CN211437095U - Laminate polymer battery stepping equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

The utility model discloses a soft-packaged battery grading device, which comprises a tray feeding component, a detection component and a grading component, wherein a tray feeding manipulator is arranged between the tray feeding component and the detection component, the tray feeding manipulator moves the battery of the tray feeding component into the detection component, the detection component detects the battery and moves the battery into the grading component by a quadruple transplanting manipulator; the grading component firstly uses the NG manipulator to move the NG battery to the NG battery tray, then uses more than 1 triaxial manipulator to carry out grading, wherein 1 triaxial manipulator is correspondingly responsible for 4 OK battery trays with different grades, and the grading component adopts the empty tray manipulator to carry out the supplement placement of the empty battery tray. The utility model has the advantages that the battery circulation, detection and grading work in the grading process are realized automatically, the battery grading is carried out by adopting the three-axis manipulator, the battery grading efficiency is ensured, and the cost is saved; the battery tray does not need to be carried to the manual material conveying vehicle by manpower, so that the manpower and the time are saved, and the damage of battery carrying is avoided.

Description

Soft pack battery binning equipment

technical field

The utility model relates to the technical field of battery grading, in particular to a soft-pack battery grading device.

Background technique

In the process of practical application, batteries are often used in series/parallel to form a battery pack. In order to give full play to the performance of the battery pack, the important characteristic parameters of each battery in the battery pack should be consistent. However, in each link of continuous production of batteries, it is impossible to completely avoid production errors, resulting in the differentiation of important characteristic parameters of each battery. For this reason, battery grading has become an indispensable process in the battery production process. The stricter the grading standard, the better the consistency of the battery, the better the safety, performance and life after the battery is connected in series/parallel, but at the same time it will increase the production cost. How to reduce the production cost while improving the battery grading standard and ensuring the production efficiency is a problem that needs to be considered by those skilled in the art.

Utility model content

The technical problem to be solved by the utility model is to provide a soft pack battery grading device aiming at the above-mentioned deficiencies of the prior art.

In order to solve the above technical problems, the technical solution adopted by the present utility model is: a soft pack battery sorting equipment, including a tray feeding assembly, a detection assembly and a binning assembly, and a tray feeding assembly is arranged between the tray feeding assembly and the detection assembly. Manipulator, tray feeding manipulator moves the battery of the tray feeding assembly into the detection assembly, the inspection assembly detects the battery and moves the battery into the binning assembly; the binning assembly includes the battery flow pull belt, the NG battery binning station, and the OK battery binning station. The grading station and the empty disk storage station, the battery transfer belt is located on the horizontal center axis of the entire grading assembly, and the NG battery grading station, the OK battery grading station and the empty disk storage station move along the battery belt. The flow directions are arranged in sequence; the NG battery grading station is equipped with a NG manipulator and an NG battery tray. The battery binning station is equipped with more than one three-axis manipulator. The three-axis manipulator can correspond to 4 OK battery storage positions for placing battery trays. The empty tray storage station is equipped with an empty battery tray, and the battery flows on both sides of the belt. The empty disk storage station and the OK battery storage position are each provided with an empty disk manipulator, and the empty disk manipulator is used to grab the empty battery disk at the empty disk storage station and put it into the OK battery storage position.

In the technical solution, the tray feeding component includes a tray lifting mechanism, a tray disassembling and positioning transplanting mechanism and a tray unloading mechanism, the tray lifting mechanism and the tray unloading mechanism are arranged adjacent to each other, and the tray removing and positioning transplanting mechanism is arranged on the tray lifting mechanism and the tray. The upper end position of the unloading mechanism; the tray lifting mechanism lifts the tray full of batteries to the height of the work surface where the tray removal positioning and transplanting mechanism is located, the tray removal positioning and transplanting mechanism clamps and positions the tray, and the tray feeding manipulator moves the tray in the tray. The battery is taken out and placed into the detection assembly, the tray removal and positioning transplanting mechanism translates the empty tray to the upper end of the tray unloading mechanism, and the tray unloading mechanism flows and stacks the empty trays downward;

