CN214291575U - Welding equipment for sheet metal parts - Google Patents

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CN214291575U
CN214291575U CN202120140310.9U CN202120140310U CN214291575U CN 214291575 U CN214291575 U CN 214291575U CN 202120140310 U CN202120140310 U CN 202120140310U CN 214291575 U CN214291575 U CN 214291575U
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The utility model discloses a welding equipment for sheet metal component, X axial sliding seat nests in the mode of relative slip and installs on operation platform, and X axial sliding seat power is connected with X axial advancing mechanism, Y axial slide seat includes two sets, and two sets of Y axial sliding seats all nestedly install on X axial sliding seat in the mode of relative slip, two sets of Y axial sliding seats all power is connected with Y axial advancing mechanism, Z axle elevating system is supporting to be installed directly over Y axial sliding seat, and welder supporting installs on Z axle elevating system; and each group of Y-axis sliding seats is provided with an angle adjusting plate in a matching way, and the angle adjusting plates are connected with hydraulic telescopic rods in a matching way and used for adjusting the angles of the angle adjusting plates. The utility model discloses can carry out the accurate regulation to the concrete welding angle of two sets of sheet metal components, can realize the stable welding to specific welding point position on two sets of sheet metal components to guarantee that two sets of sheet metal components are stable to be welded and constitute unified whole.

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Welding equipment for sheet metal parts
Technical Field
The utility model relates to a sheet metal component welding art field, specific welding equipment for sheet metal component that says so.
Background
When welding to sheet metal component man-hour, need guarantee the accuracy of the connection angle of two sets of sheet metal components, welding point location, because the structural difference of sheet metal component is great, and the volume is great, traditional sheet metal component is difficult to guarantee to stabilize fixedly to two sets of sheet metal components, is difficult to guarantee to carry out accurate regulation to the welding angle of two sets of sheet metal components, and welding efficiency is low. Therefore, need design one kind to sheet metal component welded equipment to carry out the accurate regulation to the concrete welding angle of two sets of sheet metal components, realize the stable welding to specific welding point position on two sets of sheet metal components.
Disclosure of Invention
To the above-mentioned weak point that exists among the prior art, the utility model aims at providing a welding equipment for sheet metal component can carry out the accurate regulation to the concrete welding angle of two sets of sheet metal components, can realize the stable welding to specific welding point position on two sets of sheet metal components to guarantee that two sets of sheet metal components weld stably and constitute unified whole.
The utility model discloses a realize that the technical scheme that above-mentioned purpose adopted is: a welding device for sheet metal parts comprises an operating platform, an X-axis sliding seat, a Y-axis sliding seat, an angle adjusting plate, a Z-axis lifting mechanism and a welding gun,
the X-axis sliding seat is nested and installed on the operating platform in a relative sliding mode, and is dynamically connected with an X-axis advancing mechanism and driven by the X-axis advancing mechanism to slide along the X axis; the Y-axis sliding seat sliding seats comprise two groups, the two groups of Y-axis sliding seats are nested and installed on the X-axis sliding seat in a relative sliding mode, the two groups of Y-axis sliding seats are dynamically connected with a Y-axis advancing mechanism, and the Y-axis advancing mechanism drives the two groups of Y-axis sliding seats to move oppositely or back to back along the Y axis; the Z-axis lifting mechanism is arranged right above the Y-axis sliding seat in a matched manner, and the welding gun is arranged on the Z-axis lifting mechanism in a matched manner;
every group all install on the Y axial sliding seat angle adjusting plate, angle adjusting plate's one end articulates the outside end that corresponds Y axial sliding seat, and the medial extremity that corresponds Y axial sliding seat articulates there is hydraulic telescoping rod's one end, hydraulic telescoping rod's the other end articulates in the middle section that corresponds angle adjusting plate, and the sheet metal component that remains to be processed of difference fixed mounting on two sets of angle adjusting plates.
