CN216188828U

CN216188828U - U-turn lifting device for automation equipment

Info

Publication number: CN216188828U
Application number: CN202122306059.1U
Authority: CN
Inventors: 段彬
Original assignee: Guangdong Gerrick Technology Co ltd
Current assignee: Guangdong Gerrick Technology Co ltd
Priority date: 2021-09-23
Filing date: 2021-09-23
Publication date: 2022-04-05
Anticipated expiration: 2031-09-23

Abstract

The utility model discloses a turning lifting device for automation equipment, which comprises a controller, a fixing plate and a grabbing component, wherein the grabbing component is connected with the controller and used for clamping a product; the fixed plate is provided with a rotary displacement assembly for driving the grabbing assembly to rotate and a lifting displacement assembly for driving the grabbing assembly to lift, and the rotary displacement assembly and the lifting displacement assembly are respectively connected with the controller. The structure of the utility model is more compact, and the manufacturing requirement of miniaturized equipment can be met; meanwhile, the rotary displacement assembly and the lifting displacement assembly are integrated, so that the manufacturing cost of the automatic equipment is effectively reduced.

Description

U-turn lifting device for automation equipment

Technical Field

The utility model relates to the field of automation equipment, in particular to a turning lifting device for automation equipment.

Background

When the automation equipment works, the processed product is often required to be turned around and lifted, and the turning structure and the lifting structure on the conventional automation equipment are almost independent structures, so that the structure of the automation equipment is inevitably complicated, and the volume of the automation equipment is increased, so that the manufacturing requirement of the miniaturization equipment cannot be met; and the steering structure and the lifting structure are separately arranged, so that the manufacturing cost of the automatic equipment is increased.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

In view of the above technical problems, the present invention provides a turnaround lifting device for an automation apparatus, and specifically provides the following technical solutions:

a U-turn lifting device for automation equipment comprises a controller, a fixing plate and a grabbing assembly, wherein the grabbing assembly is connected with the controller and used for clamping a product; the fixed plate is provided with a rotary displacement assembly for driving the grabbing assembly to rotate and a lifting displacement assembly for driving the grabbing assembly to lift, and the rotary displacement assembly and the lifting displacement assembly are respectively connected with the controller.

Furthermore, the grabbing component comprises a grabbing cylinder and a central shaft, the grabbing cylinder is connected with the controller, two clamping fingers are arranged at the moving end of the grabbing cylinder, and the central shaft is respectively connected with the lifting displacement component and the rotating displacement component.

Furthermore, a finger pressing block is arranged on the grabbing cylinder, one end of the finger pressing block is connected with the grabbing cylinder, and the other end of the finger pressing block is limited between the two clamping fingers.

Furthermore, the rotary displacement assembly comprises a fixed plate and a rotary cylinder, the rotary cylinder is connected with the controller, the fixed plate is connected with the left and right displacement assemblies, the fixed plate is connected with the rotary cylinder, and a first rack is arranged at the moving end of the rotary cylinder; the central shaft is sleeved with a first gear, the first gear is meshed with the first rack, and one end, far away from the grabbing cylinder, of the central shaft is connected with the lifting displacement assembly.

Further, be equipped with rack guide block and rack stopper on the fixed plate, first rack with rack guide block sliding connection, the rack stopper can first rack butt.

Furthermore, the lifting displacement assembly comprises a lifting cylinder and a guide rod, the lifting cylinder is connected with the controller, one end of the guide rod is connected with the lifting cylinder, and the end, far away from the lifting cylinder, of the guide rod is connected with the fixing plate; the moving end of the lifting cylinder is connected with one end, far away from the grabbing cylinder, of the central shaft.

Furthermore, the lifting displacement assembly comprises a lifting cylinder, a guide rod and a connecting block, the lifting cylinder is connected with the controller, one end of the guide rod is connected with the lifting cylinder, and the end, far away from the lifting cylinder, of the guide rod is connected with the fixing plate; the connecting block sleeve is established on the guide bar, and with guide bar sliding connection, the motion end of lift cylinder with the connecting block is connected, the connecting block pass through the bearing with the center pin is kept away from the one end of snatching the cylinder is connected.

