CN115815786A

CN115815786A - Automatic laser etching equipment with compact structure and laser etching method

Info

Publication number: CN115815786A
Application number: CN202111459901.3A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 唐永平; 曹瑜
Original assignee: Suzhou New Continent Precision Technology Co ltd
Current assignee: Suzhou New Continent Precision Technology Co ltd
Priority date: 2021-12-02
Filing date: 2021-12-02
Publication date: 2023-03-21

Abstract

The invention discloses automatic laser etching equipment with a compact structure and a laser etching method, wherein the laser etching equipment comprises a machine table, wherein a feeding station, a jacking station, a loading overturning station, a loading station, a positioning station, a blanking overturning station and a falling station are formed on the machine table; it is still including setting up the loading attachment in jacking station and loading station department, sets up positioner on the location station sets up radium carving device on the board sets up transfer device on the board sets up the unloader in the station of falling back and unloading station department, and sets up material conveyer on the board, pay-off station, jacking station and the station of falling back are arranged material conveyer is last. The automatic laser etching equipment provided by the invention has the advantages that the stations are reasonably arranged, the accelerated circulation of materials is realized through the lifting, overturning and omnibearing transfer devices, the material circulation time and distance are shortened, and the material laser etching efficiency is further improved.

Description

Automatic laser etching equipment with compact structure and laser etching method

Technical Field

The invention relates to the technical field of laser equipment, in particular to automatic laser etching equipment and a laser etching method with a compact structure.

Background

Laser processing, also known as laser processing, is a processing process of irradiating a light beam with high energy density to the surface of a material to vaporize the material or change the color of the material, and is an advanced manufacturing technology, and has numerous fields of non-contact, no need of tools and dies, high efficiency, convenience in numerical control and capability of being used for special processing, and the laser processing is widely applied to automobile, metallurgy, aerospace, machinery, textile, chemical engineering, building, shipbuilding, instruments and meters, microelectronic industry, artwork manufacturing, daily living goods and industrial goods manufacturing and the like, and is used for punching, cutting, milling, welding, etching, strengthening and repairing of large parts, material surface modification and material synthesis, rapid manufacturing of dies, models and parts, artwork manufacturing and cleaning, product marking, anti-counterfeiting and the like.

Laser processing is also increasingly applied to the technical field of manufacturing of precision instruments such as notebook computers and mobile phones, the precision instruments have high requirements on the position precision of laser, and certain products need to be subjected to special mark laser at specific positions, so that high-precision operations such as processing surfaces, processing angles, specific processing position positioning and the like at specific positions need to be determined in the laser process, and the requirements on the positioning and adjustability of laser equipment on the products in the processing process are high. And present laser beam machining equipment is mostly semi-automatic mode, and there is great promotion space in the automation level, and the participation of people is higher under the semi-automatic mode, thinks the error great in the course of working, and it is not suitable for the high positioning accuracy requirement of precision instruments. On this basis current radium carving equipment occupation of land space is great, and the circulation of material between each station has taken up more time, and the station design is unreasonable, leads to production cycle to lengthen. Therefore, the existing semi-automatic laser processing equipment in production practice has more defects and shortcomings, and it is necessary to improve the existing technology and design a laser processing equipment with higher automation degree for precision instruments.

Disclosure of Invention

This section summarizes some aspects of the present disclosure and briefly introduces some preferred embodiments. Simplifications or omissions in this section as well as the description in the abstract or the title may be made to avoid obscuring the purpose of this section, the abstract or the title. Such simplifications or omissions are not intended to limit the scope of the present disclosure.

The invention aims to provide automatic laser etching equipment with a compact structure, which comprises a machine table, wherein a feeding device, a transferring device, a positioning device, a laser etching device and a discharging device are integrated on the machine table, through the coordination and the coordination of the functional devices, the laser etching equipment can continuously and automatically complete the feeding, transferring, laser etching and discharging of materials, a plurality of stations are correspondingly arranged on the machine table, the stations are reasonably connected, the material circulation mode is met, and the material circulation time is saved. The detailed technical scheme of the invention is as follows:

an automatic radium carving equipment of compact structure, it includes:

the board, be formed with pay-off station, jacking station, material loading upset station, material loading station, location station, unloading upset station and the station that falls back on the board, wherein: the feeding station, the jacking station and the falling station are sequentially arranged on a first axis parallel to a first horizontal axis; the feeding overturning station, the feeding station, the discharging station and the discharging overturning station are arranged on a second axis parallel to the first horizontal axis; the feeding overturning station is arranged right above the jacking station and is adjacent to the feeding station; the blanking overturning station is arranged right above the falling station and is adjacent to the blanking station; the feeding station and the positioning station are sequentially arranged on a third axis parallel to a second horizontal axis, and the first horizontal axis and the second horizontal axis are vertical to each other;

the feeding device is arranged at the jacking station and the feeding station, and is configured to realize the feeding of incoming materials from the feeding station to the feeding station;

the positioning device is arranged on the positioning station and is configured to position the material;

the laser etching device is arranged on the machine table and is configured to perform laser etching on materials, and a laser etching station is formed on the laser etching device;

the transfer device is arranged on the machine table and is configured to pick up materials from the feeding station, position the picked materials on the positioning station, transfer the positioned materials into the laser etching device for laser etching, and transfer the materials subjected to laser etching to the discharging station;

the blanking device is arranged at the falling station and the blanking station and is configured to realize blanking of the laser-engraved material on the blanking station to the falling station; and

the material conveying device is arranged on the machine table, and the feeding station, the jacking station and the falling station are arranged on the material conveying device.

Above-mentioned technical scheme is further, material transfer device includes conveyer belt and drive the driving motor that the conveyer belt removed, the conveyer belt is by the realization of configuration to the conveying of material, loading attachment certainly pick up the material on the conveyer belt, unloader passes through the conveyer belt will be transported the material conveying to its on-line station, the station of next line includes the dust removal station, be provided with dust collector on the dust removal station.

Furthermore, the material conveying device further comprises a material containing disc, the material containing disc is arranged on a feeding station of the conveying belt and configured to contain materials, the material containing disc containing the materials moves along with the conveying belt on the conveying belt, and the material containing disc is driven by the conveying belt to move from the feeding station to a jacking station.

Further, the feeding station, the jacking station and the falling station are sequentially arranged on the conveyor belt along the material conveying direction of the material conveying device.

Furthermore, the feeding device comprises two oppositely arranged lifting mechanisms and a turnover mechanism arranged adjacent to the lifting mechanisms.

Furthermore, the two lifting mechanisms are arranged on two sides of the conveyor belt relatively, each lifting mechanism comprises a jacking block and a lifting driving assembly, the lifting driving assemblies drive the jacking blocks to reciprocate up and down, the jacking blocks are close to the side edges of the conveyor belt, and the two jacking blocks arranged relatively form jacking stations of the material storage disc.

At a certain moment, the height of the jacking block is basically flush with or lower than the upper surface of the conveying belt, after a material containing disc bearing materials is conveyed to the jacking station, the lifting driving assembly drives the jacking block to move upwards, so that the material containing disc is lifted away from the conveying belt, and the surface of the materials to be laser engraved is upwards placed in the material containing disc.

Further, the turnover mechanism comprises a fixing frame and a turnover assembly connected to the fixing frame, one or more suckers are arranged on the turnover assembly, the turnover assembly is configured to rotate along the fixing frame, so that the suckers on the turnover assembly pick up materials on the material storage disc from the jacking station, and after the materials are picked up, the turnover assembly is rotated and reset, so that the surfaces of the materials to be laser etched are placed on the suckers in a downward mode.

Furthermore, the overturning assembly comprises an overturning shaft connected to the fixed frame and an overturning arm connected with the overturning shaft, and the sucker is arranged on the overturning arm; at a certain moment, the overturning arm is horizontally arranged on one side of the overturning shaft, the material containing disc is arranged on the other side of the overturning disc, and the sucker on the overturning arm deviates from the conveyor belt to form a feeding station; after the material containing disc is jacked from the jacking station to the material overturning station, the overturning arm rotates along the central axis of the overturning shaft to drive the sucker to rotate towards the direction of the conveyor belt, so that the sucker adsorbs and picks up materials from the material overturning station; after the materials are picked up, the overturning arm rotates along the central axis of the overturning shaft to reset to the feeding station, the no-load material containing disc resets to the jacking station along with the descending of the jacking block, and the surface to be radium engraved of the materials at the feeding station faces the conveyor belt.

