JP4080711B2 - Selective connection device for fluid lines - Google Patents

Description

[0001]
[Technical field to which the invention belongs]
In the present invention, for example, an arbitrary fluid is selected and sent to and discharged from a specific tank, or an arbitrary tank is selected and a fluid is sent and distributed from the tank to other tanks.・ Selection and connection devices for fluid lines that enable cleaning, sterilization, etc. of discharge, delivery / distribution lines, especially for fluid lines that do not use flexible hoses or tubes The present invention relates to a selective connection device.
[0002]
[Prior art]
Recently, with the diversification of demand, various types and brands of raw materials, auxiliary materials, etc. are prepared and mixed at a predetermined ratio, and piping and tanks are frequently washed and sterilized. Must.
[0003]
However, in this kind of field, a method is generally used in which the tanks are fixedly connected to each other by piping, or the material is manually transferred from the tanks in an airtight state. However, troublesome work was necessary.
[0004]
As a result, the piping connecting the tanks is complicated and diverse, and not only the operation and maintenance management becomes very complicated, but also the overall layout becomes complicated, and the piping cleaning work is also complicated, resulting in liquid accumulation, contamination, etc. There was also a problem in quality control.
[0005]
Among those provided as being able to solve the above-mentioned problems to some extent, there is known a fluid pipe selective connection device using a flexible hose or tube. However, in these types, so-called sagging (disintegration of the shape) occurs in the flexible hose and tube, and it must be replaced with a new one in a relatively short period of time. There was a problem that a liquid pool could be formed in the portion, and the cleaning performance during the cleaning process, the drying performance during the drying process, the sterility during the sterilization process, etc. were poor.
[0006]
[Problems to be solved by the invention]
The present invention solves the above-mentioned problems of the prior art, and enables a specific fluid to be distributed to various tanks, a variety of fluids to be supplied to a specific tank, and the like. It is an object of the present invention to provide a highly durable new fluid conduit selective connection device that does not use a flexible hose or the like and has advantages such as easy cleaning, drying and sterilization.
[0007]
[Means for Solving the Problems]
In order to achieve the above-mentioned lowness, the fluid pipe connection device according to the present invention includes a standing board composed of a main board on a seat and an auxiliary board provided on one side of the main board, and a main board. Branch joint piping ports for supply / dispensing provided up to many pairs in a side-by-side arrangement, and the distance between both ends of the above-mentioned pair of branch joint piping ports mounted on the auxiliary board detachably in a predetermined arrangement. A number of connecting pipes that are the same, a pin inserted in each connecting pipe, a left and right feeding device that is attached to the upper and lower edges of the upright board and moves the front of the upright board to the left and right, and the left and right A vertical feed device that is disposed between the feed devices and moves between the upper edge and the lower edge of the front surface of the upright board; and a front and back feed device that is provided on the feed device and moves in the front-rear direction with respect to the upright board; Before Provided at the standing board side tip of the feeding device, and after moving to a predetermined position on the front surface of the standing mode by the left and right feeding device and the vertical feeding device, moving to the standing board side by the front and rear feeding device. It is provided with a tacking chuck for pinching the pin .
[0008]
And the selective connection device for fluid lines according to claim 1, wherein the tacking chuck has a turning device for turning to change the direction of the connecting tube.
[0009]
Further, in the fluid pipe selective connection device according to claim 1 or 2, the distance between the pair of joint pipe ports for branching and the distance between both ends of the connecting pipe differ depending on the set. .
[0010]
【Example】
An embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.
[0011]
First, a base 3 having a movable caster 1 and a landing leg 2 that can be arbitrarily selected and used on the lower surface is configured, and a main board 4 and an auxiliary board 5 provided on the right side of the main board 4 are formed on the base 3. The upright board 6 constituted by the above is fixed by being fixed by an oblique support member 7 or the like.
[0012]
