CN205157691U - A testing arrangement for detecting metallic wiring on product - Google Patents
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The utility model provides a testing arrangement for detecting metallic wiring on product, includes that the optics mechanism, camera supporting regulating mechanism, fine -tuning, the product that contain the camera place mechanism, pressing mechanism and control mechanism, fine -tuning is used for carrying out position control to the flexible line way board of placing on it, the product places that the mechanism is used for placing and the fixed product that awaits measuring, during a test, the flexible line way board and the product overlap joint that awaits measuring, optics mechanism is used for the image magnification of flexible line way board and the product lap -joint of awaiting measuring and shows at the display to whether the overlap joint of differentiating flexible line way board and the product that awaits measuring accurate the counterpoint, camera supporting regulating mechanism is used for adjusting the position of camera and makes its alignment the lap -joint, pressing mechanism exerts pressure downwards and makes the two electric conductance lead to. This testing arrangement overall structure is simple, installation and convenient operation, and the measuring accuracy is high.
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Technical field
The utility model relates to a kind of proving installation of metallic circuit on testing product.
Background technology
Existing a lot of surface has in the process of producing product of metallic circuit, generally detected by people's naked eyes and common optical detection apparatus and judge metallic circuit whether OK, its accuracy can only reach 98%, erroneous judgement large percentage, is easy to cause defective products to flow to next procedure and directly causes follow-up TP processing procedure production yields to decline; Special in the examination and test of products process of capacitance touch screen functional sheet ITO sensor, one of the most key link to the detection of its electric property, and ITO sensor capacitance touch screen function sheet often causes ITO itself to break because gold-tinted technique is bad or short-circuit conditions is more, just directly reaching the standard grade if do not added test, material can be caused and manually waste larger.
Utility model content
For above-mentioned situation, the utility model object is the proving installation providing metallic circuit on a kind of testing product.Its one-piece construction is simple, installs and easy to operate, and measuring accuracy is high, and manufacturing cost significantly reduces, and is easy to promote the popularization use.
The utility model provides a kind of proving installation of metallic circuit on testing product, comprises containing the optical facilities of camera, camera support adjustment mechanism, micro-adjusting mechanism, product placement mechanism, laminating mechanism and control gear; Described micro-adjusting mechanism is for carrying out position adjustments to the flexible circuit board that it is placed; Described product placement mechanism is used for placing and fixing product to be measured; During test, described flexible circuit board and product to be measured overlap, and described optical facilities are used for the Nonlinear magnify of flexible circuit board and product lap-joint to be measured also to show over the display, to differentiate the overlap joint whether accurate contraposition of flexible circuit board and product to be measured; Described camera support adjustment mechanism is for adjusting the position of camera and making it aim at described lap-joint; When between the metallic circuit that adjustment micro-adjusting mechanism makes on the metallic circuit in described flexible circuit board and product to be measured after position alignment, start laminating mechanism to apply pressure downwards and make to be positioned between flexible circuit board below it and product to be measured and conduct, by evaluating the fine status of metallic circuit on product to be measured to flexible circuit board being tested the electrical performance data that obtains; Described control gear is for controlling the action of laminating mechanism.
In a kind of concrete embodiment, described optical facilities comprise camera and display (9), and described camera comprises light source (1), camera lens (2) and image conversion apparatus (4); Described camera lens (2), image conversion apparatus (4) are connected in turn with display (9), and described light source (1) can launch and white light that brightness adjustable coaxial with camera lens (2).
In a kind of concrete embodiment, described camera support adjustment mechanism comprises aluminium section bar (10) and XZ Plane Rotation block (3), YZ Plane Rotation block (5), Z-direction adjustment slide unit (6), Y-direction adjustment slide unit (7) and the X-direction be fixed on aluminium section bar (10) regulates slide unit (8); Three slide unit combinations reach the adjustment in X, Y, Z tri-directions, and two spill spin blocks can regulate described camera at XZ and YZ Plane Rotation.
