CN210192721U - Automobile axle housing material feeding unit - Google Patents

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CN210192721U
CN210192721U CN201920743874.4U CN201920743874U CN210192721U CN 210192721 U CN210192721 U CN 210192721U CN 201920743874 U CN201920743874 U CN 201920743874U CN 210192721 U CN210192721 U CN 210192721U
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Yuanlun Zhang
张远伦
Chongxiang Tan
谭崇祥
Wei Xiong
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Song Xu
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Chongqing Qingling Automobile Chassis Parts Co Ltd
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The utility model discloses an automobile axle housing feeding device, which comprises two feeding assemblies, wherein each feeding assembly is distributed at two sides of a positioning pile and is positioned on the connecting line of the positioning pile and a V-shaped clamp; the material lifting and blanking mechanism is used for driving the vertical moving member to move up and down along the inner wall of the inner cavity and is arranged on the base; the supporting piece is used for bearing and dragging the supporting piece below a flange plate of the supporting shaft, an axial limiting structure used for limiting the axial position of the axle housing is arranged on the supporting piece, and the supporting piece is arranged on the vertical moving piece and moves up and down along with the vertical moving piece. The utility model discloses a car axle housing material feeding unit sets up with the anchor clamps cooperation, realizes the locating hole of axle housing and the quick counterpoint of spud, has improved the convenience and the clamping efficiency of clamping, and need not to bow to survey the counterpoint condition, has reduced the installation hidden danger of clamping process.

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Automobile axle housing material feeding unit
Technical Field
The utility model relates to an automobile parts's processing especially relates to an automobile axle housing material feeding unit.
Background
The axle housing is an important automobile part and is used for mounting a main speed reducer, a differential mechanism, a half shaft and a wheel assembly base body, referring to fig. 1, the axle housing comprises a central housing A1 and shaft parts arranged on two sides of the central housing, a half shaft sleeve A2 and a flange plate A3 are arranged on the shaft parts, the flange plate A3 is positioned between the half shaft sleeve A2 and the central housing A1, one side of the central housing is provided with a positioning hole A4, and the positioning hole is a blind hole. When the centre bore A5 at processing axle housing both ends, see fig. 2, need fix a position whole axle housing clamping on axle housing centre bore processing special fixture, this kind of axle housing centre bore processing special fixture is including the V-arrangement anchor clamps B that are used for supporting the axle housing's axle housing sleeve pipe department and the spud C that is used for preventing axle housing axial float, at present, during the clamping, hoist and mount the axle housing to anchor clamps top earlier, and make the opening of locating hole A4 towards spud C, the manual work is pitched the range upon range of the locating hole and the spud location condition, then the manual work aims at the spud of anchor clamps, make the spud card go into in the locating hole of central casing just in time, accomplish. However, the workpiece is heavy (about 250KG), the whole clamping process is time-consuming and labor-consuming, and potential safety hazards exist.
Disclosure of Invention
The utility model discloses a main aim at provides an automobile axle housing material feeding unit to improve the convenience and the clamping efficiency of automobile axle housing clamping, reduce the installation hidden danger.
In order to achieve the above objects and other related objects, the technical solution of the present invention is as follows:
the utility model provides an automotive axle housing material feeding unit, includes two pay-off subassemblies, each pay-off subassembly distributes in the both sides of spud, and each pay-off subassembly is located the line of anchor clamps spud and V type anchor clamps, every the pay-off subassembly includes:
the top of the base is provided with an inner cavity;
a vertical moving member disposed in the inner cavity;
the material lifting and blanking mechanism is used for driving the vertical moving member to move up and down along the inner wall of the inner cavity and is arranged on the base;
and the bearing piece is used for bearing and dragging the lower part of a flange plate of the bearing shaft, an axial limiting structure used for limiting the axial position of the axle housing is arranged on the bearing piece, and the bearing piece is arranged on the vertical moving piece and moves up and down along with the vertical moving piece.
Optionally, the mobilizable setting of supporting piece is in on the vertical moving member, the vertical moving member with be provided with between the supporting piece and be used for with the supporting piece from getting the material level direction to the guide structure who falls the material level, fall the material level the guide pile V type anchor clamps collineation, it is located the side that falls the material level to get the material level.