A pair of upper and lower left and right feed ball screw devices 12 and 13 that are operated by servo motors 8 and 9 to reciprocate the left and right sliders 10 and 11 are provided on the upper and lower edges of the front surface of the standing board 4. A vertical screw ball screw device 16 which is moved by a servo motor 14 to reciprocate the vertical motion slider 15 up and down between the left and right motion sliders 10 and 11 of the left and right feed ball screw devices 12 and 13 is fixed.
[0013]
The vertically moving slider 15 is provided with a telescopic cylinder 18 for forward / backward feeding for securing a catching position and a non-holding position, and a tacking chuck 19 for a pinning pin 17 described later is provided at the reciprocating end of the telescopic cylinder 18. The tacking chuck 19 performs a tacking function by air drive, and has a structure for maintaining a connected state when the drive source is lost, and is equipped with a turning device 20 for turning to change the direction. Is.
[0014]
The main board 4 is provided with up to three branch joint piping ports 22a to 22f for supply / dispensing in which three pairs of a narrow interval, a medium interval, and a wide interval form one group. Each of the branch joint piping ports 22a to 22f has a cleaning port and a connecting joint 27 with a cleaning path for cleaning and sterilizing a joint portion with connecting pipes 23 to 25 described later.
[0015]
The auxiliary board 5 is detachably equipped with three narrow connecting pipes 23, three medium connecting pipes 24, and three wide connecting pipes 25. In addition, the auxiliary board 5 is previously provided with a detachable hole member 26 of a type in which both ends of each of the connecting pipes 23 to 25 are inserted and removed in a predetermined arrangement, and these detachable hole members 26 are connected to the connecting pipes 23 to 25. Is kept in a stand-by state that can be easily attached and detached by an optional insertion / removal operation when necessary. In the standby state, the cleaning process and other processes can be performed, which is suitable for effective use of time.
[0016]
Each of the connecting pipes 23 to 25 has a pin 17 on the back surface thereof.
[0017]
That is, in the above, for example, when the narrow connection pipe 23 is connected to the branch joint pipe port 22a and the branch joint pipe port 22b, first, the servo motors 8, 9 of the left and right feed ball screw devices 12, 13 are used. Then, the servo motor 14 of the ball screw device 16 for vertical feed is operated, so that the tacking chuck 19 is made to correspond to the pin 17 of the narrow-width connecting pipe 23 waiting on the auxiliary board 5.
[0018]
After this, the front-rear extension telescopic cylinder 18 is brought into the gripping position, and the pin 17 is held by the hook chuck 19 and then the telescopic cylinder 18 is returned to remove the narrow connecting pipe 23 from the attachment / detachment hole member 26.
[0019]
In this disengaged state, the servomotors 8 and 9 of the left and right feed ball screw devices 12 and 13 and the servo motor 14 of the vertical feed ball screw device 16 and the turning device 20 for changing the direction are operated to change the direction. Both ends of the narrow-width connecting pipe 23 are made to correspond to the branch joint pipe port 22a and the branch joint pipe port 22b.
[0020]
After this, the telescopic cylinder 18 is operated to connect both ends of the narrow connecting pipe 23 to the branch joint pipe port 22a and the branch joint pipe port 22b. After this connection, the tacking chuck 19 is removed and then the servo motors 8 and 9 of the left and right feed ball screw devices 12 and 13 and the servo motor 14 of the vertical feed ball screw device 16 are operated, thereby assisting the tacking chuck 19. Return to the board 5 side.
[0021]
In other words, in the same manner, each of the other narrow joint pipe port 23 for narrow branch, middle joint pipe 24 and wide joint pipe 25 is arbitrarily connected to branch joint pipe ports 22a to 22f. The liquid can be brought into a liquid state or returned to the auxiliary board 5 to be in a standby state. Such a series of operations is not shown in the figure, but is controlled by a separately provided control unit.
[0022]
In the case of carrying out the present invention, when the finished product is obtained with the same direction of the branch joint pipe port and the standby direction of the connecting pipe, the turning twisting device 20 can be omitted, and the pair of branch joints can be omitted. A finished product can be obtained by setting the intervals between the piping ports 22a to 22f and the intervals at both ends of the connecting pipe 25 to be the same. Can be used.
[0023]
【The invention's effect】
Since the fluid pipe selective connection device according to the present invention is configured as described above, that is, a configuration using no flexible hose or tube, the flexible hose must be replaced with a new one relatively frequently. The above-mentioned conventional problems such as poor cleaning properties can be completely solved.
[0024]