In a kind of concrete embodiment, described micro-adjusting mechanism comprises milscale knob (21), spring (18), slide block (19), LM4 linear bearing (20) and litter (22), the fine adjustment of micro-adjusting mechanism by regulating milscale knob (21) and the screen resilience of spring (18) to realize slide block (19), this slide block (19) ensures sliding stability by LM4 linear bearing (20) and litter (22); FPC fixed block (11) is fixed on slide block (19), and the flexible circuit board that the mobile drive of slide block is arranged on described FPC fixed block (11) moves.
In a kind of concrete embodiment, described product placement mechanism comprises base (12) from the bottom to top, panel (13), submodule fix common plate (16) and product placement platform (15).
In a kind of concrete embodiment, described product placement platform (15) becomes the angle of 10 ~ 20 ° to be obliquely installed with surface level.
In a kind of concrete embodiment, described laminating mechanism comprises cylinder, guide rod (24), depression bar (26) and rubber strip (27), air cylinder driven depression bar (26) and the rubber strip (27) be arranged on bottom depression bar (26) move down, guide rod (24) moves play guide effect to this, compress eventually through the overlap of rubber strip (27) by flexible circuit board and product to be measured, the metallic circuit between the two is conducted.
In a kind of concrete embodiment, described control gear comprises the throttling valve (28), timer (31), solenoid valve (33) and the pressure regulator valve (34) that connect through tracheae; Described solenoid valve (33) is for control cylinder direction of motion, comprise barometric pressure regulator valve (34) for showing and control the size of air pressure, described throttling valve (28) is for the travelling speed of control cylinder, and described timer (31) is for the pressing time of control cylinder.
The beneficial effect that the utility model is produced compared to existing technology:
I, the utility model adopts product placement platform be obliquely installed and become the angle of 10 ~ 20 ° with surface level, is conducive to preventing depression bar blocking camera photographing;
II, the test product that the utility model can realize the minimum PIN spacing of human eye None-identified is 0.2mm carries out functional test, and location is accurate, measuring accuracy is high;
III, the utility model adopts pneumatic control mechanism to control the action of laminating mechanism, can ensure that laminating mechanism is stable, reliability is high, speed is fast, and easy to operate, the laborsaving save space that saves time of energy, and alleviate labour intensity, manufacturing cost is lower, practical;
IV, the utility model adopts ccd image conversion equipment realize the accurate contraposition of metallic circuit in metallic circuit on test product and FPC flexible circuit board thus carry out conductive test; And one-piece construction is scientific and reasonable, install and easy to operate, equipment is reliable, and measuring accuracy is high, and manufacturing cost significantly reduces, wide market, is convenient to promote the use of.
The utility model is widely used in the functional test that the material surfaces such as various CG, film have metallic circuit product, is particularly suitable for the functional test of touch screen function sheet ITOsensor product.
Below in conjunction with the drawings and specific embodiments, the utility model is described in further detail.
Accompanying drawing explanation
The accompanying drawing forming the application's part is used to provide further understanding of the present utility model, and schematic description and description of the present utility model, for explaining the utility model, is not formed improper restriction of the present utility model.
Fig. 1 is one-piece construction schematic diagram of the present utility model.
Fig. 2 is the structural representation of micro-adjusting mechanism in the utility model.
Fig. 3 is the structural representation of control gear of the present utility model and laminating mechanism.
In figure: 1-light source, 2-camera lens, 3-XZ Plane Rotation block, 4-image conversion apparatus, 5-YZ Plane Rotation block, 6-Z direction regulates slide unit, 7-Y direction regulates slide unit, 8-X direction regulates slide unit, 9-display, 10-aluminium section bar, 11-FPC fixed block, 12-base, 13-panel, 14-keyswitch, 15-product placement platform, 16-submodule fixes common plate, 17-milscale fixed block, 18-spring, 19-slide block, 20-LM4 linear bearing, 21-milscale knob, 22-litter, 23-LM8 linear bearing, 24-guide rod, 25-depression bar fixed block, 26-depression bar, 27-rubber strip, 28-throttling valve, 29-contiguous block, 30-cylinder block, 31-timer, 32-Telescopic-cylinder bar, 33-solenoid valve, 34-pressure regulator valve.
