CN215920467U

CN215920467U - Distribution robot

Info

Publication number: CN215920467U
Application number: CN202121321605.2U
Authority: CN
Inventors: 陈焕昌; 何源
Original assignee: Shenzhen Pudu Technology Co Ltd
Current assignee: Shenzhen Pudu Technology Co Ltd
Priority date: 2020-12-31
Filing date: 2021-06-11
Publication date: 2022-03-01
Anticipated expiration: 2031-06-11
Also published as: WO2022144033A1; CN218614066U

Abstract

The utility model discloses a delivery robot, comprising: the distribution robot comprises a distribution robot body, wherein the distribution robot body comprises a supporting mechanism, and a connecting seat is arranged on the supporting mechanism; the tray mechanism comprises a tray and a cantilever beam; one end of the cantilever beam is detachably connected to the connecting seat; the tray is fixedly connected to the cantilever beam. Through the mode, the distribution robot provided by the utility model realizes detachable connection of the tray and the distribution robot body through the fixing mode that one end of the cantilever beam is detachably connected to the connecting seat, and is simple in structure and convenient for an operator to disassemble and assemble the tray.

Description

Distribution robot

Technical Field

The application relates to the technical field of robots, in particular to a distribution robot.

Background

With the popularization of indoor mobile robots in the market, mobile robots have been gradually applied to mass service scenes (e.g., indoor scenes such as restaurants, hotels, office buildings, etc.) to provide delivery services for customers, and such mobile robots are generally referred to as delivery robots. The delivery robot usually adopts the tray bearing of fixing on the robot body to wait to deliver the article, and the fixed mode of tray in the past is comparatively complicated, is difficult to dismouting tray to non professional technical personnel.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

This application aims at providing a delivery robot, detachable connection between cantilever beam and the connecting seat to make the tray realize detachable connected mode, not only simple structure, and the dismouting of being convenient for.

The application provides a delivery robot, includes: the distribution robot comprises a distribution robot body, wherein the distribution robot body comprises a supporting mechanism, and a connecting seat is arranged on the supporting mechanism;

the tray mechanism comprises a tray and a cantilever beam; one end of the cantilever beam is detachably connected to the connecting seat; the tray is fixedly connected to the cantilever beam.

In one embodiment, the connection socket includes: the fixing plate and the positioning seat body are arranged on the fixing plate; the fixing plate is fixed on the supporting mechanism, and a containing hole is formed in the positioning seat body;

one end of the cantilever beam is provided with a positioning lug, and the positioning lug is accommodated in the accommodating hole.

In one embodiment, a through hole is formed in the positioning seat body, a threaded hole is formed in the positioning convex block, and when the positioning convex block is accommodated in the accommodating hole, the through hole is coaxial with the threaded hole;

the tray mechanism further comprises a quick-release screw which penetrates through the through hole and is in screwed connection with the threaded hole.

In one embodiment, the positioning bump protrudes from the height direction of the cantilever beam, and the height of the cantilever beam gradually decreases from the connection position of the cantilever beam and the positioning bump to the direction far away from the positioning bump.

In one embodiment, the cantilever beam comprises a first beam and a second beam, the first beam is in direct contact with the tray, and a reinforcing rib is further arranged between the first beam and the second beam.

In one embodiment, an avoiding groove is further formed between the reinforcing rib and the positioning lug, and the avoiding groove is used for avoiding the hole wall of the accommodating hole close to one side of the cantilever beam when the positioning lug is accommodated in the accommodating hole.

In one embodiment, two positioning seat bodies are sequentially arranged on the fixing plate along the vertical direction, and two positioning bumps are arranged at one end of the cantilever beam corresponding to the two positioning seat bodies.

In one embodiment, the support mechanism comprises a bottom plate and a support frame;

the support frame includes: two support rods and a connecting rod; the bottom ends of the supporting rods are fixed on the bottom plate, and the connecting rods are connected to the top ends of the two supporting rods; the connecting seat is fixed on the supporting rod.

