JP2022013323A - Device and method for affixing sheet - Google Patents

Abstract

To provide a device and method for affixing a sheet capable of suppressing to a possible extent a stock region for keeping affixed bodies in stock from becoming full in a short time.SOLUTION: A device for affixing a sheet EA comprises affixing means 10 that forms an affixed body UP by affixing an adhesive sheet AS having a size protruding from a to-be-affixed body WK to the to-be-affixed body WK and transport means 20 that carries the affixed body UP. The affixed-body transport means 20 comprises coupling means 23 that folds back the adhesive sheet AS put on the to-be-affixed body WK and couples the folded-back sheet portion ASF having been folded back to an unfolded sheet portion ASR or to-be-affixed body WK.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1

Description

The present invention relates to a sheet pasting device and a sheet pasting method.

A sheet sticking device for sticking an adhesive sheet to an adherend to form a sticking body is known (see, for example, Patent Document 1).

Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No. 11-321834

In the sheet affixing device described in Patent Document 1, since the length of the label connecting package 1 (attached body) in which the label 3 (adhesive sheet) is attached to the package (adhesive body) is long in the transport direction, the affixed body The inconvenience that the stock area for stocking the affix is filled up in a short time occurs until the product is transported to the next process.

An object of the present invention is to provide a sheet affixing device and a sheet affixing method that can prevent the stock area in which the affixes are stocked from becoming full in a short time as much as possible.

The present invention has adopted the configuration described in the claims.

According to the present invention, since the folded sheet portion of the adhesive sheet is connected to the unfolded sheet portion, it is possible to prevent the stock area in which the patch is stocked from becoming full in a short time as much as possible.

Explanatory drawing of the sheet sticking apparatus which concerns on one Embodiment of this invention.

Hereinafter, an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG.
The X-axis, Y-axis, and Z-axis in the present embodiment are orthogonal to each other, the X-axis and the Y-axis are axes in a predetermined plane, and the Z-axis is an axis orthogonal to the predetermined plane. do. Further, in the present embodiment, when viewed from the front direction of FIG. 1 parallel to the Y axis, when the direction is shown, "up" is the arrow direction of the Z axis, "down" is the opposite direction, and ". "Left" is in the direction of the arrow on the X-axis, "right" is in the opposite direction, "front" is in the middle front direction parallel to the Y-axis, and "rear" is in the opposite direction.

The sheet sticking device EA of the present invention has a sticking means 10 for sticking an adhesive sheet AS having a size protruding from the adherend WK to the adherend WK to form a sticker UP, and a sticker for transporting the sticker UP. A supply means 30 having a transport means 20 and supplying the adherend WK, and a stock means 40 forming a stock area for stocking the sticker UP before transporting the sticker UP to the next step. It is placed between.

The sticking means 10 includes a support roller 11 for supporting the original fabric RS on which the adhesive sheet AS having the adhesive surface AS1 is temporarily attached to one surface of the release sheet RL, a guide roller 12 for guiding the original fabric RS, and a release edge. A peeling plate 13 as a peeling means for folding back the peeling sheet RL at 13A and peeling the adhesive sheet AS from the peeling sheet RL, and a pressing roller 14 as a pressing means for pressing and attaching the adhesive sheet AS to the adherend WK. The drive roller 15 is supported by an output shaft (not shown) of the rotary motor 15A as a drive device and sandwiches the release sheet RL with the pinch roller 15B, and is supported by the output shaft of the drive device (not shown). While the operation is being performed, the release roller 16 that constantly applies a predetermined tension to the release sheet RL existing between the pinch roller 15B and the release sheet RL is provided. In the case of the present embodiment, the sticking means 10 is configured to stick one adhesive sheet AS to a plurality of (three) adherends WK to form a sticking body UP.

The pasted body transporting means 20 includes a conveyor 21 that transports the pasted body UP in a predetermined transport direction TD, an image pickup means such as a camera or a camera for detecting the position of the pasted body UP, and various optical sensors and ultrasonic sensors. A detection means 22 such as a sensor and a connecting means 23 for folding back the adhesive sheet AS attached to the adherend WK and connecting the folded back sheet portion ASF to the unfolded sheet portion ASR that has not been folded back are provided.
The conveyor 21 includes a drive pulley 21B supported by an output shaft (not shown) of a rotary motor 21A as a drive device, a driven pulley 21C that can freely rotate, and a belt 21D that is hung on the drive pulley 21B and the driven pulley 21C. It is equipped with.
The connecting means 23 is supported by the output shaft 23B of the linear motion motor 23A as a drive device, and has a push-up member 23C that guides the tip of the sticking body UP in the transport direction upward, and an output (not shown) of the rotary motor 23D as the drive device. The drive pulley 23E supported by the shaft, the driven pulley 23F that can rotate freely, the belt 23G hung around the drive pulley 23E and the driven pulley 23F, and the arc portion 23H that guides the tip portion of the sticking body UP in the transport direction downward. The guide member 23J is provided.

