CN217965308U

CN217965308U - Automatic positioning device and automatic laser etching equipment comprising same

Info

Publication number: CN217965308U
Application number: CN202123032814.8U
Authority: CN
Inventors: 唐永平; 曹瑜
Original assignee: Suzhou New Continent Precision Technology Co ltd
Current assignee: Suzhou New Continent Precision Technology Co ltd
Priority date: 2021-12-02
Filing date: 2021-12-02
Publication date: 2022-12-06
Anticipated expiration: 2031-12-02

Abstract

The utility model discloses an automatic positioning device and an automatic laser etching device comprising the same, wherein the automatic positioning device comprises a positioning clamp, the positioning clamp comprises a positioning panel, a positioning adsorption piece and a positioning component arranged at the edge of the positioning panel; a positioning station is formed on the positioning panel, and the positioning panel realizes the positioning of the material placed on the positioning station; the positioning adsorption piece is used for realizing adsorption positioning of the material placed on the positioning panel, and after the material is positioned on the positioning station, the positioning adsorption piece releases the adsorption state of the material; the locating component realizes the limitation of the material placed on the locating station, the locating component comprises a plurality of locating blocks, the highest surface of each locating block is higher than the horizontal surface of the locating panel for placing the material, and the outer edge of the material on the locating panel is abutted against the outer edge of the locating block. The utility model discloses a positioner has realized the accurate positioning to the material through positioning fixture's structural design, uses the location to adsorb the piece and prevent that the material from sliding.

Description

Automatic positioning device and automatic laser etching equipment comprising same

Technical Field

The utility model relates to a radium-shine equipment technical field especially relates to an automatic positioner and contain device's automatic radium carving equipment.

Background

Laser processing, also known as laser processing, is a processing process of irradiating a light beam with high energy density to the surface of a material to vaporize the material or change the color of the material, and is an advanced manufacturing technology, and has numerous fields of non-contact, no need of tools and dies, high efficiency, convenience in numerical control and capability of being used for special processing, and the laser processing is widely applied to automobile, metallurgy, aerospace, machinery, textile, chemical engineering, building, shipbuilding, instruments and meters, microelectronic industry, artwork manufacturing, daily living goods and industrial goods manufacturing and the like, and is used for punching, cutting, milling, welding, etching, strengthening and repairing of large parts, material surface modification and material synthesis, rapid manufacturing of dies, models and parts, artwork manufacturing and cleaning, product marking, anti-counterfeiting and the like.

Laser processing is also increasingly applied to the technical field of manufacturing of precision instruments such as notebook computers, mobile phones and the like, the precision instruments have high requirements on laser position precision, and certain products need to be subjected to laser special marks at specific positions, so that high-precision operations such as determining the processing surface, the processing angle, the processing specific position positioning and the like at the specific positions are needed in the laser process, and the requirements on product positioning and adjustability of laser equipment in the processing process are high. And present laser beam machining equipment is mostly semi-automatic mode, and there is great promotion space in the automation level, and the participation of people is higher under the semi-automatic mode, thinks the error great in the course of working, and it is not suitable for the high positioning accuracy requirement of precision instruments. On this basis current radium carving equipment relies on semi-automatization positioning adjustment more when fixing a position the material, carries out the repeated location through the form of many times calibration to satisfy the machining precision demand, but this kind of semi-automatization is adjusted and has been reduced machining efficiency in the actual production process, has the not enough problem of positioning precision of probabilistic. Therefore, there are many defects and shortcomings in the production of the existing semi-automatic laser processing equipment, and there is a need to improve the existing technology and design a laser processing equipment with higher automation degree for precise instruments.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

This section summarizes some aspects of the present disclosure and briefly introduces some preferred embodiments. Simplifications or omissions in this section as well as the description in the abstract or the title may be made to avoid obscuring the purpose of this section, the abstract or the title. Such simplifications or omissions are not intended to limit the scope of the present disclosure.

The utility model aims at providing a positioner with automatic positioning function, it includes positioning fixture, and this positioning fixture forms the location station, still is provided with the location on the location station and adsorbs piece and locating component, when fixing a position the material, fixes a position spacingly through the position relation of locating component to the material, and adsorbs the material through the location and place the location and slide, has realized automatic quick location, has promoted the machining efficiency of product. The detailed technical scheme of the utility model is as follows:

an automatic positioning device comprises a positioning clamp, wherein the positioning clamp comprises a positioning panel, a positioning adsorption piece and a positioning assembly arranged at the edge of the positioning panel;

a positioning station is formed on the positioning panel, and the positioning panel is configured to position the material placed on the positioning station;

the positioning adsorption piece is configured to realize adsorption positioning of the material placed on the positioning panel, and after the material is positioned on the positioning station, the positioning adsorption piece releases the adsorption state of the material;

the positioning assembly is configured to limit the position of a material placed on the positioning station, the positioning assembly comprises one or more positioning blocks, the positioning blocks are arranged on the edge of the plate surface of the positioning panel, the highest surface of each positioning block is higher than the horizontal surface of the positioning panel for placing the material, and the outer edge of the material on the positioning panel is abutted against the outer edge of each positioning block.

Above-mentioned technical scheme is further, the locating panel passes through the support frame and erects on the board, the locating panel center has the through-hole, the location adsorbs the piece to pass through the connecting plate and installs in the through-hole.

Further, the positioning and adsorbing piece comprises one or more suckers and an air cylinder connected with the suckers, the air cylinder is configured to blow or suck air to the suckers, and the suckers adsorb materials when the air cylinder sucks air to the suckers; and when the air cylinder blows air to the sucker, the sucker releases the adsorption state of the material.

Furthermore, the sucker of the positioning adsorption piece faces to one surface of the positioning panel on which the material is placed; the positioning panel is erected on the machine table through a bracket to form an accommodating space of the cylinder of the positioning adsorption piece; the positioning adsorption piece is provided with a sucker, one end of the positioning adsorption piece is provided with the connecting plate, and the shape and the size of the connecting plate are matched with those of the through hole in the positioning panel.

Furthermore, the positioning panel is a rectangular panel, and has two opposite long sides and two opposite short sides, and a groove is formed in each of the long sides and the short sides and is recessed inwards from the edge of the rectangular panel, and the positioning block is embedded in the groove.

Further, the locating component also comprises a clamping component.

Furthermore, the clamping piece is clamped on the outer edge of the other short side of the rectangular panel, the highest surface of the clamping piece is higher than the horizontal surface of the positioning panel for placing materials, and the outer edge of the materials on the positioning panel is abutted against the outer edge of the clamping piece.

Furthermore, the positioning block is a block-shaped structure which is adaptive to the size and the shape of the groove; the screens piece is "L" shape structure.

Furthermore, the positioning assembly also comprises a plurality of supporting bulges; the plate surface close to the other long edge of the rectangular panel is provided with a plurality of supporting bulges; the positioning block, the clamping piece and the plurality of supporting bulges jointly position the material on the positioning station; the positioning adsorption piece adsorbs and fixes the material, and the surface to be laser engraved of the material on the positioning station faces the positioning adsorption piece; when an external device picks up the positioned material from the positioning clamp, the positioning adsorption piece releases the adsorption state of the material.

Based on the above-mentioned automatic positioning device that provides, the utility model also provides an automatic radium carving equipment, this automatic radium carving equipment includes foretell automatic positioning device, positioner by the realization of configuration extremely to the material loading the location of the material on the automatic radium carving equipment. This automatic change radium carving equipment still includes: set up loading attachment, transfer device, radium carving device and unloader on the board, wherein:

the feeding device is configured to realize feeding of the automatic laser etching equipment;

the transfer device is configured to pick up materials from the feeding device, place the picked materials on the positioning device for positioning, and transfer the positioned materials to a laser etching station of the laser etching device;

the laser etching device is configured to realize laser etching on the surface of the material at the laser etching station;

the transfer device is further configured to enable transfer of material from the laser engraving station completing laser engraving onto the blanking device;

the blanking device is configured to effect transfer of material transferred thereto to a subsequent station.

Further, the feeding device comprises a lifting mechanism and a turnover mechanism which are respectively arranged on the machine platform; the feeding device is provided with a feeding station, the feeding device is configured to pick up materials from the material conveying device and place the picked materials on the feeding station, the material conveying device is arranged on the machine table, and the material conveying device is configured to transport the materials placed on the material conveying device.

Further, the lifting mechanism is configured to effect lifting of material on the material transfer device.

