JPH09155797A - Blanking device for manufacture of card - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enhance an operation efficiency and dimensional accuracy in a blanking process for an unit of a card formed out of a card manufacturing laminated body. SOLUTION: In this card manufacturing blanking machine, a card manufacturing laminated body 1 is carried in a positioning stage F3. After positioning for the direction perpendicularly intersected with the direction of pitch feeding has been processed by making use of positioning indexes, pitch feeding for the card manufacturing laminated body is processed while the card manufacturing laminated body 1 is being carried to the blanking stage F3 in a form that each arrangement interval for an unit of a card is examined one by one by making use of pitch feeding indexes, and meanwhile blanking operations are so constituted as to be processed while being interlocked with pitch feeding.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to punching of a laminated body for card production required in the production process of various cards such as a magnetic card, an IC card, and the like used as a cash card, a credit card, a member's card, and a leaving / managing card. In particular, the present invention relates to a technique for improving work efficiency and punching dimensional accuracy in a punching step of a laminated body for card production.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A magnetic card MD having a two-layer type core is:
As shown in the perspective view of FIG. 21 and the exploded perspective view of FIG. 22, the printed two-layer plastic plate PL
A transparent plastic film overlay PL4, PL5 is attached to the front and back of a core (substrate) PL3 composed of PL1, PL2, and an overlay PL serving as a surface thereof.
4 has a small-width magnetic tape PL6 attached to the outer surface thereof. In this specification, the magnetic tape P
The description will be made assuming that the attachment side of L6 is basically the front side of the magnetic card MD.

[0003] Conventionally, the magnetic card as described above is manufactured as follows. (1) After a large number of card units are stacked vertically and horizontally on a rectangular large-sheet-like sheet-like front-side core material and back-side core raw material, a magnetic tape is further adhered to the front side. A temporary fixing laminate is prepared by laminating an overlay with a tape and an overlay having no magnetic tape adhered to the back surface side. (2) Next, when the temporarily-fixed laminate is thermocompressed between layers by a hot press, a laminate for manufacturing a magnetic card in the form of a rectangular large-sized sheet in which a number of magnetic card units are arranged vertically and horizontally is obtained. (3) Subsequently, the rectangular magnetic card manufacturing laminate is punched by a punching machine, and the magnetic card units are punched line by line while being pitch-fed in the longitudinal (longitudinal) direction at the pitch of the magnetic card units. , Get a magnetic card.

[0004]

However, in the conventional magnetic card manufacturing method, there is a problem that the working efficiency in the punching step of the laminated body for manufacturing a magnetic card is not good, and the punching dimensional accuracy is not sufficient. Since a dimensional change due to heat shrinkage occurs before and after thermocompression bonding by a heating press in the laminated body for manufacturing a magnetic card, in the punching step, first, the arrangement interval of the magnetic card units in the vertical direction which is the pitch feed direction of the laminated body is set. Measure by sampling. As a result, it takes a lot of time and labor to measure the vertical arrangement interval of each magnetic card. As a result, the work efficiency is not good in the whole punching process.

On the other hand, when the laminated body for manufacturing a magnetic card is different or the location is different even in the same laminated body, the arrangement interval does not always coincide with the arrangement interval obtained by sampling measurement. The heat shrinkage differs depending on the difference in the laminate and the location on the laminate, and the actual arrangement interval varies considerably, and may be different from the arrangement interval obtained by measurement. On the other hand, when punching the magnetic card manufacturing laminated body in units of magnetic cards, it is pitch-fed to the die of the punching machine at the arrangement interval determined by the measurement. Therefore, when punching a portion at an array interval different from the array interval determined by the measurement, the pitch is different, so that the position of the magnetic card unit does not match the position of the mold, resulting in poor punching dimensional accuracy and improper punching. You will see the generation of non-defective products.

Before the magnetic card manufacturing laminate is pitch-fed to a die of a punching machine, the magnetic card manufacturing laminate is positioned on a positioning stage in a direction orthogonal to the pitch feeding direction. That is, if the magnetic card manufacturing laminate is not positioned in the direction perpendicular to the pitch feed direction, a misalignment occurs between the punching die and the card unit in the laminate even if the pitch is correctly fed. It is because it is not punched correctly. Conventionally, this type of positioning is performed by the operator by aligning the positioning mark optically projected on the positioning stage with the positioning index on the magnetic card manufacturing laminate, so that the work efficiency is improved. And the positioning accuracy itself was poor.

The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and provides a punching apparatus for card production which can improve the working efficiency in the step of punching a laminate for card production and can always punch out a card with high dimensional accuracy. As an issue.

