CN210360140U - Computer mainframe box assembling equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

The application provides computer mainframe assembly equipment relates to assembly equipment technical field. Computer mainframe box equipment includes: the system comprises a case conveying line, a mainboard conveying line, an accessory conveying line and a case jig return line; the case jig return line comprises a plurality of stations required by assembly and sequentially arranged along the conveying direction of the case jig return line. The following operations are performed by the manipulator: transferring the case to a case jig; dismantling the case cover; transferring the mainboard into a case; transferring the accessory into the case or a case jig; and moving the case out of the case jig. The computer mainframe box assembling equipment realizes automatic assembly by combining each conveying line and a case jig return line and matching with a mechanical arm, thereby greatly reducing human nondeterminable factors and improving the productivity and the finished product yield.

Description

Computer mainframe box assembling equipment

Technical Field

The application relates to the technical field of assembling equipment, in particular to computer case assembling equipment.

Background

The assembly of the computer host is an indispensable link for computer production. The existing production mode is as follows:

the operator and the production is synthesized to the auxiliary type board of simplex station, need treat that the rigging equipment carries out a lot of transportation, need carry out the clamping to the product simultaneously many times and open and press from both sides, cause the product quality problem easily, holistic work efficiency is low simultaneously.

Problems and drawbacks that this mode may have:

the requirement on the assembly proficiency of workers is high, and the nondeterminable factors of human factors exist, so that the productivity and the finished product yield are influenced.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

An object of the application is to provide a computer mainframe assembling device, which can improve the problem that the productivity and yield of the case assembly are not high enough.

The embodiment of the application is realized as follows:

an embodiment of the present application provides a computer mainframe assembling apparatus, including:

a case conveying line;

a main board conveying line;

an accessory conveying line; and

the chassis jig comprises a chassis jig return line, wherein a chassis jig for bearing a chassis is arranged on the chassis jig return line, and the chassis jig return line comprises a chassis feeding station, a chassis cover removing station, a main board feeding station, a main board locking station, an accessory feeding station, an accessory locking station, a chassis cover installing station and a chassis discharging station which are sequentially arranged along the conveying direction of the chassis jig return line;

the following operations are performed by the manipulator:

transferring the case from the case conveying line to the case jig at the case loading station;

removing a case cover at the case cover removing station;

transferring the mainboard from the mainboard conveying line to the case at the mainboard loading station;

transferring accessories from the accessory conveying line to the case or transferring the accessories to a case jig carrying the case at the accessory feeding station;

and moving the case out of the case jig at the case blanking station.

Through designing the computer case equipment of this application, can save a large amount of transports and clamping of traditional quick-witted case equipment process, open the step of pressing from both sides to reduce the requirement to workman's operation proficiency, finally make the equipment of computer case become more high-efficient, promoted the yields simultaneously.

In addition, the computer mainframe assembling device provided by the embodiment of the application can also have the following additional technical features:

in an optional embodiment of the present application, the chassis jig reflow line includes a plurality of speed doubling chains and a plurality of lifting tables;

the multiple speed chains are connected end to end through the multiple lifting platforms.

Through arranging speed chain group and elevating platform group for quick-witted case tool can circulate on quick-witted case tool return line, carries out the centre gripping to quick-witted case, has reduced the clamping of quick-witted case and has opened and press from both sides the number of times, avoids quick-witted case at the clamping, open the in-process of pressing from both sides to damage as far as possible.

In an alternative embodiment of the present application, the computer main case assembling apparatus further comprises:

the machine case conveying line is connected with the machine case feeding station through the overturning platform, the overturning platform is used for overturning the machine case from a vertical state to a horizontal state, the machine case is transferred to the overturning platform from the machine case conveying line through a manipulator, and the machine case is transferred to the machine case feeding station from the overturning platform.

Before the upset, the state of putting vertically of quick-witted case can be convenient for bear more quick-witted cases on quick-witted case conveying line, and overturn the quick-witted case back, can be convenient for follow-up demolish the case lid to also conveniently deliver quick-witted case to quick-witted case tool, and need not to overturn quick-witted case once more at quick-witted case material loading station, saved the time.

In an alternative embodiment of the present application, the computer main case assembling apparatus further comprises:

and the turnover manipulator is arranged at the downstream of the cover loading station of the case and is used for turning the case from a horizontal state to a vertical state.

The case is turned over again before discharging, so that the fifth manipulator can conveniently discharge more cases at one time.

In an alternative embodiment of the present application, the computer main case assembling apparatus includes a side cover robot for detaching a side cover and a front cover robot for detaching a front cover, the side cover robot being located upstream of the front cover robot.

Through the operation of tearing open the lid in proper order of side cap manipulator and protecgulum manipulator, realize that the quick-witted case tears the automation of lid open, can make things convenient for the assembly operation of follow-up material simultaneously.

In an optional embodiment of the application, the main board conveying line comprises a main board feeding station, a CPU assembling station, a memory bank assembling station and a main board blanking station which are sequentially arranged along the conveying direction of the main board conveying line;

the following operations, performed by the robot:

assembling a CPU on a mainboard at the CPU assembling station;

and assembling the memory bank on the mainboard at the memory bank assembling station.

Before the mainboard is installed in the case, the mainboard is transported through the mainboard transport line, main components such as a CPU and a memory bank are assembled in the transporting process, and then the fan is assembled in an adaptive manner, so that the CPU and the memory bank do not need to be assembled additionally after the mainboard is installed in the case, and the assembling efficiency is improved.

