CN115739655A - Rod-shaped piece sorting system and rod-shaped piece sorting method - Google Patents

Abstract

The application discloses a rod-shaped piece sorting system and a rod-shaped piece sorting method. The rod sorting system comprises a conveying module and a plurality of sorting modules. The conveying module conveys the rod-shaped pieces along a preset conveying direction, and the sorting modules are located on one side of the conveying module and are arranged along the preset conveying direction. The sorting module comprises a material hooking device and a sorting grid opening located on one side of the material hooking device, the material hooking device comprises a supporting piece, a material hooking component and a driving piece, and the material hooking component is rotatably connected with the supporting piece. The driving piece with support piece with collude the material subassembly and be connected for the drive colludes the material subassembly and rotates along predetermineeing the rotation direction and predetermine the angle, and make collude the material subassembly and rotate the in-process and be located the shaft-shaped piece butt on predetermineeing the letter sorting position, in order shift the shaft-shaped piece to the letter sorting bin, thereby can sort shaft-shaped piece to the letter sorting bin mouth that matches with self letter sorting address, need not the manual work and sort shaft-shaped piece, not only can improve letter sorting efficiency, can also reduce intensity of labour.

Description

Rod-shaped piece sorting system and rod-shaped piece sorting method

Technical Field

The invention relates to the technical field of logistics sorting, in particular to a rod-shaped piece sorting system and a rod-shaped piece sorting method.

Background

With the rapid development of the logistics industry, the logistics involves various packages, such as various metal pipes, plastic pipes, fishing rods, lighting tubes, various strips of fabric, and other outer packages in the form of rod-shaped members. How sort to shaft-like piece, prior art sorts shaft-like piece through the manual work, for example, the manual work transports shaft-like piece to the letter sorting region, sweeps the sign indicating number to shaft-like piece, sweeps behind the sign indicating number rethread manual work with shaft-like piece letter sorting to corresponding letter sorting bin, leads to the letter sorting inefficiency of shaft-like piece, and intensity of labour is big.

Disclosure of Invention

The application provides a rod-shaped piece sorting system and a rod-shaped piece sorting method, which aim to solve the problems of low sorting efficiency and high labor intensity caused by manual sorting of rod-shaped pieces in the prior art.

In one aspect, the present application provides a stem sorting system comprising: the device comprises a conveying module and a plurality of sorting modules;

the conveying module conveys the rod-shaped pieces along a preset conveying direction;

the sorting modules are positioned on one side of the conveying module and are arranged along a preset conveying direction, and the sorting modules respectively correspond to a plurality of preset sorting positions on the conveying module;

the sorting module comprises a material hooking device and a sorting grid opening positioned on one side of the material hooking device, the material hooking device comprises a supporting piece, a material hooking component and a driving piece, and the material hooking component is rotatably connected with the supporting piece;

the driving piece is connected with the supporting piece and the material hooking component and used for driving the material hooking component to rotate for a preset angle along a preset rotating direction, and the material hooking component is abutted against the rod-shaped piece located on a preset sorting position in the rotating process so as to transfer the rod-shaped piece to the sorting grid.

In some possible implementations, the hooking component includes a rotating shaft, a plurality of hooking members and a connecting rod;

the pivot with support piece is connected, and is a plurality of collude the material piece with the pivot is rotated and is connected, and with the connecting rod is connected, the connecting rod with the driving piece is connected.

In some possible implementations, the hooking part includes a rotating part connected to the rotating shaft and the connecting rod, and a blocking part connected to the rotating part.

In some possible implementations, the rotating portion includes a power portion between the connecting rod and the rotating shaft, and a resistance portion between the rotating shaft and the blocking portion, and a length of the resistance portion is greater than a length of the power portion.

In some possible implementations, the conveying module includes a first conveying mechanism, and the first conveying mechanism includes a plurality of first conveying pieces arranged at intervals along a preset conveying direction;

the material hooking component is positioned between two adjacent first conveying pieces and below the conveying surface of the first conveying pieces.

In some possible implementations, the first transfer member includes a rotating drum provided with an annular groove for receiving the rod-like member.

In some possible implementations, the distance between the bottom surface of the annular groove and the circumferential surface of the rotating drum is gradually increased and then gradually decreased along the axial extension direction of the rotating drum.

In some possible implementations, the conveying module further includes a second conveying mechanism disposed at an interval with the first conveying mechanism along a preset conveying direction, and a code scanning mechanism located between the first conveying mechanism and the second conveying mechanism.

In some possible implementations, the code scanning mechanism includes a plurality of scanning lenses, and the scanning lenses are arranged annularly along a circumferential direction of the preset transmission direction.

In some possible implementations, the rod sorting system further includes a feeder module interfacing with the transport module;

the workpiece supply module comprises a bracket, a power part and at least one conveying part;

the conveying piece comprises a bearing plate connected with the support, a rotating wheel set connected with the bearing plate in a rotating mode and connected with the power piece, a conveying piece connected with the rotating wheel set, and at least one bearing part connected with the conveying piece, wherein a through groove used for containing the rod-shaped piece is formed in the bearing part.