Embodiment
With reference to accompanying drawing, the utility model is achieved in that a kind of electric performance test device based on CCD (camera), and it comprises optical facilities, CCD support adjustment mechanism, micro-adjusting mechanism, product placement mechanism, laminating mechanism and control gear, the optical image of metallic circuit PAD position in metallic circuit PAD on test product and FPC flexible circuit board is converted to electric signal and through data line transfer to display 9 through image conversion apparatus 4 by described optical facilities, described CCD support adjustment mechanism be connected with optical facilities and the same side being arranged at product placement mechanism for regulating the position of optical facilities, for regulating the position of FPC flexible circuit board on the panel 13 that described micro-adjusting mechanism is arranged at product placement mechanism, the product placement platform 15 of described product placement mechanism adopts right-angle side mount structure to fix test product, described laminating mechanism is connected with product placement mechanism makes both electrically conduct the functional test realized metallic circuit PAD on test product for applying pressure to metallic circuit PAD in metallic circuit PAD on test product and FPC flexible circuit board, described control gear is connected the action for controlling laminating mechanism with laminating mechanism.
As shown in Figure 1, optical facilities of the present utility model comprise light source 1, camera lens 2, image conversion apparatus 4 and display 9; Described camera lens 2, image conversion apparatus 4 are connected in turn with display 9, and described light source 1 can launch and white light that brightness adjustable coaxial with camera lens 2; Described CCD support adjustment mechanism comprises aluminium section bar 10 and XZ Plane Rotation block 3, YZ Plane Rotation block 5, Z-direction adjustment slide unit 6, Y-direction adjustment slide unit 7 and the X-direction be fixed on aluminium section bar 10 regulates slide unit 8; Described Z-direction regulates slide unit 6, Y-direction to regulate slide unit 7 and X-direction to regulate slide unit 8 for carrying out the adjustment in X, Y and Z tri-directions to optical facilities, and described XZ Plane Rotation block 3 and YZ Plane Rotation block 5 are for saving in the modulation of XZ, YZ plane internal rotation optical facilities; Described product placement mechanism comprises FPC fixed block 11, base 12, panel 13, side plate, keyswitch 14, submodule fix common plate 16 and product placement platform 15; Described panel 13 is connected with base 12 through side plate, and this side plate is provided with keyswitch 14; Described submodule to be fixed in upper plane that common plate 16 is arranged at panel 13 and is connected with product placement platform 15, for installing FPC flexible circuit board on the slide block 19 that described FPC fixed block 11 is located at micro-adjusting mechanism; Described product placement platform 15 is obliquely installed and becomes the angle of 15 ° with surface level, is conducive to preventing that depression bar 26 from blocking camera lens 2 and impact carries out optical image to metallic circuit PAD on test product.
As shown in Figure 2, micro-adjusting mechanism of the present utility model comprises milscale fixed block 17, spring 18, slide block 19, LM4 linear bearing 20, milscale knob 21 and litter 22; One end of described slide block 19 is connected with milscale fixed block 17 through spring 18, the other end of this slide block 19 is connected with milscale knob 21 with milscale fixed block 17 through LM4 linear bearing 20, litter 22, slide block 19 can be driven to slide between two milscale fixed blocks 17 through rotating milscale knob 21; When display 9 shows that on test product, on metallic circuit PAD and FPC flexible circuit board, do not align in metallic circuit PAD position, adjust the position of slide block 19 by rotating milscale knob 21 and metallic circuit PAD in FPC flexible circuit board is alignd with metallic circuit PAD on test product.