In the optional embodiment of this application, the accessory transfer chain includes accessory throwing line and many accessory distribution lines, be provided with the automatic device of unpacking that is used for opening the material case on the accessory throwing line, the one end of accessory distribution line with the accessory throwing line links up, the other end with accessory material loading station links up, the accessory throwing line is used for throwing in the accessory of different grade type to corresponding on the accessory distribution line.

Different accessories can be uniformly thrown on the accessory throwing line, then the box is opened by the automatic box opening device, and then different accessories can be conveniently thrown on different accessory distribution lines, and the accessories are conveyed to the accessory feeding station.

In an optional embodiment of the present application, the accessories on every two accessory distribution lines are transferred into the chassis or transferred onto a chassis fixture carrying the chassis by a manipulator.

In an optional embodiment of the present application, the plurality of accessory distribution lines include a hard disk distribution line, an optical drive distribution line, a power distribution line, and a graphics card distribution line.

The fourth manipulator is matched with the two accessory distribution lines, so that the accessories can be assembled orderly without redundancy, and different accessory distribution lines respectively correspond to one accessory, so that the identification time of the fourth manipulator during assembly can be shortened, and the improvement of the production efficiency is facilitated.

In an alternative embodiment of the present application, the following operations are performed manually and/or by a robot: and locking and attaching the accessories to the case at the accessory locking and attaching station.

In an optional embodiment of the present application, the case conveying line includes a feeding roller line, a synchronous belt line, and a wire-turning manipulator, the feeding roller line is configured to receive a case to be assembled, the feeding roller line is connected to the synchronous belt line and delivers the case to be assembled to the synchronous belt line through the wire-turning manipulator, and the synchronous belt line is connected to the case feeding station.

Through design material loading cylinder line, synchronous band line and change line manipulator for quick-witted case can be delivered to quick-witted case material loading station steadily, and provide certain buffering time, make quick-witted case can enough be delivered, can not cause quick-witted case at quick-witted case material loading station to block up again, and is more reasonable to the material loading arrangement of quick-witted case.

Drawings

In order to more clearly illustrate the technical solutions of the embodiments of the present application, the drawings that are required to be used in the embodiments will be briefly described below, it should be understood that the following drawings only illustrate some embodiments of the present application and therefore should not be considered as limiting the scope, and for those skilled in the art, other related drawings can be obtained from the drawings without inventive effort.

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of a computer mainframe assembly apparatus according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;

fig. 2 is a partially enlarged view of a portion a of fig. 1;

FIG. 3 is a schematic view of the enclosure prior to cover removal;

FIG. 4 is a schematic view of the enclosure with the cover removed;

FIG. 5 is a schematic view of a case jig reflow line;

FIG. 6 is a partial schematic view of FIG. 5;

FIG. 7 is a schematic view of another perspective of FIG. 6;

FIG. 8 is a first perspective schematic view of the CPU feeding mechanism and the first assembly robot;

FIG. 9 is a second perspective schematic view of the CPU feeding mechanism and the first assembly robot;

FIG. 10 is a third perspective view of the CPU feeding mechanism and the first assembly robot;

fig. 11 is a schematic view of a first perspective of a memory bank feeding mechanism and a second assembly robot;

fig. 12 is a second perspective view of the memory bank loading mechanism and a second assembly robot;

FIG. 13 is a schematic view of an unpowered roller line, accessory dispensing line, and a portion of a chassis fixture return line of the accessory dispensing line;

figure 14 is a schematic view of the fourth robot of figure 13;

FIG. 15 is a schematic diagram of the hard disk pre-positioning fixture of FIG. 13;

FIG. 16 is a diagram illustrating the optical disc drive pre-positioning fixture of FIG. 13;

fig. 17 is a schematic view of a manipulator lock section.

Icon: 1000-computer mainframe box assembling equipment; 1001-computer mainframe box; 10011-side cover; 10012-front cover; 10013-a motherboard placement area; 10014-a power source placement area; 10015-CD driver placing area; 10016-hard disk placement area; 1002-CCD lens; 1003-suction cup; 1004-material box; 100-case conveyor line; 101-a loading roller line; 102-synchronous strip line; 103-a line-turning manipulator; 104-card return; 105-a relay manipulator; 106-a flipping platform; 107-driving the cylinder; 200-a main board conveying line; 210-main board on-line station; 220-a CPU assembly station; 230-memory bank assembly station; 240-a fan assembly station; 250-main board blanking station; 251-a rubber pad; 260-CPU feeding mechanism; 261-CPU feeding rack; 262-a first storage magazine; 263-first tray; 264-a first tray jacking device; 265-first upper tray fixing means; 266-first pushing means; 2661-a push block; 267-a rotary hold-down cylinder; 270-memory bank feeding mechanism; 271-memory bank loading frame; 272-a second magazine clip; 273-second tray; 274-a second tray lifting device; 275-second upper tray fixture; 276-second pushing means; 2761-push plate; 280-a first assembly robot; 290-a second assembly robot; 291-air claw; 292-code scanner; 300-accessory conveyor line; 311-a power roller line; 312-unpowered roller line; 313-a jacking and box body tilting mechanism; 315-automatic box opening device; 320-a fitting distribution line; 321-a four-channel return line; 331-hard disk pre-positioning jig; 332-pre-positioning jig for optical drive; 400-case jig reflow line; 401 — first double speed chain; 4011-traction plate; 4012-pulling single axis manipulators; 4013-process position tool locking seat; 402-second speed doubling chain; 403-third double speed chain; 404-fourth speed chain; 405-a first lift stage; 4051-support carriage; 4052-lifting single-shaft manipulator; 4053-inductor; 4054-lifter plate; 4055-locking the cylinder in place; 406-a second lifting platform; 407-a third lifting platform; 408-a fourth elevating platform; 409-overpass; 410-case jig; 411-a limiting block; 412-spring type locking positioning block; 413-an unlocking cylinder; 414-tooling plate; 415-support columns; 420-case feeding station; 430-case lid removal station; 440-a motherboard loading station; 450-main board locking station; 460-a fitting feeding station; 470-fitting locking station; 471-manual locking section; 472-a manipulator lock section; 4721-a four-axis manipulator; 4722-electric batch; 4723-vibrating disks; 480-a case cover assembling station; 490-machine case blanking station; 510-a first manipulator; 520-a second manipulator; 530-a third manipulator; 540-a fourth manipulator; 550-a fifth manipulator; 560-flipping robot.

