CN213111233U - Circulating conveying mechanism for automatic hub assembly and detection production line - Google Patents

Circulating conveying mechanism for automatic hub assembly and detection production line Download PDF

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CN213111233U
CN213111233U CN202021970704.9U CN202021970704U CN213111233U CN 213111233 U CN213111233 U CN 213111233U CN 202021970704 U CN202021970704 U CN 202021970704U CN 213111233 U CN213111233 U CN 213111233U
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刘大飞
徐应权
谢达明
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吴振明
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王海玉
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The utility model discloses a wheel hub automatic assembly detects circulation conveying mechanism for production line, including the last circular conveyor section that is the frame-shaped distribution, the assembly detects the circular conveyor section, unloading circular conveyor section and frock buffer memory section, it sets up and is located both ends respectively to go up the corresponding setting of circular conveyor section and unloading circular conveyor section, the assembly detects the corresponding setting of circular conveyor section and frock buffer memory section and is located both sides respectively, it detects between the circular conveyor section with the assembly to go up the circular conveyor section, the assembly detects between circular conveyor section and the unloading circular conveyor section, it has the rotatory butt joint platform to erect respectively between unloading circular conveyor section and the frock buffer memory section and between frock buffer memory section and the last circular conveyor section, the frock section has been erect in the front of the play material section of frock buffer memory section, the unqualified piece unloading section rather than parallel is erect in the place ahead of unloading circular conveyor section. The utility model provides high assembly detection efficiency, intensity of automation is high, reduces the artifical error of participating in and bringing, has improved product quality.

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Circulating conveying mechanism for automatic hub assembly and detection production line
The technical field is as follows:
the utility model relates to a wheel hub production and processing field mainly relates to a wheel hub automatic assembly detects circulating conveying mechanism for production line.
Background art:
the hub is a cylindrical, centrally mounted metal part of the axle whose inner profile supports the tyre, and is therefore an essential part of the vehicle, the demand is also large, with the development of automation functions, the assembly is also developed into the assembly detection of an automatic production line from the previous multi-procedure manual assembly and detection, but in the assembly detection of the existing automatic production line, although the automatic operation of one line can be realized, the circulating structure of the automatic conveying device mostly adopts the matching of a plurality of traditional circulating conveying chains which are arranged in parallel to realize the conveying of the wheel hub, its circulation structural design is unreasonable, and automatic cycle performance is poor, and a large amount of space positions can be occupied to the mode of a large amount of direct butt joints moreover, and the operation of unloading on the artifical supplementary cooperation that needs a large amount of, artifical intensity of labour is big, wastes time and energy, needs many people to cooperate the operation, can not satisfy the requirement of big automated production in batches.
The utility model has the following contents:
the utility model discloses the purpose is exactly in order to compensate prior art's defect, provides a wheel hub automatic assembly detects circulation conveying mechanism for production line, has improved assembly detection efficiency greatly, and intensity of automation is high, reduces the artifical error of participating in and bringing, has improved product quality.
The utility model discloses a realize through following technical scheme:
a circular conveying mechanism for an automatic hub assembly and detection production line comprises an upper circular conveying section, an assembly and detection circular conveying section, a blanking circular conveying section and a tool caching section which are distributed in a frame shape, the upper part circular conveying section and the blanking circular conveying section are correspondingly arranged and are respectively positioned at two ends, the assembly detection circular conveying section and the tool caching section are correspondingly arranged and are respectively positioned at two sides, rotary butt-joint platforms are respectively erected between the upper part circular conveying section and the assembly detection circular conveying section, between the assembly detection circular conveying section and the blanking circular conveying section, between the blanking circular conveying section and the tool cache section and between the tool cache section and the upper part circular conveying section, an upper tool section parallel to the upper tool section is erected in front of the discharging section of the tool caching section, and an unqualified part discharging section parallel to the upper tool section is erected in front of the discharging circular conveying section.
The utility model discloses a circulation transport structure of unloading, including the crossbeam that upper part circulation transport section, assembly detected circulation transport section, unloading circulation transport section and frock buffer memory section and adopted, it is the same, and it is including the support respectively, the support is put on the shelf and is equipped with two crossbeams that set up side by side, the up end inboard of crossbeam is equipped with the guide slot, the up end outside of crossbeam is equipped with the flange, install the circulation conveying chain in the guide slot respectively, the direction of circulation conveying chain is carried in the guide slot, and the up end of the protruding crossbeam of up end of its roller.