Furthermore, the turnover mechanism is arranged on the material conveying device, the self-lifting mechanism configured on the turnover mechanism picks up the lifted material, the picked material is turned over to a feeding station of the feeding device, the feeding device finishes feeding, and a subsequent processing device picks up the material from the feeding station.

Further, after the material on the lifting mechanism is picked up by the turnover mechanism, the unloaded lifting mechanism resets, and the material on the material conveying device is fed onto the lifting mechanism again.

Furthermore, a feeding station and a jacking station are sequentially arranged on the material conveying device along the material conveying direction; the material conveying device is characterized in that a feeding device is arranged on the feeding station, the feeding device is used for sequentially placing materials to be laser engraved one by one at equal intervals on the material conveying device, the materials to be laser engraved are placed in a material containing disc, and the material containing disc bearing the materials to be laser engraved is placed on the material conveying device through the feeding device.

Further, when the lifting mechanism is at an initial position, the jacking station is formed on the lifting mechanism, and when the lifting mechanism lifts the material upwards from the initial position, the jacking station is lifted upwards to form a loading overturning station; and when the unloaded lifting mechanism is reset, the lifting mechanism is reset to the jacking station.

Furthermore, the material conveying device comprises a conveying belt and a driving motor for driving the conveying belt to move, the conveying belt is configured to convey materials, and the lifting mechanism lifts the materials conveyed to the conveying belt from the conveying belt.

Furthermore, the material conveying device further comprises a material storage disc, the material storage disc is arranged on the feeding station of the conveying belt and is configured to store materials, the material storage disc containing the materials moves along with the conveying belt on the conveying belt, and the material storage disc moves from the feeding station to the jacking station under the driving of the conveying belt.

Furthermore, two lifting mechanisms are oppositely arranged on the machine table, and the two lifting mechanisms are oppositely arranged on two sides of the conveying belt along the width direction of the conveying belt; the lifting mechanism comprises a jacking block and a lifting driving assembly, the lifting driving assembly drives the jacking block to reciprocate up and down, the jacking block is close to the side edge of the conveyor belt, and the two jacking blocks which are arranged oppositely form a jacking station of the material storage disc.

At a certain moment, the height of the jacking block is basically flush with or lower than the upper surface of the conveyor belt, after a material containing disc bearing materials is conveyed to the jacking station, the lifting driving assembly drives the jacking block to move upwards, so that the material containing disc is lifted from the conveyor belt, and the surface of the materials to be laser engraved is upwards placed in the material containing disc;

further, the turnover mechanism is arranged adjacent to the lifting mechanism; the turnover mechanism comprises a fixing frame and a turnover assembly connected to the fixing frame, one or more suckers are arranged on the turnover assembly, the suckers form a feeding station of the feeding device, and the suckers at the feeding station are arranged in a direction deviating from the conveying belt.

Further, the turnover assembly is configured to rotate along the fixing frame, so that the suction cup on the turnover assembly rotates towards the jacking station and picks up the materials on the material containing disc from the jacking station, the turnover assembly rotates and resets to the feeding station after the materials are picked up, and the surface of the materials to be laser engraved is placed on the suction cup downwards.

Furthermore, the overturning assembly comprises an overturning shaft connected to the fixed frame and an overturning arm connected with the overturning shaft, and the sucker is arranged on the overturning arm; at a certain moment, the overturning arm is horizontally arranged on one side of the overturning shaft, the material containing disc is arranged on the other side of the overturning disc, and the sucking disc on the overturning arm deviates from the conveying belt to form a feeding station; after the material containing disc is jacked from the jacking station to the material overturning station, the overturning arm rotates along the central axis of the overturning shaft to drive the sucker to rotate towards the direction of the conveyor belt, so that the sucker adsorbs and picks up materials from the material overturning station; after the materials are picked up, the overturning arm rotates along the central axis of the overturning shaft to reset to the material loading station, the unloaded material containing disc descends along with the jacking block to reset to the jacking station, and the surface of the materials to be laser engraved at the material loading station faces the conveyor belt; the central axis of the turnover shaft is vertical to the central axis of the conveyor belt.

Further, the transfer device includes base, first linking arm, second linking arm, third linking arm and adsorption component, base and board fixed connection, the one end of first linking arm with base swing joint, the other end with second linking arm swing joint, the one end of third linking arm with second linking arm swing joint, the other end with adsorption component swing joint.

Furthermore, first linking arm can be relative the horizontal rotation of base, the second linking arm with first linking arm rotates relatively in vertical direction, the third linking arm with the second linking arm rotates relatively in vertical direction, adsorption component is relative the third linking arm rotates relatively in vertical direction, just adsorption component can follow it with the rotation of third linking arm junction.

Furthermore, the adsorption component comprises a claw disc and one or more suckers arranged on the claw disc, and the transfer device adsorbs materials from the feeding device through the suckers and places the adsorbed materials on the positioning device.

Further, the transfer device places the adsorbed material on the positioning panel, and the surface to be laser etched of the material faces the positioning adsorption piece; when the transfer device picks up the positioned material from the positioning fixture, the positioning adsorption piece releases the adsorbed material.

Further, the radium carving device has a laser light source, the light beam that the laser light source sent penetrates directly the radium carving station, the material that transfer device will accomplish the location is transported extremely radium carving station department, and will the waiting radium carving face of material faces laser light source, works as radium carving device accomplishes the radium carving back to the material, transfer device with the material of radium carving after transporting extremely on the unloader, transfer device will the surface that the material has accomplished the radium carving is arranged in down on the unloader.

Further, unloader with the adjacent setting of loading attachment, unloader with the loading attachment structure is the same, belongs to the sucking disc on unloader's unloading tilting mechanism forms the unloading station, transfer device will accomplish the material of radium carving and transport to on the unloading station, unloader's unloading tilting mechanism orientation material storage disc on unloader's unloading elevating system rotates, material storage disc is located unloading upset station, and the material of accomplishing radium carving is settled by the release of sucking disc on the unloader in the material storage disc, the surface that the material had accomplished radium carving is arranged in up in the material storage disc, bear the material of accomplishing radium carving material storage disc along with unloader's unloading elevating system descends to fall-back station department, fall-back station is located on the conveyer belt, the conveyer belt will bear the material of accomplishing radium carving material storage disc transport to back way dust removal station.

Compared with the prior art, the utility model provides an automatic positioning device includes positioning fixture, and this positioning fixture forms the location station, still is provided with the location on the location station and adsorbs piece and locating component, when fixing a position the material, fixes a position spacingly through the position relation of locating component to the material, and adsorbs the material through the location and places the location and slide, has realized automatic quick location, has promoted the machining efficiency of product.

Further, the utility model provides an automatic change still integrated on radium carving equipment have a plurality of functional unit such as material loading, transportation, location, radium carving, unloading, especially loading attachment includes the actuating mechanism that is used for going up and down to lift material, upset material loading, has shortened the circulation time of material between the station through lifting material and upset, has realized reducing of station space through the setting of upset station. The structural design mode is more reasonable in connection among all stations, the material circulation mode is met, and material circulation time is saved.

Further, the automatic radium carving equipment that has this automatic positioning device on integrated the material loading, transport, the location, radium carving, a plurality of functional device of unloading, coordinate between each device, degree of automation is higher, do not need someone's participation at radium carving in-process, the location of radium carving position is adjusted by machine standard, a batch of product of making has unified production standard, the problem that the location is inaccurate and the unified standard of no location that the integration reduction caused by the intervention of people, full-automatic production mode can promote production efficiency.

Drawings

In order to illustrate the embodiments of the present invention or the technical solutions in the prior art more clearly, the drawings used in the description of the embodiments or the prior art will be briefly introduced, obviously, the drawings in the description below are only some embodiments of the present invention, and for those skilled in the art, other drawings can be obtained according to the drawings without creative efforts.

