CN213739755U

CN213739755U - Horizontal electroplating bath and horizontal electroplating line

Info

Publication number: CN213739755U
Application number: CN202022162296.0U
Authority: CN
Inventors: 张振; 李建中; 尚庆雷
Original assignee: Kunshan Dongwei Technology Co Ltd
Current assignee: Kunshan Dongwei Technology Co Ltd
Priority date: 2020-09-27
Filing date: 2020-09-27
Publication date: 2021-07-20
Anticipated expiration: 2030-09-27

Abstract

The utility model provides a horizontal plating bath and horizontal plating line, including frame, cell body, drive arrangement, a plurality of positive pole boxes and electrically conductive device. The anode boxes are arranged in the tank body in an upper layer and a lower layer at intervals, a piece passing channel for moving a piece to be plated is formed between the anode boxes on the upper side and the lower side, the anode boxes on the same layer are horizontally arranged at intervals, the driving devices are arranged on two opposite side tank walls in the tank body and are respectively suitable for fixing two opposite side edges of the piece to be plated, and the conductive devices supply power to the piece to be plated through the driving devices, so that the driving devices and the conductive devices do not occupy the inner space of the tank body, the anode boxes can be fully and tightly arranged in the tank body, and the electroplating uniformity is improved; while providing the electroplating area with enough effective coverage area, the length of the electroplating tank body is shortened, namely the running time of the piece to be plated in the electroplating process is shortened, and the electroplating efficiency is improved.

Description

Horizontal electroplating bath and horizontal electroplating line

Technical Field

The utility model relates to an electroplate technical field, concretely relates to horizontal plating bath and horizontal plating line.

Background

In the existing horizontal electroplating line, a part to be plated horizontally runs in an electroplating bath, anode materials are respectively arranged at the upper side and the lower side of the part to be plated at intervals, the anode materials are placed in an anode box, the lower surface of the anode box positioned above the part to be plated is parallel to the upper surface of the part to be plated at intervals, the upper surface of the anode box positioned below the part to be plated is parallel to the lower surface of the part to be plated at intervals, and the anode materials generally adopt anode balls or anode plates. In the horizontal direction, the interval sets up a set of drive roller between the arbitrary adjacent positive pole box in the plating bath, and every group drive roller includes two at least drive rollers, sets up respectively in the upper and lower both sides of waiting to plate the piece, but for guaranteeing to wait to plate the piece and keep the tensioning at the operation in-process, avoids the face fold, and the drive roller of general every group can set up three or four, and the drive roller that is located the top is adjusted according to waiting to plate of different thickness with the clearance between the drive roller that is located the below.

However, because the piece to be plated can be fully electroplated only in the area covered by the anode material, in the existing horizontal electroplating line, a large distance is required between adjacent anode boxes for placing the driving roller, the driving roller is arranged between the anode boxes, a large amount of electroplating space is occupied in the electroplating bath, in order to ensure full electroplating, the length of the whole electroplating bath is very long, the stroke of the piece to be plated in the electroplating bath is very long, and the electroplating efficiency and the production cost are seriously influenced.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

Therefore, the technical problem to be solved by the utility model is to overcome the low electroplating efficiency of the horizontal electroplating bath in the prior art, resulting in high production cost.

Therefore, the utility model provides a horizontal plating bath, include:

a frame and a trough body;

the driving device is arranged on the rack and is close to two opposite groove walls of the groove body;

a plurality of anode boxes, wherein a piece passing channel for forming a piece to be plated is arranged in the tank body at intervals in an upper layer and a lower layer, and the anode boxes on the same layer are horizontally arranged at intervals;

the driving device is suitable for fixing two opposite side edges of the piece to be plated and driving the piece to be plated to horizontally run in the piece passing channel;

and the conductive device is suitable for being electrically connected with the part to be plated through the driving device.

The driving device comprises two circulating transmission devices which are respectively arranged corresponding to the two side groove walls of the groove body and synchronously run in the horizontal direction;

any circulating transmission device comprises a transmission steel belt, and the transmission steel belt is arranged on the rack in a closed ring shape; the side wall of the groove body is positioned in the closed ring of the transmission steel belt;

the transmission steel belt comprises two linear transmission parts and a curve transmission part which is connected with the corresponding end parts of the two linear transmission parts;

at least two straight line transmission parts which are opposite to each other on the two transmission steel belts are mutually parallel and transmit in the same direction;

the two opposite linear transmission parts are suitable for respectively fixing the edges of two opposite sides of the piece to be plated.