In some possible implementations, the openings at both ends of the through slot are aligned in a direction perpendicular to a conveying direction of the conveying member.

In some possible implementations, the number of the conveying elements is multiple, and the conveying directions of the plurality of conveying elements are parallel to each other.

In some possible implementations, the member supplying module further includes a jacking member, the support includes a rack and a mounting plate movably connected to the rack, the jacking member is mounted on the rack and abuts against the mounting plate, and the power member and the conveying member are mounted on the mounting plate.

In some possible implementations, the conveying module includes a plurality of second conveying members arranged at intervals along a preset conveying direction, and one end of each conveying member is located at a gap between two adjacent second conveying members;

the jacking piece is used for driving the mounting plate to descend to a preset second height position from a preset first height position when the transmission piece transports the rod-shaped piece to the preset transfer position, so that the rod-shaped piece is abutted to the second conveying piece.

In another aspect, the present application further provides a rod sorting method applied to the rod sorting system, the method including:

the conveying module conveys the rod-shaped pieces along a preset conveying direction to an appointed sorting position, wherein the appointed sorting position is one preset sorting position matched with the sorting address of the rod-shaped pieces in a plurality of preset sorting positions;

in one sorting module corresponding to the appointed sorting position, the driving piece drives the material hooking component to rotate for a preset angle along a preset rotation direction, and the material hooking component is abutted against the rod-shaped piece located on the appointed sorting position in the rotation process so as to transfer the rod-shaped piece to the sorting grid.

The application provides a shaft-like piece letter sorting system includes transport module and a plurality of letter sorting module. The conveying module conveys rod-shaped pieces along a preset conveying direction, the sorting modules are located on one side of the conveying module and arranged along the preset conveying direction, and the sorting modules correspond to a plurality of preset sorting positions on the conveying module respectively. The sorting module comprises a material hooking device and a sorting grid opening located on one side of the material hooking device, the material hooking device comprises a supporting piece, a material hooking component and a driving piece, and the material hooking component is rotatably connected with the supporting piece. The driving piece with support piece with collude the material subassembly and be connected for the drive colludes the material subassembly and rotates along predetermineeing the rotation direction and predetermine the angle, and make collude the material subassembly and rotate the in-process and be located the shaft-shaped piece butt on predetermineeing the letter sorting position, in order shift the shaft-shaped piece to the letter sorting bin, thereby can sort shaft-shaped piece to the letter sorting bin mouth that matches with self letter sorting address, need not the manual work and sort shaft-shaped piece, not only can improve letter sorting efficiency, can also reduce intensity of labour.

Drawings

In order to more clearly illustrate the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention, the drawings needed to be used in the description of the embodiments will be briefly introduced below, and it is obvious that the drawings in the following description are only some embodiments of the present invention, and it is obvious for those skilled in the art to obtain other drawings based on these drawings without creative efforts.

FIG. 1 is a schematic view of a rod sorting system according to one embodiment of the present application;

fig. 2 is a first schematic view of a sorting module and a delivery module of a rod sorting system according to an embodiment of the present application in cooperation;

fig. 3 is a second schematic view of a sorting module and a delivery module of the rod sorting system according to an embodiment of the present application in cooperation;

FIG. 4 is a schematic view of a material hooking device of the rod sorting system according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 5 is a schematic view of a first perspective of a first conveying member of the rod sorting system according to an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 6 is a schematic view of a second perspective of a first transfer member of the rod sorting system according to one embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 7 is a schematic view of a conveyor module of a rod sorting system according to one embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 8 is a schematic view of a code scanning mechanism of the rod sorting system provided in one embodiment of the present application;

fig. 9 is a schematic view of a first perspective of a supply module of the rod sorting system according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 10 is a second perspective view of a supply module of the rod sorting system according to one embodiment of the present application;

fig. 11 is a third perspective view of a supply module of the rod sorting system according to one embodiment of the present application;

fig. 12 is a schematic view of a first perspective of the matching of the feeding module and the conveying module of the rod sorting system according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 13 is a schematic diagram of a second perspective view of a supply module and a delivery module of the rod sorting system according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 14 is a flow chart of a stem sorting method according to an embodiment of the present application.

Detailed Description

The technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the drawings in the embodiments of the present invention, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are only a part of the embodiments of the present invention, and not all of the embodiments. All other embodiments, which can be obtained by a person skilled in the art without inventive step based on the embodiments of the present invention, are within the scope of protection of the present invention.

In the description of the present invention, it is to be understood that the terms "center", "longitudinal", "lateral", "length", "width", "thickness", "upper", "lower", "front", "rear", "left", "right", "vertical", "horizontal", "top", "bottom", "inner", "outer", etc. indicate orientations or positional relationships based on those shown in the drawings, and are only for convenience of description and simplicity of description, but do not indicate or imply that the device or element being referred to must have a particular orientation, be constructed and operated in a particular orientation, and thus, should not be considered as limiting the present invention. Furthermore, the terms "first", "second" and "first" are used for descriptive purposes only and are not to be construed as indicating or implying relative importance or implicitly indicating the number of technical features indicated. Thus, features defined as "first" and "second" may explicitly or implicitly include one or more of the described features. In the description of the present invention, "a plurality" means two or more unless specifically defined otherwise.