Detailed Description

In order to make the objects, technical solutions and advantages of the embodiments of the present application clearer, the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present application will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the drawings in the embodiments of the present application, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are some embodiments of the present application, but not all embodiments. The components of the embodiments of the present application, generally described and illustrated in the figures herein, can be arranged and designed in a wide variety of different configurations.

Thus, the following detailed description of the embodiments of the present application, presented in the accompanying drawings, is not intended to limit the scope of the claimed application, but is merely representative of selected embodiments of the application. All other embodiments, which can be derived by a person skilled in the art from the embodiments given herein without making any creative effort, shall fall within the protection scope of the present application.

It should be noted that: like reference numbers and letters refer to like items in the following figures, and thus, once an item is defined in one figure, it need not be further defined and explained in subsequent figures.

In the description of the present application, it is noted that the terms "first", "second", and the like are used merely for distinguishing between descriptions and are not intended to indicate or imply relative importance.

In the description of the present application, it is also to be noted that, unless otherwise explicitly specified or limited, the terms "disposed" and "connected" are to be interpreted broadly, e.g., as being either fixedly connected, detachably connected, or integrally connected; can be mechanically or electrically connected; they may be connected directly or indirectly through intervening media, or they may be interconnected between two elements. The specific meaning of the above terms in the present application can be understood in a specific case by those of ordinary skill in the art.

Examples

Referring to fig. 1 to 17, the present embodiment provides a computer mainframe assembly apparatus 1000, including: the chassis assembly includes a chassis conveyor line 100, a motherboard conveyor line 200, a fitting conveyor line 300, and a chassis jig return line 400. The computer main chassis 1001 is simply referred to as a chassis in the present application. As shown in fig. 3 and 4, the case includes a side cover 10011 and a front cover 10012, and after the side cover 10011 and the front cover 10012 are removed, it can be seen that the case includes a motherboard placement area 10013, a power supply placement area 10014, a drive placement area 10015, a hard disk placement area 10016, and other receiving portions for equipping components.

The chassis jig return line 400 is provided with a chassis jig 410 for carrying a chassis, and the chassis jig return line 400 includes a chassis loading station 420, a chassis cover removing station 430, a motherboard loading station 440, a motherboard locking station 450, an accessory loading station 460, an accessory locking station 470, a chassis cover loading station 480, and a chassis unloading station 490, which are sequentially arranged along the conveying direction.

The following operations are performed by the manipulator:

the chassis is transferred from the chassis transfer line 100 to the chassis jig 410 at the chassis loading station 420. Specifically, in this implementation, this operation is accomplished by the first robot 510.

The enclosure lid is removed at enclosure lid removal station 430. Specifically, in this implementation, this operation is accomplished by the second robot 520.

The motherboard is transferred from the motherboard delivery line 200 to the enclosure at a motherboard loading station 440. Specifically, in this implementation, this operation is accomplished by the third robot 530.

Transferring the accessories from the accessory conveyor line 300 to a chassis or to a chassis fixture 410 carrying the chassis at an accessory loading station 460; specifically, in the present embodiment, this operation is performed by the fourth robot 540.

The chassis is removed from the chassis fixture 410 at the chassis blanking station 490. Specifically, in the present embodiment, this operation is performed by the fifth robot 550.

After the case is loaded on the case conveyor line 100, the unassembled case flows to the case jig return line 400, and the main board, the accessories and other parts are assembled and finally discharged at different stations in sequence. Through designing the computer mainframe box equipment 1000 of this application, can save a large amount of transports and clamping of traditional quick-witted case equipment process, open the step of pressing from both sides, quick-witted case and to the requirement reduction of workman's operation proficiency, finally make the equipment of computer machine case become more high-efficient, promoted the yields simultaneously. Of course, the case conveying line 100, the motherboard conveying line 200, the accessory conveying line 300, and the case jig returning line 400 may be respectively provided with a control end for independent control, and the line bodies may be matched through a bus. In addition, the robot of the present embodiment, as well as the assembling, loading mechanisms and devices such as the CPU loading mechanism 260, the first assembling robot 280, the memory bank loading mechanism 270, and the second assembling robot 290, which will be mentioned later, and other operations such as detection and identification, can be processed by the control end and drive the corresponding execution end. It will be appreciated that the control system itself is a control device commonly used in the field of assembly equipment and will not be described in detail.