Optionally, a fixed supporting part is arranged next to one side of the vertical moving part, the fixed supporting part is arranged on the base, the fixed supporting part is located in the inner cavity, the vertical moving part is located on the inner cavity, when the inner cavity moves to the highest position, the top of the vertical moving part is flush with the top of the fixed supporting part, the material taking position is located above the fixed supporting part, the material falling position is located above the vertical moving part, and the guide structure is also arranged between the fixed supporting part and the supporting part.
Optionally, the guide structure comprises a plurality of support rollers arranged in parallel, each support roller is located at the same height, the axial direction of each support roller is parallel to the axle housing half-axle sleeve,
the supporting roller is arranged on the fixed supporting piece and the vertical moving piece;
or the supporting roller is arranged at the bottom of the supporting piece.
Optionally, a V-shaped groove for placing the flange is formed in the supporting piece, the axial limiting structure comprises limiting parts arranged on one side or two sides of the V-shaped groove, and the limiting parts are limited on the end face of the flange during feeding.
Optionally, the limiting part is a limiting plate.
Optionally, lift blanking mechanism and include:
the telescopic piece is arranged on the base and extends into the inner cavity;
the roller is arranged at one end of the telescopic piece, which extends into the inner cavity;
the bottom of the vertical moving part is provided with an inclined plane, the inclined plane faces to the direction of the roller, the roller is propped against the inclined plane, and the vertical moving part moves up and down along the inner wall of the inner cavity when the telescopic part stretches.
Optionally, a roller auxiliary supporting piece for supporting the roller is further arranged in the inner cavity, an auxiliary supporting surface is arranged on the roller auxiliary supporting piece, the auxiliary supporting surface is parallel to the telescopic direction of the telescopic piece, and the roller rolls along the auxiliary supporting surface.
Optionally, a rolling member is arranged between the vertical moving member and the inner cavity of the base, and the rolling member is mounted on the vertical moving member or on the base.
Optionally, the lower region of the supporting member is located in the inner cavity, so that the upper region of the base encloses a limiting frame for preventing the supporting member from separating from the vertical moving member.
The utility model discloses a car axle housing material feeding unit sets up with the anchor clamps cooperation, during the clamping, only needs hoist and mount the axle housing to make its ring flange fall on the supporting piece, just can realize its axial positioning, lifts blanking mechanism through the drive and just can realize the axle housing at the removal of upper and lower direction, realizes the locating hole of axle housing and the quick counterpoint of spud pile, has improved the convenience and the clamping efficiency of clamping, and need not to bow to survey the counterpoint condition, has reduced the installation hidden danger of clamping process.
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FIG. 1 is a schematic illustration of an axle housing;
FIG. 2 is a schematic structural diagram of a special fixture for machining a central hole of an axle housing;
fig. 3 is a schematic layout view of the feeding assembly of the feeding device for automobile axle housing of the present invention;
FIG. 4 is a schematic illustration of an exemplary construction of the feed assembly when the flange of the axle housing is at the pick-up position;
FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram illustrating an exemplary configuration of the feed assembly when the flange of the axle housing is in the drop position;
figure 6 is a schematic diagram of an exemplary feed assembly when the flange of the axle housing is in the clamping station.
FIG. 7 is a top view of the position relationship between the supporting member and the position-limiting frame.
Description of reference numerals in the examples:
the automatic feeding device comprises a central shell A1, a semi-axis sleeve A2, a flange A3, a positioning hole A4, a central hole A5, a V-shaped clamp B, a positioning pile C, a feeding assembly D, a base 1, a vertical moving member 2, a lifting and blanking mechanism 3, a supporting member 4, a fixed supporting part 5, a guide structure 6, an inner cavity 11, a limiting frame 12, an inclined surface 21, a wedge block 22, a rolling member 23, a telescopic member 31, a roller 32, an auxiliary supporting member 33, a V-shaped groove 42 and a limiting structure 41.