In the description of the present application, it should be noted that, unless otherwise explicitly stated or limited, the terms "mounted," "connected," and "connected" are to be construed broadly, and may be, for example, a fixed connection, a detachable connection, or an integral connection; may be mechanically, electrically or may be in communication with each other; either directly or indirectly through intervening media, either internally or in any other relationship. The specific meaning of the above terms in the present application can be understood by those of ordinary skill in the art as appropriate.

The rod-shaped piece sorting system can be applied to sorting fields, such as express delivery transfer stations. The utility model provides a conveying module among shaft-like piece letter sorting system transports shaft-like piece along predetermineeing transmission direction, the driving piece drive colludes the material subassembly and rotates along predetermineeing the rotation direction and predetermine the angle, and make collude the material subassembly and be located the shaft-like piece butt on predetermineeing the letter sorting position at the rotation in-process, in order shifting shaft-like piece to letter sorting bin, thereby can sort shaft-like piece to the letter sorting bin mouth with self letter sorting address matching, need not the manual work and sort shaft-like piece, not only can improve letter sorting efficiency, can also reduce intensity of labour.

Referring to fig. 1 to 13, in an embodiment of the present application, a rod sorting system includes: a conveying module 1 and a plurality of sorting modules 2;

the conveying module 1 conveys the rod-shaped elements 100 along a preset conveying direction D1;

the sorting modules 2 are positioned on one side of the conveying module 1 and are arranged along a preset conveying direction D1, and the sorting modules 2 respectively correspond to a plurality of preset sorting positions on the conveying module 1;

the sorting module 2 comprises a material hooking device 21 and a sorting grid 22 positioned on one side of the material hooking device 21, the material hooking device 21 comprises a supporting piece 211, a material hooking component 212 and a driving piece 213, and the material hooking component 212 is rotatably connected with the supporting piece 211;

the driving member 213 is connected to the supporting member 211 and the hooking member 212, and is configured to drive the hooking member 212 to rotate by a predetermined angle along a predetermined rotation direction D2, and make the hooking member 212 abut against the rod-shaped member 100 located at a predetermined sorting position during the rotation process, so as to transfer the rod-shaped member 100 to the sorting cell 22.

It should be noted that, when the conveying module 1 conveys the rod-shaped articles 100 along the preset conveying direction D1, the rod-shaped articles 100 can be conveyed to the designated sorting position, where the designated sorting position is one of the preset sorting positions that matches the sorting address of the rod-shaped articles 100. The plurality of sorting modules 2 respectively correspond to the plurality of preset sorting positions on the conveying module 1, which means that the material hooking device 21 in each sorting module 2 can transfer the rod-shaped articles 100 at one preset sorting position. When the rod-shaped piece 100 is located at the designated sorting position, in one sorting module 2 corresponding to the designated sorting position, the driving member 213 drives the hooking component 212 to rotate for a preset angle along a preset rotating direction D2, the preset rotating direction D2 is different from the preset transmission direction D1, the hooking component 212 abuts against the rod-shaped piece 100 located at the designated sorting position in the rotating process, namely, the rod-shaped piece 100 at the designated sorting position is abutted against the rod-shaped piece 100 before the hooking component 212 rotates to the preset angle, the hooking component 212 rotates subsequently, when the hooking component 212 rotates to the preset angle, the rod-shaped piece 100 flies out from the hooking component 212 under the inertia effect, so that the rod-shaped piece 100 is transferred to the sorting grid 22, the rod-shaped piece 100 can be sorted to the sorting grid 22 matched with the sorting address of the rod-shaped piece 100, the sorting efficiency can be improved, and the labor intensity can be reduced.

In addition, each sorting module 2 can be of the same structure, so that the structure in the sorting module 2 is modularized, flexible deployment can be performed according to site space, and maintenance and replacement are facilitated.

In this embodiment, the preset transmission direction D1 may be a horizontal direction, and may also be an axial extension direction of the rod-shaped member 100, that is, the conveying module 1 may convey the rod-shaped member 100 along the axial extension direction of the rod-shaped member 100, the preset rotation direction D2 may be a vertical direction, that is, the preset rotation direction D2 may be a Z-axis direction of a rectangular coordinate system, and the preset transmission direction D1 may be an X-axis direction or a Y-axis direction of the rectangular coordinate system. The hooking assembly 212 may be located below the conveying surface of the conveying module 1, the sorting cell 22 may be located above the hooking assembly 212, and the hooking assembly 212 may be rotated upward in the vertical direction to transfer the rod-shaped articles 100 on the conveying module 1 into the sorting cell 22.

In addition, a plurality of sorting modules 2 can set up the both sides of carrying module 1 respectively, improves sorting module 2's deployment density to reduce area.

In other embodiments, the hook member 212 may be located above the conveying surface of the conveying module 1, and the sorting compartment 22 may be located on the left or right side of the hook member 212, so that the predetermined transmission direction D1 may be the X-axis direction of a rectangular coordinate system, the predetermined rotation direction D2 may be the Y-axis direction of the rectangular coordinate system, and the hook member 212 moves to the left or right along the predetermined rotation direction D2 to transfer the rod-shaped members 100 on the conveying module 1 into the sorting compartment 22.

