battery at each charging time point.
As a preferred solution, the charging temperature quality monitoring unit is configured to detect the charging temperature quality of a finished lithium battery, and the specific detection steps are as follows:
h1, collecting the charging temperature of a finished lithium battery at each charging time point;
h2, drawing a charging temperature change curve of the finished lithium battery by taking a charging time point as an abscissa and a charging temperature as an ordinate;
h3, overlapping and comparing the charging temperature change curve of the finished lithium battery with a standard charging temperature change curve corresponding to the model of the finished lithium battery stored in a database, extracting the length of the overlapped curve, and calculating the coincidence degree of the charging temperature change curve corresponding to the finished lithium battery, wherein the calculation formula is as followsWherein->The charging temperature change curve of the finished lithium battery is represented as the coincidence degree, and f is represented as the charging temperature of the finished lithium batteryAnd F is the length of the standard charging temperature change curve corresponding to the model of the finished lithium battery.
As a preferable scheme, the comprehensive production quality coefficient corresponding to the finished lithium battery is as follows:wherein eta is expressed as the corresponding comprehensive production quality coefficient of the finished lithium battery.
Compared with the prior art, the embodiment of the invention has the following beneficial effects:
(1) According to the invention, the production quality of the finished lithium battery is monitored and analyzed on line based on machine vision, so that compared with the traditional manual inspection mode, the workload of the detection personnel can be effectively reduced, the body load of the detection personnel is greatly lightened, and the manual detection cost is greatly reduced.
(2) The invention judges whether the production quality of the finished lithium battery is qualified or not by comprehensively producing the quality coefficient of the finished lithium battery based on the apparent quality monitoring, the charging interface quality monitoring and the charging performance quality monitoring of the finished lithium battery. The method not only comprises the apparent quality monitoring of the finished lithium battery, but also comprises the charging interface quality monitoring and the charging performance quality monitoring of the finished lithium battery, and realizes the monitoring of multiple dimensions of the finished lithium battery. On one hand, the comprehensive production quality of the finished lithium battery can be effectively reflected, and on the other hand, the judgment limitation caused by judging whether the production is qualified or not on one side by means of the apparent quality monitoring result in the prior art is overcome, so that the detection accuracy and the quality supervision level of the finished lithium battery are improved.
Detailed Description
The following description of the embodiments of the present invention will be made clearly and completely with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which it is apparent that the embodiments described are only some embodiments of the present invention, but not all embodiments. All other embodiments, which can be made by those skilled in the art based on the embodiments of the invention without making any inventive effort, are intended to be within the scope of the invention.
Referring to fig. 1, the invention provides a machine vision-based power lithium battery production quality online monitoring and analyzing system, which comprises an apparent quality monitoring module, a charging interface quality monitoring module, a charging performance quality monitoring module, a database, a comprehensive production quality analyzing module and a display terminal.
The comprehensive production quality analysis module is respectively connected with the apparent quality monitoring module, the charging interface quality monitoring module, the charging performance quality monitoring module, the database and the display terminal.
The apparent mass monitoring module is used for carrying out apparent mass monitoring on the finished lithium battery to obtain the corresponding outline dimension conformity, weight mass conformity and appearance quality conformity of the finished lithium battery.
Referring to fig. 2, the apparent mass monitoring module includes a size mass monitoring unit, a weight mass monitoring unit, and an apparent mass monitoring unit;
specifically, the size quality monitoring unit is used for detecting the quality of the external dimension of the finished lithium battery, and the specific detection process comprises the following steps:
a1, detecting size parameters of a finished lithium battery, wherein the size parameters comprise length, width and height;
a2, the dimension parameters of the finished lithium battery and the model of the finished lithium battery in the database are processedThe corresponding standard size parameters are compared, the outline size coincidence degree corresponding to the finished lithium battery is calculated, and the calculation formula is as follows:lambda is expressed as the corresponding outline dimension compliance of the finished lithium battery, l 0 、w 0 And h 0 Respectively representing the standard length, standard width and standard height corresponding to the model of the finished lithium battery, and l, w and h respectively representing the length, width and height of the finished lithium battery.
In the above calculation formula of the outline dimension conformity, the smaller the difference between the length, width and height of a certain finished lithium battery and the standard length, standard width and standard height corresponding to the model of the finished lithium battery is, the larger the outline dimension conformity corresponding to the finished lithium battery is, which indicates that the outline dimension quality of the finished lithium battery meets the standard.
