CN219178248U - Battery pose conversion device, feeding platform and battery drying system - Google Patents

Abstract

The application relates to a battery position appearance conversion equipment, material loading platform and battery drying system, battery position appearance conversion equipment includes: the battery bearing mechanism comprises a plurality of battery rest grooves, wherein the battery rest grooves are used for placing batteries, so that the batteries are positioned at the same height and are arranged according to preset intervals; the rotary distance-changing mechanism is positioned on one side or two opposite sides of the battery bearing mechanism, and can absorb or clamp the batteries positioned in the battery placing groove and change the pose and/or the distance of the batteries. According to the scheme, the vertical cylindrical battery can be adjusted to be in a horizontal posture so as to be heated subsequently, so that the heating area can be increased, and the large temperature difference of different areas of the battery during local small-area heating is avoided.

Description

Battery pose conversion device, feeding platform and battery drying system

Technical Field

The utility model relates to the technical field of batteries, in particular to a battery pose conversion device, a charging platform and a battery drying system.

Background

In the production process of cylindrical batteries, an oven is typically used to dry the battery. In the conventional art, the cylindrical battery is dried in an upright manner, and the heating plate starts to heat the battery from the bottom of the battery, so that different positions of the battery have obvious temperature differences, the drying consistency of the battery is poor, and the drying efficiency and the temperature control precision are low.

Disclosure of Invention

The utility model provides a battery pose conversion device, a charging platform and a battery drying system, which are used for improving the consistency of battery drying and avoiding larger temperature difference in different areas when the battery is heated; further, the present application intends to improve the efficiency of dry production of the battery.

According to the present disclosure, there is first provided a battery pose conversion device including:

the battery bearing mechanism comprises a plurality of battery rest grooves, wherein the battery rest grooves are used for placing batteries, so that the batteries are positioned at the same height and are arranged according to preset intervals;

the rotary distance-changing mechanism is positioned on one side or two opposite sides of the battery bearing mechanism, and can absorb or clamp the batteries positioned in the battery placing groove and change the pose and/or the distance of the batteries.

According to an embodiment of the present application, the rotary pitch mechanism includes: the battery taking and placing device comprises a rotating assembly, a spacing adjusting assembly and a plurality of battery taking and placing pieces, wherein the rotating assembly comprises a rotating driving piece and a rotating mounting plate, the battery taking and placing pieces are mounted on the rotating mounting plate through the spacing adjusting assembly, and the spacing adjusting assembly can adjust the distance between two adjacent battery taking and placing pieces; the rotary driving piece can drive the rotary mounting plate to rotate around the rotary shaft of the rotary driving piece so as to drive the battery taking and placing piece to rotate.

According to an embodiment of the present application, the spacing adjustment assembly includes a drive cylinder and a plurality of interconnected limit links; the driving cylinder drives the battery picking and placing pieces to be close to or far away from each other, and the limiting connecting pieces respectively limit the variable spacing between the battery picking and placing pieces.

According to an embodiment of the application, the device further comprises a horizontal transfer mechanism; the battery bearing mechanism is characterized in that the two opposite sides of the battery bearing mechanism are respectively provided with the rotary variable-pitch mechanisms, the rotary variable-pitch mechanisms are both arranged on the horizontal transfer mechanism, and the horizontal transfer mechanism can adjust the distance between the rotary variable-pitch mechanisms at the two sides of the battery bearing mechanism.

According to an embodiment of the present application, the battery pick-and-place member includes: an absorbent member or a jaw;

the adsorption piece comprises a vacuum adsorption piece or an electromagnetic adsorption piece.

The application also provides a loading platform, which comprises a first transfer mechanism, a second transfer mechanism and the battery pose conversion device, wherein the first transfer mechanism is configured to transfer batteries to the battery placing groove; the second transfer mechanism is configured to: the battery is transferred after the rotational displacement mechanism changes the pose and/or spacing of the battery.

According to the embodiment of the application, the feeding platform further comprises a cup supporting exchanger, a code scanning and distributing mechanism and a cup supporting positioning assembly, wherein the cup supporting exchanger is used for replacing a Cheng Songtuo cup with a tight cup, and the battery is driven to enter the code scanning and distributing mechanism through the loose cup; the code scanning and distributing mechanism is used for scanning the code of the loose cup and distributing the loose cup into two or more rows for parallel advance; the support cup positioning assembly is used for fixing and aligning the loose support cup.