Fig. 1 is a schematic diagram illustrating a position state change of a material flowing in a device when the laser etching device provided by the present invention is used for performing a designated single-sided laser etching on the material in one embodiment;

fig. 2 is a schematic overall structure diagram of the laser etching apparatus provided by the present invention at a viewing angle in an embodiment;

fig. 3 is a schematic structural diagram of a feeding device of a laser etching apparatus provided in an embodiment of the present invention at a viewing angle;

fig. 4 is a schematic structural diagram of a transferring device of the laser etching apparatus provided by the present invention at a viewing angle in an embodiment;

fig. 5 is a schematic structural diagram of a positioning device of a laser etching apparatus provided in an embodiment of the present invention under a viewing angle;

fig. 6 is a schematic structural diagram of a partial structure of the laser etching apparatus provided by the present invention in an embodiment, in which a feeding device and a discharging device mounted on a material conveying device are shown;

fig. 7 is a schematic structural diagram of a positioning panel of the laser etching apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 8 is a schematic view of a state of the turnover mechanism of the loading device adsorbing materials from the material receiving tray on the jacking station in one embodiment;

fig. 9 is a schematic diagram of the state of the turnover mechanism shown in fig. 8 after the material is adsorbed and the turnover mechanism drives the material to turn over and reset;

fig. 10 is a schematic diagram illustrating a state of the feeding device when the transferring device of the present invention places the material subjected to laser etching on the suction cup of the turnover mechanism of the feeding device according to an embodiment;

fig. 11 is a schematic view of a state that a turnover mechanism of the blanking device shown in fig. 10 adsorbs materials through a suction cup and drives the materials to be turned over and released into a material storage tray on a jacking station of the blanking device;

fig. 12 is a schematic view of an overall layout structure of a full-automatic laser etching apparatus production line including 7 laser etching apparatuses in one embodiment.

Wherein: 10-a machine platform;

20-a material transfer device; 21-a conveyor belt; 22-a drive motor; 23-a material receiving tray;

30-a feeding device; 31-a lifting mechanism; 311-jacking blocks; 312-a lift drive assembly; 32-a turnover mechanism; 321-a fixing frame; 322-a flip assembly; 323-overturning shaft; 324-a flipping arm; 325-suction cup;

40-a transfer device; 41-a base; 42-a first connecting arm; 43-a second linking arm; 44-a third connecting arm; 45-an adsorption component; 451-claw disk;

50-a positioning device; 51-a positioning fixture; 511-positioning the panel; 5111-a through-hole; 512-a positioning assembly; 5121-positioning blocks; 5122-fastener; 5123-support protrusions; 513-positioning adsorption element; 5131-a connecting plate;

60-laser etching device; 61-laser light source;

70-a blanking device; 71-a blanking lifting mechanism; 711-jacking block; 712-a lift drive assembly; 72-blanking turnover mechanism; 721-a fixed mount; 722-a flip assembly; 723-overturning shaft; 724-turning over the arm; 725-suction cup;

80-mobile phone back shell; a-the back surface of the back shell of the mobile phone; b, the front surface of the rear shell of the mobile phone;

-the back side of the back shell of the mobile phone after laser engraving is finished;

90-a dust removal device;

the device comprises a feeding station a, a jacking station b, a loading overturning station c, a loading station d, a positioning station e, a radium carving station f, a blanking station g, a blanking overturning station h, a falling station i and a dedusting station j.

Detailed Description

In order to make the above objects, features and advantages of the present invention more comprehensible, the present invention is described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings and the detailed description.

The detailed description of the present invention is presented mainly in terms of procedures, steps, logic blocks, processes, or other symbolic representations that directly or indirectly simulate the operation of the technical solution of the present invention. Those skilled in the art will be able to utilize the description and illustrations herein to effectively introduce other skilled in the art to their working essence.

Reference herein to "one embodiment" or "an embodiment" means that a feature, structure, or characteristic described in connection with the embodiment can be included in at least one implementation of the invention. The appearances of the phrase "in one embodiment" in various places in the specification are not necessarily all referring to the same embodiment, nor are separate or alternative embodiments mutually exclusive of other embodiments. Additionally, the order of blocks in a method, flowchart, or functional block diagram representing one or more embodiments is not a fixed order, refers to any particular order, and does not constitute a limitation of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 1, it shows a laser etching apparatus provided by the present invention for etching a materialThe schematic diagram of the position state change of the material in the equipment when the single-side laser etching is appointed. A flat rectangular piece of material is schematically shown in the figure, which can be understood as having a front and a back, defining the side marked a in the figure as the back, which is also the surface of the object to be laser engraved, and the side marked B as the front, which need not be laser engraved. Therefore, the materials shown in the figure need to be set into laser etching equipment for automatic turning and positioning to realize appointed single-side laser etching. Labeled as in FIG. 1

The surface of (A) is the surface A after the laser etching is finished. In one embodiment, the material may be a back cover of a commercially available apple cell phone, and the back surface of the back cover of the cell phone is required to be subjected to pattern laser etching.

Use the utility model provides a standard flow when radium carving equipment carries out radium carving to the material that figure 1 shows is as follows:

step one, feeding, namely sequentially placing material containing discs 23 bearing materials on a conveyor belt 21 of a material conveying device 20, wherein the surfaces of the materials to be laser engraved are upward and placed in the material containing discs 23, the material containing discs 23 can be made of foam and other isolation materials and used for protecting the outer surfaces of the materials so as to avoid surface abrasion in the conveying process, and the material containing discs 23 bearing the materials can be placed on the conveyor belt 21 manually or by using a feeding device such as a mechanical arm;

secondly, loading, wherein the loading device 30 lifts and picks up materials from the conveyor belt 21 through the lifting mechanism 31, the materials are adsorbed from the lifting mechanism 31 through the suction cup 325 of the turnover mechanism 32, and after the materials are adsorbed, the turnover mechanism 32 is turned over and reset, so that the surface of the materials to be laser-etched is placed on the suction cup 325 in a downward mode;

thirdly, the materials are transported to a laser etching station for laser etching, and the third step specifically comprises the following steps: through transfer device 40 from pick up the material on the sucking disc 325 of tilting mechanism 32, and will the material is placed and is fixed a position on positioner 50, and the back is accomplished in the location, transfer device 40 certainly pick up the material on positioner 50 and transport the material to radium carving station department of radium carving device 60, makes the radium carving surface of treating of material is towards radium carving device 60's laser light source 61, radium carving device 60 accomplishes radium carving to the material.

Step four, the materials which are subjected to laser etching are discharged onto the conveyor belt 21 and transported to a subsequent station, and the method specifically comprises the following steps: the material completing the laser etching is transferred to a sucking disc 725 of an unloading turnover mechanism 72 of a discharging device 70 through a transfer device 40, the surface of the material completing the laser etching is downwards arranged on the sucking disc 725, the unloading turnover mechanism 72 of the discharging device 70 drives the material to turn towards an unloading lifting mechanism 71 of the discharging device 70, so that the sucking disc 725 releases the material in a material storage disc 23 on a jacking station of the unloading lifting mechanism 71, the surface of the material completing the laser etching is upwards arranged in the material storage disc 23, the unloading lifting mechanism 71 descends and resets to enable the material storage disc 23 bearing the completed laser etching to be arranged on a conveyor belt 21, and the material storage disc 23 bearing the completed laser etching is transported to a rear dust removal station by the conveyor belt 21. Thus, a complete laser etching process of a material is completed.

In order to improve the efficiency of the material laser etching, on the basis of a single device, an automatic device for each operation step can be developed in a targeted manner by starting from the four steps, so that the automation of the operation step is realized. Further, it is necessary to develop a suitable sub-device or mechanism for the sub-step in each step to automate the sub-step. For example, for the loading device 30, since this step includes two sub-steps of material lifting, material adsorbing and turning, etc., it may be necessary to develop two sub-devices or mechanisms for the two sub-steps. Of course, in order to realize the automation of the whole process of material laser etching, the automation devices for all the steps can be integrated together. The utility model discloses just because foretell utility model design is brought forward, will be right with a plurality of embodiments in the following the utility model discloses an automatic radium carving equipment of a whole set of material carries out the exemplary introduction to the automation equipment of each operating procedure.

Material conveying device

In this embodiment, the utility model provides a material conveying device 20, this material conveying device 20 can include conveyer belt 21 and drive the driving motor 22 that conveyer belt 21 removed, the realization that conveyer belt 21 was configured is to the conveying of material, loading attachment 30 certainly pick up the material on conveyer belt 21, unloader 70 passes through conveyer belt 21 will be transported the material conveying to the later stage on it. Therefore, this material transfer device 20 mainly used cooperates with loading attachment 30 and unloader 70, realizes waiting the material of radium carving material to and the recovery of the material of radium carving is transported, is the important function device of radium carving equipment automation realization.

Of course, referring to fig. 6, fig. 6 shows a structure of the material conveying device 20 in an embodiment, the illustrated material conveying device 20 mainly passes through a main body of a main conveying line of the conveyor belt 21, which is a more general technical implementation means in the conveying device at the present stage, certainly, on the premise of ensuring the functions, the conveyor belt 21 has low cost, strong versatility, and perfect development of replacing the maintenance means, and the application of the conveyor belt 21 in the actual production is an efficient production means for saving the cost and reducing the difficulty of fault maintenance.

