CN214542255U

CN214542255U - Stacking device

Info

Publication number: CN214542255U
Application number: CN202120910996.5U
Authority: CN
Inventors: 李文; 季斌斌; 徐青; 蒋小龙
Original assignee: Wuxi Autowell Technology Co Ltd
Current assignee: Wuxi Autowell Technology Co Ltd
Priority date: 2021-04-29
Filing date: 2021-04-29
Publication date: 2021-10-29
Anticipated expiration: 2031-04-29

Abstract

The utility model provides a stacking device, which comprises at least two parallel belt-shaped components and at least two battery piece bearing mechanisms; the battery piece bearing mechanisms are arranged at intervals from front to back along the extension direction of the belt-shaped component, and each battery piece bearing mechanism comprises a base, a battery piece bearing frame and a lifting mechanism; the battery piece bearing frame comprises a bearing main body and a supporting part; the stacking device also comprises a translation mechanism which is arranged to drive the battery piece bearing mechanism to translate; when the lifting mechanism drives the battery piece bearing frame to ascend, the supporting part extends out of the strip-shaped part upwards to bear the battery piece and the welding strip; the battery piece bearing mechanism bears battery pieces and welding strips, and when the battery pieces and the welding strips are arranged in a step shape from low to high, the translation mechanism drives at least two battery piece bearing frames to be close to each other; when the lifting mechanism drives the battery piece bearing frame to descend, the battery pieces and the welding belts on the battery piece bearing frame fall on the belt-shaped component. The utility model provides a technical scheme can effectively improve the efficiency of stacking of battery cluster.

Description

Stacking device

Technical Field

The utility model relates to a battery pack produces technical field, specifically relates to a device that stacks for stacking battery piece and solder strip.

Background

In the production process of the photovoltaic cell, a cell string is formed by welding a cell and a welding strip by using cell string welding equipment.

Before welding to form a battery string, firstly, stacking a battery piece and a welding strip, wherein in the traditional stacking mode of the battery piece and the welding strip, the welding strip is conveyed to a conveying device through a welding strip conveying device and the battery piece is conveyed through a battery piece conveying device respectively, so that the welding strip and the battery piece are stacked on the conveying device in sequence.

However, the current stacking mode of the battery plate and the welding strip is low in efficiency, and the production cycle of the battery assembly is influenced.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

The utility model aims at solving the problem that the stacking efficiency of the battery plate and the welding strip is low in the prior art and the production efficiency of the battery component is influenced.

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides a stacking device, which comprises at least two parallel belt-shaped components and at least two cell carrying mechanisms;

the at least two battery piece bearing mechanisms are arranged at intervals from front to back along the extension direction of the belt-shaped component, and each battery piece bearing mechanism comprises a base, a battery piece bearing frame and a lifting mechanism for driving the battery piece bearing frame to lift relative to the base; the battery piece bearing frame comprises a bearing main body positioned below the belt-shaped component and at least two supporting parts which are arranged on the bearing main body and used for supporting battery pieces;

the stacking device further comprises a translation mechanism, and the translation mechanism is arranged to drive the cell carrying mechanisms to translate so as to enable the adjacent cell carrying mechanisms to approach or move away from each other;

when the lifting mechanism drives the battery piece bearing frame to lift, the supporting parts can upwards extend out of the belt-shaped parts from the gaps between the adjacent belt-shaped parts and/or the outer sides of the belt-shaped parts to bear battery pieces and welding strips, wherein the front half parts of the welding strips are stacked on the battery pieces, and the rear half parts of the welding strips backwards extend out of the battery pieces;

when each battery piece bearing mechanism bears a battery piece and a welding strip and the battery piece bearing frames of the at least two battery piece bearing mechanisms are arranged in a step shape from low to high along the front-to-back direction, the translation mechanism drives the at least two battery piece bearing frames to be close to each other, so that the battery piece on the higher battery piece bearing frame in the adjacent battery piece bearing frames is stacked above the rear section part of the welding strip on the lower battery piece bearing frame;

when the lifting mechanism drives the battery piece bearing frame to descend, the battery pieces and the welding belts stacked on the battery piece bearing frame fall on the belt-shaped component.

Preferably, the stacking apparatus further comprises a support plate located below the belt member for supporting a rear portion of the solder ribbon on the cell ribbon carrier;

the supporting plate is provided with a strip-shaped groove for the supporting part of the battery piece bearing frame to move back and forth;

the support plate is further provided with a guide groove for guiding the rear section part of the welding strip on the battery piece bearing frame, the battery pieces stacked on the battery piece bearing frame and the welding strip fall on the strip-shaped part, and the rear section part of the welding strip falls into the guide groove.

