CN216836041U

CN216836041U - Automatic feeding equipment and battery production line

Info

Publication number: CN216836041U
Application number: CN202220242700.1U
Authority: CN
Inventors: 孙文怀; 孙全德
Original assignee: Svolt Energy Technology Co Ltd
Current assignee: Svolt Energy Technology Co Ltd
Priority date: 2022-01-28
Filing date: 2022-01-28
Publication date: 2022-06-28
Anticipated expiration: 2032-01-28

Abstract

The utility model provides an automatic feeding equipment and battery production line, this automatic feeding equipment includes the material loading conveyer belt, and order about material loading conveyer belt moving drive arrangement, a plurality of first tool bearing parts of having arranged at the interval on the material loading conveyer belt, and all be equipped with the component tool that is used for loading the component on each first tool bearing part, the direction of delivery's of material loading conveyer belt tail end is equipped with gets the material station, order about under drive arrangement, material loading conveyer belt intermittent type nature is marchd, and carry each component tool to getting the material station in order, it is equipped with feed mechanism to get the material station to correspond, feed mechanism is used for moving the component that loads on being located the component tool of getting the material station and gets to subsequent handling. The utility model discloses an automatic feeding equipment utilizes the component tool on a plurality of first tool bearing parts, can improve the buffer memory reserves of component tool to the component that will get material station department through feed mechanism moves and gets to subsequent handling, with this intensity of labour who alleviates the staff, improves work efficiency.

Description

Automatic feeding equipment and battery production line

Technical Field

The utility model relates to a power battery technical field, in particular to automatic feeding equipment. The utility model discloses still relate to a battery production line.

Background

With the rapid development of new energy industries, the demand for lithium batteries is increasing day by day, and lithium battery manufacturers have higher and higher requirements for the automation degree and the capacity of lithium battery manufacturing equipment. Therefore, it is important to improve the automation degree and the productivity of the lithium battery device.

Mylar (Mylar or Mylar), which is a tough polyester-based polymer, has very good surface smoothness, transparency, and mechanical flexibility. The Mylar film is a polyester film, is widely applied to the packaging industry, and for a power battery production system, the Mylar film is required to be wrapped on a battery core.

And the end plate feed mechanism among the current lithium cell package Mylar equipment is carousel and straight line circulation line structure mostly, and equipment structure is complicated, maintains inconveniently, and is with high costs to the end plate reserves are lower, and operating personnel prepares material frequently, makes staff working strength big, and work efficiency is lower.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

In view of this, the utility model aims at providing an automatic feeding equipment to alleviate staff intensity of labour, improve work efficiency.

In order to achieve the above purpose, the technical scheme of the utility model is realized like this:

an automatic feeding device comprises a feeding conveyer belt and a driving device for driving the feeding conveyer belt to operate; a plurality of first jig bearing parts are arranged on the feeding conveying belt at intervals, and each first jig bearing part is provided with a component jig for loading a component; a material taking station is arranged at the tail end of the feeding conveying belt in the conveying direction; under the driving of the driving device, the feeding conveying belt intermittently advances to sequentially convey each component jig to the material taking station; and a feeding mechanism is arranged corresponding to the material taking station and used for moving the component loaded on the component jig positioned on the material taking station to a subsequent process.

Furthermore, a positioning structure and/or a fool-proof structure are/is arranged on the component jig; the component is positioned and loaded on the component jig through the positioning structure; the component is loaded on the component jig in a fixed posture through the fool-proof structure.

Furthermore, the automatic feeding equipment also comprises a control unit and a detection device, and the driving device and the detection device are both connected with the control unit; the detection device is used for detecting the component loaded on the component jig reaching the material taking station, and the control unit responds to the signal change of the detection device to control the starting and stopping of the driving device.

Further, the detection device adopts a travel switch or an inductive switch.

Further, the feeding mechanism comprises a clamping jaw for clamping the component, and a driving part for driving the clamping jaw to move.

Furthermore, the automatic feeding equipment also comprises a blanking conveyer belt arranged side by side with the feeding conveyer belt, and a transfer mechanism arranged between the feeding conveyer belt and the blanking conveyer belt; the unloading conveyer belt is provided with a plurality of second jig bearing parts at intervals, the component jigs are detachably arranged on the first jig bearing parts and the second jig bearing parts, and the transfer mechanism is used for shifting the component jigs positioned at the material taking station to the corresponding second jig bearing parts.