The application also provides a cylindrical battery drying system, which comprises a tray, a tray conveying mechanism, a dispatching mechanism, a heating mechanism and the feeding platform, wherein the feeding platform is configured to move batteries into the tray, and the tray conveying mechanism is configured to convey the tray loaded with the batteries to a tray feeding position;

the dispatching mechanism is configured to place the tray positioned at the tray loading position in the heating mechanism, and take out the tray after the battery drying is completed from the heating mechanism.

According to an embodiment of the application, the heating mechanism comprises a heating furnace and a heating plate, wherein the heating plate is installed in the heating furnace and comprises a heating bottom plate and a protruding part arranged on the heating bottom plate;

the tray comprises a supporting part and a hollowed-out part, wherein the hollowed-out part is positioned between two opposite supporting parts; when the tray is placed in the heating mechanism, the position of the protruding portion corresponds to the position of the hollowed-out portion.

According to the embodiment of the application, the dispatching mechanism comprises a feeding robot and a discharging robot which are positioned on the same track, wherein the feeding robot is used for placing the tray with the tray feeding position into the heating mechanism, the discharging robot is used for taking the tray after the battery is dried out of the heating mechanism, and the feeding robot and the discharging robot are both provided with distance sensors.

According to the battery pose conversion device, the vertically placed cylindrical battery can be adjusted to be in a horizontal pose so as to be heated later, so that the heating area can be increased, larger temperature differences in different areas of the battery during local heating with smaller areas are avoided, and the consistency of battery drying is improved; further, the efficiency of whole battery drying production line can be improved through the setting of material loading platform, scheduling mechanism etc..

For a further understanding of the nature and the technical aspects of the present utility model, reference should be made to the following detailed description of the utility model and the accompanying drawings, which are included to illustrate and not to limit the scope of the utility model.

Drawings

Embodiments of the present disclosure are described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings. The accompanying drawings, which are incorporated in and constitute a part of this disclosure, are included to provide a further understanding of the disclosure. The exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure and their description are for the purpose of explaining the present disclosure and are not to be construed as unduly limiting the present disclosure. In the accompanying drawings:

fig. 1 shows a schematic diagram of a battery drying system according to an example embodiment of the present application;

fig. 2 shows a schematic front view of a battery pose conversion device according to an exemplary embodiment of the present application;

fig. 3 shows a schematic perspective view of a battery rest slot according to an example embodiment of the present application;

fig. 4a shows a schematic top view of a battery pose conversion device according to an example embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 4b shows a schematic top view of structure at A according to the example embodiment of FIG. 4 a;

fig. 4c shows a schematic bottom view of a single-row battery pose conversion device according to an example embodiment of the present application;

fig. 5 shows a schematic top view of a first transfer mechanism and a second transfer mechanism according to an example embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 6 illustrates a schematic bottom view of a first transfer mechanism and a second transfer mechanism according to an example embodiment of the present application;

fig. 7 is an enlarged schematic view showing the structure of the suction member of the second transfer mechanism according to the exemplary embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 8 illustrates a schematic top view of a bracket cup positioning assembly according to an example embodiment of the present application;

fig. 9a shows a schematic perspective view of a tray according to an example embodiment of the present application;

fig. 9b shows a partial perspective view of a tray according to an example embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 10a shows a schematic diagram of a heater plate structure according to an example embodiment of the present application;

fig. 10b shows a schematic view of a cell placed on a boss according to an example embodiment of the present application.

List of reference numerals:

10 material loading platform 110111 semi-cylindrical groove

110 battery pose changing device 110111a opening

1101 battery bearing mechanism 110112 round groove

1101A battery placing table 1102 rotary distance changing mechanism

11011 battery placing groove 11021 battery taking and placing piece

11022 rotating assembly

110221 rotary driving piece 1302 second slide rail

110222 rotary mounting plate 1303 second horizontal driving mechanism

11023 second vertical drive mechanism of pitch adjustment assembly 1304

110231 first driving member 1305 vacuum adsorption assembly

110232 spacing connecting piece 1306 mounting plate

110233 guide rail 140 cup supporting positioning assembly

110234 slide 1401 locating plate

1104 horizontal transfer mechanism 1402 locating plate moving mechanism

11041 second drive member 20 pallet transport system

11042 slide rail 30 scheduling mechanism

11043 slide 40 heating mechanism

120 first transfer mechanism 410 tray

1201 first mounting plate 4101 support

1202 hollow portion of first slide 4102

1203 first vertical driving mechanism 420 heating plate

1204 first horizontal drive mechanism 4201 heats the soleplate

1205 jaw 4202 projection

130 second transfer mechanism 50 blanking platform

1301 second mounting plate

Detailed Description

Example embodiments will now be described more fully with reference to the accompanying drawings. However, the exemplary embodiments can be embodied in many forms and should not be construed as limited to the embodiments set forth herein; rather, these embodiments are provided so that this disclosure will be thorough and complete, and will fully convey the concept of the example embodiments to those skilled in the art. The same reference numerals in the drawings denote the same or similar parts, and thus a repetitive description thereof will be omitted.

