CN115502506A - Series welding machine and battery series welding method - Google Patents
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Abstract
The invention provides a series welding machine and a battery series welding method, wherein the series welding machine comprises a welding strip feeding part, a film strip traction part, a film strip attaching part, a welding strip cutting part, a welding strip traction part, a battery piece feeding part, a conveying part and a heating part, wherein: the welding strip traction part is used for drawing the welding strip so that the welding strip sequentially passes through the film strip attaching part and the welding strip cutting part; the film belt traction part is used for drawing the front film and the back film so that the front film and the back film to be attached enter the film belt attachment part; the film strip attaching part is used for respectively attaching the front film and the back film to the front surface and the back surface of the welding strip; the welding strip cutting part is used for cutting the welding strip attached with the front surface film and the back surface film into welding strip components, the welding strip traction part is also used for placing the welding strip components on the conveying part, and the battery piece feeding part is used for placing battery pieces on the conveying part; the heating part is used for heating the stacked battery plates and the welding strip assembly to form a battery string. The series welding machine provided by the invention realizes automatic stringing of the battery strings of which two sides are required to be welded with the welding strips.
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Technical Field
The invention relates to the field of battery production, in particular to a series welding machine and a battery series welding method.
Background
The traditional solar cell slice guides the photo-generated current in the cell slice to the outside of the cell slice through the grid lines on the traditional solar cell slice, the current grid lines are mostly printed by silver paste in consideration of the final conductivity, and the solar cell slice is divided into three main grids, four main grids and multiple main grids according to different printing processes.
For the solar cell with three main grids, four main grids and multiple main grids, a plurality of welding strips are respectively welded with the main grid lines of the solar cell by using soldering flux at present, so that a cell string formed by connecting a plurality of cells in series is obtained, and finally, conversion from light energy to electric energy is realized. However, the battery string obtained by welding the welding strip and the main grid line has a large shading area, influences the photoelectric conversion efficiency, and has high silver paste cost. In order to overcome the above problems, crystalline silicon solar cells have appeared.
The existing method for stringing the battery pieces is as follows: and dispensing glue on the battery pieces when the battery pieces and the welding band groups are stacked. And then, heating and pressing the stacked battery plates and the welding band groups to enable the welding band groups to be bonded on the corresponding battery plates through the melted glue, so that the battery string is obtained.
The existing battery piece stringing mode has the defect that firm bonding between the battery piece and the welding strip cannot be realized by glue during the process of stacking the battery piece and the welding strip, so that the quality of a battery string is reduced.
Disclosure of Invention
In order to solve the technical problems, the invention firstly provides a series welding machine which adopts the following technical scheme:
the utility model provides a stringer, includes to weld and takes feed portion, membrane area to draw portion, the attached portion of membrane area, welds and takes cutting part, welds and takes traction part, battery piece material loading portion, conveying part and heating portion, wherein:
the welding strip traction part is configured to pull the plurality of parallel welding strips supplied by the welding strip supply part so that the welding strips sequentially pass through the film strip attaching part and the welding strip cutting part;
the film tape traction part is configured to pull the front surface film and the back surface film supplied by the film tape supply part so that the front surface film to be attached with a preset length and the back surface film to be attached with a preset length enter the film tape attachment part; the film strip attaching part is used for attaching the front film to be attached to the front side of the welding strip and attaching the back film to be attached to the back side of the welding strip, and the front film and the back film attached to the welding strip are distributed at intervals;
the welding strip pulling part is also used for placing the welding strip components on the conveying part, wherein each welding strip component comprises a welding strip, a front surface film attached to the front section part of the welding strip and a back surface film attached to the back section part of the welding strip;
the battery piece feeding part is used for placing battery pieces on the conveying part; the ith battery piece is stacked on the rear section part of the ith welding strip assembly, the front section part of the (i + 1) th welding strip assembly is stacked on the ith battery piece, and i is any natural number greater than 0;
the heating part is used for heating the stacked battery plates and the welding strip assembly to form a battery string.
The series welding machine provided by the invention realizes automatic stringing of the battery strings of which two sides are required to be welded with the welding strips. Particularly, the film tape traction part and the film tape attaching part are arranged, the front surface film and the back surface film are automatically attached to the welding tape set, and the welding tape set finally carries out serial connection on the battery pieces through the front surface film and the back surface film attached to the welding tape set, so that the connection strength of the welding tape set and the battery pieces is improved.
The invention also provides another series welding machine which adopts the following technical scheme:
the utility model provides a stringer, is including welding area feed portion, membrane area traction unit, the attached portion of membrane area, weld and take cutting part, weld and take traction unit, weld and take processing portion, battery piece material loading portion, conveying part and heating portion, wherein:
the welding strip traction part is configured to pull the plurality of parallel welding strips supplied by the welding strip supply part, so that the welding strips sequentially pass through the film strip attaching part and the welding strip cutting part, and transfer the welding strips to the welding strip processing part;
the film tape traction part is configured to pull the front face film supplied by the film tape supply part so that a front face film to be attached with a preset length is inserted into the film tape attaching part; the film strip attaching part is used for attaching the front film to be attached to the front surface of the welding strip;
the welding strip processing part is used for cutting the welding strip sections into welding strip components, carrying out dislocation and separation processing on the welding strip components and placing the welding strip components subjected to dislocation and separation processing on the conveying part, wherein each welding strip component comprises a welding strip and a front surface film attached to the welding strip;
the battery piece feeding part is used for placing battery pieces on the conveying part; wherein, the back half section of the ith group welding strip is stacked on the ith battery piece, and the front half section of the ith group welding strip is stacked on the (i-1) th battery piece, wherein, i is any natural number more than 1 and less than N + 1;
the heating part is used for heating the stacked battery plates and the welding strip assembly to form a battery string.
The series welding machine provided by the invention realizes automatic stringing of the battery strings (IBC battery strings) only one side of which is required to be welded with the welding strip. Particularly, the film tape traction part and the film tape attaching part are arranged, the front surface film and the back surface film are automatically attached to the welding tape set, and the welding tape set finally carries out serial connection on the battery pieces through the front surface film and the back surface film attached to the welding tape set, so that the connection strength of the welding tape set and the battery pieces is improved.
In some embodiments, the film tape attaching part comprises a front film attaching mechanism and/or a back film attaching mechanism, and the welding tape penetrates through the front film attaching mechanism and/or the back film attaching mechanism; the membrane area traction part comprises a front membrane traction mechanism and a back membrane traction mechanism, wherein: the front film traction mechanism is configured to pull the front film supplied by the film belt supply part so that the front film to be attached enters the front film attaching mechanism, and the front film attaching mechanism is configured to suck and cut the front film to be attached and attach the cut front film to be attached to the front surface of the welding belt; the back film drawing mechanism is configured to draw the back film supplied by the film tape supply portion so that the back film to be attached enters the back film attaching mechanism, and the back film attaching mechanism is configured to suck and cut the back film to be attached and attach the cut back film to be attached to the back of the solder tape.
Through setting up attached portion of membrane area and membrane area traction portion, the cooperation of attached portion of membrane area and membrane area traction portion automatically with just face membrane and/or back membrane attached to weld on taking.
