SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL
The utility model aims at providing a to the above-mentioned problem that exists among the prior art, provide a three-dimensional intelligent storage system.
In order to realize the purpose of the utility model, the utility model adopts the following technical scheme: a stereoscopic intelligent storage system comprises a stereoscopic intelligent storage mechanism, a master control device, a first operating station and a second operating station; the three-dimensional intelligent storage mechanism comprises two parallel goods shelves and a plurality of shuttle cars arranged between the two goods shelves; each goods shelf is provided with a plurality of storage positions and a track mechanism for the shuttle to move up and down and horizontally, the bottom end of each goods shelf is provided with a conveying line capable of performing bidirectional switching motion, the conveying line is provided with a plurality of cross-over positions at uniform intervals along the length direction, and each cross-over position is provided with a transfer mechanism and a horizontal positioning mechanism; the shifting mechanism is provided with a side positioning baffle plate for blocking and positioning the material box; the shuttle car moves to a delivery position through a track mechanism and carries out material taking box operation through a telescopic tray; the first operating station is in butt joint with one conveying line of the three-dimensional intelligent storage mechanism; the second operating station is in butt joint with the rest one conveying line of the three-dimensional intelligent storage mechanism; the main control equipment is respectively in communication connection with the three-dimensional intelligent storage mechanism, the first operating station and the second operating station.
The working principle and the beneficial effects are as follows: 1. compared with the prior art, the automatic sorting machine has the advantages that the two goods shelves are adopted, the plurality of shuttle cars are configured, meanwhile, each conveying line is provided with the plurality of cross-connecting positions, the conveying lines of the two goods shelves can realize simultaneous feeding and simultaneous discharging, the plurality of shuttle cars can carry out feeding and discharging operations at the same time, the goods shelves and the shuttle cars can be utilized to the maximum extent, the utilization rate of the goods shelves and the shuttle cars is maximized, and the sorting efficiency can be obviously improved;
2. the length of the goods shelf can be infinitely extended, the shuttle cars can also be infinitely increased along with the extension, the length of the goods shelf and the number of the shuttle cars can be selected according to actual space, the flexible configuration can be realized, and the compatibility is good;
3. compared with the prior art, the material box clamping mechanism does not need to be adopted, the material box transferring mechanism and the horizontal positioning mechanism are adopted instead, the accurate positioning of different material boxes can be realized, the material boxes can be pushed into the upper portion of the shuttle car accurately, the shuttle car can be used for receiving and pulling back the material boxes accurately, the structure of clamping the part in the material clamping mechanism is not needed, an additional accurate positioning mechanism such as a sensor or a limit switch is not needed, the positioning function of the material box clamping mechanism can be realized only by common blocking positioning, the realization difficulty is extremely low, the cost is lower, and the failure rate is low;
4. through two transfer chains that can two-way switching motion, can realize that no matter from which transfer chain business turn over can both realize taking from the goods shelves or deposit the operation in the workbin, it is more nimble, especially when all workbin on the goods shelves are all taken away, can all switch into the direction of output goods shelves with the transfer chain, can greatly improve the speed of leaving warehouse, or when only putting in storage and operating, can all switch into the direction of input goods shelves with the transfer chain, can greatly improve the speed of leaving warehouse, and at ordinary times existing warehouse entry has the storehouse again, then two transfer chain opposite directions, can deal with multiple use scene better, the storage operating efficiency is greatly improved.
Further, the conveying lines are roller conveying lines, gaps for allowing parts of the transfer mechanism to penetrate through are formed between rollers of the roller conveying lines, and the gaps are used for lifting and horizontal moving of the transfer mechanism. The scheme can obviously reduce the space occupation of the transfer mechanism, well utilize the gap of the roller conveying line, and smoothly operate the transfer mechanism while not hindering the normal operation of the roller conveying line, thereby realizing the functions of positioning, lifting and horizontal displacement of the material box and having compact structure.