The X-axis traveling mechanism includes: the X-axis driving mechanism comprises a plurality of groups of X-axis sliding grooves which are formed in the upper surface of the operating platform and extend along the X axis direction, X-axis screw rods which are nested in the X-axis sliding grooves in a relative rotating mode, first driving chain wheels which are fixedly connected to the same ends of the X-axis screw rods in each group, and driving motors which are in power connection with the X-axis screw rods in each group and drive the X-axis screw rods in each group to synchronously rotate; the X-axis sliding seat is nested in the X-axis sliding groove in a relative sliding mode and is connected with the corresponding X-axis lead screw in a rotating mode, each group of first transmission chain wheels are in power connection through chains, and the rotating shaft of the driving motor is fixedly connected with one group of X-axis lead screws.
The Y-axis traveling mechanism includes: the Y-axis sliding seat comprises two groups of Y-axis sliding chutes which are arranged on the upper surface of the X-axis sliding seat and extend along the Y-axis direction, a plurality of groups of Y-axis screw rods which are nested and installed in a relative sliding and rotating mode and are arranged by penetrating through the two groups of Y-axis sliding chutes, a second transmission chain wheel which is fixedly connected with the same end of each group of Y-axis screw rods, and a driving rotating wheel which is in power connection with each group of Y-axis screw rods and drives each group of Y-axis screw rods to synchronously rotate; the two groups of Y-axis sliding seats are respectively nested in the two groups of Y-axis sliding grooves in a relative sliding mode and are in screwed connection with corresponding Y-axis screw rods, the second transmission chain wheels of each group are in power connection through chains, and the driving rotating wheels are fixedly arranged on one group of Y-axis screw rods.
And the screw thread directions of the Y-axis screw rods positioned in the two groups of Y-axis sliding grooves are opposite.
Operation platform top side fixed mounting has the installation roof, and installation roof and operation platform pass through support column fixed connection, the supporting lower surface of installing the roof and move along vertical direction of installing Z axle elevating system.
The Z-axis lifting mechanism is served by a hydraulic telescopic cylinder, the fixed end of the hydraulic telescopic cylinder is fixedly installed on the lower surface of the installation top plate, the welding gun is fixedly installed at the movable end of the hydraulic telescopic cylinder and is arranged downwards along the vertical direction, and the welding gun points downwards vertically to two groups of Y-axis sliding seats on the central line.
Supporting multiunit fixed establishment of installing on the angle adjusting plate, and fixed establishment includes: the setting is at the fixed strip that corresponds angle adjusting plate top side, connects the fastening bolt on fixed strip, the corresponding angle adjusting plate soon, the nested joint of sheet metal component is between fixed strip and angle adjusting plate.
The utility model has the advantages that: the telescopic states of the hydraulic telescopic rods corresponding to the two groups of angle adjusting plates are controlled to respectively drive the two groups of sheet metal parts to turn over for a specific angle, welding point positions of the two groups of sheet metal parts are ensured to be at the same height, the angles of the two groups of sheet metal parts can be adjusted, and accurate adjustment of the angle relation presented when the two groups of sheet metal parts are welded is ensured; the driving rotating wheel is rotated to drive the two groups of Y-axis sliding seats to move oppositely or oppositely, so that welding points of the two groups of sheet metal parts are contacted, the Z-axis lifting mechanism is controlled to work to drive the welding gun to move along the vertical direction, the two groups of sheet metal parts are welded, and stable welding of specific welding point positions on the two groups of sheet metal parts can be realized; the X axial sliding seat and the sheet metal parts arranged on the X axial sliding seat are driven to move along the X axial direction by controlling the work of the driving motor, and under the cooperation of a welding gun, the welding positions of the two groups of sheet metal parts are welded to ensure that the two groups of sheet metal parts are stably welded and form a unified whole.
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Fig. 1 is a schematic structural view of the present invention;
FIG. 2 is an enlarged detail view of portion A of FIG. 1;
fig. 3 is a schematic top view of the operation platform according to the present invention.
In the figure: the welding machine comprises an operation platform 1, a 2X axial sliding seat, a 3Y axial sliding seat, a 4-degree adjusting plate, a 5Z-axis lifting mechanism, a 6 welding gun, a 7 hydraulic telescopic rod, an 8X axial sliding groove, a 9X axial lead screw, a 10 first transmission chain wheel, a 11 driving motor, a 12Y axial sliding groove, a 13Y axial lead screw, a 14 second transmission chain wheel, a 15 driving rotating wheel, a 16 mounting top plate, a 17 supporting column, an 18 fixing strip and a 19 fastening bolt.