In this embodiment, the predetermined angle of rotation of the hooking component 212 may be set according to the distance between the hooking component 212 and the conveying surface of the conveying module 1, for example, the closer the distance between the hooking component 212 and the conveying surface of the conveying module 1 is, the smaller the predetermined angle is, and the farther the distance between the hooking component 212 and the conveying surface of the conveying module 1 is, the larger the predetermined angle is.

In some embodiments, referring to fig. 1 to 3, the sorting cells 22 may be a holding device for temporarily holding the rod-shaped members 100, for example, the sorting cells 22 may be a chute, the top and the side of the chute close to the conveying module 1 are both provided with openings to facilitate the rod-shaped members 100 to fall into the chute, and a portion of the chute far from the conveying module 1 may be inclined from the horizontal plane to facilitate the collective storage of a plurality of rod-shaped members 100. Of course, sorting cells 22 may be other types of receiving devices, and the application is not limited thereto.

In some embodiments, referring to fig. 2 to 4, the hooking component 212 includes a rotating shaft 2121, a plurality of hooking members 2122, and a connecting rod 2123. The shaft 2121 is connected to the supporting member 211, the plurality of hooks 2122 are rotatably connected to the shaft 2121 and to the connecting rod 2123, and the connecting rod 2123 is connected to the driving member 213. This driving piece 213 can drive connecting rod 2123 and remove along the opposite direction of predetermineeing rotation direction D2 to drive a plurality of colluding material 2122 and use pivot 2121 as the fulcrum and rotate along predetermineeing rotation direction D2, make colluding the material subassembly 212 and shift rod-shaped piece 100 through the lever principle, realize colluding the material subassembly 212 and can sort rod-shaped piece 100 through a rotary motion, thereby improve letter sorting efficiency.

In this embodiment, the plurality of hooks 2122 are parallel to each other and spaced apart from each other, so that the positions where the plurality of hooks 2122 abut against the rod-shaped element 100 are distributed uniformly, so as to sort the rod-shaped element 100 more stably.

In this embodiment, the hook member 2122 includes a rotation portion 2124 connected to the rotation shaft 2121 and the connection rod 2123, and a blocking portion 2125 connected to the rotation portion 2124. In the material taking process of the rod-shaped member 100, the rotating part 2124 abuts against the rod-shaped member 100 in the rotating process, the hooking member 2122 then rotates, the rod-shaped member 100 moves towards the blocking part 2125 on the rotating part 2124 under the action of inertia and is blocked by the blocking part 2125, namely, the blocking part 2125 can limit the rod-shaped member 100, when the hooking member 2122 rotates to a preset angle, at the moment, the hooking member 2122 stops moving, the rod-shaped member 100 flies out of the rotating part 2124 along a parabolic track under the action of inertia, and the hooking assembly 212 can sort the rod-shaped member 100 through a rotating action, so that the sorting efficiency is improved.

In this embodiment, the blocking portion 2125 may be perpendicularly connected to the rotating portion 2124, i.e., the overall shape of the hook member 2122 may be "L" shaped.

In this embodiment, the rotational part 2124 includes a power part 2126 between the connecting rod 2123 and the rotational shaft 2121, and a resistance part 2127 between the rotational shaft 2121 and the blocking part 2125, and the length of the resistance part 2127 is greater than that of the power part 2126. The resistance part 2127 will contact with the rod-shaped element 100 during the rotation process, and the length of the resistance part 2127 is longer than that of the power part 2126, which means that the length of the resistance arm is longer than that of the power arm, so that the power part 2126 can move for a shorter distance, i.e. the resistance part 2127 can be driven to move for a longer distance, and the sorting efficiency can be further improved.

In this embodiment, the driving member 213 may include a cylinder movably connected to the supporting member 211, and a piston rod movably connected to the cylinder and connected to the connecting rod 2123. The cylinder body can drive the piston rod to stretch and retract so as to drive the connecting rod 2123 to move, and when the piston rod and the connecting rod 2123 move, the cylinder body is movably connected with the supporting piece 211, so that the cylinder body can swing along with the piston rod, the driving piece 213 is guaranteed not to be clamped when the connecting rod 2123 moves, and therefore the rotating smoothness is guaranteed, and the sorting efficiency is guaranteed.

In this embodiment, the cylinder may be a hydraulic cylinder or an air cylinder. The number of the driving members 213 may be plural, and the plural driving members 213 are connected to the connecting rods 2123, so that the connecting rods 2123 can be driven to move at the same time, and the movement stability of the connecting rods 2123 is improved, thereby further improving the sorting efficiency.

In some embodiments, referring to fig. 1, fig. 2 and fig. 7, the conveying module 1 includes a first conveying mechanism 11, the first conveying mechanism 11 includes a plurality of first conveying members 111 arranged at intervals along a predetermined conveying direction D1, and the hooking component 212 is located between two adjacent first conveying members 111 and below a conveying surface of the first conveying members 111. That is, the accommodating space is formed between two adjacent first conveying members 111, which can provide a movement space for the hooking member 212, that is, the hooking member 2122, and the hooking member 2122 can be rotated upward to abut against the rod-shaped member 100, so as to transfer the rod-shaped member 100 to the sorting grid 22, thereby improving the sorting efficiency.