According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a fluid pipe selective connecting device comprising: a standing board composed of a main board on a pedestal and an auxiliary board provided on one side of the main board; A large number of branch joint piping ports for supply / dispensing provided and detachably mounted on the auxiliary board in a predetermined arrangement with the same distance between both ends as the distance between each pair of branch joint piping ports. The connecting pipe, the pin inserted in each connecting pipe, the left and right feeding devices attached to the upper and lower edges of the standing board and moving the front surface of the standing board to the left and right, and the left and right feeding devices A vertical feed device that moves between an upper edge and a lower edge of the front surface of the upright board, a front-rear feed device that is provided on the feed device and moves in the front-rear direction with respect to the upright board, and the front-rear feed device Above At the front end of the board side, the left and right feed devices and the vertical feed device are moved to a predetermined position on the front surface of the standing mode, and then moved to the standing board side by the front and back feeding device to Since it is equipped with a tacking chuck to be inserted , a specific fluid is distributed to various tanks or various fluids are supplied to specific tanks by appropriately performing a series of operations as in the above-described embodiments. In addition, it has advantages such as facilitating cleaning, drying, and sterilization of piping.
[0025]
Further, the fluid pipe selective connecting device according to claim 2 has a turning twisting device for changing the direction of the connecting pipe by the tacking chuck, and according to this embodiment shown in the figure Such a configuration in which the direction of the branch joint pipe port forming the pair is different from the direction of the connecting pipe in standby can be easily provided without any problem.
[0026]
Further, the fluid pipe selective connection device according to claim 3 is characterized in that the distance between the pair of joint pipe ports for branching and the distance between both ends of the connecting pipe differ depending on the set. It is possible to obtain a finished product even in a configuration including three kinds of connecting pipes, that is, many kinds of connecting pipes, as in the embodiment.
[0027]
Further, in the present invention, the main board and the auxiliary board are provided in a side-by-side arrangement on the seat, and are provided with an open (deployed state) configuration equipped with a number of joint piping ports for branching and a number of connecting pipes. As a result, there are practical effects such as not only good flexibility and expandability of the layout of the piping structure, but also visual confirmation from the outside and remarkably good visibility.
[Brief description of the drawings]
FIG. 1 is an overall front view showing an embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 2 is a side view of the same.
[Explanation of symbols]
DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Moving caster 2 Landing leg 3 Base 4 Main board 5 Auxiliary board 6 Standing board 7 Supporting member 8 Servo motor 9 Servo motor 10 Left and right moving slider 11 Left and right moving slider 12 Left and right feeding ball screw device 13 Left and right feeding ball screw device 14 Servo motor DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 15 Vertical motion slider 16 Ball screw device 17 for vertical feed 17 Removable hole member 18 Telescopic cylinder 19 Claw chuck 20 Turning twisting device 22a-22f Branching joint piping port 23 Narrow-width connecting pipe 24 Medium-width connecting pipe 25 Wide Connecting pipe 26 Detachable hole member 27 Connecting joint with cleaning path

Claims (1)

A standing board composed of a main board and an auxiliary board provided on one side of the main board on a pedestal, and a joint piping port for branching for supply and withdrawal provided in a number of pairs arranged side by side on the main board A plurality of connecting pipes which are detachably mounted on the auxiliary board in a predetermined arrangement and whose intervals between both ends are the same as the distances between the paired branch joint piping ports, and pinned pins provided on each connecting pipe, The left and right feeding devices that are attached to the upper and lower edges of the standing board and move the front surface of the standing board to the left and right, and are arranged between the left and right feeding devices, and move between the upper and lower edges of the standing board front surface. A vertical feed device, a front / rear feed device provided on the feed device and moving in the front-rear direction with respect to the standing board, And at the upper and lower feeder, after movement to a predetermined position on the upright mode front, fluid tube and a 銜込free銜止Me chuck the銜inclusive pin by moving the upright board side by the cross feed unit Road selective connection device.

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