CN209894996U - Cap detection device and cap feeding machine - Google Patents

Abstract

The utility model provides a cap detection device and a cap feeding machine, wherein the cap detection device is arranged in front of a cap welding station, and the cap detection device comprises a bearing component and a first detection component arranged above the bearing component; the bearing component is provided with a plurality of bearing positions for bearing the caps; the first detection assembly comprises a fixed support and a first detection piece arranged on the fixed support, and the detection range of the first detection piece covers a plurality of bearing positions on the bearing assembly so as to be used for detecting whether each bearing position bears a cover cap. The utility model provides a block material loading machine includes as above block detection device, transport mechanism and tilting mechanism. The utility model provides a block detection device and block material loading machine can realize detecting the block before the block is carried block welding station, avoids when not having the block to be carried to block welding station, and block welding station still can carry out the damage that block welding operation caused subassemblies such as utmost point ear be connected with the block.

Description

Cap detection device and cap feeding machine

Technical Field

The utility model relates to an automation equipment technical field especially relates to a block detection device and block material loading machine.

Background

In the production process of battery, need with the block welding to the utmost point ear of battery to need detect the welding condition after the welding, prevent to appear leaking and weld or weld the condition such as insecure, and leak among the prior art and weld the condition and take place occasionally, cause the relative decline of yields of battery, consequently need find a technical scheme that can solve above-mentioned technical problem urgently.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

The utility model discloses the main technical problem who solves provides one kind and can be carried into the station before the block welding station at the block, carries out the block detection device and the block material loading machine that detect to the block.

In order to solve the technical problem, the utility model discloses a technical scheme be: providing a cap detection device which is arranged in front of a cap welding station and comprises a bearing assembly and a first detection assembly arranged above the bearing assembly;

the bearing assembly is provided with a plurality of bearing positions for bearing the caps;

the first detection assembly comprises a fixed support and a first detection piece arranged on the fixed support, and the detection range of the first detection piece covers the plurality of bearing positions on the bearing assembly so as to be used for detecting whether the cap is borne on each bearing position.

Furthermore, the bearing assembly comprises a supporting seat and a material tray arranged on the supporting seat;

the bearing positions are bearing holes formed in the surface of one side, facing the first detection assembly, of the material tray, the caps are placed in the bearing holes, and the material tray and the caps form brightness or color contrast.

Still further, the first detection assembly further comprises a light supplementing mechanism;

the material disc is made of light absorption materials, and the light supplementing mechanism is arranged above the material disc so as to supplement light to the material disc from the upper part of the material disc; or

The charging tray is made of light absorption materials, and the light supplementing mechanism is arranged below the charging tray to supplement light to the charging tray from the lower side of the charging tray.

Still further, the charging tray still includes the bearing portion, the bearing portion set up in the bottom of bearing the weight of the hole, the bearing portion forms a radial dimension and is less than the fretwork region of bearing the weight of the hole, the peripheral region of block support in the bearing portion, the central zone of block corresponds to the fretwork region.

Furthermore, the tray further comprises a plurality of cushion blocks, the cushion blocks are arranged on the bearing parts in a protruding mode along the axial direction of the bearing holes, and the peripheral area of the cover cap is supported on the cushion blocks.

Further, the fixing bracket includes: the fixing plate is detachably arranged on the second truss, and the outer frame is detachably connected with the first truss and the first truss is detachably connected with the second truss through connecting pieces;

the first detection piece is detachably arranged on the fixing plate and comprises a CCD camera or a photoelectric sensor.

In order to solve the technical problem, the utility model discloses a technical scheme be: providing a cap feeder, the cap feeder comprising: the cap detection device, the transfer mechanism and the turnover mechanism as described in any one of the above;

the transfer mechanism is arranged at the downstream of the cap detection device and is used for transferring the caps detected by the cap detection device to the turnover mechanism;

the turnover mechanism is arranged at the downstream of the transfer mechanism and used for turning over the caps.

