CN220445637U - Cover plate assembling equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

The disclosure relates to the technical field of assembly equipment, and provides cover plate assembly equipment, the device comprises a shifting carrier, a pressing module and a mechanical gripper; the shifting carrier is provided with a plurality of bearing stations respectively used for bearing the cover plate; the pressing module is arranged above the shifting carrier, the pressing device can correspondingly move towards the bearing station; the mechanical gripper is arranged above the shifting carrier, the device is used for grabbing and moving the cover plate to a bearing station and/or grabbing and moving the cover plate after press fit assembly from the bearing station; the shifting carrier can drive and adjust the relative positions of each bearing station and the pressing module. The cover plate assembling equipment has the advantages of high assembling efficiency, high yield of assembled products and the beneficial effect of low rejection rate of parts.

Description

Cover plate assembling equipment

Technical Field

The disclosure relates to the technical field of assembly equipment, in particular to cover plate assembly equipment.

Background

Taking the assembly process of a notebook computer as an example, the most conventional assembly line assembly mode of two cover plates in the notebook computer in the prior art adopts an assembly operation mode of manual pressing, the hooks around the cover plates are required to be pressed one by manual, the personnel operation strength is high, and the risk problems of large seams and split screens of products in the assembly process can be caused because the personnel pressing strength cannot be kept balanced and unified, so that the product yield and the high unit cost part rejection rate are seriously influenced. The more advanced assembly mode also has to adopt personnel to assemble the apron through auxiliary fixtures tool, and personnel put into the carrier with the product, through pneumatic pressfitting module, with the automatic pressfitting equipment of product trip, personnel take out the product after accomplishing, put into the line body carrier. However, this type of operation also has a problem in that the intensity of the personnel operation is high and the work efficiency is low.

In view of this, a new automatic cover plate assembling device is needed in the market to solve the problems of low efficiency, influence on the product yield and the part rejection rate of the cover plate assembled by the industry in the prior art.

Disclosure of Invention

The embodiment of the disclosure provides cover plate assembly equipment, which aims to solve the technical problems of low efficiency, influence on product yield and part rejection rate existing in manual operation of assembly of cover plates in the prior art.

The cover plate assembly equipment provided by the embodiment of the disclosure comprises a shifting carrier, a pressing module and a mechanical gripper;

the shifting carrier is provided with a plurality of bearing stations for bearing the cover plates respectively;

the pressing module is arranged above the shifting carrier and can correspondingly move and press towards the bearing station;

the mechanical gripper is arranged above the shifting carrier and is used for grabbing and shifting the cover plate to the bearing station and/or grabbing and shifting the cover plate after press fit assembly from the bearing station;

the shifting carrier can drive and adjust the relative positions of the bearing stations and the pressing modules.

In one embodiment, the pressing module comprises a module bracket, a driving cylinder and an extrusion head;

one end of the driving cylinder is fixedly connected with the module support, and the other end of the driving cylinder is a telescopic free end;

the extrusion head is arranged at the telescopic free end of the driving cylinder;

wherein the driving cylinder is used for driving the extrusion head to move towards or away from the bearing station.

In an embodiment, the pressing module further includes a mounting rack for mounting the module support;

the module support is detachably mounted on the mounting rack.

In an embodiment, a plug-in card slot is formed on one side of the mounting rack;

the module support is provided with a plug-in clamping plate which is matched with the plug-in clamping groove;

the module support is clamped in the inserting clamping groove in a mode that the inserting clamping plate can be detached and slid for insertion.

In one embodiment, a flexible extrusion part is further arranged on the side of the extrusion head, which is opposite to the driving cylinder;

the flexible extrusion piece is used for abutting against the cover plate when the extrusion head presses the cover plate.

In one embodiment, the driving expansion direction of the driving cylinder and the thickness direction of the cover plate are arranged in an inclined manner at an acute angle;

the flexible extrusion piece is arranged at one side edge part of the extrusion head, which is close to the center of the cover plate;

the side wall in the thickness direction of the flexible extrusion piece is obliquely arranged along the driving expansion direction of the driving cylinder.