[0008]

According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a punching apparatus for manufacturing a card, comprising: a card unit arranged in a line; and a space corresponding to an arrangement space of the card unit. And a sheet-like sheet-like card including a pitch-feeding index provided side by side in the card-unit alignment direction and a positioning index provided for positioning in a direction orthogonal to the pitch-feeding direction. A stack loading means for sequentially loading the manufacturing laminate into a positioning stage for positioning in a direction orthogonal to the pitch feed direction; and the positioning index for the card manufacturing laminate loaded into the positioning stage. Positioning means for performing positioning in a direction orthogonal to the pitch feed direction based on the position, and a punching stage for the card manufacturing laminate for which the positioning has been completed. A laminated body conveying means for conveying, a laminated body punching means provided on a punching stage for punching a card unit of the laminated body for card production, and a feed for detecting an index for pitch feed of the laminated body for card production on the punching stage. Index detection means, conveyance control means for performing pitch feed of the card manufacturing laminated body by the laminated body conveying means based on the detection result of the feed index detecting means, and interlocking with the pitch feeding of the card manufacturing laminated body. Punching control means for operating the punching means.

A card manufacturing punching device according to a second aspect of the present invention is the card manufacturing punching device according to the first aspect, wherein the positioning means grips the card manufacturing laminate with a grip claw. Two laminated body moving means that can be horizontally moved in a direction orthogonal to the pitch feeding direction, and a reference for positioning in the direction orthogonal to the pitch feeding direction in the vicinity of the grip claws of each laminated body moving means. Optical index detecting means installed at each of two different fixed reference positions, and at least one half for holding the card manufacturing laminated body while permitting only rotation around one of the fixed reference positions. In the process of positioning the fixed gripping means and the card manufacturing stack, at least the stack moving hand on the fixed reference position side which is the rotation center of the semi-fixed gripping means. However, until the positioning index is detected by the optical index detection means beside it, the card manufacturing laminated body is horizontally moved independently, and after the positioning index is detected, the gripping claw is opened while the semi-fixed grip is performed. After gripping the card manufacturing laminated body by the means, the card manufacturing laminated body is independently moved horizontally until another laminated body moving means detects the positioning index by the optical index detecting means beside it. Positioning control means for executing a control process including a process for controlling each means.

[0010]

The operation of punching a card manufacturing laminate by the card manufacturing punching device according to claim 1 (hereinafter referred to as "punching device" as appropriate) will be described. First, when the laminate carrying means is carried into a positioning stage for performing positioning in a direction perpendicular to the direction of pitch feed at the time of punching, a sheet-like card-forming laminate including card units arranged and arranged, Positioning means provided on this stage performs positioning in a direction perpendicular to the pitch feed direction based on a positioning index provided on the card manufacturing laminate. The card-manufacturing laminated body whose positioning has been completed is conveyed by the laminated body conveying means to the punching stage having the laminated body punching means. In the punching stage, the feed index detecting means detects pitch feed indexes attached to the card manufacturing laminate at intervals corresponding to the arrangement intervals of the card units along the alignment direction of the card units, while the feed index detecting means In accordance with the detection result obtained in step (a), the transport control means feeds the card manufacturing laminate to the laminate punching means at a pitch, and the punch control means punches the card manufacturing laminate in conjunction with the pitch feeding of the card manufacturing laminate. By performing the operation, the punching operation for each card unit proceeds promptly.

Next, the operation of the positioning stage of the punching device according to the second aspect will be described. At least the stack moving means on the fixed reference position side, which is also the center of rotation of the semi-fixed gripping means, independently grips the card manufacturing laminate with the claws to perform horizontal movement, and the optical index detecting means for the positioning index. Stops horizontal movement when is detected. Then, while the gripping claws of the stack moving means are opened, the stack for card production is held by the semi-fixed holding means. After that, another stack moving means alone moves horizontally by gripping the card manufacturing stack with the claws and the optical index detecting means corresponding to the stack moving means detects the positioning index. Stop horizontal movement. This completes the positioning. In the case of this positioning, while the card manufacturing laminate is being pulled by another stack moving means later, the portion of the card manufacturing laminate that has reached the fixed reference position first (that is, the positioning index is drawn). Since a certain part) is gripped by the semi-fixed gripping means, the positioning index previously reached the fixed reference position does not deviate from the fixed reference position, and the other positioning index reaches the fixed reference position. Then, both positioning indices are both at their respective fixed reference positions, and precise positioning is achieved.

[0012]

An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a plan view showing a schematic configuration of a punching device according to an embodiment, FIG. 2 is a front view of the embodiment device, and FIG. 3 is a partial side view of the embodiment device. FIG.
Is a plan view showing an example of a magnetic card manufacturing laminate to be punched by the punching apparatus of the embodiment, and FIG. 5 is a cross-sectional view of the magnetic card manufacturing laminate of FIG. First, the schematic configuration of the entire apparatus of the embodiment will be described with reference to FIGS. 1 to 4, and then the configuration of each equipment of the apparatus will be described in detail.