In some embodiments, the front film sticking mechanism comprises a front film adsorption assembly, a front film heating assembly and a front film cutting assembly, wherein the front film adsorption assembly is positioned above the front film heating assembly, the front film cutting assembly is positioned in the front of the front film adsorption assembly, and the front film to be stuck passes through the front film cutting assembly and then enters between the front film adsorption assembly and the front film heating assembly; the front film adsorption component is configured to adsorb a front film to be attached, the front film cutting component is configured to cut off the front film to be attached, the front film adsorption component is further configured to press the front film to be attached against the front of the welding strip, and the front film heating component is used for heating the front film to be attached, so that the front film to be attached is attached on the front of the welding strip. The back film sticking mechanism comprises a back film adsorption assembly, a back film heating assembly and a back film cutting assembly, wherein the back film adsorption assembly is positioned below the back film heating assembly, the back film cutting assembly is positioned in the front of the back film adsorption assembly, and a back film to be stuck passes through the back film cutting assembly and then enters between the back film adsorption assembly and the back film heating assembly; the back membrane adsorption component is configured to adsorb the back membrane to be attached, the back membrane cutting component is configured to cut off the back membrane to be attached which is adsorbed by the back membrane adsorption component, the back membrane adsorption component is further configured to press the back membrane to be attached against the welding strip, and the back membrane heating component is used for heating the back membrane to be attached, so that the back membrane to be attached is attached on the back of the welding strip.
Through setting up positive membrane pad pasting mechanism including positive membrane absorption subassembly, positive membrane heating element and positive membrane cutting assembly, positive membrane pad pasting mechanism realizes treating the automatic cutout of attached positive membrane to attached to the front of welding the area of cutting down the attached positive membrane. Through setting up back membrane pad pasting mechanism including back membrane adsorption component, back membrane heating element and back membrane cutting assembly, back membrane pad pasting mechanism realizes treating the automatic cutout of attached back membrane to will cut off treat attached back membrane and attach to the back of welding the area.
In some embodiments, the stringer further comprises a front film feed mechanism and a back film feed mechanism; the front film feeding mechanism is positioned in front of the front film cutting assembly and used for clamping the front film to be attached when the front film cutting assembly cuts the front film to be attached, and pushing the clamped front film towards the front film traction mechanism after the front film cutting assembly cuts the front film to be attached; the back film feeding mechanism is located in the front of the back film cutting assembly and used for clamping the back film behind the back film to be attached when the back film cutting assembly cuts the back film to be attached, and pushing the clamped back film towards the back film traction mechanism after the back film cutting assembly cuts the back film to be attached.
When the front film cutting assembly cuts off the current front film to be attached, the front film feeding mechanism realizes clamping and positioning of the front film to be attached at the rear side of the front film to be attached at present, and pushes the front film to be clamped towards the front film traction mechanism after the front film to be attached at present is cut off, so that the front film traction mechanism can conveniently pull the next front film to be attached between the front film adsorption assembly and the front film heating assembly. When the current back film to be attached is cut off at the back film cutting assembly, the back film feeding mechanism realizes clamping and positioning of the current back film to be attached at the back side of the back film, and pushes the clamped back film towards the back film traction mechanism after the current back film to be attached is cut off, so that the back film traction mechanism can conveniently pull the next section of back film to be attached between the back film adsorption assembly and the back film heating assembly.
In some embodiments, the solder strip processing portion includes a plurality of first solder strip clamping assemblies, a plurality of second solder strip clamping assemblies, a plurality of first solder strip cutters, a plurality of second solder strip cutters and a solder strip carrying mechanism arranged along a first horizontal direction, wherein: the first welding strip clamping components are matched with all odd welding strip sections in the plurality of welding strip sections to clamp the odd welding strip sections, a first welding strip cutter is arranged between every two adjacent first welding strip clamping components, and each first welding strip cutter is used for cutting off all odd welding strip sections at the corresponding position to obtain a plurality of groups of first welding strip components. And the second welding strip cutters are used for cutting off all the even number welding strip sections at corresponding positions to obtain a plurality of groups of second welding strip assemblies. Before all the odd number welding strip sections are cut off, the first welding strip clamping assemblies and the second welding strip clamping assemblies are relatively translated in the first horizontal direction, so that all the odd number welding strip sections and all the even number welding strip sections are staggered by a preset distance in the first horizontal direction. After all odd-numbered solder strip sections are cut off, each first solder strip clamping assembly respectively clamps one group of corresponding first solder strip assemblies, and each first solder strip clamping assembly is further configured to be separated in a first horizontal direction so as to implement the separation of each group of first solder strip assemblies. After all even number solder strip sections are cut off, each second solder strip clamping assembly respectively clamps a group of corresponding second solder strip assemblies, and each second solder strip clamping assembly is further configured to be separated in the first horizontal direction to implement the separation of each group of second solder strip assemblies. The welding strip carrying mechanism is used for placing the first welding strip assembly and the second welding strip assembly on the conveying part after dislocation and separation are completed.
Through the cooperation of the first welding strip clamping components of a plurality of, a plurality of second welding strip clamping components, the first welding strip cutters of a plurality of, a plurality of second welding strip cutter, welding strip processing part has realized cutting in order to acquire a plurality of welding strip components to the welding strip section, and has realized staggering and the minute distance of the assembly of butt welding strip and handled. Through setting up solder strip transport mechanism, then realized transporting the solder strip subassembly after staggering and the separation is handled to the conveying part.
In some embodiments, the solder ribbon supply portion includes a plurality of solder ribbon coils around which the solder ribbon is wound, each of the solder ribbon coils paying out one solder ribbon; the film strip feeding part comprises a front film feeding mechanism and a back film feeding mechanism, wherein the front film feeding mechanism is configured to supply a plurality of front films, and each front film corresponds to at least one welding strip; the back surface film feeding mechanism is configured to supply a plurality of front surface films, each back surface film corresponding to at least one welding strip.
Through setting up a plurality of solder strip coils, realized the synchronous of many solder strips and emitted. And through setting up positive facial mask feeding mechanism and back membrane feeding mechanism, then realized the feed of positive facial mask, back membrane. Particularly, the film strips are used as the front film and the back film, so that the using amount of the front film and the back film is saved, and the production cost of the battery string is reduced.
In some embodiments, the conveying section comprises a set of support rollers, a drive device, and a flexible conveyor belt, wherein: the driving end of the driving device is in transmission connection with the supporting roller set, and the driving device is used for driving the supporting roller set to rotate; the flexible conveying belt comprises a belt body and a flexible bearing layer, wherein the belt body is sleeved on the supporting roller group, and the flexible bearing layer is laid on the conveying surface of the belt body.
In order to ensure that the solder strip assembly can be adhered to the battery piece after being heated by the heating part, the heating part needs to be clamped on the battery piece through a pressing mechanism or a pressing tool when heating the stacked solder strip assembly and the battery string. However, because the film has a certain hardness, when the cell is pressed, only the front film above the cell is pressed on the cell, and the back film below the cell is difficult to be adhered to the cell. And through set up flexible bearer layer on the conveyer belt, realized bearing to the flexibility of welding strip group and battery piece, so, when compressing tightly the battery piece, take place elastic deformation after flexible bearer layer pressurized to compress tightly the back of the body membrane below the battery piece to the battery piece back, finally promote welding quality.
In some embodiments, the flexible carrier layer comprises a plurality of flexible strips which are arranged on the conveying surface of the belt body at intervals; or the flexible bearing layer is a whole flexible strip laid on the conveying surface of the belt body.
Through laying flexible strip or flexible strip on the transport face of area body, realized the structure shaping to flexible bearing layer.
In some embodiments, the width of the flexible carrier layer is greater than or equal to the width of the battery piece and less than or equal to the width of the belt body, and the flexible carrier layer is silica gel or high temperature resistant sponge.
Through setting up the width size to flexible carrier layer, under the prerequisite of guaranteeing effectively to bear the weight of the battery piece, the quantity of flexible material has been saved. Silica gel or high temperature resistant sponge have good flexibility, and it can produce the resilience force of suitable size after the pressurized, and in addition, these two kinds of materials all have good high temperature resistance.
In some embodiments, the heating part comprises a mounting frame, a heating assembly and an air blowing mechanism, wherein the heating assembly is mounted on the mounting frame and comprises heating sheets arranged at intervals and heating rods for heating the heating sheets; the blowing mechanism is installed on the installation frame and is located the top of heating element, and the blowing mechanism is used for blowing the heat that the heating piece gived off to stacking on battery piece and the solder strip subassembly.