The rotary butt joint table comprises a disc, a feeding and discharging guide groove penetrating through the whole disc is arranged in the middle of the upper end face of the disc, guide holes arranged at intervals are distributed in two sides of the groove of the feeding and discharging guide groove, two rollers for conveying tools are respectively installed in the guide holes, the upper end faces of the two rollers are higher than the inner end face of the groove of the feeding and discharging guide groove, limiting holes are respectively formed in two end portions of the groove of the feeding and discharging guide groove, a limiting component for guiding and stretching is installed in each limiting hole, and the disc is driven by a power mechanism below the disc in a rotating mode.
The power mechanism comprises a rotating shaft arranged at the bottom end of the disc, the bottom end of the rotating shaft is rotatably arranged on a base below the rotating shaft, a driven gear is arranged at the lower end of the rotating shaft, a section of driving rack is arranged on one side of the driven gear, the driven gear is driven to rotate through the movement of the driving rack, so that the disc is driven to rotate at a certain angle, and the driving rack is driven to move by a cylinder on one side.
The rotary worktable between the upper part circular conveying section and the assembly detection circular conveying section and between the blanking circular conveying section and the tool caching section can realize a corner of 90 degrees, and the rotary worktable between the assembly detection circular conveying section and the blanking circular conveying section and between the tool caching section and the upper part circular conveying section can realize a corner of 180 degrees.
Two liang of below of corresponding guiding hole install a horizontal pivot, install in the pivot with guiding hole complex gyro wheel two, the one end of pivot stretches out outside the disc, and stretches out the end and install the conveying sprocket, through conveying chain synchronous drive between the conveying sprocket, and the conveying sprocket of its one end is by motor drive.
The upper tool section and the unqualified part blanking section respectively comprise a second support, a second fixed beam is erected on the second support, a transmission platform is installed between the second fixed beams, two rows of openings which are distributed at intervals correspondingly are erected on two sides of the transmission platform, the upper end face of the third roller protrudes out of the upper end face of the transmission platform, two pairs of corresponding rollers are arranged at the end part of a transmission shaft in a group, chain wheels are installed on the transmission shaft respectively, and the chain wheels are driven by motors at the end parts of the chain wheels.
The principle is as follows: through the structural design of a loading circular conveying section, an assembly detection circular conveying section, a blanking circular conveying section and a tooling caching section which are distributed in a frame shape, the tooling circular conveying structure is adopted, and the loading, assembly, detection, tooling caching, a tooling loading area and a unqualified part blanking area are integrated, the distribution design is reasonable, a large amount of space is saved, the structure of a circular butt joint platform at a corner transition part is matched, the complete automatic circulation of production line tooling is achieved, the unqualified part blanking section is matched with the structure of the unqualified part blanking section, the unqualified part can be automatically removed and moved out, the tooling can be increased according to needs at any time by matching with the corresponding loading section, so that the requirement of batch production assembly detection is met, only manual loading and part discharging operations are needed in the whole circulation process of the structure, and the unqualified part and the loading tooling can be occasionally taken down according to needs, in the whole process, manual operation is greatly reduced, the assembly detection efficiency is improved, the automation intensity is high, errors caused by manual participation are reduced, the product quality is improved, the manual labor intensity and the labor cost are reduced, and the production benefit is improved.
The utility model has the advantages that:
the utility model discloses the distribution reasonable in design has saved a large amount of spaces, and the structure of the circulation butt joint platform of cooperation turning transition department has reached the complete automatic cycle of production line frock, has improved assembly detection efficiency greatly, and intensity of automation is high, reduces the error that artifical participation brought, has improved product quality, has reduced artifical intensity of labour and cost of labor moreover, has improved the productivity effect.
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fig. 1 is a schematic structural diagram of the present invention.
Fig. 2 is an enlarged view of a portion of a structure in fig. 1.
FIG. 3 is a side view of the rotating docking station.