In one embodiment, the support structure further comprises: the two fixing seats are fixed on the bottom plate, and the bottom ends of the two supporting rods are respectively fixed on the two fixing seats.

In one embodiment, the cantilever beam is provided with more than 1 first fixing position along the length direction thereof, the tray is provided with more than 1 second fixing position, and more than 1 first fixing position and more than 1 second fixing position are in one-to-one correspondence and fixedly connected.

In one embodiment, the number of the trays is at least 1, and each tray corresponds to at least 1 cantilever beam and at least 1 connecting seat.

In one embodiment, the number of the trays is 2, and each tray corresponds to two cantilever beams and two connecting seats.

According to the delivery robot that this application provided, the fixed mode of connecting on the connecting seat through the one end detachable of cantilever beam, and then realize that the tray realizes detachable the connection with delivery robot body, simple structure not only, the operator of still being convenient for carries out the dismouting to the tray.

Drawings

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a dispensing robot provided in one embodiment;

FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of a part of a dispensing robot according to an embodiment;

FIG. 3 is an exploded view of FIG. 2;

FIG. 4 is an enlarged view of a portion of FIG. 3 at C;

fig. 5 is a perspective view of a dispensing robot according to another embodiment.

Detailed Description

The present invention will be described in further detail with reference to the following detailed description and accompanying drawings. Wherein like elements in different embodiments are numbered with like associated elements. In the following description, numerous details are set forth in order to provide a better understanding of the present application. However, those skilled in the art will readily recognize that some of the features may be omitted or replaced with other elements, materials, methods in different instances. In some instances, certain operations related to the present application have not been shown or described in detail in order to avoid obscuring the core of the present application from excessive description, and it is not necessary for those skilled in the art to describe these operations in detail, so that they may be fully understood from the description in the specification and the general knowledge in the art.

Furthermore, the features, operations, or characteristics described in the specification may be combined in any suitable manner to form various embodiments. Also, the various steps or actions in the method descriptions may be transposed or transposed in order, as will be apparent to one of ordinary skill in the art. Thus, the various sequences in the specification and drawings are for the purpose of describing certain embodiments only and are not intended to imply a required sequence unless otherwise indicated where such sequence must be followed.

The numbering of the components as such, e.g., "first", "second", etc., is used herein only to distinguish the objects as described, and does not have any sequential or technical meaning. The term "connected" and "coupled" when used in this application, unless otherwise indicated, includes both direct and indirect connections (couplings).

The distribution robot comprises a distribution robot body, wherein the distribution robot body comprises a supporting mechanism, and a connecting seat is arranged on the supporting mechanism; the delivery robot further comprises a tray mechanism, the tray mechanism comprises a tray and a cantilever beam, the tray is fixedly connected to the cantilever beam, one end of the cantilever beam can be detachably connected to the connecting seat, the tray can be detachably connected to the delivery robot, and the delivery robot is simple in structure and convenient to operate. The distribution robot is mainly used for providing distribution service for customers in restaurants, office buildings and hotels, the tray is used for bearing articles to be distributed, and the articles to be distributed are moved to the customers through the movement of the distribution robot body.

Referring to fig. 1 and 2, a dispensing robot according to an embodiment includes a dispensing robot body 10 and a tray mechanism 30. The distribution robot body 10 includes a support mechanism 20 and a traveling mechanism 11, and the support mechanism 20 is provided with a connecting seat 23.

The delivery robot body 10 includes a navigation system that can perform autonomous navigation, an anti-collision system that can perform an anti-collision function, and an interaction system that interacts with a user. The traveling mechanism 11 may be used to power traveling of the mobile robot body 10.

The support mechanism 20 includes a base plate 21 and a support frame 22. The bottom plate 21 is fixed on the running mechanism 11 of the distribution robot body 10, the support frame 22 is fixed on the bottom plate 21 along the vertical direction, and the connecting seat 23 is fixed on the support frame 22.