Further, the central axis of the turnover shaft is perpendicular to the central axis of the conveyor belt.

Further, the transfer device includes base, first linking arm, second linking arm, third linking arm and adsorption component, base and board fixed connection, the one end of first linking arm with base swing joint, the other end with second linking arm swing joint, the one end of third linking arm with second linking arm swing joint, the other end with adsorption component swing joint.

Furthermore, first linking arm can be relative the horizontal rotation of base, the second linking arm with first linking arm rotates in vertical direction relatively, the third linking arm with the second linking arm rotates in vertical direction relatively, adsorption component is relative the third linking arm rotates in vertical direction relatively, just adsorption component can follow it with the rotation of third linking arm junction.

Further, the adsorption assembly comprises a claw disc and one or more suckers arranged on the claw disc, the transfer device adsorbs materials from the feeding device through the suckers, and the adsorbed materials are placed on the positioning device;

furthermore, the base sets up on the board, just the base sets up with material transfer device relatively, adsorption component will be from the material that the material loading station picked up is placed and is fixed a position on the location station, and after the location was accomplished, adsorption component will be from the material that picks up on the location station is placed radium carving station department of radium carving device carries out radium carving, and will accomplish the material of radium carving and place on the unloading station.

Furthermore, the positioning device comprises a positioning fixture, and the positioning fixture comprises a positioning panel, a positioning assembly arranged at the edge of the positioning panel, and a positioning adsorption piece; the positioning panel is erected on the machine table through a support, a through hole is formed in the center of the positioning panel, and the positioning adsorption piece is installed in the through hole through a connecting plate.

Furthermore, the locating panel is a rectangular panel, which has two opposite long edges and two opposite short edges, one long edge and one short edge are respectively provided with a groove which is inwards recessed at the edge of the rectangular panel, a locating block is embedded in the groove, a clamping piece is clamped on the outer edge of the other short edge, and a plurality of supporting bulges are arranged on the locating panel which is close to the other long edge.

Further, the transfer device places the adsorbed material on the positioning panel, the positioning block, the clamping piece and the supporting protrusion together position the material, the positioning adsorption piece adsorbs and fixes the material, and the surface to be laser-etched of the material faces the positioning adsorption piece; when the transfer device picks up the positioned material from the positioning fixture, the positioning adsorption piece releases the adsorbed material.

Further, the radium carving device has a laser light source, the light beam that the laser light source sent penetrates directly the radium carving station, the material that transfer device will accomplish the location is transported extremely radium carving station department, and will the waiting radium carving face of material faces laser light source, works as radium carving device accomplishes the radium carving back to the material, transfer device with the material of radium carving after transporting extremely on the unloader, transfer device will the surface that the material has accomplished the radium carving is arranged in down on unloader's the unloading station.

Further, unloader with the adjacent setting of loading attachment, unloader with the loading attachment structure is the same, belongs to sucking disc on unloader's the tilting mechanism forms the unloading station, transfer device will accomplish the material of radium carving and transport to on the unloading station, unloader's tilting mechanism orientation the material storage disc on unloader's the elevating system rotates, the material storage disc is located unloading upset station, and the material of accomplishing radium carving is settled by the release of sucking disc on the unloading device in the material storage disc, the surface that the material had accomplished radium carving is arranged in up in the material storage disc, and the material storage disc that is bearing the material of accomplishing radium carving falls along with unloader's elevating system descends to fall-back station department, fall-back station is located on the conveyer belt, the drive belt will be bearing the material of accomplishing radium carving the material storage disc is carried to back way dust removal station.

Based on the automatic laser etching equipment with a compact structure, the invention also provides a laser etching method adaptive to the automatic laser etching equipment, which comprises the following steps:

sequentially placing a plurality of material containing discs bearing materials on a conveying belt of a material conveying device in sequence, wherein the surfaces of the materials to be laser engraved are placed in the material containing discs upwards, and the material containing discs move from a feeding station on the conveying belt to a jacking station of the material conveying device;

the material loading device lifts the material containing disc on the jacking station upwards to a material overturning station through a lifting mechanism, and adsorbs materials from the material overturning station through a sucker of the overturning mechanism;

a transfer device picks up materials from the loading station and places the materials on a positioning station for positioning, after the positioning is completed, the transfer device picks up the materials from the positioning station and transfers the materials to a laser engraving station of a laser engraving device, so that a surface to be engraved with the materials faces a laser light source of the laser engraving device, and the laser engraving device completes laser engraving of the materials;

the transferring device transfers the material subjected to laser etching to a discharging station of a turnover mechanism of a discharging device, the surface of the material subjected to laser etching is downwards arranged on the discharging station, the turnover mechanism of the discharging device drives the material to turn towards a lifting mechanism of the discharging device, so that a sucking disc of the turnover mechanism releases the material in a material accommodating disc on the discharging turning station of the lifting mechanism, and the surface of the material subjected to laser etching is upwards arranged in the material accommodating disc; the lifting mechanism descends and resets to enable the material containing disc bearing the finished laser engraving to be arranged on a falling station, the falling station is located on the conveyor belt, and the material containing disc bearing the finished laser engraving is conveyed to a subsequent dedusting station by the conveyor belt.

Compared with the prior art, the automatic laser etching equipment with the compact structure provided by the invention is integrated with a plurality of functional devices for feeding, transferring, positioning, laser etching and discharging, all the devices are coordinated and matched, the automation degree is higher, people do not need to participate in the laser etching process, the positioning of the laser etching position is adjusted by a machine standard, a batch of manufactured products have a uniform production standard, the problems of inaccurate positioning and no uniform positioning standard caused by human intervention are integrally reduced, and the production efficiency can be improved by a full-automatic production mode; furthermore, the arrangement among all stations of the automatic laser etching equipment is reasonable, the accelerated circulation of materials is realized through lifting, overturning and omnibearing transfer devices, the material circulation time and distance are shortened, and the material laser etching efficiency is improved.

Drawings

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

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram illustrating a change in a position state of a material flowing in a laser etching apparatus when the apparatus is used to perform a single-sided laser etching on the material;

FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram illustrating an overall structure of a laser etching apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 3 is a schematic structural diagram of a feeding device of a laser etching apparatus provided in the present invention at a viewing angle in an embodiment;

fig. 4 is a schematic structural diagram of a transfer device of the laser etching apparatus provided in the present invention at a viewing angle in an embodiment;

FIG. 5 is a schematic structural diagram of a positioning apparatus of a laser etching apparatus provided in the present invention at a viewing angle in an embodiment;

FIG. 6 is a schematic structural diagram of a partial structure of a laser etching apparatus provided by the present invention in one embodiment, wherein a loading device and a unloading device mounted on a material conveying device are shown;

FIG. 7 is a schematic diagram illustrating a positioning panel of the laser etching apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 8 is a schematic view of a state in which a material is adsorbed by a material receiving tray on a self-jacking station of a turnover mechanism of the loading device in one embodiment of the invention; (ii) a

Fig. 9 is a schematic diagram of the state of the turnover mechanism shown in fig. 8 after the material is adsorbed and the turnover mechanism drives the material to turn over and reset;

FIG. 10 is a schematic view illustrating a state of a discharging device when a transferring device according to an embodiment of the present invention places a material subjected to laser etching on a suction cup of a turnover mechanism of the discharging device; (ii) a

Fig. 11 is a schematic view of a state that a turnover mechanism of the blanking device shown in fig. 10 adsorbs materials through a suction cup and drives the materials to be turned over and released into a material storage tray on a jacking station of the blanking device;

fig. 12 is a schematic view of an overall layout structure of a full-automatic laser etching apparatus production line including 7 laser etching apparatuses in one embodiment.