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The technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention will be described clearly and completely with reference to the accompanying drawings in the embodiments of the present invention, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are only some embodiments of the present invention, not all embodiments. 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.
Referring to fig. 1-3, a welding apparatus for sheet metal parts includes an operation platform 1, an X-axis sliding seat 2, a Y-axis sliding seat 3, an angle adjusting plate 4, a Z-axis lifting mechanism 5, and a welding gun 6,
the X-axis sliding seat 2 is nested and installed on the operating platform 1 in a relative sliding mode, and the X-axis sliding seat 2 is connected with an X-axis advancing mechanism in a power mode and driven by the X-axis advancing mechanism to slide along the X axis; the Y-axis sliding seat sliding seats comprise two groups, the two groups of Y-axis sliding seats 3 are nested and installed on the X-axis sliding seat 2 in a relative sliding mode, the two groups of Y-axis sliding seats 3 are dynamically connected with a Y-axis advancing mechanism, and the Y-axis advancing mechanism drives the two groups of Y-axis sliding seats 3 to move oppositely or back to back along the Y axis; the Z-axis lifting mechanism 5 is arranged right above the Y-axis sliding seat 3 in a matched mode, and the welding gun 6 is arranged on the Z-axis lifting mechanism 5 in a matched mode;
all supporting angle adjusting plate 4 of installing on every group Y axial sliding seat 3, the one end of angle adjusting plate 4 articulates the outside end that corresponds Y axial sliding seat 3, and the medial extremity that corresponds Y axial sliding seat 3 articulates the one end that has hydraulic telescoping rod 7, and hydraulic telescoping rod 7's the other end articulates the middle section that corresponds angle adjusting plate 4, and the sheet metal component that remains to be processed of difference fixed mounting on two sets of angle adjusting plate 4.
The utility model discloses in, X axial travel mechanism includes: the X-axis drive mechanism comprises a plurality of groups of X-axis sliding chutes 8 which are arranged on the upper surface of the operating platform 1 and extend along the X-axis direction, X-axis screw rods 9 which are nested in the X-axis sliding chutes 8 in a relative rotation mode, first drive chain wheels 10 which are fixedly connected at the same ends of the X-axis screw rods 9, and drive motors 11 which are in power connection with the X-axis screw rods 9 and drive the X-axis screw rods 9 to synchronously rotate; the X-axis sliding seat 2 is nested and installed in the X-axis sliding groove 8 in a relative sliding mode and is connected with the corresponding X-axis lead screw 9 in a screwing mode, each group of first transmission chain wheels 10 are in power connection through chains, and the rotating shaft of the driving motor 11 is fixedly connected with one group of X-axis lead screws 9. The driving motor 11 works to drive the X-axis lead screws 9 directly connected with the driving motor to stably rotate, and the combination of the first driving chain wheel 10 and the chain drives each group of X-axis lead screws 9 to synchronously rotate so as to drive the X-axis sliding seat 2 to slide along the X-axis sliding chute 8.
The Y-axis traveling mechanism includes: two groups of Y-axis sliding chutes 12 which are arranged on the upper surface of the X-axis sliding seat 2 and extend along the Y-axis direction, a plurality of groups of Y-axis screw rods 13 which are nested and installed in a relative sliding and rotating mode and are arranged by penetrating through the two groups of Y-axis sliding chutes 12, second transmission chain wheels 14 which are fixedly connected with the same ends of the Y-axis screw rods 13, and driving rotating wheels 15 which are in power connection with the Y-axis screw rods 13 and drive the Y-axis screw rods 13 to synchronously rotate; two sets of Y-axis sliding seats 3 are respectively nested in two sets of Y-axis sliding grooves 12 in a relative sliding mode and are in screwed connection with corresponding Y-axis screw rods 13, each set of second transmission chain wheels 14 are in power connection through chains, and driving rotating wheels 15 are fixedly installed on one set of Y-axis screw rods 13. The screw thread directions of the Y-axis screw rods 13 in the two groups of Y-axis sliding grooves 12 are opposite. When the driving rotating wheel 15 is rotated, the driving rotating wheel 15 drives the Y-axis lead screws 13 directly connected with the driving rotating wheel to stably rotate, and the combination of the second transmission chain wheel 14 and the chain drives each group of Y-axis lead screws 13 to synchronously rotate so as to drive the two groups of Y-axis sliding seats 3 to move oppositely or back to back along the Y-axis sliding grooves 12, so as to adjust the distance between the sheet metal parts arranged on the two groups of Y-axis sliding seats 3.
