CN214878298U

CN214878298U - Automatic feeding machine

Info

Publication number: CN214878298U
Application number: CN202120080505.9U
Authority: CN
Inventors: 黄外宾; 周跃; 游刚; 饶武; 杨小波; 刘迎港
Original assignee: Ly Itech Dongguan Co
Current assignee: Ly Itech Dongguan Co
Priority date: 2021-01-11
Filing date: 2021-01-11
Publication date: 2021-11-26
Anticipated expiration: 2031-01-11

Abstract

The application discloses automatic feeding machine includes: the feeding device is used for placing a workpiece to be positioned; the positioning device is arranged on one side of the feeding device and comprises two supporting plates and two limiting strips, the supporting plates and the horizontal plane form an acute angle, the supporting plates are used for placing a workpiece to be positioned, the limiting strips are arranged on the upper end face of the supporting plates, an included angle is formed between the limiting strips, and the included angle openings of the limiting strips are upward; the shifting device is arranged on the side edges of the feeding device and the positioning device and is used for conveying the workpiece to be positioned on the feeding device to the positioning device and conveying the workpiece subjected to fine positioning on the positioning device to the next process; and the control system is electrically connected with the feeding device and the transferring device. This application automatic feeding machine when carrying out accurate location material loading to the product, can simplify the structure of equipment, reduces the manufacturing cost of equipment.

Description

Automatic feeding machine

Technical Field

The application relates to the field of automation equipment, in particular to an automatic feeding machine.

Background

In the field of automation equipment, in order to improve the machining precision, the existing equipment mostly can be matched with a control system through an industrial camera, the industrial camera is utilized to photograph a product to be machined, a photograph photographed by the industrial camera is compared with a photograph positioned by a standard in the control system, then an accurate coordinate of the product is obtained, and then the workpiece with an accurate position is machined on the next step. However, such an industrial camera or the like provided to obtain precise positioning of a product complicates the structure of the apparatus and greatly increases the manufacturing cost of the apparatus.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

The present application is directed to solving at least one of the problems in the prior art. For this reason, this application provides an automatic feeding machine, when carrying out accurate location material loading to the product, can simplify the structure of equipment, reduces the manufacturing cost of equipment.

An automatic feeder according to an embodiment of the present application includes: the feeding device is used for placing a workpiece to be positioned; the positioning device is arranged on one side of the feeding device and comprises a supporting plate and two limiting strips, an included angle between the supporting plate and the horizontal plane is an acute angle, the supporting plate is used for placing a workpiece to be positioned, the two limiting strips are arranged on the upper end face of the supporting plate, the included angle is formed between the two limiting strips, the included angle of each limiting strip is upward in opening, the positioning device is used for finely positioning the workpiece, and the fine positioning is completed when the workpiece is abutted against the two limiting strips; the shifting device is arranged on the side edges of the feeding device and the positioning device and is used for conveying the workpiece to be positioned on the feeding device to the positioning device and conveying the workpiece subjected to fine positioning on the positioning device to the next process; and the control system is electrically connected with the feeding device and the transferring device.

According to the automatic feeding machine of the embodiment of the application, at least the following beneficial effects are achieved: the supporting plate which forms an acute angle with the horizontal plane is arranged, and when a workpiece is placed on the supporting plate, the workpiece can freely slide along the upper end face of the supporting plate under the action of gravity. Set up two spacing, when the work piece slides on the up end of backup pad, can slide along a spacing simultaneously, because have the contained angle between two spacing, and the opening of contained angle is upwards, so gliding work piece finally can with another spacing butt. Because the workpiece has standard size, when the workpiece slides under the action of gravity and abuts against the two limiting strips, the position of the workpiece relative to the limiting strips is always fixed and unchanged, so that the precise positioning of the workpiece is realized.

According to some embodiments of the application, the two stop strips are arranged perpendicular to each other.

According to some embodiments of the application, the support plate is rotatably arranged with respect to a horizontal plane.

According to some embodiments of the application, the feedway includes the carousel, and the up end of carousel is provided with the blowing station, and the blowing station is including setting up in the spacing subassembly of the up end of carousel, and the carousel is used for stacking the work piece of pending location, and spacing subassembly is used for the horizontal position of fixed work piece relative carousel.