The material accommodating stage F1 is a laminated accommodating section 2 of the laminated body 1 for producing a magnetic card, and is provided with a conveyor CB.
The stacks 1 for magnetic card production carried in 1 are stacked and sent to the next stage. As shown in FIG. 4, the magnetic card manufacturing laminate 1 includes, for example, three magnetic card units CU arranged in the left and right direction and nine in the front and rear direction (feed direction), and a magnetic card unit CU. Magnetic card unit C at an interval corresponding to the arrangement interval
10 is a sheet-like plate including indices M arranged side by side along one long side along the alignment direction of U; The index M is
A vertical bar index Ma, which is an index for pitch feed, and a positioning index Mb for positioning in a direction orthogonal to the direction of pitch feed are combined so as to form a T-shape. Needless to say, the pitch feed index and the positioning index of the present invention are not limited to the above-described forms, and the forms can be appropriately changed.

Then, the laminated body 1 for manufacturing a magnetic card is carried into a positioning stage F2 for performing positioning in a direction perpendicular to the direction of pitch feed by the laminated body carrying means. The positioning stage F2 is provided with positioning means for positioning the loaded magnetic card manufacturing laminate 1 in a direction orthogonal to the pitch feed direction based on the positioning index Mb. Then, the magnetic card manufacturing laminate 1 whose positioning has been completed by the positioning stage F2 is sent to the next punching stage F3 by the laminate transporting means.

In the punching stage F3, the feed index detecting means detects the pitch feed index M of the laminated body 1 for manufacturing a magnetic card.
While detecting the pitch a, the transport control means feeds the magnetic card manufacturing laminate 1 to the punching means based on the detection result of the pitch feed index Ma, and the punching control means feeds the pitch of the magnetic card manufacturing laminate 1 to the punching means. By operating the punching means in conjunction with this, the punching processing of each magnetic card unit CU proceeds, and the magnetic cards MD shown in FIG. 21 are successively sent out to the conveyor CB2.

Next, the construction of each equipment of the apparatus of the embodiment will be described in order with reference to the drawings as needed. As shown in FIG. 1, the laminated body 1 for manufacturing a magnetic card to be punched is carried by a belt of a conveyor CB1 having an endless belt and is stacked on a laminated accommodating portion 2 in a material accommodating stage F1. Put and wait. As shown in FIG. 4, the magnetic card manufacturing laminate 1 is placed with the side (front side) where the magnetic tape MT and the index M are present facing up. As shown in FIG. 5, the magnetic card manufacturing laminate 1 is
An overlay 1d for the front side, which is a transparent film, is adhered on the two-layer core material 1a of the front side core raw material 1b and the back side core material 1c, and the lower side, which is a transparent film below, Overlay 1e is attached. As shown in FIG. 6A, the overlay 1 for the front surface side
6D, a magnetic tape MT is adhered, and FIG.
As shown in (b), the front side core raw material 1b is printed with the index M and the magnetic card unit CU,
As shown in FIG. 6C, printing for the magnetic card unit CU is also performed on the back side core raw material 1c. As shown in FIG. 6D, the overlay 1e for the back side is a transparent film on which nothing is printed. The index M is seen through the overlay 1d for the front side.

The laminated body 1 for manufacturing a magnetic card in the laminated housing portion 2
First, the configuration of the stacked body carrying means for carrying the material into the positioning stage will be described. As shown in FIGS. 7 and 8, the stacked body carrying means is a vacuum suction system which is attached to support members 4 suspended below the traveling block 3 in three rows along the longitudinal direction and downward. The magnetic card manufacturing laminate 1 is provided with a suction pad (sucker) 5 and a suction pad 6, and is sucked by the suction pads 5 and 6 and carried to the positioning stage. Each suction pad 5, 6 is supported by a support member 4 driven by a cylinder 7.
Rises and falls with the up and down movement of. In addition, the suction pad 6 at the right end in FIG. 7 can be moved up and down independently. That is, the support member 4 includes a support piece 8 that moves up and down by a cylinder 9, and the suction pad 6 is attached to the support piece 8, and while the suction pads 5 in the two rows on the left are stopped, It is also possible to raise and lower only the suction pad 6 by moving the support piece 8 up and down by driving the cylinder 9. The traveling block 3 is disposed so as to reciprocate along a rail 10 extending toward the positioning stage F2. In FIG. 8, illustration of the cylinder 9 is omitted for convenience.

When the magnetic card manufacturing laminate 1 is carried into the positioning stage F2, the suction pads 5, 6 are attracted to the surface of the laminate 1 and the cylinder 9 is driven as shown in FIG. While moving only the suction pad 6 upward first with the help of the air ejected from the nozzle 11, one side of the uppermost magnetic card manufacturing laminate 1 is first lifted a little, and then By driving 7, all the suction pads 5, 6 are moved upward to lift the entire magnetic card manufacturing laminate 1. After the magnetic card manufacturing laminate 1 is lifted by the suction pads 5 and 6 in this manner, the traveling block 3 suspends and positions the support material 4 together with the suction pads 5 and 6 that have sucked the magnetic card manufacturing laminate 1. Stage F2
(The direction indicated by the arrow in FIG. 7).

