CN216140833U - Separation module and transfer device - Google Patents

Abstract

The utility model relates to the technical field of automation equipment, in particular to a separation module and a transfer device, wherein the separation module comprises a bearing component, a supporting plate and a driving plate, workpieces are stacked in the bearing component, a dodging hole is formed in the bearing component, a limiting groove is formed in the supporting plate, the dodging hole is communicated with the limiting groove, the driving plate and the bearing component are assembled in a sliding mode, a driving part is arranged at one end of the driving plate, the driving part drives the workpieces falling onto the limiting groove to move to the limiting part on the limiting groove, and the technical problem of high positioning accuracy in the workpiece conveying and transferring process in the prior art is solved.

Description

Separation module and transfer device

Technical Field

The utility model relates to the technical field of automation equipment, in particular to a separating module and a transferring device.

Background

With the progress of the mechatronic technology and the vigorous development of artificial intelligence wave, industrial products are developed towards the direction of intellectualization, systematization, miniaturization, modularization and man-machine cooperation. In an automated production line, the assembly and transfer of the parts are completed by a robot arm. The mechanical arm has high refinement, modularization, lightweight and the development trend of multi freedom, and the joint of mechanical arm is the power part and the core part of mechanical arm, is deciding the merit of the dynamic property of mechanical arm, and the joint of mechanical arm includes the decoration ring, and automated production line has following problem to the transport transfer of decoration ring among the prior art: be formed with the through-hole on the scraping wings of conveyor ring, be provided with the limiting plate in the through-hole, bear and be formed with the spacing hole that corresponds with the through-hole on the carrier of decoration, only can just be just to setting up with spacing hole when the through-hole, the dress trim ring just can fall to the through-hole in through-hole through spacing hole, and bear by the limiting plate, this positioning accuracy that just leads to scraping wings and carrier is very high, in case the through-hole misplaces with spacing hole, the device ring just can't fall to the through-hole in, just also need relocate again, so make the transport dress trim ring degree of difficulty very high.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

In order to solve the technical problem of high positioning precision in the process of conveying and transferring workpieces in the prior art, the utility model provides a separation module and a transfer device, and solves the technical problem. The technical scheme of the utility model is as follows:

a separation module includes: the workpiece bearing assembly is stacked in the workpiece bearing assembly, and an avoidance hole is formed in the workpiece bearing assembly; the support plate is provided with a limiting groove, and the avoidance hole is communicated with the limiting groove; the driving plate is assembled with the bearing assembly in a sliding mode, a driving portion is arranged at one end of the driving plate, and the driving portion drives the workpiece falling onto the limiting groove to move to the limiting portion on the limiting groove.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, the bearing assembly includes at least two limiting posts and at least one bearing seat, two ends of the limiting post are connected to the bearing seat to form a limiting channel for the sliding of the workpiece, the bearing seat is formed with the avoiding hole, and the bearing seat is supported by the supporting plate.

According to one embodiment of the utility model, a stop part is formed on one side of the bearing seat away from the limit part, a bulge corresponding to the stop part is formed on the driving plate, and when the workpiece is positioned on the limit part, the bulge abuts against the stop part.

According to one embodiment of the utility model, a flared opening is formed on one side of the bearing seat facing the limiting part, so that the workpiece can slide to the limiting part.

According to one embodiment of the utility model, the distance L1 between the bottom surface of the bearing seat and the groove bottom of the limiting groove is greater than or equal to the height H1 of the workpieces and smaller than the sum of the heights of two adjacent workpieces.

According to one embodiment of the utility model, the height H2 of the drive portion is less than or equal to the height H1 of the workpiece.

A transfer device comprises the separation module.

According to one embodiment of the utility model, the robot further comprises a mechanical arm, wherein the driving end of the mechanical arm clamps the component, and the clamping component clamps the workpiece positioned at the limiting part, so that the mechanical arm can transfer the workpiece.

According to one embodiment of the utility model, the clamping assembly comprises: clamping the driving member; the clamping piece, the clamping piece with the flexible end of centre gripping driving piece is connected, the drive of centre gripping driving piece the reciprocating motion of clamping piece.