According to some embodiments of the present application, the stop assembly is provided as a stop post disposed around a workpiece to be positioned.

According to some embodiments of this application, feedway still includes the jacking subassembly, and the jacking subassembly sets up in the below of carousel, is provided with on the carousel and dodges the hole, dodges the below that the blowing station was located to the hole, and the hole is dodged in the activity wear to establish of the drive end of jacking subassembly in vertical direction, and the drive end of jacking subassembly is used for the work piece of jacking pending location.

According to some embodiments of the present application, the jacking assembly includes a first sensor for detecting a height at which the drive end of the jacking assembly is located.

According to some embodiments of the application, a second inductor is arranged above the feeding station, and the second inductor is used for inducing workpieces on the preset height of the feeding station.

According to some embodiments of the application, the feeding device comprises a servo motor, an output end of the servo motor is fixedly connected with an axis of a lower end face of the turntable, and the servo motor is used for driving the turntable to rotate.

According to some embodiments of the application, the transfer device is provided as a multi-axis robot.

Drawings

The above and/or additional aspects and advantages of the present application will become apparent and readily appreciated from the following description of the embodiments, taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings of which:

fig. 1 is a schematic view of an automatic feeder according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 2 is a schematic view of another angle of the automatic feeding machine according to the embodiment of the present application;

fig. 3 is a schematic view of a positioning device of the automatic feeder shown in fig. 1.

Reference numerals:

the feeding device 100, the turntable 110, the avoiding hole 111, the limiting component 120, the jacking component 130, the driving end 131, the second sensor 140, the servo motor 150,

A positioning device 200, a supporting plate 210, a limiting strip 220,

A transfer device 300.

Detailed Description

Reference will now be made in detail to embodiments of the present application, examples of which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein like or similar reference numerals refer to the same or similar elements or elements having the same or similar function throughout. The embodiments described below with reference to the drawings are exemplary only for the purpose of explaining the present application and are not to be construed as limiting the present application.

In the description of the present application, it is to be understood that the positional descriptions, such as the directions of up, down, front, rear, left, right, etc., referred to herein are based on the directions or positional relationships shown in the drawings, and are only for convenience of description and simplification of description, and do not indicate or imply that the referred device or element must have a specific direction, be constructed and operated in a specific direction, and thus, should not be construed as limiting the present application.

In the description of the present application, the meaning of a plurality is one or more, the meaning of a plurality is two or more, and larger, smaller, larger, etc. are understood as excluding the present number, and larger, smaller, inner, etc. are understood as including the present number. If the first and second are described for the purpose of distinguishing technical features, they are not to be understood as indicating or implying relative importance or implicitly indicating the number of technical features indicated or implicitly indicating the precedence of the technical features indicated.

In the description of the present application, unless otherwise expressly limited, terms such as set, mounted, connected and the like should be construed broadly, and those skilled in the art can reasonably determine the specific meaning of the terms in the present application by combining the detailed contents of the technical solutions.

Referring to fig. 1 and 3, an automatic feeder according to an embodiment of the present application includes: the feeding device 100, the feeding device 100 is used for placing a workpiece to be positioned; the positioning device 200 is arranged on one side of the feeding device 100, the positioning device 200 comprises a supporting plate 210 and two limiting strips 220, an included angle between the supporting plate 210 and the horizontal plane is an acute angle, the supporting plate 210 is used for placing a workpiece to be positioned, the two limiting strips 220 are arranged, the limiting strips 220 are arranged on the upper end face of the supporting plate 210, an included angle is formed between the two limiting strips 220, the included angle of the limiting strips 220 is opened upwards, the positioning device 200 is used for performing fine positioning on the workpiece, and the fine positioning is completed when the workpiece is abutted to the two limiting strips 220; the shifting device 300 is arranged at the side edges of the feeding device 100 and the positioning device 200 in a shifting way, and the shifting device 300 is used for conveying the workpiece to be positioned on the feeding device 100 to the positioning device 200 and conveying the workpiece which is subjected to fine positioning on the positioning device 200 to the next process; and a control system electrically connected with the feeding device 100 and the transferring device 300.