In an embodiment, the driving cylinders are wound around a plurality of circumference parts of the module support, and each driving cylinder is separately connected with one extrusion head in a driving way.

In one embodiment, the plurality of driving cylinders are divided into three groups;

the three groups of driving cylinders can respectively drive the extrusion heads corresponding to the three groups of driving cylinders to move in batches.

In one embodiment, the bearing stations are arranged in at least three annular arrays about the vertical axis of the displacement stage;

the plurality of bearing stations are positioned on the same horizontal table top of the shifting carrier;

the shifting carrier can rotate around the vertical axis of the shifting carrier to adjust the relative positions of the bearing stations and the pressing module.

In an embodiment, the displacement carrier is further provided with a positioning detection member;

the positioning detection piece is used for positioning and detecting the relative position of the bearing station and the pressing module when the shifting carrier rotates.

Compared with the prior art, the technical scheme provided by the embodiment of the disclosure has the following advantages:

when the cover plate assembling device is specifically used, the cover plate to be assembled can be grabbed from the conveying station through the mechanical grippers and transferred to the bearing station in the shifting carrying platform, the shifting carrying platform can correspondingly drive and adjust the relative positions of the bearing station and the pressing module, the bearing station and the pressing module are opposite to each other along the vertical direction, the pressing module can press the cover plate to be assembled by correspondingly moving and pressing towards the bearing station, finally, the shifting carrying platform correspondingly drives and adjusts the bearing station again, and the cover plate after press-fit assembly is grabbed and moved out from the bearing station through the mechanical grippers and is transferred to the lower conveying station, so that full-automatic press-fit assembly of the cover plate can be realized, and the cover plate assembling device has the advantages of being high in assembly efficiency, high in assembly product yield and low in part rejection rate.

It should be understood that the description in this section is not intended to identify key or critical features of the embodiments of the disclosure, nor is it intended to be used to limit the scope of the disclosure. Other features of the present disclosure will become apparent from the following specification.

Drawings

The above, as well as additional purposes, features, and advantages of exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure will become readily apparent from the following detailed description when read in conjunction with the accompanying drawings. Several embodiments of the present disclosure are illustrated by way of example, and not by way of limitation, in the figures of the accompanying drawings, in which:

in the drawings, the same or corresponding reference numerals indicate the same or corresponding parts.

FIG. 1 illustrates a self-contained perspective view of a closure assembly apparatus provided by an embodiment of the present disclosure;

FIG. 2 illustrates a block diagram (without a mechanical gripper) of a cover plate assembly apparatus provided by an embodiment of the present disclosure;

fig. 3 is a diagram illustrating a structure of a pressing module in a cover plate assembling apparatus according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;

fig. 4 shows an extrusion schematic of an extrusion head in a cap plate assembly apparatus provided by an embodiment of the present disclosure.

The reference numerals in the figures illustrate: 1. shifting the carrier; 11. a load-bearing station; 2. a pressing module; 21. a module support; 22. a driving cylinder; 23. an extrusion head; 231. a flexible extrusion; 24. mounting a rack; 3. a mechanical gripper; 4. and a cover plate.

Detailed Description

In order to make the objects, features and advantages of the present disclosure more comprehensible, the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present disclosure will be clearly described in conjunction with the accompanying drawings in the embodiments of the present disclosure, and it is apparent that the described embodiments are only some embodiments of the present disclosure, but not all embodiments. Based on the embodiments in this disclosure, all other embodiments that a person skilled in the art would obtain without making any inventive effort are within the scope of protection of this disclosure.

Embodiments of the present disclosure will be described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings.