Further, move and carry mechanism and include that the case drags, be used for driving this case to drag and the jacking drive assembly of side positioning baffle up-and-down motion and be used for driving the case and drag horizontal migration subassembly of horizontal migration, this case drags to be equipped with and is used for the spacing back limit baffle to the workbin, realizes the horizontal position location to the workbin through this back limit baffle and the cooperation of side positioning baffle. This scheme, keep away from the one side of shuttle through back limit baffle butt workbin, if the trailing flank, side positioning baffle butt workbin and trailing flank vertically one side, if the right flank, thereby the horizontal position location of workbin on handing-over position has been realized, the subassembly is moved out the handing-over position with the part of workbin through the horizontal migration, make its part unsettled, cooperate horizontal positioning mechanism to live its leading flank butt again, make it thoroughly fix a position on horizontal position, thereby greatly made things convenient for the shuttle to tak away the workbin, the shuttle only need fix a position the handing-over position that corresponds, then through pushing out flexible tray contact workbin bottom retraction again take away the workbin can, jacking drive assembly descends this moment, back limit baffle descends simultaneously, do not influence the normal operating of transfer chain, and go on to follow-up workbin.
Furthermore, horizontal positioning mechanism includes the installing support, with installing support swivelling joint's rotating barrier and be used for driving the rotatory gear motor of rotating barrier, this installing support can dismantle the top of locating each handing-over position and be close to one side of shuttle, and this installing support is L shape.
Furthermore, a first position monitoring sensor for monitoring the position of the rotary baffle is arranged on the mounting bracket. According to the scheme, whether the mounting bracket moves to the designated position or not can be conveniently detected through the first position sensor.
Furthermore, the horizontal movement component comprises a sliding rail, a rack and a driving motor, and the gear of the driving motor is meshed with the rack to drive the box tractor to move along the length direction of the sliding rail so as to realize the horizontal movement of the box tractor. This scheme utilizes the efficient advantage of gear drive transmission, can easily realize that driving motor drive case drags the function of round trip movement on the slide rail, and the slide rail is current common linear guide, utilizes linear guide coefficient of friction little, and the advantage that the linear motion precision is high can greatly reduce driving motor's burden and improve the workbin and be released the distance precision of handing-over position.
Further, jacking actuating assembly includes jacking actuating arm, jacking driving motor and locates the jacking bearing on the jacking actuating arm, through the rotatory jacking bearing swing of driving of jacking driving arm drive realizes the raising and lowering functions that horizontal migration subassembly and case dragged. This scheme utilizes common cam drive or crank rocker principle, and it is rotatory to need the jacking actuating arm, drives the jacking bearing and rotates around jacking driving motor's motor shaft, can realize the raising and lowering functions of horizontal migration subassembly, and the case drags to be located the horizontal migration subassembly, therefore the lifting that the case dragged can be realized in the lifting of horizontal migration subassembly, also can realize the synchronous lift of side positioning baffle, and the structure is ingenious, and the fault rate is low.
Furthermore, the jacking driving arms are respectively arranged at the bottoms of four corners of the horizontal moving assembly. According to the scheme, the stability of the horizontal moving assembly during jacking can be greatly improved, so that the problem of inclination can be avoided.
Detailed Description
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 all belong to the protection scope of the present invention.
It will be understood by those skilled in the art that in the present disclosure, the terms "longitudinal," "lateral," "upper," "lower," "front," "rear," "left," "right," "vertical," "horizontal," "top," "bottom," "inner," "outer," and the like are used in an orientation or positional relationship indicated in the drawings for ease of description and simplicity of description, and do not indicate or imply that the referenced device or element must have a particular orientation, be constructed and operated in a particular orientation, and thus, are not to be considered limiting.
Example 1
As shown in fig. 1, the stereoscopic intelligent storage system comprises a stereoscopic intelligent storage mechanism, a master control device, a first operating station and a second operating station, the three-dimensional intelligent storage mechanism comprises two parallel goods shelves 1 and a moving track 2 arranged between the two goods shelves 1, a plurality of shuttle cars 3 are arranged on the moving track 2, wherein the structure of the goods shelf 1 is basically consistent with the frame structure of the goods shelf 1 in CN109264284A a three-dimensional library system based on an automatic operating platform and the goods sorting method thereof applied by my department, like the storage location 11, the moving track 2 is identical, the structure of the shuttle 3 is identical, the difference of the application lies in that two shelves 1 are arranged side by side, the overall layout is improved, and partial structure of the shelves 1 is improved, the shuttle 3 can simultaneously carry out loading and unloading operations on the goods shelves 1 in the front and rear directions, or a plurality of shuttle 3 in two mounting directions are respectively arranged.