Further, the transfer mechanism comprises a horizontal transmission mechanism, a vertical transmission mechanism and a sucker group;

the vertical transmission mechanism is arranged at the moving end of the horizontal transmission mechanism, the power output end of the vertical transmission mechanism is connected with the sucker group, the vertical transmission mechanism and the sucker group are driven by the horizontal transmission mechanism to move along the horizontal direction, and the vertical transmission mechanism drives the sucker group to move in the vertical direction so as to absorb the caps on the material tray and transfer the caps to the turnover mechanism.

Still further, the sucking disc group includes a plurality of sucking discs that set up side by side, the quantity and the range direction of sucking disc with on the charging tray the bearing hole matches the setting.

The cap feeding machine further comprises a conveying assembly, wherein the conveying assembly is arranged at the downstream of the turnover mechanism and is used for conveying the caps which are output by the turnover mechanism and loaded on the cap jig to a cap welding station;

the conveying assembly is provided with a second detection assembly and a third detection assembly which are positioned at a cap feeding hole and a cap discharging hole and used for respectively detecting the bearing conditions of the cap on the cap jig.

The utility model has the advantages that: be different from prior art's condition, the utility model provides a set up block detection device before block welding station, block detection device includes carrier assembly and sets up the first determine module in the carrier assembly top, carrier assembly is provided with a plurality of positions that bear that are used for bearing the weight of the block, first determine module includes fixed bolster and sets up on the fixed bolster and cover the first determine module that a plurality of positions that bear on the carrier assembly, can realize whether bear the weight of the block on the position is detected carrier assembly by carrying the station before the block welding station on respectively bearing the weight of the block, avoid when being carried to block welding station because of not having the block, block welding station still welds the damage that causes utmost point ear or other subassemblies, good effect has been played.

Drawings

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

fig. 1 is a schematic structural diagram of an embodiment of a cap detection device according to the present invention;

fig. 2 is a schematic structural diagram of a first detecting component in the cap detecting device according to the present invention;

fig. 3 is a top view of a bearing assembly in the cap detection device according to the present invention;

fig. 4 is a side view of a carrier assembly of a cap detection device according to the present invention;

fig. 5 is a schematic view of a part of a structure of a bearing assembly in the cap detecting device according to the present invention;

fig. 6 is a cross-sectional view of a bearing assembly in a cap detection device according to the present invention;

fig. 7 is a schematic structural diagram of a connecting member in a cap detection device according to the present invention;

fig. 8 is a schematic structural diagram of an embodiment of a cap feeder according to the present invention;

fig. 9 is a schematic structural view of a conveying assembly in a cap feeding machine according to the present invention.

Detailed Description

In order to make the above objects, features and advantages of the present invention more comprehensible, embodiments of the present invention are described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings. It is to be understood that the specific embodiments described herein are merely illustrative of the invention and are not limiting of the invention. It should be further noted that, for the convenience of description, only some of the structures related to the present invention are shown in the drawings, not all of the structures. Based on the embodiments in the present invention, all other embodiments obtained by a person skilled in the art without creative efforts belong to the protection scope of the present invention.

The terms "comprising" and "having," as well as any variations thereof, in the present application are intended to cover non-exclusive inclusions. For example, a process, method, system, article, or apparatus that comprises a list of steps or elements is not limited to only those steps or elements listed, but may alternatively include other steps or elements not listed, or inherent to such process, method, article, or apparatus.

Reference herein to "an embodiment" means that a particular feature, structure, or characteristic described in connection with the embodiment can be included in at least one embodiment of the invention. The appearances of the phrase 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. It is explicitly and implicitly understood by one skilled in the art that the embodiments described herein can be combined with other embodiments.

Referring to fig. 1, fig. 1 is a schematic structural diagram of an embodiment of a cap detection device according to the present invention. It should be noted at first that the utility model provides a block detection device 100 sets up before block welding station (not shown) to whether there is the block to be about to be carried to block welding station in the block detection on the station before being carried block welding station, in order to avoid when not having the block to be carried to block welding station, block welding station still carries out block welding operation and causes the damage of the subassembly such as utmost point ear of being connected with the block.