According to one embodiment of the utility model, the robot arm is connected to the clamping drive by means of a connecting assembly, the connecting assembly comprising a first connecting piece connected to the robot arm and a second connecting piece connected to the clamping drive, the first connecting piece and the second connecting piece being snap-fitted.

Based on the technical scheme, the utility model can realize the following technical effects:

1. the utility model provides a bearing assembly is last to be formed with dodges the hole, be formed with the spacing groove in the backup pad, dodge hole and spacing groove intercommunication, the work piece can directly fall into the spacing groove from dodging in the hole, need not fix a position the action, and the relative bearing assembly of drive plate slides to the one side of dodging the hole this moment, also can not interfere the work piece and fall to the spacing groove through dodging the hole, only can just be just to setting up with spacing hole for among the prior art when the through-hole, the rosette just can fall to the through-hole through spacing hole in, and bear by the limiting plate, this positioning accuracy requirement that just leads to scraping wings and carrier is very high, thereby the conveying rosette degree of difficulty has been increased, the work piece of this application is on falling to the spacing groove through dodging the hole, just can promote the transfer by the drive plate, the action of location does not have in this in-process, so reduced the work piece and carried the transfer in-process positioning accuracy requirement.

2. One side that spacing portion was kept away from to the seat that bears of this application is formed with the stop part, be formed with the arch that corresponds with the stop part on the drive plate, when the work piece was located spacing portion, the arch supported and leaned on the stop part to prevent work piece and spacing dislocation, and then avoid the drive plate to extrude the work piece, in addition, bear the seat and be formed with the flaring towards one side of spacing portion, make the work piece slip direction not block through the flaring structure, thereby the work piece can roll off more easily and bear the cooperation region of seat and backup pad.

3. The utility model provides a arm is connected with the centre gripping driving piece with the help of coupling assembling, coupling assembling includes the first connecting piece of being connected with the arm and the second connecting piece of being connected with the centre gripping driving piece, first connecting piece and second connecting piece joint cooperation to make arm and centre gripping subassembly detachable be connected, the arm accessible is changed the second connecting piece of different specifications and the work piece of centre gripping subassembly transfer different specifications like this.

Drawings

FIG. 1 is a schematic view of a transfer device;

FIG. 2 is a schematic structural diagram of a separating module;

FIG. 3 is a cross-sectional view of FIG. 2;

FIG. 4 is a schematic view of a portion of the structure of FIG. 2;

FIG. 5 is a schematic structural view of a carrier assembly;

FIG. 6 is a schematic structural view of the support plate;

fig. 7 is a structural schematic view of a driving plate;

FIG. 8 is an exploded view of the robotic arm, clamping assembly and coupling assembly in combination;

FIG. 9 is an exploded view of the connection assembly;

in the figure:

1-a carrier assembly; 11-a limiting column; 12-a carrying seat; 121-avoidance holes; 122-a barrier; 123-flaring; 13-a stop; 14-a limit channel; 15-a photosensor; 2-a support plate; 21-a limiting groove; 211-a limiting part; 3-a drive plate; 31-a drive section; 32-protrusions; 4-a telescopic driving member; 5, a mechanical arm; 6-a clamping assembly; 61-clamping the drive member; 62-a clamp; 7-a connecting assembly; 71-a first connector; 711-a docking station; 712-a snap projection; 72-a second connector; 721-a socket part; 722-card slot; 8-workpiece.

Detailed Description

The technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the drawings in the embodiments of the present invention, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are only a part of the embodiments of the present invention, and not all of the embodiments. The following description of at least one exemplary embodiment is merely illustrative in nature and is in no way intended to limit the utility model, its application, or uses. All other embodiments, which can be derived by a person skilled in the art from the embodiments given herein without making any creative effort, shall fall within the protection scope of the present invention.

It is noted that the terminology used herein is for the purpose of describing particular embodiments only and is not intended to be limiting of example embodiments according to the present application. As used herein, the singular forms "a", "an" and "the" are intended to include the plural forms as well, and it should be understood that when the terms "comprises" and/or "comprising" are used in this specification, they specify the presence of stated features, steps, operations, devices, components, and/or combinations thereof, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise.