Specifically, the first operation station is in butt joint with one conveying line 4 of the three-dimensional intelligent storage mechanism and used for connecting the shuttle 3 and picking the goods on the shuttle; the second operation station is in butt joint with the rest one conveying line 4 of the three-dimensional intelligent storage mechanism and is used for sorting the goods; the main control equipment is in communication connection with the three-dimensional intelligent storage mechanism, the first operating station and the second operating station respectively, wherein the communication mode can be wireless, such as WIFI, Bluetooth and ZigBee, and can also be connected through common wires, and the shuttle car and the main control equipment are preferably connected through ZigBee, so that the intelligent storage system is more suitable for WIFI and Bluetooth, has more flexible distance and low energy consumption.
Referring to fig. 2-3, in order to further improve the sorting efficiency, the present application improves the partial structure of the shelves 1, each shelf 1 is provided with a plurality of storage locations 11 and a rail mechanism for the shuttle 3 to move up and down and horizontally, i.e. a plurality of vertical rails 12 and horizontal rails 13, wherein the moving rail 2 is a part of the rail mechanism, the horizontal rails 13 of the two shelves 1 are combined into one moving rail 2, the bottom end of each shelf 1 is provided with a conveying line 4, the conveying line 4 is provided with a plurality of transfer locations 5 at regular intervals along the length direction, each transfer location 5 is provided with a transfer mechanism 6 and a horizontal positioning mechanism 8, each conveying line 4 can only position and lift one bin 9 at the same time, and needs to clamp the bin 9, and the present application does not need to use a clamping mechanism, and the transfer mechanism 6 and the horizontal positioning mechanism 8 are adopted for replacement, so that the accurate positioning of different material boxes 9 can be realized, and the material boxes can be pushed into the upper part of the shuttle car 3 accurately, so that the shuttle car 3 can be accurately connected and pulled back to the material boxes 9, the structure for clamping the part in the clamping mechanism is not needed, and an additional accurate positioning mechanism such as a sensor or a limit switch is not needed. Wherein each storage location 11 has a track for the ingress and egress of a telescopic tray 31 of the shuttle 3.
Compared with the prior art, this application through adopting two goods shelves 1 and dispose a plurality of shuttle 3, has a plurality of handing-over positions 5 on every transfer chain 4 simultaneously, and the transfer chain 4 of two goods shelves 1 both can realize the feeding simultaneously, also can realize the ejection of compact simultaneously, can carry out material loading and unloading operation by a plurality of shuttle 3 simultaneously, can utilize goods shelves 1 and shuttle 3 to the at utmost, makes its utilization ratio maximize, can show promotion letter sorting efficiency.
Referring to fig. 4-7, in this embodiment, the transferring mechanism 6 is provided with a side positioning baffle 61 for positioning and blocking the bin 9, the side positioning baffle 61 is lifted to position and block the bin 9, then the transferring mechanism 6 lifts the bin 9 and moves the bin 9 to the shuttle 3, the horizontal positioning mechanism 8 is used to position the distance that the bin 9 extends out of the production line, so that the shuttle 3 can receive the bin 9, wherein the production line 4 is a roller conveying line 4, a gap 10 for allowing a part of the transferring mechanism 6 to pass through is provided between rollers of the roller conveying line 4, the gap 10 is used for lifting the bin 9 by the lifting of the transferring mechanism 6 and horizontally moving the bin 9 to move towards the shuttle 3, the transferring mechanism 6 comprises a bin puller 62, a lifting driving component 63 for driving the bin puller 62 and the side positioning baffle 61 to move up and down, and a horizontal moving component 64 for driving the bin puller 62 to horizontally move, the box drags 62 and is provided with a rear limit baffle 621 used for limiting the material box 9, and the rear limit baffle 621 is matched with the side positioning baffle 61 to realize the horizontal position positioning of the material box 9. In the scheme, the rear limit baffle 621 abuts against one surface of the feed box 9 far away from the shuttle 3, such as the rear side surface, the side positioning baffle 61 abuts against one surface of the feed box 9 vertical to the rear side surface, such as the right side surface, thereby realizing the horizontal position of the feed box 9 on the connecting position 5, moving part of the feed box 9 out of the connecting position 5 by the horizontal moving component 64 to suspend the part, abutting the front side surface by the horizontal positioning mechanism 8 to ensure that the feed box is thoroughly positioned on the horizontal position, thereby greatly facilitating the shuttle 3 to take the feed box 9 away, the shuttle 3 only needs to be positioned to the corresponding cross-connecting position 5, then the telescopic tray 31 is pushed out to contact the bottom of the feed box 9 and then is retracted to take away the feed box 9, at the moment, the jacking driving assembly 63 descends, the rear limiting baffle 621 descends simultaneously, the normal operation of the conveying line 4 is not influenced, and the subsequent feed box 9 is released.