As shown in Figure 3, laminating mechanism of the present utility model comprises LM8 linear bearing 23, guide rod 24, depression bar fixed block 25, depression bar 26, rubber strip 27, cylinder block 30 and cylinder expansion link 32; One end of described guide rod 24 is connected in turn with depression bar fixed block 25, depression bar 26 and rubber strip 27, and the other end is connected with cylinder block 30 and cylinder expansion link 32 through the LM8 linear bearing 23 that panel 13 is arranged; Described control gear comprises the throttling valve 28, contiguous block 29, timer 31, solenoid valve 33 and the pressure regulator valve 34 that connect through tracheae respectively; Described solenoid valve 33 is for the traffic direction of control cylinder expansion link 32, pressure regulator valve 34 comprises rain glass for controlling and show the size of air pressure, the travelling speed of described throttling valve 28 control cylinder expansion link 32, timer 31 is for the actuation time of control cylinder expansion link 32.
By reference to the accompanying drawings, principle of work of the present utility model: first adjust pressure regulator valve 34 and the pressure of rain glass display reading and setting is consistent, then the size adjusting throttling valve 28 carrys out the travelling speed of control cylinder, again FPC flexible circuit board and test product PAD are placed on FPC fixed block 11 and product placement platform 15 respectively, by the light source 1 of optical facilities, the optical image of metallic circuit PAD position in metallic circuit PAD on test product and FPC flexible circuit board can be converted to electric signal transmission on the display 9 of seven cun by camera lens 2 and image conversion apparatus 4, and judge whether both have alignment by the electrical circuit of contact according to figure shown on display 9, if the electrical circuit of both contacts is alignment no, the position that then rotation milscale knob 21 adjusts FPC flexible circuit board makes both alignment, finally push button switch 14 and outwards extending and through contiguous block 29 through solenoid valve 33 control cylinder expansion link 32, guide rod 24, depression bar fixed block 25 drives depression bar 26 to move downward, apply certain pressure to metallic circuit PAD in metallic circuit PAD on test product and FPC flexible circuit board by being connected to rubber strip 27 on depression bar 26 and making both electrically conduct thus carry out functional test, by the adjustment timer 31 controllable testing time, can control inside contraction of Telescopic-cylinder bar 32 after testing makes laminating mechanism lift, thus can test product be taken off, complete whole test action.
With in a electronic product, the many metallic traces in many metallic traces of product to be measured (glass plate) and FPC are one to one.When detecting the glass plate to be measured of same model, FPC plate can be that same FPC plate is constant always, changes different glass plates to be measured for detecting.
In the utility model testing process, glass plate to be measured and FPC plate are not arranged on same clinoplane, because there is the overlap joint that 1 ~ 2mm is wide between the two, and FPC plate is upper, glass plate to be measured under, and the metallic circuit of glass plate to be measured thereon on the surface, the metallic circuit of FPC plate on the lower surface thereof.The length of overlapping the slot is such as 1/4 ~ 3/4 of width of glass sheet.In the utility model, glass plate to be measured can be square, also can be that circle waits other shape.
In the utility model, the effect of camera support adjustment mechanism makes camera aim at this lap-joint.Reason is that the camera lens of camera can not the whole overlapping the slot of disposable covering, and Another reason is, when changing model (the corresponding replacing FPC plate) of glass plate to be detected, needs the position adjusting camera.
In the utility model, camera can be presented at lap-joint's amplification 70 ~ 80 times of product to be measured and FPC on display.
In the utility model, by flexible circuit board being tested the electrical performance data that obtains and evaluating the fine status of metallic circuit on product to be measured, described electrical performance data comprises electric capacity and resistance etc.
The foregoing is only preferred embodiment of the present utility model, be not limited to the utility model, for a person skilled in the art, the utility model can have various modifications and variations; All within spirit of the present utility model and principle, any amendment done, equivalent replacement, improvement etc., all should be included within protection domain of the present utility model.