The described features, structures, or characteristics may be combined in any suitable manner in one or more embodiments. In the following description, numerous specific details are provided to give a thorough understanding of embodiments of the disclosure. One skilled in the relevant art will recognize, however, that the disclosed aspects may be practiced without one or more of the specific details, or with other methods, components, materials, apparatus, etc. In these instances, well-known structures, methods, devices, implementations, materials, or operations are not shown or described in detail.

The flow diagrams depicted in the figures are exemplary only, and do not necessarily include all of the elements and operations/steps, nor must they be performed in the order described. For example, some operations/steps may be decomposed, and some operations/steps may be combined or partially combined, so that the order of actual execution may be changed according to actual situations.

The terms first, second and the like in the description and in the claims of the present application and in the above-described figures, are used for distinguishing between different objects and not for describing a particular sequential order. Furthermore, the terms "comprise" and "have," as well as any variations thereof, are intended to cover a non-exclusive inclusion. For example, a process, method, system, article, or apparatus that comprises a list of steps or elements is not limited to only those listed steps or elements but may include other steps or elements not listed or inherent to such process, method, article, or apparatus.

Fig. 1 shows a schematic structure of a battery drying system according to an embodiment of the present application. By way of example, the battery drying system may be used for drying cylindrical batteries.

As shown in fig. 1, the battery drying system may include a loading platform 10, a pallet transport system 20, a dispatching mechanism 30, a heating mechanism 40, and a discharging platform 50. The loading platform 10 is used for battery loading, and the battery is placed in the tray. The pallet transport system 20 is used to transport pallets and may include roller lines. The dispatching mechanism 30 is used for loading and unloading the pallet, and the pallet is put into or taken out from the heating furnace of the heating mechanism 40. The blanking platform 50 is used to transfer the dried batteries from the tray to the cup for discharging. Of course, the mechanisms or devices listed herein are not all necessary and may be selected or varied as desired.

This application is in order to increase the heating area of battery, adjusts the battery from traditional vertical state to the horizontality and heats, even makes the battery can be heated at the circumference, can improve the great temperature difference that leads to through heating at battery cylinder bottom in the past like this. In order to change the battery from the vertical state feeding to the tray when the material is supplied to the tray into the horizontal state, the application designs a battery pose conversion device which is arranged at the production process of the feeding platform so as to realize the pose adjustment of the battery.

According to the exemplary embodiment of the present application, as shown in fig. 2, the battery pose conversion device 110 mainly includes a battery bearing mechanism 1101 and a rotary distance-changing mechanism 1102, where the battery bearing mechanism 1101 is mainly used for receiving batteries in a vertical state from an incoming material, and is used for temporarily placing and aligning the batteries, so that the batteries are located at the same height and are arranged according to a preset interval, and accurate absorption by the rotary distance-changing mechanism is facilitated; the rotary pitch mechanism 1102 is capable of adsorbing or gripping the batteries located in the battery carrying mechanism 1101 and changing the pose and/or spacing of the batteries for a subsequent device to stack the batteries in a horizontal state in a tray.

As shown in fig. 3, the battery loading mechanism 1101 mainly includes a battery placement table 1101A provided with a battery placement groove 11011, the battery placement table 1101A is configured to be vertically liftable so as to be lifted to a proper height for obtaining a battery, and after the battery is taken out by the rotary displacement mechanism 1102, the battery placement table 1101A can be lowered to a height that does not interfere with the rotary operation of the rotary displacement mechanism 1102.

The battery placing table 1101A may be driven to move up and down by a driving element, for example, a motor, a hydraulic cylinder or an air cylinder may be used to drive the battery placing table to move vertically, and the specific structure and operation manner may be implemented by conventional techniques, which are not described herein.

According to an exemplary embodiment of the present application, as shown in fig. 3, the battery receiving groove 11011 includes a half-cylindrical groove 110111 to facilitate the placement of the cylindrical battery D, and the half-cylindrical groove 110111 is provided with an opening 110111a to the outside to facilitate the reception of the battery D from the opening or the delivery of the battery D.

Further, in order to more firmly place the battery D in the battery placing groove 11011, the battery placing groove 11011 may be further provided with a circular groove 110112 having a diameter matching that of the battery D at the bottom.