Wherein: 10-a machine platform;

20-a material transfer device; 21-a conveyor belt; 22-a drive motor; 23-a material receiving tray;

30-a feeding device; 31-a lifting mechanism; 311-jacking blocks; 312-a lift drive assembly; 32-a turnover mechanism; 321-a fixed frame; 322-a flip assembly; 323-overturning shaft; 324-a flipping arm; 325-suction cup;

40-a transfer device; 41-a base; 42-a first connecting arm; 43-a second linking arm; 44-a third connecting arm; 45-an adsorption component; 451-claw disk;

50-a positioning device; 51-a positioning jig; 511-positioning the panel; 5111-a through-hole; 512-a positioning assembly; 5121-positioning blocks; 5122-fastener; 5123-support protrusions; 513-positioning adsorption element; 5131-a connecting plate;

60-laser etching device; 61-laser light source;

70-a blanking device; 71-a lifting mechanism; 711-jacking block; 712-a lift drive assembly; 72-a turnover mechanism; 721-a fixed mount; 722-a flip assembly; 723-overturning shaft; 724-turning over the arm; 725-suction cup;

80-mobile phone back shell; a-the back surface of the back shell of the mobile phone; b, the front surface of the rear shell of the mobile phone;

-the back side of the mobile phone back shell after laser etching is completed;

90-a dust removal device;

the device comprises a feeding station a, a jacking station b, a loading overturning station c, a loading station d, a positioning station e, a radium carving station f, a blanking station g, a blanking overturning station h, a falling station i and a dedusting station j.

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 detailed description of the present invention is presented primarily in terms of procedures, steps, logic blocks, processes, or other symbolic representations that directly or indirectly simulate operations of aspects of the present invention. Those skilled in the art will be able to utilize the description and illustrations herein to effectively introduce other skilled in the art to their working essence.

Reference herein to "one embodiment" or "an embodiment" means that a feature, structure, or characteristic described in connection with the embodiment can be included in at least an implementation of the invention. The appearances of the phrase "in one embodiment" in various places in the specification are not necessarily all referring to the same embodiment, nor are separate or alternative embodiments mutually exclusive of other embodiments. Additionally, the order of blocks in a method, flowchart, or functional block diagram representing one or more embodiments is not a fixed order, but rather is a fixed order, referring to any particular order, and is not intended to limit the present invention.

As shown in fig. 1, a schematic diagram of a position state change of a material flowing in the apparatus when the laser etching apparatus provided by the present invention is used to perform a designated single-sided laser etching on the material is shown. The figure schematically shows a flat rectangular material, which can be understood as having a front side and a back side, the side marked with A in the figure being defined as the back side, and also the surface of the target to be laser engravedAnd the side marked as B is a front side, which does not need to be laser etched. Therefore, the materials shown in the figure need to be set into laser etching equipment for automatic turning and positioning to realize appointed single-side laser etching. Labeled as in FIG. 1

The surface of (A) is the surface A after the laser etching is finished. In one embodiment, the material can be a mobile phone back shell of a commercially available apple mobile phone, and the back surface of the mobile phone back shell needs to be subjected to pattern laser etching.

The standard flow when the laser etching equipment provided by the invention is used for carrying out laser etching on the material shown in the figure 1 is as follows:

step one, feeding, namely sequentially placing material containing discs 23 bearing materials on a conveyor belt 21 of a material conveying device 20, wherein the surfaces of the materials to be laser etched are upwards placed in the material containing discs 23, the material containing discs 23 can be made of foam and other isolation materials and used for protecting the outer surfaces of the materials so as to avoid surface abrasion in the conveying process, and the material containing discs 23 bearing the materials can be placed on the conveyor belt 21 manually or by using a mechanical arm and other feeding devices;

secondly, loading, wherein the loading device 30 lifts and picks up materials from the conveyor belt 21 through the lifting mechanism 31, the materials are adsorbed from the lifting mechanism 31 through the suction cup 325 of the turnover mechanism 32, and after the materials are adsorbed, the turnover mechanism 32 is turned over and reset, so that the surface of the materials to be laser-etched is placed on the suction cup 325 in a downward mode;

thirdly, the materials are transported to a laser etching station for laser etching, and the third step specifically comprises the following steps: through transfer device 40 from pick up the material on the sucking disc 325 of tilting mechanism 32, and will the material is placed and is fixed a position on positioner 50, and the back is accomplished in the location, transfer device 40 certainly pick up the material on positioner 50 and transport the material to radium carving station department of radium carving device 60, makes the radium carving surface of treating of material is towards radium carving device 60's laser light source 61, radium carving device 60 accomplishes radium carving to the material.

Step four, the materials which are subjected to laser etching are discharged onto the conveyor belt 21 and transported to a subsequent station, and the method specifically comprises the following steps: the material completing the laser etching is transferred to a sucking disc 725 of a turnover mechanism 72 of a blanking device 70 through a transfer device 40, the surface of the material completing the laser etching is placed on the sucking disc 725 downwards, the turnover mechanism 72 of the blanking device 70 drives the material to turn towards a lifting mechanism 71 of the blanking device 70, so that the sucking disc 725 releases the material into a material containing disc 23 on a jacking station of the lifting mechanism 71, the surface of the material completing the laser etching is placed in the material containing disc 23 upwards, the lifting mechanism 71 descends and resets to enable the material containing disc 23 bearing the completed laser etching to be placed on a conveyor belt 21, and the material containing disc 23 bearing the completed laser etching is transported to a next dedusting station by the conveyor belt 21. Thus, a complete laser etching process of a material is completed.

In order to improve the efficiency of material laser etching, on a single device, starting from the four steps, an automatic device for each operation step can be developed in a targeted manner, so that the automation of the operation step is realized. Further, it is necessary to develop a suitable sub-device or mechanism for the sub-step in each step to automate the sub-step. For example, for the loading device 30, since this step includes two sub-steps of material lifting, material adsorbing and turning, etc., it may be necessary to develop two sub-devices or mechanisms for the two sub-steps. Of course, in order to realize the automation of the whole process of material laser etching, the automation devices for all the steps can be integrated together. The present invention is proposed based on the above inventive concept, and the following will exemplarily describe the automatic apparatus and the complete automatic material laser etching apparatus for each operation step according to various embodiments.

Material conveying device

In this embodiment, the present invention provides a material conveying apparatus 20, where the material conveying apparatus 20 may include a conveyor belt 21 and a driving motor 22 for driving the conveyor belt 21 to move, the conveyor belt 21 is configured to realize conveying of a material, the feeding apparatus 30 picks up the material from the conveyor belt 21, and the discharging apparatus 70 conveys the material transferred thereto to a subsequent station through the conveyor belt 21. Therefore, this material transfer device 20 mainly used cooperates with loading attachment 30 and unloader 70, realizes waiting the material of radium carving material to and the recovery of the material of radium carving is transported, is the important function device of radium carving equipment automation realization.

Of course, referring to fig. 6, fig. 6 shows a structure of the material conveying device 20 in an embodiment, the illustrated material conveying device 20 mainly passes through a main body of a main transmission line of the conveyor belt 21, which is a more general technical implementation means in the conveying device at the present stage, certainly on the premise of ensuring functions, the conveyor belt 21 has low cost and strong versatility, and the maintenance means is replaced by a replacement means, and the application of the conveyor belt 21 in actual production is an efficient production means which saves cost and reduces failure repair difficulty.

With continued reference to fig. 6, the illustrated material conveying apparatus 20 is further provided with a material receiving tray 23, the material receiving tray 23 is disposed on the conveyor belt 21, the material receiving tray 23 is configured to receive materials, the material receiving tray 23 receiving materials moves on the conveyor belt 21 along with the conveyor belt 21, the use of the material receiving tray avoids the wear of the surface of the materials, and the use of a mechanical structure to realize automatic feeding during feeding can also avoid the wear of the materials by hard objects such as the mechanical structure.

Feeding device

In the present embodiment, the present invention provides a material loading device 30. It can realize carrying out radium carving to the material loading of material, can supply transfer device 40 to pick up the back with material loading to material loading station department.