Furthermore, each first jig bearing part on the feeding conveyer belt and each second jig bearing part on the discharging conveyer belt are uniformly distributed at intervals, and the distance between every two adjacent first jig bearing parts is consistent with that between every two adjacent second jig bearing parts.

Further, the conveying direction of the blanking conveying belt and the conveying direction of the feeding conveying belt are arranged in a reverse direction; the tail end of the conveying direction of the feeding conveying belt corresponds to the head end of the conveying direction of the blanking conveying belt, and the head end of the conveying direction of the feeding conveying belt corresponds to the tail end of the conveying direction of the blanking conveying belt.

Further, the transfer mechanism comprises a clamping unit, a lifting unit and a shifting unit; the clamping unit is used for clamping the component jig, the lifting unit is used for driving the clamping unit to move in a lifting mode, and the shifting unit is used for driving the clamping unit to move between the upper portion of the feeding conveying belt and the upper portion of the discharging conveying belt.

Compared with the prior art, the utility model discloses following advantage has:

automatic feeding equipment, drive arrangement orders about material loading conveyer belt operation to send a plurality of component tools that are located on the first tool bearing part of interval arrangement on the material loading conveyer belt to and get the material station, the component that loads on the component tool of getting material station department through feed mechanism moves and gets to subsequent handling, utilize the component tool on a plurality of first tool bearing parts, can improve the buffer memory reserves of component tool, and the component that will get material station department through feed mechanism moves and gets to subsequent handling, with this intensity of labour who alleviates staff, and the work efficiency is improved.

The positioning structure and/or the fool-proof structure are/is arranged on the component jig, the positioning structure can play a positioning role on the component jig, the fool-proof structure enables the component to be fixed, the position of the component can be accurate through the positioning structure, and the position of the component can be fixed through the fool-proof structure, so that production accidents caused by feeding errors are prevented.

Another object of the utility model is to provide a battery production line is equipped with as above on its production line automatic feeding equipment, wherein, the component is the end plate that is used for assembling the battery.

Battery production line, through adopting as above automatic feeding equipment, can reduce the staff number of times of prepareeing material, optimize personnel's distribution.

Drawings

The accompanying drawings, which form a part hereof, are included to provide a further understanding of the invention, and are incorporated in and constitute a part of this specification, illustrate embodiments of the invention and together with the description serve to explain the invention without undue limitation. In the drawings:

fig. 1 is a schematic view of an overall structure of an automatic feeding apparatus according to a first embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 2 is a left side view of the automatic feeding device according to the first embodiment of the present invention.

Description of reference numerals:

1. a feeding conveyer belt; 10. a first jig carrying part; 100. a material taking station; 11. a drive device; 2. blanking a conveying belt; 20. a second jig carrying part; 301. a lifting unit; 302. a gripping unit; 303. a shift unit; 4. a component jig; 5. a feeding mechanism; 500. a clamping jaw; 6. a component.

Detailed Description

It should be noted that, in the present invention, the embodiments and features of the embodiments may be combined with each other without conflict.

In the description of the present invention, it should be noted that, if terms indicating orientation or positional relationship such as "upper", "lower", "inner", "outer", etc. appear, they are based on the orientation or positional relationship shown in the drawings, and are only for convenience of description and simplification of description, but do not indicate or imply that the device or element referred to must have a specific orientation, be constructed in a specific orientation, and be operated, and thus, should not be construed as limiting the present invention. Furthermore, the appearances of the terms first, second, etc. in this specification are not necessarily all referring to the same item, but are to be construed as indicating or implying any particular importance.

In addition, in the description of the present invention, the terms "mounted," "connected," and "connecting" are to be construed broadly unless otherwise specifically limited. For example, the connection can be fixed, detachable or integrated; can be mechanically or electrically connected; they may be connected directly or indirectly through intervening media, or they may be interconnected between two elements. To those of ordinary skill in the art, the specific meaning of the above terms in the present invention can be understood in combination with the specific situation.

The present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings in conjunction with embodiments.