With continued reference to fig. 6, the illustrated material conveying apparatus 20 is further provided with a material receiving tray 23, the material receiving tray 23 is disposed on the conveyor belt 21, the material receiving tray 23 is configured to receive materials, the material receiving tray 23 receiving materials moves on the conveyor belt 21 along with the conveyor belt 21, the use of the material receiving tray avoids the wear of the surface of the materials, and the use of a mechanical structure to realize automatic feeding during feeding can also avoid the wear of the materials by hard objects such as the mechanical structure.

Feeding device

In this embodiment, the utility model provides a material loading attachment 30. It can realize carrying out radium carving to the material loading of material, can supply transfer device 40 to pick up the back with material loading to material loading station department.

This loading attachment 30 can be treated the material of radium carving and carry and overturn, and at this moment, the reality that goes on in this loading attachment 30 has two processes, and the preceding process is the material loading process, and the process that is next is the upset process promptly. Obviously, the feeding device 30 can also be divided into a feeding device 30 and an overturning device according to the process, and the divided feeding device 30 can also be used as the feeding device 30 of other material handling devices, and the embodiment is not particularly limited.

As shown in fig. 3, 6, 8 and 9, a jacking station and a loading station are formed in the loading device 30 in the embodiment of the present invention. The feeding device 30 may include two oppositely disposed lifting mechanisms 31, and a turnover mechanism 32 disposed adjacent to the lifting mechanisms 31.

In one embodiment, referring to fig. 6, the two lifting mechanisms 31 are oppositely arranged at two sides of the conveyor belt 21 in the width direction, the lifting mechanism 31 includes a jacking block 311 and a lifting driving assembly 312, the lifting driving assembly 312 drives the jacking block 311 to reciprocate up and down, the jacking block 311 is close to the side edge of the conveyor belt 21, and the two jacking blocks 311 which are oppositely arranged form a jacking station of the material receiving tray 23. This lift drive assembly 312 can be one and drive actuating cylinder, and it has the actuating lever, and the actuating lever links to each other with jacking piece 311, drives actuating cylinder and can realize jacking or fall back to jacking piece 311 according to equipment controlling means's control.

At a certain moment, the height of the jacking blocks 311 is basically flush with the upper surface of the conveyor belt 21 or lower than the upper surface of the conveyor belt 21, so that the material receiving disc 23 can be ensured to be freely conveyed on the conveyor belt 21 and cannot be blocked by the jacking blocks 311. Of course, the distance between the two oppositely arranged jacking blocks 311 is smaller than the distance between the material receiving discs 23 in the width direction of the conveyor belt 21. After the material receiving tray 23 carrying the material is conveyed to the jacking station, the lifting driving assembly 312 drives the jacking block 311 to move upwards, so that the material receiving tray 23 is lifted from the conveying belt 21, and the surface of the material to be laser engraved is upward and placed in the material receiving tray 23.

In an embodiment, the above-mentioned turnover mechanism 32 may include a fixing frame 321 and a turnover assembly 322 connected to the fixing frame 321, the turnover assembly 322 is provided with one or more suction cups 325, the turnover assembly 322 is configured to rotate along the fixing frame 321, so that the suction cups 325 thereon pick up the material on the material receiving tray 23 from the jacking station, after the material is picked up, the turnover assembly 322 is rotated and reset, so that the material to be laser etched is placed on the suction cups 325 with the surface facing downward, the turnover mechanism 32 is turned over so that the surface to be laser etched faces downward, and then when the material is transferred to the positioning device 50 by the transfer device 40 during the transfer process, the material to be laser etched faces the positioning panel 511 for precise positioning.

In one embodiment, the fixing frame 321 of the turnover mechanism 32 may include two oppositely disposed brackets, which are respectively disposed on two sides of the conveyor belt 21 in the width direction, and the turnover assembly 322 is mounted on the two brackets.

In one embodiment, the flipping unit 322 includes a flipping shaft 323 connected to the fixing frame 321, and a flipping arm 324 connected to the flipping shaft 323, the suction cup 325 is disposed on the flipping arm 324, two ends of the flipping shaft 323 are movably connected to the two brackets, respectively, the flipping arm 324 and the flipping shaft 323 may be integrally formed or may be separately connected and fixed to each other, the flipping arm 324 may include one or more cantilever brackets extending from a side surface of the flipping shaft 323, and each cantilever bracket is disposed with one or more soft suction cups 325. At a certain moment, the turning arm 324 is horizontally arranged on one side of the turning shaft 323, the material storage disc 23 is arranged on the other side of the turning disc, and the suction cup 325 on the turning arm 324 deviates from the conveyor belt 21 to form a feeding station.

When the material accommodating disc 23 is lifted to the proper position from the initial position, the turning arm 324 rotates along the central axis of the turning shaft 323 to drive the suction cup 325 to rotate towards the conveyor belt 21, so that the suction cup 325 adsorbs and picks up the material, as shown in fig. 8; after the material is picked up, the turning arm 324 rotates along the central axis of the turning shaft 323 to reset, the unloaded material storage disc 23 descends along with the jacking block 311 to reset, and the surface to be laser-etched of the material faces the conveyor belt 21, as shown in fig. 9.

Referring to fig. 6, the central axis of the turning shaft 323 is perpendicular to the central axis of the conveyor belt 21, and the turning shaft 323 is mounted on the conveyor belt 21.

In an embodiment, the fixing frame 321 of the turning mechanism 32 may be an L-shaped bracket, one end of the bracket is installed at the side of the conveyor belt 21, the other end of the bracket is suspended above the conveyor belt 21, the turning assembly 322 may be connected to the bracket through a connecting member, so that one arm of the bracket suspension is used as a rotating shaft of the turning arm 324, and the turning arm 324 is movably connected to one arm of the bracket suspension, thereby realizing the adsorption and turning of the material.

It should be noted that the lifting mechanism 31 can be lowered and reset after the material carried on the lifting mechanism 31 is picked up by the turnover mechanism 32, that is, when no material is on the jacking station, a closed loop feedback can be formed, and when the material is conveyed to the turnover mechanism 32, the material on the lifting mechanism 31 is proved to be really conveyed away, so that the situation that the conveying is not in place can be prevented, or the material on the lifting mechanism 31 falls back along with the price raising mechanism after the material is not picked up due to the 'rush shooting', so that the material feeding is disordered, and the possibility of errors in production is reduced.

The embodiment of the utility model provides a loading attachment 30 can regard as a component part, constitutes the equipment use of the automatic circulation of a whole set of material with material transfer device 20, transfer device 40, unloader 70 are integrated together, and it can use with radium carving device 60 cooperation, also can use with other functional device are supporting, and this embodiment does not do the special restriction.

Of course, elevating system 31 and tilting mechanism 32 among this loading attachment 30 also can use at different application scenes according to the function split, and this elevating system 31 can be regarded as the loading attachment 30 of other types of material processing apparatus and use, for example the utility model provides a unloader 70's structure promptly with loading attachment 30's structure the same, all form the function butt joint with transfer device 40, unloader 70's functional process promptly is the reverse back-push of loading attachment 30's working process, and loading attachment 30 goes up and down earlier and lifts the material and turn over the material again promptly, and unloader 70 is the unloading of going up and down again of overturning the material feeding earlier.

It will be appreciated by those skilled in the art that when the turnover mechanism 32 is used as a stand-alone turnover device, a loading mechanism may be provided on the loading side of the turnover mechanism 32 to load the material to the loading position of the turnover mechanism 32.

When the feeding device 30 is used as a component of a whole set of automatic material packaging equipment, reference may be made to relevant contents in the following embodiments for specific processes of relevant operations after the feeding device 30 feeds the material to be laser engraved.

Transfer device

In this embodiment, the present invention provides a transfer device 40. With reference to fig. 1 and 4, the transfer device 40 can pick up the material from the loading station, position the material in the positioning device 50, and transfer the material to the laser etching station for laser etching after the positioning is completed.

Referring to fig. 4, the transferring device 40 provided in this embodiment may include a base 41, a first connecting arm 42, a second connecting arm 43, a third connecting arm 44, and an adsorbing component 45, where the base 41 is fixedly connected to the machine platform 10, one end of the first connecting arm 42 is movably connected to the base 41, the other end is movably connected to the second connecting arm 43, one end of the third connecting arm 44 is movably connected to the second connecting arm 43, and the other end is movably connected to the adsorbing component 45.

