CN216834025U - Sliding plate of integrated vehicle door storage device - Google Patents

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CN216834025U
CN216834025U CN202220244926.5U CN202220244926U CN216834025U CN 216834025 U CN216834025 U CN 216834025U CN 202220244926 U CN202220244926 U CN 202220244926U CN 216834025 U CN216834025 U CN 216834025U
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周长
赵和平
杨光
刘煜中
杨鹏
柯晶
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The utility model relates to a slide plate of an integrated vehicle door containing device, which is provided with a slide plate body, the bottom of the slide plate body is provided with a slide plate walking wheel and a guide wheel component, the middle part of the slide plate body is provided with a scissor type lifting mechanism, the bottom of the slide plate body is provided with a door containing device, the bottom of the slide plate body is also provided with a door containing walking track corresponding to each group of door containing devices, and the side part of the door containing walking track is also provided with a locking mechanism; the door containing device comprises a walking part, a turnover part and a door jig part, wherein the walking part consists of a left walking part and a right walking part which are arranged side by side, the left walking part and the right walking part are connected through a turnover shaft, and the turnover part is fixedly connected to the turnover shaft; the right middle part of the cross beam on the door-shaped turnover frame is also provided with a rotating seat which is connected with the door jig component; the slide can effectively reduce the running cost of the whole vehicle door split-assembly conveying line, and improve the energy utilization rate.

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Sliding plate of integrated vehicle door containing device
Technical Field
The utility model belongs to the technical field of the automatic conveying equipment technique of automobile assembling and specifically relates to an integrated door storage device's slide.
Background
Along with the development of each item intelligent automation technique, in automobile manufacturing enterprise, the automation technique is by more and more application, in traditional automobile assembly workshop, to the automobile body, door part assembles the time, generally all adopt solitary door transfer chain to carry out the transport of door, carry out partial shipment and attach together the door automobile body, in the transportation process of door, in order to avoid the mainline region, generally can walk the sky and carry, design the door transfer chain in the high altitude, this will make the assembly workshop increase in height, can occupy the spatial position in many workshops, the increase of assembly workshop height can the construction cost in greatly increased production line workshop.
Disclosure of Invention
The utility model aims at providing an integrated door storage device's slide to above-mentioned condition, this slide can effectively reduce the running cost that whole door partial shipment attached together the transfer chain, improves energy utilization.
The utility model has the following concrete scheme: a sliding plate integrated with a vehicle door containing device is provided with a sliding plate body, sliding plate travelling wheels and guide wheel assemblies are mounted at the bottom of the sliding plate body and move along sliding plate tracks, a scissor-type lifting mechanism is mounted in the middle of the sliding plate body, door containing devices are arranged at the bottom of the sliding plate body, door containing travelling tracks are further arranged at the bottom of the sliding plate body corresponding to each group of door containing devices, locking mechanisms are further arranged on the side portions of the door containing travelling tracks and lock the door containing devices; the door containing device comprises a travelling component, a turnover component and a door jig component, the locking mechanism is used for locking the travelling component in the moving process of the door containing device, the travelling component travels along a corresponding door containing travelling track, the travelling component consists of a left travelling part and a right travelling part which are arranged side by side, the left travelling part and the right travelling part are connected through a turnover shaft, the turnover component is fixedly connected to the turnover shaft, the turnover component is turned over along with the turnover shaft, the turnover component comprises a door-shaped turnover frame, a cross beam in the door-shaped turnover frame is fixed on the turnover shaft in parallel, one side of the bottom of the door-shaped turnover frame is further provided with a limiting mechanism, and the limiting mechanism is used for keeping the door-shaped turnover frame and the travelling component in a plane and limiting the door-shaped turnover frame to rotate towards one direction; the door-shaped turnover frame is characterized in that a rotary seat is further mounted in the middle of a beam on the door-shaped turnover frame and connected with the door jig component, elastic telescopic bolts are further arranged on the side portion of the door-shaped turnover frame, limiting blocks are correspondingly arranged on two sides of the door jig component respectively, and the elastic telescopic bolts are inserted into holes in the corresponding limiting blocks to limit and lock the door jig component.
Further, the utility model discloses in the roating seat comprises bearing frame and rotation axis, and the bearing frame is fixed to be settled the door shape turnover frame middle part, the rotation axis is settled on the bearing frame, the outer tip of rotation axis with door tool part fixed connection, door tool part carries out 180 rotatory commutations round the rotation axis.
