CN217076198U

CN217076198U - Feeding machine for FPC (flexible printed circuit) sheets

Info

Publication number: CN217076198U
Application number: CN202220897278.3U
Authority: CN
Inventors: 刘芫昕; 刘文雄
Original assignee: Suzhou Cluster Electronics Co ltd
Current assignee: Suzhou Cluster Electronics Co ltd
Priority date: 2022-04-18
Filing date: 2022-04-18
Publication date: 2022-07-29
Anticipated expiration: 2032-04-18

Abstract

The utility model discloses a feeding machine for FPC (flexible printed circuit) sheets, which comprises a frame, a feeding mechanism, a material sucking mechanism and a displacement driving mechanism, wherein the feeding mechanism, the material sucking mechanism and the displacement driving mechanism are positioned on the frame; the feeding mechanism comprises a feeding driving assembly and a feeding screw rod, the feeding driving assembly drives the feeding screw rod to rotate, so that a feeding carrier located on the feeding screw rod moves towards the direction close to or far away from the suction mechanism, the displacement driving mechanism is horizontally arranged on the rack and drives the displacement carrier on the rack to move to the position below the suction mechanism. The utility model discloses realize the batch automatic feeding of FPC sheet, guarantee the material loading efficiency of FPC sheet, reduce staff's intensity of labour.

Description

Feeding machine for FPC (flexible printed circuit) sheets

Technical Field

The utility model relates to a lithography apparatus technical field especially relates to a material loading machine of FPC sheet.

Background

A Flexible Printed Circuit board (FPC), which is also called a Flexible Printed Circuit board, or a Flexible Printed Circuit board (FPC), is highly reliable and excellent in flexibility, and is made of a polyimide or polyester film as a base material. It features light weight, thin thickness, softness and flexibility. The method is mainly used for a plurality of products such as mobile phones, notebook computers, PDAs, digital cameras, liquid crystal display screens and the like.

Parts based on FPC sheets are often designed and developed based on a particular application purpose, and often have various shapes and sizes. Because the FPC board has insufficient hardness, is relatively soft and light in weight, a corresponding special feeding tray must be manufactured for each FPC sheet, and a plurality of limiting grooves corresponding to the sizes of the FPC sheets are arranged on the special feeding tray to finish the fixation and transportation of the FPC sheets.

The FPC sheet is formed by punching FPC coiled materials through a punch press, and a plurality of punched FPC coiled materials are all placed on corresponding feeding trays, so that subsequent feeding is facilitated. At present, the feeding method of the FPC sheets is generally that a feeding tray loaded with the FPC sheets is manually placed at a designated position of the next processing procedure one by one, and a material taking robot picks up the FPC sheets in the single feeding tray. The existing equipment does not support the superposition of the feeding trays provided with a plurality of FPC sheets, so that the material taking robot can take materials, and workers can only add a single feeding tray for the equipment one by one, thereby increasing the labor intensity of the workers and lowering the feeding efficiency of the FPC sheets.

Therefore, a feeding machine for FPC sheets needs to be designed to solve the above problems.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

In order to overcome the defects, the utility model aims to provide a feeding machine for FPC sheets, which realizes batch automatic feeding of FPC sheets, guarantees the feeding efficiency of the FPC sheets and reduces the labor intensity of workers.

In order to achieve the above purpose, the utility model discloses a technical scheme is: a feeding machine for FPC (flexible printed circuit) sheets comprises a rack, a feeding mechanism, a material sucking mechanism and a displacement driving mechanism, wherein the feeding mechanism, the material sucking mechanism and the displacement driving mechanism are positioned on the rack; the feeding mechanism comprises a feeding driving assembly and a feeding screw rod, the feeding driving assembly drives the feeding screw rod to rotate, so that a feeding carrier located on the feeding screw rod moves towards the direction close to or far away from the suction mechanism, the displacement driving mechanism is horizontally arranged on the rack and drives the displacement carrier on the rack to move to the position below the suction mechanism.

Preferably, material loading drive assembly includes the drive support and is located driving motor on the drive support, the vertical setting of driving motor and its axis of rotation top are provided with a driving gear, the driving gear is connected with driven gear through the belt, when driving motor drive driving gear rotates, with driven gear connects's material loading lead screw rotates, rotates through the material loading lead screw and makes the material loading carrier follow the direction of height of material loading lead screw reciprocates, and the material loading tray that will be located the material loading carrier and adorn the FPC sheet removes to inhaling material mechanism below, the follow-up material loading of FPC sheet of being convenient for.