Specifically, the weight quality monitoring unit is used for detecting the quality of the weight of the finished lithium battery, and the specific detection comprises the following steps:
b1, detecting the weight of a finished lithium battery;
b2, comparing the weight of the finished lithium battery with the standard weight corresponding to the model of the finished lithium battery in the database, and calculating the weight-quality conformity corresponding to the finished lithium battery, wherein the calculation formula is as follows:wherein beta is expressed as the weight and quality conformity corresponding to the finished lithium battery, and k 0 The standard weight is expressed as the standard weight corresponding to the model of the finished lithium battery, and k is expressed as the weight of the finished lithium battery.
In the weight quality conformity calculation formula, the smaller the difference between the weight of a certain finished lithium battery and the standard weight corresponding to the model of the finished lithium battery is, the larger the weight quality conformity corresponding to the finished lithium battery is, which indicates that the weight quality of the finished lithium battery is more in accordance with the standard.
Specifically, the appearance quality monitoring unit is used for detecting appearance aspects of the finished lithium battery, and the specific detection comprises the following steps:
c1, acquiring three-dimensional appearance images of a finished lithium battery through a high-definition camera;
c2, comparing the three-dimensional appearance image of the finished lithium battery with a standard three-dimensional appearance image corresponding to the model of the finished lithium battery in a database, judging whether the finished lithium battery has defects, and if so, positioning an appearance defect area from the three-dimensional appearance image, thereby extracting the defect area of the appearance defect of the finished lithium battery;
and C3, comparing the appearance defect area of the finished lithium battery with the preset appearance defect allowable area of the finished lithium battery in a database, and calculating the appearance quality conformity of the finished lithium battery, wherein the calculation formula is as follows:wherein delta is expressed as the appearance quality conformity of the finished lithium battery, s 0 And s is the appearance defect area of the finished lithium battery.
In the above appearance quality conformity calculation formula, the smaller the difference between the appearance defect area of a certain finished lithium battery and the allowable area of the finished appearance defect corresponding to the model of the finished lithium battery, the larger the appearance quality conformity corresponding to the finished lithium battery, which indicates that the appearance quality of the finished lithium battery meets the standard.
The charging interface quality monitoring module is used for monitoring the quality of a charging interface of the finished lithium battery, and obtaining the corresponding charging interface position setting compliance of the finished lithium battery, the charging interface outline dimension compliance and the charging interface appearance quality compliance.
Referring to fig. 3, the charging interface quality monitoring module includes a charging interface position quality monitoring unit, a charging interface size quality monitoring unit, and a charging interface appearance quality monitoring unit.
Specifically, the charging interface position quality monitoring unit is used for detecting the quality of the charging interface position of the lithium battery, and the specific detection comprises the following steps:
d1, establishing a three-dimensional coordinate system of a finished lithium battery;
d2, positioning three-dimensional coordinates of the charging interface position from the three-dimensional appearance image of the finished lithium battery based on the established three-dimensional coordinate system;
and D3, comparing the three-dimensional coordinates of the charging interface position of the finished lithium battery with the three-dimensional coordinates of the standard charging interface position corresponding to the model of the finished lithium battery in the database, and calculating the setting conformity of the charging interface position corresponding to the finished lithium battery, wherein the calculation formula is as follows:mu, wherein the position of a charging interface expressed as a finished lithium battery is provided with the conformity degree, x 0 、y 0 And z 0 And the three-dimensional coordinate values of the charging interface positions of the finished lithium battery on the x axis, the y axis and the z axis are respectively represented as the three-dimensional coordinate values of the standard charging interface positions of the finished lithium battery on the x axis, the y axis and the z axis corresponding to the model of the finished lithium battery.
In the above calculation formula for the degree of coincidence of the charging interface position, the smaller the difference between the three-dimensional coordinate values of the charging interface position of a certain finished lithium battery on the x-axis, the y-axis and the z-axis and the three-dimensional coordinate values of the standard charging interface position on the x-axis, the y-axis and the z-axis corresponding to the model of the finished lithium battery is, the larger the degree of coincidence of the charging interface position corresponding to the finished lithium battery is, which indicates that the quality of the charging interface position of the finished lithium battery is more in accordance with the standard.
