CN217417118U - Feeding device - Google Patents

Abstract

The utility model relates to a feeding device, including material loading subassembly, transfer subassembly and unloading subassembly. The transfer assembly comprises a transfer disc, the transfer disc is rotatably arranged at the downstream side of the feeding assembly around a first rotating axis, the transfer disc is provided with a transfer groove for accommodating a workpiece, and the transfer disc has a feeding position and a discharging position in the rotating process; when the transfer table is located at the feeding position, the transfer groove can receive the workpieces conveyed by the feeding assembly, the workpieces in the transfer groove are arranged along a first direction, when the transfer table is located at the discharging position, the workpieces in the transfer groove are arranged along a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, and the discharging assembly can obtain the workpieces in the transfer groove. Through setting up foretell material feeding unit, well carousel can become to arrange along the second direction along the rotatory 90 degrees of battery that arrange in the first direction, and rotatory in-process can not take place to strike and wearing and tearing to the battery, can not damage the battery.

Description

Feeding device

Technical Field

The utility model relates to a technical field is carried to the battery, especially relates to a material feeding unit.

Background

In the application of cylinder battery, the unloading mode that adopts at present is for setting up spiral helicine passageway, carries in the passageway through promoting the battery, carries out the unloading again after rotatory to the horizontality with the battery from vertical state, however because the speed is higher when the battery gets into the passageway, leads to the impact of spiral channel to the battery in the transportation process big, and the wearing and tearing are many, damages the battery easily.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

In view of this, it is necessary to provide a feeding device capable of rotating a battery without damaging the battery, in order to solve the problem that the battery is easily damaged by the conventional device for rotating the battery from a vertical state to a horizontal state.

A feeding device comprising:

the feeding assembly is used for conveying workpieces;

the transfer assembly comprises a transfer disc, the transfer disc is rotatably arranged at the downstream side of the feeding assembly around a first rotating axis, the transfer disc is provided with a transfer groove for accommodating a workpiece, and the transfer disc has a feeding position and a discharging position in the rotating process; and

the blanking assembly is arranged at the downstream side of the transfer assembly;

when the middle rotating disc is located at the material loading position, the middle rotating groove can receive the workpieces conveyed by the material loading assembly, and the workpieces in the middle rotating groove are arranged along a first direction;

when the middle rotating disc is located at the blanking position, the workpieces in the middle rotating groove are arranged along a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, and the blanking assembly can obtain the workpieces in the middle rotating groove.

Through setting up foretell material feeding unit, rotate well carousel to material loading position earlier, the material loading subassembly carries the battery to the transfer inslot, and the battery in the transfer inslot at this moment is arranged along the first direction, and then rotates well carousel to unloading position, and the battery in the transfer inslot at this moment is arranged along the second direction, and the battery unloading that will arrange along the second direction by the unloading subassembly at last can. So, well carousel can become to arrange along the second direction with the rotatory 90 degrees of battery that arrange along the first direction, and rotatory in-process can not take place to strike and wearing and tearing to the battery, can not damage the battery.

In one embodiment, the feeding assembly comprises a feeding tray, the feeding tray is rotatably arranged around a second rotation axis parallel to the first direction, and the feeding tray is provided with a feeding groove for accommodating workpieces;

when the middle rotating disc is positioned at the material loading position, in the rotating process of the material loading disc, the material loading groove can correspond to the middle rotating groove, so that the middle rotating groove receives the workpiece in the material loading groove.

In one embodiment, the feeding assembly further comprises a pusher disposed on the feeding tray and configured to be operatively close to and away from the workpiece in the feeding chute to push the workpiece away from the feeding chute.

In one embodiment, the pushing member is rotatably disposed on the upper tray.

In one embodiment, the feeding assembly further comprises a first suction attachment, and the first suction attachment is arranged on the feeding tray and used for sucking the workpieces to the feeding groove.

In one embodiment, the feeding tray is provided with a plurality of feeding grooves which are arranged at intervals along the circumferential direction of the feeding tray;

when the middle rotating disc is located at the material loading position, in the rotating process of the material loading disc, any material loading groove can correspond to the middle rotating groove.

In one embodiment, the transfer assembly further includes a positioning block, the positioning block is disposed on the transfer disc, and the positioning block is provided with the transfer slot.

In one embodiment, the transfer assembly further includes a second adsorption member, and the second adsorption member is disposed on the positioning block and is used for adsorbing the workpiece to the transfer slot.