Through the cooperation of the blowing mechanism of the heating component, the heating part can directionally blow heat to the stacked battery plate and the welding strip component, so that the heating effect of the heating part on the battery plate and the welding strip component is ensured.
In some embodiments, the heating section further comprises a driving mechanism, the mounting frame is connected to a driving end of the driving mechanism, and the driving mechanism is used for driving the mounting frame to translate and/or lift.
Through setting up actuating mechanism, realized the translation and/or the lifting control to heating element and blowing mechanism for heating element and blowing mechanism can reach predetermined heating position.
In some embodiments, the mounting frame is reversibly connected to the drive end of the drive mechanism via a rotational connection.
The mounting frame is connected to the driving end of the driving mechanism in a turnover mode through the rotating connecting piece, so that the mounting frame can be switched between a working position and an avoiding position, and when the mounting frame is turned downwards to the working position, the heating assembly and the blowing mechanism are matched to heat the battery piece and the welding strip assembly; when the mounting frame is turned downwards to the avoiding position, the other operation parts are avoided.
The invention also provides a battery string welding method, which comprises the following steps:
attaching a front film and a back film to the front and the back of the parallel welding strips at intervals;
cutting the solder strip attached with the front surface film and the back surface film into solder strip assemblies, wherein each solder strip assembly comprises a solder strip, the front surface film attached to the front section part of the solder strip and the back surface film attached to the back section part of the solder strip;
stacking the welding strip assemblies and the battery pieces, wherein the ith battery piece is stacked on the upper side of the rear section part of the ith welding strip assembly, the front section part of the (i + 1) th welding strip assembly is stacked on the ith battery piece, and i is any natural number greater than 0;
and pressing the stacked battery plates and the welding strip assembly together to form a battery string.
In some embodiments, attaching the front and back films at intervals on the front and back surfaces of a plurality of parallel solder strips comprises: drawing out a plurality of parallel welding strips; adsorbing the jth section of front film to be attached at a front film adsorption station, cutting the jth section of front film, and attaching the adsorbed jth section of front film to the front of the pulled welding strip at the front film adsorption station; adsorbing the j section of back film to be attached at a back film adsorption station and cutting off the j section of back film, attaching the adsorbed j section of back film to the back of the pulled welding strip at the back film adsorption station, wherein the front film and the back film attached to the welding strip are distributed at intervals, and j is a natural number greater than 0.
The battery string welding method provided by the invention realizes the automatic stringing of the battery strings of which both sides are required to be welded with the welding strips. Particularly, the front surface film and the back surface film are automatically attached to the welding strip group, and the welding strip group finally carries out serial connection on the battery pieces through the front surface film and the back surface film attached to the welding strip group, so that the connection strength of the welding strip group and the battery pieces is improved.
The invention also provides another battery string welding method, which comprises the following steps: attaching a front surface film to the front surfaces of the parallel welding strips; cutting the solder strip attached with the front surface film into solder strip components, wherein each solder strip component comprises a solder strip and the front surface film attached to the solder strip; and stacking the welding strip assemblies and the battery pieces, wherein the back half section of the ith welding strip assembly is stacked on the ith battery piece, the front half section of the ith welding strip assembly is stacked on the (i-1) th battery piece, and i is any natural number greater than 1 and less than N + 1.
The battery string welding method provided by the invention realizes automatic string forming of the battery strings (IBC battery strings) only one side of which needs to be welded with the welding strip. Particularly, the front film and the back film are automatically attached to the welding strip group, and the welding strip group is finally connected with the battery pieces in series through the front film and the back film attached to the welding strip group, so that the connection strength of the welding strip group and the battery pieces is improved.
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FIG. 1 is a schematic structural diagram of a series welding machine according to an embodiment of the present invention from one perspective;
FIG. 2 is a schematic structural diagram of a series welding machine according to an embodiment of the present invention from another perspective;
FIG. 3 is a schematic structural diagram of a film tape feeding portion, a film tape attaching portion and a film tape drawing portion in one view angle according to an embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 4 is a schematic structural diagram of a film tape feeding portion, a film tape attaching portion and a film tape drawing portion at another viewing angle according to an embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 5 is an enlarged view of a portion of FIG. 4;
FIG. 6 is a schematic structural view of a front film feeding mechanism in the embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 7 is a schematic structural view of a conveying section and a heating section in an embodiment of the invention;
FIG. 8 is a partial structural view of a heating portion in an embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 9 is a schematic structural diagram of a solder strip handling mechanism in an embodiment of the present invention;
fig. 10 is a partially enlarged view of a region a in fig. 9;
fig. 11 is a partial enlarged view of a region B in fig. 9;
fig. 12 is a schematic structural diagram of an IBC cell string;
fig. 1 to 12 include:
film tape feeding section 1: a front film feeding mechanism 11 and a back film feeding mechanism 12;
film tape attaching section 2:
front surface film sticking mechanism 21: a front film adsorption assembly 211, a front film heating assembly 212, a front film cutting assembly 213, a front film guide plate 2131, a front film cutter 2132;
back side film pasting mechanism 22: a back film adsorption unit 221, a back film heating unit 222, a back film cutting unit 223, a back film guide plate 2231, and a back film cutter 2232;
film tape drawing section 3:
a front film drawing mechanism 31;
a back film drawing mechanism 32;
the conveying section 4:
a support roller group 41;
the drive device 42;
a flexible conveyor belt 43;
heating part 5:
a drive mechanism 51;
a mounting frame 52;
a heat generating component 53;
an air blowing mechanism 54;
front film feeding mechanism 6:
Solder strip processing mechanism 7:
the welding device comprises a first welding strip clamping component 71, a second welding strip clamping component 72, a first welding strip cutter 73, a second welding strip cutter 74, a dislocation slide rail 75, a first welding strip component distance slide rail 76 and a second welding strip component distance slide rail 77.
Detailed Description
In order to make the aforementioned objects, features and advantages of the present invention comprehensible, embodiments accompanied with figures are described in further detail below.
The existing battery piece stringing mode adopts a mode of dispensing glue to the battery piece to adhere the battery piece and the welding strip together in the process of stacking the battery piece and the welding strip, but the adhesion effect of the battery piece and the welding strip is poor, and the production quality of the battery string is reduced.
In order to solve the problem, the invention provides a series welding machine which can automatically attach a film tape to a welding tape and weld battery pieces into a string by using a welding tape set attached with the film tape, thereby improving the connection strength of the welding tape set and the battery pieces.
The stringer of the present invention will be described in two embodiments below.
First embodiment
The series welding machine provided by the embodiment is used for automatically stringing the battery pieces with the grid lines on two sides.
As shown in fig. 1 and fig. 2, the stringer of this embodiment includes a solder strip feeding portion, a film strip feeding portion 1, a film strip drawing portion 3, a film strip attaching portion 2, a solder strip cutting portion, a solder strip drawing portion, a battery piece feeding portion, a conveying portion 4, and a heating portion 5, wherein:
the solder ribbon drawing section is configured to draw the plurality of parallel solder ribbons supplied from the solder ribbon feeding section so that the solder ribbons pass through the film ribbon attaching section 2 and the solder ribbon cutting section in order.
The film tape drawing section is configured to draw the front surface film and the back surface film supplied from the film tape supply section 1 so that a predetermined length of the front surface film to be attached and a predetermined length of the back surface film to be attached enter the film tape attaching section 2.
The film strip attaching part 2 is used for attaching a front film to be attached to the front of the welding strip and attaching a back film to be attached to the back of the welding strip, and the front film and the back film which are attached to the welding strip are distributed at intervals.
The welding strip cutting part is used for cutting the welding strip attached with the front surface film and the back surface film into welding strip components, wherein each welding strip component comprises a welding strip, the front surface film attached to the front section part of the welding strip and the back surface film attached to the back section part of the welding strip.