The cap detection apparatus 100 includes a carrier assembly 10 and a first detection assembly 20 disposed above the carrier assembly 10. The bearing assembly 10 is used for bearing at least one cap, and the first detecting assembly 20 is used for detecting whether the bearing position 11 on the bearing assembly 10 bears a corresponding cap. Preferably, the first detecting component 20 is disposed directly above the carrying component 10, and the detecting range of the first detecting component 20 can cover the carrying component 10. As illustrated in fig. 1, the detection range ABCD of the first detection member 20 may cover at least a portion of the load bearing assembly 10.

Wherein the carrier assembly 10 is provided with a plurality of carrier sites 11 for carrying caps. Wherein, the shape and the size of the bearing position 11 are matched with the size and the structure of the cap carried by the bearing position.

Please refer to fig. 2, fig. 2 is a schematic structural diagram of another embodiment of the cap detection apparatus of the present invention, and fig. 2 specifically shows a structure of the first detection assembly 20. The first detecting assembly 20 includes a fixing support 21 and a first detecting member 22 disposed on the fixing support 21, a detecting range of the first detecting member 22 at least covers the plurality of bearing positions 11 on the bearing assembly 10, so as to detect whether each bearing position 11 bears a cap, and after the detection is finished, a detecting result is fed back to a control center (not shown), so that the control center controls whether a welding mechanism (not shown) on a subsequent cap welding station needs to be welded according to the detecting result. When the first detecting component 20 detects that there is no cap at a certain bearing position 11, the detecting result that there is no cap at the bearing position 11 is fed back to the control center, and the control center controls the welding mechanism at the cap welding station not to perform welding operation at the welding time corresponding to the bearing position 11, so as to avoid damaging the tab and other components connected with the cap.

The cap detection device arranged in front of the cap welding station and illustrated in fig. 1 comprises a bearing assembly and a first detection assembly arranged above the bearing assembly, wherein the bearing assembly is provided with a plurality of bearing positions for bearing caps, the first detection assembly comprises a fixed support and a first detection piece which is arranged on the fixed support and covers the plurality of bearing positions on the bearing assembly, whether the caps are loaded on the bearing positions on the bearing assembly can be firstly detected by a station before the caps are conveyed to the cap welding station, the problem that when a certain bearing position does not have a cap, the cap welding station still carries out a welding process to damage a tab or other assemblies is avoided, and a good effect is achieved.

Please refer to fig. 3, fig. 3 is a schematic structural diagram of a carrier assembly in a cap detection device according to the present invention. Further, the bearing assembly 10 includes a support base 12 and a tray 13 disposed on the support base 12.

In the present embodiment, the carrying positions 11 are carrying holes 111 disposed on a surface of the tray 13 facing the first detecting component 20, the caps are disposed in the carrying holes 111, and the tray 13 is disposed to form a brightness or color contrast with the caps, so that the first detecting component 20 can determine whether a certain carrying position 11 carries a cap according to the brightness or color contrast, which will be described below.

Further, the carrying assembly 10 further comprises a conveying member 14, and the conveying member 14 is arranged below the tray 13 and used for conveying the empty tray 13 with the caps removed. Furthermore, in an embodiment, the materials of the conveying member 14 and the supporting seat 12 are light absorbing materials, that is, the materials of the conveying member 14 and the supporting seat 12 are non-reflective materials as the material of the tray 13, so as to avoid interference of the detection result due to reflection of the material, and further enable the detection of whether the cap is carried on the carrying position 11 on the tray 13 to be more accurate.

Please refer to fig. 4, fig. 4 is a schematic structural diagram of another embodiment of the cap detection apparatus of the present invention, and fig. 4 specifically shows a top view of the carrier assembly. In another embodiment, the first detecting assembly 20 further includes a light supplement mechanism 23, and the position and the number of the light supplement mechanism 23 can be determined according to the parameters of the tray 13.

In one embodiment, the tray 13 is made of a light absorbing material, and the light supplementing mechanism 23 is disposed above the tray 13 to supplement light to the tray 13 from above the tray 13.

In another embodiment, the tray 13 is made of a light absorbing material, and the light supplementing mechanism 23 may be disposed below the tray 13 as illustrated in fig. 4 to supplement light to the tray 13 from below the tray 13.