Preferably, the at least two parallel belt-shaped components are at least two parallel first conveyor belts capable of running synchronously, and the first conveyor belts are arranged on the first conveyor device.

Preferably, the stacking device further comprises a second conveying device, the second conveying device is positioned inside the first conveying belt and is positioned at the downstream of the cell carrying mechanism;

the second conveying device comprises a second conveying belt, the battery pieces and the welding belt stacked on the battery piece bearing mechanism are conveyed to the upper portion of the second conveying belt by the first conveying belt after falling onto the first conveying belt, and the rear section of the welding belt stacked on the battery pieces is supported by the second conveying belt and is conveyed synchronously with the first conveying belt.

Preferably, the stacking device further comprises a second conveyor device located downstream of the first conveyor device;

after the battery plates and the welding belts stacked by the battery plate bearing mechanism fall onto the first conveying belt, the battery plates and the welding belts are conveyed by the first conveying belt and conveyed to the second conveying belt of the second conveying device from the first conveying belt.

The two ends of the belt-shaped component are respectively fixedly arranged, and the belt-shaped component is made of a hard material.

The utility model provides an among the technical scheme, bear the weight of the mechanism through at least two battery pieces and bear the weight of the battery piece and weld the area, bear the weight of the mechanism and be close to each other then fall on the banded part at these at least two battery pieces, form the battery cluster that stacks by battery piece and solder strip on the banded part, this battery piece can effectively improve the efficiency of stacking of battery cluster with the method of stacking of solder strip to improve the production efficiency of battery cluster.

Drawings

Fig. 1 is a schematic view of a stacking apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a side view of the stacking apparatus of FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is a schematic view of a plurality of cell support mechanisms engaged with a support plate;

fig. 4 is a top view of fig. 3.

1-a cell carrying mechanism; 11-a carrier body; 12-a support portion; 13-a base; 14-a lifting mechanism; 2-a first conveying device; 21-a first conveyor belt; 3-a support plate; 4-second conveying device

Detailed Description

Example embodiments will now be described more fully with reference to the accompanying drawings. Example embodiments may, however, be embodied in many different forms and should not be construed as limited to the examples set forth herein; rather, these embodiments are provided so that this disclosure will be thorough and complete, and will fully convey the concept of example embodiments to those skilled in the art. The drawings are merely schematic illustrations of the present disclosure and are not necessarily drawn to scale. The same reference numerals in the drawings denote the same or similar parts, and thus their repetitive description will be omitted.

Furthermore, the described features, structures, or characteristics may be combined in any suitable manner in one or more embodiments. In the following description, numerous specific details are provided to give a thorough understanding of embodiments of the disclosure. One skilled in the relevant art will recognize, however, that the subject matter of the present disclosure can be practiced without one or more of the specific details, or with other methods, components, devices, steps, and the like. In other instances, well-known structures, methods, devices, implementations, materials, or operations are not shown or described in detail to avoid obscuring aspects of the disclosure.

Spatially relative terms, such as "upper," "lower," "left," "right," and the like, may be used herein for ease of description to describe one element or feature's relationship to another element or feature as illustrated in the figures. It will be understood that the spatial terms are intended to encompass different orientations of the device in use or operation in addition to the orientation depicted in the figures. For example, if the device in the figures is turned over, elements described as "below" other elements or features would then be oriented "above" the other elements or features. Thus, the exemplary term "lower" can encompass both an upper and a lower orientation. The device may also be otherwise oriented, such as by rotation through 90 degrees or at other orientations and the spatially relative descriptors used herein interpreted accordingly.

The utility model provides a stacking device, as shown in fig. 1 and fig. 2, the stacking device comprises at least two parallel strip-shaped components and at least two battery piece bearing mechanisms 1;

the at least two cell piece bearing mechanisms 1 are arranged along the extending direction of the belt-shaped component at intervals from front to back, each cell piece bearing mechanism 1 comprises a base 13, a cell piece bearing frame and a lifting mechanism 14 for driving the cell piece bearing frame to lift relative to the base 13, referring to fig. 3, wherein the cell piece bearing frame comprises a bearing main body 11 positioned below the belt-shaped component and at least two supporting parts 12 arranged on the bearing main body 11 and used for supporting cell pieces;

the stacking device further comprises a translation mechanism (not shown in the figures), wherein the translation mechanism is configured to drive the cell piece bearing mechanisms 1 to translate so as to enable the adjacent cell piece bearing mechanisms 1 to approach or move away from each other;

when the lifting mechanism 14 drives the battery piece carrying frame to lift, the supporting part 12 can extend out of the belt-shaped parts upwards from the gaps between the adjacent belt-shaped parts and/or the outer sides of the belt-shaped parts to carry battery pieces and welding strips, wherein the front half parts of the welding strips are overlapped on the battery pieces, and the rear half parts of the welding strips extend out of the battery pieces backwards; wherein, a plurality of parallel solder strips are arranged on each battery piece.