The endless drive device further includes:

a driver;

the two transmission shafts are axially arranged on the rack in parallel; the curve transmission parts on the transmission steel belt are tensioned and wound on the transmission shafts and are arranged in one-to-one correspondence with the transmission shafts;

the driver is suitable for driving at least one transmission shaft to rotate.

The transmission shaft extends vertically.

The driving device further comprises a plurality of clamps; the clamp and the conductive device are respectively arranged on the two opposite side edges of the transmission steel belt; the clamp is suitable for clamping and fixing the piece to be plated.

The conductive device is a trolley line.

The trolley wire includes:

the plurality of current collecting joints are uniformly arranged at intervals on the edge of one side of the transmission steel belt;

the conductive brushes are fixed on the rack and arranged in parallel with the linear transmission part of the transmission steel belt in the groove body at intervals;

all the conductive brushes are arranged in two rows which are symmetrically distributed and parallel; a conductive sliding rail is formed between the two rows of conductive brushes;

the current collecting joint is arranged in the conductive sliding rail in a sliding mode.

Any one of the conductive brushes is subjected to a resilient biasing force towards the conductive slide.

Any of the clamps comprises:

the two claw arms are connected through at least two hinged parts; two ends of the hinged part are respectively and rotatably connected to the corresponding two claw arms.

The articulated elements are the same in length and are arranged in parallel to each other.

The driving structure is a magnetic attraction structure.

The clamp is made of a conductive material.

Further comprising:

and the supporting rollers are arranged between the anode boxes at the lower layer at intervals and are suitable for being supported on the lower surface of the piece to be plated.

The utility model provides a horizontal electroplating line, which comprises the horizontal electroplating bath.

The utility model discloses technical scheme has following advantage:

1. the utility model provides a horizontal plating bath, including frame, cell body, drive arrangement, a plurality of positive pole boxes and electrically conductive device. The anode boxes are arranged in the tank body in an upper layer and a lower layer at intervals, a piece passing channel for moving a piece to be plated is formed between the anode boxes on the upper side and the lower side, the anode boxes on the same layer are horizontally arranged at intervals, the driving devices are arranged on two opposite side tank walls in the tank body and are respectively suitable for fixing two opposite side edges of the piece to be plated, and the conductive devices supply power to the piece to be plated through the driving devices, so that the driving devices and the conductive devices do not occupy the inner space of the tank body, the anode boxes can be fully and tightly arranged in the tank body, and the electroplating uniformity is improved; while providing the electroplating area with enough effective coverage area, the length of the electroplating tank body is shortened, namely the running time of the piece to be plated in the electroplating process is shortened, and the electroplating efficiency is improved.

Drawings

In order to more clearly illustrate the embodiments of the present invention or the technical solutions in the prior art, the drawings used in the embodiments or the technical solutions in the prior art will be briefly described below, and it is obvious that the drawings in the following description are some embodiments of the present invention, and for those skilled in the art, other drawings can be obtained according to these drawings without creative efforts.

FIG. 1 is a schematic view of the horizontal electroplating bath according to the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a schematic view of a partial structure of the horizontal plating bath according to the present invention;

FIG. 3 is a side view of the horizontal plating bath of the present invention;

FIG. 4 is a schematic view of a portion of the enlarged structure at A in FIG. 3;

FIG. 5 is a schematic view of the structure of the driving steel belt in the horizontal electroplating bath according to the present invention.

Description of reference numerals:

100. a frame; 200. a support frame; 201. a support bar; 300. a guide rail; 301. a guide wheel; 1. a trough body; 21. a driver; 22. a drive shaft; 23. a transmission steel belt; 231. a linear transmission section; 232. a curve transmission part; 3. a clamp; 31. a first claw arm; 32. a second claw arm; 33. a hinged lever; 34. an insulating glue layer; 35. a permanent magnet; 4. an execution unit; 41. a connecting rod; 42. a roller; 5. a support roller; 6. a guide block; 7. an anode box; 8. a trolley line; 81. a current collecting tab; 82. a conductive brush; 9. a protective cover.

Detailed Description

The technical solution of the present invention will be described clearly and completely with reference to the accompanying drawings, and obviously, the described embodiments are some, but not all embodiments of the present invention. Based on the embodiments in the present invention, all other embodiments obtained by a person skilled in the art without creative work belong to the protection scope of the present invention.

In the description of the present invention, it should be noted that the terms "center", "upper", "lower", "left", "right", "vertical", "horizontal", "inner", "outer", 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 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, the terms "first" and "second" 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 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 in specific cases to those skilled in the art.

Furthermore, the technical features mentioned in the different embodiments of the invention described below can be combined with each other as long as they do not conflict with each other.