As shown in fig. 4a and 4b, the rotary pitch mechanism 1102 mainly includes a plurality of battery pick-and-place members 11021, a rotating assembly 11022, and a pitch adjusting assembly 11023. The spacing adjustment assembly 11023 is used to adjust the distance between adjacent battery pick-and-place members 11021. The plurality of battery picking and placing elements 11021 are disposed at the adjacent position of the battery placing table 1101A, the plurality of battery picking and placing elements 11021 are configured to adsorb or clamp the battery D on the battery placing table 1101A, and the rotating pitch changing mechanism 1102 can drive the plurality of battery picking and placing elements 11021 to rotate, so that the plurality of battery picking and placing elements 11021 are switched between a horizontal state and a vertical state. When the battery taking and placing member 11021 is rotated to the vertical position, the vertically placed battery D is conveniently absorbed or clamped from the battery placing table 1101A, and after the battery taking and placing member 11021 is rotated to the horizontal position, the subsequent mechanism is conveniently horizontally moved to the tray by the battery D.

According to an exemplary embodiment of the present application, as shown in fig. 4a and 4b, the rotating assembly 11022 includes a rotating driving member 110221 and a rotating mounting plate 110222, the battery picking and placing members 11021 are mounted on the rotating mounting plate 110222 through a spacing adjusting assembly 11023, and the spacing adjusting assembly 11023 can adjust the distance between two adjacent battery picking and placing members 11021; the rotation driving member 110221 can drive the rotation mounting plate 110222 to rotate around the rotation axis of the rotation driving member 110221 to drive the battery picking and placing member 11021 to rotate. According to example embodiments of the present application, the battery access 11021 may include an adsorption member or a clamping jaw to adsorb or clamp the battery D.

According to example embodiments of the present application, the suction member includes a vacuum suction member or an electromagnetic suction member. The vacuum absorption part is connected with the vacuum generating device, and the electric core can be absorbed and fixed through negative pressure generated by vacuum, so that electric core transfer is performed. The electromagnetic absorption part can be connected with a power supply, the electromagnetic absorption part in the power-on state can absorb the battery D, and the electromagnetic absorption part in the power-off state can release the battery D. According to the embodiment of the application, as shown in fig. 4b, the battery taking and placing piece is an absorbing piece, and the absorbing surface of the absorbing piece is an inner concave surface so as to be matched with the outer peripheral surface of the cylindrical battery D, so that the battery core is firmer in the transferring process and is not easy to fall.

According to an exemplary embodiment of the present application, as shown in fig. 4a, the battery placing table 1101A is provided with a plurality of battery placing grooves 11011 arranged at intervals, and the rotary pitch changing mechanism 1102 includes a plurality of battery picking and placing members 11021 corresponding to the plurality of battery placing grooves 11011.

The battery mount 1101A in the embodiment shown in the figure has a rectangular shape, and a plurality of battery rest grooves 11011 are arranged at intervals along the longitudinal direction of the rectangular shape. The arrangement of the plurality of battery rest grooves 11011 may be set as needed. The number of rows and arrangement of the battery storage grooves 11011 may be set as necessary, and the present utility model is not limited to the illustrated embodiment.

According to an exemplary embodiment of the present application, as shown in fig. 4b, the spacing adjustment assembly 11023 may include a first driving member 110231, such as a driving cylinder, and a plurality of limiting connectors 110232 connected to each other, wherein the driving cylinder drives the battery taking and placing members 11021 to approach or separate from each other, and the plurality of limiting connectors 110232 respectively define variable spacing between the plurality of battery taking and placing members 11021. The distance between the battery taking and placing pieces 11021 is adjusted, so that the distance between the batteries D can be adjusted, trays of different models can be adapted, and the compatibility degree of the production line is improved.

According to an exemplary embodiment of the present application, as shown in fig. 4b, the first driving member 110231 is connected to the sliding member 110234, the sliding member 110234 is slidably engaged with the guide rail 110233, the guide rail 110233 is mounted on the rotation mounting plate 110222, and the battery taking and placing member 11021 is fixedly mounted on the sliding member 110234. The first driving member 110231 drives the sliding member 110234 to slide on the rail 110233, so as to drive the battery taking and placing member 11021 to move. The limiting connecting piece 110232 may be a limiting plate, one end of the limiting connecting piece 110232 is provided with a round hole, the other end of the limiting connecting piece 110232 is provided with a slotted hole, the round hole of the limiting connecting piece 110232 is fixedly connected with the battery taking and placing piece 11021 positioned on one side of the limiting connecting piece 110232, and the slotted hole is movably connected with the battery taking and placing piece 11021 positioned on the other side of the limiting connecting piece 110232.