In the technical solution, the detection components include a battery positioning scanning mechanism, an OCV testing mechanism, a thickness detection mechanism, a tab shaping mechanism, a quadruple transplanting manipulator and a testing table. The testing table is a straight plane, a battery positioning scanning mechanism, and an OCV test. The mechanism, the thickness detection mechanism and the tab shaping mechanism are set on the testing table, the quadruple transplanting manipulator is set on one side of the testing table, the battery enters the testing assembly for testing, and the quadruple transplanting manipulator is responsible for the battery flow in the testing assembly and finally Move into binning components;

In the technical solution, the quadruple transplanting manipulator includes a horizontal driving guide rail, a connecting piece, a driven slide rail and four sets of suction cup assemblies. The horizontal driving guide rail and the driven slide rail are fixedly connected through the connecting piece. It is fixedly arranged on the driven slide rail, and each set of suction cup assemblies is provided with two battery suction cups. The horizontal drive rail drives the driven slide rail and the four sets of suction cup assemblies to move horizontally through the connecting piece.

In the technical solution, the three-axis manipulator includes an X-axis drive guide, a Y-axis drive guide, a Z-axis drive guide and a suction cup assembly 2. The X-axis drive guide is installed on the battery flow pull belt, and the X-axis drive guide is in the horizontal direction. Vertical battery flow Pull the belt, the Y-axis drive rail is vertical to the X-axis drive rail in the horizontal direction and slidingly connected to the X-axis drive rail, the Z-axis drive rail is perpendicular to the Y-axis drive rail in the vertical direction and slidably connected to the Y-axis drive rail, the suction cup Component 2 is installed on the Z-axis drive rail and moves vertically along the Z-axis drive rail; the four OK battery storage positions are located in the four areas divided by the battery transfer belt and the X-axis drive rail of the three-axis manipulator. , and is close to the battery flow pull belt and the X-axis drive rail.

In the technical solution, the number of three-axis manipulators is three.

In the technical solution, the OK battery storage position or the empty tray storage station is provided with a battery tray lifting mechanism and a battery tray lifting mechanism, the battery tray lifting mechanism is connected and drives the battery tray lifting mechanism to move up and down, and the battery tray is placed on the battery tray lifting mechanism. institution.

In the technical solution, the bottom of the battery tray holding mechanism is provided with an empty groove structure.

In the technical solution, a manual feeding pull belt is also included, and the manual feeding pull belt is arranged on one side of the empty position of the tray feeding manipulator.

The beneficial effects of the utility model are as follows: the soft pack battery grading equipment realizes the battery flow, detection and grading work in the grading process through automation; a three-axis manipulator is used for battery grading, and one three-axis manipulator corresponds to four gears, While ensuring the battery binning efficiency, it saves the cost of using the robotic arm; when the battery tray is circulated, there is no need to manually transport it to the manual truck, which saves manpower and time, and avoids battery damage caused by improper handling.

Description of drawings

Figure 1 is a schematic diagram of the overall composition of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of the composition structure of the tray feeding assembly of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram of the composition structure of the detection assembly of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a schematic structural diagram of a triple manipulator of the present invention in the grading assembly.

In the figure, 1-tray feeding assembly; 11-tray lifting mechanism; 12-disassembling and positioning transplanting mechanism; 13-tray unloading mechanism; 14-tray feeding manipulator; 15-manual feeding belt; 2-detection Component; 21-battery positioning scanning mechanism; 22-OCV testing mechanism; 23-thickness detection mechanism; 24-pole ear shaping mechanism; 25-quadruple transplanting manipulator; Suction cup assembly 1; 254-driven slide rail; 26-testing table; 3-grading assembly; 31-battery transfer belt; 32-NG manipulator; 33-NG battery tray; 34-three-axis manipulator; 341-X axis Drive guide rail; 342-Y-axis drive guide rail; 343-Z-axis drive guide rail; 344-Suction cup assembly 2; 35-OK battery storage position; 351-Battery tray lifting mechanism; 352-Battery tray lifting mechanism; ; 36-OK battery plate; 37-empty plate storage station; 38-empty plate manipulator.