Furthermore, the lifting displacement assembly further comprises two lifting cylinder fixing plates, the two guide rods are erected above the two guide rods in parallel, one ends, far away from the fixing plates, of the two guide rods are respectively connected with the lifting cylinder fixing plates, and the lifting cylinders are fixed on the lifting cylinder fixing plates.

Furthermore, a shaft sleeve is sleeved outside the central shaft and is movably connected with the central shaft, steel balls are arranged on the inner side wall of the shaft sleeve, the first gear is sleeved outside the shaft sleeve, and the shaft sleeve and the first gear can rotate synchronously; be equipped with rectangular guide way on the lateral wall of center pin, rectangular guide way is followed the axial distribution of center pin, the steel ball card is gone into in the rectangular guide way, the steel ball with rectangular guide way sliding connection.

Furthermore, the fixing plate is provided with a through hole penetrating through the upper surface and the lower surface of the fixing plate, the shaft sleeve and the central shaft penetrate through the through hole, and the shaft sleeve is connected with the fixing plate through a bearing.

According to the utility model, the rotary displacement assembly and the lifting displacement assembly are integrated together, so that the whole device is more compact in structure, and the manufacturing requirement of miniaturized equipment can be met; meanwhile, the rotary displacement assembly and the lifting displacement assembly are integrated, so that the manufacturing cost of the automatic equipment is effectively reduced.

Drawings

In order to illustrate the present application or prior art more clearly, a brief description of the drawings needed for the description of the embodiments or prior art will be given below, it being clear that the drawings in the following description are some embodiments of the present application and that other drawings can be derived from them by a person skilled in the art without inventive effort.

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of the overall structure of an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a schematic view of an assembly structure of the grabbing component, the rotary displacement component and the lifting displacement component in the embodiment of the utility model;

FIG. 3 is a sectional view of a connection structure of a center shaft and a boss in an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram of an assembly structure of the left and right displacement assemblies according to the embodiment of the present invention.

Detailed Description

Unless defined otherwise, all technical and scientific terms used herein have the same meaning as commonly understood by one of ordinary skill in the art to which this application belongs; the terminology used in the description of the application herein is for the purpose of describing particular embodiments only and is not intended to be limiting of the application; the terms "including" and "having," and any variations thereof, in the description and claims of this application and the description of the above figures are intended to cover non-exclusive inclusions. The terms "first," "second," and the like in the description and claims of this application or in the above-described drawings are used for distinguishing between different objects and not for describing a particular order.

Reference herein to "an embodiment" means that a particular feature, structure, or characteristic described in connection with the embodiment can be included in at least one embodiment of the application. The appearances of the phrase in various places in the specification are not necessarily all referring to the same embodiment, nor are separate or alternative embodiments mutually exclusive of other embodiments. It is explicitly and implicitly understood by one skilled in the art that the embodiments described herein can be combined with other embodiments.

In order to make the technical solutions better understood by those skilled in the art, the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present application will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the accompanying drawings.

As shown in fig. 1, an automatic sorting feeder comprises a controller, a limiting seat 1, a fixed support 2 and a detection assembly, wherein the limiting seat 1 is used for placing a product to be processed, the fixed support 2 is provided with a sorting driving mechanism for grabbing a component 3 and driving the grabbing component 3 to move, the detection assembly, the grabbing component 3 and the sorting driving mechanism are respectively connected with the controller, the grabbing component 3 is used for grabbing the product on the limiting seat 1, and the detection assembly is used for detecting the product on the limiting seat 1. The sorting driving mechanism comprises a left-right displacement assembly 4 for driving the grabbing assembly 3 to move left and right, a rotary displacement assembly 5 for driving the grabbing assembly 3 to rotate, and a lifting displacement assembly 6 for driving the grabbing assembly 3 to lift.