In this embodiment, the first transfer mechanism 11 further includes a frame 112, the frame 112 has an accommodating space therein, and the plurality of first transfer pieces 111 may be located in the accommodating space and connected to the frame 112. The frame 112 may be provided with a slot, and the hook member 2122 may extend into the receiving space through the slot and be located between two adjacent first conveying members 111.

In this embodiment, in order to save space, the rotating shaft 2121 and the driving member 213 of the hooking device 21 can be mounted on the frame 112, and the supporting member 211 can be the frame 112.

In this embodiment, referring to fig. 5 and 6, the first transfer member 111 includes a rotating drum provided with an annular groove 1111 for receiving the rod-like member 100. The first conveying member 111 conveys the rod-shaped members 100 in a predetermined conveying direction D1, i.e. the axial extension direction of the rod-shaped members 100, and the annular groove 1111 can limit the rod-shaped members 100 on the rotating drum. The annular grooves 1111 on the plurality of rotating rollers can limit the rod-shaped member 100 at multiple points along the axial extension direction of the rod-shaped member 100, which is beneficial to improving the stability of the rod-shaped member 100 in the transmission process. Meanwhile, because the annular groove 1111 is of an annular structure, in the rotating process of the rotating roller, as long as the rod-shaped member 100 is not separated from the transmission roller, the annular groove 1111 on the rotating roller always has a limiting effect on the rod-shaped member 100, which is beneficial to further improving the stability of the rod-shaped member 100 in the transmission process.

In addition, the rotating roller transports the rod-shaped member 100 along the axial extension direction of the rod-shaped member 100, so that the size of the first transmission mechanism 11 in the width direction can be reduced, and the number of the first transmission members 111 can also be reduced, that is, the density of the rotating roller can be reduced, thereby reducing the cost and the weight of the first transmission mechanism 11, and facilitating flexible deployment.

In other embodiments, the first conveying member 111 may not be a rotating roller, but may be a belt conveyor, and of course, other mechanisms capable of conveying the rod-shaped member 100 may also be used, and the present application is not limited herein.

In this embodiment, the first transmission mechanism 11 further includes a driving mechanism for driving the plurality of first transmission members 111 to rotate, for example, the driving mechanism may include a motor and a synchronous belt transmission assembly connecting an output shaft of the motor and the plurality of first transmission members 111.

In this embodiment, referring to fig. 5 and 6, in the axial extension direction of the rotary drum, that is, perpendicular to the axial extension direction of the rotary drum, the distance H between the bottom surface of the annular groove 1111 and the peripheral surface of the rotary drum tends to increase gradually and then decrease gradually, so that the cross-sectional shape of the bottom surface of the annular groove 1111 is an arc shape, which is beneficial to improving the stability of the rod-shaped member 100 in the annular groove 1111, and is beneficial to increasing the friction area between the rotary drum and the annular groove 1111, thereby being beneficial to improving the transmission efficiency.

In this embodiment, referring to fig. 7 and 8, the conveying module 1 further includes a second conveying mechanism 12 spaced from the first conveying mechanism 11 along the predetermined conveying direction D1, and a code scanning mechanism 13 located between the first conveying mechanism 11 and the second conveying mechanism 12. The scanning mechanism 13 is used to scan the bar code on the rod 100, so that the sorting address of the rod 100 and thus the sorting module 2 matching the sorting address of the rod 100 can be obtained. In addition, the barcode scanning mechanism 13 scans barcodes at the gap between the first transmission mechanism 11 and the second transmission mechanism 12, which is beneficial to avoiding the situation that barcodes cannot be scanned due to the fact that the barcodes are shielded by the first transmission mechanism 11 or the second transmission mechanism 12, and improves the applicability of the barcode scanning mechanism 13.

In this embodiment, the second conveying mechanism 12 includes a plurality of second conveying members 121 arranged at intervals along the preset conveying direction D1, and the second conveying members 121 may have the same structure as the first conveying members 111, that is, the second conveying mechanism 12 and the first conveying mechanism 11 may have the same structure, so that the mechanism in the conveying module 1 is modularized, flexible deployment can be performed according to the site space, and maintenance and replacement are facilitated.

In this embodiment, referring to fig. 8, the code scanning mechanism 13 includes a plurality of scanning lenses 131, the plurality of scanning lenses 131 are annularly disposed along the circumferential direction of the preset transmission direction D1, so that the scanning areas of the plurality of scanning lenses 131 can be combined to form an annular scanning area, thereby increasing the code scanning angle range of the code scanning mechanism 13, ensuring that the code scanning mechanism 13 can scan the barcode on the rod-shaped member 100, and further increasing the applicability of the code scanning mechanism 13.

