CN211803301U - Positioning and cutting device for soft-packaged cell tabs with tabs discharged from two sides - Google Patents

Positioning and cutting device for soft-packaged cell tabs with tabs discharged from two sides Download PDF

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CN211803301U
CN211803301U CN202020336163.8U CN202020336163U CN211803301U CN 211803301 U CN211803301 U CN 211803301U CN 202020336163 U CN202020336163 U CN 202020336163U CN 211803301 U CN211803301 U CN 211803301U
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张福生
孟令玲
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The utility model provides a two sides go out soft-packaged electric core utmost point ear location cutting device of utmost point ear, utmost point ear including electric core positioning mechanism and bilateral symmetry installation cuts the mechanism, utmost point ear cuts the mechanism and includes the blanking board, elevating system and tool organism, the blanking board is connected to the tool organism through elevating system, electric core positioning mechanism includes whole portion of shifting down, control translation portion and electric core portion of tightening, the whole portion of shifting down below connects to control translation portion and electric core portion of tightening through the mounting bracket, a cylinder of blanking board, elevating system's cylinder No. two, the servo motor of organism, wholly shift down No. three cylinders of portion, control the equal signal connection of signal connection to controller of guide arm cylinder of translation portion and the tong cylinder of electric core portion of tightening. Two sides play utmost point ear soft-packaged electrical core utmost point ear location cutting device, can fix a position respectively when the utmost point ear that two sides play utmost point ear electrical core both sides cut to realize two side utmost point ears and cut the nimble regulation of length.

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Positioning and cutting device for soft-packaged cell tabs with tabs discharged from two sides
Technical Field
The utility model belongs to the technical field of machinery is supplementary, especially, relate to a two sides go out soft-packaged electric core utmost point ear location cutting device of utmost point ear.
Background
For passenger cars, the driving range, safety, service life, etc. of the car are the most important indicators. The soft package battery has certain advantages in energy density, safety, flexible design and cycle number, and can better meet the requirements of long endurance, high safety and more flexible vehicle type design of a passenger vehicle. As the new energy passenger vehicle gradually becomes the main force of the new energy vehicle market growth, the soft package battery loading capacity growth also enters a 'express way'. In the production process of the soft package battery pack, the tab of the soft package battery cell needs to be cut to the size required by assembly. Although the current soft-package battery cell tab cutting tool realizes battery cell positioning, the current soft-package battery cell tab cutting tool belongs to one-time positioning, and the adjustment of the tab cutting lengths at two sides of a battery cell with tabs going out from two sides is not flexible enough.
Disclosure of Invention
In view of this, the utility model aims at providing a two sides play soft-packaged electric core utmost point ear location cutting device of utmost point ear to solve prior art and adjust dumb, fix a position inaccurate when bipolar ear cuts, thereby cause the unsafe problem in cutting position.
In order to achieve the above purpose, the technical scheme of the utility model is realized like this:
the utility model provides a two sides go out soft-packaged electric core utmost point ear location cutting device of utmost point ear, utmost point ear including electric core positioning mechanism and bilateral symmetry installation cuts the mechanism, utmost point ear cuts the mechanism and includes the blanking board, elevating system and tool organism, the blanking board is connected to the tool organism through elevating system, electric core positioning mechanism includes whole portion of shifting down, control translation portion and electric core portion of fastening, whole portion of shifting down below connects to control translation portion and electric core portion of fastening through the mounting bracket, a cylinder of blanking board, elevating system's cylinder No. two, the servo motor of organism, whole No. three cylinder of portion of shifting down, control the equal signal connection of tong cylinder of translation portion and electric core portion of fastening to controller.
Further, the blanking board includes a cylinder and a main frame, a cylinder of installation above the main frame, a cylinder below installation tool fixing plate, tool fixing plate below installation tool, a cutter side-mounting tool briquetting, still be provided with two mounting holes on the tool briquetting, the inside installation slide bar of mounting hole, the slide bar lower extreme is connected to the cushion block, the cutter below is equipped with cuts the cushion, cut cushion below installation upper fixing base, the upper fixing base passes through the stock to be fixed on the main frame, the knob is screwed up in the one end installation of stock.
