JP2010137951A - Simple raw material storing device - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a simple raw material storage device for easily storing and taking out a remainder. <P>SOLUTION: This simple raw material storage device for storing a plate-like raw material or the remainder M, includes a raw material rack 5 having a plurality of raw material arranging grooves 7 freely longitudinally installable by dividing a plurality of raw materials M by every one sheet so as to freely take in and out to a storage housing 3, and has a raw material existence display means 19 for displaying the existence of the raw material in response to the respective raw material arranging grooves 7 in the raw material rack 5, and has a raw material detecting sensor for detecting the existence of the raw material in the respective raw material arranging grooves 7 in response to the respective raw material arranging grooves 7 in the raw material rack 5. The raw material existence display means 19 is individually and correspondingly provided with respective raw material arranging grooves 7 of the raw material rack 5 in the entrance vicinity of the raw material rack 5 to the storage housing 3. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a simple material storage device for mainly storing a remaining material after being processed by a plate material processing machine such as a punch press or a laser processing machine, and more specifically, a stored material remaining. The present invention relates to a simple material storage device capable of quickly taking out an appropriate remaining material at the time of reuse.

  Conventionally, for example, a plurality of plate-like materials processed by a plate material processing machine such as a turret punch press or a laser processing machine are stored in a stacked state or on a processing pallet. The processed skeleton is processed as scrap, but if one non-processed area is large, it is stored as a remaining material for reuse. In general, the remaining material is stored by stacking a plurality of remaining materials in order to reduce the storage area.

  Therefore, conventionally, there is a problem that the shape, thickness, and material of the remaining remaining material are difficult to understand and difficult to take out.

Therefore, it has been proposed to vertically manage a plate-like material and a remaining material processed by a plate material processing machine (see, for example, Patent Documents 1 to 3).
JP-A-8-66793 JP-A-6-183519 Japanese Utility Model Publication No. 61-34507

  In Patent Documents 1 to 3, since the plate material is stored in a vertically placed state, the plate-like material and the remaining material can be easily taken out from the storage unit, but the material and the remaining material are taken out from the storage unit. Therefore, there is a problem that the overall configuration is complicated and large in size.

  The present invention has been made in view of the conventional problems as described above, and is a simple material storage device for storing plate-like material or remaining material, and divides a plurality of materials into pieces. A material rack having a plurality of vertically arranged material arrangement grooves is provided so as to freely enter and exit the storage housing, and a material presence / absence display means for displaying the presence / absence of material corresponding to each material arrangement groove in the material rack is provided. It is characterized by that.

  Further, the simplified material storage device includes a material detection sensor that detects the presence or absence of a material in each material arrangement groove corresponding to each material arrangement groove in the material rack.

  In the simplified material storage apparatus, the material presence / absence display means is provided corresponding to each material arrangement groove of the material rack in the vicinity of the entrance / exit of the material rack with respect to the storage housing. It is what.

  In the simplified material storage device, the material management means for managing the material arranged in each material arrangement groove of the material rack is used as material data of the material arranged in each material arrangement groove of the material rack. An input means for inputting shape dimensions, plate thickness, and material; and a database for storing the shape shape, plate thickness, and material of the input material in association with the material rack number and each material arrangement groove number provided in the material rack; , A material search means for searching for an appropriate material from the database corresponding to the shape dimension, thickness, and material of the material or product input from the input means, and a material rack in which the material searched by the search means is arranged And the material presence / absence display means for displaying the position of the material arrangement groove.

  In the simplified material storage device, when the material detection sensor detects that the material has been taken out from the material arrangement groove of the material rack, the material data corresponding to the material arrangement groove is deleted from the database. A data erasing unit is provided.

  According to the present invention, it is possible to easily know the material stored in the material storage device, the shape and size of the remaining material, the plate thickness, and the material, and easily take out the material and the remaining material from the material storage device. be able to. In addition, the entire apparatus can be easily reduced in size and simplified.

  As conceptually and schematically shown in FIG. 1, a simplified material storage device 1 according to an embodiment of the present invention mainly stores a plate-like residual material and / or material M, and has a box-like shape. A storage housing 3 is provided. An appropriate number (a plurality) of material racks 5 are provided in parallel in the storage housing 3 so as to be individually accessible. In the present embodiment, each material rack 5 is illustrated as being manually moved in and out of the storage housing 3, but the configuration in which the storage housing 3 includes a ball screw mechanism rotated by a motor, and each material rack It is also possible to adopt a configuration in which each material rack 5 is automatically moved in and out as a configuration in which the traveling motor is provided in 5.

  On the upper surface of each material rack 5, a plurality of remaining materials or materials M (hereinafter referred to as remaining materials or materials, one or both of the remaining materials or materials) are classified on a sheet-by-sheet basis. Thus, a plurality of material placement grooves 7 that can be placed vertically are provided in parallel in a direction orthogonal to the entrance / exit direction of the material rack 5. On both sides of each material rack 5, the material (remaining material) M arranged vertically in the material arrangement groove 7 is prevented from curving outwardly on both sides of the material rack 5 and the upper part protruding outward. A plurality of outward protrusion preventing members 9 such as a plurality of poles are provided upright.