In one embodiment, with continued reference to fig. 4, the first connecting arm 42 can rotate horizontally relative to the base 41, in one case, the first connecting arm 42 is attached to the surface of the base 41, and the first connecting arm 42 can rotate along the central axis of the base 41, and the movement is flexible.

The second connecting arm 43 and the first connecting arm 42 rotate relatively in the vertical direction, in one instance, referring to fig. 4, one end of the first connecting arm 42 forms a connecting seat of the second connecting arm 43, the connecting seat is a groove, one end of the second connecting seat is movably inserted in the groove, and the second connecting arm 43 can rotate back and forth along the central axis of the groove.

The third connecting arm 44 and the second connecting arm 43 rotate relatively in the vertical direction, in one case, referring to fig. 4 as well, one end of the second connecting arm 43 forms a connecting seat of the third connecting arm 44, the connecting seat is a groove, one end of the third connecting seat is movably inserted into the groove, and the third connecting arm 44 can rotate back and forth along the central axis of the groove.

Adsorption component 45 is relative third linking arm 44 rotates in vertical direction relatively, just adsorption component 45 can follow it with the rotation of third linking arm 44 junction, adsorption component 45 promptly with third linking arm 44 has two degrees of freedom, see fig. 4, adsorption component 45's one end is provided with the rotating member, it can be a universal joint, this adsorption component 45 itself just has rotatory function, on this basis, the rotating member that itself can autogiration adsorption component 45 connects in the recess of third linking arm 44 tip, adsorption component 45 can follow the central axis of recess and make a round trip to rotate, consequently, this transfer device 40 overall structure has extremely high degree of freedom, can the transportation of omnidirectional realization material.

In one embodiment, referring to fig. 4, the suction assembly 45 may include a jaw plate 451, and one or more suction cups disposed on the jaw plate 451. The transfer device 40 adsorbs materials from the feeding device 30 through the suction cups, and places the adsorbed materials on the positioning device 50. The jaw plate 451 is shown in fig. 4 as a rectangular jaw plate 451, and one or more suction cups (not shown) may be provided on the lower surface of the jaw plate 451.

Certainly, the adsorption component 45 of the transfer device 40 provided by the embodiment can also be directly grabbed by a manipulator, but in practical application the manipulator easily scratches the surface of the material, and the uneven stress of the material in the grabbing process can cause the material after positioning to deviate under the grabbing stress state, so that the positioning accuracy is reduced or the positioning is ineffective.

It should be noted that the transfer device 40 provided in the embodiment of the present invention may be used as an independent device, or may be used as an assembly part, and integrated with the feeding device 30 to form a whole set of automation equipment.

It will be appreciated by those skilled in the art that when the transfer device 40 is used as a stand-alone device, it may be necessary to provide a loading mechanism on the loading side of the transfer device 40 to load the material to the loading position of the transfer device 40, and it may also be necessary to provide a discharging mechanism on the unloading side of the transfer device to receive the transferred material.

In the whole set of automation equipment, certain stations in two different functional devices can be overlapped or partially overlapped, and certain structural components can be reused. For example, the feeding station of the transfer device 40 is actually a feeding station formed on the suction cup 325 in the feeding device 30, and the discharging station of the transfer device 40 is actually a discharging station formed on the suction cup 325 in the discharging device 70, which is a station overlapping state formed after a plurality of functional devices are used in combination, and is a simplified borrowing of stations. I.e. the parts of the stations mentioned in this embodiment actually coincide in the construction of the apparatus.

Positioning device

In this embodiment, the present invention provides a positioning device 50. With reference to fig. 5 and 7, the positioning device 50 can realize accurate positioning of the material placed thereon, so as to ensure the positioning accuracy of the transferring device 40 during material taking.

In one embodiment, the positioning device 50 is mounted on the machine table 10, and may include a positioning fixture 51, where the positioning fixture 51 includes a positioning panel 511, a positioning component 512 mounted on an edge of the positioning panel 511, and a positioning suction member 513; the positioning panel 511 is erected on the machine table 10 through a bracket, the center of the positioning panel 511 is provided with a through hole 5111, and the positioning adsorption piece 513 is installed in the through hole 5111 through a connecting plate 5131.

Referring to fig. 7, the positioning panel 511 may be a rectangular panel, and has two long sides disposed opposite to each other and two short sides disposed opposite to each other, wherein one long side and one short side are respectively provided with a groove recessed inward from an edge of the rectangular panel, a positioning block 5121 is embedded in the groove, the outer edge of the other short side is provided with a locking member 5122 in a locking manner, and the positioning panel 511 close to the other long side is provided with a plurality of supporting protrusions 5123.

When the transfer device 40 places the adsorbed material on the positioning panel 511, the positioning block, the clamping element 5122 and the supporting protrusion 5123 together position the material, the positioning adsorption element 513 adsorbs and fixes the material, and the surface to be laser-etched of the material faces the positioning adsorption element 513; when the transfer device 40 picks up the positioned material from the positioning fixture 51, the positioning adsorption part 513 releases the adsorbed material.

In order to promote the positioning accuracy to the material to reach the requirement of high-precision instrument to radium carving precision, the utility model discloses in use positioner 50 to carry out the secondary location to the material, and adsorb through adsorption component 45 of transfer device 40 and snatch, realize highly keeping the positioning accuracy of material.

Laser etching device

The present embodiment provides a laser etching apparatus 60, which can realize laser etching on the surface of a material.

In one embodiment, the laser etching device 60 has a laser light source 61, a light beam emitted by the laser light source 61 is directly irradiated to the laser etching station, the transferring device 40 transfers the positioned material to the laser etching station, and faces the surface of the material to be etched to the laser light source 61, after the laser etching device 60 finishes etching the material, the transferring device 40 transfers the etched material to the blanking device 70, and the transferring device 40 places the surface of the material on which the laser etching is finished on the blanking device 70 in a downward direction.

Blanking device

Reference is made to the above-described embodiment of the loading device 30. Referring to fig. 6, the blanking device 70 is disposed adjacent to the feeding device 30. The blanking device 70 and the loading device 30 have the same structure, a suction cup 725 on a blanking turnover mechanism 72 of the blanking device 70 forms a blanking station, the transferring device 40 transfers the material subjected to laser engraving to the blanking station, see fig. 10, the blanking turnover mechanism 72 of the blanking device 70 rotates towards a material storage disc 23 on a jacking station of the blanking device 70, the material subjected to laser engraving is released by the suction cup 725 on the blanking device 70 and is placed in the material storage disc 23, see fig. 11, the surface of the material subjected to laser engraving faces upwards and is placed in the material storage disc 23 of the blanking device 70, the material storage disc 23 carrying the material subjected to laser engraving falls onto the conveyor belt 21 along with a blanking lifting mechanism 71 of the blanking device 70, and the conveyor belt conveys the material storage disc 23 carrying the material subjected to laser engraving to the subsequent dust removal station.

It should be noted that, in an embodiment, the loading device 30, the transferring device 40, the positioning device 50, the laser engraving device 60, and the unloading device 70 are not necessarily completely independent in structure, and some or several structural members may be reused among the devices. Correspondingly, the processing stations in each apparatus are not necessarily completely staggered in spatial position, and some stations may be partially or even completely overlapped. The above structure is reused and stations are overlapped, so that the circulation distance and time of materials can be shortened, the occupied space of equipment is saved, and the structure of the equipment is simplified.

In some embodiments, the interior of each apparatus is provided with separate internal transfer components as needed, which move only within the associated apparatus to effect transfer of paper material between processing stations within the associated apparatus, such as the blanking turnover mechanism 72, which is also actually a transfer mechanism within the blanking apparatus 70. A transfer device 40 is additionally disposed on the machine 10, and the transfer device 40 can reciprocate between the devices to transfer the material from one device to another device.

Automatic laser etching equipment with compact structure

As can be seen from the description of the above embodiment, the fully automatic turning and positioning laser etching apparatus with a compact structure can be integrated by the material conveying device 20, the feeding device 30, the transferring device 40, the positioning device 50, the laser etching device 60 and the discharging device 70.

According to the device function, the feeding device 30 needs to be matched with material conveying, the blanking device 70 needs to be matched with material conveying, if the material conveying mechanism needs to be respectively distributed for the feeding device 30 and the blanking device 70 to avoid mixing materials of materials to be etched and materials which are etched, so that the material conveying cost is increased undoubtedly, and the occupied space of the equipment is enlarged. Therefore, the layout of the functional devices needs to be further optimized, so that the laser etching equipment with compact structure and full-automatic overturning and positioning is more compact in structure, and material conveying is facilitated to prevent mixing.