The tray mechanism 30 includes a tray 31 and a cantilever beam 32. One end of the cantilever beam 32 is detachably connected to the connecting seat 23, and the tray 31 is fixedly connected to the cantilever beam 32. Thus, the tray 31 fixed on the cantilever beam 32 and the cantilever beam 32 form an integral tray mechanism 30, the tray mechanism 30 is detachably connected with the support mechanism 20 through the fixing mode that one end of the cantilever beam 32 is detachably connected on the connecting seat 23, and an operator can detach the tray 31 conveniently.

Specifically, referring to fig. 3 and 4, the connecting seat 23 includes a fixing plate 231 and a positioning seat 232. Wherein the fixing plate 231 is fixed on the supporting frame 22, and the positioning seat 232 is disposed on the fixing plate 231. The positioning base 232 has an accommodating hole 233 formed therein, and the accommodating hole 233 specifically penetrates through the positioning base 232 along the height direction of the positioning base 232. A positioning projection 33 is provided at one end of the cantilever beam 32, and the positioning projection 33 is received in the receiving hole 233, so that the tray mechanism 30 and the dispensing robot body 10 can be connected together to perform dispensing service.

In one embodiment, a through hole 234 is further formed on the positioning base 232, and the through hole 234 penetrates through the width direction of the positioning base 232 and is communicated with the accommodating hole 233. Correspondingly, the positioning protrusion 33 is further provided with a threaded hole, and after the positioning protrusion 33 is received in the receiving hole 233, the through hole 234 provided on the positioning seat body 232 is coaxial with the threaded hole 331 provided on the positioning protrusion 33. In this way, the tray mechanism 30 can be more stably coupled to the dispensing robot body 10 by the screw passing through the through hole 234 and being screwed in the screw hole 331.

In this embodiment, the aforementioned screw is a quick-release screw, that is, the tray mechanism 30 further includes a quick-release screw, the quick-release screw includes a handle and a stud fixed on the handle, a thread on the stud is adapted to the threaded hole 331 on the positioning protrusion 33, and the quick-release screw passes through the through hole 234 on the positioning seat 232 and is screwed in the threaded hole 331 on the positioning protrusion 33, so that the cantilever beam 32 and the connecting seat 23 are connected in a more stable and detachable manner. It will be appreciated that the screw may be a conventional screw, and that screwing the screw into the threaded hole 331 with other tools may achieve the same fixing effect, except that the quick release screw is not convenient for installation and removal.

In this embodiment, each fixing plate 231 is provided with two positioning seat bodies 232, and the two positioning seat bodies 232 are vertically spaced from each other. It is understood that in other embodiments, a common side surface may be disposed on the side edges of the two positioning seat bodies 232, so that the two positioning seat bodies 232 are integrally formed.

In the present embodiment, the number of the trays 31 is 2, and each tray 31 corresponds to two cantilever beams 32 and two connecting seats 23. Two connecting seats 23 are fixed on the supporting frame 22 at the same height, so that the tray 31 is ensured to be in a horizontal state, and the articles to be dispensed are ensured to be stably placed on the tray 31.

It will be appreciated that in other embodiments, it is only required that the number of trays is at least 1, and each tray 31 corresponds to at least 1 cantilever beam and at least 1 connecting seat, and the number of the trays is not strictly limited. Namely, 1 cantilever beam or a plurality of cantilever beams can be correspondingly arranged on each tray. Similarly, each cantilever beam may correspond to 1 connecting seat, or a plurality of cantilever beams may share 1 connecting seat for connection. For example, when each tray is provided with one cantilever beam, the cantilever beam may be disposed at the middle position of the lower surface of the tray, one connecting seat corresponding to the cantilever beam may be disposed at the middle position of the supporting frame, and when each tray is provided with a plurality of cantilever beams, the plurality of cantilever beams may be uniformly disposed at the lower surface of the tray; when a plurality of cantilever beams share 1 of the connection seats, the connection seats may be disposed in a structure extending in a direction parallel to the surface of the tray and perpendicular to each of the cantilever beams.