Further, in the utility model discloses in stop gear is including two long ratchets of symmetrical arrangement on door shape turnover frame both sides, and it still respectively is equipped with an L shape pin to correspond each long ratchet, L shape pin is fixed to be settled on the walking portion that corresponds the side.
Furthermore, the left walking part and the right walking part of the utility model are both provided with walking frames, and the side parts of the walking frames are provided with rectangular walking wheel arrays and side wall guide wheels; rectangular travelling wheel arrays are also arranged on the outer side walls of the two sides of the door-shaped turnover frame and travel along the door-containing travelling track; and a locking rod is further arranged at the outer end of the shaft of one of the wheels in the rectangular travelling wheel array, and the locking rod is matched with the locking mechanism for use.
Further, in the utility model discloses in still be equipped with on the walking frame and pull out limit baffle, the outer tip correspondence that the walking track was accomodate to the door is equipped with spacing fender hook, and spacing fender hook realizes pulling out spacing of walking frame with the cooperation of pulling out limit baffle.
Furthermore, in the utility model discloses in still be equipped with two door line walking wheels on the bottom face of door shape turnover frame, the shaft perpendicular to of two door line walking wheels door shape turnover frame bottom surface sets up.
Further, in the present invention, the door jig member includes a jig frame, a door supporting plate and a door fastening frame rod, and the middle portion of the jig frame is fixed to the rotary base and is rotated along with the rotary base.
Further, the utility model discloses in locking mechanism has the rotation lever, and the one end of rotating the lever is equipped with the slip latch hook that the perpendicular to rotation lever was arranged, is equipped with hook groove and slip curved surface on the slip latch hook, and the other end of rotating the lever is equipped with the unblock gyro wheel, corresponding to the unblock gyro wheel still be equipped with release mechanism, release mechanism settles subaerially at corresponding station department, release mechanism adopts the form that cylinder drive and unblock raceway combined together, and the unblock gyro wheel rolls along the unblock raceway during the unblock and walks.
Further, in the utility model discloses in all be provided with a storage device on the respective bilateral symmetry position of front portion, rear portion of slide body, correspond every a set of door storage device and all be equipped with the door and accomodate walking track and corresponding locking mechanism.
The utility model discloses a slide of integrated door storage device is invented based on workshop space utilization and the consideration of cost reduction and efficiency improvement. The principle of the device is that the detached car door is placed in the sliding plate and runs along with the sliding plate, only the car door split-assembling track needs to be added on the line edge of the sliding plate at a specific station, the car door is combined with the track, the car door withdrawing device and the car door receiving device are powered by a power system of the sliding plate conveying line. Just so leave the space in the workshop height vacant, compare than whole door partial shipment attach together the transfer chain moreover, cost greatly reduced, fabulous improvement energy utilization.
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Fig. 1 is a front view direction structure diagram of the overall structure of the present invention;
fig. 2 is a schematic view of the structure of the door storage device of the present invention in a downward direction;
FIG. 3 is a schematic structural view of the bottom components of the door storage device of the present invention;
FIG. 4 is a schematic view of the connection structure of the sliding plate chassis and the door receiving device of the present invention;
fig. 5 is a schematic structural diagram of a locking mechanism in the present invention;
fig. 6 is a schematic structural diagram of the unlocking mechanism in the present invention.
In the figure: 1-door storage device, 2-scissor lift mechanism, 3-car shell, 4-sliding traveling wheel, 5-guide wheel assembly, 6-sliding body, 7-limit stop hook, 8-door storage traveling track, 9-sliding track, 10-door line traveling wheel, 11-jig frame, 12-traveling frame, 13-side wall guide wheel, 14-rectangular traveling wheel array, 15-locking rod, 16-pull-out limit stop, 17-turnover shaft, 18-door-shaped turnover frame, 19-L-shaped stop lever, 20-long ratchet, 21-limit block, 22-elastic telescopic bolt, 23-door fastening frame rod, 24-bearing seat, 25-door supporting plate, 26-rotating shaft, 27-sliding bottom frame, 28-locking mechanism, 29-unlocking mechanism, 30-hooking groove, 31-sliding curved surface, 32-rotating lever, 33-unlocking roller, 34-cylinder, 35-unlocking roller path.