Install this automatic sorting feedway during operation on the automation equipment, automation equipment's material loading structure can detect whether there is the product on the spacing seat 1 through detecting component on with product material loading to spacing seat 1. When a product is detected on the limiting seat 1, the detection assembly further detects whether the direction of the product is correct; products with the correct direction are grabbed by the grabbing component 3 and the lifting displacement component 6, and are transferred to the next station by the left and right displacement components 4; incorrect direction's product is picked up it through grabbing subassembly 3 and lift displacement subassembly 6, and rethread rotary displacement subassembly 5 turns around the product and turns to, makes it the same with predetermineeing the material loading direction, and displacement subassembly 4 is moved the product and is sent next station on at last through controlling.

The fixed bracket 2 is used as a main frame of the automatic sorting and feeding device and is used for installing and limiting each component. The fixing support 2 comprises two support plates 21 and two mounting plates 22, and the two support plates 21 are vertically distributed in parallel. The both ends of mounting panel 22 pass through the screw respectively with the upper end fixed connection of two backup pads 21, whole fixed bolster 2 is the door frame shape for fixed bolster 2's stable in structure.

The detection assembly comprises a first optical fiber sensor 7 and a CCD camera 8 which are respectively connected with the controller; the first optical fiber sensor 7 is fixed on the limiting seat 1 and used for detecting whether a product is on the limiting seat 1 or not; CCD camera 8 and fixed bolster 2 fixed connection, CCD camera 8 is located the top of spacing seat 1 for detect the product direction and the positive and negative on the spacing seat 1 correct. When the device works, when a product enters the limiting seat 1, the first optical fiber sensor 7 feeds back a signal to the controller; the controller controls the CCD camera 8 to shoot the product on the limiting seat 1, and whether the direction and the front and back sides of the product on the limiting seat 1 are correct or not is known through comparison and judgment with the picture prestored in the controller.

As shown in fig. 1-3, the grabbing component 3 includes a grabbing cylinder 31 and a central shaft 32, the grabbing cylinder 31 is connected to the controller, the grabbing cylinder 31 is fixedly connected to one end of the central shaft 32, the central shaft 32 is a hollow structure, that is, a through hole penetrating through the upper and lower end faces of the central shaft 32 is formed in the central shaft 32, the through hole can be used for placing an air receiving pipe of the grabbing cylinder 31, and the air receiving pipe can be prevented from being damaged when the central shaft 32 and the grabbing cylinder 31 rotate. The central shaft 32 is respectively connected with the lifting displacement assembly 6 and the rotary displacement assembly 5; the moving end of the grabbing cylinder 31 is provided with two clamping fingers 33, the grabbing cylinder 31 is provided with a finger pressing block 34, one end of the finger pressing block 34 is fixedly installed on the grabbing cylinder 31, and the other end of the finger pressing block is limited between the two clamping fingers 33. During operation, snatch two centre gripping fingers 33 of cylinder 31 drive and move in opposite directions, carry out the centre gripping to the product, point briquetting 34 can support the product by the centre gripping, prevent that the product perk from walking the position, influencing follow-up station processing.

The rotary displacement assembly 5 comprises a fixing plate 51 and a rotary cylinder 52, the rotary cylinder 52 is connected with the controller, the upper surface of the fixing plate 51 is connected with the left and right displacement assembly 4, a rotary cylinder fixing block 53 is arranged on the lower surface of the fixing plate 51, the rotary cylinder 52 is fixedly installed on the rotary cylinder fixing block 53, and a first rack 54 is connected to the moving end of the rotary cylinder 52. A shaft sleeve 35 is sleeved outside the central shaft 32, and the shaft sleeve 35 is movably matched and connected with the central shaft 32; the steel ball 36 is fixed on the inner side wall of the shaft sleeve 35, the long guide groove 37 is arranged on the outer side wall of the central shaft 32, and the long guide groove 37 is distributed along the axial direction of the central shaft 32; the steel ball 36 is caught in the elongated guide groove 37 and slidably connected to the elongated guide groove 37. The fixing plate 51 is provided with a through hole penetrating the upper and lower surfaces of the fixing plate 51, the shaft sleeve 35 and the central shaft 32 penetrate the through hole, and the shaft sleeve 35 is fixedly connected with the fixing plate 51 through a bearing. The outer side of the shaft sleeve 35 is fixedly sleeved with a first gear 55, the first gear 55 is located below the fixed plate 51, the shaft sleeve 35 can rotate synchronously with the first gear 55, the first gear 55 is meshed with the first rack 54, and one end of the central shaft 32, which is far away from the grabbing cylinder 31, is connected with the lifting displacement assembly 6. When the first gear 55 rotates, the shaft sleeve 35 and the central shaft 32 can be driven to synchronously rotate; when the central shaft 32 is driven to move up and down by the up-down displacement assembly 6, the steel balls 36 slide in the long guide grooves 37, so that the position of the shaft sleeve 35 and the first gear 55 is not moved.