According to the exemplary embodiment of the present application, a spring may be disposed between the sliding members 110234, and when the first driving member 110231 does not apply a force to the sliding members 110234, the elastic force of the spring may ensure that each of the sliding members 110234 is in a stable state, and may not slide at will, in which case the plurality of sliding members 110234 are in a state of maximum mutual distance. When the first driving member 110231 applies a pressing force to the sliding members 110234, the force is greater than the elastic force of the spring, and the spring is compressed, so that the distance between the sliding members 110234 can be reduced.

According to an exemplary embodiment of the present application, as shown in fig. 4c, the first driving member 110231 includes a set of driving cylinders that are driven synchronously toward each other or driven synchronously away from each other. When the distance between the batteries D needs to be reduced, the first driving members 110231 at the two ends can drive the battery taking and placing members 11021 to move from the two ends to the middle, so that the distance between the battery taking and placing members 11021 is reduced; when the distance between the batteries D needs to be increased, the first driving members 110231 at the two ends can drive the battery picking and placing members 11021 to move from the middle to the two ends, so as to increase the distance between the battery picking and placing members 11021.

Of course, the first driving member 110231 may be implemented in other driving structures and manners, such as an electric or hydraulic structure, which will not be described herein.

Both sides in the width direction of the rectangular battery placing table 1101A can be regarded as both side ends of the battery placing table 1101A.

According to the exemplary embodiment of the present application, a plurality of spaced battery rest grooves 11011 are provided at both side ends of the battery rest stand 1101A, and a plurality of sets of rotary pitch changing mechanisms 1102 corresponding to the battery rest grooves 11011 are provided adjacently to both sides of the battery rest stand 1101A, respectively. The multiunit sets up the work efficiency who is convenient for improve the production line. The battery carrying mechanism may be provided with the same number of battery rest grooves 11011 as the number of batteries D, and the battery rest grooves 11011 serve as a transit position for temporarily placing the batteries D.

According to an example embodiment of the present application, the battery pose conversion apparatus 110 further includes a horizontal transfer mechanism 1104, and the horizontal transfer mechanism 1104 is configured to drive the rotary displacement mechanism 1102 to move closer to or farther from the rotary displacement mechanism 1102 on the opposite side.

According to the exemplary embodiment of the present application, as shown in fig. 4, the horizontal transfer mechanism 1104 includes a second driving member 11041, a slide rail 11042, and a slide plate 11043, the slide plate 11043 is connected to the bottom of the rotary displacement mechanism 1102, the slide plate 11043 is connected to the slide rail 11042 in a sliding fit, and the second driving member 11041 is connected to the slide plate 11043, so that the second driving member 11041 can drive the slide plate 11043 to move along the slide rail 11042. Designed so that the distance between the two-sided rotary pitch mechanisms 1102 is easily adjusted.

The present disclosure also provides a loading platform 10, as shown in fig. 5, mainly including a first transfer mechanism 120, a second transfer mechanism 130, and the battery pose conversion device 110 described above, where the first transfer mechanism 120 is configured to vertically place a battery D in the battery bearing mechanism 1101 of the battery pose conversion device 110, and specifically transfer the battery D to the battery placing groove 11011; the second transfer mechanism 130 is configured to transfer the battery D after the rotational pitch mechanism 1102 changes the pose and/or pitch of the battery D.

According to an exemplary embodiment of the present application, as shown in fig. 5 and 6, the first transfer mechanism 120 includes a first mounting plate 1201, a first slide rail 1202, a first vertical driving mechanism 1203, a first horizontal driving mechanism 1204, and a clamping jaw 1205, the first mounting plate 1201 is mounted on the first slide rail 1202, and the first mounting plate 1201 is driven by the first horizontal driving mechanism 1204 to move horizontally on the first slide rail 1202; a first vertical driving mechanism 1203 is mounted on the first mounting plate 1201, and the first vertical driving mechanism 1203 is configured to drive the gripping jaw 1205 to move in the vertical direction. The first transfer mechanism 120 may accurately grip the incoming battery D by moving the gripping jaw 1205 to a proper position and place the battery D to the battery pose conversion device 110.

The first horizontal driving mechanism 1204 and the first vertical driving mechanism 1203 may be implemented by using a conventional technology, such as an electric or hydraulic or pneumatic driving structure, which will not be described herein.