According to the automatic feeding machine of the embodiment of the application, at least the following beneficial effects are achieved: the supporting plate 210, which forms an acute angle with the horizontal plane, is arranged, so that when a workpiece is placed on the supporting plate 210, the workpiece can freely slide along the upper end surface of the supporting plate 210 under the action of gravity. Set up two spacing 220, when the work piece slided on the up end of backup pad 210, can slide along a spacing 220 simultaneously, because have the contained angle between two spacing 220, and the opening of contained angle is upwards, so gliding work piece finally can with another spacing 220 butt. Because the workpiece has standard size, when the workpiece slides under the action of gravity and abuts against the two limiting strips 220, the position of the workpiece is always fixed, and thus the precise positioning of the workpiece is realized. Meanwhile, according to the scheme of the application, the accurate positioning of the workpiece can be achieved through the supporting plate 210 and the limiting strip 220, an industrial camera and other accurate transfer mechanisms are not needed, the structure of the equipment can be greatly simplified, and the manufacturing cost of the equipment is reduced.

Referring to fig. 3, according to some embodiments of the present application, the stopper bars 220 are arranged perpendicular to each other. Because many modern workpieces all have rectangular outer contours, the limiting strips 220 are perpendicular to each other, so that the outer contours of the workpieces can be abutted against the limiting strips 220, impact generated when the workpieces are in contact with the limiting strips 220 is reduced, and damage to the workpieces is avoided.

Referring to fig. 1, a support plate 210 may be rotatably disposed according to some embodiments of the present application. The purpose of setting the supporting plate 210 to be rotatable is to adjust the included angle of the supporting plate 210 relative to the horizontal plane, so as to change the sliding speed of the workpiece on the supporting plate 210 and change the impact force generated when the workpiece contacts the limiting strip 220.

Referring to fig. 1 and 2, according to some embodiments of the present disclosure, a feeding device 100 includes a turntable 110, a discharge station is disposed on an upper end surface of the turntable 110, the discharge station includes a position limiting assembly 120 disposed on the upper end surface of the turntable 110, the turntable 110 is configured to stack a workpiece to be positioned, and the position limiting assembly 120 is configured to fix a horizontal position of the workpiece with respect to the turntable 110. The rotary table 110 is provided with a plurality of material placing stations, when the moving path of the transfer device 300 is fixed, the rotary table 110 can be rotated, so that the workpiece placed on the rotary table 110 can be rotated to the material taking position of the transfer device 300, and the transfer device 300 can conveniently take materials. The work piece piles up and places on the up end of carousel 110, and the rotation of carousel 110 can drive the work piece and rotate together, and spacing subassembly 120 of spacing subassembly 120 sets up around the work piece that piles up, makes it can hug closely the lateral wall of the work piece that piles up, so set up the position that can fix the work piece on carousel 110, avoids the work piece to scatter at rotatory in-process.

Referring to fig. 1 and 2, according to some embodiments of the present application, the stop assembly 120 is provided as a stop post disposed around a workpiece to be positioned. The limiting component 120 is formed by the limiting columns, which has the advantage of occupying less space of the turntable 110 while fixing the workpiece.

Referring to fig. 1, according to some embodiments of the present application, the feeding device 100 further includes a jacking assembly 130, the jacking assembly 130 is disposed below the turntable 110, the turntable 110 is provided with an avoiding hole 111, the avoiding hole 111 is disposed below the material placing station, a driving end 131 of the jacking assembly 130 movably penetrates the avoiding hole 111 in the vertical direction, and the driving end 131 of the jacking assembly 130 is used for jacking the workpiece to be positioned. The jacking assembly 130 is arranged below the rotary disc 110, the avoidance hole 111 is formed in the rotary disc 110, the driving end 131 of the jacking assembly 130 can penetrate through the avoidance hole 111, and the driving end 131 of the jacking assembly 130 can move in the vertical direction while penetrating through the avoidance hole 111. The driving end 131 of the jacking assembly 130 penetrating through the avoiding hole 111 can jack the workpiece fixed by the limiting assembly 120, so that the height of the workpiece is higher than that of the limiting assembly 120, and the moving and carrying device 300 can take the workpiece conveniently.