Furthermore, the cushion block is a polyurethane cushion block.
Furthermore, a waste storage box is arranged on one side, back to the cutting cushion block, of the main frame.
Further, elevating system includes No. two cylinders and installation fixed plate, and the installation fixed plate is located upper fixing base below, and bolt fixed connection is passed through to the main frame in installation fixed plate top, and the installation fixed plate is rectangular frame structure, and the installation fixed plate is inside to be equipped with No. two cylinders.
Further, the tool organism includes mounting panel and servo motor, and No. two cylinders of mounting panel top installation, below installation linear guide and servo motor, the mounting panel is located the fixing base top, and ball is installed to the fixing base top, and ball one end is connected to servo motor.
Furthermore, the whole lower moving part comprises a cross beam and a third cylinder, two ends of the cross beam are respectively provided with a stand column, and the middle part of the cross beam is provided with the third cylinder.
Further, control translation portion including the guide arm cylinder, the guide arm cylinder passes through the mounting bracket to be installed in No. three cylinder belows, and the guide arm cylinder includes a guide arm cylinder and No. two guide arm cylinders, and a guide arm cylinder and No. two guide arm cylinder belows are connected to a location linear guide respectively, and location linear guide installs on the mount, and a race steel hook piece is installed respectively at the mount both ends, and a guide arm cylinder top is equipped with the relief pressure valve.
Further, the electric core clamping portion comprises a clamping cylinder and a positioning block, the upper portion of the clamping cylinder is connected to the mounting frame, and the positioning block is mounted on the lower portion of the clamping cylinder.
Compared with the prior art, two sides go out utmost point ear soft-packaged electrical core utmost point ear location cutting device have following advantage:
(1) two sides play utmost point ear soft-packaged electrical core utmost point ear location cutting device, install the relief pressure valve on the guide arm cylinder of setting for the device can fix a position respectively when the utmost point ear that two sides play utmost point ear electrical core both sides cut, thereby realize two side utmost point ears and cut the nimble regulation of length.
(2) Two sides go out soft-packaged electric core utmost point ear location cutting device of utmost point ear, the knob is screwed up in the one end installation of stock, screws up the knob through the regulation, can adjust the distance that cuts between cushion and the cutter, satisfy cutting of different thickness utmost point ears, the commonality is stronger.
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The accompanying drawings, which form a part hereof, are included to provide a further understanding of the invention, and are incorporated in and constitute a part of this specification, illustrate embodiments of the invention and together with the description serve to explain the invention without undue limitation. In the drawings:
fig. 1 is a schematic structural view of a tab cutting mechanism according to an embodiment of the present invention;
fig. 2 is an exploded view of the cell positioning mechanism according to the embodiment of the present invention.
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1-a tab cutting mechanism; 11-cylinder number one; 12-a cutter; 13-cushion blocks; 14-a long rod; 15-cylinder number two; 16-mounting a fixing plate; 17-mounting a plate; 18-a servo motor; 19-ball screw; 110-linear guide rail; 111-a fixed seat; 112-a main frame; 113-a tool fixing plate; 114-tool briquetting; 115-a slide bar; 116-cutting a cushion block; 117-tightening the knob; 118-upper layer fixing base; 119-a waste storage box; 2-a cell positioning mechanism; 21-upright column; 22-a cross beam; 23-cylinder number three; 24-a mounting frame; 25-a guide rod cylinder; 26-positioning the linear guide rail; 27-a pressure reducing valve; 28-Sai steel hook block; 29-gripper cylinder; 210-positioning block.
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It should be noted that, in the present invention, the embodiments and features of the embodiments may be combined with each other without conflict.