In one embodiment, the middle rotating disc is provided with a plurality of middle rotating grooves which are arranged at intervals along the circumferential direction of the middle rotating disc, and the middle rotating disc has a plurality of feeding positions and a plurality of discharging positions in the rotating process;

when the middle rotating disc is located at any one feeding position, the corresponding transfer grooves can receive the workpieces conveyed by the feeding assembly, and the workpieces in the corresponding transfer grooves are arranged along the first direction;

when the middle rotary disc is located at any blanking position, the corresponding workpieces in the middle rotary groove are arranged along the second direction, and the blanking assembly can obtain the corresponding workpieces in the middle rotary groove.

In one embodiment, the blanking assembly comprises a blanking piece and a conveying line, the blanking piece and the conveying line are sequentially arranged on the downstream side of the middle rotating disc, and a blanking channel is formed in the blanking piece;

when the middle rotating disc is located at the blanking position, the blanking channel can obtain the workpiece in the middle rotating groove and convey the workpiece to the conveying line.

Drawings

In order to more clearly illustrate the embodiments of the present application or the technical solutions in the prior art, the drawings used in the description of the embodiments or the prior art will be briefly described below, it is obvious that the drawings in the following description are only some embodiments of the present application, and for those skilled in the art, other drawings can be obtained according to the drawings without creative efforts.

Fig. 1 is a schematic structural view of a feeding device in an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a schematic top view of the feeding device shown in FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram of a right side view of the feeding device shown in FIG. 1;

FIG. 4 is a schematic structural view of a feeding assembly in the feeding device shown in FIG. 1;

FIG. 5 is a schematic structural view of a transfer assembly in the feeding device shown in FIG. 1;

FIG. 6 is a schematic side view of the intermediate assembly shown in FIG. 5;

fig. 7 is a schematic top view of a blanking member of the feeding device shown in fig. 1.

Detailed Description

In order to make the above objects, features and advantages of the present invention more comprehensible, embodiments of the present invention are described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings. In the following description, numerous specific details are set forth in order to provide a thorough understanding of the present invention. The invention may be embodied in many other forms different from those described herein and similar modifications may be made by those skilled in the art without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention and, therefore, the invention is not to be limited to the specific embodiments disclosed below.

In the description of the present invention, it is to be understood that the terms "center", "longitudinal", "lateral", "length", "width", "thickness", "upper", "lower", "front", "rear", "left", "right", "vertical", "horizontal", "top", "bottom", "inner", "outer", "clockwise", "counterclockwise", "axial", "radial", "circumferential", and the like indicate orientations or positional relationships based on the orientations or positional relationships shown in the drawings, and are only for convenience of description and for simplicity of description, and do not indicate or imply that the device or element referred to must have a particular orientation, be constructed and operated in a particular orientation, and thus, should not be construed as limiting the present invention.

Furthermore, the terms "first", "second" and "first" are used for descriptive purposes only and are not to be construed as indicating or implying relative importance or to implicitly indicate the number of technical features indicated. Thus, a feature defined as "first" or "second" may explicitly or implicitly include at least one of the feature. In the description of the present invention, "a plurality" means at least two, e.g., two, three, etc., unless specifically limited otherwise.

In the present invention, unless otherwise expressly stated or limited, the terms "mounted," "connected," and "fixed" are to be construed broadly and may, for example, be fixedly connected, detachably connected, or integrally formed; can be mechanically or electrically connected; they may be directly connected or indirectly connected through intervening media, or they may be connected internally or in any other suitable relationship, unless expressly stated otherwise. The specific meaning of the above terms in the present invention can be understood according to specific situations by those skilled in the art.

In the present application, unless expressly stated or limited otherwise, a first feature "on" or "under" a second feature may be directly contacting the second feature or the first and second features may be indirectly contacting the second feature through intervening media. Also, a first feature "on," "over," and "above" a second feature may be directly or diagonally above the second feature, or may simply indicate that the first feature is at a higher level than the second feature. A first feature being "under," "below," and "beneath" a second feature may be directly under or obliquely under the first feature, or may simply mean that the first feature is at a lesser elevation than the second feature.

It will be understood that when an element is referred to as being "secured to" or "disposed on" another element, it can be directly on the other element or intervening elements may also be present. When an element is referred to as being "connected" to another element, it can be directly connected to the other element or intervening elements may also be present. The terms "vertical," "horizontal," "upper," "lower," "left," "right," and the like as used herein are for illustrative purposes only and do not denote a unique embodiment.

As shown in fig. 1 to fig. 3, a feeding device 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a feeding assembly 10, a transferring assembly 20, and a discharging assembly 30.