In some embodiments, referring to fig. 1, 9-13, the rod sorting system further includes a feeder module 3 that interfaces with the conveyor module 1. The parts feeding module 3 comprises a support 31, a power part 32 and at least one conveying part 33. The conveying member 33 includes a carrying plate 331 connected to the bracket 31, a rotating wheel set 332 rotatably connected to the carrying plate 331, a conveying member 333 connected to the rotating wheel set 332, and at least one carrying portion 334 connected to the conveying member 333, wherein the carrying portion 334 has a through groove 335 for accommodating the rod-like member 100 therein. The power member 32 may drive the rotating wheel set 332 to rotate, so as to drive the transmission member 333 to move along a preset member supplying direction D3, where the preset member supplying direction D3 refers to a direction toward the conveying module 1, the rod-shaped member 100 may be placed on the bearing portion 334 and located in the through groove 335, and the through groove 335 refers to a groove through which both ends completely penetrate, that is, both ends of the through groove 335 have openings, the through groove 335 may limit the rod-shaped member 100, and the bearing portion 334 and the transmission member 333 may move simultaneously, so that the rod-shaped member 100 and the transmission member 333 are relatively stationary, so as to avoid relative movement between the rod-shaped member 100 and the transmission member 333, and prevent the rod-shaped member 100 from rolling, so that the rod-shaped member 100 may be accurately transported to the conveying module 1, so as to improve the member supplying efficiency of the rod-shaped member 100, and further improve the sorting efficiency of the rod-shaped member 100.

In this embodiment, the transfer member 333 may be a transfer belt. Of course, other conveying mechanisms, such as a conveying chain, may be used, and the present application is not limited thereto. The bearing part 334 may be a light material such as plastic or rubber to reduce the bearing weight of the transmission member 333. Further, the bearing part 334 may be integrally formed with the transmission member 333.

In this embodiment, referring to fig. 9, the power member 32 may include a driving motor 321 connected to the bracket 31, and a driving shaft 322 connected to the driving motor 321, wherein the driving shaft 322 is connected to the rotating wheel set 332. That is, the driving shaft 322 may be connected to the driving wheel of the rotating wheel set 332, so as to drive the conveying member to move, and when the conveying members 33 are in a plurality of numbers, the driving shaft 322 may be connected to both the rotating wheel sets 332 of the plurality of conveying members 33, so as to enable one driving motor 321 to drive the plurality of conveying members 333 to move simultaneously, which not only saves the cost, but also enables the plurality of conveying members 333 to move consistently, thereby ensuring the transportation stability of the rod-shaped member 100.

In this embodiment, the driving motor 321 is a reduction motor, which is a combination of a motor and a reducer, and has a characteristic of low rotation speed and large torque. The reduction motor is directly connected to the drive shaft 322. Of course, the speed reduction motor may not be directly connected to the driving shaft 322, but may be connected to the driving shaft 322 through the first transmission member 323, and the first transmission member 323 may include a timing belt, a first synchronous wheel and a second synchronous wheel, the first synchronous wheel is connected to an output shaft of the speed reduction motor, the second synchronous wheel is connected to the driving shaft 322, and the timing belt is connected to the first synchronous wheel and the second synchronous wheel.

In this embodiment, the cross-sectional shape of the through slot 335 may be circular arc-shaped so as to accommodate various shapes of the rod 100, for example, the rod 100 having a rectangular, triangular or cylindrical cross-sectional shape and to limit the various shapes of the rod 100.

In this embodiment, the openings at both ends of the through groove 335 are aligned in a direction perpendicular to the conveying direction of the conveying member 333. That is, the connecting line of the openings at the two ends of the through groove 335 is perpendicular to the transmission direction of the transmission member 333, the rod-shaped member 100 is located in the through groove 335 and passes through the through groove 335 along the axial extending direction, the transmission direction of the transmission member 333, that is, the preset member supplying direction D3 is perpendicular to the axial extending direction of the rod-shaped member 100, the preset member supplying direction D3 is also perpendicular to the preset transmission direction D1, the transmission member 333 can transport the rod-shaped member 100 to the conveying module 1 along the direction perpendicular to the axial extending direction of the rod-shaped member 100, so that the conveying module 1 can transport the rod-shaped member 100 along the axial extending direction of the rod-shaped member 100, and the rod-shaped member 100 can be sorted by the hooking component 212.

In this embodiment, the number of the conveying members 33 is plural, and the conveying directions of the plural conveying members 333 are parallel to each other. When the rod-shaped member 100 is large in size, the bearing portions 334 of the plurality of transmission members 333 can simultaneously bear the rod-shaped member 100, so that the transportation of the rod-shaped member 100 is more stable.

In this embodiment, referring to fig. 9 to fig. 13, the component supplying module 3 further includes a lifting member 34, the bracket 31 includes a frame 311 and a mounting plate 312 movably connected to the frame 311, the lifting member 34 is mounted on the frame 311 and abuts against the mounting plate 312, and the power member 32 and the conveying member 33 are mounted on the mounting plate 312. That is, the jacking member 34 can drive the mounting plate 312 to move up and down along the vertical direction, so as to drive the power member 32 and the conveying member 33 to move up and down, so as to change the transportation height of the rod-shaped members 100, adapt to the conveying modules 1 with different heights, and improve the applicability of the rod-shaped member sorting system.