The second transfer mechanism 130 includes a second mounting plate 1301, a second slide rail 1302, a second horizontal driving mechanism 1303, two second vertical driving mechanisms 1304, and two sets of vacuum adsorption assemblies 1305, the second mounting plate 1301 is mounted on the second slide rail 1302, and the second mounting plate 1301 is driven by the second horizontal driving mechanism 1303 to move horizontally on the second slide rail 1302. A second vertical driving mechanism 1304 is mounted on the second mounting plate 1301, the second vertical driving mechanism 1304 being for driving the vacuum suction assembly 1305 to move in a vertical direction. Each set of vacuum pumping assemblies 1305 may include a plurality of vacuum pumping members to pump a row of horizontally disposed cylindrical batteries D. The mechanisms described above may be mounted on the mounting plate 1306.

The second transfer mechanism may transfer the battery D from the battery pose changing device 110 to the tray on the tray conveyance system 20. The order of placing the batteries D in the tray may be, for example, the (1, 5) th row, the (2, 6) th row, the (3, 7) th row, and the (4, 8) th row in this order. Optionally, the distance between the two rotary displacement mechanisms is adjusted through the horizontal transfer mechanism, so that the distance between the two rows of batteries D can be adjusted, and the tray is suitable for trays of different types.

According to an exemplary embodiment of the present application, as shown in fig. 7, the vacuum adsorption assembly 1305 includes a plurality of vacuum adsorption members, and the vacuum adsorption members are used for adsorbing the cylindrical batteries D horizontally placed, and the structural form may be implemented by adopting the prior art, which is not described herein.

According to the present exemplary embodiment, the battery pose conversion device 110 is located below the first transfer mechanism 120 and the second transfer mechanism 130, and both the first transfer mechanism 120 and the second transfer mechanism 130 are movable to be directly above the battery pose conversion device 110 (there is a overlapping portion of the first slide rail 1202 and the second slide rail 1302, and the battery pose conversion device 110 is located below the overlapping portion).

According to an exemplary embodiment of the present application, the loading platform 10 may further include a cup supporting switch (not shown), a code scanning and distributing mechanism (not shown), and a cup supporting positioning assembly 140. The cup supporting exchanger is used for replacing the tight cup supporting exchanger with Cheng Songtuo cups and driving the battery D to enter the code scanning and distributing mechanism through the loose cup supporting exchanger; the code scanning and distributing mechanism is used for scanning the code of the loose cup and distributing the loose cup into two or more rows for parallel advance; the support cup positioning assembly 140 is used to secure and align the loose support cups.

When the device works, the material of the tight support cup belt battery D enters a support cup exchanger, the tight support cup is replaced by Cheng Songtuo cups, and then the material enters the code scanning and distributing mechanism from the loose support cup belt battery D. The code scanning and distributing mechanism reads the information of the support cup through RFID (radio frequency identification), and obtains the corresponding relation between the support cup and the battery D, so that the battery D can trace the source conveniently. And then, the code scanning and dividing mechanism divides one battery D into two parallel rows, and the two parallel rows flow into the supporting cup positioning assembly for positioning.

According to an exemplary embodiment of the present application, the bowl positioning assembly 140 generally includes a positioning plate 1401 and a positioning plate movement mechanism 1402. The positioning plate moving mechanism 1402 can move the positioning plate 1401 in a direction perpendicular to the battery transmission line to position the loose cup. Fig. 8 is a top view of the cup holder positioning mechanism with the positioning plate gripping the loose cup. The positioning plate moving mechanism 1402 may be an electric driving mechanism or a hydraulic driving mechanism or a pneumatic driving mechanism.

After the positioning is completed, the first transfer mechanism 120 can accurately grip the battery D.

The present disclosure also provides a cylindrical battery drying system, as shown in fig. 1, mainly comprising a heating mechanism 40, a dispatching mechanism 30, a loading platform 10, a tray 410 and a tray transport system 20. The loading platform 10 is configured to move the battery D into the tray 410, and the tray transport system 20 is configured to transport the tray 410 loaded with the battery D to a tray loading level; the dispatching mechanism 30 is configured to place the tray 410 at the tray loading level in the heating mechanism 40, and to take out the tray 410 after the battery drying is completed from the heating mechanism 40.

According to the exemplary embodiment of the present application, the heating mechanism 40 mainly includes a heating furnace (not shown in the drawings) and a heating plate 420, wherein the heating plate 420 is installed in the heating furnace. The loading platform 10 is configured to move the batteries D to the tray 410, and the dispatching mechanism 30 is configured to place the tray 410 on the heating plate 420 inside the heating furnace.

According to an exemplary embodiment of the present application, as shown in fig. 9a and 9b, the tray 410 includes a support portion 4101 and a hollowed portion 4102, and the hollowed portion 4102 is provided between two opposite support portions 4101. The support portion 4101 is used for supporting the cylindrical battery D, and the hollow portion 4102 is used for exposing the side wall of the battery D, so that when the tray 410 and the battery D are put into the heating furnace for drying, the side edge of the battery D can be in contact with the heating plate 420.