The solder strip pull also serves to place the solder strip assembly on the conveyor section 4.
The battery piece feeding part is used for placing battery pieces on the conveying part 4, wherein the ith battery piece is stacked on the rear section part of the ith group of welding strip assemblies, the front section part of the (i + 1) th group of welding strip assemblies is stacked on the ith battery piece, and i is any natural number greater than 0.
The heating part is used for heating the stacked battery plates and the welding strip assembly to form a battery string.
As shown in fig. 3 to 4, the tape attaching part 2 in the present embodiment includes a front film attaching mechanism 21 and a back film attaching mechanism 22, and the solder tape passes through the front film attaching mechanism 21 and the back film attaching mechanism 22. The film tape drawing section 3 includes a front film drawing mechanism 31 and a back film drawing mechanism 32. Wherein:
the front film drawing mechanism 31 is configured to draw the front film supplied from the film tape supply section 1 so that the front film to be attached enters into the front film attaching mechanism 21, and the front film attaching mechanism 21 is configured to suck and cut the front film to be attached, and attach the cut front film to be attached to the front of the solder tape.
The back surface film drawing mechanism 32 is configured to draw the back surface film supplied from the film tape supply section 1 so that the back surface film to be attached enters into the back surface film attaching mechanism 22, and the back surface film attaching mechanism 22 is configured to suck and cut the back surface film to be attached, and attach the cut back surface film to be attached to the back surface of the solder tape.
It should be noted that the front and back surfaces of the solder ribbon described in this application are only used to indicate the orientation of the front and back films relative to the solder ribbon, and do not refer to the actual solder ribbon surface. In practical application, the solder strip can be a circular solder strip, a triangular solder strip and a special-shaped solder strip formed by alternately arranging circular solder strip sections and triangular solder strip sections.
As shown in fig. 5, optionally, the front film sticking mechanism 21 includes a front film adsorption component 211, a front film heating component 212, and a front film cutting component 213, wherein the front film adsorption component 211 is located above the front film heating component 212, the front film cutting component 213 is located in front of the front film adsorption component 211, and the front film a to be attached passes through the front film cutting component 213 and then enters between the front film adsorption component 211 and the front film heating component 212.
The front film adsorption component 211 is configured to adsorb the front film a to be attached, and the front film cutting component 213 is configured to cut off the front film a to be attached adsorbed by the front film adsorption component 211. The front surface film adsorbing assembly 211 is also configured to press the front surface film a to be attached against the front surface of the solder ribbon C, and the front surface film heating assembly 212 is used to heat the front surface film a to be attached so that the front surface film a to be attached is attached against the front surface of the solder ribbon.
Similarly, the back film sticking mechanism 22 includes a back film adsorption component 221, a back film heating component 222 and a back film cutting component 223, wherein the back film adsorption component 221 is located below the back film heating component 222, the back film cutting component 223 is located in the front of the back film adsorption component 221, and the back film B to be attached passes through the back film cutting component 223 and then enters between the back film adsorption component 221 and the back film heating component 222.
The back surface film adsorption component 221 is configured to adsorb the back surface film B to be attached, the back surface film cutting component 223 is configured to cut off the back surface film B to be attached, which is adsorbed by the back surface film adsorption component 221, the back surface film adsorption component 221 is further configured to press the back surface film to be attached against the back surface of the solder strip C, and the back surface film heating component 222 is configured to heat the back surface film B to be attached, so that the back surface film B to be attached is attached on the back surface of the solder strip C.
As shown in fig. 5, the front surface film drawing mechanism 31 may alternatively draw a predetermined length of the front surface film a to be attached between the front surface film adsorption member 211 and the front surface film heating member 212 in the same direction as the drawing direction (arrow direction in the drawing) of the solder ribbon C. On the other hand, the back surface film drawing mechanism 32 draws a predetermined length of the back surface film to be attached between the back surface film adsorption unit 221 and the back surface film heating unit 222 in a direction opposite to the drawing direction of the solder ribbon C.
Of course, the front surface film drawing mechanism 31 may also draw a predetermined length of the front surface film a to be attached between the front surface film adsorption module 211 and the front surface film heating module 212 in a direction opposite to the drawing direction of the solder ribbon C. The back surface film drawing mechanism 32 draws a predetermined length of the back surface film to be attached between the back surface film suction unit 221 and the back surface film heating unit 222 in the same direction as the drawing direction of the solder ribbon C. Alternatively, the front surface film drawing mechanism 31 and the back surface film drawing mechanism 32 both draw the front surface film a to be attached and the back surface film a to be attached in a predetermined length in the same direction or in the opposite direction to the drawing direction of the solder ribbon C.
Optionally, the front film adsorption assembly 211 includes a first driving mechanism and a front film adsorption plate, wherein the front film adsorption plate is connected to a driving end of the first driving mechanism, the front film adsorption plate is used for adsorbing a front film to be attached, and the first driving mechanism is used for driving the front film adsorption plate to move towards or away from the welding strip C. When the first driving mechanism drives the front surface film adsorption plate to move towards the welding strip C, the front surface film A to be attached adsorbed on the front surface film adsorption plate can be stacked on the front surface of the welding strip C.
Similarly, the back film adsorption assembly 221 includes a second driving mechanism and a back film adsorption plate, wherein the back film adsorption plate is connected to the driving end of the second driving mechanism, the back film adsorption plate is used for adsorbing a back film to be attached, and the second driving mechanism is used for driving the back film adsorption plate to move toward or away from the solder strip C. When the second driving mechanism drives the back surface film adsorption plate to move towards the welding strip C, the back surface film B to be attached adsorbed on the second driving mechanism can be stacked on the back surface of the welding strip C.
Optionally, the front film heating assembly 212 includes a front film heating plate, and the front film adsorbing assembly 211 is to stack the adsorbed front film a to be attached on the front of the welding strip C, and the front film heating plate heats the front film a to be attached, so that the front film a to be attached is softened and releases the adhesive force, and is finally attached on the front of the welding strip C. In addition, the front film heating plate is provided with a plurality of first welding strip guide grooves extending along the traction direction of the welding strip on the surface of one side of the welding strip C, and each first welding strip guide groove is used for guiding one welding strip.
Similarly, the back film heating unit 222 includes a back film heating plate, and after the back film adsorption unit 222 stacks the adsorbed back film B to be attached on the back of the solder ribbon C, the back film heating plate heats the back film B to be attached, so that the back film B to be attached is softened and releases the adhesive force, and finally attached on the back of the solder ribbon C. In addition, the back membrane hot plate is provided with many second along the direction of pull extension of welding the area and welds the area guide way towards one side surface of welding area C, and every second welds and takes the guide way all to be used for implementing the direction to one and weld the area.
As shown in fig. 5, optionally, the front film cutting assembly 213 includes a front film guide plate 2131 and a front film cutter 2132 located above the front film guide plate 2131, wherein the front film guide plate 2131 is provided with a front film guide slot extending along the traction direction of the front film, the front film to be attached enters between the front film adsorption assembly 211 and the front film heating assembly 212 under the guidance of the front film guide slot, and the front film cutter 2132 is aligned with the end of the front film guide plate 2131 when it descends to cut off the front film to be attached.
Similarly, the back film cutting assembly 223 includes a back film guide plate 2231 and a back film cutter 2232 located above the back film guide plate 2231, wherein the back film guide plate 2231 is provided with a back film guide groove extending along a pulling direction of the back film, the back film to be attached enters between the back film adsorption assembly 221 and the back film heating assembly 222 under the guidance of the back film guide groove, and the back film cutter 2232 is aligned with an end of the back film guide plate 2231 when descending to cut off the back film to be attached.