As shown in fig. 1 and 2, an embodiment of the present disclosure provides a cover plate assembly apparatus, which includes a displacement stage 1, a lamination module 2, and a mechanical gripper 3; the shifting carrier 1 is provided with a plurality of bearing stations 11 for bearing the cover plates respectively; the pressing module 2 is arranged above the shifting carrier 1 and can correspondingly move pressing towards the bearing station 11; the mechanical gripper 3 is arranged above the shifting carrier 1 and is used for grabbing and shifting the cover plate to the bearing station 11 and/or grabbing and shifting the cover plate after press fit assembly from the bearing station 11; the displacement carrier 1 can drive and adjust the relative positions of the bearing stations 11 and the lamination module 2.

The cover assembly device can be specifically but not limited to the cover assembly of the cover 4 in a notebook computer, and this is described as an example.

When the cover plate assembling device is specifically used, firstly, the cover plate 4 to be assembled by covering is grabbed from a conveying station through a mechanical grabbing hand 3 and is transferred to a bearing station 11 in a shifting carrying platform 1, then the shifting carrying platform 1 correspondingly drives and adjusts the relative positions of the bearing station 11 and a pressing module 2, the bearing station 11 and the pressing module 2 are arranged in a vertical direction in a positive mode, the pressing module 2 correspondingly moves and presses towards the bearing station 11, so that the cover plate 4 to be assembled by covering can be assembled by pressing, finally, the shifting carrying platform 1 correspondingly drives and adjusts the bearing station 11 again, and the cover plate 4 after being assembled by pressing is grabbed and moved out from the bearing station 11 through the mechanical grabbing hand 3 and is transferred to a lower conveying station, so that full-automatic pressing assembly of the cover plate 4 can be realized.

Compared with the mode of manually assembling the cover plate in the prior art, the cover plate assembling equipment provided by the embodiment of the disclosure has the beneficial effects of high assembling efficiency, high yield of assembled products and low rejection rate of parts.

In addition, it should be noted that the above-mentioned mechanical gripper 3 may directly adopt an automatic numerical control mechanical arm in the prior art, and two mechanical grippers 3 may be respectively provided, where one of the mechanical grippers is responsible for grabbing and transferring from the conveying station to the carrying station 11 in the displacement carrier 1, and the other mechanical gripper is responsible for grabbing and removing the cover plate 4 after press-fit assembly from the carrying station 11.

In one embodiment, the pressing die set 2 includes a die set holder 21, a driving cylinder 22, and a pressing head 23; one end of the driving cylinder 22 is fixedly connected with the module support 21, and the other end is a telescopic free end; the extrusion head 23 is arranged at the telescopic free end of the driving cylinder 22; wherein the drive cylinder 22 is used to drive the extrusion head 23 towards or away from the load station 11.

Specifically, as described in further detail with reference to fig. 2 and 3, the pressing module 2 is specifically configured to a module support 21, a driving cylinder 22 and an extrusion head 23, where one end of the driving cylinder 22 is fixedly connected with the module support 21, and the other end of the driving cylinder can drive the extrusion head 23 to move toward or away from the carrying station 11, so as to implement a function of pressing and assembling the cover plate 4 to be covered and assembled.

Moreover, the extrusion movement range of the extrusion head 23 can be accurately controlled by controlling the telescopic lead of the driving cylinder 22, so that the extrusion force of the extrusion head 23 on the cover plate 4 to be assembled in a covering way can be accurately controlled, and the problems that the cover plate 4 is damaged due to the fact that the extrusion force is too small and is not firm in covering or the extrusion force is too large are avoided.

The specific setting mode of the pressing module 2 has the beneficial effects of simple structure and capability of accurately controlling the extrusion acting force of the cover plate 4.

In an embodiment, the lamination module 2 further comprises a mounting stand 24 for mounting the module support 21; the module support 21 is detachably mounted to the mounting stand 24.

Specifically, as described in further detail with reference to fig. 2, the mounting rack 24 may be disposed at a specific interval on the back side of the displacement stage 1, and has a mounting portion spaced above the displacement stage 1, so that after the module support 21 is detachably mounted on the mounting rack 24, the module support 21 can be spaced above the carrying station 11.