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1. an upper part circulating conveying section; 2. assembling a detection circulating conveying section; 3. a blanking circulating conveying section; 4. a tool cache section; 5. rotating the docking station; 6. mounting a tool section; 7. a discharging section of unqualified pieces; 9. a cross beam; 10. a guide groove; 11. a circulating conveying chain; 12. a roller; 5-1, disc; 5-2, a feeding and discharging guide groove; 5-3, a guide hole; 5-4, a second roller; 5-5, limiting holes; 13. a rotating shaft; 14. a base; 15. a driven gear; 16. a drive rack; 19. a transfer station; 20. an opening; 21. and a third roller.
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A circular conveying mechanism for an automatic hub assembly and detection production line comprises an upper part circular conveying section 1 and an assembly and detection circular conveying section 2 which are distributed in a frame shape, unloading circular transport section 3 and frock buffer memory section 4, the corresponding setting of upper part circular transport section 1 and unloading circular transport section 3 just is located both ends respectively, assembly detects circular transport section 2 and frock buffer memory section 4 and just is located both sides respectively, between upper part circular transport section 1 and assembly detection circular transport section 2, between assembly detection circular transport section 2 and unloading circular transport section 3, erect rotatory butt joint platform 5 respectively between unloading circular transport section 3 and frock buffer memory section 4 and between frock buffer memory section 4 and the upper part circular transport section 1, the place ahead of the ejection of compact section of frock buffer memory section 4 is erect and is had its parallel last frock section 6, the place ahead of unloading circular transport section 3 is erect and is had its parallel unqualified piece unloading section 7.
Further, the upper part circular conveying section 1, the assembly detection circular conveying section 2, the unloading circular conveying section 3 and the circular conveying structure adopted by the tool caching section 4 are the same, the upper part circular conveying section comprises a support, two cross beams 9 arranged in parallel are erected on the support, a guide groove 10 is formed in the inner side of the upper end face of each cross beam 9, a flange is arranged on the outer side of the upper end face of each cross beam 9, a circular conveying chain 11 is installed in each guide groove 10, the circular conveying chains 11 are guided and conveyed in the guide grooves, and the upper end faces of rollers 12 of the circular conveying sections protrude out of the upper end face of each cross beam 9. Through the structure of the circulating conveying chain in the cross beam guide groove, circulating power of each section of circulating conveying is realized, through the structure of the first roller, under the condition that the tooling advances along with the circulating conveying chain, the spacing of the corresponding station positions is matched, the tooling can be conveniently positioned at each station, and the requirements of interval type circulating conveying, positioning, caching and positioning for processing are met.
Further, the rotary butt-joint table 5 comprises a disc 5-1, a feeding and discharging guide groove 5-2 penetrating through the whole disc is arranged in the middle of the upper end face of the disc 5-1, guide holes 5-3 arranged at intervals are distributed on two sides in the groove of the feeding and discharging guide groove 5-2, two rollers 5-4 used for conveying a tool are respectively arranged in the guide holes 5-3, the upper end face of each roller 5-4 is higher than the inner end face of the groove of the feeding and discharging guide groove 5-2, two limiting holes 5-5 are respectively arranged at two ends in the groove of the feeding and discharging guide groove 5-2, a guiding telescopic limiting assembly is arranged in each limiting hole 5-5, and the rotation of the disc 5-1 is driven by a power mechanism below the disc. The structure of the feeding and discharging guide groove on the disc is used for feeding and discharging materials, the feeding and discharging guide groove can be in butt joint guide fit with the two adjacent sections of circulating conveying chains through rotation of the disc, and rolling and limiting of the tool on the disc are achieved through the structure of the second roller. The power mechanism comprises a rotating shaft 13 arranged at the bottom end of the disc, the bottom end part of the rotating shaft 13 is rotatably arranged on a base 14 below the rotating shaft, a driven gear 15 is arranged at the lower end part of the rotating shaft 13, a section of driving rack 16 is arranged on one side of the driven gear 15, the driven gear 15 is driven to rotate through the movement of the driving rack 16, so that the disc 5-1 is driven to rotate at a certain angle, and the movement of the driving rack is driven by an air cylinder on one side. The rack moves to drive the driven gear to rotate, so that the disk is driven to rotate, the linear motion of the rack is converted into the rotary motion of the disk by the structure, the reciprocating motion of the cylinder is realized, the positioning type driving is facilitated, and the requirement of rotary type transition receiving and conveying of the rotary workbench at the adjacent conveying section is met.