When each of the cell piece carrying mechanisms 1 carries a cell piece and a welding strip, and the cell piece carrying frames of the at least two cell piece carrying mechanisms 1 are arranged in a step shape from low to high along the front-to-back direction, the translation mechanism drives the at least two cell piece carrying frames to approach each other, so that the cell piece on the higher cell piece carrying frame in the adjacent cell piece carrying frames is stacked above the rear section part of the welding strip on the lower cell piece carrying frame;

when the lift mechanism 14 drives the cell carrier to descend, the stacked cells and solder ribbons on the cell carrier fall onto the ribbon-shaped member.

The utility model provides a technical scheme bears mechanism 1 through at least two battery pieces and bears battery piece and solder strip, bears mechanism 1 and is close to each other then when falling on banded part at these at least two battery pieces, form the battery cluster that stacks by battery piece and solder strip on the banded part, the anterior segment part of ith assembly welding area stacks on ith battery piece promptly, and ith +1 battery piece stacks the battery cluster on the back end part of ith assembly welding area. The utility model provides a battery piece can effectively improve the efficiency of stacking of battery cluster with the method of stacking of solder strip to improve the production efficiency of battery cluster.

In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, as shown in fig. 3 and 4, the stacking apparatus further includes a support plate 3 located below the belt-shaped member for supporting a rear portion of the solder ribbon on the battery sheet bearing frame (the belt-shaped member is not shown in the figure for convenience of showing a fitting relationship between the battery sheet bearing mechanism and the support plate 3).

Wherein, be provided with on the backup pad 3 and be used for the battery piece bears the weight of the supporting part 12 round trip movement's bar groove 31, the battery piece bears the weight of the supporting part 12 sets up to pass from the bottom up the bar groove 31 and stretch out the beltlike component, just the supporting part 12 can be followed the bar groove 31 moves.

The last guide way 32 that still is provided with the back end part of welding the area to right that the battery piece bore on the backup pad 3 bears the frame, the battery piece that stacks on the battery piece bore falls with welds the area on the banded part after, the back end part of welding the area falls into in the guide way 32, support and lead each welding area through guide way 32.

In order to facilitate the transportation of the battery pieces and the solder strips falling on the belt-shaped member, preferably, the at least two parallel belt-shaped members are at least two parallel first transportation belts 21 capable of running synchronously, the first transportation belts 21 are arranged on the first transportation device 2, and after each battery piece bearing frame descends to enable the battery pieces and the solder strips on the battery piece bearing frame to fall on the first transportation belts 21, the battery pieces and the solder strips are transported forwards by the first transportation belts 21. In order to increase the stability of stacking the battery plates and the solder strips on the first conveyor belt 21, the first conveyor belt 21 is preferably a steel belt.

In one embodiment, the stacking device further comprises a second conveying device 4, wherein the second conveying device 4 is positioned inside the first conveying belt and is positioned at the downstream of the cell carrying mechanism 1; the second conveying device 4 comprises a second conveying belt, after the stacked battery pieces and the welding belts of the battery piece bearing mechanism 1 fall onto the first conveying belt 21, the stacked battery pieces and the welding belts on the first conveying belt 21 are conveyed to the upper part of the second conveying belt by the first conveying belt 21, wherein the rear section parts of the welding belts stacked on the battery pieces are supported by the second conveying belt and are conveyed synchronously with the first conveying belt 21. That is, the rear portion of the welding strip is transferred from the support plate 3 below the first conveyor belt 21 to the second conveyor belt during the conveying process of the first conveyor belt 21, and then the first conveyor belt 21 and the second conveyor belt are synchronously operated to jointly convey the battery string formed by stacking the battery pieces and the welding strip to the welding station so as to weld the battery string at the welding station.

In order to convey the battery string formed by stacking to the welding station, in another embodiment, the second conveying device 4 may be positioned downstream of the first conveying device 2. Thus, after the stacked battery plates and the welding belts of the battery plate carrying mechanism 1 fall onto the first conveyor belt 21, the stacked battery plates and the welding belts are conveyed by the first conveyor belt 21, conveyed from the first conveyor belt 21 to the second conveyor belt of the second conveyor device 4, and conveyed to the welding station by the second conveyor belt for welding.