Next, the configuration of the positioning means for positioning the magnetic card manufacturing laminate 1 carried into the positioning stage F2 in a direction perpendicular to the pitch feed direction will be described. As shown in FIGS. 9 to 11, the positioning means comprises two gripping claws for gripping two places separated by a fixed distance on the long side edge of the magnetic card manufacturing laminate 1 placed on the support table 13. (Chucks) 14 and 15, and these gripping claws 14 and 15 are, as shown in FIG.
17 is fixed. The support arms 16 and 17 are suspended from moving blocks 18 and 19 which reciprocate in a direction orthogonal to the pitch feed direction.
With the reciprocating movement, the support arms 16, 17 and the gripping claws 14, 15 reciprocate in a direction orthogonal to the pitch feed direction. The moving block 18 includes the motor 2
It is screwed to a screw shaft 21 that is driven to rotate at 0 and is arranged with its longitudinal direction oriented in a direction orthogonal to the pitch feed direction, and in a direction orthogonal to the pitch feed direction as the screw shaft 21 rotates. The moving block 18 reciprocates. The motor 20 and the screw shaft 21 are attached to a beam 22 that crosses upward. The moving block 19 is also the moving block 1
8 has the same configuration as that of FIG.

However, in the support arm 16, the support arm 16 is slidable in the pitch feed direction of the magnetic card manufacturing laminate 1 with respect to the moving block 18 as described below. A fitting connection structure of the ridge member 23 and the groove member 24 whose longitudinal direction is directed to the pitch feed direction is provided between the support arm 16 and the moving block 18. On the other hand, as shown in FIG. 10, the upper ends 16a and 17a of the support arms 16 and 17 are connected by a connection bar 25. Both ends 25a and 25b of the connecting bar 25 are respectively supported by screw members 26 to support arm 1
The screw members 26 are rotatively attached to the upper end portions 16a and 17a of the sixth and the 17th. Therefore, the movement of the other supporting arm is stopped by the connecting bar 2.
5, the groove 24 moves and the support arm 16 slides slightly in the pitch feed direction.
The rotational displacement of the magnetic card manufacturing laminate 1 due to the movement of the other support arm alone is performed without difficulty.

As shown in FIG. 11, each of the gripping claws 14 and 15 comprises an upper claw piece 31 and a lower claw piece 32.
The upper claw piece 31 and the lower claw piece 32 are moved in the approaching direction or the separating direction by the driving of, and the gripping operation and the releasing operation are performed. The gripping surface of the upper claw piece 31 is constituted by the spherical surface of the ball 33, and the gripping surface of the lower claw piece 32 is constituted by a flat upper surface of a cylinder 34 provided rotatably in the circumferential direction by a bearing 35. . That is, the gripping claws 14, 15
Means that the magnetic card manufacturing laminate 1 is gripped so that the magnetic card manufacturing laminate 1 can slide and rotate between the lowermost point of the spherical surface of the ball 33 and the upper surface of the cylinder 34.

Further, as shown in FIG.
15, optical (positioning) index detectors 38 and 39 are respectively installed at two different fixed reference positions 36 and 37 serving as positioning references in a direction orthogonal to the pitch feed direction. Semi-fixed grips 40 and 41 for gripping the magnetic card manufacturing laminate 1 so as to permit only rotation about the fixed reference positions 36 and 37 as rotation centers are provided.

That is, the semi-fixed type gripping part 40 is provided as shown in FIG.
As shown in the figure, an inner ring 42 that is rotatable in the circumferential direction about a fixed reference position 36 provided on the front side of the support base 13.
And a rotatable cylindrical member 44 centered on a fixed reference position 36 provided on the distal end 43a side of the support arm 43 above the inner ring 42. A ball bearing composed of the inner ring 42, the outer ring 45, and the ball 46 is provided so that the upper end surface of the inner ring 42 and the surface of the support stand are substantially flush with each other and the inner ring 42 can rotate.
It is fixed to the support base 13 on the 5 side. The cylindrical member 44
A through hole 47 opened on the tip 43a side of the support arm 43
The bearing 48 is coaxially inserted into and attached to the bearing 48.
Are rotatable in the circumferential direction.