In the description of the present invention, it is to be understood that the terms "center", "longitudinal", "lateral", "up", "down", "front", "back", "left", "right", "vertical", "horizontal", "top", "bottom", "inner", "outer", and the like, indicate orientations or positional relationships based on the orientations or positional relationships shown in the drawings, and are used merely for convenience of description and for simplicity of description, and do not indicate or imply that the device or element being referred to must have a particular orientation, be constructed and operated in a particular orientation, and therefore, should not be construed as limiting the present invention. Furthermore, the terms "first", "second", etc. are used for descriptive purposes only and are not to be construed as indicating or implying relative importance or implicitly indicating the number of technical features indicated. Thus, a feature defined as "first," "second," etc. may explicitly or implicitly include one or more of that feature. In the description of the present invention, "a plurality" means two or more unless otherwise specified.
In the description of the present invention, it is to be noted that, unless otherwise explicitly specified or limited, the terms "mounted," "connected," and "connected" are to be construed broadly, and may be, for example, 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 invention can be understood by those of ordinary skill in the art through specific situations.
The present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings in conjunction with embodiments.
A positioning and cutting device for soft-packaged cell tabs with tabs discharged from two sides, as shown in figures 1 and 2, comprises a cell positioning mechanism 2 and tab cutting mechanisms 1 symmetrically arranged on two sides of the cell positioning mechanism 2, wherein the cell positioning mechanism 2 is arranged on a production line, then two utmost point ears cut mechanism 1 and install respectively in the assembly line both sides, utmost point ear cuts mechanism 1 and includes the blanking board, elevating system and tool organism, the blanking board is connected to the tool organism through elevating system, electric core positioning mechanism 2 includes whole lower limb, control translation portion and electric core portion of step up, whole lower limb below is connected to through mounting bracket 24 and controls translation portion and electric core portion of step up, cylinder 11 of blanking board, elevating system's cylinder 15 No. two, the servo motor 18 of tool organism, No. three cylinder 23 of whole lower limb, control the equal signal connection of guide arm cylinder 25 and the electric core portion of step up and tong cylinder 29 of step up to the controller.
The controller is a controller on the production line or a controller with the controller, the controller is a PLC,
the blanking machine comprises a first air cylinder 11, a cutter 12, a buffer cushion block 13, a long rod 14, a main frame 112, a cutter fixing plate 113, a cutter pressing block 114, a sliding rod 115, a cutting cushion block 116, a screwing knob 117, an upper layer fixing seat 118 and a waste storage box 119, wherein the first air cylinder 11 is installed above the main frame 112, the cutter fixing plate 113 is installed below the first air cylinder 11, the cutter pressing block 114 and the cutter 12 are installed below the cutter fixing plate 113, the cutter 12 is installed below the cutter fixing plate 113, the cutter pressing block 114 is installed on one side of the cutter 12, the cutter pressing block 114 is installed on the cutter fixing plate 113 through bolts, two installation holes are further formed in the cutter pressing block 114, the sliding rod 115 is installed inside the installation holes, the lower end of the sliding rod 115 is connected to the buffer cushion block; the cushion block 13 is a polyurethane cushion block; a cutting cushion block 116 is arranged below the cutter 12, an upper layer fixing seat 118 is arranged below the cutting cushion block 116, the upper layer fixing seat 118 is fixed on the main frame 112 through a long rod 14, a tightening knob 117 is arranged at one end of the long rod 14, and the distance between the cutting cushion block 116 and the cutter 12 can be adjusted by adjusting the tightening knob 117, so that the cutting of tabs with different thicknesses is met; the main frame 112 is provided with a waste storage box 119 at a side opposite to the cutting pad 115 for collecting the cut tab waste.
Elevating system includes No. two cylinders 15 and installation fixed plate 16, and installation fixed plate 16 is located upper fixing base 118 below, and bolt fixed connection to main frame 112 is passed through to installation fixed plate 16 top, and installation fixed plate 16 is the rectangular frame structure, and installation fixed plate 16 is inside to be equipped with No. two cylinders 15, and elevating system realizes the rising and the decline of whole blanking board.
The tool organism includes mounting panel 17, servo motor 18, ball 19, linear guide 110 and fixing base 111, No. two cylinders 15 of mounting panel 17 top installation, below installation linear guide 110 and servo motor 18, mounting panel 17 is located fixing base 111 top, fixing base 111 top installation ball 19, ball 19 one end is connected to servo motor 18, servo motor 18 during operation, ball 19 drives fixing base 111 and slides along linear guide 110, control whole utmost point ear and cut the mechanism seesaw, thereby realize cutting the accurate regulation of utmost point ear length.