Example one

The embodiment relates to automatic feeding equipment, and an exemplary structure of the automatic feeding equipment is shown in fig. 1. The whole structure mainly comprises a feeding conveyer belt 1 and a driving device 11 for driving the feeding conveyer belt 1 to operate. The feeding conveyor belt 1 is provided with a plurality of first jig bearing parts 10 at intervals, each first jig bearing part 10 is provided with a component jig 4 for loading a component 6, and the tail end of the feeding conveyor belt 1 in the conveying direction is provided with a material taking station 100.

Specifically, under the driving of the driving device 11, the feeding conveyor belt 1 intermittently advances to sequentially convey each component jig 4 to the material taking station 100, and the feeding mechanism 5 is disposed corresponding to the material taking station 100, and the feeding mechanism 5 is configured to move the component 6 loaded on the component jig 4 located at the material taking station 100 to a subsequent process.

With the structure, the driving device 11 drives the feeding conveyor belt 1 to operate, and sends the component jigs 4 arranged on the first jig bearing parts 10 at intervals on the feeding conveyor belt 1 to the material taking station 100, and the component 6 loaded on the component jig 4 at the material taking station 100 is moved to the subsequent process through the feeding mechanism 5, so that the buffer storage capacity of the component jig 4 can be increased by using the component jigs 4 on the first jig bearing parts 10, and the component 6 at the material taking station 100 is moved to the subsequent process through the feeding mechanism 5, thereby reducing the labor intensity of workers and improving the working efficiency.

Based on the above overall design, as shown in fig. 2 and 1, in the present embodiment, the above driving device 11 preferably employs a motor. Specifically, the driving device 11 and the feeding conveyor belt 1 are driven by a belt to drive the feeding conveyor belt 1 to operate. Through setting up the belt, can make the position of drive arrangement 11 installation not hinder component tool 4's transportation, also can reduce simultaneously that the staff is because of the condition emergence of the damage that causes of mistake touching drive arrangement 11 in the material loading process.

In order to improve the accuracy of loading, a positioning structure is arranged on the component jig 4, and the component 6 is positioned and loaded on the component jig 4 through the positioning structure. In particular, the positioning structure may be configured as a positioning block or rod formed on the component fixture 4, while the component 6 has a corresponding positioning hole matching the positioning block or rod.

In addition, as a preferred embodiment, the component fixture 4 may further be provided with a fool-proof structure, and the component 6 is loaded on the component fixture 4 in a fixed posture through the fool-proof structure. Prevent slow-witted structure can be reference column or locating piece, then have the spacing hole of matching reference column or locating piece on component tool 4 so. It should be noted that the positioning structure and the fool-proof structure do not affect the movement of the member 6 along the vertical direction, and of course, the positioning structure and the fool-proof structure may be in other forms as long as the positioning and fixing effects are achieved. And through location structure and prevent slow-witted structure, can improve the accuracy of component tool 4 material loading to reduce the production accident that arouses because of the material loading mistake.

In this embodiment, the feeding mechanism 5 includes a clamping jaw 500 for gripping the member 6, and a driving portion for moving the clamping jaw 500. Wherein, the driving part can adopt a linear driving motor. Specifically, the driving portion drives the clamping jaw 500 to move, and after the clamping jaw 500 clamps the component 6, the component 6 is transferred to the next process.

Referring to fig. 1, the automatic feeding device further includes a control unit and a detection device, and the driving device 11 and the detection device are both connected to the control unit. The connection among the control unit, the detection device and the driving device 11 can refer to the connection method in the prior art, and will not be described in detail here.

Wherein the detection device is used for detecting the components 6 loaded on the component jig 4 reaching the material taking station 100, and the control unit is used for controlling the start and stop of the driving device 11 in response to the signal change of the detection device. Preferably, the detection device is a travel switch or an inductive switch. When the component jig 4 loads the component 6 and moves towards the material taking station 100 along the feeding conveyor belt 1, and the detection device detects that the component jig 4 reaches the material taking station 100, a detection signal is sent to the control unit, the control unit controls the driving device 11 to stop, and at the moment, the component 6 is clamped and moved by the feeding mechanism 5.

In this embodiment, the automatic feeding device further includes a discharging conveyor belt 2 arranged side by side with the feeding conveyor belt 1, and a transfer mechanism arranged between the feeding conveyor belt 1 and the discharging conveyor belt 2. The blanking conveyer belt 2 has a plurality of second jig carrying portions 20 arranged at intervals, the component jigs 4 are detachably arranged on the first jig carrying portions 10 and the second jig carrying portions 20, and the transfer mechanism is used for shifting the component jigs 4 located at the material taking station 100 to the corresponding second jig carrying portions 20.