Please refer to fig. 1 to fig. 6, fig. 5 is a schematic structural diagram of another embodiment of the cap detection apparatus of the present invention, fig. 6 is a schematic structural diagram of another embodiment of the cap detection apparatus of the present invention, fig. 5 specifically shows an enlarged structure of a part of a material tray in the carrier assembly shown in fig. 3, and fig. 6 shows a schematic sectional structural diagram of the carrier assembly. Still further, the tray 13 further includes a supporting portion 131, the supporting portion 131 is disposed at the bottom of the bearing hole 111, the supporting portion 131 forms a hollow area with a radial size smaller than that of the bearing hole 111, a peripheral area of the cap is supported on the supporting portion 131, a central area of the cap corresponds to the hollow area, and when the cap is supported on the bearing hole 111, the cap can completely cover the hollow area of the bearing hole 111 to block light. When the light supplementing mechanism 23 is disposed below the tray 13 and the tray 13 is made of a light absorbing material, a brightness contrast is formed between the position of the bearing hole 111 loaded with the cap and other areas of the tray where the bearing hole 111 is not disposed, the first detecting element 22 detects that the bearing hole 111 loaded with the cap is a darker area, the bearing hole 111 not loaded with the cap is a brighter area, and the first detecting element 22 can determine whether the current bearing hole 111 bears the cap according to the brightness difference of the bearing hole 111.

In another embodiment, when the tray 13 is black and the surface of the tray 13 is a frosted structure, the light supplement mechanism 23 is correspondingly disposed above the tray 13, when no cap is loaded on the bearing hole 111, the light supplemented by the light supplement mechanism 23 directly passes through the bearing hole 111, a highlight region is formed by reflecting light from the bottom, the first detecting element 22 detects that the bearing hole 111 presents a state with higher brightness, and when a certain bearing hole 111 bears a cap, the bearing hole 111 presents a state with lower brightness.

Further, the tray 13 further includes a plurality of spacers 132. A plurality of spacers 132 are provided on the receiving portion 131 to protrude in the axial direction of the bearing hole 111, and the peripheral region of the cap is received on the spacers 132. Still further, the pad 132, the receiver 131 and the tray 13 are integrally formed.

Please refer to fig. 2 and fig. 7 simultaneously, fig. 7 is a schematic structural diagram of another embodiment of the cap detection apparatus of the present invention, and fig. 7 is a schematic structural diagram of a connecting member employed in the first detection assembly 20 illustrated in fig. 2. Further, the fixing bracket 21 includes: a fixed plate 212, an outer frame 211, a first truss 213 and a second truss 214 disposed perpendicular to each other. The fixing plate 212 is detachably disposed on the second truss 214, and the outer frame 211 and the first truss 213 and the second truss 214 are detachably connected by a connecting member 215. The connecting member 215 includes connecting plates 2151 and 2152 vertically connected to each other, and fixing plates 2153 and 2154 are further connected to both sides of the connecting plates 2151 and 2152 to further increase the stability of the connecting member 215, wherein the connecting plate 2155 is provided with a connecting hole 2155, the connecting plate 2152 is provided with a connecting hole 2156, and the connecting holes 2155 and 2156 are provided to correspond to the connecting holes (not shown) of the outer frame 211, the first truss 213, and the second truss 214, and connect the outer frame 211 with the first truss 213 and the second truss 214 under the cooperation of fasteners (not shown). It should be noted that each part of the connecting member 215 is integrally formed.

With continued reference to fig. 2, the first detecting member 22 is detachably disposed on the fixing plate 212, and the first detecting member 22 includes a CCD camera or a photoelectric sensor. The first detecting member 22 is disposed on the fixing plate 212 in a direction toward the carrier assembly 10. Still further, in another embodiment, the height of the fixing plate 212 in the vertical direction and the position in the horizontal direction can be adjusted within a set range, so as to adjust the detection range of the first detecting member 22.

Please refer to fig. 8, fig. 8 is a schematic structural diagram of an embodiment of a cap feeder according to the present invention. In the present embodiment the utility model provides a cap material loading machine 1000 includes: a cap detection device (not shown in fig. 8), a transfer mechanism 200 and a flipping mechanism 300 as described above in fig. 1-7 and any corresponding embodiment thereof.