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The technical solution of the present invention will be described clearly and completely with reference to the accompanying drawings 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 of the present invention, all other embodiments obtained by a person skilled in the art without creative efforts belong to the protection scope of the present invention.
In the description of the present invention, it should be noted that the terms "upper", "lower", "inner", "outer", etc. indicate the position or positional relationship based on the position or positional relationship shown in the drawings, or the position or positional relationship which the product of the present invention is usually placed in when used, and are only for convenience of describing the present invention or simplifying the description, but do not indicate or imply that the device or element referred to must have a specific position, be constructed in a specific orientation, or be operated, and thus, should not be construed as limiting the present invention.
In the description of the present invention, it should also be noted that, unless otherwise explicitly specified or limited, the terms "disposed," "mounted," and "connected" are to be construed broadly, e.g., as meaning fixedly connected, detachably connected, or integrally connected; can be mechanically or electrically connected; the connection may be direct or indirect via an intermediate medium, and may be a communication between the two elements. The specific meaning of the above terms in the present invention can be understood in specific cases to those skilled in the art.
Referring to fig. 1 to 6, the utility model relates to a slide plate of an integrated vehicle door storage device, which is provided with a slide plate body 6, the bottom of the slide plate body is provided with a slide plate walking wheel 4 and a guide wheel component 5, the slide plate walking wheel and the guide wheel component move along a slide plate track 9, the middle part of the slide plate body is provided with a scissor type lifting mechanism 2, the bottom of the slide plate body is provided with a door storage device 1, the bottom of the slide plate body is also provided with a door storage walking track 8 corresponding to each group of door storage devices, the side part of the door storage walking track is also provided with a locking mechanism 28, and the locking mechanism locks the door storage device; the door containing device comprises a travelling part, a turnover part and a door jig part, the locking mechanism is used for locking the travelling part in the moving process of the door containing device, the travelling part travels along a corresponding door containing travelling track, the travelling part consists of a left travelling part and a right travelling part which are arranged side by side, the left travelling part and the right travelling part are connected through a turnover shaft 17, the turnover part is fixedly connected to the turnover shaft, the turnover part is turned over along with the turnover shaft, the turnover part comprises a door-shaped turnover frame 18, a cross beam in the door-shaped turnover frame is fixed on the turnover shaft in parallel, and one side of the bottom of the door-shaped turnover frame is further provided with a limiting mechanism which is used for keeping the door-shaped turnover frame and the travelling part in a plane and limiting the door-shaped turnover frame to rotate towards one direction; the positive middle part of crossbeam on the frame is turned over to the door shape still is equipped with a roating seat, and this roating seat is connected door tool part, the lateral part of the frame is turned over to the door shape still is equipped with elastic telescopic bolt 22, the both sides of door tool part correspond respectively and are provided with stopper 21, and elastic telescopic bolt carries out spacing locking to door tool part in inserting the hole on the stopper that corresponds.
Further, in this embodiment, the rotating base is composed of a bearing seat 24 and a rotating shaft 26, the bearing seat is fixedly arranged in the middle of the door-shaped turnover frame, the rotating shaft is arranged on the bearing seat, the outer end of the rotating shaft is fixedly connected with the door jig component, and the door jig component performs 180-degree rotation reversing around the rotating shaft.
Furthermore, in this embodiment, the limiting mechanism includes two long ratchets 20 symmetrically disposed on two sides of the door-shaped turnover frame, and an L-shaped stop lever 19 is disposed corresponding to each long ratchet, and the L-shaped stop levers are fixedly disposed on the traveling portions on the corresponding sides.
Furthermore, in the embodiment, the left walking part and the right walking part are both provided with a walking frame 12, and a rectangular walking wheel array 14 and a side wall guide wheel 13 are arranged on the side part of the walking frame; rectangular travelling wheel arrays are also arranged on the outer side walls of the two sides of the door-shaped turnover frame and travel along the door-containing travelling track; and a locking rod 15 is further arranged at the outer end of the shaft of one of the wheels in the rectangular travelling wheel array, and the locking rod is matched with the locking mechanism for use.
Furthermore, in this embodiment, the traveling frame is further provided with a pull-out limit baffle 16, the outer end of the door accommodating traveling rail is correspondingly provided with a limit hook 7, and the limit hook and the pull-out limit baffle are matched to realize the pull-out limit of the traveling frame.