The battery cell positioning mechanism 2 comprises an integral lower moving part, a left-right translation part and a battery cell clamping part, the integral lower moving part comprises an upright post 21, a cross beam 22, a third cylinder 23 and a mounting frame 24, the two ends of the cross beam 22 are respectively provided with the upright post 21, and the middle part of the cross beam 22 is provided with the third cylinder 23; the left translation part and the right translation part comprise guide rod cylinders 25, positioning linear guide rails 26, a pressure reducing valve 27 and steel competition hook blocks 28, the guide rod cylinders 25 are installed below the third cylinders 23 through mounting frames 24, the guide rod cylinders 25 are connected to the positioning linear guide rails 26 below, the guide rod cylinders 25 comprise a guide rod cylinder and a second guide rod cylinder, the guide rod cylinders and the second guide rod cylinder are connected to one positioning linear guide rail 26 below respectively, the positioning linear guide rails 26 are installed on a fixing frame, and the steel competition hook blocks 28 are installed at two ends of the fixing frame respectively. A pressure reducing valve 27 is arranged above the first guide rod cylinder for reducing pressure, so that the thrust of the first cylinder guide rod cylinder is smaller than that of the second guide rod cylinder, the stroke of the first guide rod cylinder is three, 1 is completely retracted, 2 is completely lifted out, and 3 is lifted out by the second guide rod cylinder to form a blocking position. The three positions are used for moving the battery cell to three states, namely left movement, right movement and middle rest, of the hook block fixed on the mounting block of the moving part of the cylinder, so that the lugs on two sides of the battery cell are cut and respectively positioned, and the flexible adjustment of the cutting lengths of the lugs on two sides is realized.
The battery cell clamping portion comprises a clamping cylinder 29 and a positioning block 210, the upper portion of the clamping cylinder 29 is connected to the mounting frame 24, the positioning block 210 is installed below the clamping cylinder 29, and the axis of the positioning block 210 is perpendicular to the axis of the steel hook block 28. And the electric core is clamped when the cutting is performed, so that the electric core cannot move when blanking is ensured. The positioning block 210 is made of steel, so that insulation is guaranteed, and the battery core cannot be scratched. The third cylinder 23, the guide rod cylinder 25 and the clamping cylinder 29 are respectively in signal connection with the controller.
The working principle of the positioning and cutting device for the lugs of the soft-packaged battery cell with the lugs being discharged from two sides is as follows:
the working process of the device is explained as follows: the device can be used as a workstation and integrated on any suitable transmission device for use, an air source and a power supply are connected, the air pressure of the air source is adjusted, the equipment is firstly reset to zero, and the equipment can be enabled to enter an automatic state only when the equipment is in a zero position. This device is automatic start, and after the product stream arrived this workstation, the device carried out utmost point ear cutting operation to electric core automatically. The implementation mode is as follows: manually or automatically feeding the battery cell to a transmission line (assembly line) by equipment, transplanting the battery cell to the positioning and cutting device, turning on a switch, controlling the third cylinder 23 to move downwards by the controller, so that the battery cell positioning mechanism automatically and integrally moves downwards, and after the third cylinder 23 finishes moving, controlling the guide rod cylinder 25 and the clamping hand cylinder 29 to act by the controller, so that the left and right translation parts are aligned and positioned (such as on the left) along one side, and the battery cell clamping part clamps the battery cell; after the guide rod cylinder 25 and the clamping hand cylinder 29 reach the set displacement, the controller controls the servo motor 18 to move the blanking machine to the designated position according to the cutting size, then the blanking machine descends to cut the electrode core lug, after the cutting is finished, the blanking machine ascends to reset and resets through the servo motor 18, (the moving displacement and the cutting time are input into the controller in advance according to the specification and the model of the electrode core, the PLC controls the displacement and the time to be the prior art, and the description is omitted), at the moment, the controller controls the clamping hand cylinder 29 and the guide rod cylinder 25 to act, so that the electrode core clamping part of the electrode core positioning mechanism loosens the electrode core, the left translation part and the right translation part align and position along the other side (like the right side), and the. After the lugs on the two sides are cut, the battery cell is transmitted out of the positioning and cutting device by the transmission line.