In order to reduce the number of material preparation and increase the working efficiency of the worker, in this embodiment, each first jig carrying portion 10 on the feeding conveyer belt 1 and each second jig carrying portion 20 on the discharging conveyer belt 2 are uniformly distributed at intervals, and the distance between two adjacent first jig carrying portions 10 is consistent with the distance between two adjacent second jig carrying portions 20.

It should be noted that, the blanking conveyor belt 2 and the feeding conveyor belt 1 move synchronously, that is, when the feeding conveyor belt 1 is controlled by the control device to control the driving device 11 to stop the feeding conveyor belt 1, the blanking conveyor belt 2 also stops, so that when the first jig carrying part 10 of the feeding conveyor belt 1 moves by one station, the second jig carrying part 20 on the blanking conveyor belt 2 can also move by one station, and the second jig carrying part 20 can receive the component jig 4 from the material taking station 100.

In addition, in order to optimize the arrangement position of the feeding equipment and further optimize personnel distribution, the conveying direction of the blanking conveying belt 2 and the conveying direction of the feeding conveying belt 1 are arranged in a reverse direction. The tail end of the feeding conveyer belt 1 in the conveying direction corresponds to the head end of the blanking conveyer belt 2 in the conveying direction, and the head end of the feeding conveyer belt 1 in the conveying direction corresponds to the tail end of the blanking conveyer belt 2 in the conveying direction.

It can be understood that, the conveying direction of the blanking conveying belt 2 is opposite to that of the feeding conveying belt 1, and the length of the feeding conveying belt 1 is the same as that of the blanking conveying belt 2 and is arranged side by side, so that the component jig 4 moved to the material taking station 100 from the feeding conveying belt 1 is taken by the feeding mechanism 5, and then the component jig 4 is moved to the second jig bearing part 20 on the blanking conveying belt 2 by the transplanting mechanism and is recycled by the worker. And the head and the tail of the feeding conveyer belt 1 and the blanking conveyer belt 2 are correspondingly arranged, so that the component jig 4 can be recovered by only one worker standing at the tail end of the blanking conveyer belt 2, and the distribution of the workers can be optimized.

In addition, the length of the feeding conveyer belt 1 and the blanking conveyer belt 2 of the embodiment can be changed according to the actual production needs, and the longer the length of the feeding conveyer belt 1 and the blanking conveyer belt 2 is, the larger the number of the component jigs 4 which can be cached is.

In this embodiment, the transfer mechanism includes a gripping unit 302, an elevating unit 301, and a shifting unit 303. The gripping unit 302 is used for gripping the component jig 4, the lifting unit 301 is used for driving the gripping unit 302 to move up and down, and the shifting unit 303 is used for driving the gripping unit 302 to move between the upper part of the feeding conveyer belt 1 and the upper part of the discharging conveyer belt 2. The lifting unit 301 and the shifting unit 303 are arranged together and have functions of vertical movement and horizontal movement, both the lifting unit 301 and the shifting unit 303 can adopt a linear driving motor, an air cylinder and the like, or adopt a mechanism capable of stably moving along the horizontal direction or the vertical direction, and the clamping unit 302 can refer to a mechanism with a clamping function in the prior art as long as the respective functions of the clamping unit 302, the lifting unit 301 and the shifting unit 303 are achieved.

The automatic feeding apparatus of this embodiment has a specific working process that a worker sequentially places a plurality of component jigs 4 carrying components 6 along the first jig carrying portion 10 on the feeding conveyor 1, when the component jigs 4 move to the material taking station 100, the component 6 is taken by the feeding mechanism 5 and transferred to another place for subsequent processes, the empty component jigs 4 are taken by the taking unit 302 and lifted and moved along the moving direction of the lifting unit 301, and the shifting unit 303 horizontally moves the component jigs 4 to the discharging conveyor 2.

In addition, based on the reverse arrangement of the feeding conveying belt 1 and the discharging conveying belt 2, and the lengths of the feeding conveying belt 1 and the discharging conveying belt 2 are the same, a plurality of component jigs 4 can be cached, the material preparation times of workers are reduced, the labor intensity of the workers is reduced, and the working efficiency is improved.