An installation top plate 16 is fixedly installed on the upper side of the operating platform 1, the installation top plate 16 is fixedly connected with the operating platform 1 through a support column 17, and the Z-axis lifting mechanism 5 is installed on the lower surface of the installation top plate 16 in a matched mode and moves in the vertical direction. The Z-axis lifting mechanism 5 is served by a hydraulic telescopic cylinder, the fixed end of the hydraulic telescopic cylinder is fixedly installed on the lower surface of the installation top plate 16, the welding gun 6 is fixedly installed at the movable end of the hydraulic telescopic cylinder and is arranged downwards along the vertical direction, and the welding gun 6 points to the central line of the two groups of Y-axis sliding seats vertically downwards. The welding gun 6 is driven by the hydraulic telescopic cylinder to move along the vertical direction so as to efficiently and quickly weld the joint of the two groups of sheet metal parts.
Supporting multiunit fixed establishment of installing on angle adjusting plate 4, and fixed establishment includes: the fixing strip 18 is arranged on the upper side of the corresponding angle adjusting plate 4, the fastening bolt 19 is screwed on the fixing strip 18 and the corresponding angle adjusting plate 4, and the sheet metal part is nested and clamped between the fixing strip 18 and the angle adjusting plate 4. The sheet metal part is stably fixed on the angle adjusting plate 4 by rotating the fastening bolt 19 to stably clamp the fixing strip 18 on the upper side of the sheet metal part.
The utility model discloses a theory of operation is: when the welding device is used, two groups of sheet metal parts to be welded are stably fixed on two groups of angle adjusting plates 4, the two groups of sheet metal parts are respectively driven to turn over for a specific angle by controlling the telescopic states of the hydraulic telescopic rods 7 corresponding to the two groups of angle adjusting plates 4, and the welding points of the two groups of sheet metal parts are ensured to be at the same height; the driving rotating wheel 15 is rotated to drive the two groups of Y-axis sliding seats 3 to move oppositely or back to back, so that welding points of the two groups of sheet metal parts are contacted; the welding gun 6 is driven to move along the vertical direction by controlling the work of the Z-axis lifting mechanism 5 so as to weld the two groups of sheet metal parts; the X axial sliding seat 2 and the sheet metal parts arranged on the X axial sliding seat 2 are driven to move along the X axial direction by controlling the work of the driving motor 11, and under the matching work of the welding gun 6, the welding positions of the two groups of sheet metals are welded to ensure that the two groups of sheet metal parts are stably welded and form a unified whole.
It is obvious to a person skilled in the art that the invention is not restricted to details of the above-described exemplary embodiments, but that it can be implemented in other specific forms without departing from the spirit or essential characteristics of the invention. The present embodiments are therefore to be considered in all respects as illustrative and not restrictive, the scope of the invention being indicated by the appended claims rather than by the foregoing description, and all changes which come within the meaning and range of equivalency of the claims are therefore intended to be embraced therein. Any reference sign in a claim should not be construed as limiting the claim concerned.
Furthermore, it should be understood that although the present description refers to embodiments, not every embodiment may contain only a single embodiment, and such description is for clarity only, and those skilled in the art should integrate the description, and the embodiments may be combined as appropriate to form other embodiments understood by those skilled in the art.