Alternatively, the stringer in this embodiment further includes a front film feeding mechanism located at the front of the front film cutting assembly 213, and a back film feeding mechanism located at the front of the back film cutting assembly 223. Wherein:
the front film feeding mechanism is configured to clamp the front film to which the front film a is to be attached when the front film cutting assembly 213 cuts the front film a to be attached, and to push the clamped front film toward the front film drawing mechanism 31 after the front film cutting assembly 213 cuts the front film a to be attached.
It can be seen that, by providing the front film feeding mechanism, when the front film cutting assembly 213 cuts the front film to be attached currently, the front film feeding mechanism can clamp and position the front film on the rear side, so as to prevent the front film on the rear side from retracting or falling when the front film to be attached currently is cut. After the front film to be attached is currently cut off, the front film feeding mechanism can push the clamped front film towards the front film traction mechanism 31, so that the front film traction mechanism 31 can clamp the next section of front film to be attached from the front film feeding mechanism, and the next section of front film to be attached is pulled between the front film adsorption component 211 and the front film heating component 212.
The back film feeding mechanism is used for cutting the back film B to be attached at the back film cutting assembly 223, clamping the back film after the back film B is to be attached, and pushing the clamped back film toward the back film drawing mechanism 32 after the back film cutting assembly 223 cuts the back film to be attached.
It can be seen that, through the back film feeding mechanism, when the back film cutting assembly 223 cuts the current back film to be attached, the back film feeding mechanism can clamp and position the back film on the rear side, so as to prevent the back film on the rear side from retracting or falling when the current back film to be attached is cut. After the current back film to be attached is cut off, the back film feeding mechanism can push the clamped back film toward the back film traction mechanism 32, so that the back film traction mechanism 32 can clamp the next section of back film to be attached from the back film feeding mechanism, and pull the next section of back film to be attached between the back film adsorption component 221 and the back film heating component 222.
Alternatively, the front film feeding mechanism and the back film feeding mechanism in this embodiment have the same structure, and taking the front film feeding mechanism as an example, as shown in fig. 6, the front film feeding mechanism 6 includes a bottom plate 61, a sliding bracket 62, a bearing plate 63, a pressing drive assembly 64, a pressing plate 65, and a feeding drive assembly 66.
Wherein the bottom plate 61 is provided with a slide rail extending along the traction direction of the front surface film.
The sliding connection of the sliding bracket 62 is on a sliding rail.
The carrier plate 63 is fixedly coupled to the upper end of the sliding bracket 62.
The pressing driving assembly 64 is arranged on the sliding bracket 62, the pressing plate 65 is connected to the driving end of the pressing driving assembly 64 and located below the bearing plate 63, and the pressing driving assembly 64 is used for driving the pressing plate 65 to ascend and descend.
The feeding driving assembly 66 is arranged on the bottom plate 61, the driving end of the feeding driving assembly 66 is connected with the sliding support 62, and the feeding driving assembly 66 is used for driving the sliding support 62 to slide along the sliding rail.
In order to ensure that the solder strip assembly can be adhered to the battery piece after being heated by the heating portion 5, when the heating portion 5 heats the stacked solder strip assembly and the battery string, the stacked solder strip assembly and the battery string need to be clamped on the battery piece through a pressing mechanism or a pressing tool. However, since the film has a certain hardness, when the cell is pressed, only the front film above the cell is pressed against the cell, and the back film below the cell is difficult to adhere to the cell.
In order to solve this problem, the present embodiment improves the conveying section 4, as shown in fig. 7, the conveying section 4 includes a support roller group 41, a driving device 42, and a flexible conveying belt 43, wherein: the driving end of the driving device 42 is in transmission connection with the supporting roller group 41, and the driving device 43 is used for driving the supporting roller group 41 to rotate so as to drive the flexible conveying belt 43 to convey. The flexible conveyor belt 43 includes a belt body 431 and a flexible bearing layer 432, wherein the belt body 431 is sleeved on the support roller group 41, and the flexible bearing layer 432 is laid on the conveying surface of the belt body 431.
The flexible bearing layer is arranged on the belt body of the conveying belt, so that flexible bearing of the welding belt set and the battery piece is realized. So, when compressing tightly the battery piece from the top, take place elastic deformation after flexible carrier 432 is pressed, the resilience force that its produced compresses tightly the back membrane of battery piece below to the back of battery piece on to guarantee welding quality. Optionally, the flexible carrier layer 432 includes a plurality of flexible strips laid on the conveying surface of the belt body at intervals; alternatively, the flexible carrier layer 432 is a full flexible strip applied to the conveying surface of the web 431.
Optionally, the width of the flexible supporting layer 432 is greater than or equal to the width of the battery piece and less than or equal to the width of the belt body 431, and the flexible supporting layer 432 is silica gel or high temperature-resistant sponge.
As shown in fig. 7, the heating part 5 may optionally include a mounting frame 51, a heat generating component 52 and an air blowing mechanism 53, wherein the heat generating component 52 is mounted on the mounting frame 51, and the heat generating component 52 includes heat generating sheets arranged at intervals and heating rods for heating the heat generating sheets. The air blowing mechanism 53 is installed on the mounting frame 51 and located above the heat generating component 52, and the air blowing mechanism 53 is used for blowing heat emitted from the heat generating sheet to the stacked battery sheet and solder ribbon assembly.
Optionally, the heating part 5 further includes a driving mechanism 54, the mounting frame 51 is connected to a driving end of the driving mechanism 54, and the driving mechanism 54 is configured to drive the mounting frame 51 to move horizontally and/or vertically, so that the heating assembly 52 and the air blowing mechanism 53 can move to a predetermined heating position.
Alternatively, the mounting frame 51 may be turnably connected to a driving end of the driving mechanism 51 via a hinge, a rotating shaft, or the like, so that the mounting frame 51 is turned between the operating position and the retracted position. When the mounting frame 51 is turned down to the working position, the heat generating component 52 and the blowing mechanism 53 cooperate to heat the battery piece and the solder ribbon assembly. When the mounting frame 51 is turned downward to the avoidance position, avoidance of other operating components is achieved.
As previously described, the strip pulling mechanism pulls out a plurality of parallel strips. In order to realize the feeding of a plurality of parallel solder strips, optionally, the series welding machine in this embodiment further includes a solder strip feeding mechanism, where the solder strip feeding mechanism includes a plurality of solder strip coils around which the solder strip is wound, and each solder strip coil discharges one solder strip. The welding strip traction mechanism simultaneously pulls out a plurality of parallel welding strips from a plurality of welding strip coils, for example, a plurality of clamping jaw pieces which correspond to the plurality of welding strip coils one by one are arranged on a clamping head of the welding strip traction mechanism, and each clamping jaw piece is used for clamping and pulling the welding strips which are discharged by the corresponding welding strip coils.
In order to save membrane resources and reduce the production cost of the battery string, optionally, the strip-shaped membrane strip is used in the embodiment to bond the solder strip and the battery piece.
To achieve this object, as shown in fig. 1 and 2, in an alternative embodiment, the film tape feeding mechanism 1 includes a front film feeding mechanism 11 and a back film feeding mechanism 12, wherein: the front surface film supply mechanism 11 is configured to supply a plurality of front surface films each of which is attached to a corresponding one of the solder tapes. Of course, if the distance between the welding strips is small, each front film can be correspondingly attached to two or more welding strips. Likewise, the backing film supply mechanism 12 is configured to supply a plurality of backing films, each of which is attached to a corresponding one of the solder ribbons. Of course, if the space between the solder strips is small, each back film may be correspondingly attached to two or more solder strips.
Second embodiment
The series welding machine provided by the embodiment is used for automatically stringing the battery pieces with grid lines on only one side, namely, is used for producing the IBC battery string.
The structure and the working process of the stringer in this embodiment are substantially the same as those of the stringer in the first embodiment, and therefore, the following description will focus on the differences between this embodiment and the first embodiment, and the corresponding contents in the first embodiment can be referred to for the remaining parts that are the same.