This loading attachment 30 can be treated the material of radium carving and carry and overturn, and at this moment, the reality that goes on in this loading attachment 30 has two processes, and the preceding process is the material loading process, and the process that is next is the upset process promptly. Obviously, the feeding device 30 can also be divided into a feeding device 30 and an overturning device according to the process, and the divided feeding device 30 can also be used as the feeding device 30 of other material handling devices, and the embodiment is not particularly limited.

As shown in fig. 3, 6, 8 and 9, a jacking station and a loading station are formed in the loading device 30 in the embodiment of the present invention. The feeding device 30 may include two oppositely disposed lifting mechanisms 31, and a turnover mechanism 32 disposed adjacent to the lifting mechanisms 31.

In one embodiment, referring to fig. 6, the two lifting mechanisms 31 are oppositely arranged on two sides of the conveyor belt 21 in the width direction, the lifting mechanisms 31 include lifting blocks 311 and lifting driving assemblies 312, the lifting driving assemblies 312 drive the lifting blocks 311 to reciprocate up and down, the lifting blocks 311 are close to the side edges of the conveyor belt 21, and the two lifting blocks 311 oppositely arranged form lifting stations of the material receiving tray 23. This lift drive assembly 312 can be one and drive actuating cylinder, and it has the actuating lever, and the actuating lever links to each other with jacking piece 311, drives actuating cylinder and can realize jacking or fall back to jacking piece 311 according to equipment controlling means's control.

At a certain moment, the height of the jacking blocks 311 is basically flush with the upper surface of the conveyor belt 21 or lower than the upper surface of the conveyor belt 21, so that the material receiving disc 23 can be ensured to be freely conveyed on the conveyor belt 21 and cannot be blocked by the jacking blocks 311. Of course, the distance between the two oppositely arranged jacking blocks 311 is smaller than the distance between the material receiving discs 23 in the width direction of the conveyor belt 21. After the material accommodating disc 23 carrying the material is conveyed to the jacking station, the lifting driving assembly 312 drives the jacking block 311 to move upwards, so that the material accommodating disc 23 is lifted from the conveying belt 21, and the surface of the material to be laser etched faces upwards and is placed in the material accommodating disc 23.

In an embodiment, the above-mentioned turnover mechanism 32 may include a fixing frame 321 and a turnover assembly 322 connected to the fixing frame 321, the turnover assembly 322 is provided with one or more suction cups 325, the turnover assembly 322 is configured to rotate along the fixing frame 321, so that the suction cups 325 thereon pick up the material on the material receiving tray 23 from the jacking station, after the material is picked up, the turnover assembly 322 is rotated and reset, so that the material to be laser-etched is placed on the suction cups 325 with the surface to be laser-etched facing downward, the turnover mechanism 32 is turned over so that the surface to be laser-etched faces downward, and then when the material is transferred to the positioning device 50 by the transferring device 40 during the transferring process, the surface to be laser-etched faces the positioning panel 511 for precise positioning.

In one embodiment, the fixing frame 321 of the turnover mechanism 32 may include two oppositely disposed brackets, which are respectively disposed on two sides of the conveyor belt 21 in the width direction, and the turnover assembly 322 is mounted on the two brackets.

In one embodiment, the flipping unit 322 includes a flipping shaft 323 connected to the fixing frame 321, and a flipping arm 324 connected to the flipping shaft 323, the suction cup 325 is disposed on the flipping arm 324, two ends of the flipping shaft 323 are movably connected to the two brackets, respectively, the flipping arm 324 and the flipping shaft 323 may be integrally formed or may be separately connected and fixed to each other, the flipping arm 324 may include one or more cantilever brackets extending from a side surface of the flipping shaft 323, and each cantilever bracket is disposed with one or more soft suction cups 325. At a certain moment, the turning arm 324 is horizontally arranged on one side of the turning shaft 323, the material storage disc 23 is arranged on the other side of the turning disc, and the suction cup 325 on the turning arm 324 deviates from the conveyor belt 21 to form a feeding station.

When the material accommodating disc 23 is lifted to the proper position from the initial position, the turning arm 324 rotates along the central axis of the turning shaft 323 to drive the suction cup 325 to rotate towards the conveyor belt 21, so that the suction cup 325 adsorbs and picks up the material, as shown in fig. 8; after the material is picked up, the turning arm 324 rotates along the central axis of the turning shaft 323 to reset, the unloaded material storage disc 23 descends along with the jacking block 311 to reset, and the surface to be laser-etched of the material faces the conveyor belt 21, as shown in fig. 9.

Referring to fig. 6, the central axis of the turning shaft 323 is perpendicular to the central axis of the conveyor belt 21, and the turning shaft 323 is mounted on the conveyor belt 21.

In an embodiment, the fixing frame 321 of the turning mechanism 32 may be an L-shaped bracket, one end of the bracket is installed at the side of the conveyor belt 21, the other end of the bracket is suspended above the conveyor belt 21, the turning assembly 322 may be connected to the bracket through a connecting member, so that one arm of the bracket suspension is used as a rotating shaft of the turning arm 324, and the turning arm 324 is movably connected to one arm of the bracket suspension, thereby realizing the adsorption and turning of the material.

It should be noted that the lifting mechanism 31 can be lowered and reset after the material carried on the lifting mechanism 31 is picked up by the turnover mechanism 32, that is, when no material is on the jacking station, a closed loop feedback can be formed, and when the material is conveyed to the turnover mechanism 32, the material on the lifting mechanism 31 is proved to be really conveyed away, so that the situation that the conveying is not in place can be prevented, or the material on the lifting mechanism 31 falls back along with the price raising mechanism after the material is not picked up due to the 'rush shooting', so that the material feeding is disordered, and the possibility of errors in production is reduced.

The feeding device 30 provided in the embodiment of the present invention may be used as an integral part, and integrated with the material conveying device 20, the transferring device 40, and the discharging device 70 to form a complete set of equipment for automatically circulating materials, and may be used in cooperation with the laser etching device 60, or may be used in cooperation with other functional devices, which is not limited in this embodiment.

Of course, the lifting mechanism 31 and the tilting mechanism 32 in the feeding device 30 can also be used in different application scenarios according to functional separation, and the lifting mechanism 31 can be used as the feeding device 30 of other types of material processing devices, for example, the structure of the discharging device 70 in the present invention is the same as that of the feeding device 30, and is functionally butted with the transfer device 40, and the functional process of the discharging device 70 is the reverse thrust of the working process of the feeding device 30, that is, the feeding device 30 lifts and lifts the material first and then turns over the material, and the discharging device 70 overturns the material first and then lifts the material.

It will be appreciated by those skilled in the art that when the turnover mechanism 32 is used as a stand-alone turnover device, a loading mechanism may be provided on the loading side of the turnover mechanism 32 to load the material to the loading position of the turnover mechanism 32.

When the feeding device 30 is used as a component of a whole set of automatic material packaging equipment, the specific process of the relevant operation after the feeding device 30 feeds the material to be laser engraved can refer to the relevant contents in the following embodiments.

Transfer device

In this embodiment, the present invention provides a transfer device 40. With reference to fig. 1 and 4, the transfer device 40 can pick up the material from the feeding station, position the material in the positioning device 50, and transfer the material to the laser etching station for laser etching after the positioning.

Referring to fig. 4, the transferring device 40 provided in this embodiment may include a base 41, a first connecting arm 42, a second connecting arm 43, a third connecting arm 44, and an adsorbing component 45, where the base 41 is fixedly connected to the machine platform 10, one end of the first connecting arm 42 is movably connected to the base 41, the other end is movably connected to the second connecting arm 43, one end of the third connecting arm 44 is movably connected to the second connecting arm 43, and the other end is movably connected to the adsorbing component 45.

In one embodiment, with continued reference to fig. 4, the first connecting arm 42 can rotate horizontally with respect to the base 41, in one instance, the first connecting arm 42 can be attached to the surface of the base 41, and the first connecting arm 42 can rotate along the central axis of the base 41, and the movement is flexible.

The second connecting arm 43 and the first connecting arm 42 rotate relatively in the vertical direction, in one instance, referring to fig. 4, one end of the first connecting arm 42 forms a connecting seat of the second connecting arm 43, the connecting seat is a groove, one end of the second connecting seat is movably inserted in the groove, and the second connecting arm 43 can rotate back and forth along the central axis of the groove.