  Further, a material detection sensor that detects whether or not a remaining material (material) M is disposed in each material placement groove 7 at a position corresponding to each material placement groove 7 in each material rack 5. 11 is provided. That is, in each material arrangement groove 7 in the material rack 5, a vertically moving member 15 supported so as to be vertically movable via a plurality of elastic members 13 such as springs is provided. The material detection sensor 11 is provided such as a limit switch or a proximity sensor for detecting that the sensor has been lowered from the normal height position.

  The material detection sensor 11 only needs to be able to detect whether or not the material M is present in the material placement groove 7. The material detection sensor 11 detects the material M in the vicinity of the entrance of the material placement groove 7. It is also possible to arrange in the vicinity. Further, when the material rack 5 is stored in the storage magazine 3, it is possible to detect whether or not the material M is present in each material arrangement groove 7 provided in the material rack 5. In this case, the material detection sensor 11 can be provided in the storage magazine 3.

  With the above configuration, when the remaining material M is placed vertically in the material placement groove 7 in the material rack 5, the vertically moving member 15 is lowered from the normal height position against the urging force of the elastic member 13. The material detection sensor 11 is turned ON, and it can be detected that the material M is arranged in the material arrangement groove 7. On the contrary, when the material M is taken out from the material arrangement groove 7, the vertical movement member 15 is raised to the normal height position by the urging force of the elastic member 13, so that the material detection sensor 11 is turned off. , It is detected that the material M is not arranged.

  In order to display the presence / absence of the material M corresponding to each material arrangement groove 7 in each material rack 5, the position corresponding to each material rack 5 in the storage housing 3, that is, the position of each material rack 5 with respect to the storage housing 3. Display units 17 are individually provided in the vicinity of the entrance / exit, and each display unit 17 has a material presence / absence display means 19 such as an LED corresponding to each material placement groove 7 in each material rack 5 individually. Each is provided.

  The simple material storage device 1 is provided with material management means 21 (see FIG. 3) for managing the material M arranged in each material arrangement groove 7 in each material rack 5. The material management means 21 comprises a control device such as a computer, for example. The material management means 21 comprises a central processing unit 23, a RAM 25, a ROM 27 and an input means 29, and a plate material processing machine such as a punch press or a laser processing machine ( Communication means 33 is provided for communicating with the NC device 31 that controls (not shown). The communication means 33 constitutes a kind of input means for inputting material data (remaining material data) from the NC device 31.

  The material management means 21 is provided with the material detection sensor 11, the display unit 17 including the display unit 17, the material presence / absence display means 19, and the shape dimensions, plate thickness, material and the material as material data. A database 37 is provided that stores the material rack No. of the rack 5 and the material arrangement groove No. of the material arrangement groove 7 in each material rack 5 in association with each other. Further, the material management means 21 is provided with a search means 39 for searching the database 37 based on the material data input from the input means 29 (communication means 33) and is searched by the search means 39. A discriminating means 41 for discriminating whether or not the material (remaining material) is appropriate is provided.

  The search means 39 searches for data having the same plate thickness and material based on the material data input from the input means 29 and having a shape dimension (X, Y dimensions) larger than the shape dimensions of the input material. It is. The discriminating means 41 discriminates the material having the smallest shape dimension data as the appropriate material in the material data retrieved from the database 37.

  The display means 35 lights or blinks the material rack 5 in which the appropriate material M retrieved from the database 37 is arranged and the material presence / absence display means 19 corresponding to the material arrangement groove 7 in the material rack 5. is there.

  In the configuration as described above, the shape data (X, Y dimensions), plate thickness, and material data of the material to be processed by the sheet material processing machine are transferred from the NC device 31 to the material management unit 21 via the input unit 29 or the communication unit 33. When input (step S1), the search means 39 searches the database 37 for material data having the same plate thickness and material (step S2). When a plurality of material data are retrieved from the database 37, the determining means 41 determines the shape dimension (X, Y dimensions) data in the input material data and the shape dimension (X, Y dimensions) data in the retrieved material data. Compared by.

  Then, in the retrieved material data, material data having a shape dimension (X, Y dimension) larger than the input shape dimension (X, Y dimension) is listed, and the input material data is input in the listed material data. The material M including the material data that minimizes the difference between the measured shape dimension (X, Y dimension) and the retrieved shape data (X, Y dimension) is determined as the appropriate material (step S3).

  When the appropriate material is determined as described above, the material presence / absence display means 19 corresponding to the material placement groove 7 of the material rack 5 associated with the material data determined to be the appropriate material is displayed (step S4). The material rack 5 corresponding to the display unit 17 having the material presence / absence display means 19 is pulled out from the storage housing 3 (step S5), and the material M is taken out from the material placement groove 7 corresponding to the displayed material presence / absence display means 19. (Step S6), the material M suitable for the material data input from the input means 29 or the like can be taken out from the material rack 5.