For convenience of description, when describing the structure and operation of the stringer according to the present embodiment, the related drawings and reference numerals in the first embodiment are used without contradiction.
As shown in fig. 1, the stringer of this embodiment includes a solder strip feeding portion, a film strip feeding portion 1, a film strip drawing portion 3, a film strip attaching portion 2, a solder strip cutting portion, a solder strip drawing portion, a solder strip processing portion, a battery piece feeding portion, a conveying portion 4, and a heating portion 5, wherein:
the solder ribbon drawing section is configured to draw the plurality of parallel solder ribbons supplied from the solder ribbon feeding section so that the solder ribbons pass through the film ribbon attaching section 2 and the solder ribbon cutting section in order, and transfer the solder ribbons to the solder ribbon processing section.
The film tape drawing section is configured to draw the front side film supplied from the film tape supply section 1 so that a predetermined length of the front side film to be attached is fitted into the film tape attaching section 2.
The film tape attaching part 2 is used for attaching a front film to be attached to the front of the welding tape;
the welding strip cutting part is used for cutting the welding strip attached with the front surface film into welding strip sections, the welding strip processing part is used for cutting the welding strip sections into welding strip components and carrying out dislocation and separation processing on the welding strip components, and each welding strip component comprises a welding strip and a front surface film attached to the welding strip.
The solder strip handling section is also used to place the singulated solder strip assemblies on the conveyor section 4.
The battery piece feeding part is used for placing battery pieces on the conveying part 4, wherein the back half section of the ith group of welding strip assemblies is stacked on the ith battery piece, the front half section of the ith group of welding strip assemblies is stacked on the (i-1) th battery piece, and i is any natural number which is more than 1 and less than N + 1;
the heating part 5 is used for heating the stacked battery plates and the welding strip assembly to form a battery string.
In this embodiment, the solder strip cutting unit performs the first cutting of the solder strip to which the front surface film is attached, so as to obtain a long solder strip section to which a plurality of front surface films are attached at intervals. The solder strip sections are then slit into solder strip assemblies by a solder strip handling mechanism. In the first embodiment, the solder strip with the front surface film and the back surface film attached thereto is directly cut into solder strip assemblies by the solder strip cutting section.
In addition, the welding strip processing mechanism also completes dislocation and separation processing of the welding strip assembly. Therefore, the welding strip processing mechanism can lay all the welding strip components on the laid battery pieces at one time, and the production efficiency of the IBC battery string is greatly improved.
Since in this embodiment, the film tape need only be attached on one surface of the solder ribbon. Therefore, the tape attaching portion in the present embodiment includes only the front surface film attaching mechanism 21 or the back surface film attaching mechanism 22. The welding strip passes through the front film pasting mechanism 21 or the back film pasting mechanism 22 under the traction of the welding strip traction mechanism.
For the specific structure of the front film traction film sticking group 21 or the back film sticking mechanism 22 in this embodiment, and the specific process of film sticking, please refer to the related description in the first embodiment, and the description of this specification is omitted.
Correspondingly, in this embodiment, the film tape supply portion 1 includes only the front film supply mechanism 11 or the back film supply mechanism 12, and the film tape drawing portion 3 includes only the front film drawing mechanism 31 or the back film drawing mechanism 32. In addition, in the present embodiment, only one of the front film feeding mechanism and the back film feeding mechanism needs to be provided. Similarly, please refer to the related description in the first embodiment for the detailed structure and the working process of the components, which are not repeated in this specification.
As shown in fig. 12, the IBC battery strings are formed in a string manner: the N (e.g., 4) battery pieces 200 are laid in turn with their back surfaces facing upward, and the electrode rows of adjacent battery pieces on the same line have opposite polarities. N +1 (five as in the figure) ribbon groups are used to weld N battery pieces 200 into a string, where: the first welding band group (1 st, 3 rd and 5 th welding band groups in the figure) and the second welding band group (2 nd and 4 th welding band groups in the figure) are alternately laid.
In the traditional IBC battery string welding process, in order to realize the staggered laying of the first welding strip group and the second welding strip group, the first welding strip group and the second welding strip group need to be alternately pulled and obtained, and then the first welding strip group and the second welding strip group are alternately laid on the battery piece. The welding strip processing efficiency is low, and the production efficiency of the battery string is finally influenced.
In contrast, the stringer according to the present embodiment is provided with a solder ribbon processing section capable of performing misalignment and separation processing on the solder ribbon assembly. Specifically, as shown in fig. 9 to 11, the solder strip processing portion 7 in this embodiment includes a plurality of first solder strip holding assemblies 71, a plurality of second solder strip holding assemblies 72, a plurality of first solder strip cutters 73, a plurality of second solder strip cutters 74, and a solder strip conveying mechanism, which are arranged along a first horizontal direction (e.g., an X-axis direction in the drawings).
The welding strip traction part is used for dragging a plurality of welding strip sections obtained by cutting the welding strip cutting part to the welding strip processing part along a first horizontal direction.
The plurality of first welding strip clamping components 71 are matched with and clamp all odd welding strip sections in the plurality of welding strip sections, a first welding strip cutter 73 is arranged between every two adjacent first welding strip clamping components 71, and each first welding strip cutter 73 is used for cutting off all odd welding strip sections at corresponding positions to obtain a plurality of groups of first welding strip components.
The plurality of second welding strip clamping components 72 are matched with and clamp all even number welding strip sections in the plurality of welding strip sections, a second welding strip cutter 74 is arranged between every two adjacent second welding strip clamping components 72, and each second welding strip cutter 74 is used for cutting off all even number welding strip sections at corresponding positions to obtain a plurality of groups of second welding strip components.
Before all the odd-numbered solder strip sections are cut off, the first solder strip clamping assemblies 71 and the second solder strip clamping assemblies 72 are relatively translated in the first horizontal direction, so that all the odd-numbered solder strip sections and all the even-numbered solder strip sections are staggered by a preset distance in the first horizontal direction.
After all odd-numbered solder strip sections are cut, each first solder strip holding assembly 71 holds a corresponding set of first solder strip assemblies, and each first solder strip holding assembly 71 is further configured to be separated in a first horizontal direction to perform a pitch separation of each set of first solder strip assemblies.
After all even-numbered solder strip sections are cut, each second solder strip holding assembly 72 holds a corresponding set of second solder strip assemblies, respectively, and each second solder strip holding assembly 72 is further configured to be separated in the first horizontal direction to implement a pitch separation of each set of second solder strip assemblies.
And finally, the solder strip conveying mechanism conveys and stacks all the first solder strip assemblies and the second solder strip assemblies which are subjected to dislocation and separation to the battery pieces which are already laid on the conveying part 4 at one time.
Optionally, the first welding strip clamping assembly 71 and the second welding strip clamping assembly 72 each include a plurality of clamping jaw members arranged in parallel along the second horizontal direction, and each clamping jaw member is configured to clamp one welding strip. Wherein the second horizontal direction is perpendicular to the first horizontal direction.
As shown in fig. 9 to fig. 11, optionally, the solder strip processing mechanism further includes a base, a displacement slide rail 75 extending along the first horizontal direction, a first solder strip spacing slide rail 76, and a second solder strip spacing slide rail 77, wherein:
dislocation slide rail 75 sets up on the base, and first welding strip group apart from smooth 76 slip connection on dislocation slide rail 75, first welding strip centre gripping subassembly 71, first welding strip cutter 73 all connect on first welding strip group apart from slide rail 76.
The second welding strip group spacing slide rail 77 is arranged on the base, and the second welding strip clamping component 72 and the second welding strip cutter 74 are both connected to the second welding strip group spacing slide rail 77.