Further, the support arm 43 to which the cylindrical member 44 is attached is provided with a bar 4 which moves up and down on the side of the base 43b.
9a is attached to the cylinder 49 via the support arm 43 when the bar 49a is lowered by driving the cylinder 49.
Is lowered, and the upper end surface of the inner ring 42 and the lower end surface of the cylinder 44 move the magnetic card manufacturing laminate 1 from above and below to a fixed reference position 3.
6 so as to be rotatable around the center. Of course, if the bar 49a is raised by driving the cylinder 49, the support arm 4
3 rises, and the upper end surface of the inner ring 42 and the lower end surface of the cylinder 44 are separated to release the magnetic card manufacturing laminate 1. In addition, the configuration of the semi-fixed type gripper 41 is the same as that of the gripper 4 described above.
It has the same configuration as 0.

On the other hand, the optical index detector 38 is installed on the fixed arm 51 above the support arm 43, and the axis of the detection laser beam is aligned with the axis of the cylinder 44, that is, the fixed reference position 36. The optical index detector 38 optically detects the positioning index Mb that has reached the fixed reference position 36. The optical index detector 39 has the same configuration as the optical index detector 38.

Further, the positioning means has positioning control means for controlling each means to execute the following positioning, and this positioning control means is mainly constituted by an electronic circuit. The positioning executed under the control of the positioning control means will be specifically described with reference to FIGS. In these figures, the size of the index M and the amount of positional deviation are exaggerated for easy understanding.

(1) As shown in FIG. 13 (a), the two edges of the long side of the magnetic card manufacturing laminated body 1 which are misaligned with respect to the direction perpendicular to the pitch feed direction are arranged. The two gripping claws 14 and 15 first grip. Although not shown,
An optical index detector 38 is provided at the fixed reference position 36.
And a semi-fixed grip section 40 are provided, and an optical index detector 39 and a semi-fixed grip section 41 are provided at the fixed reference position 37. In addition, the fixed reference position 36,
The direction indicated by a line segment LA that connects 37 from right to left is the pitch feed direction, and the direction perpendicular to the direction indicated by the line segment LA is the direction perpendicular to the pitch feed direction.

(2) When the gripping claws 14 and 15 are pulled down in a direction perpendicular to the pitch feed direction while holding the magnetic card manufacturing laminate 1, as shown in FIG. The optical index detector 38 on the side of the fixed reference position 36 detects the positioning index Mb and stops the movement of the gripping claws 14.

(3) On the other hand, the gripping claws 15 are pulled down in the direction perpendicular to the pitch feed direction while holding the magnetic card manufacturing laminate 1, and fixed as shown in FIG. 13 (c). The optical index detector 39 on the reference position 37 side eventually detects the positioning index Mb and stops the movement of the gripper 15. Thus, the rough positioning is completed. At this time,
At the fixed reference position 37, the positioning index Mb is exactly aligned, but at the fixed reference position 36, when only the gripper 15 is pulled down, the magnetic card manufacturing laminate 1 rotates around the stopped gripper 14. As a result, the positioning index Mb on the side of the gripper 14 slightly deviates from the fixed reference position 36.

(4) Next, both gripping claws 14 and 15 are
As shown in FIG. 4 (a), the magnetic card manufacturing laminate 1 is simultaneously pushed back by the same distance until both positioning indices Mb are slightly above the fixed reference positions 36 and 37.

(5) Then, as shown in FIG. 14B, first, only the gripping claws 14 on the fixed reference position 36 side grip the magnetic card manufacturing laminate 1 and pull down in the direction perpendicular to the pitch feed direction. When the optical index detector 38 on the fixed reference position 36 side detects the positioning index Mb,
Is released, and the gripper 40 grips the magnetic card manufacturing laminate 1.

(6) Subsequently, the gripping claw 15 on the fixed reference position 37 side grips the magnetic card manufacturing laminate 1 and pulls down in a direction perpendicular to the pitch feed direction to detect the optical index on the fixed reference position 37 side. When the device 39 detects the positioning index Mb and stops the movement of the gripper 15, as shown in FIG. 14C, the positioning index Mb is set at both the fixed reference positions 36 and 37.
Then, the laminated body 1 for magnetic card production is precisely positioned. In the above case, the grip portion 41 was not used at all, but depending on the situation of misalignment of the magnetic card manufacturing laminate 1, only the grip portion 41 was used, and conversely, the grip portion 40 was not used at all. Absent.

Next, a description will be given of the structure of the laminate conveying means for sending the magnetic card production laminate 1 whose positioning has been completed to the punching stage. In the embodiment, two sets of transfer means are provided. Each of the stacked body conveying means includes two conveying claws 53 for gripping the short side edge of the laminated body 1 for magnetic card production. As shown in FIGS. The body 1 is configured to be conveyed by grasping and pressing the short side edge of the body 1. The transport claw 53 is attached to one side 54a of the L-shaped support arm 54 in parallel with a slight space therebetween, while the other side 54b is attached to a moving piece 55 that moves in the transport direction via a rodless cylinder 56. ing. A screw shaft 58 and a moving piece 55 which are rotationally driven by the rotation of the motor 59 shown in FIG. 1 and are installed with their longitudinal direction oriented in the transport direction (pitch feed direction) are screwed together. The moving piece 55 reciprocates by the rotation of 58. Therefore, as the moving piece 55 reciprocates due to the rotation of the motor 59, the transport claws 53 move, and the magnetic card manufacturing laminate 1 is transported.