The relative arrangement of the components and steps, the numerical expressions and numerical values set forth in these embodiments do not limit the scope of the present invention unless specifically stated otherwise. Meanwhile, it should be understood that the sizes of the respective portions shown in the drawings are not drawn in an actual proportional relationship for the convenience of description. Techniques, methods, and apparatus known to those of ordinary skill in the relevant art may not be discussed in detail but are intended to be part of the specification where appropriate. In all examples shown and discussed herein, any particular value should be construed as merely illustrative, and not limiting. Thus, other examples of the exemplary embodiments may have different values. It should be noted that: like reference numbers and letters refer to like items in the following figures, and thus, once an item is defined in one figure, further discussion thereof is not required in subsequent figures.

In the description of the present invention, it is to be understood that the orientation or positional relationship indicated by the orientation words such as "front, rear, upper, lower, left, right", "lateral, vertical, horizontal" and "top, bottom", etc. are usually based on the orientation or positional relationship shown in the drawings, and are only for convenience of description and simplicity of description, and in the case of not making a reverse description, these orientation words do not indicate and imply that the device or element being referred to must have a specific orientation or be constructed and operated in a specific orientation, and therefore, should not be considered as limiting the scope of the present invention; the terms "inner and outer" refer to the inner and outer relative to the profile of the respective component itself.

Spatially relative terms, such as "above … …," "above … …," "above … …," "above," and the like, may be used herein for ease of description to describe one device or feature's spatial relationship to another device or feature as illustrated in the figures. It will be understood that the spatially relative 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 a device in the figures is turned over, devices described as "above" or "on" other devices or configurations would then be oriented "below" or "under" the other devices or configurations. Thus, the exemplary term "above … …" can include both an orientation of "above … …" and "below … …". The device may be otherwise variously oriented (rotated 90 degrees or at other orientations) and the spatially relative descriptors used herein interpreted accordingly.

It should be noted that the terms "first", "second", and the like are used to define the components, and are only used for convenience of distinguishing the corresponding components, and the terms have no special meanings unless otherwise stated, and therefore, the scope of the present invention should not be construed as being limited.

As shown in fig. 1 to 9, the separation module of this embodiment includes a bearing assembly 1, a support plate 2 and a drive plate 3, a workpiece 8 is stacked in the bearing assembly 1, an avoiding hole 121 is formed in the bearing assembly 1, a limiting groove 21 is formed in the support plate 2, the avoiding hole 121 is communicated with the limiting groove 21, the drive plate 3 is assembled with the bearing assembly 1 in a sliding manner, a drive portion 31 is provided at one end of the drive plate 3, and the drive portion 31 drives the workpiece 8 falling onto the limiting groove 21 to move to the limiting portion 211 on the limiting groove 21.

The work piece 8 of this embodiment can directly fall into the spacing groove 21 from dodging hole 121 in, need not fix a position the action, only need drive plate 3 to bear subassembly 1 relatively and slide to the one side of dodging hole 121 this moment, just can not interfere work piece 8 and fall to spacing groove 21 through dodging hole 121, so reduced work piece 8 and carried the transfer in-process positioning accuracy requirement, thereby solved among the prior art only can just to setting up with spacing hole when the through-hole, the rosette just can fall to the through-hole through spacing hole in, and bear by the limiting plate, the work piece that leads to carries the high problem of transfer in-process positioning accuracy requirement.

The workpiece 8 of the present embodiment can move downward in the bearing assembly 1 under the action of gravity, specifically, the bearing assembly 1 includes at least two limiting posts 11, a bearing seat 12 and a limiting member 13, in the embodiment, the number of the limiting columns 11 is three, the central angles between the three limiting columns 11 are equal, the workpiece 8 is limited by the limiting columns 11, the workpiece 8 can be prevented from moving in the radial direction, and moreover, the contact area between the stopper post 11 and the workpiece 8 is small, so that the frictional force therebetween is small, thereby facilitating the workpiece 8 to slide along the limiting channel 14 formed by the three limiting posts 11, the bearing seat 12 and the limiting piece 13, one end of the limiting post 11 is fixedly connected with the bearing seat 12, the other end of the limiting post 11 is connected with the limiting piece 13, in the present embodiment, the stopper 13 is provided as a stopper ring, so that the stopper post 11 does not shake when the workpiece 8 slides.