The above description is only a preferred embodiment of the present invention, and should not be taken as limiting the invention, and any modifications, equivalent replacements, improvements, etc. made within the spirit and principle of the present invention should be included in the protection scope of the present invention.

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1. The utility model provides a two sides go out soft-packaged electric core utmost point ear location cutting device of utmost point ear, its characterized in that: utmost point ear including electric core positioning mechanism and bilateral symmetry installation cuts the mechanism, utmost point ear cuts the mechanism and includes the blanking board, elevating system and tool organism, the blanking board is connected to the tool organism through elevating system, electric core positioning mechanism includes whole portion of moving down, control translation portion and electric core portion of fastening, translation portion and electric core portion of fastening about wholly moving down connect to through the mounting bracket in the below, a cylinder of blanking board, elevating system's cylinder No. two, the servo motor of organism, wholly move down No. three cylinders of portion, control the equal signal connection of signal connection to controller of tong cylinder of translation portion's guide arm cylinder and electric core portion of fastening.
2. The two-side lug-outlet soft-package battery cell lug positioning and cutting device according to claim 1, characterized in that: blanking board includes cylinder and main frame No. one, cylinder of main frame top installation, cylinder below installation tool fixing plate, tool fixing plate below installation tool, tool one side installation tool briquetting, still be provided with two mounting holes on the tool briquetting, the inside installation slide bar of mounting hole, the slide bar lower extreme is connected to the buffering cushion, the tool below is equipped with cuts the cushion, cut cushion below installation upper fixing base, upper fixing base passes through the stock to be fixed on the main frame, the knob is screwed up in the one end installation of stock.
3. The two-side lug-outlet soft-package battery cell lug positioning and cutting device according to claim 2, characterized in that: the cushion block is a polyurethane cushion block.
4. The two-side lug-outlet soft-package battery cell lug positioning and cutting device according to claim 2, characterized in that: one side of the main frame, which faces away from the cutting cushion block, is provided with a waste storage box.
5. The two-side lug-outlet soft-package battery cell lug positioning and cutting device according to claim 2, characterized in that: elevating system includes No. two cylinders and installation fixed plate, and the installation fixed plate is located upper fixing base below, and bolt fixed connection is passed through to the main frame in installation fixed plate top, and the installation fixed plate is rectangular frame structure, and the inside cylinder that is equipped with of installation fixed plate is No. two.
6. The two-side lug-outlet soft-package battery cell lug positioning and cutting device according to claim 5, characterized in that: the tool organism includes mounting panel and servo motor, and No. two cylinders of mounting panel top installation, below installation linear guide and servo motor, the mounting panel is located the fixing base top, and ball is installed to the fixing base top, and ball one end is connected to servo motor.
7. The two-side lug-outlet soft-package battery cell lug positioning and cutting device according to claim 1, characterized in that: the whole lower moving part comprises a cross beam and a third cylinder, two ends of the cross beam are respectively provided with a stand column, and the middle part of the cross beam is provided with the third cylinder.
8. The two-side lug-outlet soft-package battery cell lug positioning and cutting device according to claim 7, characterized in that: horizontal translation portion includes the guide arm cylinder about, and the guide arm cylinder passes through the mounting bracket to be installed in No. three cylinder belows, and the guide arm cylinder includes a guide arm cylinder and No. two guide arm cylinders, and a guide arm cylinder and No. two guide arm cylinder belows are connected to a location linear guide respectively, and location linear guide installs on the mount, and a race steel hook piece is installed respectively at the mount both ends, and a guide arm cylinder top is equipped with the relief pressure valve.
9. The two-side lug-outlet soft-package battery cell lug positioning and cutting device according to claim 8, characterized in that: the battery cell clamping part comprises a clamping cylinder and a positioning block, the upper part of the clamping cylinder is connected to the mounting frame, and the positioning block is mounted below the clamping cylinder.
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