Preferably, feed mechanism is still including placing the material loading supporting seat of material loading carrier and vertical setting are in material loading guide rail in the frame, material loading supporting seat side with material loading guide rail sliding connection, material loading guide rail is to the removal route of material loading carrier provides the guide effect.

Preferably, inhale material mechanism including being located cylinder support seat in the frame, the last vertical lift cylinder that is provided with of cylinder support seat, the flexible material support that inhales that drives of lift cylinder piston rod is located its piston rod top reciprocates, inhale and be provided with a plurality of sucking discs on the material support, inhale the material loading tray that is equipped with the FPC sheet through the sucking disc and be convenient for follow-up the placing on the displacement carrier, need not artifical transportation, realize the material loading automation of FPC sheet, reduce staff's intensity of labour.

Preferably, a plurality of waist-shaped holes used for adjusting the positions of the suckers are formed in the material sucking support.

Preferably, the frame is further provided with a material taking robot for grabbing the FPC sheet on the feeding carrier and a blanking mechanism with the same structure as the feeding mechanism.

Preferably, the displacement driving mechanism comprises a displacement module arranged along the length direction of the rack, one end of the displacement carrier is connected with the displacement module through a displacement connecting piece, and the other end of the displacement carrier is connected with a displacement slide rail arranged horizontally through a displacement slide block in a sliding manner.

Preferably, the housing is externally provided with a protective casing.

The utility model has the advantages that:

the utility model drives the feeding screw rod to rotate through the driving motor, so that the feeding supporting seat in threaded connection with the feeding screw rod moves up and down, thereby the feeding tray provided with a plurality of FPC sheets stacked on the feeding carrier moves up and down, the preliminary batch automatic feeding of the FPC sheets is realized, and the feeding efficiency of the FPC sheets is ensured; the displacement carrier is moved to the position below the feeding tray sucked by the sucker through the displacement driving mechanism, and when the feeding tray is placed on the displacement carrier, the displacement driving mechanism moves to the position of the material taking robot to take materials without manual operation, so that the labor intensity of workers is reduced.

Drawings

FIG. 1 is an isometric view of the overall structure of a preferred embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is an isometric view of a portion of the structure of a preferred embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 3 is an enlarged view of A in FIG. 2;

FIG. 4 is a partial schematic structural view of a preferred embodiment of the present invention;

in the figure: 1. a frame; 2. a housing; 3. a feeding mechanism; 31. a feeding drive assembly; 311. a drive motor; 312. a drive support; 313. a driving gear; 314. a driven gear; 32. a feeding screw rod; 33. a feeding support seat; 34. a feeding guide rail; 4. a loading carrier; 5. a displacement drive mechanism; 51. a displacement module; 52. a displacement slide rail; 53. a displacement slide block; 54. a displacement connector; 6. a displacement carrier; 7. a material sucking mechanism; 71. a material sucking support; 72. a suction cup; 73. a lifting cylinder; 74. a cylinder supporting seat; 75. a kidney-shaped hole; 8. a material taking robot; 9. and a blanking mechanism.

Detailed Description

The following detailed description of the preferred embodiments of the present invention will be provided in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, so as to enable those skilled in the art to more easily understand the advantages and features of the present invention, and thereby define the scope of the invention more clearly and clearly.

Referring to fig. 1 to 4, the feeding machine for FPC sheets in this embodiment includes a frame 1, a feeding mechanism 3 located on the frame 1, a material sucking mechanism 7, and a displacement driving mechanism 5; the feeding mechanism 3 comprises a feeding driving component 31 and a feeding wire rod 32, wherein the feeding driving component 31 drives the feeding wire rod 32 to rotate, so that the feeding carrier 4 on the feeding wire rod 32 moves towards or away from the suction mechanism 7.

The loading carrier 4 is used for placing a loading tray provided with a plurality of FPC sheets, and the loading tray is stacked on the loading carrier 4. When feeding, the feeding carrier 4 drives the feeding tray to move towards the direction close to the material sucking mechanism 7, and the material sucking mechanism 7 sucks the topmost feeding tray; the displacement driving mechanism 5 is horizontally arranged on the rack 1, and is used for driving the displacement carrier 6 on the rack 1 to move to the position below the material sucking mechanism 7 and be positioned above the material loading carrier 4. The displacement carrier 6 is driven by the displacement driving mechanism 5 to move to the position below the material sucking mechanism 7, the material sucking mechanism 7 places the sucked feeding tray on the displacement carrier 6 at the moment, and the feeding tray on the displacement carrier 6 is transported through the displacement driving mechanism 5 in the next step.