The detachable mode of the module support 21 and the mounting rack 24 can be specifically, but not limited to, a mode of screw connection, snap-lock connection, slot clamping head plugging and the like, and the detachable connection of the two modes can be convenient for daily maintenance and replacement.

In one embodiment, a cartridge slot is formed in one side of the mounting stand 24; the module support 21 is provided with a plug-in clamping plate which is matched with the plug-in clamping groove; wherein, the module support 21 is clamped in the inserting clamping groove in a detachable sliding inserting manner of the inserting clamping plate.

Specifically, as described in further detail with reference to fig. 2 and 3, a cartridge slot is formed on one side of the mounting rack 24, and a cartridge card board adapted to the cartridge slot is correspondingly disposed on the module support 21, so that the module support 21 can be detachably mounted with the mounting rack 24 in a manner that the cartridge card board is detachably and slidably inserted in the cartridge slot.

Of course, in order to ensure the inserting stability of the inserting clamping plate in the inserting clamping groove, the interference fit or the transition fit can be set in the matching relation between the inserting clamping groove and the inserting clamping plate, or structures such as a plurality of resistance-increasing gaskets, resistance-increasing lines, elastic barb chucks and the like are additionally arranged in the inserting clamping groove.

The specific detachable mode of the mounting rack 24 and the module support 21 has the beneficial effects of simple structure and convenient insertion.

In an embodiment, the side of the extrusion head 23 facing away from the drive cylinder 22 is further provided with a flexible extrusion 231; the flexible pressing member 231 is for abutting against the cover plate when the pressing head 23 presses the cover plate.

Specifically, as described in further detail in connection with fig. 3 and 4, the flexible extrusion 231 may be specifically configured as a flexible extrusion strip or a flexible extrusion plate, and the material may be, but is not limited to, rubber, silicone, plastic foam, or the like.

By arranging the flexible extrusion member 231 on the side of the extrusion head 23 facing away from the driving cylinder 22, when the extrusion head 23 presses the cover plate, the flexible extrusion member 231 can act between the extrusion head 23 and the cover plate to buffer extrusion acting force between the extrusion head 23 and the cover plate, so that the softer parts such as a screen and the like in the cover plate 4 are prevented from being crushed.

In one embodiment, the driving telescopic direction of the driving cylinder 22 is inclined at an acute angle to the thickness direction of the cover plate; the flexible extrusion 231 is arranged at one side edge part of the extrusion head 23 close to the center of the cover plate; wherein the side wall of the flexible pressing member 231 in the thickness direction is inclined in the driving expansion and contraction direction of the driving cylinder 22.

Specifically, as further detailed in connection with fig. 4, in fig. 4, the direction of arrow X1 is the driving expansion direction of the driving cylinder 22, the direction of arrow X2 is the thickness direction of the cover plate, the driving expansion direction of the driving cylinder 22 is inclined at an acute angle to the thickness direction of the cover plate, so that the driving cylinder 22 does not drive the extrusion head 23 to vertically extrude to the cover plate 4, the extrusion stress generated when the driving cylinder 22 drives the extrusion head 23 to downwardly extrude can generate a component force along the horizontal direction, the flexible extrusion 231 is arranged at one side edge part of the extrusion head 23 close to the center of the cover plate, and the side wall of the flexible extrusion 231 in the thickness direction is inclined along the driving expansion direction of the driving cylinder 22, so that the friction force in the horizontal direction can be counteracted between the flexible extrusion 231 and the cover plate 4, and if the extrusion stress generated when the driving cylinder 22 drives the extrusion head 23 to downwardly extrude is greater than the rated threshold, the component force along the horizontal direction generated by the extrusion stress can be greater than the horizontal friction force between the flexible extrusion 231 and the cover plate 4, so that the extrusion head 23 and the flexible extrusion 231 slides along the cover plate 4, and the problem of overload extrusion and damage to the cover plate 4 is avoided.

The driving cylinder 22 and the flexible extrusion member 231 are specifically arranged, so that the overload protection can be achieved, and the driving cylinder 22 is prevented from producing overload extrusion to the cover plate 4 to damage the cover plate 4.