Referring to fig. 1, in detail, the chassis conveying line 100 includes a loading roller line 101, a synchronous belt line 102 and a wire-turning robot 103, the loading roller line 101 is used for receiving the chassis to be assembled, the loading roller line 101 is connected with the synchronous belt line 102 and delivers the chassis to be assembled to the synchronous belt line 102 through the wire-turning robot 103, and the synchronous belt line 102 is connected with a chassis loading station 420.

Wherein, the feeding roller line 101 is paved with a clamping plate, and the unassembled case is fed onto the clamping plate by an automatic forklift. Optionally, a chuck plate return line 104 is arranged beside the charging roller line 101, a driving cylinder 107 is arranged beside the charging roller line, the driving cylinder 107 is located at the joint of the charging roller line 101 and the synchronous belt line 102, when the situation that the material on the chuck plate is not detected is detected, the driving cylinder 107 pushes the chuck plate to the chuck plate return line 104, and then the chuck plate is brought to the initial end of the charging roller line 101 for repeated use. It should be noted that the automatic forklift and the pallet return line 104 can both refer to general technologies, and this embodiment does not improve them, and therefore, the description thereof is omitted.

The wire-turning manipulator 103 and the first manipulator 510 used in this embodiment are both rectangular coordinate manipulators, and the respective tail ends are both provided with a suction cup 1003 for sucking and releasing the chassis. It should be noted that the suction cup 1003 is relatively conventional, and the embodiment is only illustrated and labeled for the suction cup 1003 simply, and does not mean that all the suction cups 1003 have to have the same structure and size here and below, and those skilled in the art can adjust the suction cup according to different articles to be sucked and placed, without affecting understanding of the technology.

In the orientation shown in fig. 1, the feed roller line 101 is laid out laterally, and the wire-turning robot 103 straddles the feed roller line 101 and the timing belt line 102. In detail, the synchronous belt line 102 used in this embodiment is composed of three sets of synchronous belt lines 102, the first set of synchronous belt lines 102 is connected to the feeding roller line 101, the first set of synchronous belt lines 102 and the second set of synchronous belt lines 102 transfer the material through the transfer robot 105, and the second set of synchronous belt lines 102 and the third set of synchronous belt lines 102 transfer the material through the first robot 510.

By designing the feeding roller line 101, the synchronous belt line 102 and the line-changing manipulator 103, the case can be smoothly distributed to the case feeding station 420, and a certain buffering time is provided, so that the case can be distributed, the case can not be blocked at the case feeding station 420, and the feeding arrangement of the case is more reasonable. The layout of the feeding roller lines 101 and the synchronous belt lines 102 shown in this embodiment can effectively utilize the space, and it is conceivable that the feeding roller lines 101 and the synchronous belt lines 102 can be arranged in a linear arrangement state if the space is enough, as long as normal feeding is possible.

Further, optionally, the computer mainframe box assembling apparatus 1000 further includes a turning platform 106, the turning platform 106 is configured to turn the box from the vertical state to the horizontal state, and the box conveying line 100 is connected to the box loading station 420 through the turning platform 106. The chassis is first placed on the turnover platform 106 by the first manipulator 510, and after the turnover platform 106 turns the chassis into the horizontal state, the chassis in the horizontal state is transferred to the chassis loading station 420 (hereinafter, referred to as the first lifting table 405) by the first manipulator 510. Wherein, upset platform 106 is comparatively common, generally is the platform that has an object carrying, and the platform next door sets up location locking cylinder, waits that the quick-witted case is sent the back, locks quick-witted case on the platform through location locking cylinder, and the platform next door generally can set up the used cylinder of upset, and the piston rod of cylinder inclines for the platform, and the end and the platform of piston rod are articulated, and when the quick-witted case was locked the back, the piston rod motion of cylinder to drive the platform and rotate, make the quick-witted case rotate and become the state of putting crouchingly.

Before the turnover, the vertical state of the case can facilitate bearing more cases on the case conveying line 100, and after the case is turned over, the case cover can be conveniently detached subsequently, and the case can be conveniently delivered to the case jig 410 without turning over the case again at the case loading station 420, so that the time is saved.

Referring to fig. 5 to 7, in particular, the chassis jig reflow line 400 of the present embodiment includes a plurality of speed-doubling chains and a plurality of lifting tables, wherein the speed-doubling chains are connected end to end through the plurality of lifting tables. In detail, the present embodiment includes a first double speed chain 401, a second double speed chain 402, a third double speed chain 403, and a fourth double speed chain 404. The present embodiment includes a first stage 405, a second stage 406, a third stage 407, and a fourth stage 408.

One end of the first speed doubling chain 401 is connected with one end of the fourth speed doubling chain 404 through a first lifting platform 405, the other end of the first speed doubling chain 401 is connected with one end of the second speed doubling chain 402 through a second lifting platform 406, the other end of the second speed doubling chain 402 is connected with one end of the third speed doubling chain 403 through a third lifting platform 407, and the other end of the third lifting platform 407 is connected with the other end of the fourth speed doubling chain 404 through a fourth lifting platform 408.

As shown in fig. 6 and 7, taking the first elevating platform 405, the first double speed chain 401, and the fourth double speed chain 404 as an example, the structures and functions of the remaining elevating platform and double speed chain can be set by reference.

The used quick-witted case tool 410 of this embodiment includes two-layerly, and the upper strata is used for clamping quick-witted case, and the locating piece through stopper 411 and the automatic locking of spring is locked fixedly to quick-witted case, and spring lock locating piece 412 is acted on the spring holder by the cylinder 413 of unblanking on the elevating platform and is realized, and spring automatic locking locating piece can refer to general spring lock locating piece 412, and this place is not repeated.

The lower layer is provided with a tooling plate 414 for receiving the removed side cover 10011 and front cover 10012 of the chassis and accessories such as graphics cards, and a support column 415 is provided between the upper layer and the lower layer. Of course, a storage box may be further disposed on a side surface of the tooling plate 414 for carrying other components such as screws, so as to prevent the components from rolling and falling off the tooling plate 414.

The first elevating stage 405 includes a support carriage 4051, an elevating single-axis robot 4052, an inductor 4053, and an elevating plate 4054. The lifting plate 4054 can move back and forth on the supporting carriage 4051 under the action of the single-axis lifting manipulator 4052, and after the sensor 4053 detects that the chassis fixture 410 moves from the fourth multiple-speed chain 404 to the lifting plate 4054, the lifting plate 4054 can support the tooling plate 414, and the chassis fixture 410 is lifted to the height of the first multiple-speed chain 401 under the action of the single-axis lifting manipulator 4052 (it can be understood that other lifting tables can also lower the chassis fixture 410 at the joint of other multiple-speed chains, and is not limited to only driving the chassis fixture 410 to lift). When the case fixture 410 is lifted in place, the support column 415 can be clamped by the in-place locking cylinder 4055 of the fixture arranged near the lifting table, so that the case fixture 410 is positioned, the case is conveniently placed, and the case is placed in place on the case fixture 410.

Further, there are the traction plate 4011 and the traction single-axis manipulator 4012 that drives this traction plate 4011 on first doubly fast chain 401, the elevating platform lifts the frock board 414 of quick-witted case tool 410 to the height that exceeds traction plate 4011 first, then traction single-axis manipulator 4012 drives traction plate 4011 to frock board 414 below, the elevating platform reduces a take the altitude, make frock board 414 collude by the terminal arch of traction plate 4011, then be driven by traction single-axis manipulator 4012 and move to first doubly fast chain 401 on, later quick-witted case tool 410 can move on first doubly fast chain 401. The common process position jig locking seat 4013 is arranged at a position with a station, so that the case jig 410 can be positioned and locked at a position where operation is needed, and the operations such as assembly, locking and the like are facilitated.

In this embodiment, an overpass 409 may be disposed above the second and fourth speed-doubling chains 402 and 404 for people to enter and exit the area surrounded by the speed-doubling chain assembly. The lifting platform group can meet the requirement of material transfer between connected speed doubling chains, and can change the height of the material during transportation by matching with the height of the platform bridge 409, so that the space is more fully utilized. Of course, the height of the platform bridge 409 is not required to be as general as shown in fig. 5, and may be higher according to the space layout.

Through arranging speed chain group and elevating platform group for quick-witted case tool 410 can circulate on quick-witted case tool return line 400, carries out the centre gripping to quick-witted case, has reduced the clamping of quick-witted case and has opened and press from both sides the number of times, avoids quick-witted case at the clamping, open the in-process of pressing from both sides to damage as far as possible.

In detail, in this embodiment, the first lifting platform 405 is a chassis loading station 420, and the chassis lid removing station 430, the motherboard loading station 440, the motherboard locking station 450, and the accessory loading station 460 are all located on the first double-speed chain 401; the accessory locking station 470, the case cover mounting station 480 and the case blanking station 490 are all located on the third speed chain 403. Through further planning different stations, the unpacking assembly and the packing offline of the case can be distinguished more clearly, the loading of materials and the offline of finished products are more ordered for the field production, the interference between the loading of the materials and the offline of the finished products is avoided, and the improvement of the productivity is facilitated.

Specifically, the computer main case assembling apparatus 1000 of the present embodiment includes a side cover robot for detaching the side cover 10011 and a front cover robot for detaching the front cover 10012, the side cover robot being located upstream of the front cover robot. In this embodiment, both the side cover robot and the front cover robot employ six-axis robots, and the side cover robot is equipped with an end effector having a screwdriver 4722 and a suction cup 1003; the front cover robot is equipped with an end effector with a cylinder and suction cup 1003. Through the cover disassembling operation of the side cover manipulator and the front cover manipulator in sequence, the assembly operation of subsequent materials can be facilitated.

Specifically, referring to fig. 2 and fig. 8 to fig. 12, in the present embodiment, the motherboard conveying line 200 is a reflow line, and includes a motherboard loading station 210, a CPU assembling station 220, a memory bank assembling station 230, a fan assembling station 240, and a motherboard unloading station 250, which are sequentially arranged along the conveying direction. The following operations, performed by the robot:

assembling the CPU to the motherboard at a CPU assembly station 220;

the memory banks are assembled to the motherboard at a memory bank assembly station 230.

In detail, the computer main case assembling apparatus 1000 further includes:

a CPU feeding mechanism 260 for delivering a CPU (central processing unit) to an operation range of the first assembling robot 280, and a first assembling robot 280 for assembling the CPU to a motherboard at a CPU assembling station 220;

a memory bank feed mechanism 270 and a second assembly robot 290, the memory bank feed mechanism 270 being used to deliver memory banks to the operating range of the second assembly robot 290, the second assembly robot 290 assembling the memory banks onto the motherboard at a memory bank assembly station 230.

The first assembling robot 280 of the present application employs a six-axis robot, is equipped with a barcode scanning gun for reading motherboard information, and is further equipped with a suction cup 1003 and a CCD lens 1002(Charge Coupled Device) for photographing and positioning the CPU, the barcode scanning gun can scan CPU information, the suction cup 1003 can open a cover of the CPU raw material, and assemble the CPU on the motherboard, and pick out the cover after assembling the CPU in place, and the cover can be manually buckled during subsequent fan assembly. The second assembling robot 290 is also a six-axis robot, and is provided with an air gripper 291 and a CCD lens 1002. A code scanning instrument 292 can be arranged on the memory bank feeding frame 271 in the following, the air claw 291 can move to the code scanning instrument 292 to scan the memory bank to read information after grabbing the memory bank, the CCD lens 1002 can detect the front and back of the memory bank, and then the memory bank is assembled on the mainboard after being adjusted to the correct front and back positions. It should be noted that, the CCD lens 1002 may refer to a CCD lens used in a general photo recognition device, and lenses used in devices respectively configured with the CCD lens 1002 in the present application do not need to be of the same model or size, and those skilled in the art may select the lenses according to the needs without affecting understanding of the present application.

It is understood that six-axis robots, CCD lens 1002, code scanning gun, code scanner 292, air gripper 291, etc. can all refer to general technology. Through reading information when material loading, assembly, can judge whether the raw materials has the mistake, just discover the substandard product after avoiding whole equipment to be accomplished to be favorable to improving the yield of the quick-witted case of final off-line.

The mainboard conveying line 200 can also adopt a speed doubling chain to convey the mainboard placed on the jig, the conveying direction of the speed doubling chain is shown by an arrow in fig. 2, the fan can be assembled on the mainboard by manpower at the transition part of the second line body and the third line body from top to bottom and then put back on the line body, the assembly of the fan does not need a high skill requirement, so the requirement on the technical skill of workers is lower, the assembly efficiency can be ensured, the assembled mainboard finally flows to a mainboard feeding station 440, and the mainboard is taken down from the jig and assembled in the case by a third manipulator 530. Since the jig is also a reflow line, the empty jig can be reflowed to the initial end of the motherboard loading by the lower line body of the reflow line (located below the double-speed chain shown in fig. 2, and the conveying direction of the jig is opposite to the direction indicated by the arrow) to perform repeated conveying. The third manipulator 530 also adopts a six-axis manipulator, and before assembling the motherboard, the third manipulator 530 can place the rubber mat 251 placed beside the third manipulator 530 in the motherboard placement area 10013 in the chassis, and then assemble the motherboard in the motherboard placement area 10013 when the motherboard is transported in place.

Before the mainboard is installed in the case, the mainboard is transported by the mainboard transport line 200, main components such as a CPU and a memory bank are assembled in the transporting process, and then the fan is assembled in an adaptive manner, so that the CPU, the memory bank and the fan do not need to be assembled additionally after the mainboard is installed in the case, and the assembling efficiency is improved. The chassis is then manually locked with simple screws at the motherboard locking station 450.

Referring to fig. 8 to 10, in detail, the CPU feeding mechanism 260 includes a CPU feeding frame 261, a first storage magazine 262, a first tray 263, a first tray lifting device 264, a first upper tray fixing device 265, and a first pushing device 266;

first storage cartridge clip 262 sets up in CPU feed frame 261, and first storage cartridge clip 262 has stacked a plurality of first charging trays 263, and first charging tray jacking device 264 is used for jacking a plurality of first charging trays 263, and first upper strata charging tray fixing device 265 is used for fixing first charging tray 263 except that the first charging tray 263 of bottommost layer is opened, and first pusher 266 is used for the operating range of first assembly robot 280 with the first charging tray 263 of bottommost layer from first storage cartridge clip 262 below propelling movement. Wherein, first charging tray jacking device 264 can be the lifting cylinder, and first upper strata charging tray fixing device 265 can be the card and advance the cylinder, and first pusher 266 can be the unipolar manipulator, and its output can connect ejector pad 2661 to support the side of holding first charging tray 263 and drive the motion of the first charging tray 263 of bottom, after first charging tray 263 moved in place, can also set up rotatory cylinder 267 that pushes down and push down the edge of first charging tray 263 and fix first charging tray 263.

By designing the CPU feeding mechanism 260, the feeding of the CPU is stable and reliable, and the first assembling robot 280 can conveniently acquire and assemble the CPU.

Referring to fig. 11 and 12, in detail, the bank feeding mechanism 270 includes a bank feeding frame 271, a second storage magazine 272, a second tray 273, a second tray lifting device 274, a second upper tray fixing device 275, and a second pushing device 276;

the second storage cartridge clip 272 is arranged on the memory bank feeding frame 271, the second storage cartridge clip 272 is stacked with a plurality of second trays 273, the second tray jacking device 274 is used for jacking the plurality of second trays 273, the second upper tray fixing device 275 is used for fixing the second trays 273 except the second tray 273 of the bottommost layer, and the second pushing device 276 is used for pushing the second tray 273 of the bottommost layer from the lower part of the second storage cartridge clip 272 to the operating range of the second assembling robot 290. Wherein, second charging tray jacking device 274 is the jacking cylinder, and second upper material dish fixing device 275 is for the card cylinder of advancing, and second pusher 276 can be single-axis manipulator, and its output can connect push pedal 2761 to support the side of holding second charging tray 273 and drive the motion of the second charging tray 273 of bottom, and after second charging tray 273 moves in place, can set up rotatory air cylinder 267 that pushes down equally and fix second charging tray 273.

By designing the memory bank feeding mechanism 270, the memory bank feeding is stable and reliable, and the second assembling robot 290 can conveniently acquire and assemble the memory banks.

Referring to fig. 1 and 13 to 16, in particular, the accessory conveying line 300 includes an accessory throwing line and a plurality of accessory dispensing lines 320, the accessory throwing line is provided with an automatic box opening device 315 for opening a material box 1004, one end of each accessory dispensing line 320 is connected with the accessory throwing line, the other end of each accessory dispensing line is connected with an accessory feeding station 460, and the accessory throwing lines are used for throwing different types of accessories onto the corresponding accessory dispensing lines 320.

Different parts may be dropped together on the parts drop line and then unpacked by the automated unpacking device 315, after which it may be convenient to drop different parts onto different parts distribution lines 320 and have the parts transported to the parts loading station 460. The accessory throwing and releasing line comprises a power roller line 311 and an unpowered roller line 312, the automatic box opening device 315 is arranged across the power roller line 311, and materials are conveyed to the unpowered roller line 312 after being opened. The unpowered roller line 312 is arranged at the feeding end of the accessory distribution line 320 in a spanning mode, the unpowered roller line 312 can be arranged obliquely, and then a jacking and box body inclining mechanism 313 is arranged at the joint of the powered roller line 311 and the unpowered roller line 312, so that the material box 1004 can incline and be transferred to the unpowered roller line 312, and a worker can take the accessories conveniently. The automatic box opening device 315 and the lifting and box body tilting mechanism 313 can be devices in the prior art, and are not described herein.

In this embodiment, every two accessories on the accessory distribution line 320 are transferred into the chassis or transferred to the chassis fixture 410 carrying the chassis by a robot. The plurality of accessory distribution lines 320 include hard disk distribution lines, optical drive distribution lines, power distribution lines, and video card distribution lines.

More specifically, the plurality of distributing lines 320 include a first distributing line 320, a second distributing line 320, a third distributing line 320 and a fourth distributing line 320, the number of the fourth manipulators 540 is two, and one fourth manipulator 540 is arranged between the first distributing line 320 and the second distributing line 320 and is used for transferring accessories on the first distributing line 320 and the second distributing line 320 into the chassis or onto the chassis fixture 410 carrying the chassis; another fourth manipulator 540 is disposed between the third and fourth distributing lines 320 and 320, and is used for transferring the accessories on the third and fourth distributing lines 320 and 320 into the chassis or onto the chassis fixture 410 carrying the chassis.

In detail, the first accessory distribution line 320 is a hard disk distribution line; the second distribution line 320 is an optical disc drive distribution line; the third accessory distribution line 320 is a power distribution line; the fourth accessory distribution line 320 is a graphics card distribution line. In this embodiment, the four accessory distribution lines 320 may adopt four-channel reflow lines 321, each line has a jig for driving the tray carrying the accessories to move, and the jigs may reflow on the line body, thereby facilitating the circulation of the accessories. The structure and function of the four-channel return 321 can refer to a general return, and will not be described herein.

As shown in fig. 14 to 16, in detail, the fourth robot 540 of the present embodiment also employs a six-axis robot and arranges a CCD lens 1002 and a suction pad 1003. The fourth manipulator 540 at the upstream position assembles the hard disk and the optical drive into the chassis, and before assembly, the hard disk pre-positioning fixture 331 and the optical drive pre-positioning fixture 332 shown in fig. 15 and 16 may be used in combination to confirm whether the loading directions of the hard disk and the optical drive are correct. For example, the hard disk pre-positioning jig 331 may be first vertically positioned, and then horizontally positioned for the second time after the hard disk is confirmed to be placed, and finally the confirmed hard disk is assembled if the hard disk is horizontally placed; the CD-ROM drive is placed in the CD-ROM drive pre-positioning jig 332, the CD-ROM drive can be placed normally, the direction is accurate, the CD-ROM drive is placed in a reversing mode when the CD-ROM drive is inaccurate, and the CD-ROM drive is assembled after the CD-ROM drive is accurate in direction. Of course, the direction of the hard disk and the optical drive can be directly identified by the CCD lens 1002. The fourth robot 540 in the downstream position draws power to the chassis and is able to place the graphics card on the tooling plate 414 of the chassis fixture 410.

The fourth manipulator 540 is matched with the two accessory distribution lines 320, so that the accessories can be assembled orderly without redundancy, and different accessory distribution lines 320 correspond to one accessory, so that the identification time of the fourth manipulator 540 during assembly can be reduced, and the production efficiency can be improved.

Referring to fig. 1 and 17, in particular, the following operations are performed manually and/or by a robot: and locking and attaching the accessories to the case at an accessory locking and attaching station. The locking and the paying-off can be both carried out by manual locking and can also be carried out by a manipulator, and in the embodiment, the manual locking and the manipulator are respectively responsible for part of the locking and paying-off work.

In detail, the accessory locking and paying station 470 comprises a manual locking and paying section 471 and a manipulator locking and paying section 472 which are sequentially arranged along the conveying direction of the chassis, wherein the manual locking and paying section 471 is used for carrying out full screw locking and paying on a power supply and a display card and carrying out screw pre-locking and paying on a hard disk and a CD-ROM; the manipulator locking section 472 is used for performing full screw locking on the hard disk and the optical drive. In order to conveniently lock and pay the accessories, the jacking rotating mechanism can be arranged to carry out 180-degree turning on the case before locking, a position suitable for locking and paying is conveniently provided, manual turning is not needed, and time is saved. In this embodiment, the robot locking section 472 locks the screws of the optical disc drive and the hard disk by the general four-axis robot 4721 in cooperation with the end effector of the charged batch 4722 and the CCD lens 1002. Alternatively, an auxiliary device such as a rail feeder including a vibrating plate 4723 may be provided at the robot lock section 472 to feed the screws.

Referring to fig. 1, in particular, the computer mainframe box assembling apparatus 1000 further includes a turning robot 560, where the turning robot 560 is disposed downstream of the box covering station 480 and is used for turning the box in the horizontal state into the vertical state. The structure and function of the flipping robot 560 may refer to a general flipping robot, and will not be described herein. The case is turned over again before discharging, so that the fifth manipulator 550 can conveniently discharge more cases at one time. The cover installing station 480 of the chassis can manually remove the side cover 10011 and the front cover 10012 from the tooling plate 414 of the chassis fixture 410 and install the side cover 10011 and the front cover 10012 on the chassis. The fifth manipulator 550 may be a direct coordinate manipulator, and before discharging, a six-axis manipulator may be optionally arranged after the turnover manipulator 560 to cooperate with the CCD vision system for labeling and high-voltage detection. Of course, labeling and high-pressure detection can be carried out after blanking.

To sum up, the computer case assembly equipment 1000 of this application can be after dropping into the bulk cargo through the combination of each transfer chain and quick-witted case tool return current 400, and the manipulator of cooperation precision and efficient has realized automatic assembly. The labor intensity of workers is reduced, and the operation is reliable. The human nondeterminable factors are greatly reduced, and the productivity and the yield of finished products are improved. With the recognition of the CCD lens 1002 and the confirmation of information such as the code scanning gun, the code scanning instrument 292 and the like, the defective products are prevented from flowing into the next process, the yield of the products is higher, and the repair and scrap costs are reduced. It is envisaged that as the degree of automation increases, the noise will be lower and remote monitoring may also be performed.

The above description is only a preferred embodiment of the present application and is not intended to limit the present application, and various modifications and changes may be made by those skilled in the art. Any modification, equivalent replacement, improvement and the like made within the spirit and principle of the present application shall be included in the protection scope of the present application.

Claims (10)

1. An apparatus for assembling a computer main housing, comprising:

a case conveying line;

a main board conveying line;

an accessory conveying line; and

the chassis jig comprises a chassis jig return line, wherein a chassis jig for bearing a chassis is arranged on the chassis jig return line, and the chassis jig return line comprises a chassis feeding station, a chassis cover removing station, a main board feeding station, a main board locking station, an accessory feeding station, an accessory locking station, a chassis cover installing station and a chassis discharging station which are sequentially arranged along the conveying direction of the chassis jig return line;

the following operations are performed by the manipulator:

transferring the case from the case conveying line to the case jig at the case loading station;

removing a case cover at the case cover removing station;

transferring the mainboard from the mainboard conveying line to the case at the mainboard loading station;

transferring accessories from the accessory conveying line to the case or transferring the accessories to a case jig carrying the case at the accessory feeding station;

and moving the case out of the case jig at the case blanking station.

2. The computer mainframe box assembly apparatus of claim 1, wherein the chassis jig return line comprises a plurality of speed multiplying chains and a plurality of lifters;

the multiple speed chains are connected end to end through the multiple lifting platforms.

3. The computer case assembly device of claim 1, further comprising:

the machine case conveying line is connected with the machine case feeding station through the overturning platform, the overturning platform is used for overturning the machine case from a vertical state to a horizontal state, the machine case is transferred to the overturning platform from the machine case conveying line through a manipulator, and the machine case is transferred to the machine case feeding station from the overturning platform.

4. The computer case assembling apparatus of claim 3, further comprising:

and the turnover manipulator is arranged at the downstream of the cover loading station of the case and is used for turning the case from a horizontal state to a vertical state.

5. The computer case assembly device of claim 1, comprising a side cover robot for removing a side cover and a front cover robot for removing a front cover, the side cover robot being located upstream of the front cover robot.

6. The computer mainframe box assembling device of claim 1, wherein the motherboard conveying line comprises a motherboard feeding station, a CPU assembling station, a memory bank assembling station, and a motherboard blanking station, which are sequentially arranged along a conveying direction of the motherboard conveying line;

the following operations, performed by the robot:

assembling a CPU on a mainboard at the CPU assembling station;

and assembling the memory bank on the mainboard at the memory bank assembling station.

7. The computer case assembling device according to claim 1, wherein the accessory conveying line includes an accessory throwing line and a plurality of accessory distribution lines, an automatic box opening device for opening the material box is disposed on the accessory throwing line, one end of each accessory distribution line is connected with the accessory throwing line, the other end of each accessory distribution line is connected with the accessory feeding station, and the accessory throwing lines are used for throwing different types of accessories onto the corresponding accessory distribution lines.

8. The computer case assembly device of claim 7, wherein each two accessories on the accessory distribution line are transferred into the case or transferred to a case fixture carrying the case by a manipulator.

9. The computer case assembly apparatus of claim 8, wherein the plurality of accessory dispensing lines comprise a hard disk dispensing line, a CD ROM dispensing line, a power dispensing line, and a graphics card dispensing line.

10. The computer mainframe assembly apparatus of claim 1, wherein the following operations are performed manually and/or by a robot: and locking and attaching the accessories to the case at the accessory locking and attaching station.

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