When the rotary displacement assembly 5 works, the controller drives the rotary cylinder 52 to move, the rotary cylinder 52 drives the first rack 54 to move, the first rack 54 drives the first gear 55 to rotate, the first gear 55 drives the shaft sleeve 35 and the central shaft 32 to synchronously rotate, the central shaft 32 drives the grabbing cylinder 31 to rotate 180 degrees, and a product on the grabbing cylinder 31 is turned around to rotate 180 degrees.

In order to improve the turning accuracy of the automatic sorting and feeding device, a rack guide block 56 and a rack limiting block 57 are arranged on the fixed plate 51, and the rack guide block 56 is connected with the first rack 54 in a sliding manner and used for limiting the movement direction of the first rack 54; the rack limiting block 57 is used for limiting the movement stroke of the first rack 54, and when the rotary displacement assembly 5 works and the first rack 54 moves to abut against the rack limiting block 57, the product on the grabbing cylinder 31 just completes the rotary turning.

The lifting displacement assembly 6 comprises a lifting cylinder 61, a guide rod 62, a connecting block 63 and a lifting cylinder fixing plate 64, wherein the lifting cylinder 61 is connected with the controller, the lifting cylinder 61 is fixed on the lifting cylinder fixing plate 64, and the moving end of the lifting cylinder 61 is fixedly connected with the connecting block 63; the connecting block 63 is sleeved on the guide rod 62 and is connected with the guide rod 62 in a sliding manner, and the connecting block 63 is fixedly connected with one end of the central shaft 32 far away from the grabbing cylinder 31 through a bearing. In this embodiment, the number of the guide rods 62 is two, and the two guide rods 62 are parallelly and vertically arranged above the fixed plate 51 and are respectively and fixedly connected with the fixed plate 51, and one ends of the two guide rods 62 far away from the fixed plate 51 are respectively and fixedly connected with the lifting cylinder fixed plate 64. In other embodiments, the number of the guide rods 62 may be 1 or more.

When the lifting displacement assembly 6 works, the controller controls the lifting cylinder 61 to move, the lifting cylinder 61 drives the connecting block 63 to slide on the guide rod 62, the connecting block 63 drives the central shaft 32 to move up and down, and the central shaft 32 drives the grabbing cylinder 31 to move up and down, so that a product in the grabbing cylinder 31 moves up and down.

In this embodiment, be equipped with two products on the spacing seat 1 and place position 11, there are two first optical fiber sensor 7's quantity, and every first optical fiber sensor 7 can detect the product that corresponds on the product placement position 11. The number of the grabbing component 3, the rotating displacement component 5 and the lifting displacement component 6 is respectively two, so that the automatic sorting feeding device can process two products simultaneously, and the processing efficiency of the automatic sorting feeding device is improved.