Detailed Description
In the following description, numerous specific details are set forth in order to provide a more thorough understanding of the present invention. It will be apparent, however, to one skilled in the art, that the present invention may be practiced without one or more of these specific details. In other instances, well-known features have not been described in order to avoid obscuring the present invention.
It is to be understood that the present invention may be embodied in many different forms and should not be construed as limited to the embodiments set forth herein. Rather, these embodiments are provided so that this disclosure will be thorough and complete, and will fully convey the scope of the invention to those skilled in the art. In the drawings, like reference numerals refer to like elements throughout.
A feeding device for an automobile axle housing is shown in figure 3 and comprises two feeding components D, wherein the feeding components D are distributed on two sides of a positioning pile C and are positioned on a connecting line of the positioning pile C and a V-shaped clamp B; referring to fig. 5 and 6 in combination, each feeding assembly D includes:
the device comprises a base 1, wherein the top of the base 1 is provided with an inner cavity 11;
a vertical moving member 2, the vertical moving member 2 being disposed in the inner cavity 11;
the material lifting and blanking mechanism 3 is used for driving the vertical moving piece 2 to move up and down along the inner wall of the inner cavity 11, and is arranged on the base 1;
and the supporting piece 4 is used for bearing and dragging the lower part of a flange A3 of the supporting shaft, an axial limiting structure 41 used for limiting the axial position of the axle housing is arranged on the supporting piece 4, and the supporting piece 4 is arranged on the vertical moving piece 2 and moves up and down along with the vertical moving piece 2.
During clamping, only the axle housing needs to be hoisted to the upper side of the feeding device, the opening of the positioning hole A4 faces downwards, the flange plate A3 is enabled to just fall on the bearing piece 4 and is limited in the axial direction (the axial direction of the axle housing A2) by the axial limiting structure 41, then the blanking mechanism 3 is controlled to be lifted, the bearing piece 4 is enabled to move from top to bottom along with the vertical moving piece 2, the axle housing on the bearing piece 4 also falls along with the bearing piece 4, the positioning pile C is enabled to just be clamped into the positioning hole A4, rapid alignment of the positioning hole A4 and the positioning pile C of the axle housing is achieved, convenience and clamping efficiency of clamping are improved, the alignment condition does not need to be observed in a bent-over mode, and mounting hidden dangers in the clamping process are reduced.
In some embodiments, with reference to fig. 3, 4, 5, and 6, the supporting member 4 is movably disposed on the vertical moving member 2, a guiding structure 6 for guiding the supporting member 4 from a material taking position to a material falling position is disposed between the vertical moving member 2 and the supporting member 4, the material falling position, the positioning pile C, and the V-shaped clamp are collinear, and the material taking position is located beside the material falling position. The material taking position is the target position of flange A3 when hoisting, the blanking position is located the axle housing and accomplishes the top of clamping back flange A3 position, and this blanking position is promptly lift blanking mechanism 3 and has not driven the position that flange A3 was located when the axle housing moved down yet, when operating space was limited around the blanking position, this kind of mode of getting the material position and setting up at blanking position side can provide more operating space, realizes flange A3's counterpoint operation when being more convenient for hang the axle housing to material feeding unit on.
In some embodiments, referring to fig. 4, 5 and 6, a fixed support part 5 is disposed next to one side of the vertical moving member 2, the fixed support part 5 is disposed on the base 1, the fixed support part 5 is located in the inner cavity 11, and when the vertical moving member 2 moves to the highest position along the inner cavity 11, the top of the vertical moving member 2 is flush with the top of the fixed support part 5, the material taking position is located above the fixed support part 5, the material falling position is located above the vertical moving member 2, and the guiding structure 6 is also disposed between the fixed support part 5 and the support 4.
During the pay-off, the material level of getting that bearing piece 4 was in on the fixed supporting part 5 earlier, after waiting to pack into the axle housing, promotes bearing piece 4 and removes to go into the material level of falling on vertical moving member 2 from fixed supporting part 5, and the rethread control is lifted blanking mechanism 3 and is delivered to the processing station with the axle housing, and in the blanking process, bearing piece 4 on vertical moving member 2 can be better spacing by, can not slide along guide structure 6. Certainly, in the implementation process, can all set up material level and blanking position on vertical moving member 2 with getting, and supporting piece 4 moves on this vertical moving member 2 always, but this kind of mode of setting, supporting piece 4 probably slides to getting the direction of material position place, leads to the counterpoint to be inaccurate.