In one embodiment, the tray 31 may be provided with a positioning structure for positioning the articles to be dispensed to prevent the articles to be dispensed from shifting and falling.

In one embodiment, the support frame 22 is disposed in a vertical direction, which is a height direction of the dispensing robot body 10 in normal use. The cantilever beam 32 is a strip-shaped structure, the height direction of the cantilever beam 32 is the direction of the height of the mobile robot body 10 when the tray is horizontally connected to the mobile robot body 10, the positioning bump 33 protrudes out of the height direction of the cantilever beam 32, and the height direction is the vertical direction. In one embodiment, the height of the cantilever beam 32 gradually decreases from its connection with the positioning lug 33 in a direction away from the positioning lug 33.

In one embodiment, the cantilever beam 32 comprises a first beam and a second beam, the first beam being in direct contact with the tray 31. In order to ensure the connection strength of the cantilever beam 32 and the positioning bump 33, a reinforcing rib 34 is further arranged between the first beam and the second beam, and the cantilever beam 32 and the reinforcing rib 34 are both designed in a hollow manner, so that the overall weight can be effectively reduced.

In this embodiment, a triangular reinforcing rib is further included, wherein one side of the triangular reinforcing rib is connected to the positioning protrusion 33, the other side is connected to the cantilever beam 32, and the length of the side of the reinforcing rib 43 connected to the cantilever beam 32 is greater than the length of the side connected to the positioning protrusion 33. The length of the side surface connected to the cantilever beam 32 can be set to be two times, three times, etc. the length of the side surface connected to the positioning projection 33, so that the stability of the cantilever beam 32 can be effectively enhanced. It will be appreciated that in other embodiments the triangular shaped stiffener is directly integral with the cantilever beam 32, which corresponds to the second beam being shaped to approximate an arch.

In one embodiment, an avoiding groove 332 is further disposed between the positioning protrusion 33 and the reinforcing rib 34, and after the positioning protrusion 33 is received in the receiving hole 233 of the positioning base 23, the avoiding groove 233 is close to the hole wall of the cantilever beam 32.

In one embodiment, two positioning seat bodies 232 are disposed on the fixing plate 231, and the two positioning seat bodies 232 are sequentially spaced apart from each other along the height direction of the fixing plate 231. Correspondingly, two positioning protrusions 33 are arranged at one end of the cantilever beam 33 corresponding to the two positioning seat bodies 232, and the two positioning protrusions 33 are also arranged at intervals. The distance between the two positioning seat bodies 232 can ensure that the two positioning bumps 33 move into the corresponding positioning seat bodies 232 without interfering with each other.

During assembly, the positioning protrusion 33 is inserted in parallel above the corresponding receiving hole 233, a gap is formed between the receiving hole 233 and the positioning protrusion 33, and then the positioning protrusion is received in the receiving hole 233 along a vertical direction until being matched in place, so that the through hole 234 formed in the positioning seat body 232 is coaxial with the threaded hole 331 formed in the positioning protrusion 33, and the installation gap is minimum. The quick release screw is then threaded through the through hole 234 and into the threaded hole 331, so that the cantilever beam 32 is firmly fixed.

In one embodiment, the support frame 22 further comprises: two support rods 221 and a connecting rod 222, the support rods 221 and the connecting rod 222 are preferably made of section bars. The bottom ends of the support rods 221 are fixed on the bottom plate 21, and the two ends of the connecting rod 222 are respectively connected to the top ends of the two support rods 221. The two connecting seats 23 are provided, and the two connecting seats 23 are respectively fixed on the supporting rod 221 at the same height.

In this embodiment, the supporting structure 20 further includes: two fixing seats 24, two fixing seats 24 are fixed on bottom plate 21, and the bottom of two bracing pieces 221 is fixed on two fixing seats 25 through modes such as welding, bolted connection respectively.