Furthermore, in this embodiment, two door line traveling wheels 10 are further disposed on the bottom surface of the door-shaped inverted frame, and wheel axles of the two door line traveling wheels are perpendicular to the bottom surface of the door-shaped inverted frame.
Further, in the present embodiment, the door jig includes a jig frame 11, a door supporting plate 25 and a door fastening frame rod 23, and the middle portion of the jig frame is fixedly connected to the rotary base and rotates along with the rotary base.
Further, in this embodiment the locking mechanism has a rotating lever 32, one end of the rotating lever is provided with a sliding lock hook perpendicular to the rotating lever, the sliding lock hook is provided with a hook groove 30 and a sliding curved surface 31, the other end of the rotating lever is provided with an unlocking roller 33, and an unlocking mechanism is further provided corresponding to the unlocking roller and is arranged on the ground of the corresponding station, the unlocking mechanism adopts a mode of combining a cylinder 34 and the unlocking roller path 33, and the unlocking roller moves along the unlocking roller path in a rolling manner during unlocking.
Furthermore, in this embodiment, the front portion and the rear portion of the skateboard body are respectively provided with a door storage device at symmetrical positions on two sides, and each door storage device is provided with a door storage track and a corresponding locking mechanism.
The utility model discloses in set up four sets of door storage device in the both sides of slide body, install preceding left door respectively, preceding right door, back left door, back right door, utilize locking mechanism on the slide body to fix door storage device, remove and send along with the slide. The front and back of the two sides of the lower part of the sliding plate body are provided with door storage walking rails, when the vehicle doors need to be assembled or disassembled, the locking mechanism on the sliding plate is unlocked, and then the door storage device is extracted by using a vehicle door extraction mechanism (adopting an air cylinder or a hydraulic cylinder or being directly pulled out manually). When the door storage device is drawn out to the running part in the door storage device or on the track at the lower part of the sliding plate, the profile of the curved track is utilized to restrain the door line running wheel on the turnover part, the turnover part of the door storage device is turned over, finally, the door can be separately assembled or assembled, namely, the door can be in an upright state, meanwhile, the door storage device can be moved forward together by the force of the conveying sliding plate, and the rectangular running wheel array on the turnover part runs in the door track arranged beside the sliding plate conveying line. When all accessories on the vehicle door are installed, after the vehicle door is installed on a vehicle body through the power-assisted mechanical handle, the rectangular travelling wheel array of the overturning component is restrained by utilizing the molded surface of the bending track, the overturning component of the door containing device slowly falls down to the point that the overturning component of the door containing device and the travelling component are basically in the same horizontal plane, at the moment, the door containing device is retracted to the lower part of the sliding plate body through the retracting operation of the vehicle door, and then the vehicle door is locked to carry out the assembling work of the next vehicle.
The door jig part in the utility model can rotate 180 degrees around the rotating seat, and can be overturned after being fixed by the elastic telescopic bolt after each rotation; the 180-degree rotation of the vehicle door is to perform related processing operations on two surfaces of the vehicle door, and one surface can be replaced every time.
The elastic telescopic bolt is a bolt with a spring for resetting, and is a relatively conventional structure.
The utility model discloses a slide of integrated door storage device is invented based on workshop space utilization and the consideration of cost reduction and efficiency improvement. The principle of the device is that the detached car door is placed in the sliding plate and runs along with the sliding plate, only the car door split-assembling track needs to be added on the line edge of the sliding plate at a specific station, the car door is combined with the track, the car door withdrawing device and the car door receiving device are powered by a power system of the sliding plate conveying line. Just so leave the space in the workshop height vacant, compare than whole door partial shipment attach together the transfer chain moreover, cost greatly reduced, fabulous improvement energy utilization.