Specifically, shuttle 3 moves to handing-over position 5 through rail mechanism and gets workbin 9 operations through flexible tray 31, and the flexible function of 3 flexible trays 31 of shuttle is prior art with get workbin 9 functions, if every shuttle 3 after receiving the instruction, can move to the assigned position automatically, if handing-over position 5 or storage bit 11 realize taking and putting the operation to workbin 9, consequently no longer give unnecessary details to its principle.
Referring to fig. 8, specifically, the horizontal positioning mechanism 8 includes a mounting bracket 81, a rotating baffle 82 rotatably connected to the mounting bracket 81, and a speed reduction motor 83 for driving the rotating baffle 82 to rotate, the mounting bracket 81 is fixed at a side of the top of each delivery position 5 close to the shuttle 3, the mounting bracket 81 is L-shaped, so as to position the rotating angle of the rotating baffle 82 and enable the rotating baffle 82 to rotate to a specific position accurately, and a first position monitoring sensor 84 for monitoring the position of the rotating baffle 82 is disposed on the mounting bracket 81. The speed reduction motor 83 drives the rotary baffle 82 to rotate to a specified angle, so that the rotary baffle 82 can block the feed box 9 and is completely horizontally positioned.
Specifically, the horizontal moving assembly 64 includes a slide rail 641, a rack 642 and a driving motor 643, and the gear of the driving motor 643 engages with the rack 642 to drive the box bracket 62 to move along the length direction of the slide rail 641, so as to realize the horizontal movement of the box bracket 62. According to the scheme, the advantage of high transmission efficiency of the gear transmission is utilized, the function that the driving motor 643 drives the box dragging 62 to move back and forth on the sliding rail 641 can be easily realized, the sliding rail 641 is a common linear guide rail, and the load of the driving motor 643 can be greatly reduced and the distance precision of pushing the material box 9 out of the cross-connecting position 5 can be improved by utilizing the advantages of small friction coefficient and high linear motion precision of the linear guide rail. Preferably, at least two second position sensors may be further disposed on the slide rail 641 for detecting the stroke of the trunk drawer 62, so as to limit the stroke. The position sensors are all common photoelectric sensors or limit switches on the market.
Specifically, jacking actuating assembly 63 includes jacking actuating arm 631, jacking driving motor 632 and locates jacking bearing 633 on jacking actuating arm 631, and the bottom in horizontal migration subassembly 64 four corners is located respectively to this jacking actuating arm 631, through jacking driving motor 632 drives the rotatory jacking bearing 633 that drives of jacking actuating arm 631 swing and realizes that horizontal migration subassembly 64 and case drag 62 lift function. This scheme utilizes common cam drive or crank rocker principle, and it is rotatory to need jacking actuating arm 631, drives jacking bearing 633 and rotates around jacking driving motor 632's motor shaft, can realize the raising and lowering functions of horizontal migration subassembly 64, and the case drags 62 to be located horizontal migration subassembly 64, therefore horizontal migration subassembly 64 goes up and down to realize that the case drags 62 lift, also can realize the synchronous lift of side positioning baffle 61, and the structure is ingenious, and the fault rate is low.