The third connecting arm 44 and the second connecting arm 43 rotate relatively in the vertical direction, in one case, referring to fig. 4 as well, one end of the second connecting arm 43 forms a connecting seat of the third connecting arm 44, the connecting seat is a groove, one end of the third connecting seat is movably inserted into the groove, and the third connecting arm 44 can rotate back and forth along the central axis of the groove.

Adsorption component 45 is relative third linking arm 44 rotates relatively in vertical direction, just adsorption component 45 can follow it with the rotation of third linking arm 44 junction, adsorption component 45 promptly with third linking arm 44 has two degrees of freedom, see fig. 4, adsorption component 45's one end is provided with the rotating member, it can be a universal joint, this adsorption component 45 itself just has rotatory function, on this basis, the rotating member that itself can autogiration adsorption component 45 connects in the recess of third linking arm 44 tip, adsorption component 45 can follow the central axis of recess and make a round trip to rotate, consequently, this transfer device 40 overall structure has high degree of freedom, can the transportation of omnidirectional realization material.

In one embodiment, referring to fig. 4, the suction assembly 45 may include a jaw plate 451, and one or more suction cups disposed on the jaw plate 451. The transfer device 40 adsorbs the material from the feeding device 30 through the suction cups, and places the adsorbed material on the positioning device 50. The jaw plate 451 shown in fig. 4 is a rectangular jaw plate 451, and one or more suction cups (not shown) may be provided on the lower surface of the jaw plate 451.

Certainly, the adsorption component 45 of the transfer device 40 that this embodiment provided can also directly grasp by a manipulator, but in practical application the manipulator is easy to scratch the surface of the material, and the uneven stress of the material in the grasping process can lead to the deviation of the positioned material in the grasping stress state, so that the positioning accuracy is reduced or the positioning is invalid.

It should be noted that the transfer device 40 provided in the embodiment of the present invention may be used as an independent device, or may be used as an integral part, and is integrated with the feeding device 30, etc. to form a whole set of automatic equipment.

It will be appreciated by those skilled in the art that when the transfer device 40 is used as a stand-alone device, it may be necessary to provide a loading mechanism on the loading side of the transfer device 40 to load the material to the loading position of the transfer device 40, and it may also be necessary to provide a discharging mechanism on the unloading side of the transfer device to receive the transferred material.

In the whole set of automation equipment, certain stations in two different functional devices can be overlapped or partially overlapped, and certain structural components can be reused. For example, the feeding station of the transfer device 40 is actually a feeding station formed on the suction cup 325 in the feeding device 30, and the discharging station of the transfer device 40 is actually a discharging station formed on the suction cup 325 in the discharging device 70, which is a station overlapping state formed after a plurality of functional devices are used in combination, and is a simplified borrowing of stations. I.e. the parts of the stations mentioned in this embodiment actually coincide in the construction of the apparatus.

Positioning device

In this embodiment, the present invention provides a positioning device 50. With reference to fig. 5 and 7, the positioning device 50 can realize accurate positioning of the material placed thereon, and ensure the positioning accuracy of the transfer device 40 during material taking.

In one embodiment, the positioning device 50 is mounted on the machine table 10, and may include a positioning fixture 51, where the positioning fixture 51 includes a positioning panel 511, a positioning component 512 mounted on an edge of the positioning panel 511, and a positioning suction member 513; the positioning panel 511 is erected on the machine table 10 through a bracket, the center of the positioning panel 511 is provided with a through hole 5111, and the positioning adsorption piece 513 is installed in the through hole 5111 through a connecting plate 5131.

Referring to fig. 7, the positioning panel 511 may be a rectangular panel, and has two long sides disposed opposite to each other and two short sides disposed opposite to each other, wherein one long side and one short side are respectively provided with a groove recessed inward from an edge of the rectangular panel, a positioning block 5121 is embedded in the groove, the outer edge of the other short side is provided with a locking member 5122 in a locking manner, and the positioning panel 511 close to the other long side is provided with a plurality of supporting protrusions 5123.

When the transfer device 40 places the adsorbed material on the positioning panel 511, the positioning block, the clamping element 5122 and the supporting protrusion 5123 together position the material, the positioning adsorption element 513 adsorbs and fixes the material, and the surface to be laser-etched of the material faces the positioning adsorption element 513; when the transfer device 40 picks up the positioned material from the positioning fixture 51, the positioning adsorption part 513 releases the adsorbed material.

In order to improve the positioning precision of the materials and meet the requirement of a high-precision instrument on the laser etching precision, the positioning device 50 is used for carrying out secondary positioning on the materials, and the materials are adsorbed and grabbed through the adsorption component 45 of the transfer device 40, so that the positioning precision of the materials is kept high.

Laser etching device

This embodiment provides a laser carving device 60, and it can realize the laser carving to the material surface.

In one embodiment, the laser etching device 60 has a laser light source 61, a light beam emitted by the laser light source 61 is directly irradiated to the laser etching station, the transferring device 40 transfers the positioned material to the laser etching station, and faces the surface of the material to be etched to the laser light source 61, after the laser etching device 60 finishes etching the material, the transferring device 40 transfers the etched material to the blanking device 70, and the transferring device 40 places the surface of the material on which the laser etching is finished on the blanking device 70 in a downward direction.

Blanking device

Reference is made to the above-described embodiment of the loading device 30. Referring to fig. 6, the blanking device 70 provided in this embodiment is disposed adjacent to the feeding device 30. The blanking device 70 has the same structure as the loading device 30, a suction cup 725 on the turnover mechanism 72 of the blanking device 70 forms a blanking station, the transfer device 40 transfers the material subjected to laser engraving to the blanking station, see fig. 10, the turnover mechanism 72 of the blanking device 70 rotates towards the material storage tray 23 on the jacking station of the blanking device 70, the material subjected to laser engraving is released by the suction cup 725 on the blanking device 70 and is placed in the material storage tray 23, see fig. 11, the surface of the material subjected to laser engraving faces upwards and is placed in the material storage tray 23 of the blanking device 70, the material storage tray 23 carrying the material subjected to laser engraving falls onto the conveyor belt 21 along with the lifting mechanism 71 of the blanking device 70, and the conveyor belt conveys the material storage tray 23 carrying the material subjected to laser engraving to the subsequent dust removal station.

It should be noted that, in an embodiment, the loading device 30, the transferring device 40, the positioning device 50, the laser engraving device 60, and the unloading device 70 are not necessarily completely independent in structure, and some or several structural members may be reused among the devices. Correspondingly, the processing stations in each device are not necessarily completely staggered in spatial position, and some stations may be partially or even completely overlapped. The above structure is reused and stations are overlapped, so that the circulation distance and time of materials can be shortened, the occupied space of equipment is saved, and the structure of the equipment is simplified.

In some embodiments, the interior of each apparatus is provided with separate internal transfer components as needed, which move only within the associated apparatus to effect transfer of paper material between processing stations within the associated apparatus, such as flipper 72, which is also actually a transfer mechanism within the blanking apparatus 70. A transfer device 40 is additionally disposed on the machine 10, and the transfer device 40 can reciprocate between the devices to transfer the material from one device to another device.

Automatic laser etching equipment with compact structure

As can be seen from the description of the above embodiment, the fully automatic turning and positioning laser etching apparatus with a compact structure can be integrated by the material conveying device 20, the feeding device 30, the transferring device 40, the positioning device 50, the laser etching device 60 and the discharging device 70.

According to the device function, the feeding device 30 needs to be matched with material conveying, the discharging device 70 needs to be matched with material conveying, if the material mixing of the material to be etched and the material which is etched is avoided, corresponding material conveying mechanisms need to be distributed for the feeding device 30 and the discharging device 70 respectively, the material conveying cost is increased undoubtedly due to the arrangement, and the occupied space of the equipment is enlarged. Therefore, the layout of the functional devices needs to be further optimized, so that the laser etching equipment with the compact structure and the full-automatic turning and positioning function is more compact in structure, material conveying is facilitated, and material mixing is prevented.