In this embodiment, the utility model provides a compact structure's full-automatic upset location's radium carving equipment, it includes material transfer device 20, loading attachment 30, transfer device 40, positioner 50, radium carving device 60 and unloader 70 mentioned in some above-mentioned embodiments, and has carried out optimization layout to the overall arrangement of each functional device, perhaps has carried out optimization layout to each operation station of carton. When the structure of each functional component in the fully-automatic turning and positioning laser etching device with the compact structure is described, the related description and the related drawings in the above embodiment can still be used.

Before introducing the compact-structure fully-automatic turning positioning laser etching apparatus in this embodiment, we first define three coordinate axes: a first horizontal axis X, a second horizontal axis Y and a vertical axis Z. Wherein: the first horizontal axis X and the second horizontal axis Y are two coordinate axes perpendicular to each other on a horizontal plane, the vertical axis Z is a coordinate axis on a vertical plane, and the X axis, the Y axis, and the Z axis are perpendicular to each other two by two. Hereinafter, the arrangement of the stations on the laser etching apparatus will be described with reference to these three coordinate axes.

Referring to fig. 2 in combination with fig. 1, a feeding station a, a jacking station b, a loading turning station c, a loading station d, a positioning station e, a laser engraving station f, a blanking station g, a blanking turning station h, a falling-back station i, and a dust removal station j are formed on a machine table 10 of the laser engraving apparatus with compact structure in this embodiment, wherein:

the feeding station a, the jacking station b, the falling-back station i and the dust removal station j are sequentially arranged on a first axis parallel to the first horizontal axis X. The feeding overturning station c, the feeding station d, the discharging station g and the discharging overturning station h are sequentially arranged on a second axis parallel to the first horizontal axis X. The first axis and the second axis are parallel to each other and the level of the first axis is lower than the level of the second axis.

The feeding station d and the positioning station e are sequentially arranged on a third axis parallel to the second horizontal axis Y. The positioning station e and the laser etching station f are sequentially arranged on a fourth axis parallel to the longitudinal axis Z.

It should be noted that the schematic diagram of the position and state change of the material flowing in the equipment shown in fig. 1 is only a station arrangement diagram in a device layout mode, the arrangement sequence of the turnover mechanism and the lifting mechanism of the feeding device, and the arrangement sequence of the blanking turnover mechanism and the blanking lifting mechanism of the blanking device can be arranged according to actual conditions, and the arrangement sequence problem of the lifting mechanism and the turnover mechanism affects the rotation direction of the turnover arm of the turnover mechanism when the material is sucked and the installation position of the suction cup on the turnover arm. Under the condition of not violating the principle shown in the schematic diagram of the position state change of the material flowing in the equipment, the person skilled in the art can obtain the position state change diagram of other similar materials flowing in the equipment according to fig. 1.

The laser etching apparatus in this embodiment includes a material conveying device 20, a loading device 30, a transferring device 40, a positioning device 50, a laser etching device 60, and a discharging device 70.

The feeding station a, the jacking station b, the falling station i and the dust removal station j are sequentially arranged on the material conveying device 20. The feeding overturning station c, the feeding station d, the discharging station g and the discharging overturning station h are sequentially arranged right above the material conveying device 20.

Use the embodiment of the utility model provides a radium carving equipment carries out radium carving to the reverse side of the cell-phone backshell 80 that figure 1 shows, and this cell-phone backshell 80 is accomplished station circulation and the material state on this radium carving equipment from the pay-off to radium carving can be described as follows:

referring to fig. 1, the back surface a of the mobile phone rear shell 80 is placed in the material receiving tray 23 in an upward manner, then the material receiving tray 23 is placed on the conveyor belt 21 of the material conveying device 20, the material receiving tray 23 is conveyed from the feeding station a on the conveyor belt 21 to the jacking station b, a sensor is arranged at the jacking station b, and when the material receiving tray 23 is conveyed to the jacking station b, the lifting mechanism 31 at the jacking station b lifts the material receiving tray 23 on the jacking station b to the material overturning station c;

the turning arm 324 of the turning mechanism 32 located between the loading turning station c and the loading station d rotates from an initial position to the loading turning station c, so that the suction cup 325 on the turning arm 324 sucks the mobile phone rear shell 80 from the loading turning station c, as can be seen from fig. 1, the orientations of the front and the back of the mobile phone rear shell 80 are changed due to the turning of the turning mechanism 32, the back a of the mobile phone rear shell 80 at the loading turning station c faces upward, and the front B of the back of the mobile phone at the loading station d faces upward;

after the mobile phone rear shell 80 at the loading station d is sucked by the transfer device 40 through the flexible sucking disc 325 assembly, the mobile phone rear shell 80 is placed on the positioning panel 511 of the positioning device 50 for accurate positioning, the positioning panel 511 forms the positioning station e, after the positioning is completed, the transfer device 40 sucks the mobile phone rear shell 80 from the positioning station e, the transfer device 40 turns over the sucked mobile phone rear shell 80 through the first connecting arm 42, the second connecting arm 43 and the third connecting arm 44 on the transfer device 40 and the self-freedom degree of the adsorption component 45, so that the back surface A of the mobile phone rear shell 80 is turned over to a laser source facing the laser engraving device 60, the adsorption component 45 of the transfer device 40 adsorbs the mobile phone rear shell 80 and is placed on the laser engraving station f of the laser engraving device 60 in a suspended manner, at the moment, the adsorption component 45 actually forms the laser engraving station f, after the laser engraving device 60 finishes the back surface A of the mobile phone rear shell 80, the adsorption component 45 of the transfer device 40 adsorbs the mobile phone rear shell 80 to act again, so that the mobile phone rear shell 80 is placed on the mobile phone rear shell turning station B while turning over the mobile phone rear shell 70;

the turning arm 724 of the blanking turning mechanism 72 of the blanking device 70 located between the blanking station g and the blanking turning station h rotates from an initial position to the blanking turning station h, the material storage disc 23 is placed on the blanking turning station h, the mobile phone shell on the blanking station h is placed in the material storage disc 23 through the turning arm 724, the blanking lifting mechanism 71 of the blanking device 70 descends, the material storage disc 23 bearing the mobile phone rear shell 80 subjected to laser engraving returns to the position of the falling-back station i, the material storage disc 23 bearing the mobile phone rear shell 80 subjected to laser engraving moves to the position of the dust removal station j along with the conveyor belt 21 of the material conveying device 20 to remove dust, and the dust is packaged after being removed.

It should be noted that the material conveying device 20, the loading device 30, the transferring device 40, the positioning device 50, the laser etching device 60, and the unloading device 70 in the laser etching apparatus in this embodiment respectively adopt the structures in the foregoing embodiments. Since the detailed description of the specific structure and operation of these devices has been given in the foregoing, the detailed description is omitted here.

With continued reference to fig. 1, in order to realize automatic feeding of materials, the efficiency of the equipment is further improved. Preferably, the machine table 10 may further be formed with a storage mechanism located in a front path of the feeding station a.

Finally, it should be noted that, in the above embodiments of the present invention, the components of the laser engraving apparatus with compact full-automatic turning positioning are described from different angles, some embodiments focus on describing one component, and another embodiment focuses on describing another component, and the detailed description of one component in one embodiment can also be used to understand the same component in another embodiment without departing from the scope of the present invention.

Full-automatic laser etching equipment production line

Based on foretell compact structure's full-automatic upset location radium carving equipment, this embodiment provides the automatic radium carving equipment of many linkages and produces the line, should produce the line and can constitute by a plurality of radium carving equipment, and many radium carving equipment realize the action synchronization basically under control system's control.