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1. The utility model provides an integrated door storage device's slide, has the slide body, and slide walking wheel and leading wheel subassembly are equipped with to the bottom of slide body, and slide walking wheel and leading wheel subassembly move along the slide track, and the middle part of slide body is equipped with scissor lift mechanism, its characterized in that: the bottom of the sliding plate body is provided with a door containing device, the bottom of the sliding plate body is also provided with a door containing walking track corresponding to each group of door containing devices, and the side part of the door containing walking track is also provided with a locking mechanism which locks the door containing devices; the door containing device comprises a travelling component, a turnover component and a door jig component, the locking mechanism is used for locking the travelling component in the moving process of the door containing device, the travelling component travels along a corresponding door containing travelling track, the travelling component consists of a left travelling part and a right travelling part which are arranged side by side, the left travelling part and the right travelling part are connected through a turnover shaft, the turnover component is fixedly connected to the turnover shaft, the turnover component is turned over along with the turnover shaft, the turnover component comprises a door-shaped turnover frame, a cross beam in the door-shaped turnover frame is fixed on the turnover shaft in parallel, one side of the bottom of the door-shaped turnover frame is further provided with a limiting mechanism, and the limiting mechanism is used for keeping the door-shaped turnover frame and the travelling component in a plane and limiting the door-shaped turnover frame to rotate towards one direction; the door-shaped turnover frame is characterized in that a rotary seat is further mounted in the middle of a beam on the door-shaped turnover frame and connected with the door jig component, elastic telescopic bolts are further arranged on the side portion of the door-shaped turnover frame, limiting blocks are correspondingly arranged on two sides of the door jig component respectively, and the elastic telescopic bolts are inserted into holes in the corresponding limiting blocks to limit and lock the door jig component.
2. The slide board of an integrated door receiving apparatus according to claim 1, wherein: the rotary seat is composed of a bearing seat and a rotary shaft, the bearing seat is fixedly arranged in the middle of the door-shaped turnover frame, the rotary shaft is arranged on the bearing seat, the outer end part of the rotary shaft is fixedly connected with the door jig part, and the door jig part rotates around the rotary shaft for 180 degrees to change direction.
3. The slide board of an integrated door receiving apparatus according to claim 1, wherein: the limiting mechanism comprises two long ratchets which are symmetrically arranged at two sides of the door-shaped turnover frame, an L-shaped stop lever is arranged corresponding to each long ratchet, and the L-shaped stop levers are fixedly arranged on the walking parts at corresponding sides.
4. The slide board of an integrated door receiving apparatus according to claim 1, wherein: the left walking part and the right walking part are respectively provided with a walking frame, and a rectangular walking wheel array and a side wall guide wheel are arranged on the side part of the walking frame; rectangular travelling wheel arrays are also arranged on the outer side walls of the two sides of the door-shaped turnover frame and travel along the door-containing travelling track; and a locking rod is further arranged at the outer end of the shaft of one of the wheels in the rectangular travelling wheel array, and the locking rod is matched with the locking mechanism for use.
5. The slide board of an integrated door receiving apparatus according to claim 4, wherein: the walking frame is also provided with a pull-out limiting baffle, the outer end part of the door containing walking track is correspondingly provided with a limiting stop hook, and the limiting stop hook is matched with the pull-out limiting baffle to realize the pull-out limiting of the walking frame.
6. The slide board of an integrated door receiving apparatus according to claim 1, wherein: the bottom surface of the door-shaped overturning frame is also provided with two vehicle door line travelling wheels, and wheel shafts of the two vehicle door line travelling wheels are perpendicular to the bottom surface of the door-shaped overturning frame.
7. The slide board of an integrated door receiving apparatus according to claim 1, wherein: the door jig part comprises a jig frame, a vehicle door supporting plate and a vehicle door fastening frame rod, and the middle part of the jig frame is fixedly connected with the rotating seat and rotates along with the rotating seat.
8. The slide board of an integrated door receiving apparatus according to claim 1, wherein: locking mechanism has the rotation lever, and the one end of rotating the lever is equipped with the slip latch hook that the perpendicular to rotation lever was arranged, is equipped with hook groove and slip curved surface on the slip latch hook, and the other end of rotating the lever is equipped with the unblock gyro wheel, corresponding to the unblock gyro wheel still be equipped with release mechanism, release mechanism settles subaerial at corresponding station department, release mechanism adopts the form that cylinder drive and unblock raceway combined together, and the unblock gyro wheel rolls the walking along the unblock raceway during the unblock.
9. The slide board of an integrated door receiving apparatus according to claim 1, wherein: the sliding plate is characterized in that door storage devices are arranged on the front portion and the rear portion of the sliding plate body in symmetrical positions on two sides respectively, and a door storage walking track and a corresponding locking mechanism are arranged corresponding to each group of door storage devices.
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