As shown in fig. 1 and 4, the left-right displacement assembly 4 includes a motor 41, a speed reducer 42, a guide rail 43 and a second rack 44, the motor 41 is connected to the controller, the motor 41 is fixedly connected to the speed reducer 42, the speed reducer 42 is fixedly connected to the mounting plate 22 through a motor bracket 45, one end of the speed reducer 42, which is far away from the motor 41, is connected to a coupler 46, a rotating shaft 47 which is synchronous with the coupler 46 is arranged in the coupler 46, and a second gear 48 is sleeved on the rotating shaft 47. The number of the guide rails 43 is two, and the two guide rails are respectively arranged below the mounting plate 22 in parallel and fixedly connected with the lower surface of the mounting plate 22. The number of the second racks 44 is two, and the two second racks 44 are respectively fixedly connected with the upper surfaces of the corresponding fixing plates 51, the sliding blocks 49 are respectively arranged above the two second racks 44, the two sliding blocks 49 are respectively connected with the corresponding guide rails 43 in a sliding manner, and the two second racks 44 are respectively meshed with the second gear 48.

When the left-right displacement assembly 4 works, the controller controls the motor 41 to work, the motor 41 drives the speed reducer 42 to rotate, the speed reducer 42 drives the coupler 46, the rotating shaft 47 and the second gear 48 to rotate, the second gear 48 drives the two second racks 44 to synchronously slide left and right, the moving directions of the two second racks 44 are opposite, and the second racks 44 drive the rotary displacement assembly 5, the grabbing assembly 3 and the lifting displacement assembly 6 to move left and right.

In order to control the movement stroke of the second racks 44, a shifting block 410 is arranged on one of the second racks 44, a second optical fiber sensor 411 is arranged on the mounting plate 22, the second optical fiber sensor 411 is connected with a controller, and the shifting block 410 can be connected with the second optical fiber sensor 411; when the shifting block 410 on the second rack 44 is connected with the second optical fiber sensor 411, the second optical fiber sensor 411 feeds back a signal to the controller, and the controller controls the motor 41 to stop working, thereby playing a role in limiting the stroke of the second rack 44.

The working principle is as follows:

firstly, when the automatic sorting and feeding device is arranged on an automatic device to work, the limiting seat 1 is connected with a feeding device of the automatic device, the collecting box 9 is arranged on the outer side of the limiting seat 1, and the outer side of the collecting box 9 is connected with the feeding device of the automatic device.

When the automatic feeding device works, a product is conveyed to the limiting seat 1 by the feeding device of the automatic equipment, and when the first optical fiber sensor 7 detects that the product is on the limiting seat 1, a signal is fed back to the controller; the controller controls the CCD camera 8 to shoot the product on the limiting seat 1, and whether the direction and the front and back sides of the product on the limiting seat 1 are correct or not is known through comparison and judgment with the picture prestored in the controller.

When the controller learns that the product direction and the positive and negative are all correct on spacing seat 1, the controller snatchs subassembly 3, lift displacement subassembly 6 and the cooperation of controlling displacement subassembly 4 and snatchs the product on spacing seat 1 and transfer to the feed arrangement of automation equipment on through the control.

When the controller knows that the front and back sides of the product on the limiting seat 1 are correct but the direction is incorrect, the controller controls the grabbing component 3, the lifting displacement component 6 and the left and right displacement components 4 to be matched to grab the product on the limiting seat 1; then the rotary displacement component 5 is controlled to turn the product on the grabbing component 3 for 180 degrees; and finally, the product is transferred to a feeding device of the automatic equipment by controlling the cooperation of the grabbing component 3, the lifting displacement component 6 and the left and right displacement components 4.

When the controller learns that the product front and back on the spacing seat 1 is incorrect, the controller snatchs subassembly 3, lift displacement group 6 spare and controls the cooperation of displacement group spare 4 and snatch the product on the spacing seat 1 and transfer to collection box 9 in through control, and collection box 9 is collected the product.

It is to be understood that the above-described embodiments are merely illustrative of some, but not restrictive, of the broad invention, and that the appended drawings illustrate preferred embodiments of the utility model and do not limit the scope of the utility model. This application is capable of embodiments in many different forms and is provided for the purpose of enabling a thorough understanding of the disclosure of the application. Although the present application has been described in detail with reference to the foregoing embodiments, it will be apparent to one skilled in the art that the present application may be practiced without modification or with equivalents of some of the features described in the foregoing embodiments. All equivalent structures made by using the contents of the specification and the drawings of the present application are directly or indirectly applied to other related technical fields and are within the protection scope of the present application.