In one embodiment, a plurality of driving cylinders 22 are wound around the circumference of the module support 21, and each driving cylinder 22 is separately connected with one extrusion head 23 in a driving manner.

Specifically, as further detailed in connection with fig. 3, in fig. 3, the module support 21 is rectangular as a whole, and corresponds to the cover plate 4 with a rectangular pressing cover, and the plurality of driving cylinders 22 are wound along the periphery of the module support 21 to form a square ring shape, and are individually connected with one extrusion head 23 through the plurality of driving cylinders 22, so that the specific extrusion stress of each extrusion head 23 can be controlled respectively, for example, the driving force of the driving cylinder 22 of the extrusion head 23 corresponding to the corner of the cover plate 4 can be set to be slightly larger than the driving force of the driving cylinder 22 at other positions, so that slightly larger extrusion stress can be generated to the corner of the cover plate 4, and the firmness of covering the corner of the cover plate 4 is ensured.

The driving cylinder 22 and the extrusion heads 23 are specifically driven and arranged, so that the extrusion stress of each extrusion head 23 can be controlled respectively, and different extrusion stresses can be generated at different positions of the cover plate 4.

In one embodiment, the plurality of drive cylinders 22 are divided into three groups; the three sets of driving cylinders 22 are capable of driving the respective corresponding squeeze heads 23 to move in batches, respectively.

Specifically, but not limited to, the preset rule of installing the plurality of driving cylinders 22 is marked A, B, C, all the driving cylinders 22 marked as a are grouped, all the driving cylinders 22 marked as B are grouped, and all the driving cylinders 22 marked as C are grouped, so that the driving cylinders 22 can respectively drive the corresponding extrusion heads 23 in batches of groups a, B and C, and the function of controlling the lamination sequence according to different types of cover plate 4 structures is realized.

In one embodiment, the carrying stations 11 are arranged in an annular array of at least three about the vertical axis of the displacement stage 1; the plurality of bearing stations 11 are positioned on the same horizontal table top of the shifting carrier 1; the shifting carrier 1 can rotate around the vertical axis of the shifting carrier to adjust the relative positions of the bearing stations 11 and the pressing module 2.

Specifically, in connection with the further detailed description of fig. 2, at this time, the three carrying stations 11 are annularly arranged in the horizontal table surface of the shifting carrier 1, so that the three carrying stations 11 can be respectively used as stations to be pressed, stations in the pressing process and stations after the pressing process to respectively correspond to the carrying cover plates 4, the vertical axial lead of the shifting carrier 1 can be rotated to adjust the relative positions of the carrying stations 11 and the pressing module 2, and the functions of preassembling, covering and taking out the cover plates 4 are respectively realized, so that the pressing and covering efficiency of the cover plate assembly equipment on the cover plates 4 is further improved.

Of course, a greater number of carrying stations 11 may be provided in the displacement stage 1, and may be appropriately increased according to the size of the displacement stage 1.

In an embodiment, the displacement carrier 1 is further provided with a positioning detection member; the positioning detection piece is used for positioning and detecting the relative position of the bearing station 11 and the pressing module 2 when the shifting carrier 1 rotates.

Specifically, the positioning detecting member may be, but not limited to, an infrared photoelectric detector, an electromagnetic detector, or the like, and the triggering portion may be specifically and respectively disposed in each carrying station 11, and the response portion is disposed in the lamination module 2, so that when the carrying station 11 and the lamination module 2 are aligned, the carrying station 11 and the lamination module 2 can be triggered to make the shifting carrier 1 detect that the carrying station 11 and the lamination module 2 are in an aligned position.

By arranging the positioning detection piece, the relative position relation between the bearing station 11 and the pressing module 2 can be detected in the rotation process by the mobile carrier 1, so that the accuracy of the pressing module 2 to the cover plate 4 in the bearing station 11 is further improved.