Detailed ways

The present utility model will be described in further detail below in conjunction with the accompanying drawings.

As shown in FIG. 1 , a soft pack battery sorting device includes a tray feeding assembly 1 , a detection assembly 2 and a sorting assembly 3 . The tray feeding assembly 1 is located on the left side of the entire workbench. The tray feeding assembly 1 lifts the tray full of batteries to the height of the work surface, and takes out the batteries in the tray through the tray feeding manipulator 14 and places it into the detection assembly 2 , the detected battery enters the binning assembly 3 for binning operation.

As shown in Figures 1 and 2, the tray feeding assembly 1 is mainly used to realize the flow of incoming trays. The tray feeding assembly 1 includes a tray lifting mechanism 11, a tray disassembly, positioning and transplanting mechanism 12 and a tray unloading mechanism 13. The tray lifting mechanism 11 is arranged adjacent to the tray unloading mechanism 13 , and the tray dismantling, positioning and transplanting mechanism 12 is arranged at the upper end of the tray lifting mechanism 11 and the tray unloading mechanism 13 . The tray filled with batteries is manually or machine moved into the loading position at the lower end of the tray lifting mechanism 11, and the tray lifting mechanism 11 lifts the tray to the height of the work surface where the tray removal positioning and transplanting mechanism 12 is located; The lifted tray is clamped and positioned, and the tray loading manipulator 14 takes out the battery in the tray and places it into the detection assembly 2; after the battery is taken out, the tray removal, positioning and transplanting mechanism 12 translates the empty tray to the bottom of the tray The upper end of the feeding mechanism 13, the tray unloading mechanism 13 flows and stacks the empty trays downward, and when the empty trays reach a certain number, the empty trays are transferred manually or by machine.

As shown in FIGS. 1 and 3 , the detection assembly 2 includes a battery positioning scanning mechanism 21 , an OCV testing mechanism 22 , a thickness detection mechanism 23 , a tab shaping mechanism 24 , a quadruple transplanting manipulator 25 and a testing table 26 . The detection table 26 is a straight plane. The battery positioning scanning mechanism 21 , the OCV testing mechanism 22 , the thickness detection mechanism 23 and the tab shaping mechanism 24 are sequentially arranged on the detection table 26 , and the quadruple transplanting manipulator 25 is arranged on the detection table 26 side. The tray feeding manipulator 14 places the battery on the detection table 26 corresponding to the battery positioning and scanning mechanism 21. The battery positioning and scanning mechanism 21 straightens the transferred battery and scans the barcode or QR code information on the battery. Read the code information of the battery to facilitate the entry of subsequent testing data; the scanned battery is transferred to the OCV testing institution 22, and the OCV testing institution 22 conducts the OCV test on the battery, and the tested voltage, resistance and other parameters are then entered into the battery information file middle; the battery is transferred into the thickness detection mechanism 23, and the thickness detection mechanism 23 detects the thickness information of the battery and records it in the information file of the battery; the battery is transferred into the tab shaping mechanism 24, and the tab shaping mechanism 24 reshapes the tabs of the battery Operation: After completing the work of each station in the detection assembly 2, the battery is moved to the classification assembly 3 for classification. On the detection assembly 2, the quadruple transplanting manipulator 25 is responsible for the battery transfer work between each process. The quadruple transplanting manipulator 25 includes a horizontal driving guide rail 251, a connector 252, four sets of suction cup assemblies 253 and a driven slide rail 254. , the horizontal drive guide rail 251 and the driven slide rail 254 are fixedly connected through the connecting piece 252, 4 sets of suction cup assemblies 1 253 are fixedly arranged on the driven slide rail 254 at equal distances, and each set of suction cup assemblies 1 253 is provided with 2 battery suction cups , the circulation of two batteries can be performed at the same time, and each detection station in the detection assembly 2 can also perform detection operations on the two batteries at the same time. The horizontal driving guide rail 251 drives the driven slide rail 254 and the four groups of suction cup assemblies 1 253 connected thereto to move horizontally through the connecting piece 252 . Among them, the first group of sucker components 1 253 is responsible for transferring the battery flow of the corresponding station of the battery positioning scanning mechanism 21 to the corresponding station of the OCV testing mechanism 22, and the second group of sucker components 1 253 is responsible for placing the OCV testing mechanism 22 on the corresponding station. The battery is transferred to the corresponding station of the thickness detection mechanism 23, the third group of sucker assembly 1 253 is responsible for transferring the battery from the corresponding station of the thickness detection mechanism 23 to the corresponding station of the tab shaping mechanism 24, and the fourth group of sucker assembly 1 253 is responsible for transferring the battery flow from the corresponding station of the tab shaping mechanism 24 to the starting station of the grading assembly 3 .