In this embodiment, the bracket 31 further includes at least one guide shaft 313, the guide shaft 313 is slidably connected to the frame 311, and one end of the guide shaft 313 is connected to the mounting plate 312, and when the mounting plate 312 is lifted, the guide shaft 313 can guide the mounting plate 312 so that the mounting plate 312 can be lifted along the axial extension direction of the guide shaft 313.

In this embodiment, referring to fig. 9 to 13, the conveying module 1 includes a plurality of second conveying members 121 arranged at intervals along the preset conveying direction D1, and one end of each conveying member 333 is located at a gap between two adjacent second conveying members 121. The jack 34 is configured to drive the mounting plate 312 to descend from the preset first height position to the preset second height position when the transmission member 333 transports the rod 100 to the preset transfer position, so that the rod 100 abuts against the second transfer member 121.

The preset transfer position refers to an end of the rod 100 at a position where the transmission member 333 is located in a gap between two adjacent second transmission members 121, that is, a position where the rod 100 is located directly above the second transmission members 121, the preset first height position refers to a position above the conveying surface of the second transmission members 121, and the preset second height position refers to a position below the conveying surface of the second transmission members 121, and when the jacking member 34 drives the mounting plate 312 to descend from the preset first height position to the preset second height position, the rod 100 abuts against the second transmission members 121, so that the rod 100 can be transferred from the transmission member 333 to the second transmission members 121. That is, the transmission member 333 and the second transmission member 121 can work independently and do not interfere with each other, which not only improves the member supply efficiency, but also reduces the member supply difficulty.

In this embodiment, the plurality of second conveying members 121 in the conveying module 1 refer to the second conveying mechanism 12 in the above embodiment, the member supplying module 3 is docked with the second conveying mechanism 12, the rod-shaped members 100 are firstly conveyed to the second conveying mechanism 12, the second conveying mechanism 12 conveys the rod-shaped members 100 to the first conveying mechanism 11, and the rod-shaped members 100 can pass through the code scanning mechanism 13.

In this embodiment, the lifting member 34 may include a motor 341 mounted on the frame 311, and a cam 342 connected to the motor 341, the cam 342 being rotatably connected to the frame 311 and abutting against the mounting plate 312. That is, the connection position of the motor 341 and the cam 342 is located at the eccentric position of the cam 342, such as an eccentric hole, the motor 341 can drive the cam 342 to rotate, so as to change the distance between the eccentric position of the cam 342 and the abutting position of the cam 342 and the mounting plate 312, thereby periodically changing the distance between the eccentric position of the cam 342 and the abutting position of the cam 342 and the mounting plate 312, enabling the mounting plate 312 to regularly reciprocate between the preset first height position and the preset second height position, realizing the feeding of a fixed beat time, and ensuring the feeding efficiency.

In this embodiment, the motor 341 may not be directly connected to the cam 342, but may be connected to the cam 342 through a second transmission 343, and the second transmission 343 may include a timing belt, a first synchronizing wheel connected to the output shaft of the motor 341, a second synchronizing wheel connected to the cam 342, and a synchronizing shaft connected to the first synchronizing wheel and the second synchronizing wheel.

In other embodiments, the jacking member 34 may not adopt the arrangement of the motor 341 and the cam 342, but may adopt other mechanisms with jacking functions, for example, an air cylinder or a hydraulic cylinder is used as the jacking member 34 to drive the mounting plate 312 to lift, which is not limited herein.

Referring to fig. 14, based on the above-mentioned rod sorting system, the present application further provides a rod sorting method applied to the above-mentioned rod sorting system, the rod sorting method comprising:

step S1, a conveying module 1 conveys the rod-shaped pieces 100 along a preset conveying direction D1, and conveys the rod-shaped pieces 100 to an appointed sorting position, wherein the appointed sorting position is one preset sorting position which is matched with a sorting address of the rod-shaped pieces 100 in a plurality of preset sorting positions;

in step S2, in one sorting module 2 corresponding to the designated sorting position, the driving member 213 drives the hooking component 212 to rotate by a predetermined angle along the predetermined rotation direction D2, and the hooking component 212 abuts against the rod-shaped member 100 located at the designated sorting position during the rotation process, so as to transfer the rod-shaped member 100 to the sorting cell 22.

It should be noted that, the hooking component 212 abuts against the rod-shaped member 100 located at the preset sorting position in the rotating process, that is, the designated sorting position, the hooking component 212 abuts against the rod-shaped member 100 before rotating to the preset angle, the hooking component 212 then rotates, and when the hooking component 212 rotates to the preset angle, the rod-shaped member 100 flies out of the hooking component 212 under the inertia effect, so that the rod-shaped member 100 is transferred to the sorting grid 22, and therefore the rod-shaped member 100 can be sorted into the sorting grid 22 matched with the sorting address of the rod-shaped member, and the rod-shaped member 100 does not need to be sorted manually, which not only can improve the sorting efficiency, but also can reduce the labor intensity.

In the above embodiments, the descriptions of the respective embodiments have respective emphasis, and parts that are not described in detail in a certain embodiment may refer to the above detailed descriptions of other embodiments, and are not described herein again.

In a specific implementation, each component or structure may be implemented as an independent entity, or may be combined arbitrarily and implemented as one or several entities, and the specific implementation of each component or structure may refer to the foregoing embodiments, which are not described herein again.