In this embodiment, the present invention provides a compact-structure fully-automatic turning and positioning laser etching apparatus, which includes the material conveying device 20, the feeding device 30, the transferring device 40, the positioning device 50, the laser etching device 60, and the discharging device 70 mentioned in some embodiments above, and performs optimized layout on the layout of each functional device, or performs optimized layout on each operation station of the carton. When the structure of each functional component in the fully-automatic turning and positioning laser etching device with the compact structure is described, the related description and the related drawings in the above embodiment can still be used.

Before introducing the compact-structure fully-automatic turning positioning laser etching apparatus in this embodiment, we first define three coordinate axes: a first horizontal axis X, a second horizontal axis Y and a vertical axis Z. Wherein: the first horizontal axis X and the second horizontal axis Y are two coordinate axes perpendicular to each other on a horizontal plane, the vertical axis Z is a coordinate axis on a vertical plane, and the X axis, the Y axis, and the Z axis are perpendicular to each other two by two. Hereinafter, the arrangement of the stations on the laser etching apparatus will be described with reference to the three coordinate axes.

Referring to fig. 2 in combination with fig. 1, a feeding station a, a jacking station b, a loading turning station c, a loading station d, a positioning station e, a laser engraving station f, a blanking station g, a blanking turning station h, a falling station i, and a dust removal station j are formed on a machine table 10 of the laser engraving device with compact structure and full-automatic turning positioning in this embodiment, wherein:

the feeding station a, the jacking station b, the falling station i and the dust removal station j are sequentially arranged on a first axis parallel to the first horizontal axis X. The feeding overturning station c, the feeding station d, the discharging station g and the discharging overturning station h are sequentially arranged on a second axis parallel to the first horizontal axis X. The first axis and the second axis are parallel to each other and the level of the first axis is lower than the level of the second axis.

The feeding station d and the positioning station e are sequentially arranged on a third axis parallel to the second horizontal axis Y. The positioning station e and the laser etching station f are sequentially arranged on a fourth axis parallel to the longitudinal axis Z.

It should be noted that the schematic diagram of the position and state change of the material flowing in the equipment shown in fig. 1 is only a station arrangement diagram in a device layout mode, the arrangement sequence of the turnover mechanism and the lifting mechanism of the feeding device, and the arrangement sequence of the turnover mechanism and the lifting mechanism of the discharging device can be arranged according to actual conditions, and the problem of the arrangement sequence of the lifting mechanism and the turnover mechanism affects the rotation direction of the turnover arm of the turnover mechanism when the material is sucked and the installation position of the suction cup on the turnover arm. Without departing from the principle of the present invention, the person skilled in the art can obtain a diagram of the position state change of the material flowing in the apparatus according to fig. 1.

The laser etching apparatus in this embodiment includes a material conveying device 20, a loading device 30, a transferring device 40, a positioning device 50, a laser etching device 60, and a discharging device 70.

The feeding station a, the jacking station b, the falling station i and the dust removal station j are sequentially arranged on the material conveying device 20. The feeding overturning station c, the feeding station d, the discharging station g and the discharging overturning station h are sequentially arranged right above the material conveying device 20.

The laser etching device provided by the embodiment of the invention is used for performing laser etching on the reverse side of the mobile phone rear shell 80 shown in fig. 1, and the station circulation and the material state of the mobile phone rear shell 80 after being fed to the laser etching device can be described as follows:

referring to fig. 1, the back surface a of the mobile phone rear shell 80 is placed in the material receiving tray 23 in an upward manner, then the material receiving tray 23 is placed on the conveyor belt 21 of the material conveying device 20, the material receiving tray 23 is conveyed from the feeding station a on the conveyor belt 21 to the jacking station b, a sensor is arranged at the jacking station b, and when the material receiving tray 23 is conveyed to the jacking station b, the lifting mechanism 31 at the jacking station b lifts the material receiving tray 23 on the jacking station b to the material overturning station c;

the turning arm 324 of the turning mechanism 32 located between the loading turning station c and the loading station d rotates from an initial position to the loading turning station c, so that the suction cup 325 on the turning arm 324 sucks the mobile phone rear shell 80 from the loading turning station c, as can be seen from fig. 1, the orientations of the front and the back of the mobile phone rear shell 80 are changed due to the turning of the turning mechanism 32, the back a of the mobile phone rear shell 80 at the loading turning station c faces upward, and the front B of the back of the mobile phone at the loading station d faces upward;

after the mobile phone rear shell 80 at the loading station d is sucked by the transfer device 40 through the flexible sucking disc 325 assembly, the mobile phone rear shell 80 is placed on the positioning panel 511 of the positioning device 50 for accurate positioning, the positioning panel 511 forms the positioning station e, after the positioning is completed, the transfer device 40 sucks the mobile phone rear shell 80 from the positioning station e, the transfer device 40 turns over the sucked mobile phone rear shell 80 through the first connecting arm 42, the second connecting arm 43 and the third connecting arm 44 on the transfer device 40 and the self-freedom degree of the adsorption component 45, so that the back surface A of the mobile phone rear shell 80 is turned over to a laser source facing the laser engraving device 60, the adsorption component 45 of the transfer device 40 adsorbs the mobile phone rear shell 80 and is placed on the laser engraving station f of the laser engraving device 60 in a suspended manner, at the moment, the adsorption component 45 actually forms the laser engraving station f, after the laser engraving device 60 finishes the back surface A of the mobile phone rear shell 80, the adsorption component 45 of the transfer device 40 adsorbs the mobile phone rear shell 80 to act again, so that the mobile phone rear shell 80 is placed on the mobile phone rear shell turning station B while turning over the mobile phone rear shell 70;

the turning arm 724 of the turning mechanism 72 of the blanking device 70 located between the blanking station g and the blanking turning station h rotates from an initial position to the blanking turning station h, the material storage disc 23 is placed on the blanking turning station h, the mobile phone shell on the blanking station h is placed in the material storage disc 23 through the turning arm 724, the lifting mechanism 71 of the blanking device 70 descends, the material storage disc 23 bearing the laser engraved mobile phone rear shell 80 returns to the position of the falling-back station i, the material storage disc 23 bearing the laser engraved mobile phone rear shell 80 moves to the position of the dust removal station j along with the conveyor belt 21 of the material conveying device 20 to remove dust, and the dust is packaged after being removed.

It should be noted that the material conveying device 20, the loading device 30, the transferring device 40, the positioning device 50, the laser etching device 60, and the unloading device 70 in the laser etching apparatus in this embodiment respectively adopt the structures in the foregoing embodiments. Since the detailed description of the specific structure and operation of these devices has been given above, further description is omitted here.

With continued reference to fig. 1, in order to realize automatic feeding of materials, the efficiency of the equipment is further improved. Preferably, the machine table 10 may further be formed with a storage mechanism located in a front path of the feeding station a.

Finally, it should be noted that, in the above embodiments of the present invention, the respective components of the compact full-automatic turning positioning laser etching apparatus are described from different angles, some embodiments focus on describing one component, and other embodiments focus on describing another component, and detailed descriptions about one component in one embodiment can be used to understand the same component in another embodiment without departing from the scope of the present invention.

Full-automatic laser etching equipment production line

Based on foretell compact structure's full-automatic upset location radium carving equipment, this embodiment provides the automatic radium carving equipment of many linkages and produces the line, should produce the line and can constitute by a plurality of radium carving equipment, and many radium carving equipment realize the action synchronization basically under control system's control.