The feeding assembly 10 is used for conveying workpieces 200, the transferring assembly 20 includes a middle rotating disc 21, the middle rotating disc 21 is rotatably disposed on the downstream side of the feeding assembly 10 around a first rotating axis, the middle rotating disc 21 has a transferring groove 22 for accommodating the workpieces 200, the middle rotating disc 21 has a feeding position and a discharging position during the rotation process, and the discharging assembly 30 is disposed on the downstream side of the middle rotating disc 21.

When the middle rotating disc 21 is located at the loading position, the middle rotating groove 22 can receive the workpieces 200 conveyed by the loading assembly 10, and the workpieces 200 in the middle rotating groove 22 are arranged along a first direction; when the middle rotating disc 21 is located at the blanking position, the workpieces 200 in the middle rotating groove 22 are arranged along a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, and the blanking assembly 30 can obtain the workpieces 200 in the middle rotating groove 22.

Wherein the first direction is the up-down direction in fig. 1, and the second direction is the left-right direction in fig. 1. In practice, the first direction is a vertical direction and the second direction is a horizontal direction.

In addition, in the present embodiment, the workpiece 200 is a battery. In other embodiments, the workpiece 200 may be other products that need to be rotated 90 degrees.

Through setting up foretell material feeding unit, rotate well carousel 21 to the material loading position earlier, in material loading subassembly 10 carried the battery to transit groove 22, the battery in transit groove 22 was arranged along the first direction this moment, next rotates well carousel 21 to the unloading position, and the battery in transit groove 22 was arranged along the second direction this moment, and the battery unloading that will arrange along the second direction by unloading subassembly 30 at last can. So, well carousel 21 can become to arrange along the second direction with the battery rotation 90 degrees that arranges along the first direction, can not take place impact and wearing and tearing to the battery in the rotation process, can not damage the battery.

In some embodiments, the feeding device further includes a frame 40, and the feeding assembly 10, the middle rotating disc 21 and the discharging assembly 30 are disposed on the frame 40.

In some embodiments, the feeding assembly 10 includes a feeding tray 11, the feeding tray 11 is rotatably disposed on the frame 40 around a second rotation axis parallel to the first direction, and the feeding tray 11 has a feeding groove 12 for receiving the workpiece 200.

When the middle turntable 21 is located at the loading position, the loading slot 12 may correspond to the transfer slot 22 during the rotation of the loading tray 11, so that the transfer slot 22 receives the workpiece 200 in the loading slot 12.

Referring also to fig. 4, in some embodiments, the feeding assembly 10 further includes a pusher 13, the pusher 13 being disposed on the feeding tray 11 and configured to operatively approach and move away from the workpiece 200 in the feeding chute 12 to push the workpiece 200 away from the feeding chute 12, thereby pushing the workpiece 200 from the feeding chute 12 into the transfer chute 22 when the feeding chute 12 corresponds to the transfer chute 22.

Further, the pushing member 13 is rotatably disposed on the feeding tray 11, that is, the pushing member 13 can move close to and away from the workpiece 200 in the feeding chute 12 during rotation, so as to push the workpiece 200 away from the feeding chute 12.

Of course, in other embodiments, the pushing element 13 may also be disposed on the upper tray 11 in a reciprocating manner, for example, in a reciprocating manner along a radial direction of the upper tray 11, which is not limited herein.

In some embodiments, the feeding assembly 10 further includes a pushing driving member, which is disposed on the feeding tray 11 and is in transmission connection with the feeding member.

It is understood that the pushing driving member may be a motor when the pushing member 13 is rotatably disposed on the upper tray 11, and may be a cylinder or an electric cylinder when the pushing member 13 is disposed on the upper tray 11 in a manner of reciprocating along the radial direction of the upper tray 11.

In some embodiments, the loading assembly 10 further includes a first suction attachment 14, and the first suction attachment 14 is disposed on the loading tray 11 and is used for attaching the workpiece 200 to the loading slot 12, so as to prevent the workpiece 200 from separating from the loading slot 12 during the rotation of the loading tray 11.

In practice, the first attraction 14 is a magnet to attract the battery into the loading chute 12.

In some embodiments, the upper tray 11 has a plurality of upper troughs 12, and the plurality of upper troughs 12 are arranged at intervals along the circumferential direction of the upper tray 11.

When the middle rotating disc 21 is located at the material loading position, any material loading groove 12 can correspond to the middle rotating groove 22 in the rotating process of the material loading disc 11, so that the material loading efficiency is improved.

Referring to fig. 5 and fig. 6, in some embodiments, the transferring assembly 20 further includes a positioning block 23, the positioning block 23 is disposed on the transferring plate 21, and the positioning block 23 is provided with a transferring groove 22.