Wherein, the transfer mechanism 200 is disposed at the downstream of the cap detection device to transfer the caps detected by the cap detection device to the turnover mechanism 300. The downstream of the cap detection means refers to the downstream in the cap conveying direction.

Tilting mechanism 300 sets up in the low reaches of transport mechanism 200 for overturn the block, in order to overturn the face of weld of block to setting for the direction, in order that follow-up block welding station welds the block. Further, the set direction corresponds to the orientation of the welding surface of the cap required for welding the cap at the cap welding station, and in one embodiment, the welding surface of the cap is turned over by the turning mechanism 300.

With continued reference to fig. 8, further, the transferring mechanism 200 includes a horizontal transmission mechanism 210, a vertical transmission mechanism 220 and a suction cup group 230.

The vertical transmission mechanism 220 is arranged at the moving end of the horizontal transmission mechanism 210, the power output end of the vertical transmission mechanism 220 is connected with the sucker group 230, the vertical transmission mechanism 220 and the sucker group 230 move along the horizontal direction under the driving of the horizontal transmission mechanism 210, and the vertical transmission mechanism 220 drives the sucker group 230 to move in the vertical direction so as to suck the caps on the tray 13 and transfer the caps to the turnover mechanism 300.

Still further, preferably, to increase the efficiency of the suction cup group 230, in an embodiment, the suction cup group 230 includes a plurality of suction cups arranged side by side, and the number and the arrangement direction of the suction cups are matched with the carrying holes on the tray. For example, when the X groups of carrying positions are arranged on the suction cups 13 side by side, the corresponding set of suction cup group 230 includes the X groups of suction cups arranged side by side, so that the caps carried on the whole row of carrying positions on the tray can be taken out at one time. In the current embodiment, the caps extracted onto the tray 13 can be effectively and quickly extracted by arranging the sucker group 230 comprising suckers arranged side by side, so that the feeding efficiency of the caps is ensured.

Further, the cap loader 1000 further includes a conveying assembly 400, and the conveying assembly 400 is disposed downstream of the turnover mechanism 300 to convey the caps, which are output by the turnover mechanism 300 and loaded on the cap jig, to the cap welding station.

Further, please refer to fig. 9, fig. 9 is a schematic structural diagram of a cap feeder according to another embodiment of the present invention, and specifically, fig. 9 shows an enlarged structure of the conveying assembly. The conveying assembly 400 is provided with a second detecting assembly (not shown) and a third detecting assembly (not shown) which are located at a cap feeding port and a cap discharging port and used for respectively detecting the bearing condition of the cap on the cap jig, so that the cap stacking or cap-free condition on the cap jig is avoided.

Further, the conveying assembly 400 includes a belt conveyor 410 and a belt 420 driven by the belt conveyor 410, and a first mounting plate 460 and a second mounting plate 430, a third mounting plate 440 and a fourth mounting plate 450 disposed in mounting holes reserved on the first mounting plate 460 are disposed along a conveying direction of the belt 420. The first mounting plate 460 is vertically arranged on a base station (not shown), the first mounting plate 460 is used for supporting the second mounting plate 430, the third mounting plate 440 and the fourth mounting plate 450, the second mounting plate 430 is arranged in a mounting hole reserved in the first mounting plate 460 and used for placing a reading and writing device, a label placed in a cap fixture (not shown) conveyed by the belt 420 in advance is read and written, the number of the cap is combined with the number of the cap fixture, and therefore the attribute information of the cap can be known only by reading the label on the cap fixture at a subsequent station. The third mounting plate 440 and the fourth mounting plate 450 are respectively provided with two groups, and are respectively symmetrically arranged at two sides of the belt 420. Wherein, be provided with the second detection element on the third mounting panel 440, be provided with the third detection element on the fourth mounting panel 450 and be used for further detecting the load-bearing condition of block in block material loading mouth and block material outlet department respectively, prevent that the block from piling up and the condition of no block appears on certain block tool in the same position.