The supply means 30 includes a drive pulley 32 supported by an output shaft (not shown) of a rotary motor 31 as a drive device, a driven pulley 33 that can freely rotate, and a belt 34 that is hung on the drive pulley 32 and the driven pulley 33. And have.

The stock means 40 includes a free roller conveyor 41 as a stock member provided with a butt plate 41A for abutting and stopping the affixed body UP.

The operation of the above sheet pasting device EA will be described.
First, with respect to the sheet pasting device EA in which each member is arranged at the initial position shown by the solid line in FIG. 1 (A), the user of the sheet pasting device EA (hereinafter, simply referred to as “user”) is as shown in the figure. After setting the original RS in, a signal for starting automatic operation is input via an operation means such as an operation panel (not shown) or a personal computer. Then, the sticking means 10 drives the rotary motor 15A, feeds the raw fabric RS, and when the tip portion of the leading adhesive sheet AS in the feed direction is peeled by the peeling edge 13A of the peeling plate 13 by a predetermined length, the rotary motor Stop driving 15A. Next, when the supply means 30 drives the rotation motor 31, the belt 34 is rotated in the counterclockwise rotation direction to convey the adherend WK in the transport direction TD, and the head adherend WK reaches a predetermined position. , The sticking means 10 drives the rotary motor 15A and feeds the original fabric RS according to the moving speed of the adherend WK, and the sticking body transporting means 20 drives the rotary motor 21A to rotate the belt 21D counterclockwise. Rotate in the direction. As a result, the adhesive sheet AS is peeled off from the peeling sheet RL at the peeling edge 13A of the peeling plate 13, and as shown by the alternate long and short dash line in FIG. 1 (A), the adhesive sheet AS is attached to the adherend WK by the pressing roller 14. It is pressed and attached, and the attached body UP is formed. After that, when the sticking body UP is conveyed in the transport direction TD by the conveyor 21 and the next adhesive sheet AS is peeled by the peeling edge 13A of the peeling plate 13 by a predetermined length, the sticking means 10 stops driving the rotary motor 15A. do.

Next, when the detecting means 22 detects that the sticking body UP has reached a predetermined position, the sticking body conveying means 20 drives the rotary motor 23D and the linear motion motor 23A to rotate the belt 23G in the counterclockwise rotation direction. At the same time, the push-up member 23C is raised, and as shown in FIG. 1 (B), the tip portion of the affixed body UP in the transport direction is guided upward to form the folded sheet portion ASF. After that, when the belts 21D and 23G continue to rotate in the counterclockwise rotation direction, the folded-back sheet portion ASF moves downward along the arc portion 23H of the guide member 23J as shown by the two-dot chain line in FIG. 1 (B). As shown in FIG. 1C, the folded sheet portion ASF is attached to and connected to the adhesive surface AS1 of the unfolded sheet portion ASR. When the folded sheet portion ASF is attached to the unfolded sheet portion ASR, the attached body transporting means 20 drives the linear motion motor 23A, returns the push-up member 23C to the initial position, and then drives the rotation motor 23D. The belt 23G is rotated in the clockwise rotation direction, and as shown in FIG. 1 (D), the sticker UP in which the folded sheet portion ASF and the unfolded sheet portion ASR are connected is discharged to the free roller conveyor 41, and the same applies thereafter. The operation is repeated.

According to the above embodiment, since the folded sheet portion ASF is connected to the unfolded sheet portion ASR, it is possible to prevent the stock area for stocking the patch UP from becoming full in a short time as much as possible. Can be done.

As described above, the best configuration, method, etc. for carrying out the present invention are disclosed in the above description, but the present invention is not limited thereto. That is, although the present invention has been particularly illustrated and described primarily with respect to a particular embodiment, the shape, with respect to the embodiments described above, without departing from the scope of the technical idea and object of the present invention. Those skilled in the art can make various modifications in terms of material, quantity, and other detailed configurations. Further, the description limiting the shape, material, etc. disclosed above is merely an example for facilitating the understanding of the present invention, and does not limit the present invention. Therefore, the shape, material, and the like are described above. The description in the name of the member excluding a part or all of the limitation such as is included in the present invention.