Example 1

The present embodiment provides a horizontal electroplating tank, as shown in fig. 1, comprising a frame 100, a tank 1, a driving device, a plurality of anode boxes 7 and a conductive device. Anode box 7 is upper and lower two-layer interval setting in cell body 1, anode box 7 that is located the below sets up the bottom at cell body 1, anode box 7 that is located the top is fixed on support frame 200, form between the upper and lower both sides anode box 7 and supply to wait to plate a passageway of crossing that removes, horizontal interval sets up between the anode box 7 on the same floor, in this embodiment, even interval sets up backing roll 5 between the anode box 7 that is located the lower floor, for example, set up a backing roll 5 between per two anode box 7, a lower surface for the support is waited to plate, avoid waiting to plate the middle part and sink. The driving device is arranged close to the opposite two side groove walls in the groove body 1, is respectively suitable for fixing the opposite two side edges of the piece to be plated and drives the piece to be plated to move along the piece passing channel.

As shown in fig. 1 or fig. 2, in the present embodiment, the driving device includes two circulating transmission devices, which respectively correspond to two opposite slot walls of the slot body 1 and run synchronously. The two circulating transmission devices are arranged in the horizontal direction, and are wound on the machine frame 100 positioned at the two ends of the wire body in a closed ring-shaped synchronous rotation mode. The side wall of the tank body 1 is located in the closed ring, as shown in fig. 2 or fig. 3, any circulating transmission device includes a transmission steel belt 23, a driver 21 and a transmission shaft 22, the transmission steel belt 23 includes two linear transmission portions 231 and a curved transmission portion 232 connecting corresponding end portions of the two linear transmission portions 231, the curved transmission portions 232 at two ends are correspondingly tensioned and wound on the transmission shaft 22 located on the racks 100 at two sides, in this embodiment, the transmission shafts 22 of the two circulating transmission devices are both arranged to extend in the vertical direction, and the transmission directions of the linear transmission portions 231 of the two transmission steel belts 23 are parallel to each other. In this embodiment, as shown in fig. 3, the driver 21 employs a motor, and the motor simultaneously drives two transmission shafts 22 corresponding to two transmission steel belts 23 on the same rack 100, so that the two transmission shafts 22 rotate synchronously and reversely.

As shown in fig. 2, 4 or 5, the driving device further includes a plurality of clamps 3, the clamps 3 and the conductive device are respectively disposed on two opposite side edges of the transmission steel belt 23, and the clamps 3 are only disposed at partial positions in the drawing, in practical application, the clamps 3 are disposed at regular intervals along the edges of the transmission steel belt 23. Any clamp 3 comprises two claw arms and a driving structure for driving the two claw arms to keep a closed clamping state, the two claw arms are connected through at least two hinged parts, and two ends of each hinged part are respectively and rotatably connected to the corresponding two claw arms. The two claw arms are connected through at least two hinged parts, one claw arm is vertically fixed on the side wall surface of the transmission steel belt 23, and the two claw arms form up-and-down reciprocating movement in the relative movement process according to the principle of a double-rocker mechanism and are switched between a closed clamping state and an opened state so as to clamp the piece to be plated from the upper part and the lower part of the piece to be plated respectively.

As shown in fig. 4, in the present embodiment, the clamp 3 is made of a conductive material, such as a metal material. The first claw arm 31 is fixed on the side wall surface of the transmission steel belt 23, the lower end of the first claw arm is suitable for extending out of the plane of the transmission steel belt 23, the second claw arm 32 is a movable arm, two hinged parts are arranged, the two hinged parts are the same in size and are arranged between the first claw arm 31 and the second claw arm 32 in parallel, a parallel four-bar linkage structure is formed between the two hinged parts and the first claw arm 31 and the second claw arm 32, the hinged parts are hinge rods 33, the whole hinge rods 33 are H-shaped, openings on two opposite sides of the H-shaped structure are respectively embedded into the first claw arm 31 and the second claw arm 32, and two ends of each hinge rod 33 are respectively hinged on the first claw arm 31 and the second claw arm 32. The front end of first claw arm 31 and the front end of second claw arm 32 set up the clamping face respectively, and in this embodiment, two clamping faces all level the setting to in the centre gripping with the surface of waiting to plate when waiting to plate the edge of piece fully laminate, make the centre gripping more stable. The parts of the first claw arm 31 and the second claw arm 32 immersed in the electroplating solution are wrapped by the insulating glue layer 34, and the clamping surfaces are exposed outside the insulating glue layer 34.