Specifically, the charging interface size and quality monitoring unit is used for performing quality detection on the charging interface size specification of the finished lithium battery, and the specific detection comprises the following steps:
e1, detecting size specification parameters of a charging interface of a finished lithium battery, wherein the size parameters comprise diameter and protrusion height;
e2, comparing the size specification parameters of the charging interface of the finished lithium battery with the standard size specification parameters corresponding to the model of the finished lithium battery in the database, calculating the outline size conformity of the charging interface corresponding to the finished lithium battery, and calculating the outline size conformityThe formula is:wherein sigma is expressed as the outline dimension compliance of the charging interface of the finished lithium battery, and d 0 And g 0 The diameter and the protruding height of the standard charging interface are respectively represented as the diameter and the protruding height of the standard charging interface corresponding to the model of the finished lithium battery, and d and g are respectively represented as the diameter and the protruding height of the charging interface of the finished lithium battery.
It should be noted that, in the above calculation formula of the outline dimension conformity of the charging interface, the smaller the difference between the diameter and the protrusion height of the charging interface of a certain finished lithium battery and the standard charging interface diameter and the standard charging interface protrusion height corresponding to the model of the finished lithium battery, the larger the outline dimension conformity of the charging interface corresponding to the finished lithium battery, which indicates that the quality of the charging interface dimension of the finished lithium battery conforms to the standard.
Specifically, the charging interface appearance quality monitoring unit is used for detecting the appearance quality of the charging interface of the finished lithium battery, and the specific detection comprises the following steps:
f1, extracting a three-dimensional appearance image of a charging interface of the finished lithium battery from the acquired three-dimensional appearance image of the finished lithium battery;
f2, comparing the three-dimensional appearance image of the charging interface of the finished lithium battery with the three-dimensional appearance image of the standard charging interface corresponding to the model of the finished lithium battery in the database, judging whether the charging interface has defects, and if so, positioning an appearance defect area from the three-dimensional appearance image, thereby extracting the defect area of the appearance defect of the charging interface of the finished lithium battery;
f3, comparing the appearance defect area of the charging interface of the finished lithium battery with the allowable area of the appearance defect of the charging interface preset in the database, and calculating the appearance quality conformity of the charging interface of the finished lithium battery, wherein the calculation formula is as follows:wherein alpha is represented as the appearance quality conformity of a charging interface of the finished lithium battery, and r 0 Expressed as the model of the finished lithium batteryAnd r is expressed as the charging interface appearance defect area of the finished lithium battery.
In the above calculation formula of the appearance quality conformity of the charging interface, the smaller the difference between the appearance defect area of the charging interface of a certain finished lithium battery and the appearance defect allowable area of the charging interface of the model to which the finished lithium battery belongs, the larger the appearance quality conformity of the charging interface corresponding to the finished lithium battery indicates that the appearance quality of the charging interface of the finished lithium battery accords with the standard.
The charging performance quality monitoring module is used for monitoring the charging performance quality of the finished lithium battery to obtain the corresponding charging operation parameter fluctuation value and charging temperature change curve conformity of the finished lithium battery.
Referring to fig. 4, the charging performance quality monitoring module includes a charging electrical quality monitoring unit and a charging temperature quality monitoring unit.
Specifically, the charging electrical quality monitoring unit is used for detecting the charging electrical quality of the finished lithium battery, and the specific detection steps are as follows:
the method comprises the steps of G1, carrying out charging operation on a finished lithium battery, dividing a charging process according to preset intervals to obtain a plurality of charging time points, and extracting charging voltage, charging current and charging electric quantity of the finished lithium battery at each charging time point;
and G2, comparing the charging voltage, the charging current and the charging electric quantity of the finished lithium battery at each charging time point with the standard charging voltage, the standard charging current and the standard charging electric quantity of the model of the finished lithium battery stored in the database at each charging time point, and calculating a charging operation parameter fluctuation value corresponding to the finished lithium battery, wherein the calculation formula is as follows:wherein xi is expressed as the fluctuation value of the charging operation parameter of the finished lithium battery, U 0 、I 0 And P 0 Respectively representing the standard charging voltage, standard charging current and standard charging electric quantity corresponding to each charging time point of the preset finished lithium battery, U, I and PRespectively expressed as the charging voltage, the charging current and the charging capacity of the finished lithium battery at each charging time point.