A plurality of battery placement positions may be disposed on the tray 410, that is, the tray includes a plurality of groups of support portions 4101 and hollow portions 4102, and the arrangement manner may be designed according to the needs.

According to an exemplary embodiment of the present application, as shown in fig. 10a, the heating plate 420 includes a heating bottom plate 4201 and a protruding portion 4202 provided on the heating bottom plate 4201, and when the tray 410 is placed on the heating plate 420, the protruding portion 4202 corresponds to the position of the hollowed portion 4102. The boss 4202 may be designed in a contoured configuration to mate with the outer peripheral surface of the battery D.

When the tray is placed on the heating plate, as shown in fig. 10b, the battery D is supported and heat is transferred by the protrusions 4202 on the heating plate 420.

Compared with the vertical heating mode, the protruding portion 4202 on the heating plate 420 contacts with the side wall of the battery D, the contact area can be greatly increased, and the heating efficiency is correspondingly improved. And, the drying uniformity of this application battery is better, and the temperature is even effectual. According to example embodiments of the present application, the heating plate 420 may be an aluminum layer-heating layer-aluminum layer structure.

According to the exemplary embodiment of the present application, the dispatching mechanism 30 includes a loading robot and a unloading robot, which are a one-rail double dispatching mechanism, that is, the loading robot and the unloading robot are disposed on the same rail. The feeding robot and the discharging robot are both provided with distance sensors, the feeding robot is used for placing the tray into the heating furnace, and the discharging robot is used for taking the heated battery D out of the heating furnace.

The heating furnace is, for example, a vacuum heating furnace. When the feeding robot works, the tray is placed into the heating furnace to be heated and dried. After heating is completed for a preset time, the vacuum environment in the heating furnace is broken, the cabinet door is opened, the tray in the furnace is taken out by the discharging robot, and the heating plate is reserved in the single furnace, so that heat dissipation of the heating plate is reduced to the greatest extent, and drying efficiency is improved. The empty heating furnace is filled up by the feeding robot, then a vacuum environment is formed in the heating furnace again, and the battery of the next round is dried.

According to the embodiment of the application, the feeding robot is a six-axis feeding mechanism, and the discharging robot is a six-axis discharging mechanism. Distance sensors are arranged on the feeding and discharging robots so as to avoid collision between the feeding robots and the discharging robots or collision between the feeding robots and other mechanisms. Through adopting one rail double-dispatch mechanism to carry out the unloading of going up of tray, can improve the beat, efficiency can promote by a wide margin.

According to the embodiment of the application, the front door of the heating furnace is an automatic door, so that the heating furnace can be matched with the loading and unloading robot to take and place the tray. According to the embodiment of the application, the rear door of the heating furnace is a maintenance door, so that maintenance personnel can open the heating furnace for maintenance. According to the exemplary embodiment of the application, four heating furnaces can be arranged in one heating cabinet, and 10 layers of heating plates are arranged in each heating furnace. Each heating cabinet is provided with a vacuum generating device for forming a vacuum environment in the heating furnace.

This application toasts the gesture through changing the battery to utilize the mode of tray and hot plate mutually supporting, can reduce the requirement of positioning accuracy. And the heating plate is fixed in the furnace and does not move along with the manipulator, the battery is moved into or out of the heating furnace by the tray, and when the door is opened to take and put the battery, the temperature drop of the heating plate in the same time can be reduced, so that the heating plate is more energy-saving.

According to example embodiments of the present application, the cylindrical battery drying system may further include a blanking platform 50.

According to an example embodiment of the present application, after the battery drying is completed, the discharging robot may move the tray to the tray discharging position and transport the tray to the discharging platform 50 through the tray transport system 20. The apparatus of the blanking platform 50 may be the same as the loading platform except that the operation steps are reversed from those of battery loading.

According to the example embodiment of the application, the emptied tray is lowered to a tray return line positioned at one layer for reflow, and is used for placing the battery again. The dried battery is placed in a loose supporting cup, and is discharged after being changed into a tight supporting cup through a supporting cup exchange mechanism.

In a word, through the battery pose conversion device, the vertically placed cylindrical battery can be adjusted to be in a horizontal pose for heating, the heating area can be increased, and larger temperature differences in different areas of the battery during local heating with smaller areas are avoided, so that the consistency of battery drying is improved; further, the efficiency of whole battery drying production line can be improved through the setting of material loading platform, scheduling mechanism etc..