As shown in fig. 4, the driving structure of the clamp 3 in this embodiment is a magnetic structure, and the magnetic structure can be disposed outside the parallel four-bar linkage structure or inside the parallel four-bar linkage structure, depending on the specific requirement. The magnetic attraction structure refers to a mechanism for driving the two claw arms to rotate around the hinge rod 33 by magnetic force acting on the two claw arms, such as a combination of a metal piece and a magnet, or a combination of a magnet and a magnet, wherein the magnet can be an electromagnet or a permanent magnet 35, as required. In this embodiment, the magnetic attraction structure is a combination of two permanent magnets 35, as shown in fig. 4, the upper end of the second claw arm 32 is bent toward the L-shaped first claw arm 31, one of the permanent magnets 35 is fixed on the bent portion, the other permanent magnet 35 is fixed on the upper end of the first claw arm 31, the two opposite poles of the two magnets are opposite to each other, and in a normal state, the two magnets attract and approach each other, so that the clamp 3 is in a closed clamping state.

The second claw arm 32 is further provided with an executing part 4, so that the second claw arm 32 is driven to overcome the magnetic force for closing the second claw arm when being acted by an external force, thereby the clamp 3 is opened, the executing part 4 is arranged on the second claw arm 32, the executing part 4 comprises a connecting rod 41 and at least one roller 42, in the embodiment, one roller 42 is arranged, the roller is coaxially and rotatably arranged at one end of the connecting rod 41, the other end of the connecting rod 41 is fixed on the second claw arm 32, and the axis of the roller 42 is arranged in parallel with the clamping surface. In the process that the clamp 3 moves horizontally along with the transmission steel belt 23, the roller 42 is blocked by a slope surface which is arranged at an angle with the horizontal plane and gradually rises, the roller 42 rolls to a high position along the slope surface gradually, and simultaneously drives the second claw arm 32 to rise upwards, so that the magnetic attraction between the two magnets is overcome, and the clamp 3 is in an open state. The slope is fixed on the path of the roller 42 moving along with the fixture 3, as shown in fig. 2 or fig. 4, in this embodiment, the slope is arranged on the guide block 6 at the curve transmission part 232 of the transmission steel belt 23 corresponding to the starting end of the piece to be plated entering the tank body 1, and the guide block 6 is fixed on the frame 100.

In this embodiment, as shown in fig. 2, the conductive device is a trolley wire 8, and the trolley wire 8 includes a plurality of current collecting tabs 81 and a plurality of conductive brushes 82. The current collecting joints 81 are evenly arranged at intervals at one side edge of the transmission steel belt 23 opposite to the clamp 3, the conductive brushes 82 are fixed on the frame 100, the conductive brushes 82 are arranged above the transmission steel belt 23 in parallel and at intervals with the linear transmission part 231 of the transmission steel belt 23 in the groove body 1, the conductive brushes 82 are sequentially arranged in two rows and are fixed on the support frame 200 through a horizontal arrangement support rod 201, the two rows of conductive brushes 82 are arranged in the horizontal direction in an axial symmetry manner, a conductive slide rail is formed between the two rows of conductive brushes 82, the current collecting joints 81 are arranged in the conductive slide rail in a sliding manner, in the embodiment, the conductive brushes 82 are in a trapezoid structure, the inclined planes of the trapezoid structures of the same-side conductive brushes 82 are arranged in a coplanar manner, the conductive slide rail is formed between the inclined planes of the two opposite sides, the two sides of the current collecting joints 81 are respectively abutted with the inclined planes of the conductive brushes 82 in a sliding manner, an elastic member, such as a spring, is arranged on any conductive brush 82, and provides a biasing force towards the current collecting joints 81, under the bias force, the collector tab 81 and the conductive brush 82 can be sufficiently contacted, and the stability of power supply can be ensured. In the present embodiment, as shown in fig. 5, the exterior of the trolley wire 8 is covered with the protective cover 9, and only the protective cover 9 outside the trolley wire 8 on one side is illustrated in the figure.

As shown in fig. 2 or fig. 5, a supporting and guiding structure is further provided, which includes a guide rail 300 fixed on the supporting frame 200 corresponding to the linear transmission portion 231 of the transmission steel belt 23, and two rows of guide wheels 301 fixed on the side surface of the transmission steel belt 23 and uniformly distributed on the upper row and the lower row, in this embodiment, two rows of guide wheels 301 are distributed and fixed on the current collecting connector 81, the guide rail 300 is suitable for being embedded between two rows of guide wheels 301, and the guide wheels 301 slide along the guide rail 300, and simultaneously, the guide rail 300 supports the transmission steel belt 23.