Further, the second detecting component and the third detecting component include photoelectric sensors, and signal emitting ends and receiving ends of the photoelectric sensors are respectively disposed at two sets of third mounting plates 440 or fourth mounting plates 450 on two sides of the belt 420, and are used for detecting the cap jig carried on the belt 420 and the cap carried by the cap jig.

The above only is the embodiment of the present invention, not limiting the patent scope of the present invention, all the equivalent structures or equivalent processes that are used in the specification and the attached drawings or directly or indirectly applied to other related technical fields are included in the patent protection scope of the present invention.

Claims (10)

1. The cap detection device is arranged in front of a cap welding station and comprises a bearing assembly and a first detection assembly arranged above the bearing assembly;

the bearing assembly is provided with a plurality of bearing positions for bearing the caps;

the first detection assembly comprises a fixed support and a first detection piece arranged on the fixed support, and the detection range of the first detection piece covers the plurality of bearing positions on the bearing assembly so as to be used for detecting whether the cap is borne on each bearing position.

2. The cap detection device according to claim 1, wherein the carrier assembly comprises a support base and a tray disposed on the support base;

the bearing positions are bearing holes formed in the surface of one side, facing the first detection assembly, of the material tray, the caps are placed in the bearing holes, and the material tray and the caps form brightness or color contrast.

3. The cap detection device of claim 2, wherein the first detection assembly further comprises a light supplement mechanism;

the material disc is made of light absorption materials, and the light supplementing mechanism is arranged above the material disc so as to supplement light to the material disc from the upper part of the material disc; or

The charging tray is made of light absorption materials, and the light supplementing mechanism is arranged below the charging tray to supplement light to the charging tray from the lower side of the charging tray.

4. The cap detection device according to claim 2, wherein the tray further includes a support portion, the support portion is disposed at a bottom of the bearing hole, the support portion forms a hollow area with a radial dimension smaller than that of the bearing hole, a peripheral area of the cap is supported on the support portion, and a central area of the cap corresponds to the hollow area.

5. The cap detection device according to claim 4, wherein the tray further includes a plurality of spacers, the plurality of spacers are disposed on the receiving portion in such a manner as to protrude in the axial direction of the receiving hole, and the peripheral region of the cap is received by the spacers.

6. The cap detection apparatus of claim 1, wherein the fixed bracket comprises: the fixing plate is detachably arranged on the second truss, and the outer frame is detachably connected with the first truss and the first truss is detachably connected with the second truss through connecting pieces;

the first detection piece is detachably arranged on the fixing plate and comprises a CCD camera or a photoelectric sensor.

7. The utility model provides a block material loading machine which characterized in that, the block material loading machine includes: the cap detection device, the transfer mechanism and the flipping mechanism according to any one of claims 1 to 6;

the transfer mechanism is arranged at the downstream of the cap detection device and is used for transferring the caps detected by the cap detection device to the turnover mechanism;

the turnover mechanism is arranged at the downstream of the transfer mechanism and used for turning over the caps.

8. The cap feeder of claim 7, wherein the transfer mechanism comprises a horizontal drive mechanism, a vertical drive mechanism, and a suction cup set;

the vertical transmission mechanism is arranged at the moving end of the horizontal transmission mechanism, the power output end of the vertical transmission mechanism is connected with the sucker group, the vertical transmission mechanism and the sucker group are driven by the horizontal transmission mechanism to move along the horizontal direction, and the vertical transmission mechanism drives the sucker group to move in the vertical direction so as to absorb the caps on the material tray and transfer the caps to the turnover mechanism.

9. The cap feeder of claim 8, wherein the suction set comprises a plurality of suction cups arranged side by side, and the number and the arrangement direction of the suction cups are matched with the bearing holes on the tray.

10. The cap feeder according to claim 7, further comprising a conveying assembly disposed downstream of the inverting mechanism to convey the caps, which are output by the inverting mechanism and loaded on the cap jig, to a cap welding station;

the conveying assembly is provided with a second detection assembly and a third detection assembly which are positioned at a cap feeding hole and a cap discharging hole and used for respectively detecting the bearing conditions of the cap on the cap jig.

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