  As described above, when the material M is taken out from the material placement groove 7 of the material rack 5, the material detection sensor 11 provided corresponding to the material placement groove 7 is turned off (step S7), and the material M of the taken material M is removed. Data is deleted from the database 37 (step S8).

  Thereafter, the shape dimensions (X, Y dimensions), plate thickness, and material of the new material M are input to the material management means 21 from the NC device 31 via the input means 29 or the communication means 33 (step S9), and the operator appropriately When the material rack 5 is pulled out of the storage magazine 3 and a new material M is placed in the empty material placement groove 7, the material detection sensor 11 provided corresponding to the material placement groove 7 is turned on (step S10). ). When the material detection sensor 11 is turned on as described above, the material rack No. of the material rack 5 including the material detection sensor 11 that has been turned on, the material arrangement groove No. of the material arrangement groove 7, and the material data of the new material M are obtained. It is associated and registered in the database 37 (step S11).

  As can be understood from the above description, since the material M is taken out and stored in the material rack 5 in the simplified material storage device 1 by hand, the overall configuration of the simplified material storage device 1 is simplified. Therefore, the size can be reduced. Further, when a desired remaining material is taken out from the simplified material storage device 1, if material data to be processed is input to the material management means 21, the position of the material rack 5 in which the appropriate remaining material M is stored and the material rack 5. Since the material presence / absence display means 19 corresponding to the material arrangement groove 7 storing the appropriate material is displayed in a flashing or blinking manner, the appropriate material can be taken out accurately and easily.

  By the way, the present invention is not limited to the embodiments as described above, and can be implemented in other forms by making appropriate modifications. For example, the material rack 5 can be automatically moved in and out using an appropriate actuator. Moreover, it is also possible to employ a configuration in which a plurality of material rack entry / exit portions for entering / exiting the material rack 5 are provided.

  In addition, display means such as lamps or LEDs are provided in the material rack entry / exit section, and display means corresponding to each material placement groove 7 in each material rack 5 are provided in each material rack 5 to display both display means. It is also possible to adopt a configuration in which the material is taken out correspondingly. In other words, the display of the material rack 5 in which the material to be processed is stored and the display of the material placement groove 7 can be separately performed.

  Further, a display means such as a liquid crystal display is employed as the display means, and the address (No) of the material rack 5 and the address of the material arrangement groove 7 (in which the appropriate material is stored in the material data input from the input means ( It is also possible to adopt a configuration in which the display instruction is given by the display means.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS FIG. 1 is a perspective explanatory view conceptually and schematically showing a simplified material storage device according to an embodiment of the present invention. It is sectional explanatory drawing of a raw material rack. It is explanatory drawing of the functional block diagram of the raw material management means which manages the raw material stored in the simple material storage apparatus. It is a flowchart of operation | movement.

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DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Simple material storage apparatus 3 Storage housing 5 Material rack 7 Material arrangement groove 11 Material detection sensor 17 Display unit 19 Material presence / absence display means 21 Material management means 37 Database 39 Search means 41 Discrimination means

Claims (5)

  It is a simple material storage device for storing plate-shaped materials or remaining materials, and stores material racks with multiple material placement grooves that can be placed vertically by dividing multiple materials into pieces. A simple material storage device provided with a material presence / absence display means which is provided so as to freely enter and exit from the housing and displays the presence / absence of material corresponding to each material arrangement groove in the material rack.   2. The simplified material storage device according to claim 1, further comprising a material detection sensor that detects the presence or absence of a material in each material placement groove corresponding to each material placement groove in the material rack. Material storage device.   The simple material storage device according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the material presence / absence display means is individually provided for each material arrangement groove of the material rack in the vicinity of the entrance / exit of the material rack with respect to the storage housing. A simple material storage device characterized by   4. The simplified material storage device according to claim 1, 2, or 3, wherein the material management means for managing the material arranged in each material arrangement groove of the material rack is arranged in each material arrangement groove of the material rack. Input means for inputting the shape dimension, thickness, and material as material data of the material to be processed, and the input material shape dimension, thickness, and material, the material rack number and each material arrangement groove number provided in the material rack Stored in association with the database, material search means for searching for an appropriate material from the database corresponding to the shape or thickness, material thickness, or material of the material or product input from the input means, and searched by the search means A simplified material storage device comprising: a material rack in which a material is disposed; and the material presence / absence display means for displaying a position of a material placement groove.   5. The simplified material storage apparatus according to claim 4, wherein when the material detection sensor detects that a material has been taken out from the material arrangement groove of the material rack, the database stores material data corresponding to the material arrangement groove. A simple material storage device characterized by comprising data erasing means for erasing from the data.

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