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1. the proving installation of metallic circuit on testing product, comprises containing the optical facilities of camera, camera support adjustment mechanism, micro-adjusting mechanism, product placement mechanism, laminating mechanism and control gear; Described micro-adjusting mechanism is for carrying out position adjustments to the flexible circuit board that it is placed; Described product placement mechanism is used for placing and fixing product to be measured; During test, described flexible circuit board and product to be measured overlap, described optical facilities are used for the Nonlinear magnify of flexible circuit board and product lap-joint to be measured and are presented at display (9), to differentiate the overlap joint whether accurate contraposition of flexible circuit board and product to be measured; Described camera support adjustment mechanism is for adjusting the position of camera and making it aim at described lap-joint; When between the metallic circuit that adjustment micro-adjusting mechanism makes on the metallic circuit in described flexible circuit board and product to be measured after position alignment, start laminating mechanism to apply pressure downwards and make to be positioned between flexible circuit board below it and product to be measured and conduct, by evaluating the fine status of metallic circuit on product to be measured to flexible circuit board being tested the electrical performance data that obtains; Described control gear is for controlling the action of laminating mechanism.
2. proving installation according to claim 1, it is characterized in that, described optical facilities comprise camera and display (9), and described camera comprises light source (1), camera lens (2) and image conversion apparatus (4); Described camera lens (2), image conversion apparatus (4) are connected in turn with display (9), and described light source (1) can launch and white light that brightness adjustable coaxial with camera lens (2).
3. proving installation according to claim 1, it is characterized in that, described camera support adjustment mechanism comprises aluminium section bar (10) and XZ Plane Rotation block (3), YZ Plane Rotation block (5), Z-direction adjustment slide unit (6), Y-direction adjustment slide unit (7) and the X-direction be fixed on aluminium section bar (10) regulates slide unit (8); Three slide unit combinations reach the adjustment in X, Y, Z tri-directions, and two spill spin blocks can regulate described camera at XZ and YZ Plane Rotation.
4. proving installation according to claim 1, it is characterized in that, described micro-adjusting mechanism comprises milscale knob (21), spring (18), slide block (19), LM4 linear bearing (20) and litter (22), the fine adjustment of micro-adjusting mechanism by regulating milscale knob (21) and the screen resilience of spring (18) to realize slide block (19), this slide block (19) ensures sliding stability by LM4 linear bearing (20) and litter (22); FPC fixed block (11) is fixed on slide block (19), and the flexible circuit board that the mobile drive of slide block is arranged on described FPC fixed block (11) moves.
5. proving installation according to claim 1, it is characterized in that, described product placement mechanism comprises base (12) from the bottom to top, panel (13), submodule fix common plate (16) and product placement platform (15).
6. proving installation according to claim 5, it is characterized in that, described product placement platform (15) becomes the angle of 10 ~ 20 ° to be obliquely installed with surface level.
7. proving installation according to claim 1, it is characterized in that, described laminating mechanism comprises cylinder, guide rod (24), depression bar (26) and rubber strip (27), air cylinder driven depression bar (26) and the rubber strip (27) be arranged on bottom depression bar (26) move down, guide rod (24) moves play guide effect to this, compress eventually through the overlap of rubber strip (27) by flexible circuit board and product to be measured, the metallic circuit between the two is conducted.
8. according to proving installation described in any one in claim 1 ~ 7, it is characterized in that, described control gear comprises the throttling valve (28), timer (31), solenoid valve (33) and the pressure regulator valve (34) that connect through tracheae; Described solenoid valve (33) is for control cylinder direction of motion, comprise barometric pressure regulator valve (34) for showing and control the size of air pressure, described throttling valve (28) is for the travelling speed of control cylinder, and described timer (31) is for the pressing time of control cylinder.
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