The action principle of the seven laser etching devices is briefly described as follows:

referring to fig. 12, a production line shown in the figure includes 7 laser etching apparatuses, the production line has a material conveying device for realizing feeding, the material conveying device is linearly arranged on one side of the 7 laser etching apparatuses, the 7 laser etching apparatuses are arranged in a line on the same side of the material conveying device, one end of the material conveying device is used for feeding materials, and the other end of the material conveying device is provided with a dust removing device for removing dust from the materials subjected to laser etching;

in an initial state, the 7 laser etching devices are in standby state, the materials are loaded on a conveyor belt of a material conveying device, the distance between every two materials is the same, when a first material placed on the conveyor belt reaches a jacking station of a 7 th laser etching device (the 7 devices are named in sequence along the material conveying direction of the material conveying device, an arrow P in fig. 12 represents the material conveying direction, the 7 laser etching devices are respectively a 1 st laser etching device, a 2 nd laser etching device, a 3 rd laser etching device, a 4 th laser etching device, a 5 th laser etching device, a 6 th laser etching device and a 7 th laser etching device, wherein the 7 th laser etching device is close to a dust removal device 90, a machine table under the 6 th laser etching device is not displayed, but it can be understood that the machine tables under the 7 laser etching devices are actually the same), the jacking operation of the previous 1 to 6 th laser etching devices is also provided with the materials, and the 7 th laser etching devices are started at the same time, so that the jacking operation of the 7 machines is definitely completed together;

when 7 laser engraving devices start to act simultaneously, 7 jacking stations lift materials on the jacking stations away from the conveying belt, and no material exists on the conveying belt at the moment, so that the materials can be continuously conveyed on the conveying belt within the working time of the laser engraving devices until the materials reappear on the jacking station of the 7 th laser engraving device (the supplementary explanation is that after the materials on the jacking stations are picked up by the turnover mechanism, the lifting mechanism resets, and the jacking stations are flush with or slightly lower than the conveying belt again, so that the 7 laser engraving devices synchronously work, the 7 jacking stations synchronously reset, after resetting, the materials continue to be loaded on the conveying belt, and the 7 jacking stations have materials again), and the lifting mechanism lifts the materials on the jacking stations away from the conveying belt again;

after 7 radium carving equipment work were accomplished, the unloading of transfer device is received simultaneously to 7 unloading stations, through unloader's upset, fall back action, 7 materials of accomplishing radium carving are sent to the station dust removal in proper order and are removed dust.

In order to save man-hour, after transfer device accomplished the unloading to unloader, loading attachment has accomplished the material loading for the material on the material loading station can directly be picked up by transfer device. Therefore, the description of the action principle of 7 machines in the production line forms an action period from the first feeding to the second feeding, and the production line can continuously operate and circulate according to the action period, so that the action period can be realized regardless of machine equipment on the production line in the action, the action of a plurality of laser engraving devices is basically synchronous, and the linkage of the plurality of laser engraving devices is realized.

Fig. 12 shows only one production line structure of multiple linked laser etching apparatuses, and in an embodiment, the material conveying devices may also be arranged in a curved shape, such as an S-shaped arrangement, which may save space when the production line apparatuses are densely arranged.

In an embodiment, an embodiment of the present invention further provides a linkage method for a multiple-linkage laser etching apparatus production line, which may include the following steps:

sequentially placing a plurality of material containing discs 23 bearing materials on a conveyor belt 21 of a material conveying device 20 at equal intervals one by one, so that materials are placed on jacking stations corresponding to all laser etching devices, starting the plurality of laser etching devices while being controlled by a control device, and placing the surfaces of the materials to be etched, which are to be etched, in the material containing discs 23;

the loading devices of the multiple laser etching devices respectively load materials on the respective jacking stations to the loading stations, so that each loading station is loaded with the materials, the transfer device of each laser etching device picks up the materials from the loading station corresponding to the transfer device, and the unloaded jacking stations are reset under the driving of the lifting mechanism of the loading device;

the transfer device of each laser etching device transfers the picked materials to the laser etching device for laser etching;

after the unloaded multiple jacking stations are reset, sequentially placing a plurality of material containing discs 23 bearing materials on a conveyor belt 21 of a material conveying device 20 at equal intervals one by one, so that the jacking stations corresponding to all the laser etching equipment are reloaded, feeding the materials on the jacking stations to a feeding station by a feeding device, and picking up the materials from the feeding station by a transfer device to be discharged;

the material that has accomplished radium carving is by transfer device unloading is to unloader's unloading station on, unloader will material on the unloading station is carried to on the conveyer belt, the conveyer belt will accomplish the material conveying of radium carving and say the station in the back.

The laser etching equipment production line with multiple linked machines can comprise a plurality of laser etching equipment, wherein one machine comprises the following action processes:

the feeding device 30 lifts and picks up materials from the conveyor belt 21 through the lifting mechanism 31, the materials are adsorbed from the lifting mechanism 31 through the sucker of the turnover mechanism 32, and after the materials are adsorbed, the turnover mechanism 32 is turned over and reset, so that the surface of the materials to be laser engraved is placed on the sucker in a downward mode;

the transferring device 40 picks up materials from the suction disc of the turnover mechanism 32 and places the materials on the positioning device 50 for positioning, after the positioning is completed, the transferring device 40 picks up the materials from the positioning device 50 and transfers the materials to a laser engraving station of the laser engraving device 60, so that the surface to be engraved with the materials faces to a laser light source 61 of the laser engraving device 60, and the laser engraving device 60 completes laser engraving of the materials;

the material that transfer device 40 will accomplish radium carving is transported to the sucking disc of unloader 70's tilting mechanism 72, the surface that the material has accomplished radium carving is arranged in down on the sucking disc, unloader 70's tilting mechanism 72 drives the material is towards the elevating system 71 upset of unloader 70, makes the sucking disc releases the material in material storage disc 23 on elevating system 71's jacking station, the surface that the material has accomplished radium carving is arranged in up in material storage disc 23, elevating system 71 descends to reset and makes the material storage disc 23 that the bearing has accomplished radium carving arrange in on conveyer belt 21, the material storage disc 23 that the bearing has accomplished radium carving is transported to back dust removal station by conveyer belt 21.

The invention has been described in sufficient detail with some 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 appended claims rather than by the foregoing description of the embodiments.

Claims

1. The utility model provides a compact structure's automatic radium carving equipment which characterized in that, it includes:

the board, be formed with pay-off station, jacking station, material loading upset station, material loading station, location station, unloading upset station and the station that falls back on the board, wherein: the feeding station, the jacking station and the falling station are sequentially arranged on a first axis parallel to a first horizontal axis; the feeding overturning station, the feeding station, the discharging station and the discharging overturning station are arranged on a second axis parallel to the first horizontal axis; the feeding overturning station is arranged right above the jacking station and is adjacent to the feeding station; the blanking overturning station is arranged right above the falling station and is adjacent to the blanking station; the feeding station and the positioning station are sequentially arranged on a third axis parallel to a second horizontal axis, and the first horizontal axis and the second horizontal axis are mutually vertical;

2. The compact automated laser etching apparatus of claim 1, wherein,

the material conveying device (20) comprises a conveying belt (21) and a driving motor (22) for driving the conveying belt (21) to move, the conveying belt (21) is configured to convey materials, the feeding device (30) picks up the materials from the conveying belt (21), the discharging device (70) conveys the materials conveyed to the discharging device to a next station through the conveying belt (21), the next station comprises a dust removing station, and the dust removing station is provided with a dust removing device;

the material conveying device (20) further comprises a material containing disc (23), the material containing disc (23) is arranged on a feeding station of the conveying belt (21), the material containing disc (23) is configured to contain materials, the material containing disc (23) containing the materials moves on the conveying belt (21) along with the conveying belt (21), and the material containing disc (23) is driven by the conveying belt to move from the feeding station to a jacking station;

the feeding station, the jacking station and the falling station are sequentially arranged on the conveying belt along the material conveying direction of the material conveying device.

3. The compact automated laser etching apparatus of claim 2,

the feeding device (30) comprises two opposite lifting mechanisms (31) and a turnover mechanism (32) which is arranged adjacent to the lifting mechanisms (31);

the two lifting mechanisms (31) are oppositely arranged on two sides of the conveyor belt (21), each lifting mechanism (31) comprises a jacking block (311) and a lifting driving component (312), each lifting driving component (312) drives each jacking block (311) to reciprocate up and down, each jacking block (311) is close to the side edge of the conveyor belt (21), and the two oppositely-arranged jacking blocks (311) form jacking stations of the material containing disc (23);

at a certain moment, the height of the jacking block (311) is basically flush with the upper surface of the conveyor belt (21) or lower than the upper surface of the conveyor belt (21), after a material containing disc (23) carrying materials is conveyed to the jacking station, the lifting driving assembly (312) drives the jacking block (311) to move upwards, so that the material containing disc (23) is lifted away from the conveyor belt (21), and the surface of the materials to be laser engraved is upwards placed in the material containing disc (23);

the turnover mechanism (32) comprises a fixing frame (321) and a turnover assembly (322) connected to the fixing frame (321), one or more suckers are arranged on the turnover assembly (322), the turnover assembly (322) is configured to rotate along the fixing frame (321), so that the suckers on the turnover assembly pick up materials on the material containing disc (23) from the jacking station, and after the materials are picked up, the turnover assembly (322) rotates and resets, so that the surface of the materials to be laser engraved is placed on the suckers downwards.