For example, the sticking means 10 employs a gas blowing means such as a spraying pipe or a nozzle that blows gas from between the supply means 30 and the release plate 13 toward the pressing roller 14, and blows the gas from the gas blowing means. It may be possible to prevent the adherend WK from falling between the supply means 30 and the conveyor 21, or the adherend WK may be attached with one or more adhesive sheets AS to the attached body UP. May be formed, one or a plurality of adhesive sheets AS may be attached to a plurality of adherends WK to form a pasted body UP, or a band-shaped adhesive temporarily adhered to a release sheet RL may be formed. Even if a closed loop-shaped cut or a cut in the entire short width direction is formed in the sheet base material, the predetermined area partitioned by the cut is used as the adhesive sheet AS. Alternatively, the original fabric in which the strip-shaped adhesive sheet base material is temporarily attached to the release sheet RL is adopted, and a closed loop-shaped cut or a cut in the entire short width direction is formed in the adhesive sheet base material by a cutting means. The predetermined area partitioned by the notch may be used as the adhesive sheet AS, or the original fabric RS or the peeling sheet RL may be used as a plate-shaped member, a shaft member, or the like instead of each roller such as the support roller 11 or the guide roller 12. It may be supported or guided, for example, it may be folded in a fan fold without winding the original fabric RS, or it may be folded in a fan fold without winding the release sheet RL. , It may be collected by chopping it with a shredder or the like, or by randomly accumulating it, or it is not necessary to collect the release sheet RL.

The sticking body transporting means 20 is a roller conveyor that transports the sticking body UP by a plurality of rollers driven by a drive device, or a sticking body UP by a plurality of balls driven by the driving device, in place of or in combination with the conveyor 21. You may adopt a ball roller conveyor that conveys the adhesive sheet AS attached to the adherend WK by an articulated robot as a drive device, a chuck cylinder supported by the drive device, or the like. A connecting means may be adopted in which the folded back sheet portion ASF is connected to the unfolded sheet portion ASR that has not been folded back, or the adherend WK may be sprayed with a gas such as air or gas. A connecting means may be adopted in which the attached adhesive sheet AS is folded back and the folded back sheet portion ASF is connected to the unfolded sheet portion ASR which is not folded back, or a plate-shaped member may be used instead of the push-up member 23C. , A round bar, a roller, or the like may be adopted, or a member similar to the guide member 23J may be adopted instead of the push-up member 23C, and the tip portion of the sticking body UP in the transport direction along the arc portion of the member. May be guided upward, or instead of the linear motion motor 23A and the push-up member 23C, the tip portion of the affixed body UP in the transport direction may be guided upward by spraying a gas such as air or gas, or the adherend. The folding of the sticking body UP may be started after the sticking of the adhesive sheet AS to the WK is completed, or the folding of the sticking body UP may be started during the sticking of the adhesive sheet AS to the adherend WK. Then, like the supply means 30, a drive pulley in which at least one of the push-up member 23C and the guide member 23J is supported by the output shaft of the rotary motor as a drive device, a driven pulley that can freely rotate, a drive pulley, and a driven pulley are driven. It may be composed of a belt hung around a pulley, may not have a guide member 23J, a pressing roller that presses and attaches a folded sheet portion ASF to an unfolded sheet portion ASR, air, gas, etc. You may adopt the folding part pressing means such as spraying the gas of the above, the adhesive applying means to apply the adhesive, the double-sided adhesive sheet attaching means to attach the double-sided adhesive sheet, the stapler to drive the U-shaped needle, and the rivet. The folded sheet portion ASF may be connected to the unfolded sheet portion ASR by using a connecting auxiliary means such as a riveter to be stopped, the affixed body UP may be spirally formed, or the adhesive sheet AS may be connected to the tip edge in the feeding direction. The folded sheet portion ASF may be connected to the unfolded sheet portion ASR by abutting the trailing edge, or the adhesive UP. The rear end portion in the transport direction, the side end portion of the sticker UP, and the like may be folded back, and the folded back sheet portion may be connected to the unfolded sheet portion.
The connecting means may be configured to fold back the adhesive sheet AS attached to the adherend WK and connect the folded back sheet portion ASF to the adherend WK.

The supply means 30 may supply the adherend WK by a roller conveyor or a ball roller conveyor, or is adhered by a chuck cylinder supported by an articulated robot as a drive device or a slider of a linear motor as a drive device. The body WK may be supplied, or may be provided in the sheet sticking device EA of the present invention, or may not be provided. If not, the adherend WK may be manually supplied.

The stock means 40 may employ a flatbed, a flat bar, or the like as the stock member, or may have a configuration in which the sticker UP is stocked with or without tilting the stock member, or the sheet sticking device of the present invention may be used. It may or may not be provided in the EA, and if it is not provided, the patch UP may be stocked by another device.