The action principle of the seven laser etching devices is briefly described as follows:

referring to fig. 12, a production line shown in the figure includes 7 laser etching apparatuses, the production line has a material conveying device for realizing feeding, the material conveying device is linearly arranged on one side of the 7 laser etching apparatuses, the 7 laser etching apparatuses are arranged in a line on the same side of the material conveying device, one end of the material conveying device is used for feeding materials, and the other end of the material conveying device is provided with a dust removing device for removing dust from the materials subjected to laser etching;

in an initial state, the 7 laser etching devices are in standby, feeding is carried out on a conveyor belt of a material conveying device, the distance between every two materials is the same, when a first material placed on the conveyor belt reaches a 7 th laser etching device (the 7 devices are named in sequence along the material conveying direction of the material conveying device, an arrow P in fig. 12 represents the material conveying direction, the 7 laser etching devices are respectively a 1 st laser etching device, a 2 nd laser etching device, a 3 rd laser etching device, a 4 th laser etching device, a 5 th laser etching device, a 6 th laser etching device and a 7 th laser etching device, wherein the 7 th laser etching device is close to a dust removing device 90, a machine table under the 6 th laser etching device is not displayed, but it can be understood that the jacking stations of the 7 th laser etching device are practically the same), the situation that the previous stations of the 1-6 th laser etching device also have the materials is that the 7 th laser etching devices are close to the dust removing device 90, and the 7 th laser etching devices are started at the same time, the jacking stations of the 7 laser etching devices are certainly and the same in action, and the jacking times of the jacking devices are consistent to finish the same;

when 7 laser engraving devices start to act simultaneously, 7 jacking stations lift materials on the jacking stations away from the conveying belt, and no material exists on the conveying belt at the moment, so that the materials can be continuously conveyed on the conveying belt within the working time of the laser engraving devices until the materials reappear on the jacking station of the 7 th laser engraving device (the supplementary explanation is that after the materials on the jacking stations are picked up by the turnover mechanism, the lifting mechanism resets, and the jacking stations are flush with or slightly lower than the conveying belt again, so that the 7 laser engraving devices synchronously work, the 7 jacking stations synchronously reset, after resetting, the materials continue to be loaded on the conveying belt, and the 7 jacking stations have materials again), and the lifting mechanism lifts the materials on the jacking stations away from the conveying belt again;

after 7 radium carving equipment work were accomplished, the unloading of transfer device is received simultaneously to 7 unloading stations, through unloader's upset, fall back action, 7 materials of accomplishing radium carving are sent to the station dust removal in proper order and are removed dust.

In order to save man-hour, after transfer device accomplished the unloading to unloader, loading attachment has accomplished the material loading for the material on the material loading station can directly be picked up by transfer device. Therefore, the description of the action principle of 7 machines in the production line forms an action period from the first feeding to the second feeding, and the production line can continuously operate and circulate according to the action period, so that the action period can be realized in action regardless of machine equipment on the production line, and the action of a plurality of laser engraving devices is basically synchronous, and the linkage of the plurality of laser engraving devices is realized.

Fig. 12 shows only one production line structure of multiple linked laser etching apparatuses, and in an embodiment, the material conveying devices may also be arranged in a curved shape, such as an S-shaped arrangement, which may save space when the production line apparatuses are densely arranged.

In an embodiment, the embodiment of the utility model provides a still provide the linkage method that radium carving equipment produced line of many linkages, it can include following step:

sequentially placing a plurality of material containing discs 23 bearing materials on a conveyor belt 21 of a material conveying device 20 at equal intervals one by one, so that materials are placed on jacking stations corresponding to all laser etching devices, a plurality of laser etching devices are started while being controlled by a control device, and the surfaces of the materials to be etched to be up are placed in the material containing discs 23;

the feeding devices of the laser etching equipment respectively feed materials on respective jacking stations to feeding stations, so that each feeding station is fed with materials, the transfer device of each laser etching equipment picks up the materials from the corresponding feeding station, and the unloaded jacking stations are reset under the driving of the lifting mechanism of the feeding devices;

the transfer device of each laser etching device transfers the picked materials to the laser etching device for laser etching;

after the unloaded multiple jacking stations are reset, sequentially placing a plurality of material containing discs 23 bearing materials on a conveyor belt 21 of a material conveying device 20 at equal intervals one by one, so that the jacking stations corresponding to all the laser etching equipment are reloaded, feeding the materials on the jacking stations to a feeding station by a feeding device, and picking up the materials from the feeding station by a transfer device to be discharged;

the material that has accomplished radium carving is by transfer device unloading is to unloader's unloading station on, unloader will material on the unloading station is carried to on the conveyer belt, the conveyer belt will accomplish the material conveying of radium carving and say the station in the back.

The laser etching equipment production line with multiple linked machines can comprise a plurality of laser etching equipment, wherein one machine comprises the following action processes:

the feeding device 30 lifts and picks up materials from the conveyor belt 21 through the lifting mechanism 31, the materials are adsorbed from the lifting mechanism 31 through the sucker of the turnover mechanism 32, and after the materials are adsorbed, the turnover mechanism 32 is turned over and reset, so that the surface of the materials to be laser engraved is placed on the sucker in a downward mode;

the transferring device 40 picks up materials from the suction disc of the turnover mechanism 32 and places the materials on the positioning device 50 for positioning, after the positioning is completed, the transferring device 40 picks up the materials from the positioning device 50 and transfers the materials to a laser engraving station of the laser engraving device 60, so that the surface to be engraved with the materials faces to a laser light source 61 of the laser engraving device 60, and the laser engraving device 60 completes laser engraving of the materials;

the material that transfer device 40 will accomplish the radium carving is transported to the sucking disc of unloading tilting mechanism 72 of unloader 70 on, the surface that the radium carving has been accomplished to the material is arranged in down on the sucking disc, the unloading tilting mechanism 72 of unloader 70 drives the material upset towards unloading elevating system 71 of unloader 70, make the sucking disc releases the material in the material storage disc 23 on the jacking station of unloading elevating system 71, the surface that the radium carving has been accomplished to the material is arranged in up in material storage disc 23, unloading elevating system 71 descends to reset and makes the material storage disc 23 that bears the weight of and has accomplished the radium carving arrange in on conveyer belt 21, the material storage disc 23 that bears the weight of and has accomplished the radium carving is transported to the back dust removal station by conveyer belt 21.

The present invention has been described in sufficient detail with some specificity. It will be understood by those of ordinary skill in the art that the description of the embodiments is merely exemplary and that all changes that may be made without departing from the true spirit and scope of the present invention are intended to be within the scope of the present invention. The scope of the invention is defined by the appended claims rather than by the foregoing description of the embodiments.

Claims

1. The automatic positioning device is characterized by comprising a positioning clamp, wherein the positioning clamp comprises a positioning panel (511), a positioning adsorption piece (513) and a positioning component (512) arranged at the edge of the positioning panel (511);

2. The automatic positioning device of claim 1,

the positioning panel (511) is erected on the machine table (10) through a bracket, a through hole (5111) is formed in the center of the positioning panel (511), and the positioning adsorption piece (513) is installed in the through hole (5111) through a connecting plate (5131);

the positioning adsorption piece comprises one or more suckers and an air cylinder connected with the suckers, the air cylinder is configured to blow or suck air to the suckers, and the suckers adsorb materials when the air cylinder sucks air to the suckers; when the air cylinder blows air to the sucker, the sucker releases the adsorption state of the materials.

3. The automatic positioning device of claim 2,

the sucker of the positioning adsorption piece faces to one surface of the positioning panel on which the material is placed;

the positioning panel (511) is erected on the machine table (10) through a support to form an accommodating space of a cylinder of the positioning adsorption piece;

the connecting plate is arranged at one end of the positioning adsorption piece, which is provided with the sucker, and the shape and the size of the connecting plate are matched with those of the through hole in the positioning panel.

4. The automatic positioning apparatus of claim 1,

the positioning panel (511) is a rectangular panel and is provided with two long sides which are arranged oppositely and two short sides which are arranged oppositely, grooves which are inwards sunken from the edge of the rectangular panel are respectively arranged on one long side and one short side, and the positioning block (5121) is embedded in each groove;

the positioning assembly further comprises a blocking member (5122);

the clamping piece (5122) is clamped on the outer edge of the other short side of the rectangular panel, the highest surface of the clamping piece (5122) is higher than the horizontal surface of the positioning panel for placing materials, and the outer edge of the material on the positioning panel is abutted against the outer edge of the clamping piece (5122);

the positioning block (5121) is a block-shaped structure which is adaptive to the size and the shape of the groove;

the clamping piece (5122) is in an L-shaped structure.

5. The automatic positioning apparatus of claim 4,

the positioning component also comprises a plurality of supporting bulges (5123);

the plate surface close to the other long edge of the rectangular panel is provided with a plurality of supporting bulges (5123);

the positioning block (5121), the clamping piece (5122) and the plurality of supporting protrusions (5123) are used for positioning the materials on the positioning station together;

the positioning adsorption piece (513) adsorbs and fixes the material, and the surface to be laser engraved of the material on the positioning station faces the positioning adsorption piece (513);

when an external device picks up the positioned material from the positioning clamp (51), the positioning adsorption piece (513) releases the adsorption state of the material.