Before all the odd-numbered solder ribbon sections are cut, the first solder ribbon group is controlled to slide along the offset slide rails 75 from the slide rails 76 so that all the odd-numbered solder ribbon sections are offset from all the even-numbered solder ribbon sections by a predetermined distance in the first horizontal direction.
After all the odd-numbered solder strips are cut, the first solder strip clamping assemblies 71 and the first solder strip cutters 73 are controlled to slide apart along the first solder strip group spacing slide rails 76, so that the spacing between the first solder strip assemblies of each group is adjusted to a predetermined spacing.
After all the even-numbered second welding tapes are cut, the second welding tape clamping assemblies 72 and the second welding tape cutters 74 are controlled to slide apart along the second welding tape group spacing slide rails 77, so that the spacing between the second welding tape assemblies of each group is adjusted to a predetermined spacing.
The invention also provides a battery string welding method, which can automatically attach the film tape to the welding tape and weld the battery pieces into strings by adopting the welding tape group attached with the film tape, thereby improving the connection strength of the welding tape group and the battery pieces.
The cell string welding method of the present invention will be exemplarily described below by two embodiments.
Third embodiment
The battery string welding method provided by the embodiment is used for automatically stringing the battery pieces with the grid lines on two sides.
The method for welding a battery string according to this embodiment can be implemented by the string welding machine according to the first embodiment and a control program thereof.
The battery string welding method provided by the embodiment comprises the following steps:
and S100, attaching a front surface film and a back surface film to the front surface and the back surface of the parallel welding strips at intervals.
S200, cutting the welding strip attached with the front surface film and the back surface film into welding strip assemblies, wherein each welding strip assembly comprises a welding strip, the front surface film attached to the front section part of the welding strip and the back surface film attached to the back section part of the welding strip.
S300, stacking the welding strip assembly and the battery piece, wherein the ith battery piece is stacked on the upper side of the rear section part of the ith welding strip assembly, the front section part of the (i + 1) th welding strip assembly is stacked on the ith battery piece, and i is any natural number greater than 0.
S400, pressing the stacked battery plates and the welding strip assembly together to form a battery string.
Optionally, step S100 includes the following sub-steps:
and S101, drawing out a plurality of parallel welding strips.
S102, adsorbing the jth section of front film to be attached at a front film adsorption station, cutting off the jth section of front film, and attaching the adsorbed jth section of front film to the front of the pulled welding strip at the front film adsorption station.
S103, adsorbing the j section of back film to be attached at a back film adsorption station and cutting off the j section of back film, attaching the adsorbed j section of back film to the back of the pulled welding strip at the back film adsorption station, wherein the front film and the back film attached to the welding strip are distributed at intervals, and j is a natural number greater than 0.
Wherein, steps S102 and S103 may be executed sequentially or synchronously.
Fourth embodiment
The battery string welding method provided by the embodiment is used for automatically stringing the battery pieces with grid lines on only one side, namely used for producing the IBC battery string.
The method for welding a battery string provided in this embodiment can be implemented by the string welding machine and the control program thereof in the second embodiment.
The method for welding the battery string provided by the embodiment comprises the following steps:
s100', attaching front surface films to the front surfaces of a plurality of parallel welding strips.
S200', cutting the solder strip attached with the front surface film into solder strip assemblies, wherein each solder strip assembly comprises a solder strip and the front surface film attached to the solder strip.
S300', the welding strip assembly and the battery piece are stacked, wherein the back half section of the ith welding strip assembly is stacked on the ith battery piece, the front half section of the ith welding strip assembly is stacked on the (i-1) th battery piece, and i is any natural number larger than 1 and smaller than N + 1.
The invention has been described above with a certain degree of particularity. It will be understood by those of ordinary skill in the art that the description of the embodiments is merely exemplary and that all changes that come within the true spirit and scope of the invention are desired to be protected. The scope of the invention is defined by the claims set forth below, rather than the foregoing description of the embodiments.
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1. The utility model provides a stringer, its characterized in that, stringer is including welding area feed portion, membrane area traction portion, the attached portion in membrane area, welding area cutting part, welding area traction portion, battery piece material loading portion, conveying part and heating portion, wherein:
the welding strip drawing part is configured to draw the plurality of parallel welding strips supplied by the welding strip supply part so that the welding strips sequentially pass through the film strip attaching part and the welding strip cutting part;
the film tape traction part is configured to pull the front surface film and the back surface film supplied by the film tape supply part, so that the front surface film to be attached with a preset length and the back surface film to be attached with a preset length enter the film tape attachment part; the film strip attaching part is used for attaching the front film to be attached to the front surface of the welding strip and attaching the back film to be attached to the back surface of the welding strip, and the front film and the back film attached to the welding strip are distributed at intervals;
the welding strip cutting part is used for cutting a welding strip attached with a front surface film and a back surface film into welding strip components, and the welding strip traction part is also used for placing the welding strip components on the conveying part, wherein each welding strip component comprises a welding strip, a front surface film attached to the front section part of the welding strip and a back surface film attached to the back section part of the welding strip;
the battery piece feeding part is used for placing battery pieces on the conveying part; the ith battery piece is stacked on the rear section part of the ith group of welding strip assemblies, the front section part of the (i + 1) th group of welding strip assemblies is stacked on the ith battery piece, and i is any natural number greater than 0;
the heating part is used for heating the stacked battery plates and the welding strip assembly to form a battery string.
2. The utility model provides a stringer, its characterized in that, stringer is including welding area feed portion, membrane area traction portion, the attached portion in membrane area, welding area cutting part, welding area traction portion, welding area processing portion, battery piece material loading portion, conveying part and heating portion, wherein:
the welding strip drawing part is configured to draw a plurality of parallel welding strips supplied by the welding strip supply part, so that the welding strips sequentially pass through the film strip attaching part and the welding strip cutting part, and transfer the welding strips to a welding strip processing part;
the film tape traction part is configured to pull the front face film supplied by the film tape supply part so that a front face film to be attached with a preset length is inserted into the film tape attaching part; the film strip attaching part is used for attaching the front film to be attached to the front surface of the welding strip;
the welding strip cutting part is used for cutting a welding strip attached with a front surface film into welding strip sections, the welding strip processing part is used for cutting the welding strip sections into welding strip components, carrying out dislocation and separation processing on the welding strip components, and placing the welding strip components subjected to dislocation and separation processing on the conveying part, wherein each welding strip component comprises a welding strip and a front surface film attached to the welding strip;
the battery piece feeding part is used for placing battery pieces on the conveying part; wherein, the back half section of the ith group of welding strip assemblies is stacked on the ith battery piece, and the front half section of the ith group of welding strip assemblies is stacked on the (i-1) th battery piece, wherein i is any natural number more than 1 and less than N + 1;
the heating part is used for heating the stacked battery plates and the welding strip assembly to form a battery string.
3. The stringer according to claim 1 or 2, wherein:
the film strip attaching part comprises a front film attaching mechanism and/or a back film attaching mechanism, and the welding strip penetrates through the front film attaching mechanism and/or the back film attaching mechanism;
the membrane area traction part comprises a front membrane traction mechanism and a back membrane traction mechanism, wherein:
the front film traction mechanism is configured to pull the front film supplied by the film belt supply part so that the front film to be attached enters the front film attaching mechanism, and the front film attaching mechanism is configured to suck and cut the front film to be attached and attach the cut front film to be attached to the front surface of the welding belt;
the back surface film traction mechanism is configured to pull the back surface film supplied by the film tape supply part so that the back surface film to be attached enters the back surface film attaching mechanism, and the back surface film attaching mechanism is configured to suck and cut the back surface film to be attached and attach the cut back surface film to be attached to the back surface of the solder tape.