In an embodiment, the cantilever beam 32 is provided with a plurality of first fixing locations 321 along the length direction thereof, the tray 31 is provided with a plurality of second fixing locations 311, all the first fixing locations 321 correspond to all the second fixing locations 311 in one-to-one manner, and the first fixing locations 321 and the second fixing locations 311 corresponding to each other in one-to-one manner are fixedly connected. It is understood that in other embodiments, the number of the first fixed bits 321 and the second fixed bits 311 is guaranteed to be more than 1.

In one embodiment, the first fixing locations 321 are threaded holes disposed on the cantilever beam 32, the second fixing locations 311 are through holes disposed on the tray 31, and the first fixing locations 321 and the second fixing locations 311 are fixedly connected by fasteners (screws). Meanwhile, in order to ensure the flatness of the surface of the tray 31, the second fixing position 311 may be set as a counter bore.

As shown in fig. 4, a dispensing robot is provided for another embodiment, and the same places as those of the above embodiment are not repeated herein, and the main difference is that the tray mechanism further includes a recycling bin 50 for placing the articles to be recycled or placing some light weight articles which are easy to be displaced, and it is understood that this is only an example and there is no limitation on the articles placed in the recycling bin 50.

To sum up, the delivery robot that this embodiment provided, the fixed mode of one end detachable connection on the connecting seat through the cantilever beam, and then realize realizing detachably being connected with bearing structure, simple structure not only, the operator of still being convenient for carries out the dismouting to the tray.

The foregoing is a more detailed description of the present application in connection with specific embodiments thereof, and it is not intended that the present application be limited to the specific embodiments thereof. It will be apparent to those skilled in the art from this disclosure that many more simple derivations or substitutions can be made without departing from the inventive concepts herein.

Claims

1. A dispensing robot, comprising:

the distribution robot comprises a distribution robot body, wherein the distribution robot body comprises a supporting mechanism, and a connecting seat is arranged on the supporting mechanism;

2. The dispensing robot of claim 1, wherein the connecting base comprises: the fixing plate and the positioning seat body are arranged on the fixing plate; the fixing plate is fixed on the supporting mechanism, and a containing hole is formed in the positioning seat body;

3. The dispensing robot according to claim 2, wherein the positioning base has a through hole, the positioning protrusion has a threaded hole, and when the positioning protrusion is received in the receiving hole, the through hole is coaxial with the threaded hole;

4. The dispensing robot as recited in claim 2, wherein the positioning projection projects from the height of the cantilever beam, and the height of the cantilever beam gradually decreases from the junction with the positioning projection to a direction away from the positioning projection.

5. The dispensing robot of claim 2, wherein the cantilevered beam comprises a first beam and a second beam, the first beam being in direct contact with the tray, and a reinforcing rib is disposed between the first beam and the second beam.

6. The dispensing robot as claimed in claim 5, wherein an avoiding groove is further provided between the reinforcing rib and the positioning projection, the avoiding groove being configured to avoid a hole wall of the accommodating hole on a side close to the cantilever beam when the positioning projection is accommodated in the accommodating hole.

7. The dispensing robot as claimed in claim 2, wherein two positioning seats are sequentially disposed on the fixing plate along a vertical direction, and two positioning protrusions are disposed at one end of the cantilever beam corresponding to the two positioning seats.

8. The dispensing robot of claim 1, wherein the support mechanism comprises a base plate and a support frame;

9. The dispensing robot of claim 8, wherein the support mechanism further comprises: the two fixing seats are fixed on the bottom plate, and the bottom ends of the two supporting rods are respectively fixed on the two fixing seats.

10. The dispensing robot as recited in claim 1, wherein the cantilever beam has more than 1 first fixing locations along the length direction thereof, the tray has more than 1 second fixing locations, and more than 1 first fixing locations are in one-to-one correspondence with and fixedly connected to more than 1 second fixing locations.

11. The dispensing robot of any one of claims 1-10, wherein the number of trays is at least 1, and each tray corresponds to at least 1 cantilever beam and at least 1 attachment seat.

12. The dispensing robot of claim 11, wherein the number of the trays is 2, and each of the trays corresponds to two cantilever beams and two connecting seats.