Example two

This embodiment relates to a battery production line, which is provided with an automatic feeding device as described in the first embodiment, and the above-mentioned component 6 is an end plate for assembling a battery. The battery production line of this embodiment can reduce the staff number of times of prepareeing material through adopting automatic feeding equipment as embodiment one, optimizes personnel's distribution.

The above description is only a preferred embodiment of the present invention, and should not be taken as limiting the invention, and any modifications, equivalent replacements, improvements, etc. made within the spirit and principle of the present invention should be included in the protection scope of the present invention.

Claims

1. The utility model provides an automatic feeding equipment which characterized in that:

the automatic feeding equipment comprises a feeding conveyer belt (1) and a driving device (11) for driving the feeding conveyer belt (1) to operate;

a plurality of first jig bearing parts (10) are arranged on the feeding conveying belt (1) at intervals, and component jigs (4) used for loading components (6) are arranged on each first jig bearing part (10);

a material taking station (100) is arranged at the tail end of the feeding conveyer belt (1) in the conveying direction; under the driving of the driving device (11), the feeding conveyer belt (1) intermittently advances to sequentially convey each component jig (4) to the material taking station (100);

and a feeding mechanism (5) is arranged corresponding to the material taking station (100), and the feeding mechanism (5) is used for moving the component (6) loaded on the component jig (4) positioned on the material taking station (100) to a subsequent process.

2. The automatic feeding apparatus according to claim 1, wherein:

the component jig (4) is provided with a positioning structure and/or a fool-proof structure;

the component (6) is positioned and loaded on the component jig (4) through the positioning structure;

the component (6) is loaded on the component jig (4) in a fixed posture through the fool-proof structure.

3. The automatic feeding apparatus according to claim 1, wherein:

the automatic feeding equipment further comprises a control unit and a detection device, and the driving device (11) and the detection device are both connected with the control unit;

the detection device is used for detecting the component (6) loaded on the component jig (4) reaching the material taking station (100), and the control unit responds to the signal change of the detection device to control the start and stop of the driving device (11).

4. The automatic feeding apparatus according to claim 3, wherein:

the detection device adopts a travel switch or an inductive switch.

5. The automatic feeding apparatus according to claim 1, wherein:

the feeding mechanism (5) comprises a clamping jaw (500) used for clamping the component (6), and a driving part used for driving the clamping jaw (500) to move.

6. The automatic feeding apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 5, wherein:

the automatic feeding equipment also comprises a blanking conveyer belt (2) arranged side by side with the feeding conveyer belt (1) and a transfer mechanism arranged between the feeding conveyer belt (1) and the blanking conveyer belt (2);

a plurality of second jig bearing parts (20) are arranged on the blanking conveying belt (2) at intervals, the component jig (4) is detachably arranged on the first jig bearing part (10) and the second jig bearing parts (20), and the transferring mechanism is used for shifting the component jig (4) positioned at the material taking station (100) to the corresponding second jig bearing part (20).

7. The automatic feeding apparatus according to claim 6, wherein:

the first jig bearing parts (10) on the feeding conveying belt (1) and the second jig bearing parts (20) on the discharging conveying belt (2) are uniformly distributed at intervals, and the distance between every two adjacent first jig bearing parts (10) is consistent with the distance between every two adjacent second jig bearing parts (20).

8. The automatic feeding apparatus according to claim 6, wherein:

the conveying direction of the blanking conveying belt (2) and the conveying direction of the feeding conveying belt (1) are arranged in a reverse direction;

the tail end of the conveying direction of the feeding conveying belt (1) corresponds to the head end of the conveying direction of the blanking conveying belt (2), and the head end of the conveying direction of the feeding conveying belt (1) corresponds to the tail end of the conveying direction of the blanking conveying belt (2).

9. The automatic feeding apparatus according to claim 6, wherein:

the transfer mechanism comprises a clamping unit (302), a lifting unit (301) and a shifting unit (303);

the clamping unit (302) is used for clamping the component jig (4), the lifting unit (301) is used for driving the clamping unit (302) to move in a lifting mode, and the shifting unit (303) is used for driving the clamping unit (302) to move between the upper portion of the feeding conveying belt (1) and the upper portion of the discharging conveying belt (2).

10. A battery production line, characterized in that it is provided with an automatic feeding device according to any one of claims 1 to 9, said member (6) being an end plate for assembling batteries.