As shown in FIG. 1 and FIG. 4 , the binning assembly 3 is mainly used to bin the detected batteries into the battery trays of the corresponding gear positions according to the detected parameters. The grading assembly 3 includes a battery circulation pull belt 31, a NG battery grading station, an OK battery grading station and an empty disk storage station 37. The battery circulation pull belt 31 is located on the horizontal center axis of the entire grading assembly 3. The battery The starting end of the flow pull belt 31 receives the fourth group of suction cup components 1 253 of the quadruple transplanting manipulator 25. Along the flow direction of the battery flow pull belt 31, the battery flow pull belt 31 is sequentially provided with NG battery grading stations, OK battery grading station and empty tray storage station 37.

The NG battery grading station is provided with an NG manipulator 32 and an NG battery tray 33. Both the NG manipulator 32 and the NG battery tray 33 are located on one side of the battery transfer belt 31. The NG manipulator 32 will detect the batteries that are not qualified products. It is transplanted into the NG battery tray 33, and after the NG battery tray 33 is full, it is transferred and replaced manually or by machine.

The OK battery grading station is provided with more than one three-axis manipulator 34, one three-axis manipulator 34 can be correspondingly provided with four OK battery storage positions 35, and the three-axis manipulator 34 includes an X-axis drive rail 341 and a Y-axis drive rail 342, Z-axis driving guide rail 343 and suction cup assembly 2 344, the left and right ends of the X-axis driving guide rail 341 are mounted on the battery flow pull belt 31 through support columns, and the X-axis drive guide rail 341 is perpendicular to the battery flow pull belt in the horizontal direction. 31. The Y-axis drive rail 342 is perpendicular to the X-axis drive rail 341 in the horizontal direction and is slidably connected to the X-axis drive rail 341. The Z-axis drive rail 343 is perpendicular to the Y-axis drive rail 342 in the vertical direction and is slidably connected to the Y-axis drive rail 342. On the shaft driving guide rail 342 , the second suction cup assembly 344 is mounted on the Z-axis driving guide rail 343 and moves in the vertical direction along the Z-axis driving guide rail 343 . The second suction cup assembly 344 is provided with two battery suction cups, which can perform the circulation of the two batteries at the same time. The four OK battery storage positions 35 are respectively located in the four areas divided by the battery transfer belt 31 and the X-axis drive rail 341 of the three-axis manipulator 34 , and are adjacent to the battery transfer belt 31 and the X-axis drive rail 341 . In this embodiment, three three-axis manipulators 34 are used, correspondingly, the batteries can be divided into 12 grades, and each three-axis manipulator 34 corresponds to four grades. When the battery belongs to the four grades corresponding to the current three-axis manipulator 34, the three-axis manipulator 34 grabs the battery and puts it into the corresponding OK battery storage position 35. If the battery does not belong to the four grades corresponding to the current three-axis manipulator 34 , the three-axis manipulator 34 does not grab, and the battery continues to flow and move along the battery flow pull belt 31 .