4. The compact automated laser etching apparatus of claim 3,

the overturning assembly (322) comprises an overturning shaft (323) connected to the fixing frame (321) and an overturning arm (324) connected with the overturning shaft (323), and the sucker is arranged on the overturning arm (324); at a certain moment, the overturning arm (324) is horizontally arranged on one side of the overturning shaft (323), the material containing disc (23) is arranged on the other side of the overturning disc, and a sucking disc on the overturning arm (324) deviates from the conveyor belt (21) to form a feeding station; after the material containing disc (23) is jacked to the material loading overturning station from the jacking station, the overturning arm (324) rotates along the central axis of the overturning shaft (323) to drive the sucker to rotate towards the conveyor belt (21), so that the sucker adsorbs and picks up materials from the material loading overturning station; after the materials are picked up, the overturning arm (324) rotates along the central axis of the overturning shaft (323) to reset to the feeding station, the unloaded material containing disc (23) descends along with the jacking block (311) to reset to the jacking station, and the surface of the materials to be laser-etched at the feeding station faces the conveyor belt (21);

the central axis of the turnover shaft (323) is vertical to the central axis of the conveyor belt (21).

5. The compact automated laser etching apparatus of claim 1, wherein,

transfer device (40) include base (41), first linking arm (42), second linking arm (43), third linking arm (44) and adsorption component (45), base (41) and board (10) fixed connection, the one end of first linking arm (42) with base (41) swing joint, the other end with second linking arm (43) swing joint, the one end of third linking arm (44) with second linking arm (43) swing joint, the other end with adsorption component (45) swing joint.

6. The compact automated laser etching apparatus of claim 5, wherein,

the first connecting arm (42) can rotate horizontally relative to the base (41), the second connecting arm (43) and the first connecting arm (42) can rotate relatively in the vertical direction, the third connecting arm (44) and the second connecting arm (43) can rotate relatively in the vertical direction, the adsorption component (45) can rotate relatively in the vertical direction relative to the third connecting arm (44), and the adsorption component (45) can rotate along the connection position of the adsorption component and the third connecting arm (44);

the adsorption assembly (45) comprises a claw disc (451) and one or more suction discs arranged on the claw disc (451), the transfer device (40) adsorbs materials from the feeding device (30) through the suction discs, and the adsorbed materials are placed on the positioning device (50);

the base sets up on the board, just the base sets up with material transfer device relatively, adsorption component will certainly the material that the material station was picked up is placed and is fixed a position on the station, and after the location was accomplished, adsorption component will certainly the material that picks up on the station is placed radium carving station department of radium carving device carries out radium carving, and will accomplish the material of radium carving and place on the unloading station.

7. The compact automated laser etching apparatus of claim 1, wherein,

the positioning device (50) comprises a positioning clamp (51), wherein the positioning clamp (51) comprises a positioning panel (511), a positioning component (512) arranged at the edge of the positioning panel (511), and a positioning adsorption piece (513); the positioning panel (511) is erected on the machine table (10) through a bracket, a through hole (5111) is formed in the center of the positioning panel (511), and the positioning adsorption piece (513) is installed in the through hole (5111) through a connecting plate (5131);

the positioning panel (511) is a rectangular panel and is provided with two long sides which are arranged oppositely and two short sides which are arranged oppositely, grooves which are sunken inwards from the edge of the rectangular panel are respectively arranged on one long side and one short side, a positioning block (5121) is embedded in each groove, a clamping piece (5122) is clamped on the outer edge of the other short side, and a plurality of supporting bulges (5123) are arranged on the positioning panel (511) close to the other long side;

the transfer device (40) places the adsorbed material on the positioning panel (511), the positioning block, the clamping piece (5122) and the supporting protrusion (5123) together position the material, the positioning adsorption piece (513) adsorbs and fixes the material, and the surface to be laser-etched of the material faces the positioning adsorption piece (513);

when the transfer device (40) picks up the positioned material from the positioning clamp (51), the positioning adsorption piece (513) releases the adsorbed material.

8. The compact automated laser etching apparatus of claim 1, wherein,

radium carving device (60) have laser light source (61), the light beam direct projection that laser light source (61) sent radium carving station, material that transfer device (40) will accomplish the location is transported extremely radium carving station department, and will the waiting radium carving face orientation of material laser light source (61), work as radium carving device (60) are accomplished the radium carving back to the material, transfer device (40) are transported the material after radium carving to on unloader (70), transfer device (40) will the surface that the material has accomplished radium carving is arranged in down on the unloading station of unloader (70).

9. The compact automated laser etching apparatus of claim 4, wherein,

unloader (70) with loading attachment (30) adjacent setting, unloader (70) with loading attachment (30) structure is the same, belongs to sucking disc on tilting mechanism (72) of unloader (70) forms the unloading station, transfer device (40) will accomplish the material of radium carving and transport to on the unloading station, tilting mechanism (72) orientation of unloader (70) material receiving disc (23) on the elevating system of unloader (70) rotate, material receiving disc (23) are located unloading upset station, accomplish the material of radium carving and by sucking disc (725) release on unloader (70) are settled in material receiving disc (23), the surface that the material has accomplished radium carving is arranged up in material receiving disc (23), material receiving disc (23) that is bearing the material of accomplishing radium carving along with elevating system (71) of unloader (70) fall to the station, fall back to be located on the conveyer belt (21), the dust removal that will bear the material receiving disc (23) of carving to the conveying way of material receiving disc (23).

10. A laser etching method of an automatic laser etching device with a compact structure is characterized by comprising the following steps:

sequentially placing a plurality of material containing discs (23) bearing materials on a conveyor belt (21) of a material conveying device (20), wherein the surfaces of the materials to be engraved with radium are placed in the material containing discs (23) in an upward mode, and the material containing discs (23) move to jacking stations of the material conveying device from feeding stations on the conveyor belt;

the feeding device (30) lifts the material containing disc (23) on the jacking station upwards to a material overturning station through a lifting mechanism (31), adsorbs materials from the material overturning station through a sucking disc of the overturning mechanism (32), and after the adsorption of the materials is completed, the overturning mechanism (32) overturns and resets to the material overturning station, so that the surface of the materials to be laser engraved is placed on the material loading station downwards;

a transfer device (40) picks up materials from the loading station and places the materials on a positioning station for positioning, after the positioning is completed, the transfer device (40) picks up the materials from the positioning station and transfers the materials to a laser engraving station of a laser engraving device (60), so that a surface to be engraved of the materials faces a laser light source (61) of the laser engraving device (60), and the laser engraving device (60) completes laser engraving of the materials;

the transferring device (40) transfers the materials which are subjected to laser engraving to a blanking station of a turnover mechanism (72) of a blanking device (70), the surfaces of the materials which are subjected to laser engraving are downwards arranged on the blanking station, the turnover mechanism (72) of the blanking device (70) drives the materials to turn towards a lifting mechanism (71) of the blanking device (70), so that a sucking disc of the turnover mechanism releases the materials in a material accommodating disc (23) on the blanking turning station of the lifting mechanism (71), and the surfaces of the materials which are subjected to laser engraving are upwards arranged in the material accommodating disc (23); the lifting mechanism (71) descends and resets to enable the material containing disc (23) bearing the finished laser engraving to be placed on a return station, the return station is located on the conveyor belt (21), and the material containing disc (23) bearing the finished laser engraving is conveyed to a rear dedusting station by the conveyor belt (21).