Furthermore, the rotating working tables between the upper part circular conveying section 1 and the assembly detection circular conveying section 2 and between the blanking circular conveying section 3 and the tool caching section 4 can realize the rotation angle of 90 degrees, and the rotating working tables between the assembly detection circular conveying section 2 and the blanking circular conveying section 3 and between the tool caching section 4 and the upper part circular conveying section 1 can realize the rotation angle of 180 degrees. The 90-degree corner of the rotary workbench can meet the requirements of two vertical directions for receiving and delivering the transmission tool, such as: go up a circulating conveyor section and assembly and detect the rotary worktable between the circulating conveyor section and between unloading circulating conveyor section and the frock buffer memory section, rotary worktable 180 degrees corner can realize that the three requirement that is T font position and meet and send off the transmission frock, if: and rotary working tables are arranged between the assembly detection circular conveying section and the blanking circular conveying section, between the unqualified part blanking section and the tool caching section and between the upper part circular conveying section and the upper tool section.
Furthermore, a transverse rotating shaft is arranged below the guide holes 5-3 corresponding to each other, a second roller 5-4 matched with the guide holes is arranged on the rotating shaft, and the rotation of the second roller is driven by a circulating conveying chain below the second roller. The gyro wheel rotates the drive through the pivot, realizes the transport to the frock, the circulating conveyor chain drive the gyro wheel synchronous rolling of its top, not only satisfied the business turn over requirement of frock, satisfied the stationarity of frock in the transition transportation simultaneously.
Further, the upper tool section 6 and the unqualified part blanking section 7 respectively comprise a second support, a second fixed beam is erected on the second support, a transmission platform 19 is installed between the second fixed beams, two rows of openings 20 which are distributed at intervals correspondingly are erected on two sides of the transmission platform 19, a third roller 21 is installed in each opening 20 through a transmission shaft, the upper end face of the third roller 21 protrudes out of the upper end face of the transmission platform, the three rollers 21 which correspond to each other in pairs are installed at the end part of the transmission shaft in a group, chain wheels are installed on the transmission shaft respectively and driven by motors at the end parts of the chain wheels. The upper tool section and the unqualified part blanking section are conveyed continuously through the transmission shaft, the structure is simple, the conveying requirement is met, the positioning is convenient, and the power required by transmission is reduced.
In the description of the present invention, it should be noted that the terms "vertical", "upper", "lower", "horizontal", and the like indicate orientations or positional relationships based on the orientations or positional relationships shown in the drawings, and are only for convenience of description and simplification of the description, but do not indicate or imply that the device or element referred to must have a specific orientation, be constructed and operated in a specific orientation, and thus should not be construed as limiting the present invention. Furthermore, "first," "second," "third," and "fourth" are used for descriptive purposes only and are not to be construed as indicating or implying relative importance.
In the description of the present invention, it should be further noted that, unless explicitly stated or limited otherwise, the terms "disposed," "mounted," "connected," and "connected" are to be construed broadly and may be, for example, fixedly connected, detachably connected, or integrally connected, mechanically connected, electrically connected, directly connected, connected through an intermediate medium, or connected to the inside of two elements. The specific meaning of the above terms in the present application can be understood by those of ordinary skill in the art according to specific circumstances.
Although embodiments of the present invention have been shown and described, it will be appreciated by those skilled in the art that changes, modifications, substitutions and alterations can be made in these embodiments without departing from the principles and spirit of the invention, the scope of which is defined in the appended claims and their equivalents.

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1. The utility model provides a wheel hub automatic assembly detects circulating conveying mechanism for production line which characterized in that: comprises an upper circulating conveying section (1), an assembling and detecting circulating conveying section (2), a blanking circulating conveying section (3) and a tool caching section (4) which are distributed in a frame shape, wherein the upper circulating conveying section (1) and the blanking circulating conveying section (3) are correspondingly arranged and are respectively positioned at two ends, the assembling and detecting circulating conveying section (2) and the tool caching section (4) are correspondingly arranged and are respectively positioned at two sides, rotary butt-joint platforms (5) are respectively erected between the blanking circulating conveying section (3) and the tool caching section (4) and between the tool caching section (4) and the upper circulating conveying section (1), an upper tool section (6) which is parallel to the blanking section is erected in front of the discharging section of the tool caching section (4), and an unqualified part blanking section (7) parallel to the blanking circular conveying section (3) is erected in front of the blanking circular conveying section.