Finally, it should be noted that: the foregoing description is only exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure, and not intended to limit the disclosure, but although the disclosure is described in detail with reference to the foregoing embodiments, it will be apparent to those skilled in the art that modifications may be made to the technical solutions described in the foregoing embodiments, or equivalents may be substituted for some of the technical features thereof. Any modification, equivalent replacement, improvement, etc. made within the spirit and principle of the present disclosure should be included in the protection scope of the present disclosure.

Claims (10)

1. A battery pose conversion device is characterized by comprising:

the battery bearing mechanism comprises a plurality of battery rest grooves, wherein the battery rest grooves are used for placing batteries, so that the batteries are positioned at the same height and are arranged according to preset intervals;

the rotary distance-changing mechanism is positioned on one side or two opposite sides of the battery bearing mechanism, and can absorb or clamp the batteries positioned in the battery placing groove and change the pose and/or the distance of the batteries.

2. The battery pose conversion device according to claim 1, wherein the rotation pitch conversion mechanism comprises: the battery taking and placing device comprises a rotating assembly, a spacing adjusting assembly and a plurality of battery taking and placing pieces, wherein the rotating assembly comprises a rotating driving piece and a rotating mounting plate, the battery taking and placing pieces are mounted on the rotating mounting plate through the spacing adjusting assembly, and the spacing adjusting assembly can adjust the distance between two adjacent battery taking and placing pieces; the rotary driving piece can drive the rotary mounting plate to rotate around the rotary axis of the rotary driving piece so as to drive the battery taking and placing piece to rotate.

3. The battery pose conversion device according to claim 2, wherein the distance adjusting assembly comprises a driving cylinder and a plurality of limit connectors connected with each other; the driving cylinder drives the battery picking and placing pieces to be close to or far away from each other, and the limiting connecting pieces are used for limiting the variable spacing between the battery picking and placing pieces.

4. The battery pose conversion device according to claim 1, further comprising a horizontal transfer mechanism; the battery bearing mechanism is characterized in that the two opposite sides of the battery bearing mechanism are respectively provided with the rotary variable-pitch mechanisms, the rotary variable-pitch mechanisms are both arranged on the horizontal transfer mechanism, and the horizontal transfer mechanism can adjust the distance between the rotary variable-pitch mechanisms at the two sides of the battery bearing mechanism.

5. A battery pose conversion device according to claim 2 or 3 wherein said battery pick-and-place member comprises: an absorbent member or a jaw;

the adsorption piece comprises a vacuum adsorption piece or an electromagnetic adsorption piece.

6. The loading platform is characterized by comprising a first transfer mechanism, a second transfer mechanism and the battery pose conversion device according to any one of claims 1 to 5, wherein the first transfer mechanism is configured to: transferring a battery to the battery rest tank; the second transfer mechanism is configured to: the battery is transferred after the rotational displacement mechanism changes the pose and/or spacing of the battery.

7. The loading platform of claim 6, further comprising a cup supporting exchanger, a code scanning and distributing mechanism and a cup supporting positioning assembly, wherein the cup supporting exchanger is used for replacing a Cheng Songtuo cup with a tight cup, and then the loose cup drives a battery to enter the code scanning and distributing mechanism; the code scanning and distributing mechanism is used for scanning the code of the loose cup and distributing the loose cup into two or more rows for parallel advance; the support cup positioning assembly is used for fixing and aligning the loose support cup.

8. A battery drying system comprising a tray, a tray transport mechanism, a dispatching mechanism, a heating mechanism, and the loading platform of claim 6 or 7, the loading platform configured to move batteries into the tray, the tray transport mechanism configured to transport a battery-loaded tray to a tray loading level;

the dispatching mechanism is configured to place the tray positioned at the tray loading position in the heating mechanism, and take out the tray after the battery drying is completed from the heating mechanism.

9. The battery drying system of claim 8 wherein the heating mechanism comprises a heating furnace and a heating plate, the heating plate being mounted within the heating furnace, the heating plate comprising a heating floor and a raised portion provided on the heating floor;

the tray comprises a supporting part and a hollowed-out part, wherein the hollowed-out part is positioned between two opposite supporting parts; when the tray is placed in the heating mechanism, the position of the protruding portion corresponds to the position of the hollowed-out portion.

10. The battery drying system according to claim 8 or 9, wherein the dispatching mechanism comprises a loading robot and a discharging robot which are positioned on the same track, the loading robot is used for placing the tray with the loading position of the tray into the heating mechanism, the discharging robot is used for taking the tray after the battery drying is completed out of the heating mechanism, and a distance sensor is arranged on each of the loading robot and the discharging robot.

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