Further, the distance L1 between the bottom surface of the carrier 12 and the bottom of the limiting groove 21 of the embodiment is greater than or equal to the height H1 of the workpieces 8, so as to prevent the distance L1 from interfering with the workpieces 8 to be pushed by the driving plate 3 due to too small interference, and the distance L1 is smaller than the sum of the heights of two adjacent workpieces, so as to ensure that only one workpiece 8 can pass through at a time.

Preferably, the side of the bearing seat 12 facing the limiting portion 211 of the present embodiment is formed with a flared opening 123, and the flared opening 123 is disposed opposite to the notch of the limiting groove 21, so that the workpiece 8 can slide out of the matching area of the bearing seat 12 and the supporting plate 2 more easily.

In order to detect the position of the workpiece 8 on the carrier 12, a diffuse reflection type photoelectric sensor 15 is disposed on the end surface of the carrier 12 in this embodiment, the position of the workpiece 8 on the carrier 12 is detected by the photoelectric sensor 15, when the photoelectric sensor 15 cannot sense the workpiece 8, it is indicated that there is no workpiece 8 on the carrier 12, and at this time, the photoelectric sensor 15 gives an alarm to remind a worker that the workpiece 8 needs to be added.

The drive plate 3 of this embodiment slides along the spacing groove 21 of backup pad 2 under the drive of flexible driving piece 4, specifically, the non-drive end of drive plate 3 is connected with flexible driving piece 4, and flexible driving piece 4 sets up to the cylinder in this embodiment, and the flexible end of cylinder provides the effort and drives drive plate 3 and carry out reciprocating motion along spacing groove 21, and flexible driving piece 4 is optional but not limited to the cylinder, and it just can to drive plate 3 and remove.

Further, the height H2 of the driving part 31 of the present embodiment is equal to or less than the height H1 of the workpiece 8 to prevent the height of the driving part 31 from being excessively high and to push the two workpieces 8 to move together.

Preferably, the driving plate 3 of this embodiment is limited by the bearing seat 12 when pushing the workpiece 8 to move to the limiting portion 211, specifically, the non-driving end of the driving plate 3 is provided with a protrusion 32, that is, the driving plate 3 is L-shaped, a blocking portion 122 corresponding to the protrusion 32 is formed at one end of the bearing seat 12 away from the limiting portion 211, in this embodiment, the blocking portion 122 is set as a blocking surface, and when the workpiece 8 is located at the limiting portion 211, the protrusion 32 just abuts against the blocking surface to prevent the workpiece 8 from being dislocated with the limiting portion 211, so as to prevent the driving plate 3 from extruding the workpiece 8.

This embodiment has still provided a transfer device, has adopted foretell separation module, and work piece 8 is set up to the rosette on the joint in this embodiment, and the separation module is set up to at least two sets of to shift the rosette of different specifications, because of the rosette that stacks is at the detached in-process, need not carry out accurate location action, thereby has simplified the separation process complexity, and then has improved efficiency.

The decoration ring of this embodiment is shifted to next station from spacing portion 211 by the driving piece, and the driving piece is set up as arm 5 in this embodiment, and the drive end of arm 5 is provided with centre gripping subassembly 6, and the decoration ring that is located spacing portion 211 is held to centre gripping subassembly 6 to arm 5 shifts the action through driving centre gripping subassembly 6 removal to the decoration ring.

Further, the centre gripping subassembly 6 of this embodiment carries out the centre gripping action to the rosette, and specifically, centre gripping subassembly 6 includes centre gripping driving piece 61 and holder 62, and centre gripping driving piece 61 is set up to the cylinder in this embodiment, and holder 62 sets up to three jaw structure, and the cylinder drive three jaws move in order to centre gripping rosette, and the cylinder drive three jaws move away from each other in order to send out the rosette, and centre gripping driving piece 61 is optional but not limited to the cylinder, can drive holder 62 centre gripping rosette can.