2. The circular conveying mechanism for the automatic hub assembly and detection production line according to claim 1, characterized in that: the utility model discloses a circulation conveyor belt is characterized in that the circulation transport structure that upper part circulation transport section (1), assembly detection circulation transport section (2), unloading circulation transport section (3) and frock buffer memory section (4) adopted is the same, and it is respectively including the support, the support is put on the shelf and is equipped with two crossbeam (9) that set up side by side, the up end inboard of crossbeam (9) is equipped with guide slot (10), the up end outside of crossbeam (9) is equipped with the flange, install circulation conveying chain (11) in guide slot (10) respectively, circulation conveying chain (11) are carried in the guide slot direction, and the up end of the up end protrusion crossbeam (9) of its roller (12).
3. The circular conveying mechanism for the automatic hub assembly and detection production line according to claim 1, characterized in that: the rotary butt joint table (5) comprises a disc (5-1), the middle part of the upper end surface of the disc (5-1) is provided with a feeding and discharging guide groove (5-2) which penetrates through the whole disc, guide holes (5-3) are distributed at intervals at the two sides in the feeding and discharging guide groove (5-2), a second roller (5-4) for conveying the tool is respectively arranged in the guide holes (5-3), the upper end surface of the second roller (5-4) is higher than the inner end surface of the feeding and discharging guide groove (5-2), two ends in the groove of the feeding and discharging guide groove (5-2) are respectively provided with a limiting hole (5-5), a guiding telescopic limiting assembly is arranged in the limiting hole (5-5), and the rotation of the disc (5-1) is driven by a power mechanism below the disc.
4. The circular conveying mechanism for the automatic hub assembly and detection production line according to claim 3, characterized in that: the power mechanism comprises a rotating shaft (13) installed at the bottom end of the disc, the bottom end of the rotating shaft (13) is rotatably installed on a base (14) below the rotating shaft, a driven gear (15) is arranged at the lower end of the rotating shaft (13), one section of driving rack (16) is arranged on one side of the driven gear (15), the driven gear (15) is driven to rotate through the movement of the driving rack (16), so that the disc (5-1) is driven to rotate at a certain angle, and the driving rack is driven to move by an air cylinder on one side.
5. The circular conveying mechanism for the automatic hub assembly and detection production line according to claim 4, characterized in that: the rotary worktable between the upper part circular conveying section (1) and the assembly detection circular conveying section (2) and between the blanking circular conveying section (3) and the tooling cache section (4) can realize a corner of 90 degrees, and the rotary worktable between the assembly detection circular conveying section (2) and the blanking circular conveying section (3) and between the tooling cache section (4) and the upper part circular conveying section (1) can realize a corner of 180 degrees.
6. The circular conveying mechanism for the automatic hub assembly and detection production line according to claim 3, characterized in that: the automatic feeding device is characterized in that a transverse rotating shaft is installed in the guide hole (5-3), a second roller (5-4) matched with the guide hole is installed on the rotating shaft, one end of the rotating shaft extends out of the disc, the extending end of the rotating shaft is provided with a conveying chain wheel, the conveying chain wheels are synchronously driven through a conveying chain, and the conveying chain wheel at one end of the conveying chain wheel is driven by a motor.
7. The circular conveying mechanism for the automatic hub assembly and detection production line according to claim 1, characterized in that: go up frock section (6) and unqualified piece unloading section (7) including support two respectively, support two is put on the shelf and is equipped with fixed beam two, install transmission platform (19) between the fixed beam two, two openings (20) that correspond interval distribution are erect to the both sides of transmission platform (19), install gyro wheel three (21) in opening (20) respectively, the up end protrusion transmission platform's of gyro wheel three (21) up end, the tip at the transmission shaft is installed for a set of gyro wheel three (21) that two liang of correspond, install the sprocket on the transmission shaft respectively, the sprocket is by the motor drive of its tip.
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