As shown in FIG. 16, the transfer claw 53 includes an upper claw piece 61 and a lower claw piece 62 that perform gripping / releasing operations by driving the cylinder 60. When the transfer operation is performed, the cylinder 60 is driven. The upper claw piece 61 and the lower claw piece 62 are brought closer to each other to grasp the edge of the shorter side of the back of the magnetic card manufacturing laminate 1, and then, as the motor 59 rotates, the transport claw 53 is moved to the magnetic card manufacturing laminate. 1 will be pushed and conveyed. Then, in the apparatus of the embodiment, as shown in FIG. 15, when one of the stacked body transfer means is performing the transfer operation, the other stacked body transfer means is waiting on the lower side, and the upper stacked body transfer means. When the means completes the transport operation of one magnetic card manufacturing laminate 1, the support arm 54 of the laminate transport means that has completed the transport operation is lowered by driving the cylinder 56, as indicated by the dashed line in FIG. On the other hand, the support arm 54 of the other stacked body transporting unit, which has been waiting, rises in the opposite direction, and enters the state of transporting the next stacked body 1 for magnetic card production. Thus, the waiting time can be reduced by alternately performing the transport operation by the two stacked body transport units.

Next, the structure of the punching machine (punching means) 65 installed on the punching stage F3 will be described.
As shown in FIGS. 3 and 17, the punching machine 65 includes a die 66 having a punching shape of the magnetic card unit CU of the magnetic card manufacturing laminate 1. The mold 66 includes a fixed mold 67 located below the magnetic card manufacturing laminate 1 that is conveyed, and a movable mold 68 located above the laminate 1. The movable mold 68 is a support block 69 that moves up and down.
It is attached in the form that it is hung underneath. On the other hand, as shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, a motor (not shown)
Is transmitted to the crank 72 via the clutch 71 and converted into a reciprocating motion. And this crank 7
Each time the support block 69 moves up and down by the two reciprocating motions, the movable die 68 moves in and out of the fixed die 67, so that the punching operation by the die 66 is performed. The punched and completed magnetic card MD is placed on a conveyor 73 below the mold 66 and is carried from the shooter 74 to a carry-out conveyor CB2.

On the other hand, as shown in FIGS. 17 and 18,
A little before the die 65 of the punching machine 65, an optical (pitch feed) index detector (feed index detecting means) 7 for detecting the pitch feed index Ma of the magnetic card manufacturing laminate 1 7
5 is attached to the support piece 76 and installed.
The optical index detector 75 is provided at a pitch feed direction arrangement interval for one magnetic card unit in a direction opposite to the transport direction, that is, at a position in front of the pitch by one pitch in the feed direction. This optical index detector 75 is a pitch feed index M
Each time a is detected, a detection signal is sent to the transport control means (not shown) and the punching control means (not shown). The transport control means having received the detection signal controls the laminate transport means so as to temporarily stop the transport of the magnetic card manufacturing laminate 1 to execute pitch feed, and simultaneously performs the punching control which has received the detection signal. The means controls the punching machine 65 to perform the punching operation once while the conveyance is stopped, and executes the punching process on the magnetic card manufacturing laminate 1 one after another. These transport control means and punching control means are mainly constituted by electronic circuits.

When the punching process by the punching machine 65 is completed, as shown in FIG. 19, the unnecessary stacked body 81 is dropped into the waste basket 82 without the feed roller 80 at the tip of the punching machine 65. The feed roller 80 includes a lower roll 83 and an upper roll 84. The upper roll 84 moves up and down by driving a cylinder 85, so that the upper roll 84 is separated from and brought into contact with the lower roll 83. During the punching process, as shown in FIG. 19, the upper roll 84 is at the raised position, and the magnetic card manufacturing laminate 1 is fed in a pitch without sandwiching the gap between the two rolls 83, 84. When the punching process is completed, the upper roll 84 descends and the two rolls 83, 84 pinch and rotate the punched laminated body 81, whereby the punched laminated body 81 is sent to the front scrap basket 82. . Wheels are attached to the bottom side of the scrap basket 82, and when the scrap basket 82 is full in the punched laminated body 81, the empty scrap basket is replaced.

FIG. 20 is a flow chart showing a series of operations performed when the laminated body 1 for manufacturing a magnetic card is punched, in addition to FIGS.
This will be described with reference to FIG. [Step S1] The magnetic card manufacturing laminate 1 is sucked and lifted by the suction pads 5 and 6.

[Step S2] The traveling block 3 moves toward the positioning stage F2 together with the suction pads 5, 6 which have sucked the magnetic card manufacturing laminate 1.