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1. A welding equipment for sheet metal component which characterized in that: comprises an operating platform (1), an X axial sliding seat (2), a Y axial sliding seat (3), an angle adjusting plate (4), a Z-axis lifting mechanism (5) and a welding gun (6),
the X-axis sliding seat (2) is nested and installed on the operating platform (1) in a relative sliding mode, and the X-axis sliding seat (2) is in power connection with an X-axis advancing mechanism and is driven by the X-axis advancing mechanism to slide along the X axis; the Y-axis sliding seat sliding seats comprise two groups, the two groups of Y-axis sliding seats (3) are nested and installed on the X-axis sliding seat (2) in a relative sliding mode, the two groups of Y-axis sliding seats (3) are in power connection with a Y-axis advancing mechanism, and the Y-axis advancing mechanism drives the two groups of Y-axis sliding seats (3) to move oppositely or back to back along the Y axis; the Z-axis lifting mechanism (5) is arranged right above the Y-axis sliding seat (3) in a matched mode, and the welding gun (6) is arranged on the Z-axis lifting mechanism (5) in a matched mode;
every group all install on Y axial sliding seat (3) angle adjusting plate (4), the one end of angle adjusting plate (4) articulates the outside end that corresponds Y axial sliding seat (3), and the medial extremity that corresponds Y axial sliding seat (3) articulates the one end that has hydraulic telescoping rod (7), the other end of hydraulic telescoping rod (7) articulates the middle section that corresponds angle adjusting plate (4), and the difference fixed mounting remains the sheet metal component of processing on two sets of angle adjusting plate (4).
2. Welding device for sheet metal parts according to claim 1, characterized in that: the X-axis traveling mechanism includes: the X-axis automatic transmission device comprises a plurality of groups of X-axis sliding grooves (8) which are formed in the upper surface of an operation platform (1) and extend along the X axis direction, X-axis screw rods (9) which are nested in the X-axis sliding grooves (8) in each group in a relative rotation mode, a first transmission chain wheel (10) which is fixedly connected to the same end of each group of X-axis screw rods (9), and a driving motor (11) which is in power connection with each group of X-axis screw rods (9) and drives each group of X-axis screw rods (9) to synchronously rotate; the X-axis sliding seat (2) is nested and installed in the X-axis sliding groove (8) in a relative sliding mode and is connected with the corresponding X-axis screw rod (9) in a rotating mode, each group of first transmission chain wheels (10) are connected through chain power, and the rotating shaft of the driving motor (11) is fixedly connected with one group of X-axis screw rods (9).
3. Welding device for sheet metal parts according to claim 1, characterized in that: the Y-axis traveling mechanism includes: two groups of Y-axis sliding chutes (12) which are arranged on the upper surface of the X-axis sliding seat (2) and extend along the Y-axis direction, a plurality of groups of Y-axis screw rods (13) which are nested and installed in a relative sliding and rotating mode and are arranged by penetrating through the two groups of Y-axis sliding chutes (12), second transmission chain wheels (14) which are fixedly connected with the same ends of the Y-axis screw rods (13), and driving rotating wheels (15) which are in power connection with the Y-axis screw rods (13) and drive the Y-axis screw rods (13) to synchronously rotate; the two groups of Y-axis sliding seats (3) are respectively nested in the two groups of Y-axis sliding grooves (12) in a relative sliding mode and are in screwed connection with corresponding Y-axis screw rods (13), each group of second transmission chain wheels (14) are in power connection through chains, and driving rotating wheels (15) are fixedly installed on one group of Y-axis screw rods (13).
4. Welding apparatus for sheet metal parts according to claim 3, characterised in that: the screw thread directions of the Y-axis screw rods (13) in the two groups of Y-axis sliding grooves (12) are opposite.
5. Welding device for sheet metal parts according to claim 1, characterized in that: operation platform (1) top side fixed mounting has installation roof (16), and installation roof (16) and operation platform (1) pass through support column (17) fixed connection, the supporting lower surface of installing roof (16) and moving along vertical direction of installing is installed in Z axle elevating system (5) supporting.
6. Welding apparatus for sheet metal parts according to claim 5, characterised in that: z axle elevating system (5) is acted as by the hydraulic telescoping cylinder, and the fixed end fixed mounting of hydraulic telescoping cylinder is in the lower surface of installation roof (16), welder (6) fixed mounting is at the expansion end of hydraulic telescoping cylinder and is arranged downwards along vertical direction, welder (6) vertical downward directional two sets of on the central line of Y axial slide.
7. Welding device for sheet metal parts according to claim 1, characterized in that: supporting multiunit fixed establishment of installing on angle adjusting plate (4), and fixed establishment includes: the fixing strip (18) arranged on the side above the corresponding angle adjusting plate (4) is screwed on the fixing strip (18) and the fastening bolt (19) corresponding to the angle adjusting plate (4), and the sheet metal part is nested and clamped between the fixing strip (18) and the angle adjusting plate (4).
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