In some embodiments, referring to fig. 4, 5 and 6, the guide structure 6 includes a plurality of support rollers disposed parallel to each other, each of which is located at the same height and has an axial direction parallel to the axle housing half-shaft conduit a2, wherein the support rollers are mounted on the fixed support member and the vertical moving member 2, and in practical implementation, the support rollers may also be disposed at the bottom of the supporting member 4.
In some embodiments, referring to fig. 4 to 7, the supporting member 4 is provided with a V-shaped groove for receiving the flange A3, and the axial limiting structure 41 includes a limiting portion disposed on one side or both sides of the V-shaped groove 42, and the limiting portion is limited on the end surface of the flange A3 during feeding.
In some embodiments, referring to fig. 7, the limiting portion is a limiting plate.
In some embodiments, referring to fig. 4 to 6, the material lifting and dropping mechanism 3 includes:
a telescopic member 31 installed on the base 1, wherein the telescopic member 31 extends into the inner cavity 11;
a roller 32 provided on the telescopic member 31 at one end deep into the inner cavity 11;
the bottom of the vertical moving member 2 is provided with an inclined surface 21, the inclined surface 21 faces the direction of the roller 32, and the roller 32 is pressed against the inclined surface 21, so that the vertical moving member 2 moves up and down along the inner wall of the inner cavity 11 when the telescopic member 31 is telescopic.
In practical implementation, the telescopic member 31 may be a cylinder.
Before the clamping is completed, the telescopic piece 31 retracts, the roller 32 moves along with the telescopic piece 31 in the direction far away from the inclined surface 21, and the vertical moving piece 2 moves downwards under the action of the dead weight and the pressure of the supporting piece 4 and the axle housing, so that the inclined surface 21 is always supported on the roller 32 and supported by the roller 32 until the inclined surface falls to the clamping station. In practical implementation, a wedge block 22 may be disposed at the bottom of the vertical moving member 2, so that the roller 32 abuts against the inclined surface 21 of the wedge block 22.
In some embodiments, referring to fig. 4 to 6, an auxiliary support 33 of the roller 32 is further disposed in the inner cavity 11 for supporting the roller 32, an auxiliary support surface is disposed on the auxiliary support 33 of the roller 32, the auxiliary support surface is parallel to the extending direction of the extensible member 31, and the roller 32 rolls along the auxiliary support surface, so that the roller 32 is not in a cantilever state, and the vertical moving member 2 can be supported more reliably and more stably, and the entire feeding mechanism is more reliable. In particular, the auxiliary support surface may be arranged horizontally.
In some embodiments, referring to fig. 4 to 6, a rolling member 23 is disposed between the vertical moving member 2 and the inner cavity 11 of the base 1, and the rolling member 23 is mounted on the vertical moving member 2. In practical implementation, the rolling member 23 may be a roller such as a needle roller or a ball roller, and the rolling member 23 may also be disposed on the base 1, but when the rolling member 23 is disposed on the vertical moving member 2, it is easier to machine and install.
In some embodiments, referring to fig. 4 to 7, the lower area of the support 4 is located in the inner cavity 11, so that the upper area of the base 1 encloses a stop frame 12 that prevents the support 4 from disengaging from the vertical moving member 2. The limiting frame 12 prevents the supporting piece 4 from being separated, so that the whole conveying process is safer and more reliable.
In the description of the present invention, unless otherwise expressly specified or limited, the first feature "on" or "under" the second feature may include both the first and second features being in direct contact, and may also include the first and second features being in contact, not being in direct contact, but rather being in contact with each other via additional features between them.
In the description of the invention, the singular forms "a", "an" and "the" are intended to include the plural forms as well, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise. It will be further understood that the terms "comprises" and/or "comprising," when used in this specification, specify the presence of stated features, integers, steps, operations, components, and/or components, but do not preclude the presence or addition of one or more other features, integers, steps, operations, components, and/or groups thereof.