[Step S3] One magnetic card manufacturing laminate 1 is carried into the positioning stage F2.

[Step S4] The gripping claws 14 and 15 grip (chuck) the long edges of the magnetic card manufacturing laminated body 1 of the magnetic card manufacturing laminated body 1 at two positions.

[Step S5] While holding the magnetic card manufacturing laminate 1, both the claws 14 and 15 are simultaneously pulled down at a constant speed in a direction perpendicular to the pitch feed direction.

[Step S6] One of the optical index detectors 38 detects the positioning index Mb, and only stops the movement of the gripping claws 14 while continuing the gripping operation.

[Step S7] The other optical index detector 39 soon detects the positioning index Mb, and grasps the gripping claws 15.
Stop moving. At this stage, rough positioning is completed.

[Step S8] Both gripping claws 14, 15
Pushes back the magnetic card manufacturing laminate 1 by the same distance at the same time until the positioning indices Mb are slightly higher than the fixed reference positions 36 and 37.

[Step S9] Only the gripper 14 grips the magnetic card manufacturing laminate 1 and pulls down in the direction perpendicular to the pitch feed direction. The optical index detector 38 detects the positioning index Mb, and At the same time, the semi-fixed type gripper 40 grips the magnetic card manufacturing laminate 1 and stops the positioning index Mb at the fixed reference position 36.

[Step S10] Next, the gripper 15 grips the magnetic card manufacturing laminate 1 and pulls down in a direction perpendicular to the pitch feed direction, and the optical index detector 39 detects the positioning index Mb and detects the gripper. Stop moving 15. Thus, the respective positioning indices Mb are respectively positioned at the fixed reference positions 36 and 37, and the precise positioning is completed.

[Step S11] The transport claws 53, 53 grip the two short edges of the magnetic card manufacturing laminate 1 whose positioning has been completed, and transport it while pushing it toward the punching stage F3.

[Step S12] Optical index detector 7
5 detects the leading pitch feed index Ma and feeds the index by a predetermined fixed pitch (distance between the optical index detector 75 and the mold 65: can be set by a digital switch). 1 stops. In this way, the first magnetic card unit CU matches the position of the mold 65.

[Step S13] Following the stop of the magnetic card manufacturing laminate 1, a punching operation is performed to complete the magnetic card MD. Thereafter, each time the pitch feed index Ma is detected, the magnetic card manufacturing laminate 1 is stopped and punched.

[Step S14] When the number of punching operations reaches a predetermined number, the punching processing of the magnetic card manufacturing laminate 1 in units of magnetic cards being transported is completed, and the transport claws 53 are released and The punched laminated body 81 is fed into a scrap basket 82 by a feed roller 80.

The punching device of the present invention can be modified as follows.

(1) The device of the present invention is not limited to the production of magnetic cards, but also includes the production of cards without magnetic tape and IC cards.

(2) In the apparatus of the embodiment, a semi-fixed type gripping portion for gripping the magnetic card manufacturing laminate so as to allow only rotation is provided at both fixed reference positions. The semi-fixed grip may be provided only at the reference position. However, in this case, at the time of a precise positioning operation, the gripping claw near the semi-fixed gripping portion grips the magnetic card manufacturing laminate first and pulls down.

(3) In the apparatus of the embodiment, when positioning the laminated body for manufacturing a magnetic card in the direction perpendicular to the pitch feed direction, rough positioning is performed first, and then fine positioning is performed. Fine positioning may be performed without going through a rough positioning process.
That is, when the magnetic card manufacturing laminate 1 is carried into the positioning stage F2, the edge of the long side thereof is grasped and the claws 14, 1 are gripped.
Grab with 5. Next, one gripping claw (in the case where only one semi-fixed gripping portion is provided, the gripping claw on the side where the semi-fixed gripping portion is provided) is horizontally moved, and the optical portion on the gripping claw side is moved. It stops when the expression index detector detects the positioning index Mb. Then, the gripping claws are released, and the magnetic card manufacturing laminate 1 is gripped by the gripping portion.
Thereafter, the other gripping claw is moved horizontally, and stopped when the optical index detector on the gripping claw side detects the positioning index Mb. This completes the positioning. According to such a positioning method, the processing efficiency of the positioning is improved by the amount that the rough positioning is not performed.

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According to the punching apparatus for manufacturing a card according to the first aspect of the present invention, the pitch index Ma is automatically detected by the optical index detecting means of the punching stage, so that each card unit can be used. Since the punching is performed while detecting the arrangement intervals mechanically one by one without manual operation, the working efficiency in the punching process can be improved, and the card can always be punched with high dimensional accuracy.

According to the card-manufacturing punching device of the second aspect of the present invention, in addition, the positioning in the direction orthogonal to the pitch feed direction of the card-manufacturing laminate is finely performed, so that the dimensional accuracy is improved. You can often punch out cards.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a plan view showing a schematic configuration of an apparatus according to an embodiment.