The means and processes in the present invention are not limited as long as they can perform the operations, functions or processes described for the means and processes, much less the constituents of the mere embodiment shown in the above-described embodiment. It is not limited to the process at all. For example, the sticking means may be any as long as it sticks an adhesive sheet having a size protruding from the adherend to the adherend to form the sticking body, in light of the common general technical knowledge at the time of filing. There is no limitation as long as it is within the technical scope (the same applies to other means and processes).

The material, type, shape, etc. of the adhesive sheet AS and the adherend WK are not particularly limited. For example, the adhesive sheet AS and the adherend WK may have a circular shape, an elliptical shape, a polygonal shape such as a triangle or a quadrangle, or any other shape, and the adhesive sheet AS may have pressure-sensitive adhesiveness, heat-sensitive adhesiveness, or the like. It may be in an adhesive form. Further, such an adhesive sheet AS has three layers, for example, a single layer having only an adhesive layer, an intermediate layer between a base material and an adhesive layer, and a cover layer on the upper surface of the base material. Further, it may be a so-called double-sided adhesive sheet capable of peeling the base material from the adhesive layer, and the double-sided adhesive sheet may have a single-layer or multi-layer intermediate layer. It may be a single layer or a multi-layer without an intermediate layer. The adherend WK includes, for example, foods, resin containers, semiconductor wafers such as silicon semiconductor wafers and compound semiconductor wafers, circuit boards, information recording boards such as optical disks, glass plates, steel plates, pottery, wood boards or resins. It may be a single object or a composite product formed of two or more of them, and any form of a member or an article can be targeted. The adhesive sheet AS may be read in a functional and versatile manner, and may be, for example, an information description label, a decorative label, a protective sheet, a dicing tape, a die attach film, a die bonding tape, a recording layer forming resin sheet, or the like. Sheets, films, tapes, etc. may be used.

The drive device in the above embodiment is an electric device such as a rotary motor, a linear motor, a linear motor, a single-axis robot, an articulated robot having two-axis or three-axis or more joints, an air cylinder, a hydraulic cylinder, and a rodless. Actuators such as cylinders and rotary cylinders can be adopted, and those in which they are directly or indirectly combined can also be adopted.
In the above embodiment, when a rotating member such as a roller is adopted, a driving device for rotationally driving the rotating member may be provided, or the surface of the rotating member or the rotating member itself can be deformed by rubber, resin, or the like. It may be composed of a member, the surface of the rotating member or the rotating member itself may be composed of a member that does not deform, or another member such as a shaft or a blade that rotates or does not rotate may be adopted instead of the roller. Alternatively, when a pressing means such as a pressing roller or a pressing head or a pressing member that presses a pressed object is adopted, a roller, a round bar, or a blade may be used in place of or in combination with the above-exemplified ones. A member such as a material, rubber, resin, or sponge may be adopted, or a structure that presses by blowing a gas such as air or gas may be adopted, or a deformable member such as rubber or resin may be adopted. It may be composed of a member that does not deform, or if a peeling means such as a peeling plate or a peeling roller or a peeling member that peels off an object to be peeled is adopted, it is exemplified above. A member such as a plate-shaped member, a round bar, or a roller may be adopted in place of or in combination with a member, or a member to be peeled off may be composed of a deformable member such as rubber or resin, or may be deformed. It may be composed of members that are not cut, or if a member that cuts a member to be cut such as a cutting means or a cutting member or that forms a cut or a cutting line in the member to be cut is adopted, the above-exemplified one is used. Instead or in combination, a cutter blade, laser cutter, ion beam, thermal power, heat, water pressure, heating wire, one that cuts by spraying gas or liquid, etc. is adopted, or an appropriate drive device is combined. You may move what you want to cut with and cut it.

EA ... Sheet sticking device 10 ... Sticking means 20 ... Sticking body transporting means 23 ... Connecting means AS ... Adhesive sheet ASF ... Folded sheet part ASR ... Unfolded sheet part WK ... Attached body UP ... Sticking body

Claims (2)

An adhesive sheet having a size protruding from the adherend is attached to the adherend to form a sticker, and a sticking means.
A sticker transport means for transporting the sticker is provided.
The sticker transporting means is provided with a connecting means for folding back the adhesive sheet attached to the adherend and connecting the folded back sheet portion to the unfolded sheet portion or the adherend. A featured sheet pasting device. An adhesive sheet having a size that protrudes from the adherend is attached to the adherend to form a sticker, and a pasting process.
The pasting body transporting step of transporting the pasting body is carried out.
The sticking body transporting step is characterized in that the adhesive sheet attached to the adherend is folded back, and the folded back sheet portion is connected to the unfolded sheet portion that has not been folded back or the adherend. How to attach the sheet.

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