Each OK battery storage position 35 is provided with a battery tray lifting mechanism 351 and a battery tray lifting mechanism 352. The battery tray lifting mechanism 351 is connected and drives the battery tray lifting mechanism 352 to move up and down, and the OK battery tray 36 is placed on the battery tray lifting mechanism 352. Institution 352. The battery tray holding mechanism 352 can store several OK battery trays 36, and the battery tray lifting mechanism 351 adjusts the height of the battery tray holding mechanism 352 according to the number of OK battery trays 36 stored in the battery tray holding mechanism 352, so that the stacked The top OK battery tray 36 is just at a height suitable for the three-axis manipulator 34 to place batteries in stages. Each time an OK battery tray 36 is filled, the battery tray lifting mechanism 351 adjusts the battery tray lifting mechanism 352 to drop a height. The bottom of the battery tray holding mechanism 352 is provided with an empty slot structure 3521. The empty slot structure 3521 can be placed in a manual material transporter. When the battery tray holding mechanism 352 is lowered to a certain height, the load-bearing surface of the OK battery tray 36 is supported by the battery. The tray lifting mechanism 352 is transferred to the manual feeding cart located in the empty slot structure 3521, and the OK battery tray 36 can be transferred by removing the manual feeding cart, and the OK battery tray 36 on the OK battery storage position 35 does not need to be manually moved. The handling is transferred to the manual material truck, which saves handling steps and avoids battery damage caused by improper handling operations.

An empty disk storage station 37 is provided on both sides of the end of the battery flow pull belt 31. The empty disk storage station 37 is provided with a battery disk lifting mechanism 351 and a battery disk holding mechanism 352 like the OK battery storage position 35. The battery tray lifting mechanism 351 is connected and drives the battery tray lifting mechanism 352 to move up and down, and the empty battery tray is placed on the battery tray lifting mechanism 352 . An empty disk manipulator 38 is provided at the upper end of the six OK battery storage positions 35 and one empty disk storage station 37 on each side of the battery transfer belt 31 , and the empty disk manipulator 38 is used for the empty disk storage station 37 Grab the empty battery tray and place it in the OK battery storage position 35. When the OK battery tray 36 of a certain OK battery storage position 35 is full, the empty tray manipulator 38 moves to the empty tray storage station 37 to grab the empty battery tray, and then moves to the OK battery tray 36 full of OK batteries for storage. Position 35, stack the empty battery tray on the full OK battery tray 36, the battery tray holding mechanism 352 of the empty tray storage station 37 rises a height, and the battery tray holding mechanism 352 on the OK battery storage position 35 descends a height. After the empty battery trays in the empty tray storage station 37 have been grabbed, the battery tray holding mechanism 352 in the empty tray storage station 37 is lowered to the lowest position, and the stacked empty battery trays are moved into the empty slot structure 3521 by the manual transport vehicle. , the battery tray holding mechanism 352 rises so that the empty battery tray is placed on the battery tray holding mechanism 352 .

In addition, in order to facilitate the actual use, manual feeding may be used, a manual feeding pull belt 15 is provided on the side of the empty position of the tray feeding manipulator 14, and the tray feeding manipulator 14 switches the grasping mode and selects the manual feeding. The battery is grabbed on the pull belt 15 , and the operator puts the battery on the manual feeding pull belt 15 for the pallet feeding manipulator 14 to grab.

The above embodiments are only intended to illustrate rather than limit the present invention, so all equivalent changes or modifications made according to the methods described in the scope of the patent application of the present invention are included in the scope of the patent application of the present invention.

Claims (9)