Preferably, the mechanical arm 5 of the present embodiment is connected to the clamping assembly 6 through the connecting assembly 7, so that the clamping assembly 6 with different specifications can be replaced quickly, and further, the clamping transfer motion of the decorative rings with different specifications can be realized quickly, specifically, the connecting assembly 7 includes a first connecting member 71 connected to the mechanical arm 5 and a second connecting member 72 connected to the clamping driving member 61, an insertion part 711 is formed on the first connecting member 71, at least one clamping protrusion 712 is arranged on the insertion part 711 along the radial direction, the clamping protrusion 712 is in sliding fit with the insertion part 711, a socket part 721 corresponding to the insertion part 711 is formed on the second connecting member 72, a slot 722 corresponding to the clamping protrusion 712 is formed on the socket part 721, after the insertion part 711 is inserted into the socket part 721, the clamping protrusion 712 slides relative to the insertion part under the driving of the air cylinder along the radial direction, so that the clamping protrusion 712 extends into the slot 722, therefore, the first connecting piece 71 and the second connecting piece 72 are clamped and matched, namely, the clamping protrusion 712 is driven by the air cylinder to reciprocate relative to the inserting part 711, so that the mechanical arm 5 and the clamping assembly 6 can be quickly replaced.

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

Claims (10)

1. A disconnect module, comprising:

the workpiece bearing device comprises a bearing component (1), wherein workpieces (8) are stacked in the bearing component (1), and an avoidance hole (121) is formed in the bearing component (1);

the support plate (2) is provided with a limiting groove (21), and the avoidance hole (121) is communicated with the limiting groove (21);

the driving plate (3) is assembled with the bearing assembly (1) in a sliding mode, a driving portion (31) is arranged at one end of the driving plate (3), and the driving portion (31) drives the workpiece (8) falling onto the limiting groove (21) to move to the limiting portion (211) on the limiting groove (21).

2. The separation module according to claim 1, wherein the carrier assembly (1) comprises at least two limiting posts (11), a carrier (12) and a limiting member (13), one end of each limiting post (11) is fixedly connected to the carrier (12), the other end of each limiting post (11) is fixedly connected to the limiting member (13) to form a limiting channel (14) for the sliding of the workpiece (8), the carrier (12) is formed with the avoiding hole (121), and the carrier (12) is supported by the support plate (2).

3. The separation module according to claim 2, wherein a stop portion (122) is formed on a side of the carrier (12) away from the position-limiting portion (211), a protrusion (32) corresponding to the stop portion (122) is formed on the driving plate (3), and when the workpiece (8) is located on the position-limiting portion (211), the protrusion (32) abuts against the stop portion (122).

4. A splitting module according to claim 3, characterized in that a flared opening (123) is formed in the side of the carrier (12) facing the position-limiting portion (211) in order to facilitate the sliding of the workpiece (8) to the position-limiting portion (211).

5. The separating module according to claim 2 or 4, characterized in that the distance L1 between the bottom surface of the carrier (12) and the bottom of the limiting groove (21) is greater than or equal to the height H1 of the workpieces (8) and less than the sum of the heights of two adjacent workpieces (8).

6. A separating module according to claim 5, characterized in that the height H2 of the drive (31) is less than or equal to the height H1 of the work piece (8).

7. A transfer device comprising a separation module according to any one of claims 1-6.

8. The transfer device according to claim 7, further comprising a mechanical arm (5), wherein a driving end of the mechanical arm (5) is provided with a clamping component (6), and the clamping component (6) clamps the workpiece (8) positioned on the limiting part (211) so that the mechanical arm (5) can perform the transfer action on the workpiece (8).

9. The transfer device according to claim 8, characterized in that said gripping assembly (6) comprises:

a clamp drive (61);

the clamping piece (62), clamping piece (62) with the flexible end of centre gripping driving piece (61) is connected, centre gripping driving piece (61) drive clamping piece (62) reciprocating motion.

10. Transfer device according to claim 9, characterized in that the robot arm (5) is connected with the clamping drive (61) by means of a connecting assembly (7), the connecting assembly (7) comprising a first connecting piece (71) connected with the robot arm (5) and a second connecting piece (72) connected with the clamping drive (61), the first connecting piece (71) and the second connecting piece (72) being snap-fitted.

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