In this embodiment, the work bin 9 may be lifted up and moved horizontally to the interface 5, or lifted up and moved horizontally at the same time, so that the work bin 9 is moved obliquely upward to the interface 5, therefore, in another embodiment, the lifting drive assembly 63 and the horizontal movement assembly 64 may be combined into a same drive assembly, and the drive assembly drives the work bin 9 to move obliquely upward to the interface 5 through the rail facing obliquely upward.
Example 2
Referring to fig. 9, a stereoscopic intelligent storage system includes the above-mentioned stereoscopic intelligent storage structure, a main control device, a first operation station and a second operation station, wherein the second operation station includes an illumination indicator light array, a camera, a code scanning gun, a printer, and a display, and the main control device may be a common computer.
The irradiation indicator lamp array consists of a plurality of irradiation indicator lamps, is connected with the main control equipment and is used for receiving the command of the main control equipment so as to enable one or more irradiation indicator lamps to illuminate the goods to be picked;
the camera is connected with the main control equipment and used for scanning the goods on the shuttle car 3 and feeding back the scanning information to the main control equipment;
the code scanning gun is connected with the main control equipment and used for scanning the bar codes of the sorted goods and feeding back the scanning information to the main control equipment;
the printer is connected with the main control equipment and used for receiving the printing instruction sent by the main control equipment and printing corresponding documents such as express bills, orders, lists and the like;
the display is used for displaying the operation information.
The second operation station comprises a sorting device and a prompter;
the sorting device consists of a plurality of sorting positions, and each sorting position is provided with a prompter;
and the prompters are composed of LED lamps, nixie tubes and buzzers, are connected with the main control equipment and are used for receiving commands of the main control equipment, so that one or more prompters give out prompts to indicate sorting positions to which goods belong.
The second operation station and the first operation station just provide an example, how to arrange the components inside the container can be adjusted according to actual production requirements, the improvement point is not in the internal structure of the second operation station and the first operation station, but the first operation station, the second operation station and the three-dimensional intelligent storage mechanism are combined to form a system, wherein the second operation station is equivalent to the operation of putting the goods into the bin 9 before warehousing, the goods are put into the same bin 9 according to the same goods, the specific classification rule is determined according to the actual situation, bar codes are pasted on the goods, the bar codes record the information of the goods, such as storage position 11 information, the name and the number of the goods, and the like, the second operation station is a warehouse-out operation, the goods are taken out of the bin 9 and are scanned by a code scanning gun, whether the goods are correct goods can be confirmed, if not, the shuttle 3 is recalled by the master to pick bin 9 again and this wrong bin 9 can be resent back to the first station for a re-sort operation.
Compared with the prior art, the three-dimensional intelligent storage system has the advantages that the three-dimensional intelligent storage system can issue commands through the main control equipment, the purposes that the storage is immediately positioned and stored after the sorting is completed in the second operation station are achieved, a large number of goods can be stored through the three-dimensional intelligent storage mechanism, each bin 9 filled with the goods is correspondingly stored according to the set storage position 11, when the corresponding goods need to be taken away, the bin 9 only needs to be moved to the corresponding storage position 11 through the shuttle car 3 and is taken away and put on the conveying line 4, the bin 9 is conveyed to the first operation station to pick the goods, the sorting efficiency is greatly improved, the full-automatic warehousing and ex-warehouse operation can be achieved, the manual warehousing and ex-warehouse operation is not needed, the labor cost is remarkably reduced, a channel does not need to be left manually, and due to the arrangement of the track mechanism, the storage positions 11 can be infinitely increased in the height space, thereby significantly increasing the storage capacity of the pallet 1.
In this embodiment, the position relationship between the first operating station and the second operating station is not limited, and the two operating stations may perform the same sorting operation before the goods are put in storage, may perform both the sorting operations after the goods are taken out of the storage, may perform one operation showing the goods are put in storage, and another operation showing the goods are taken out of the storage, and fig. 9 is a schematic diagram only representing one embodiment. Consequently through two transfer chain 4 that can two-way switching motion, can realize that the operation of taking or depositing in workbin 9 from goods shelves 1 can both be realized to the business turn over from which transfer chain 4 is gone into and go out, it is more nimble, especially when all workbin 9 on goods shelves 1 are all taken away, can all switch into the direction of output goods shelves 1 with transfer chain 4, can greatly improve the speed of leaving warehouse, or when only putting in storage and operating, can all switch into the direction of input goods shelves 1 with transfer chain 4, can greatly improve the speed of leaving warehouse, and at ordinary times existing warehouse entry has the storehouse again, then two transfer chain 4 opposite directions, can better deal with multiple use scenario, improve storage operating efficiency greatly.