It can be understood that, as shown in fig. 1 and 5, in order to rotate the battery 90 degrees during the rotation of the middle rotating disk 21, the middle rotating groove 22 needs to be rotated 90 degrees, so the extending direction of the middle rotating groove 22 is disposed at an angle with the first rotation axis. The middle rotating groove 22 is arranged on the positioning block 23, so that the processing difficulty can be reduced.

In some embodiments, the transfer assembly 20 further includes a second adsorption member disposed on the positioning block 23 for adsorbing the workpiece 200 to the transfer slot 22, so as to prevent the workpiece 200 from being separated from the transfer slot 22 during the rotation of the transfer table 21.

In practical applications, the second attraction member is a magnet to attract the battery into the transfer slot 22.

In some embodiments, the middle rotating disc 21 has a plurality of middle rotating slots 22, the plurality of middle rotating slots 22 are arranged at intervals along the circumferential direction of the middle rotating disc 21, and the middle rotating disc 21 has a plurality of feeding positions and a plurality of discharging positions during the rotation process.

When the middle rotating disc 21 is located at any loading position, the corresponding middle rotating grooves 22 can receive the workpieces 200 conveyed by the loading assembly 10, and the workpieces 200 in the corresponding middle rotating grooves 22 are arranged along a first direction; when the middle rotating disc 21 is located at any blanking position, the workpieces 200 in the corresponding middle rotating grooves 22 are arranged along the second direction, and the blanking assemblies 30 can obtain the workpieces 200 in the corresponding middle rotating grooves 22. Thus, the relay efficiency can be improved, thereby improving the efficiency of the rotation.

In practical applications, the transferring assembly 20 includes a plurality of positioning blocks 23 and a plurality of second adsorbing members, the plurality of positioning blocks 23 are disposed at intervals along the circumferential direction of the middle rotating disc 21, each positioning block 23 is provided with a transferring slot 22, and each second adsorbing member is disposed on the corresponding positioning block 23.

It should be noted that the feeding position of the middle rotating disc 21 can coincide with the discharging position, that is, as shown in fig. 6, the number of the positioning blocks 23 is six, and the positioning blocks are uniformly arranged at intervals along the circumferential direction of the middle rotating disc 21. Thus, when the middle rotating disc 21 is located at one of the feeding positions, the middle rotating disc 21 is also located at one of the discharging positions, that is, the middle rotating groove 22 on one of the positioning blocks 23 corresponds to the feeding groove 12 on the feeding tray 11, and the discharging assembly 30 can obtain the battery in the middle rotating groove 22 on the other one of the positioning blocks 23.

In addition, when going up silo 12 and transfer trough 22 and being a plurality of, it is along with the rotation of going up the charging tray 11 and the transfer dish 21 respectively to go on corresponding between the two, and the accessible sets up suitable quantity moreover for a plurality of charging troughs 12 and a plurality of transfer troughs 22 are in the in-process one-to-one correspondence of going up the charging tray 11 and the transfer dish 22 pivoted.

In some embodiments, the blanking assembly 30 includes a blanking member 31 and a conveying line 32, the blanking member 31 and the conveying line 32 are sequentially disposed on the downstream side of the middle rotating disc 21, and the blanking member 31 is opened with a blanking channel 33.

When the turntable 21 is located at the blanking position, the blanking passage 33 can take the workpiece 200 in the transfer chute 22 and convey the workpiece 200 to the conveying line 32 to complete the blanking through the conveying line 32.

Referring to fig. 7, in some embodiments, the feeding end of the discharging channel 33 penetrates through a surface of one side of the discharging member 31, the discharging member 31 is further provided with a through groove 34 communicated with the discharging channel 33, the through groove 34 is located on the other side surface of the discharging member 31 adjacent to the feeding end of the discharging channel 33, and one end of the through groove 34 penetrates through a surface of the feeding end of the discharging channel 33.

The width of the through slot 34 in the second direction is greater than the width of the positioning block 23 in the second direction and is less than the width of the workpiece 200 in the second direction.

Specifically to fig. 1 and 3, the through groove 34 is located on the top surface of the blanking member 31, and in fig. 3, the through groove 34 and the feeding end of the blanking passage 33 both penetrate the left side surface of the blanking member 31. In this way, during the rotation of the middle rotary table 21, the workpiece 200 passes through the feeding end of the blanking channel 33 and enters the blanking channel 33, while the middle rotary table 21 continues to rotate, the positioning block 23 can pass through the through slot 34, and the workpiece 200 cannot pass through the through slot 34, so that the workpiece 200 can be separated from the positioning block 23 and conveyed to the conveying line 32 along the blanking channel 33.