According to some embodiments of the present application, the jacking assembly 130 includes a first sensor for detecting a height at which the driving end 131 of the jacking assembly 130 is located. The first sensor is arranged on the jacking assembly 130 and can detect the real-time movement position of the driving end 131 of the jacking assembly 130, when the driving end 131 of the jacking assembly 130 moves to the same highest point as the limiting assembly 120, the first sensor can send a signal to the control system, the control system can stop the movement of the driving end 131 of the jacking assembly 130, and the situation that the driving end 131 moves continuously to jack a workpiece in the limiting assembly 120 too much to cause scattering is avoided.

Referring to fig. 1 and 2, according to some embodiments of the present application, a second inductor 140 is disposed above the discharging station, and the second inductor 140 is used for inducing a workpiece at a preset height of the discharging station. When the jacking assembly 130 jacks up a workpiece, the second sensor 140 can sense the workpiece at a preset height, when the second sensor 140 detects that no workpiece is at the preset height, the jacking assembly 130 drives the driving end 131 to move upwards, so that the workpiece can also move upwards, and when the second sensor 140 detects the workpiece at the preset height again, the second sensor sends a signal to the control system, and the control system controls the jacking assembly 130 to stop moving.

Referring to fig. 1, according to some embodiments of the present application, the feeding device 100 includes a servo motor 150, an output end of the servo motor 150 is fixedly connected to a shaft center of a lower end surface of the turntable 110, and the servo motor 150 is configured to drive the turntable 110 to rotate. The use of the servo motor 150 as a driving mechanism for the turntable 110 enables a higher precision in the rotational movement of the turntable 110 and a faster speed in the rotation of the turntable 110.

Referring to fig. 1 and 2, according to some embodiments of the present application, a transfer device 300 is provided as a multi-axis robot. The advantage of using a multi-axis robot as the transfer device 300 is that the multi-axis robot can perform more complex workpiece transfer paths while having better motion accuracy.

Referring to fig. 1 to 3, an automatic feeder according to an embodiment of the present application is described in detail in a specific embodiment. It is to be understood that the following description is only exemplary, and not a specific limitation of the application.

The automatic feeding machine comprises a feeding device 100, a positioning device 200, a transferring device 300 and a control system, wherein the control system is electrically connected with the feeding device 100 and the transferring device 300, and the control device can control the movement of the feeding device 100 and the transferring device 300.

The feeding device 100 comprises a turntable 110, a limiting assembly 120, a jacking assembly 130 and a first sensor. The turntable 110 is provided with a material placing station, and the material placing station comprises a limiting assembly 120 arranged on the upper end surface of the turntable 110. The specific limiting assembly 120 is composed of a plurality of vertical limiting columns arranged on the upper end face of the turntable 110, the limiting columns are arranged around the workpiece placed on the upper end face of the turntable 110, and the side walls of the limiting columns are abutted to the side walls of the workpiece stacked on the upper end face of the tray. The turntable 110 is further provided with avoidance holes 111 penetrating through two end faces of the turntable 110, and the avoidance holes 111 are located between the limiting columns. The jacking assembly 130 is disposed below the turntable 110, the jacking assembly 130 can drive the driving end 131 thereof to move in the vertical direction, and the driving end 131 of the jacking assembly 130 can pass through the avoiding hole 111 on the turntable 110. When the driving end 131 of the jacking assembly 130 passes through the avoiding hole 111 and moves upwards, the workpieces stacked on the turntable 110 can be jacked up, so that the height of the workpieces is greater than or equal to that of the limiting columns, and the transferring device 300 can grab the workpieces to be positioned conveniently. The jacking assembly 130 is provided with a first sensor, when the driving end 131 of the jacking assembly 130 moves to the height equal to the highest point of the limiting column, the first sensor sends a signal to the control system, and the control system controls the jacking assembly 130 to stop the driving end 131 from moving. A second inductor 140 is further arranged above the material placing station, and the second inductor 140 is used for inducing workpieces on the preset height of the material placing station. When the jacking assembly 130 jacks up a workpiece, the second sensor 140 can sense the workpiece at a preset height, when the second sensor 140 detects that no workpiece is at the preset height, the jacking assembly 130 drives the driving end 131 to move upwards, so that the workpiece can also move upwards, and when the second sensor 140 detects the workpiece at the preset height again, the second sensor sends a signal to the control system, and the control system controls the jacking assembly 130 to stop moving.