The rod sorting system and the rod sorting method according to the embodiments of the present invention are described in detail above, and the principle and the implementation of the present invention are described herein by using specific embodiments, and the description of the embodiments is only used to help understanding the method and the core concept of the present invention; meanwhile, for those skilled in the art, according to the idea of the present invention, there may be variations in the specific embodiments and the application scope, and in summary, the content of the present specification should not be construed as a limitation to the present invention.

Claims (15)

1. A stem sorting system, comprising: the device comprises a conveying module and a plurality of sorting modules;

the conveying module conveys the rod-shaped pieces along a preset conveying direction;

the sorting modules are positioned on one side of the conveying module and are arranged along a preset conveying direction, and the sorting modules respectively correspond to a plurality of preset sorting positions on the conveying module;

the sorting module comprises a material hooking device and a sorting grid opening positioned on one side of the material hooking device, the material hooking device comprises a supporting piece, a material hooking component and a driving piece, and the material hooking component is rotatably connected with the supporting piece;

the driving piece is connected with the supporting piece and the material hooking component and used for driving the material hooking component to rotate for a preset angle along a preset rotating direction, and the material hooking component is abutted against the rod-shaped piece located on a preset sorting position in the rotating process so as to transfer the rod-shaped piece to the sorting grid opening.

2. The rod sorting system according to claim 1, wherein the hook assembly comprises a shaft, a plurality of hooks and a connecting rod;

the pivot with support piece is connected, and is a plurality of collude the material piece with the pivot is rotated and is connected, and with the connecting rod is connected, the connecting rod with the driving piece is connected.

3. The rod sorting system according to claim 2, wherein the hook member includes a rotating portion connected to the rotating shaft and the connecting rod, and a blocking portion connected to the rotating portion.

4. The stem sorting system of claim 3, wherein the rotating portion comprises a motive portion located between the connecting rod and the spindle, and a resistive portion located between the spindle and the blocking portion, the resistive portion having a length greater than a length of the motive portion.

5. The rod sorting system according to any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein the transport module comprises a first transport mechanism comprising a plurality of first transports spaced apart in a predetermined transport direction;

the material hooking component is positioned between two adjacent first conveying pieces and below the conveying surface of the first conveying pieces.

6. The rod sorting system according to claim 5, wherein the first transfer member comprises a rotating drum provided with an annular groove for receiving the rod.

7. The rod-shaped piece sorting system according to claim 6, wherein the distance between the bottom surface of the annular groove and the circumferential surface of the rotating drum is gradually increased and then gradually decreased along the axial extension direction of the rotating drum.

8. The rod sorter system of claim 5 wherein the conveyor module further includes a second transport mechanism spaced from the first transport mechanism in a predetermined transport direction and a code scanner mechanism positioned between the first transport mechanism and the second transport mechanism.

9. The rod sorting system according to claim 8, wherein the code scanning mechanism includes a plurality of scanning lenses which are arranged in a ring shape in a circumferential direction of the preset conveying direction.

10. The rod sorting system according to any one of claims 1-4, further comprising a feeder module interfacing with the conveyor module;

the workpiece supply module comprises a bracket, a power part and at least one conveying part;

the conveying piece comprises a bearing plate connected with the support, a rotating wheel set connected with the bearing plate in a rotating mode and connected with the power piece, a conveying piece connected with the rotating wheel set, and at least one bearing part connected with the conveying piece, wherein a through groove used for containing the rod-shaped piece is formed in the bearing part.

11. The rod-shaped item sorting system according to claim 10, wherein the openings at the two ends of the through slot are aligned in a direction perpendicular to the conveying direction of the conveying elements.

12. The rod sorting system according to claim 11, wherein the number of the transport elements is plural, and the transport directions of the plural transport elements are parallel to each other.

13. The rod sorting system according to claim 10, wherein the feeder module further comprises a lift member, the frame includes a frame and a mounting plate movably coupled to the frame, the lift member is mounted to the frame and abuts the mounting plate, and the power member and the transport member are mounted to the mounting plate.

14. The rod sorter system of claim 13 wherein the conveyor module includes a plurality of second conveyors spaced apart along a predetermined conveying direction, one end of the conveyor being located in a gap between adjacent ones of the second conveyors;

the jacking piece is used for driving the mounting plate to descend to a preset second height position from a preset first height position when the transmission piece transports the rod-shaped piece to the preset transfer position, so that the rod-shaped piece is abutted to the second conveying piece.

15. A method of sorting sticks, for use in a stick sorting system according to any one of claims 1 to 14, the method comprising:

the conveying module conveys the rod-shaped pieces along a preset conveying direction to an appointed sorting position, wherein the appointed sorting position is one preset sorting position matched with the sorting address of the rod-shaped pieces in a plurality of preset sorting positions;

in one sorting module corresponding to the appointed sorting position, the driving piece drives the material hooking component to rotate for a preset angle along a preset rotation direction, and the material hooking component is abutted against the rod-shaped piece located on the appointed sorting position in the rotation process so as to transfer the rod-shaped piece to the sorting grid.

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