Assuming that the feeding end of the blanking channel 33 penetrates through the first surface of the blanking member 31 and the through slot 34 is located on the second surface of the blanking member 31, the blanking channel 33 is opened on the third surface of the blanking member 31, and the first surface, the second surface and the third surface are adjacent to each other. Specifically to fig. 3, the first surface is a top surface, the second surface is a left side surface, and the third surface is an outer side surface.

When the battery is fed to the blanking channel 33, one end of the battery may protrude from the third surface and roll along the blanking channel 33 onto the lower feed line 32.

The technical features of the embodiments described above may be arbitrarily combined, and for the sake of brevity, all possible combinations of the technical features in the embodiments described above are not described, but should be considered as being within the scope of the present specification as long as there is no contradiction between the combinations of the technical features.

The above-mentioned embodiments only represent some embodiments of the present invention, and the description thereof is specific and detailed, but not to be construed as limiting the scope of the present invention. It should be noted that, for those skilled in the art, without departing from the spirit of the present invention, several variations and modifications can be made, which are within the scope of the present invention. Therefore, the protection scope of the present invention should be subject to the appended claims.

Claims (10)

1. A feeding device, comprising:

the feeding assembly is used for conveying workpieces;

the transfer assembly comprises a transfer disc, the transfer disc is rotatably arranged at the downstream side of the feeding assembly around a first rotating axis, the transfer disc is provided with a transfer groove for accommodating a workpiece, and the transfer disc has a feeding position and a discharging position in the rotating process; and

the blanking assembly is arranged at the downstream side of the transfer assembly;

when the middle rotating disc is located at the feeding position, the middle rotating groove can receive the workpieces conveyed by the feeding assembly, and the workpieces in the middle rotating groove are distributed along a first direction;

when the middle rotating disc is located at the blanking position, the workpieces in the middle rotating groove are arranged along a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, and the workpieces in the middle rotating groove can be obtained by the blanking assembly.

2. The feeding device as set forth in claim 1, wherein the feeding assembly includes a feeding tray rotatably disposed about a second axis of rotation parallel to the first direction, the feeding tray having a feeding chute for receiving the workpiece;

when the middle rotating disc is positioned at the material loading position, in the rotating process of the material loading disc, the material loading groove can correspond to the middle rotating groove, so that the middle rotating groove receives the workpiece in the material loading groove.

3. The feeding device as set forth in claim 2, wherein the feeding assembly further comprises a pusher member disposed on the feeding tray and configured to operatively approach and move away from the workpiece in the feeding chute to push the workpiece away from the feeding chute.

4. The feeding device as claimed in claim 3, wherein the pushing member is rotatably disposed on the upper tray.

5. The feeding device as claimed in claim 2, wherein the loading assembly further comprises a first suction device, and the first suction device is arranged on the loading tray and is used for sucking the workpiece to the loading chute.

6. The feeding device as claimed in claim 2, wherein the feeding tray is provided with a plurality of feeding grooves which are arranged at intervals along the circumferential direction of the feeding tray;

when the middle rotating disc is located at the material loading position, in the rotating process of the material loading disc, any material loading groove can correspond to the middle rotating groove.

7. The feeding device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the transfer assembly further comprises a positioning block, the positioning block is disposed on the transfer table, and the positioning block is provided with the transfer groove.

8. The feeding device as claimed in claim 7, wherein the transfer assembly further includes a second adsorption member, and the second adsorption member is disposed on the positioning block and is configured to adsorb the workpiece to the transfer slot.

9. The feeding device as claimed in claim 5, wherein the middle rotary table is provided with a plurality of middle rotary grooves which are arranged at intervals along the circumferential direction of the middle rotary table, and the middle rotary table has a plurality of feeding positions and a plurality of discharging positions in the rotating process;

when the middle rotating disc is located at any one feeding position, the corresponding middle rotating grooves can receive the workpieces conveyed by the feeding assembly, and the workpieces in the corresponding middle rotating grooves are arranged along the first direction;

when the transfer table is located at any one of the blanking positions, the corresponding workpieces in the transfer groove are arranged along the second direction, and the blanking assembly can obtain the corresponding workpieces in the transfer groove.

10. The feeding device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the blanking assembly comprises a blanking piece and a conveying line, the blanking piece and the conveying line are sequentially arranged on the downstream side of the middle rotating disc, and a blanking channel is formed in the blanking piece;

when the middle rotating disc is located at the blanking position, the blanking channel can obtain the workpiece in the middle rotating groove and convey the workpiece to the conveying line.

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