1. The soft pack battery sorting equipment is characterized in that: it includes a tray feeding assembly, a detection assembly and a sorting assembly, and a tray feeding manipulator is arranged between the tray feeding assembly and the detection assembly, and the tray feeding manipulator loads the tray. The battery of the module is moved into the detection module, the detection module detects the battery and moves the battery into the binning module; the binning module includes the battery flow pull belt, the NG battery binning station, the OK battery binning station and the empty tray storage device. The battery transfer belt is located on the horizontal center axis of the entire sorting assembly, and the NG battery sorting station, the OK battery sorting station and the empty disk storage station are arranged in sequence along the flow direction of the battery circulation belt; The battery sorting station is provided with a NG manipulator and a NG battery tray. Both the NG manipulator and the NG battery tray are located on one side of the battery transfer belt. The NG manipulator transplants the NG batteries to the NG battery tray; the OK battery sorting station There are more than 1 three-axis manipulator, and the three-axis manipulator can correspond to 4 OK battery storage positions for placing battery trays. The empty tray storage stations are placed with empty battery trays, and the empty trays on both sides of the battery flow pull belt. The disk storage station and the OK battery storage position are each provided with an empty disk manipulator, and the empty disk manipulator is used to grab the empty battery disk at the empty disk storage station and put it into the OK battery storage position. 2 . The soft pack battery sorting device according to claim 1 , wherein the tray feeding assembly comprises a tray lifting mechanism, a tray disassembling and positioning transplanting mechanism, and a tray unloading mechanism, and the tray lifting mechanism and the tray unloading mechanism. 3 . The mechanisms are arranged adjacently, and the tray removal positioning and transplanting mechanism is located at the upper end of the tray lifting mechanism and the tray unloading mechanism; the tray lifting mechanism lifts the tray full of batteries to the height of the work surface where the tray removal positioning and transplanting mechanism is located, and the tray removal mechanism The positioning and transplanting mechanism clamps and positions the tray, the tray feeding manipulator takes out the battery in the tray and places it into the detection component, and the tray removal positioning and transplanting mechanism translates the empty tray to the upper end of the tray unloading mechanism, and the tray unloading mechanism will empty the tray. Trays flow down and stack. 3. The soft-pack battery grading device according to claim 1, wherein the detection component comprises a battery positioning scanning mechanism, an OCV testing mechanism, a thickness detection mechanism, a tab shaping mechanism, a quadruple transplanting manipulator, and a The testing table is a straight plane. The battery positioning scanning mechanism, OCV testing mechanism, thickness testing mechanism and tab shaping mechanism are set on the testing table. The quadruple transplanting manipulator is set on one side of the testing table. The components are tested, and the quadruple transplanting manipulator is responsible for the flow of batteries in the testing components and finally moves them into the grading components. 4. The soft-pack battery grading device according to claim 3, wherein the quadruple transplanting manipulator comprises a horizontal driving guide rail, a connector, a driven slide rail and four sets of suction cup assemblies, the horizontal driving guide rail and the The driven slide rails are fixedly connected through connectors. Four sets of suction cup assemblies are fixedly arranged on the driven slide rails at equal intervals. Each set of suction cup assemblies is provided with two battery suction cups. The horizontal drive rail drives the driven slide rails through the connecting pieces. The rail and 4 sets of suction cup assemblies move horizontally. 5. The soft-pack battery grading device according to claim 1, wherein the three-axis manipulator comprises an X-axis drive guide rail, a Y-axis drive guide rail, a Z-axis drive guide rail and a suction cup assembly two, and the X-axis drive guide rail is installed On top of the battery transfer belt, the X-axis drive rail is vertical to the battery transfer belt in the horizontal direction, the Y-axis drive rail is vertical to the X-axis drive rail in the horizontal direction and is slidably connected to the X-axis drive rail, and the Z-axis drive rail is in the vertical direction. The direction is perpendicular to the Y-axis drive guide rail and is slidably connected to the Y-axis drive guide rail. The second suction cup assembly is installed on the Z-axis drive guide rail and moves in the vertical direction along the Z-axis drive guide rail; the four OK battery storage positions are located at In the four areas divided by the battery flow pull belt and the X-axis drive guide of the three-axis manipulator, and adjacent to the battery flow pull belt and the X-axis drive guide. 6 . The pouch battery sorting device according to claim 5 , wherein the number of the three-axis manipulators is three. 7 . 7. The soft pack battery grading device according to claim 1 is characterized in that: the OK battery storage position or the empty disk storage station is provided with a battery tray lifting mechanism and a battery tray lifting mechanism, and the battery tray is lifted and lowered. The mechanism is connected and drives the battery tray holding mechanism to move up and down, and the battery tray is placed on the battery tray holding mechanism. 8 . The soft pack battery sorting device according to claim 7 , wherein the bottom of the battery tray holding mechanism is provided with an empty groove structure. 9 . 9 . The soft pack battery grading device according to claim 1 , further comprising a manual feeding pull belt, and the manual feeding pull belt is arranged on one side of the empty position of the tray feeding manipulator. 10 .

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