Referring to fig. 4, the feeding driving assembly 31 includes a driving support 312 and a driving motor 311 located on the driving support 312, the driving motor 311 is vertically disposed, and a driving gear 313 is disposed at a top of a rotating shaft of the driving motor 311, the driving gear 313 is connected to a driven gear 314 through a belt, when the driving motor 311 drives the driving gear 313 to rotate, a feeding screw 32 connected to the driven gear 314 rotates, and the feeding screw 32 rotates to enable the feeding carrier 4 to move back and forth along a height direction of the feeding screw 32, so as to move a feeding tray, on which the FPC sheet is loaded, on the feeding carrier 4 to a position below the suction mechanism 7, thereby facilitating subsequent feeding of the FPC sheet.

Referring to fig. 4, the feeding mechanism 3 further includes a feeding support seat 33 for placing the feeding carrier 4 and a feeding guide rail 34 vertically arranged on the rack 1, a side of the feeding support seat 33 is slidably connected to the feeding guide rail 34, and the feeding guide rail 34 provides a guiding function for a moving path of the feeding carrier 4.

Referring to fig. 3, the material sucking mechanism 7 comprises a cylinder supporting seat 74 located on the frame 1, a lifting cylinder 73 is vertically arranged on the cylinder supporting seat 74, a piston rod of the lifting cylinder 73 stretches and retracts to drive a material sucking support 71 located at the top of a piston rod of the lifting cylinder to move up and down, a plurality of suckers 72 are arranged on the material sucking support 71, a material loading tray provided with an FPC sheet is sucked up through the suckers 72 and then placed on the displacement carrier 6 conveniently, manual transportation is not needed, the material loading automation of the FPC sheet is achieved, the labor intensity of workers is reduced, the suckers 72 are arranged to adsorb the material loading tray, and the stability of the material loading tray in moving is improved.

Referring to fig. 3, a plurality of waist-shaped holes 75 for adjusting the positions of the suckers 72 are formed in the material suction support 71, and the positions of the suckers 72 in the waist-shaped holes 75 are adjusted according to the size of a loading tray to be sucked, so that the loading machine is suitable for loading trays of different sizes, and the practicability of the loading machine is improved.

Referring to fig. 2, a material taking robot 8 for grabbing the FPC sheets on the material loading carrier 4 and a blanking mechanism 9 having the same structure as the material loading mechanism 3 are further arranged on the frame 1, the material loading tray conveyed to the displacement carrier 6 is driven by the displacement module 51 to approach the direction of the material taking robot 8, so that the manipulator of the material taking robot 8 can automatically pick the FPC sheets placed on the material loading tray to the next process for subsequent processing, and the empty material loading tray is moved to the blanking mechanism 9 by the displacement module 51 in the direction away from the material loading mechanism 3 for blanking, thereby realizing the automatic transportation of the FPC sheets and the blanking transportation of the hole material loading tray.

The displacement driving mechanism 5 comprises a displacement module 51 arranged along the length direction of the rack 1, one end of a displacement carrier 6 is connected with the displacement module 51 through a displacement connecting piece 54, the other end of the displacement carrier is connected with a displacement slide rail 52 arranged horizontally in a sliding manner through a displacement slider 53, when a sucker 72 sucks a feeding tray, a piston rod of a lifting cylinder 73 retracts to reserve a space for the displacement carrier 6 to move to the position below the sucker 72, then the displacement module 51 drives the empty displacement carrier 6 to move to the position below the sucker 72, the piston rod of the lifting cylinder 73 extends out, the feeding tray provided with an FPC sheet is placed on the displacement carrier 6, finally the displacement carrier 6 is moved to a material taking robot 8 by the displacement module 51 to take materials automatically, and the displacement module 51 moves to a blanking mechanism after the materials are taken, so that the automatic feeding of the FPC sheet is realized.

The outside of the frame 1 is provided with a shell 2 with a protection function, so that the service life of the feeding machine is prolonged.