Furthermore, the terms "first," "second," and the like, are used for descriptive purposes only and are not to be construed as indicating or implying a relative importance or implicitly indicating the number of technical features indicated. Thus, a feature defining "a first" or "a second" may explicitly or implicitly include at least one such feature. In the description of the present disclosure, the meaning of "a plurality" is two or more, unless explicitly defined otherwise.

The foregoing is merely specific embodiments of the disclosure, but the protection scope of the disclosure is not limited thereto, and any person skilled in the art can easily think about changes or substitutions within the technical scope of the disclosure, and it is intended to cover the scope of the disclosure. Therefore, the protection scope of the present disclosure shall be subject to the protection scope of the claims.

Claims (10)

1. A cover plate assembly apparatus, comprising:

a displacement carrier (1) having a plurality of carrying stations (11) for carrying the cover plates, respectively;

the pressing module (2) is arranged above the shifting carrier (1) and can correspondingly move and press towards the bearing station (11);

the mechanical gripper (3) is arranged above the shifting carrier (1) and is used for grabbing and moving the cover plate to the bearing station (11) and/or grabbing and moving the cover plate after press fit assembly out of the bearing station (11);

the displacement carrier (1) can drive and adjust the relative positions of the bearing stations (11) and the pressing modules (2).

2. The cover plate assembly device according to claim 1, wherein the press-fit module (2) comprises:

a module support (21);

a driving cylinder (22), one end of which is fixedly connected with the module support (21), and the other end of which is a telescopic free end;

an extrusion head (23) arranged at the telescopic free end of the driving cylinder (22);

wherein the driving cylinder (22) is used for driving the extrusion head (23) to move towards or away from the bearing station (11).

3. The cover plate assembly device according to claim 2, wherein the press-fit module (2) further comprises a mounting stand (24) for mounting the module bracket (21);

the module support (21) is detachably mounted on the mounting rack (24).

4. A cover plate assembly device according to claim 3, wherein a cartridge slot is provided on one side of the mounting rack (24);

the module support (21) is provided with a plug-in clamping plate which is matched with the plug-in clamping groove;

the module support (21) is clamped in the inserting clamping groove in a detachable sliding inserting mode of the inserting clamping plate.

5. The cover plate assembly device according to claim 2, characterized in that the side of the extrusion head (23) facing away from the drive cylinder (22) is further provided with a flexible extrusion (231);

the flexible extrusion piece (231) is used for abutting against the cover plate when the extrusion head (23) presses the cover plate.

6. The cover plate assembly device according to claim 5, wherein the driving telescopic direction of the driving cylinder (22) is inclined at an acute angle to the cover plate thickness direction;

the flexible extrusion piece (231) is arranged at one side edge part of the extrusion head (23) close to the center of the cover plate;

the side wall of the flexible extrusion piece (231) in the thickness direction is obliquely arranged along the driving expansion and contraction direction of the driving cylinder (22).

7. The cover plate assembly device according to claim 2, characterized in that the driving cylinders (22) are wound around a plurality along the circumference of the module support (21), and that each driving cylinder (22) is individually drive-connected with one of the press heads (23).

8. The cover plate assembly device according to claim 7, wherein a plurality of the driving cylinders (22) are divided into three groups;

the three groups of driving cylinders (22) can respectively drive the extrusion heads (23) corresponding to the three groups of driving cylinders in batches to move.

9. The cover plate assembly device according to any one of claims 1 to 8, wherein the carrying stations (11) are arranged in an annular array of at least three about the vertical axis of the displacement stage (1);

the plurality of bearing stations (11) are positioned on the same horizontal table top of the shifting carrier (1);

the shifting carrier (1) can rotate around the vertical axis of the shifting carrier to adjust the relative positions of the bearing stations (11) and the pressing modules (2).

10. The cover plate assembly device according to claim 9, wherein a positioning detection member is further provided in the displacement stage (1);

the positioning detection piece is used for positioning and detecting the relative position of the bearing station (11) and the pressing module (2) when the shifting carrier (1) rotates.