4. The stringer according to claim 1 or 2, wherein:
the front film sticking mechanism comprises a front film adsorption component, a front film heating component and a front film cutting component, wherein the front film adsorption component is positioned above the front film heating component, the front film cutting component is positioned in the front of the front film adsorption component, and the front film to be stuck passes through the front film cutting component and then enters between the front film adsorption component and the front film heating component;
the front film adsorption component is configured to adsorb the front film to be attached, the front film cutting component is configured to cut off the front film to be attached adsorbed by the front film adsorption component, the front film adsorption component is further configured to press the front film to be attached to the front side of the welding strip, and the front film heating component is used for heating the front film to be attached so that the front film to be attached is attached to the front side of the welding strip;
the back film sticking mechanism comprises a back film adsorption assembly, a back film heating assembly and a back film cutting assembly, wherein the back film adsorption assembly is positioned below the back film heating assembly, the back film cutting assembly is positioned in the front of the back film adsorption assembly, and the back film to be attached passes through the back film cutting assembly and then enters between the back film adsorption assembly and the back film heating assembly;
the back surface film adsorption component is configured to adsorb the back surface film to be attached, the back surface film cutting component is configured to cut off the back surface film to be attached, the back surface film adsorption component is further configured to press the back surface film to be attached against the back surface of the welding strip, and the back surface film heating component is used for heating the back surface film to be attached, so that the back surface film to be attached is attached on the back surface of the welding strip.
5. The stringer of claim 4, wherein: the stringer also comprises a front film feeding mechanism and a back film feeding mechanism;
the front film feeding mechanism is positioned in front of the front film cutting assembly and used for clamping the front film to be attached to the front film when the front film cutting assembly cuts the front film to be attached, and pushing the clamped front film towards the front film traction mechanism after the front film cutting assembly cuts the front film to be attached;
the back face film feeding mechanism is located in the front of the back face film cutting assembly, and is used for clamping the back face film behind the to-be-attached back face film when the back face film cutting assembly cuts the to-be-attached back face film, and pushing the clamped back face film towards the back face film traction mechanism after the back face film cutting assembly cuts the to-be-attached back face film.
6. The stringer of claim 2, wherein: weld and take processing portion and include that the first solder strip centre gripping subassembly of a plurality of, a plurality of second solder strip centre gripping subassembly, the first solder strip cutter of a plurality of, a plurality of second solder strip cutter and solder strip transport mechanism of arranging along first horizontal direction, wherein:
the first welding strip clamping assemblies are matched with and clamp all odd welding strip sections in the plurality of welding strip sections, a first welding strip cutter is arranged between every two adjacent first welding strip clamping assemblies, and each first welding strip cutter is used for cutting off all odd welding strip sections at corresponding positions to obtain a plurality of groups of first welding strip assemblies;
the second welding strip clamping assemblies are matched with and clamp all even number welding strip sections in the plurality of welding strip sections, a second welding strip cutter is arranged between every two adjacent second welding strip clamping assemblies, and each second welding strip cutter is used for cutting off all even number welding strip sections at corresponding positions to obtain a plurality of groups of second welding strip assemblies;
before all the odd-numbered welding strip sections are cut off, the first welding strip clamping assemblies and the second welding strip clamping assemblies are relatively translated in the first horizontal direction, so that all the odd-numbered welding strip sections and all the even-numbered welding strip sections are staggered by a preset distance in the first horizontal direction;
after all odd-numbered solder strip sections are cut off, each first solder strip clamping assembly respectively clamps one group of corresponding first solder strip assemblies, and each first solder strip clamping assembly is further configured to be separated in a first horizontal direction so as to implement the separation of each group of first solder strip assemblies;
after all even number of welding strip sections are cut off, each second welding strip clamping assembly respectively clamps one group of corresponding second welding strip assemblies, and each second welding strip clamping assembly is further configured to be separated in the first horizontal direction so as to implement the separation of each group of second welding strip assemblies;
the welding strip carrying mechanism is used for placing the first welding strip assembly and the second welding strip assembly on the conveying part after dislocation and separation are completed.
7. The stringer according to claim 1 or 2, wherein:
the welding strip feeding part comprises a plurality of welding strip coils for winding welding strips, and each welding strip coil is used for paying out one welding strip;
the film strip feeding part comprises a front film feeding mechanism and a back film feeding mechanism, wherein the front film feeding mechanism is configured to supply a plurality of front films, and each front film corresponds to at least one welding strip; the back surface film feeding mechanism is configured to supply a plurality of front surface films, and each back surface film corresponds to at least one welding strip.
8. The stringer of claim 1, wherein said transport portion includes a set of support rollers, a drive device, and a flexible conveyor belt, wherein:
the driving end of the driving device is in transmission connection with the supporting roller set, and the driving device is used for driving the supporting roller set to rotate;
the flexible conveying belt comprises a belt body and a flexible bearing layer, wherein the belt body is sleeved on the supporting roller group, and the flexible bearing layer is laid on the conveying surface of the belt body.
9. The stringer of claim 8 wherein said flexible carrier layer comprises a plurality of flexible strips spaced apart on said feeding surface of said web; alternatively, the first and second liquid crystal display panels may be,
the flexible bearing layer is a whole flexible belt laid on the conveying surface of the belt body.
10. The stringer according to claim 8, wherein the width of the flexible carrier layer is greater than or equal to the width of the battery piece and less than or equal to the width of the tape body, and the flexible carrier layer is silica gel or high temperature resistant sponge.
11. The stringer according to claim 1 or 2, wherein said heating portion includes a mounting frame, a heat generating component and an air blowing mechanism, wherein,
the heating assembly is arranged on the mounting frame and comprises heating sheets arranged at intervals and heating rods used for heating the heating sheets;
the blowing mechanism is installed on the installation frame and located above the heating assembly, and the blowing mechanism is used for blowing heat emitted by the heating sheet to the stacked battery sheets and the welding strip assembly.
12. The stringer of claim 10, wherein said heating section further comprises a drive mechanism, said mounting frame being connected to a drive end of said drive mechanism, said drive mechanism being configured to drive said mounting frame to translate and/or lift.
13. The stringer of claim 12, wherein said mounting frame is reversibly connected to a drive end of said drive mechanism via a rotational connection.
14. A method of welding a battery string, the method comprising:
attaching a front film and a back film to the front and the back of the parallel welding strips at intervals;
cutting the solder strip attached with the front surface film and the back surface film into solder strip assemblies, wherein each solder strip assembly comprises a solder strip, the front surface film attached to the front section part of the solder strip and the back surface film attached to the back section part of the solder strip;
stacking the welding strip assembly and the battery piece, wherein the ith battery piece is stacked on the upper side of the rear section part of the ith welding strip assembly, the front section part of the (i + 1) th welding strip assembly is stacked on the ith battery piece, and i is any natural number greater than 0;
and pressing the stacked battery plates and the welding strip assembly together to form a battery string.
15. The method of claim 14, wherein attaching a front film and a back film to the front and back surfaces of a plurality of parallel solder ribbons at intervals comprises:
drawing out a plurality of parallel welding strips;
adsorbing the jth section of front film to be attached at a front film adsorption station and cutting the jth section of front film, and attaching the adsorbed jth section of front film to the front of the pulled welding strip at the front film adsorption station;
and adsorbing the j section of back film to be attached at a back film adsorption station and cutting off the j section of back film, attaching the adsorbed j section of back film to the back of the pulled welding strip at the back film adsorption station, wherein the front film and the back film attached to the welding strip are distributed at intervals, and j is a natural number greater than 0.
16. A method of welding a battery string, the method comprising:
attaching a front surface film to the front surfaces of the parallel welding strips;
cutting the solder strip attached with the front surface film into solder strip components, wherein each solder strip component comprises a solder strip and the front surface film attached to the solder strip;
and stacking the welding strip assembly and the battery piece, wherein the back half section of the ith welding strip assembly is stacked on the ith battery piece, the front half section of the ith welding strip assembly is stacked on the (i-1) th battery piece, and i is any natural number which is more than 1 and less than N + 1.
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