It will be understood by those skilled in the art that the belt-like member is not limited to a conveyor belt, but may be provided with both ends of the belt-like member fixed, and the fixedly provided belt-like member is preferably made of a hard material. In order to weld the battery string formed by stacking the belt-like members, the welding device may be moved to above the belt-like members to perform welding.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is also provided a stacking method using the stacking apparatus as described above, the stacking method including:

controlling the supporting parts 12 on at least two of the cell sheet bearing frames to extend upwards out of the belt-shaped part;

placing a battery plate on the support part 12 of each battery plate bearing frame extending out of the belt-shaped component, and placing a group of welding strips, wherein the front sections of the welding strips are overlapped on the battery plates on the battery plate bearing frame, and the rear sections of the welding strips extend out of the battery plates backwards;

controlling at least two battery piece bearing frames to be arranged in a step shape from low to high along the front-to-back direction, and then controlling the at least two battery piece bearing frames to be close to each other, so that the battery pieces on the battery piece bearing frame higher in the adjacent battery piece bearing frames are stacked above the rear section parts of the welding belts on the battery piece bearing frame lower;

and controlling at least two battery piece bearing frames to descend so that the battery pieces carried by the battery piece bearing frames fall onto the belt-shaped component.

In a preferred embodiment, for conveying the stacked battery plates and solder strips on the belt-shaped members, the at least two parallel belt-shaped members are at least two parallel first conveying belts 21, and the first conveying belts 21 are disposed on the first conveying device 2.

After the battery pieces carried by the battery piece carrier fall onto the first conveyor belt 21, the stacking method further includes: the first conveyor belt 21 is controlled to convey forward.

Preferably, a support plate 3 is arranged below the first conveyor belt 21, and a guide groove 32 is arranged on the support plate 3;

after the battery piece carried by the battery piece carrier falls onto the first conveyor belt 21, the rear section of the solder strip is located in the guide groove 32 of the support plate 3, and the guide groove 32 guides the movement of the rear section of the solder strip during the forward conveyance of the first conveyor belt 21.

In one embodiment, to facilitate the conveying of the battery strings stacked on the first conveyor belt 21 to the welding station for welding, the second conveyor 4 located downstream of the battery piece carrying mechanism 1 is arranged inside the first conveyor belt 21;

the stacking method further comprises controlling a second conveyor belt of the second conveyor 4 to run synchronously with the first conveyor belt 21 of the first conveyor 2;

while the first conveyor 2 conveys the stacked battery pieces and the solder ribbon over the second conveyor belt, the rear end portion of the solder ribbon is supported by the second conveyor belt and conveyed in synchronization with the first conveyor belt 21. In this way, the first conveyor belt 21 and the second conveyor belt operate synchronously to jointly convey the battery string formed by stacking the battery plates and the welding strips to the welding station so as to weld the battery string at the welding station.

In another embodiment, the trailing end of the first conveyor 2 is provided with a second conveyor 4;

the stacking method further comprises: and conveying the stacked battery plates and the welding strips on the first conveying device 2 to the second conveying device 4, and conveying the stacked battery plates and the welding strips to a welding station by the second conveying device 4 for welding.

Further, the stacking method further includes: and placing a pressing tool, wherein the pressing tool is placed on the front section part of the welding strip stacked on the battery piece. The pressing tool can be conveyed by adopting an independent conveying device, the pressing tool is placed on the welding strip after the battery piece and the welding strip are placed on the battery piece bearing mechanism 1, the same conveying device can be adopted to convey after the battery piece, the welding strip and the pressing tool are sequentially grabbed, and the grabbed battery piece, the welding strip and the pressing tool are placed on the battery piece bearing frame.

The preferred embodiments of the present invention have been described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings, but the present invention is not limited thereto. The technical idea of the utility model within the scope, can be right the utility model discloses a technical scheme carries out multiple simple variant, makes up with any suitable mode including each concrete technical feature. In order to avoid unnecessary repetition, the present invention does not separately describe various possible combinations. These simple variations and combinations should also be considered as disclosed in the present invention, all falling within the scope of protection of the present invention.

Claims

1. A stacking apparatus comprising at least two parallel arranged ribbon members and at least two cell sheet carrying mechanisms;

2. The stacking apparatus as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a support plate located below the belt-like member for supporting a rear portion of the solder ribbon on the battery sheet carrier;

3. A stacking device according to claim 1, characterised in that the at least two parallel-arranged belt-like elements are at least two parallel-arranged and synchronously operable first conveyor belts arranged on the first conveyor device.

4. The stacking apparatus of claim 3, further comprising a second conveyor positioned inboard of said first conveyor belt and downstream of said cell support mechanism;

5. The stacking apparatus of claim 3, further comprising a second conveyor, said second conveyor being downstream of said first conveyor;

6. The stacking apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein both ends of the belt-like member are fixedly provided, respectively, and the belt-like member is made of a hard material.