FIG. 2 is a schematic front view of the embodiment device.

FIG. 3 is a partial side view of the embodiment device.

FIG. 4 is a plan view showing an example of a laminated body for manufacturing a magnetic card.

FIG. 5 is a sectional view of a laminated body for manufacturing a magnetic card.

FIG. 6 is a plan view showing a core material and an overlay of the laminated body for manufacturing a magnetic card.

FIG. 7 is a side view showing a configuration around a stack carrying means of the apparatus of the embodiment.

FIG. 8 is an explanatory diagram showing a mounting state of a suction pad of the embodiment device.

FIG. 9 is a side view showing a configuration around a laminate moving means of the apparatus of the embodiment.

FIG. 10 is a front view showing the configuration around the laminated body moving means of the embodiment apparatus.

FIG. 11 is a side view showing a configuration around a gripping claw.

FIG. 12 is a front view showing a configuration around a grip portion.

FIG. 13 is a schematic diagram illustrating a rough positioning operation of the magnetic card manufacturing laminate.

FIG. 14 is a schematic diagram illustrating a precise positioning operation of the magnetic card manufacturing laminate.

FIG. 15 is a side view showing the configuration around the laminated body conveying means of the embodiment apparatus.

FIG. 16 is a front view illustrating a configuration around a conveyance claw.

FIG. 17 is a side view showing a configuration around a die of the punching machine.

FIG. 18 is a plan view showing a configuration around a fixed die of a die of the punching machine.

FIG. 19 is a front view showing a configuration around a scrap car of the embodiment device.

FIG. 20 is a flowchart illustrating a series of flows of a punching process performed by the apparatus according to the embodiment.

FIG. 21 is an external perspective view illustrating an example of a magnetic card.

FIG. 22 is an exploded perspective view illustrating an example of a magnetic card.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Laminated body for magnetic card manufacture 5 ... Suction pad 6 ... Suction pad 14 ... Grip claw 15 ... Grip claw 36 ... Fixed reference position 37 ... Fixed reference position 38 ... Optical (positioning) index detector 39 ... Optical ( Index detector 40 ... Semi-fixed gripper 41 ... Semi-fixed gripper 53 ... Transfer claw 65 ... Punching machine 75 ... Optical (pitch feed) index detector F2 ... Positioning stage F3 ... Punching stage Ma ... Index for positioning Mb: Index for pitch feed

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[Procedure amendment]

[Submission date] November 20, 1996

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[Document name to be amended] Drawing

[Name of item to be corrected] Fig. 10

[Correction method] Change

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Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A card unit which is arranged and arranged, and a pitch feed index which is attached along a card unit arrangement direction at an interval corresponding to an arrangement interval of the card unit;
A positioning stage for positioning a sheet-like card manufacturing laminate including a positioning index provided for positioning in a direction orthogonal to the pitch feed direction in a direction orthogonal to the pitch feed direction. Stacking means for sequentially feeding the stack into the positioning stage, positioning means for positioning the stack for card production carried to the positioning stage in a direction orthogonal to the pitch feed direction based on the positioning index, and the positioning is completed. Laminate conveying means for conveying the laminated body for card production to a punching stage, laminate punching means provided on a punching stage for punching out the card laminated body for each card, and pitch of the laminated body for card production Feed index detecting means for detecting a feed index in a punching stage; Conveyance control means for performing pitch feed of the card manufacturing laminated body based on the detection result of the feed index detecting means, and punching control means for operating the punching means in conjunction with the pitch feeding of the card manufacturing laminated body. And a punching device for manufacturing a card. 2. The punching device for manufacturing a card according to claim 1, wherein the positioning means is capable of horizontally moving in a direction orthogonal to the pitch feed direction by gripping the card manufacturing laminate with a grip claw. Two laminated body moving means and optical index detections installed at two different fixed reference positions as a reference for positioning in the direction orthogonal to the pitch feed direction in the vicinity of the grip claws of each laminated body moving means Means, at least one semi-fixable gripping means for gripping the card manufacturing laminate by allowing only rotation about one of the fixed reference positions as a rotation center, and in the process of positioning the card manufacturing laminate. , At least the laminated body moving means on the fixed reference position side, which is the center of rotation of the semi-fixed gripping means, detects the positioning index by the optical index detection means beside it. Until the card manufacturing laminated body is moved independently, and after the positioning index is detected, the gripping claw is opened while the card manufacturing laminated body is gripped by the semi-fixed gripping means, and then another laminated body is stacked. Positioning control for executing a control process including a process of controlling each means so that the moving means independently performs horizontal movement of the card manufacturing laminated body until the positioning means is detected by the optical index detecting means beside the moving means. A punching device for manufacturing a card, comprising: