CN210417135U

CN210417135U - FPC (Flexible printed Circuit) tray arranging machine

Info

Publication number: CN210417135U
Application number: CN201921364455.6U
Authority: CN
Inventors: 周路遥; 周林
Original assignee: Shenzhen Desen Precision Machine Co ltd
Current assignee: Shenzhen Desen Precision Machine Co ltd
Priority date: 2019-08-19
Filing date: 2019-08-19
Publication date: 2020-04-28
Anticipated expiration: 2029-08-19

Abstract

The utility model discloses a FPC balance machine, this FPC balance machine includes the frame and is located first transfer chain, CCD detection device, material absorption subassembly and the manipulator in the frame, wherein, the first transfer chain is used for the endless transfer FPC, the first transfer chain includes first end and the second end that two stagger arrangements from top to bottom, first end is higher than the second end, the second end is used for receiving the FPC who leaves from the first end; the CCD detection device is used for detecting the position state of the FPC on the first conveying line; the material adsorption assembly is used for adsorbing the FPC on the first conveying line; the manipulator is used for driving the material adsorption component to move. The utility model discloses the effectual degree of automation that improves FPC balance machine.

Description

FPC (Flexible printed Circuit) tray arranging machine

Technical Field

The utility model relates to a FPC equipment for packing field, concretely relates to FPC balance machine.

Background

A Flexible Printed Circuit (FPC) is a highly reliable and excellent Flexible Printed Circuit board made of polyimide or polyester film as a base material. The high-density light-weight LED lamp has the characteristics of high wiring density, light weight, thin thickness and good bending property. The three-dimensional flexible printed circuit board can bear millions of dynamic bending without damaging the lead, can be freely moved and stretched according to the space layout requirement, realizes three-dimensional assembly, achieves the effect of integrating component assembly and lead connection, has incomparable advantages of other types of circuit boards, caters to the trend of downstream electronic products, rapidly permeates into the civil field, and gradually covers various fields such as consumer electronics, automobiles, industrial control, medical treatment, instruments and meters.

The existing flexible circuit board is required to be detected and packaged after being punched, and the mode of conveying the FPC in the general tray arranging machine is that the FPC is placed on a conveying belt in a specific state through manual work, so that the FPC is detected by a CCD camera conveniently and the FPC is packaged by a mechanical arm. However, this method still requires manual placement of the FPC, and cannot fully realize automatic detection and packaging, thereby reducing work efficiency.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

The utility model aims to provide a FPC balance machine aims at solving the lower technical problem of current balance machine degree of automation.

In order to solve the technical problems, the utility model provides a FPC (flexible printed circuit) balance machine, which comprises a frame, a first conveying line, a CCD (charge coupled device) detection device, a material adsorption component and a manipulator, wherein the first conveying line, the CCD detection device, the material adsorption component and the manipulator are positioned on the frame,

the first conveying line is used for circularly conveying the FPC and comprises a first end and a second end which are arranged in a staggered mode from top to bottom, the first end is higher than the second end, and the second end is used for receiving the FPC which leaves from the first end;

the CCD detection device is used for detecting the position state of the FPC on the first conveying line;

the material adsorption assembly is used for adsorbing the FPC on the first conveying line;

the manipulator is used for driving the material adsorption component to move.

Preferably, the first conveying line further comprises an arranging platform arranged between the first end and the second end, the arranging platform comprises a vibrating plate butted with the first end and the second end respectively and a vibrating mechanism for driving the vibrating plate to vibrate, and a partial area of the vibrating plate is located below the first end or/and a partial area of the vibrating plate is located above the second end.

Preferably, the first conveyor line includes a first conveyor belt and a second conveyor belt, the first end is an end of the second conveyor belt, the second end is a start of the first conveyor belt, and the start of the second conveyor belt is used for receiving the FPC that exits from the end of the first conveyor line.

Preferably, the end of the first conveyor belt is butted against the beginning of the second conveyor belt by a third conveyor belt, and the beginning of the third conveyor belt is located below the end of the first conveyor belt, and the end of the third conveyor belt is located above the beginning of the second conveyor belt.

Preferably, still close the setting including enclosing the first enclosure board that sets up in vibration board week, just first enclosure board is equipped with and is used for supplying FPC follow in the enclosure space of first enclosure board follows the first opening that the second end of first transfer chain conveyed out, first enclosure board still is equipped with and is used for supplying FPC to follow the first end conveying of first transfer chain conveys to enclose the second opening in the space.

Preferably, the conveying device further comprises an air faucet arranged on the first baffle plate, and an air outlet of the air faucet faces to one side where the second end of the first conveying line is located.

Preferably, the automatic material storage device further comprises a second conveying line arranged on the rack and used for conveying material trays, and the material storage mechanisms are respectively arranged at the front end and the rear end of the second conveying line.

Preferably, the storage mechanism includes stacker, stop device and handling device, the stacker has and is located the space is placed to the charging tray of second transfer chain top, stop device sets up on the stacker, stop device is including can locating towards the spacing post that removes in the space is placed to the charging tray in order to be used for lifting the charging tray, handling device includes can follow up orientation the charging tray is placed and is removed in the space and lift the board in order to accept the charging tray.

Preferably, the second conveyor line comprises two mounting frames and two fourth conveyor belts, one conveyor line is arranged on each mounting frame, and one of the mounting frames is slidably connected with the rack through a linear guide rail, so that the mounting frame can be close to or far away from the other mounting frame.

Preferably, the material adsorption assembly comprises a mounting block connected with an output end of the manipulator, a plurality of linear cylinders arranged on the mounting block, and a vacuum suction nozzle arranged on an output end of each linear cylinder.

The embodiment of the utility model provides a FPC balance machine circulates the transportation to FPC through first transfer chain, and FPC can have certain probability to make FPC be positive up state when dropping to the second from the first end of first transfer chain when serving, utilizes CCD detection device can detect the FPC that is located on the first transfer chain this moment to make things convenient for manipulator drive material adsorption component to place in the charging tray after snatching the FPC that is positive up state. Compared with the prior art, the utility model discloses need not to utilize the manual work to be FPC specific state and place on first transfer chain to effectual degree of automation who improves FPC balance machine.

Drawings

Fig. 1 is a schematic view of an overall structure of an embodiment of a FPC tray placing machine of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a schematic view of a portion of the FPC wobble plate shown in FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is a schematic view of the first conveyor line and the collating platform shown in FIG. 2;

FIG. 4 is a schematic view of the collating platform and first conveyor belt shown in FIG. 3;

fig. 5 is a schematic view of the structure of the second conveyor belt shown in fig. 3;

FIG. 6 is a schematic structural view of the second conveyor line and tray mechanism shown in FIG. 2;

FIG. 7 is a schematic view of a portion of the structure of the second conveyor line and the tray mechanism shown in FIG. 6;

FIG. 8 is a schematic diagram of the robot and material pick-up assembly shown in FIG. 2;

fig. 9 is a schematic structural view of the material adsorbing assembly shown in fig. 8.

Detailed Description

Reference will now be made in detail to embodiments of the present invention, examples of which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein like reference numerals refer to the same or similar elements or elements having the same or similar function throughout. The embodiments described below with reference to the drawings are exemplary and intended to be used for explaining the present invention, and should not be construed as limiting the present invention, and all other embodiments obtained by those skilled in the art without creative efforts based on the embodiments of the present invention belong to the protection scope of the present invention.

The utility model provides a FPC arrangement machine, this FPC arrangement machine include frame 100 and be located first transfer chain 200, CCDCCD detection device 300, material absorption subassembly 400 and manipulator 500 on frame 100, wherein, first transfer chain 200 is used for circulating transfer FPC, first transfer chain 200 includes first end and the second end of two upper and lower staggered arrangements, first end is higher than the second end, the second end is used for receiving the FPC who leaves from the first end; the CCDCCD detecting device 300 is used for detecting the position state of the FPC on the first conveying line 200; the material adsorption assembly 400 is used for adsorbing the FPC on the first conveying line 200; the robot 500 is used for driving the material adsorption assembly 400 to move.

In this embodiment, the first conveying line 200 may be an integrated semi-ring conveyor belt or a split semi-ring conveyor belt, and the semi-ring conveyor belt may be a horizontal U-shaped or C-shaped conveyor belt. Have first end and the second end of staggering about on the first conveyer line, and first end is higher than the second end and arranges, thereby make things convenient for the second end to receive the FPC who leaves from first end, and simultaneously, stagger about first end and the second end through first conveyer line 20 and arrange, be favorable to utilizing the difference in height between second end and the first end to make FPC appear probabilistic reversal when second end drops to first end, thereby it is the positive state to have certain probability to make the FPC that is the reverse side state at first end to drop to the second when holding.

Specifically, the first conveyor line 200 includes a first conveyor belt 210 and a second conveyor belt 220, and a conveying passage for conveying the FPC is formed by the combination of the first conveyor belt 210 and the second conveyor belt 220 in a circulating manner. At this time, it is preferable that the start end of the first conveyor belt 210 is the second end of the first conveyor line 200, and the end of the second conveyor belt 220 is the first end of the first conveyor line 200. Further, in order to transfer the FPC to the first transfer line 200, the end of the first transfer belt 210 and the start of the second transfer belt 220 are butted by the third transfer belt 240. In this case, it is preferable that the first conveyor belt 210, the second conveyor belt 220, and the third conveyor belt 240 are all straight leather conveyor belts, and the start end of the third conveyor belt 240 is located below the end of the first conveyor belt 210, and the end of the third conveyor belt 240 is located above the start end of the second conveyor belt 220, so that the first conveyor belt 210, the second conveyor belt 220, and the third conveyor belt 240 are combined into a triangle.

In order to facilitate the scattering of the FPCs in the stacked state, the frame 100 is further provided with an arranging platform 230, the arranging platform 230 includes a vibrating plate 231 and a vibrating mechanism 232 for driving the vibrating plate 231 to vibrate, the vibrating plate 231 is respectively abutted to the first end and the second end of the first conveyor line 200, and a partial area of the vibrating plate 231 is located below the first end or/and a partial area of the vibrating plate is located above the second end. The vibrating plate 231 may be disposed in an inclined or horizontal state according to actual conditions, wherein the inclined angle may be disposed according to actual conditions, so as to conveniently convey the FPC located on the vibrating plate 231 to the first conveying belt 210. The vibration mechanism 232 may be of different types, such as an electromagnetic type exciter or an electric type exciter, according to the actual situation. In this embodiment, the arrangement form of the first conveyor belt 210, the second conveyor belt 220 and the arranging platform 230 may be a triangle to form the circular transportation of the FPC, or the first conveyor belt 210 and the second conveyor belt 220 may be integrally arranged and combined to form a semi-ring shape (such as a U-shape or a C-shape), and the arranging platform 230 is respectively butted to two ends of the semi-ring shape. At this time, the loading position may be any one of the first conveyor belt 210, the second conveyor belt 220, and the vibration plate 231, and preferably, the vibration plate 231 may be a position where the robot grips the FPC on the first conveyor belt 210 or the second conveyor belt 220. The first and

second conveyor belts

210 and 220 are preferably belt-type, so as to facilitate the transportation of the FPC.

At this time, as shown in fig. 2 and 3, the first conveyor line 200 may be arranged in a manner that the first conveyor belt 210, the third conveyor belt 240, the second conveyor belt 220, and the vibrating plate 231 are sequentially enclosed to form a rectangular shape, wherein preferably, the first conveyor belt 210 and the second conveyor belt 220 are long sides of the rectangle, the third conveyor belt 240 and the vibrating plate 231 are short sides of the rectangle, and a side surface of the first conveyor belt 210, which is close to the second conveyor belt 220, may be located in the same plane, so that a distance between the first conveyor belt 210 and the second conveyor belt 220 may be reduced, thereby being beneficial to reducing a space occupied by the first conveyor line 200. At this time, the vibrating plate 231, the first conveying belt 210 and the third conveying belt 240 are all arranged in a horizontal state, the second conveying belt 220 is arranged in an up-down inclined state, and the higher end of the second conveying belt 220 is the first end of the first conveying line, so that the transportation of the FPC is facilitated. Wherein, for convenience of taking the material platform as material adsorption component 400 by first conveyer belt 210, the below that is located the conveyer belt on upper portion in the conveyer belt 210 is provided with the backup pad to be favorable to supporting when material adsorption component 400 adsorbs the FPC that is located on first conveyer belt 210.

As shown in fig. 1 and 3, the CCD detecting device 300 includes an upper CCD assembly 310 and a lower CCD assembly 320 both disposed on the frame 100, the upper CCD assembly 310 is located above the first conveyor line 200, preferably above a partial area of the first conveyor belt 210, and lenses in the upper CCD assembly 310 are disposed toward the first conveyor belt 210, at this time, the first conveyor belt 210 serves as an adsorption platform for the material adsorption assembly 400 to adsorb the FPC, and the lenses in the lower CCD assembly 32 are disposed upward. Wherein, the upper CCD assembly 310 and the lower CCD assembly 320 both include a CCD camera and a light source, preferably, the upper CCD assembly 310 is slidably disposed on the frame 100, so that the upper CCD assembly 310 can slide along a vertical direction to be close to or far away from the first conveyor line 200 (i.e., the first conveyor belt 210), and the specific arrangement manner may be that the upper CCD assembly 310 is connected to the frame 100 through a guide rail or a guide pillar, and at this time, a fixing member, such as a fixing screw or other fastening device, for fixing the upper CCD assembly 310 may be further disposed, so as to facilitate preventing the upper CCD assembly 310 from sliding after moving to a preset position. The type of the CCD camera and the light source can be selected according to actual conditions, and the light source in the upper CCD assembly 310 can be an annular light source, and the lower CCD assembly 320 can be a rectangular light source. The specific working mode of the CCD detection device 300 is that the first conveyor belt 210 stops after moving a preset distance, and the upper CCD component 310 identifies the FPC in the specific region on the first conveyor belt 210, so as to determine the state of the FPC located on the first conveyor belt 210, such as the position, the front-back state, and the quality of the front of the FPC, thereby facilitating the manipulator 500 to drive the material adsorption component 400 to grasp the FPC. At this time, it may be set that only the FPC in the front state is grasped, and after the material adsorption assembly 400 adsorbs the FPC, the manipulator 500 drives the material adsorption assembly 400 to move to above the lower CCD assembly 320, so as to determine whether the reverse side of the FPC is good or bad by using the lower CCD assembly 320. Wherein, if the FPC is the non-defective product, it is placed in the tray through the manipulator 500, if the FPC is the non-defective product, it is placed in the specific area, if the non-defective product recovery box 110 is provided on the frame 100, it is preferable that the non-defective product recovery box is arranged adjacent to the lower CCD assembly 320, so that the non-defective FPC is conveniently placed in the non-defective product recovery box 110.

As shown in fig. 2 and 8, the material suction assembly 400 can suck the FPC by using the vacuum suction nozzles, so that the FPC can be damaged in the transportation process of the FPC, and the number and arrangement mode of the vacuum suction nozzles can be set according to actual conditions. The arrangement form of the manipulator 500 may be any one of a rectangular coordinate type, a cylindrical coordinate type, a polar coordinate type and a multi-joint type, and the specific arrangement form may be arranged according to the actual situation.

In this embodiment, carry out the circulation transportation to FPC through first transfer chain 200, and FPC can have certain probability to make FPC be openly up state when dropping to the second end from the first end of first transfer chain 200, utilize CCD detection device 300 to detect the FPC that is located on first transfer chain 200 this moment to make things convenient for manipulator 500 drive material adsorption component 400 to place in the charging tray after snatching the FPC that is openly up state. From the perspective of probability, the FPC located on the first conveying line 200 is surely to have the probability of being in a right-side-up state when falling on the second end of the first conveying line again after one complete circulation transportation, so that the quantitative FPC can be in a right-side-up state after circulation for a limited number of times to be grabbed by the manipulator 500, thereby completing the automatic packaging of the FPC and improving the degree of automation of FPC production.

As shown in fig. 3 and 4, in order to prevent the FPC on the vibration plate 231 from falling off the vibration plate 231 during vibration, a first enclosure 250 is disposed around the vibration plate 231 in the circumferential direction to form an enclosure space capable of accommodating the FPC on the vibration plate 231, wherein one part of the enclosure space is located on the vibration plate 231, the other part of the enclosure space is located at the beginning of the first conveyor belt 210, meanwhile, the first enclosure 250 is provided with a first opening 251 for the FPC to be conveyed out from the enclosure space of the first enclosure 250 along with the first conveyor belt 210, and the first enclosure 250 is further provided with a second opening 252 for the FPC to be conveyed into the enclosure space along with the second conveyor belt 220. Specifically, the first opening 251 is disposed at the bottom of the enclosed space in the beginning region of the first conveyor belt 210, and the second opening 252 is disposed at the top of the enclosed space in the region of the vibrating plate 231, in which case, the second opening 252 may also serve as a feeding port for adding FPC.

As shown in fig. 4, in order to further facilitate the FPC on the vibrating plate 231 to be conveyed onto the first conveying belt 210, an air nozzle 253 is provided on the first baffle 250, and preferably, an air outlet of the air nozzle 253 is disposed toward the first conveying belt 210, so as to facilitate blowing the air flow output by the air nozzle 253 on the vibrating plate 231 onto the first conveying belt 210, of course, the air outlet of the air nozzle 253 may also be disposed toward the vibrating plate 231. The number and the position of the air nozzles 253 can be arranged according to actual situations, preferably, the air nozzles 253 are located on one side of the first apron plate 250 far away from the first conveying belt 210, and the air nozzles 253 can be supplied with air by using a compressor and other devices. At this time, the vibrating plate 231 may be arranged in a horizontal state, and the FPC on the vibrating plate 231 may be conveyed to the first conveying belt 210 by the air flow output from the air nozzle 253.

In order to facilitate the transportation of the FPC by the first transportation line 200, the first transportation belt 210, the second transportation belt 220, and the third transportation belt 240 each include a support frame and a transportation belt assembly disposed on the support frame, wherein the transportation belt assembly is disposed in a conventional structure, and will not be described in detail herein. Since the same structure is adopted for the three conveyor lines, only the second conveyor belt 220 will be described in detail, and both the first conveyor belt 210 and the third conveyor belt 240 can be arranged with reference to the second conveyor belt 220.

As shown in fig. 4 and 5, the supporting frame 221 is preferably a frame structure, so as to reduce the weight of the second conveying belt 220, and the material of the conveying belt in the conveying belt assembly 224 may be made of a flexible material (such as rubber) with a large friction force, so as to increase the friction force between the FPC and the conveying belt when the conveying belt assembly 224 conveys the FPC in an inclined state, thereby preventing the FPC from slipping off the conveying belt. In order to adjust the inclination angle of the second conveyor belt 220, the support frame 221 includes a frame body 222 and two pairs of support columns 223. Preferably, the frame body 222 is rectangular, the two pairs of supporting columns 223 are both strip-shaped block-shaped bodies, the two pairs of supporting columns 223 are arranged on the frame body 222 at intervals along the conveying direction of the second conveying belt 220, the two supporting columns 223 of each pair of supporting columns 223 are respectively located on two opposite sides of the frame body 222, and the distance between the two pairs of supporting columns 223 can be arranged according to actual conditions. One end of each of the pair of support columns 223 is disposed on the rack 100, and the other end is hinged to the frame body 222, specifically, the support columns 223 and the frame body 222 are both provided with through holes, and the hinge connection can be realized by sequentially passing through one support column 223 and two corresponding through holes of the frame body 222 through bolts; one end of the other pair of supporting columns 223 is arranged on the rack 100, the other end of the other pair of supporting columns 223 is connected with the frame body 222 in a sliding mode, a through hole is formed in the frame body 222 in a specific sliding mode, an arc-shaped hole is formed in each supporting column 223, the through hole corresponding to the through hole in the frame body 222 and the arc-shaped hole corresponding to the through hole in each supporting column 223 are sequentially penetrated through bolts to be fixed, when the inclination angle of the second conveying belt 220 needs to be adjusted, the bolts at the positions are unscrewed, and the bolts are made to slide in the arc-shaped holes to preset positions and then are screwed, so that.

As shown in fig. 4 and 5, in order to prevent the FPC conveyed to the second conveyor belt 220 from falling off, a second enclosure is further provided, the second enclosure is arranged around the circumference of the start end region of the second conveyor belt 220, and a side surface of the second enclosure close to the third conveyor belt 240 is provided with a third opening, in which case the second enclosure is preferably an L-shaped plate to be disposed at a corner of the start end of the second conveyor belt 220 away from the third conveyor belt 240. As shown in fig. 1 and fig. 2, a third baffle may also be disposed on the third conveyor belt 240, and in this case, the third baffle is preferably a strip-shaped plate, and the third baffle is located on a side of the third conveyor belt 240 away from the first conveyor belt 210, so as to be beneficial to preventing the FPC from sliding off when being conveyed from the first conveyor belt 210 to the third conveyor belt 240. The second baffle and the third baffle mentioned in the above embodiments may preferably be cylindrical flow channels arranged in a vertical state, and two open ends of the cylindrical flow channels are respectively butted with two adjacent conveyor belts in the first conveyor line 200.

As shown in fig. 2 and 6, in order to facilitate the transportation of the trays, the rack 100 is further provided with a second conveyor line 600 and two tray storing mechanisms 700, wherein one tray storing mechanism 700 is used for placing empty trays, and the other tray storing mechanism 700 is used for placing trays loaded with FPCs. The second transfer chain 600 can adopt a leather conveying belt to conveniently convey the material trays positioned on the second transfer chain 600, the material tray mechanism 700 can automatically discharge or place the material trays on the second transfer chain 600, and the manipulator 500 drives the material adsorption component 400 to adsorb the material trays, so that the material trays positioned in the material tray mechanism 700 are transported to the second transfer chain 600 and the material trays positioned on the second transfer chain 600 are transported to the material tray mechanism 700.

Specifically, as shown in fig. 6 and 7, the second conveyor line 600 includes two mounting frames 610 and two fourth conveyor belts 620, the mounting frames 610 may preferably be U-shaped brackets, the two mounting frames 610 are arranged side by side on the rack 100, the open ends of the mounting frames 610 are arranged toward the rack 100, and the distance between the two mounting frames 610 may be arranged according to actual conditions, so as to facilitate transportation of trays of different sizes. The two fourth conveyor belts 620 are correspondingly disposed on the mounting frame 610, so that the two opposite side edges of the tray can be respectively located on the two fourth conveyor belts 620, the fourth conveyor belts 620 are preferably leather conveyor belts, and the driving manner can be driven by rollers and motors. At this time, the fourth conveying belt 620 is sequentially divided into a tray placing area, a working area and a tray collecting area along the conveying direction, wherein the tray placing area is an area for placing trays taken out of the tray storing mechanism 700 and placed on the fourth conveying belt 620; the working area is the area where the material tray stops, so that the manipulator 500 can conveniently drive the material adsorption assembly 400 to place the adsorbed FPC in the material tray in the working area; the take-up area is an area where trays on the fourth conveyor belt 620 are placed in the tray mechanism 700. Of course, in order to transport the charging tray to the preset position, still be provided with blocking mechanism 640, blocking mechanism 640 is preferably located between two mounting brackets 610, blocking mechanism 610 can be photoelectric switch, through setting up photoelectric switch on mounting bracket 610, photoelectric switch can detect the position of charging tray and send the signal that stops carrying to fourth conveyer belt 620 when the charging tray is carried to the preset position, thereby let the charging tray stop in the workspace, place absorbent FPC in the charging tray for manipulator 500 drive material adsorption component 400. Of course, in order to prevent the tray from moving continuously due to inertia after the conveyor belt stops, the blocking mechanism 640 may further include a blocking block located between the two mounting frames 100 and an air cylinder driving the blocking block to move in the vertical direction, so that the air cylinder drives the blocking block to move upwards after the photoelectric switch detects the position of the tray, thereby preventing the tray from moving.

In order to prevent the tray from moving after moving to the working area, a clamping mechanism 650 can be further arranged on the mounting frame 610 and located at the working area, the clamping mechanism 650 includes two clamping blocks and a cylinder for driving the two clamping blocks to move in the opposite direction or in the opposite direction, at this time, preferably, the two clamping blocks are correspondingly arranged on the two mounting frames 610 and are in sliding connection with the mounting frames 610, the number of the cylinders can be two, and each of the cylinders can independently drive one of the clamping blocks to move, of course, the cylinder can also be a cylinder with two output shafts, and the two output shafts of the cylinder are respectively located at the two clamping. In this embodiment, the clamping blocks may be arranged in such a manner that one of the clamping blocks is fixedly disposed on one of the mounting frames 610, and the other clamping block is slidably disposed on the other mounting frame 610, so that only one cylinder is required to drive the clamping block slidably disposed on the mounting frame 610 to clamp the tray located in the work area.

In order to facilitate automatic tray discharging or tray collecting of the tray storage mechanisms 700, one tray storage mechanism 700 is located in a tray discharging area for discharging empty trays, and the other tray storage mechanism 700 is located in a tray collecting area for collecting trays filled with FPCs. The two disk storage mechanisms 700 can adopt a unified structure or different structures, in this embodiment, the two disk storage mechanisms 700 both adopt the same structure, and the disk storage mechanism 700 includes a stacking frame 710, a limiting device 720 and a carrying device 730. The stacker frame 710 includes two plate bodies respectively disposed on the mounting frame 610, the two plate bodies are arranged oppositely to form a tray placing space for accommodating the tray, and the plate bodies are preferably U-shaped, so as to prevent the tray from sliding out of the tray placing space. Meanwhile, photoelectric switches can be respectively arranged at the upper limit or the lower limit of the tray placing space on the stacking frame 710, so that an alarm signal can be sent by an alarm when the trays in the tray placing space reach a certain preset value, for example, the photoelectric switches arranged on the stacking frame 710 in the tray placing mechanism 700 for placing the trays can be arranged at the lower limit of the tray placing space, and the photoelectric switches arranged on the stacking frame 710 in the tray receiving mechanism 700 for receiving the trays can be arranged at the upper limit of the tray placing space.

The number of the limiting devices 720 is two, and the two limiting devices 720 are oppositely arranged in the circumferential direction of the tray placing space, and preferably, the two limiting devices 720 are respectively arranged on the two mounting frames 610. Stop device 720 includes that the slip sets up on mounting bracket 610 and can move towards the spacing post of another mounting bracket 610, and preferred spacing post moves along the horizontal direction, as for the preferred cylinder that adopts of the mode that the spacing post of drive removed to conveniently drive two spacing posts and move towards or back to back, wherein the shape of spacing post can be for cylindricality or lamellar body according to actual conditions. Of course, the limiting column can also be hinged to the mounting frame 610, and the axial direction of the hinging shaft of the limiting column is arranged along the conveying direction of the second conveying line 600, so that the limiting column can be driven by the motor to rotate to be in a horizontal state or a vertical state. Wherein when being used for the spacing post in the storage mechanism 700 of closing up and the mounting bracket adopt articulated mode, can drive without the motor, only need to overlap on the articulated shaft of spacing post and establish a torsional spring, and the initial condition of spacing post arranges for being the horizontality, still set up a spacing portion simultaneously and continue to rotate after preventing spacing post to be the horizontality, spacing portion is concrete arranges the form and can be for the block that is located spacing post below, also can be provided with spacing portion on the articulated shaft of spacing post, this spacing portion with this spacing post continuation rotation of prevention with the mounting bracket 610 butt when spacing post is the horizontality.

Handling device 730 is located between two mounting brackets 610 to make things convenient for the drive charging tray to remove, handling device 730 is including lifting the board, the shape and the size of preferred lifting plate and the shape and the size looks adaptation of charging tray, and lifting the board and be the horizontality and arrange, and the drive lifting plate removes the mode can adopt the arbitrary one in sharp cylinder, motor screw subassembly, gear rack subassembly and the synchronous belt subassembly, thereby conveniently drives lifting plate vertical direction and removes. Specifically, adopt motor lead screw assembly in this embodiment, the motor setting is in the frame, and the vertical upwards arranging of output shaft of motor, the one end of lead screw and the output shaft of motor, and the nut on the lead screw is connected with the board of lifting. Certainly, for the convenience of lifting the board and being connected with the nut on the lead screw, be provided with the connecting plate on the board of lifting, and the connecting plate is connected so that to let there be certain space of keeping away between connecting plate and the board of lifting through connecting rod and the board of lifting, and the nut on the lead screw is connected with the connecting plate this moment. Meanwhile, in order to prevent the lifting plate from deviating from the preset track in the moving process, a plurality of guide posts are further arranged on the lifting plate, preferably four guide posts are uniformly arranged in the circumferential direction of the lifting plate, and the frame 100 is further provided with slide holes matched with the guide posts so that the guide posts are inserted into the corresponding slide holes. In order to facilitate the movement of the material tray when the material tray is positioned on the lifting plate, a negative pressure suction nozzle 731 is arranged on one side of the lifting plate, which is positioned on the bearing surface, so as to fix the material tray. In this embodiment, the tray placing mode of the tray storing mechanism 700 is that the lifting plate moves upward and moves back and forth with the tray located at the bottommost layer in the tray located in the tray placing space, and at this time, the lifting plate continues to move downward to enable the bottoms of the trays to abut against the conveying belts in the two fourth conveying belts 620, so that the empty trays are conveyed to the working area by using the conveying belts. The storage dish 700 is reverse when closing the dish can, but, if spacing post adoption with mounting bracket 610 articulated and articulated shaft on the cover be equipped with the torsional spring when, lift the board and go upward and utilize behind charging tray and spacing post butt so that spacing post rotate when closing the dish, when the charging tray on the board of lifting is located preset position and spacing post resets and is the horizontality, the board of lifting can be down so that the bottom and the spacing post butt of this charging tray to accomplish the action of closing the dish.

In another embodiment, the number of the fourth conveyor belts 620 in the second conveyor line 600 may also be one, in which case the handling device 700 includes two lifting plates which are located on two sides of the conveying direction of the fourth conveyor belt 620, and the width of the fourth conveyor belt 620 is smaller than the width of the tray, so that the two lifting plates can abut against the bottom of the tray located on the fourth conveyor belt 620 during the upward movement.

In addition to the above embodiments, in order to facilitate the second conveyor line 600 to convey trays with different sizes, it is preferable that one of the mounting frames 610 is slidably connected to the rack 100, so that the mounting frame 610 can be close to or away from the other mounting frame 610, and of course, two mounting frames 610 may be simultaneously slidably connected to the rack 100. Meanwhile, after the distance between the two mounting frames 610 is changed, the distance between the two plate bodies in the stacker frame 710 can also be changed, so that the material trays conveyed by the second conveying line 600 can be conveniently accommodated. In order to facilitate the automatic driving of the mounting frame 610, a linear driving mechanism is further provided, the linear driving mechanism may be in the form of any one of a motor screw assembly, a rack and pinion assembly, and a synchronous belt assembly for automatic control, and of course, may also be in the form of manual control by using a screw in cooperation with a hand wheel, and a specific arrangement manner is not described in detail herein.

As shown in fig. 2 and 8, in the present embodiment, the robot arm 500 is preferably a four-axis robot, and specifically, the robot arm 500 includes a base 510, a first rotating arm 520, a second rotating arm 530, and a rotating shaft 540. The base 510 is disposed on the rack 100, one end of the first rotating arm 520 is rotatably disposed on the base, and the rotating shaft is disposed in a vertical state, and the other end of the first rotating arm 520 is rotatably connected to the second rotating arm 530, and the rotating shaft is disposed in a vertical state. The motors for driving the first and second

rotating arms

520 and 530 to rotate are preferably step motors, thereby facilitating the control of the angles of rotation of the first and second

rotating arms

520 and 530. The rotation shaft 540 is disposed on the second rotation arm 530 and is disposed in a vertical state, and the material adsorption assembly 400 is connected to one end of the rotation shaft 540 at a lower portion thereof, so that the material adsorption assembly 400 rotates along with the rotation shaft 540. One solution for the arrangement of the rotating shaft 540 may be that the rotating shaft 540 is rotatably connected to the second rotating arm 530, and the rotating shaft 540 is driven to rotate by a driving assembly, wherein the driving assembly may be any one of a rack and pinion assembly and a synchronous belt assembly. Manipulator 500 in this embodiment rotates through first rotor arm and second rotor arm, can drive material adsorption component 400 and remove in the horizontal direction, thereby make the scope of removal great, with this FPC that conveniently drives material adsorption component 400 and adsorb or place FPC at the different positions of charging tray to the different positions on first transfer chain 200, and drive material adsorption component 400 self through rotation axis 540 and rotate, can adsorb the FPC that is in the not equidirectional, thereby can make the adsorbed FPC of material adsorption component 400 all be in same state, also can conveniently down CCD subassembly 320 detects the adsorbed FPC of material adsorption component 400 this moment. Of course, the rotating shaft 540 in the robot 500 may also be a screw assembly, so that the material-adsorbing assembly 400 can be driven to move in the vertical direction in the process of driving the material-adsorbing assembly 400 to rotate.

As shown in fig. 8 and 9, in order to facilitate the material adsorption assembly 400 to adsorb the FPC, the material adsorption assembly 400 includes a mounting block 410, a linear cylinder 420, and a vacuum suction nozzle 430, the mounting block 410 is a block body of an appropriate size, and the mounting block 410 is connected to an output end (i.e., an end of the rotary shaft 540 located at a lower portion) of the robot 500. The number of the linear cylinders 420 and the vacuum suction nozzles 430 is identical, so that the vacuum suction nozzles 430 are connected to the output ends of the linear cylinders 420 in a one-to-one correspondence. At this time, it is preferable that the number of the linear cylinders 420 and the vacuum suction nozzles 430 is six, the six linear cylinders 420 are divided into two groups, each group has three linear cylinders 420, the two groups of the linear cylinders 420 are respectively oppositely arranged on the mounting block 410, of course, the mounting block 410 may be a circular block, and the six linear cylinders 4200 are uniformly arranged around the circumference of the mounting block 410. The output end of the linear cylinder 420 is disposed vertically downward, thereby facilitating driving the vacuum nozzle 430 upward or downward in a vertical direction. At this time, it is preferable that the vacuum suction nozzle 430 is disposed on the mounting block 410 through a guide rail, the vacuum suction nozzle 430 is located on a slider in the guide rail, and the output end of the linear cylinder 420 is connected to the slider in the guide rail, thereby facilitating to prevent the vacuum suction nozzle 430 from deviating from a preset trajectory during the movement. At this time, it is preferable that the vacuum suction nozzle 430 is elastically coupled to the slider, such as by slidably coupling the vacuum suction nozzle 430 to the slider in the guide rail, and a return spring is provided at the coupling, thereby facilitating prevention of damage to the FPC when the vacuum suction nozzle 430 sucks the FPC. Of course, it is also possible that the robot 20 directly drives the vacuum suction nozzle 430 to move up or down, and in this case, the vacuum suction nozzle 430 may be directly disposed on the mounting block 410 without providing the linear air cylinder, and the robot 500 may directly drive the vacuum suction nozzle 410 to move up or down.

The above is only the part or the preferred embodiment of the present invention, no matter the characters or the drawings can not limit the protection scope of the present invention, all under the whole concept of the present invention, the equivalent structure transformation performed by the contents of the specification and the drawings is utilized, or the direct/indirect application in other related technical fields is included in the protection scope of the present invention.

Claims

1. An FPC (flexible printed circuit) tray arranging machine is characterized by comprising a machine frame, a first conveying line, a CCD (charge coupled device) detection device, a material adsorption assembly and a manipulator, wherein the first conveying line, the CCD detection device, the material adsorption assembly and the manipulator are positioned on the machine frame,

the manipulator is used for driving the material adsorption component to move.

2. The FPC balance machine of claim 1, wherein the first conveying line further comprises an arranging platform disposed between the first end and the second end, the arranging platform comprises a vibration plate abutting against the first end and the second end respectively, and a vibration mechanism for driving the vibration plate to vibrate, and a partial area of the vibration plate is located below the first end or/and a partial area of the vibration plate is located above the second end.

3. The FPC arranging machine according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the first conveying line comprises a first conveying belt and a second conveying belt, the end of the second conveying belt is the first end, the beginning of the first conveying belt is the second end, and the beginning of the second conveying belt is used for receiving the FPC which is departed from the end of the first conveying line.

4. The FPC arranging machine according to claim 3, wherein a terminal end of the first conveyor belt is butted with a starting end of the second conveyor belt through a third conveyor belt, the starting end of the third conveyor belt is located below the terminal end of the first conveyor belt, and the terminal end of the third conveyor belt is located above the starting end of the second conveyor belt.

5. The FPC balance machine according to claim 2, further comprising a first enclosure plate arranged around the vibration plate in the circumferential direction, wherein the first enclosure plate is provided with a first opening through which FPC is conveyed out from the enclosure space of the first enclosure plate along with the second end of the first conveying line, and the first enclosure plate is further provided with a second opening through which FPC is conveyed into the enclosure space along with the first end of the first conveying line.

6. The FPC balance machine of claim 5, further comprising an air tap disposed on the first baffle plate, wherein an air outlet of the air tap faces a side of the first conveying line where the second end is located.

7. The FPC disc placing machine according to claim 1, further comprising a second conveying line arranged on the frame and used for conveying the material discs, and disc storage mechanisms respectively arranged at front and rear ends of the second conveying line.

8. The FPC disc placing machine according to claim 7, wherein the disc storage mechanism comprises a stacking rack, a limiting device and a carrying device, the stacking rack is provided with a material disc placing space located above the second conveying line, the limiting device is arranged on the stacking rack, the limiting device comprises a limiting column which can move towards the material disc placing space to lift the material disc, and the carrying device comprises a lifting plate which can move towards the material disc placing space from bottom to top to support the material disc.

9. The FPC balance machine of claim 7 or 8, wherein the second conveying line comprises two mounting frames and two fourth conveying belts, one conveying line is arranged on each mounting frame, and one of the mounting frames is slidably connected with the rack through a linear guide rail so as to be close to or far away from the other mounting frame.

10. The FPC disc oscillating machine according to claim 1, wherein the material adsorption assembly comprises a mounting block connected with an output end of the manipulator, a plurality of linear cylinders arranged on the mounting block, and a vacuum suction nozzle arranged on an output end of each linear cylinder.