The positioning device 200 includes a supporting plate 210 and two position-limiting strips 220, the supporting plate 210 is disposed obliquely so as to form an acute angle with the horizontal plane, and the supporting plate 210 is disposed to be rotatable with respect to the horizontal plane. The supporting plate 210 is rectangular, one corner of the supporting plate is located below the other three corners, the two limiting strips 220 are respectively arranged on two side edges of the lowest corner, and the two limiting strips 220 are arranged at a right angle.

According to the automatic feeding machine of this application, through so setting up, can reach some effects as follows at least: when placing the work piece on the backup pad 210, the terminal surface of work piece slides along the up end of backup pad 210, and the side of work piece slides along two spacing strips 220, and the work piece moves to the contained angle department of two spacing strips 220 under the effect of gravity, because the size of work piece is fixed, so when the side of work piece respectively with two spacing strips 220 butt, the relative position of spacing strip 220 of every work piece is fixed, so realized the fine positioning of work piece promptly.

The embodiments of the present application have been described in detail with reference to the drawings, but the present application is not limited to the embodiments, and various changes can be made within the knowledge of those skilled in the art without departing from the gist of the present application.

Claims

1. An automatic feeding machine, characterized by comprising:

the feeding device is used for placing a workpiece to be positioned;

the positioning device is arranged on one side of the feeding device and comprises a supporting plate and two limiting strips, an included angle between the supporting plate and the horizontal plane is an acute angle, the supporting plate is used for placing the workpiece to be positioned, the number of the limiting strips is two, the limiting strips are arranged on the upper end surface of the supporting plate, an included angle is formed between the two limiting strips, the included angle of each limiting strip is upward in opening, the positioning device is used for finely positioning the workpiece, and when the workpiece is abutted against the two limiting strips, the fine positioning is completed;

the shifting device is arranged on the side edges of the feeding device and the positioning device, and is used for conveying the workpiece to be positioned on the feeding device to the positioning device and conveying the workpiece subjected to fine positioning on the positioning device to the next process;

and the control system is electrically connected with the feeding device and the transferring device.

2. The automatic feeder according to claim 1, wherein two of said stop strips are disposed perpendicular to each other.

3. The automatic feeder according to claim 1, wherein the support plate is rotatably disposed with respect to a horizontal plane.

4. The automatic feeding machine according to claim 1, wherein the feeding device comprises a turntable, a discharging station is arranged on the upper end surface of the turntable, the discharging station comprises a limiting assembly arranged on the upper end surface of the turntable, the turntable is used for stacking the workpieces to be positioned, and the limiting assembly is used for fixing the horizontal position of the workpieces relative to the turntable.

5. The automatic feeder of claim 4, wherein the retention assembly is provided as a retention post disposed around the workpiece to be positioned.

6. The automatic feeding machine according to claim 4, wherein the feeding device further comprises a jacking assembly, the jacking assembly is arranged below the turntable, an avoiding hole is formed in the turntable and is arranged below the discharging station, the avoiding hole is formed in the driving end of the jacking assembly in a movable penetrating mode in the vertical direction, and the driving end of the jacking assembly is used for jacking the workpiece to be positioned.

7. The automatic feeder of claim 6, wherein the jacking assembly includes a first sensor for detecting a height at which the drive end of the jacking assembly is located.

8. The automatic feeding machine according to claim 6, wherein a second inductor is arranged above the emptying station, and the second inductor is used for inducing the workpiece on the preset height of the emptying station.

9. The automatic feeding machine according to claim 4, wherein the feeding device comprises a servo motor, an output end of the servo motor is fixedly connected with an axle center of a lower end face of the turntable, and the servo motor is used for driving the turntable to rotate.

10. The automatic feeder according to claim 1, characterised in that the transfer means is provided as a multi-axis robot.