The working principle is as follows: a worker places FPC sheets to be processed on a feeding tray, the feeding tray is placed on a feeding carrier 4 in a stacked mode, a driving motor 311 drives a driving gear 313 to rotate, the driving gear 313 is in transmission connection with a driven gear 314, when the driving gear 313 rotates, the driven gear 314 drives a feeding screw 32 to rotate, in the rotating process of the feeding screw 32, a feeding support seat 33 moves upwards to drive the feeding tray of the FPC sheets on the feeding carrier 4 to move upwards to a preset height, a piston rod of a lifting cylinder 73 extends out to drive a material suction mechanism 7 to move downwards until a sucker 72 is close to the feeding tray, the sucker 72 starts to work to suck the feeding tray located at the top of the feeding carrier 4, the lifting cylinder 73 resets, the driving motor 311 drives the driving gear 313 to rotate reversely, the feeding carrier 4 moves downwards, a space for a displacement carrier 6 to move below the feeding tray on the sucker 72 is reserved, the displacement module 51 drives the displacement carrier 6 to move, at the moment, the displacement carrier 6 moves to a position corresponding to the position of the feeding tray, the lifting cylinder 73 starts to work to place the feeding tray sucked by the sucker 72 on the displacement carrier 6, the displacement carrier 6 provided with the feeding tray is driven by the displacement module 51 to move to the position of the taking robot 8, the taking robot 8 takes out the FPC sheet in the feeding tray, after the FPC sheet is completely taken out, the displacement module 51 continues to drive the empty feeding tray to move to the position of the blanking mechanism 9, and the feeding tray is uniformly recovered.

The above embodiments are only for illustrating the technical concept and features of the present invention, and the purpose thereof is to enable those skilled in the art to understand the contents of the present invention and implement the present invention, so as not to limit the protection scope of the present invention, and all equivalent changes or modifications made according to the spirit of the present invention should be covered in the protection scope of the present invention.

Claims

1. The utility model provides a material loading machine of FPC sheet which characterized in that: comprises a frame (1), a feeding mechanism (3) positioned on the frame (1), a material sucking mechanism (7) and a displacement driving mechanism (5); feeding mechanism (3) are including material loading drive assembly (31) and material loading lead screw (32), material loading drive assembly (31) drive material loading lead screw (32) rotate, make and are located material loading carrier (4) on material loading lead screw (32) are to being close to or keeping away from the direction removal of inhaling material mechanism (7), displacement actuating mechanism (5) level sets up on frame (1), and the drive displacement carrier (6) on frame (1) move extremely inhale material mechanism (7) below.

2. A feeding machine of FPC sheet according to claim 1, characterized in that: the feeding driving assembly (31) comprises a driving support (312) and a driving motor (311) located on the driving support (312), the driving motor (311) is vertically arranged, a driving gear (313) is arranged at the top of a rotating shaft of the driving motor (311), the driving gear (313) is connected with a driven gear (314) through a belt, and when the driving gear (313) is driven by the driving motor (311) to rotate, a feeding screw rod (32) connected with the driven gear (314) rotates.

3. A feeding machine of FPC sheet according to claim 1, characterized in that: the feeding mechanism (3) further comprises a feeding support seat (33) for placing the feeding carrier (4) and a feeding guide rail (34) vertically arranged on the rack (1), and the side edge of the feeding support seat (33) is connected with the feeding guide rail (34) in a sliding mode.

4. A feeding machine of FPC sheet according to claim 1, characterized in that: inhale material mechanism (7) including being located cylinder supporting seat (74) on frame (1), vertically on cylinder supporting seat (74) be provided with a lift cylinder (73), lift cylinder (73) piston rod is flexible to be driven and is located inhaling material support (71) of its piston rod top and reciprocate, it is provided with a plurality of sucking discs (72) on material support (71) to inhale.

5. A feeding machine of FPC sheet according to claim 4, characterized in that: the material suction support (71) is provided with a plurality of waist-shaped holes (75) used for adjusting the positions of the suckers (72).

6. A feeding machine of FPC sheet according to claim 1, characterized in that: the frame (1) is further provided with a material taking robot (8) for grabbing the FPC sheet on the feeding carrier (4) and a blanking mechanism (9) with the same structure as the feeding mechanism (3).

7. A feeder of FPC sheet as claimed in claim 1, wherein: the displacement driving mechanism (5) comprises a displacement module (51) arranged along the length direction of the rack (1), one end of the displacement carrier (6) is connected with the displacement module (51) through a displacement connecting piece (54), and the other end of the displacement carrier is connected with a displacement slide rail (52) arranged horizontally in a sliding mode through a displacement slide block (53).

8. A feeder of FPC sheet as claimed in claim 1, wherein: and a shell (2) with a protection function is arranged outside the rack (1).