6. An automated laser etching apparatus, comprising the automatic positioning device of any one of claims 1-5, wherein the positioning device is configured to achieve positioning of a material loaded onto the automated laser etching apparatus;

it still includes:

set up loading attachment (30), transfer device (40), radium carving device (60) and unloader (70) on board (10), wherein:

the feeding device (30) is configured to realize feeding of the automatic laser etching equipment;

the transfer device (40) is configured to pick up materials from the feeding device (30), place the picked materials on the positioning device (50) for positioning, and transfer the positioned materials to a laser engraving station of the laser engraving device (60);

the laser etching device (60) is configured to realize laser etching on the surface of the material at the laser etching station;

the transfer device (40) is further configured to enable transfer of material from the laser engraving station completing laser engraving onto the blanking device (70);

the blanking device (70) is configured to effect transfer of material transferred thereto to a subsequent station.

7. The automated laser etching apparatus of claim 6,

the feeding device comprises a lifting mechanism and a turnover mechanism which are respectively arranged on the machine platform;

a feeding station is formed on the feeding device, the feeding device is configured to pick up materials from a material conveying device and place the picked materials on the feeding station, the material conveying device is arranged on the machine table, and the material conveying device is configured to transport the materials placed on the material conveying device;

the lifting mechanism is configured to lift material on the material transfer device;

the turnover mechanism is arranged on the material conveying device, the self-lifting mechanism of the turnover mechanism is configured to pick up the lifted material, the picked material is turned over to a feeding station of the feeding device, the feeding device finishes feeding, and a subsequent processing device picks up the material from the feeding station;

after the materials on the lifting mechanism are picked up by the turnover mechanism, the unloaded lifting mechanism resets, and the materials on the material conveying device are fed onto the lifting mechanism again.

8. The automatic laser etching equipment according to claim 7, wherein a feeding station and a jacking station are sequentially arranged on the material conveying device along a material conveying direction;

the feeding station is provided with a feeding device, the feeding device is used for placing materials to be laser engraved on the material conveying device at equal intervals one by one, the materials to be laser engraved are placed in a material containing disc, and the material containing disc bearing the materials to be laser engraved is placed on the material conveying device by the feeding device;

when the lifting mechanism lifts materials upwards from the initial position, the lifting station is lifted upwards to form a loading overturning station; when the unloaded lifting mechanism is reset, the lifting mechanism is reset to the jacking station;

the material conveying device (20) comprises a conveyor belt (21) and a driving motor (22) for driving the conveyor belt (21) to move, the conveyor belt (21) is configured to convey materials, and the lifting mechanism lifts the materials conveyed to the conveyor belt (21) from the conveyor belt (21);

the material conveying device (20) further comprises a material containing disc (23), the material containing disc (23) is arranged on a feeding station of the conveying belt (21), the material containing disc (23) is configured to contain materials, the material containing disc (23) containing the materials moves on the conveying belt (21) along with the conveying belt (21), and the material containing disc (23) is driven by the conveying belt to move from the feeding station to a jacking station.

9. The automated laser etching apparatus of claim 8,

the machine table is relatively provided with two lifting mechanisms which are relatively arranged at two sides of the conveying belt along the width direction of the conveying belt;

the lifting mechanism (31) comprises a lifting block (311) and a lifting driving component (312), the lifting driving component (312) drives the lifting block (311) to reciprocate up and down, the lifting block (311) is close to the side edge of the conveyor belt (21), and two lifting blocks (311) which are oppositely arranged form a lifting station of the material containing disc (23);

at a certain moment, the height of the jacking block (311) is basically flush with the upper surface of the conveyor belt (21) or lower than the upper surface of the conveyor belt (21), after a material containing disc (23) carrying materials is conveyed to the jacking station, the lifting driving assembly (312) drives the jacking block (311) to move upwards, so that the material containing disc (23) is lifted away from the conveyor belt (21), and the surface of the materials to be laser engraved is upwards placed in the material containing disc (23);

the turnover mechanism (32) is arranged adjacent to the lifting mechanism (31);

the turnover mechanism (32) comprises a fixed frame (321) and a turnover assembly (322) connected to the fixed frame (321), one or more suckers are arranged on the turnover assembly (322), the suckers form a feeding station of the feeding device, and the suckers at the feeding station are arranged in a direction departing from the conveying belt;

the overturning assembly (322) is configured to rotate along the fixed frame (321), so that a suction cup on the overturning assembly rotates towards the jacking station and picks up materials on the material receiving disc (23) from the jacking station, after the materials are picked up, the overturning assembly (322) rotates and returns to the feeding station, and the surface of the materials to be laser engraved is placed on the suction cup downwards;

the overturning assembly (322) comprises an overturning shaft (323) connected to the fixed frame (321) and an overturning arm (324) connected with the overturning shaft (323), and the sucker is arranged on the overturning arm (324); at a certain moment, the overturning arm (324) is horizontally arranged on one side of the overturning shaft (323), the material containing disc (23) is arranged on the other side of the overturning shaft (323), and a sucking disc on the overturning arm (324) deviates from the conveyor belt (21) to form a feeding station; after the material containing disc (23) is jacked to the material loading overturning station from the jacking station, the overturning arm (324) rotates along the central axis of the overturning shaft (323) to drive the sucker to rotate towards the conveyor belt (21), so that the sucker adsorbs and picks up materials from the material loading overturning station; after the materials are picked up, the overturning arm (324) rotates along the central axis of the overturning shaft (323) to reset to the material loading station, the unloaded material containing disc (23) descends along with the jacking block (311) to reset to the jacking station, and the surface of the materials to be radium engraved at the material loading station faces the conveyor belt (21);

the central axis of the turnover shaft (323) is vertical to the central axis of the conveyor belt (21).

10. The automated laser etching apparatus of claim 8,

the transfer device (40) comprises a base (41), a first connecting arm (42), a second connecting arm (43), a third connecting arm (44) and an adsorption component (45), wherein the base (41) is fixedly connected with the machine table (10), one end of the first connecting arm (42) is movably connected with the base (41), the other end of the first connecting arm is movably connected with the second connecting arm (43), one end of the third connecting arm (44) is movably connected with the second connecting arm (43), and the other end of the third connecting arm is movably connected with the adsorption component (45);

the first connecting arm (42) can rotate horizontally relative to the base (41), the second connecting arm (43) and the first connecting arm (42) can rotate relatively in the vertical direction, the third connecting arm (44) and the second connecting arm (43) can rotate relatively in the vertical direction, the adsorption component (45) can rotate relatively in the vertical direction relative to the third connecting arm (44), and the adsorption component (45) can rotate along the connection position of the adsorption component and the third connecting arm (44);

the adsorption assembly (45) comprises a claw disc (451) and one or more suction discs arranged on the claw disc (451), the transfer device (40) adsorbs materials from the feeding device (30) through the suction discs, and the adsorbed materials are placed on the positioning device (50);

the transfer device (40) places the adsorbed material on the positioning panel (511), and the surface to be laser-etched of the material faces the positioning adsorption piece (513);

when the transfer device (40) picks up the positioned material from the positioning clamp (51), the positioning adsorption piece (513) releases the adsorbed material;

the laser carving device (60) is provided with a laser light source (61), a light beam emitted by the laser light source (61) is directly irradiated to the laser carving station, the transferring device (40) transfers the positioned material to the laser carving station, the surface to be carved of the material faces the laser light source (61), after the laser carving device (60) finishes carving the material, the transferring device (40) transfers the material after laser carving to the blanking device (70), and the transferring device (40) places the surface of the material which is finished with laser carving on the blanking device (70) downwards;

unloader (70) with loading attachment (30) adjacent setting, unloader (70) with loading attachment (30) structure is the same, belongs to sucking disc on the tilting mechanism (72) of unloader (70) forms the unloading station, transfer device (40) will accomplish the material of radium carving and transport to on the unloading station, tilting mechanism (72) of unloader (70) towards material receiving disc (23) on the elevating system of unloader (70) rotate, material receiving disc (23) are located unloading upset station, accomplish the material of radium carving and be settled in material receiving disc (23) by sucking disc (725) release on unloader (70), the surface that the material has accomplished radium carving is arranged up in material receiving disc (23), material receiving disc (23) that is bearing the material of accomplishing the radium carving are along with elevating system (71) of unloader (70) fall to the station, fall back to be located on the conveyer belt (21), the dust removal station that will be born the material of material receiving disc (23) is accomplished the dust removal track of material receiving disc (23).