The above embodiments are merely illustrative of the principles and effects of the present invention, and are not to be construed as limiting the invention. Modifications and variations can be made to the above-described embodiments by those skilled in the art without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention. Accordingly, it is intended that all equivalent modifications or changes which may be made by those skilled in the art without departing from the spirit and technical spirit of the present invention be covered by the claims of the present invention.

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1. The utility model provides an automobile axle housing material feeding unit which characterized in that: the positioning pile comprises two feeding components, wherein the feeding components are distributed on two sides of the positioning pile and are positioned on a connecting line of the positioning pile and a V-shaped clamp;
each said feed assembly comprising:
the top of the base is provided with an inner cavity;
a vertical moving member disposed in the inner cavity;
the material lifting and blanking mechanism is used for driving the vertical moving member to move up and down along the inner wall of the inner cavity and is arranged on the base;
and the bearing piece is used for bearing and dragging the lower part of a flange plate of the bearing shaft, an axial limiting structure used for limiting the axial position of the axle housing is arranged on the bearing piece, and the bearing piece is arranged on the vertical moving piece and moves up and down along with the vertical moving piece.
2. The automotive axle housing feeding device of claim 1, characterized in that: the mobilizable setting of supporting piece is in on the vertical moving member, the vertical moving member with be provided with between the supporting piece and be used for with the supporting piece from getting the material level direction to the guide structure who falls the material level, fall the material level the guide pile V type anchor clamps collineation, it is located the side that falls the material level to get the material level.
3. The automotive axle housing feeding device of claim 2, characterized in that: the utility model discloses a vertical moving member, including vertical moving member, fixed supporting part, inner chamber, vertical moving member, fixed supporting part, vertical moving member's one side next-door neighbour is provided with the fixed supporting part, the fixed supporting part sets up on the base, the fixed supporting part is located in the inner chamber, just vertical moving member follows when the inner chamber removes to the highest position, the top of vertical moving member with the top of fixed supporting part flushes, it is located to get the material level the top of.
4. The automotive axle housing feeding device of claim 3, characterized in that: the guide structure comprises a plurality of supporting rollers which are arranged in parallel, each supporting roller is positioned at the same height, the axial direction of each supporting roller is parallel to the axle housing half-axle sleeve,
the supporting roller is arranged on the fixed supporting piece and the vertical moving piece;
or the supporting roller is arranged at the bottom of the supporting piece.
5. The automotive axle housing feeding device of claim 1, characterized in that: the bearing piece is provided with a V-shaped groove used for being placed into the flange plate, the axial limiting structure comprises limiting parts arranged on one side or two sides of the V-shaped groove, and the limiting parts are limited on the end face of the flange plate during feeding.
6. The automotive axle housing feeding device of claim 5, characterized in that: the limiting part is a limiting plate.
7. The automotive axle housing feeding device of claim 1, characterized in that: lift blanking mechanism and include:
the telescopic piece is arranged on the base and extends into the inner cavity;
the roller is arranged at one end of the telescopic piece, which extends into the inner cavity;
the bottom of the vertical moving part is provided with an inclined plane, the inclined plane faces to the direction of the roller, the roller is propped against the inclined plane, and the vertical moving part moves up and down along the inner wall of the inner cavity when the telescopic part stretches.
8. The automotive axle housing feeding device of claim 7, characterized in that: the inner cavity is also provided with a roller auxiliary supporting piece used for supporting the roller, an auxiliary supporting surface is arranged on the roller auxiliary supporting piece and is parallel to the telescopic direction of the telescopic piece, and the roller rolls along the auxiliary supporting surface.
9. The automotive axle housing feeding device of claim 8, characterized in that: a rolling part is arranged between the vertical moving part and the inner cavity of the base, and the rolling part is installed on the vertical moving part or the base.
10. The automotive axle housing feeding device of claim 1, characterized in that: the lower area of the supporting piece is positioned in the inner cavity, so that the upper area of the base is surrounded to form a limiting frame for preventing the supporting piece from being separated from the vertical moving piece.
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