It should be noted that, in the above calculation formula of the fluctuation value of the charging operation parameter, the smaller the difference between the charging voltage and the charging current of a certain finished lithium battery at each charging time point and the charging voltage, the charging current and the charging electric quantity corresponding to the preset finished lithium battery at each charging time point, the smaller the fluctuation value of the charging operation parameter corresponding to the finished lithium battery, which indicates that the charging electric quality of the finished lithium battery meets the standard.
Specifically, the charging temperature quality monitoring unit is used for detecting the charging temperature quality of the finished lithium battery, and the specific detection steps are as follows:
h1, collecting the charging temperature of a finished lithium battery at each charging time point;
h2, drawing a charging temperature change curve of the finished lithium battery by taking a charging time point as an abscissa and a charging temperature as an ordinate;
h3, overlapping and comparing the charging temperature change curve of the finished lithium battery with a standard charging temperature change curve corresponding to the model of the finished lithium battery stored in a database, extracting the length of the overlapped curve, and calculating the coincidence degree of the charging temperature change curve corresponding to the finished lithium battery, wherein the calculation formula is as followsWherein->The charging temperature change curve coincidence degree of the finished lithium battery is expressed, F is the length of coincidence of the charging temperature change curves of the finished lithium battery, and F is the length of the standard charging temperature change curve corresponding to the model of the finished lithium battery.
It should be noted that, in the above calculation formula of the coincidence degree of the charging temperature change curve, the greater the ratio of the coincidence length of the charging temperature change curve extracted from a certain finished lithium battery to the length of the temperature change curve corresponding to the model of the finished lithium battery, the greater the coincidence degree of the charging temperature change curve corresponding to the finished lithium battery, which indicates that the charging temperature quality of the finished lithium battery meets the standard.
The database is used for storing standard size parameters, standard weight, standard three-dimensional appearance images, standard appearance defect allowed areas, standard charging interface position three-dimensional coordinates, standard charging interface size specification parameters, standard charging interface three-dimensional appearance images, charging interface appearance defect allowed areas, standard charging voltage, standard charging current and standard charging electric quantity of each charging time point corresponding to the model of the finished lithium battery, and storing standard charging temperature change curves.
The comprehensive production quality analysis module is used for evaluating the comprehensive production quality coefficient of the finished lithium battery based on the apparent quality monitoring result, the charging interface quality monitoring result and the charging performance quality monitoring result of the finished lithium battery.
Specifically, the calculation formula of the comprehensive production quality coefficient corresponding to the finished lithium battery is as follows:wherein eta is expressed as the corresponding comprehensive production quality coefficient of the finished lithium battery.
In the above calculation formula of the comprehensive production quality coefficient corresponding to the finished lithium battery, the larger the calculated comprehensive production quality coefficient of the finished lithium battery is, the more the production quality of the finished lithium battery meets the standard.
According to the embodiment of the invention, whether the finished lithium battery is qualified in production is evaluated based on the apparent quality monitoring result, the charging interface quality monitoring result and the charging performance quality monitoring result of the finished lithium battery, so that the method comprises the apparent quality monitoring of the finished lithium battery, the charging interface quality monitoring and the charging performance quality monitoring of the finished lithium battery, and the monitoring of multiple dimensions of the finished lithium battery is realized. On one hand, the comprehensive production quality of the finished lithium battery can be effectively reflected, and on the other hand, the judgment limitation caused by judging whether the production is qualified or not on one side by means of the apparent quality monitoring result in the prior art is overcome, so that the detection accuracy and the quality supervision level of the finished lithium battery are improved.
The display terminal is used for displaying the comprehensive production quality coefficient of the finished lithium battery, a visual interface is provided for the detection personnel, so that the detection personnel can intuitively know whether the finished lithium battery meets the qualification standard or not, the detection personnel can clearly and intuitively know the comprehensive production quality of the finished lithium battery, the workload of the detection personnel is effectively reduced, the body load of the detection personnel is greatly lightened, and the manual detection cost is greatly reduced.
The foregoing is merely illustrative of the structures of this invention and various modifications, additions and substitutions for those skilled in the art can be made to the described embodiments without departing from the scope of the invention or from the scope of the invention as defined in the accompanying claims.