The driving device is arranged close to the two opposite side groove walls in the groove body 1 and is respectively suitable for fixing two opposite side edges of the piece to be plated, and the conductive device supplies power to the piece to be plated through the driving device, so that the driving device and the conductive device do not occupy the inner space of the groove body 1, the anode box 7 can be fully and tightly arranged in the groove body 1, and the electroplating uniformity is improved; while providing a plating area with enough effective coverage area, the length of the plating tank body 1 is shortened, namely the running time of the piece to be plated in the plating process is shortened, and the plating efficiency is improved.

In the drawings, some structures are illustrated as being provided at partial positions, such as the jig 3, the collector tab 81, the protective cover 9, and the like.

Example 2

This example provides a horizontal plating line including the horizontal plating bath of example 1.

It should be understood that the above examples are only for clarity of illustration and are not intended to limit the embodiments. Other variations and modifications will be apparent to persons skilled in the art in light of the above description. And are neither required nor exhaustive of all embodiments. And obvious variations or modifications can be made without departing from the scope of the invention.

Claims

1. A horizontal plating cell, comprising:

a frame (100) and a trough body (1);

the driving device is arranged on the rack (100) and is close to two opposite groove walls of the groove body (1);

a plurality of anode boxes (7), wherein an upper layer and a lower layer of the anode boxes (7) are arranged in the tank body (1) at intervals to form a piece passing channel for a piece to be plated, and the anode boxes (7) on the same layer are horizontally arranged at intervals;

2. The horizontal electroplating bath according to claim 1, wherein the driving device comprises two circulating transmission devices which are respectively arranged corresponding to two side bath walls of the bath body (1) and synchronously run in the horizontal direction;

any circulating transmission device comprises a transmission steel belt (23), and the transmission steel belt (23) is arranged on the rack (100) in a closed ring shape; the side wall of the tank body (1) is positioned in a closed ring of the transmission steel belt (23);

the transmission steel belt (23) comprises two linear transmission parts (231) and a curve transmission part (232) which is connected with the corresponding ends of the two linear transmission parts (231);

at least two straight line transmission parts (231) which are opposite to each other on the two transmission steel belts (23) are mutually parallel and transmit in the same direction;

the two opposite linear transmission parts (231) are suitable for respectively fixing the two opposite side edges of the piece to be plated.

3. The horizontal plating cell of claim 2, wherein the cyclical transmission further comprises:

a driver (21);

two transmission shafts (22) axially arranged on the frame (100) in parallel; the curve transmission parts (232) on the transmission steel belt (23) are tensioned and wound on the transmission shaft (22) and are arranged in one-to-one correspondence with the transmission shaft (22);

the driver (21) is suitable for driving at least one transmission shaft (22) to rotate.

4. The horizontal plating cell of claim 3, wherein the drive shaft (22) extends vertically.

5. The horizontal electroplating cell according to claim 2, wherein the driving device further comprises a plurality of clamps (3); the clamp (3) and the conductive device are respectively arranged on the two opposite side edges of the transmission steel belt (23); the clamp (3) is suitable for clamping and fixing the piece to be plated.

6. The horizontal plating cell according to claim 5, wherein the electrically conductive means is a trolley line (8).

7. The horizontal plating cell according to claim 6, wherein the trolley line (8) comprises:

the plurality of current collecting joints (81) are uniformly arranged at intervals on one side edge of the transmission steel belt (23);

the conductive brushes (82) are fixed on the rack (100) and are arranged in parallel with the linear transmission part (231) of the transmission steel belt (23) in the groove body (1) at intervals;

all the conductive brushes (82) are arranged in two parallel rows which are symmetrically distributed; a conductive sliding rail is formed between the two rows of conductive brushes (82);

the current collecting joint (81) is arranged in the conductive sliding rail in a sliding mode.

8. The horizontal plating cell of claim 7, wherein any one of the conductive brushes (82) is subjected to a resilient biasing force towards the conductive slide.

9. The horizontal electroplating cell according to any one of claims 5 to 8, wherein any one of the clamps (3) comprises:

10. The horizontal plating cell of claim 9, wherein the hinge members are of the same length and are disposed parallel to each other.

11. The horizontal plating cell of claim 9, wherein the drive structure is a magnetic structure.

12. The horizontal electroplating cell according to claim 9, wherein the clamp (3) is made of an electrically conductive material.

13. The horizontal plating cell of claim 1, further comprising:

and the supporting rollers (5) are arranged between the anode boxes (7) at the lower layer at intervals and are suitable for being supported on the lower surface of the piece to be plated.

14. A horizontal plating line comprising the horizontal plating tank according to any one of claims 1 to 13.