Example 3
A control method of a three-dimensional intelligent storage system comprises the following steps:
s1, the main control equipment sends a task instruction to any idle shuttle 3;
s2, the shuttle car 3 moves to the shelf 1 of the three-dimensional intelligent storage mechanism, moves to the corresponding S3 and storage position 11 through the rail mechanism, and takes out the bin 9 and sends the bin to any idle transfer position 5 on the conveying line 4;
s4, the material box 9 on the shuttle car 3 is received by the transfer mechanism 6, and the material box 9 is dropped onto the conveying line 4;
s5, conveying the bin 9 to a first operation station through the conveying line 4;
s6, the first operation station sorts the goods in the material box 9, the bar codes of the goods are identified through the code scanning gun, code scanning information is transmitted back to the main control equipment, and whether the goods are matched with the task instruction or not is judged through the main control equipment;
s7, if not, repeating the step S1-6 until matching;
s8, the goods are sorted by the second operation station and then placed into a bin 9, and the bin 9 is conveyed to the three-dimensional intelligent storage mechanism through the conveying line 4;
s9, the rear limit baffle 621 of the transfer mechanism 6 is lifted to block and position the work bin 9, and the work bin 9 is lifted and pushed out through the cooperation of the jacking drive S10, the components and the horizontal moving component 64;
s11, the horizontal positioning mechanism 8 blocks and positions the material box 9;
s12, the shuttle car 3 catches and pulls the material box 9 back to the shuttle car;
s13, shuttle 3 feeds bin 9 into designated storage location 11 via the rail mechanism.
By using the method, the warehousing and ex-warehouse operation of the goods can be conveniently realized, the sorting efficiency is greatly improved, and the realization difficulty is low. The steps from S8 to S13 may be performed before the step S1, the order is not limited, or the steps may be performed simultaneously with the steps from S1 to S7, that is, the warehousing of the goods may be performed simultaneously, which is impossible in the prior art, the length of the shelf 1 may be extended indefinitely theoretically, and the number of the shuttle cars 3 may be increased indefinitely, the length of the shelf 1 and the number of the shuttle cars 3 may be selected according to the actual space, and the configuration may be flexible, and the compatibility is good.
The above method is only an embodiment of the present solution, and may be other sequences of method steps.
The part of the utility model which is not described in detail is the prior art, so the utility model does not detail the part.
It is understood that the terms "a" and "an" should be interpreted as meaning that a number of one element or element is one in one embodiment, while a number of other elements is one in another embodiment, and the terms "a" and "an" should not be interpreted as limiting the number.
Although terms such as the rack 1, the moving rail 2, the shuttle 3, the conveying line 4, the interface station 5, the transfer mechanism 6, the horizontal positioning mechanism 8, the bin 9, the gap 10, the storage location 11, the vertical rail 12, the horizontal rail 13, the telescopic tray 31, the side positioning baffle 61, the bin drags 62, the rear limiting baffle 621, the lift driving assembly 63, the horizontal moving assembly 64, the slide rail 641, the rack 642, the driving motor 643, the second position monitoring sensor 644, the lift driving arm 631, the lift driving motor 632, the lift bearing 633, the mounting bracket 81, the rotating baffle 82, the speed reduction motor 83, the first position monitoring sensor 84, and the like are used more frequently, the possibility of using other terms is not excluded. These terms are used merely to more conveniently describe and explain the nature of the present invention; they are to be construed in a manner that is inconsistent with the spirit of the invention.
The present invention is not limited to the above-mentioned preferred embodiments, and any other products in various forms can be obtained by the teaching of the present invention, but any changes in the shape or structure thereof, which have the same or similar technical solutions as the present invention, fall within the protection scope of the present invention.