Claims

1. The U-turn lifting device for the automation equipment is characterized by comprising a controller, a fixing plate and a grabbing component, wherein the grabbing component is connected with the controller and is used for clamping a product;

the fixed plate is provided with a rotary displacement assembly for driving the grabbing assembly to rotate and a lifting displacement assembly for driving the grabbing assembly to lift, and the rotary displacement assembly and the lifting displacement assembly are respectively connected with the controller.

2. The turnaround lifting device for use on automated equipment according to claim 1, wherein the gripping assembly comprises a gripping cylinder and a central shaft, the gripping cylinder is connected to the controller, two gripping fingers are provided at a moving end of the gripping cylinder, and the central shaft is connected to the lifting and displacing assembly and the rotary and displacing assembly, respectively.

3. The turnaround lifting device for use on automated equipment according to claim 2, wherein a finger press block is provided on the gripping cylinder, one end of the finger press block is connected to the gripping cylinder, and the other end is limited between the two gripping fingers.

4. The turnaround lifting device for use on an automated apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the rotary displacement assembly comprises a fixed plate and a rotary cylinder, the rotary cylinder is connected to the controller, the fixed plate is connected to the left and right displacement assemblies, the fixed plate is connected to the rotary cylinder, and a moving end of the rotary cylinder is provided with a first rack;

the central shaft is sleeved with a first gear, the first gear is meshed with the first rack, and one end, far away from the grabbing cylinder, of the central shaft is connected with the lifting displacement assembly.

5. The turnaround lifting device for use on an automated apparatus of claim 4, wherein the fixing plate is provided with a rack guide block and a rack stopper, the first rack is slidably connected to the rack guide block, and the rack stopper can abut against the first rack.

6. The turnaround lifting device for use on an automated apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the lifting and lowering displacement assembly comprises a lifting and lowering cylinder and a guide rod, the lifting and lowering cylinder is connected to the controller, one end of the guide rod is connected to the lifting and lowering cylinder, and the end of the guide rod away from the lifting and lowering cylinder is connected to the fixing plate;

the moving end of the lifting cylinder is connected with one end, far away from the grabbing cylinder, of the central shaft.

7. The turnaround lifting device for use on an automated apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the lifting and lowering displacement assembly comprises a lifting and lowering cylinder, a guide rod and a connecting block, the lifting and lowering cylinder is connected to the controller, one end of the guide rod is connected to the lifting and lowering cylinder, and the end of the guide rod away from the lifting and lowering cylinder is connected to the fixing plate;

the connecting block sleeve is established on the guide bar, and with guide bar sliding connection, the motion end of lift cylinder with the connecting block is connected, the connecting block pass through the bearing with the center pin is kept away from the one end of snatching the cylinder is connected.

8. The turnaround lifting device for use in an automated apparatus according to claim 6 or 7, wherein the lifting and lowering assembly further comprises two lifting and lowering cylinder fixing plates, two of the guide rods are erected above the fixing plates in parallel, one ends of the two guide rods, which are away from the fixing plates, are respectively connected to the lifting and lowering cylinder fixing plates, and the lifting and lowering cylinders are fixed to the lifting and lowering cylinder fixing plates.

9. The U-turn lifting device for the automation equipment as claimed in claim 4, wherein a shaft sleeve is sleeved outside the central shaft, the shaft sleeve is movably connected with the central shaft, steel balls are arranged on the inner side wall of the shaft sleeve, the first gear is sleeved outside the shaft sleeve, and the shaft sleeve can rotate synchronously with the first gear;

be equipped with rectangular guide way on the lateral wall of center pin, rectangular guide way is followed the axial distribution of center pin, the steel ball card is gone into in the rectangular guide way, the steel ball with rectangular guide way sliding connection.

10. The u-turn lifting device for use on an automated apparatus according to claim 9, wherein the fixing plate is provided with a through hole penetrating upper and lower surfaces of the fixing plate, the shaft sleeve and the center shaft pass through the through hole, and the shaft sleeve is connected to the fixing plate through a bearing.