KR100781094B1 - Automatic Inspecting Apparatus for O-Ring - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to an automatic O-ring inspection apparatus, and a conveyor for transferring the O-ring; A first inspection unit installed on the conveyor and having a top inspection camera and a first side inspection camera for inspecting the top and side surfaces of the O-ring; O-ring manufactured on one side of the conveyor, characterized in that it comprises a; lower surface inspection camera for inspecting the lower surface and side and circularity of the O-ring, second side inspection camera and circularity inspection camera; By checking the top, bottom, side, and roundness through the respective cameras, the O-ring can be inspected quickly, accurately, and precisely.

O-ring, automatic inspection device, conveyor, gap sensor, camera, ion, nozzle

Description

Automatic Inspecting Apparatus for O-Ring}

1 is a front view showing an automatic inspection device according to the present invention.

2 is a plan view of FIG. 1.

3 is a perspective view showing a first inspection unit of the automatic inspection device of the present invention.

4 is an enlarged plan view of the second inspection unit of the automatic inspection device of the present invention.

Figure 5 is an enlarged front view of the rotary conveyor to supply the O-ring upside down of the automatic inspection device of the present invention.

6 is a perspective view illustrating the second hopper according to the present invention.

<Description of the symbols for the main parts of the drawings>

2: O-ring 10: Automatic inspection device

100: base frame 110: conveying conveyor

120: conveying conveyor 121: guide bracket

130: rotary conveyor 200: first inspection unit

210: first hopper 220: second hopper

221: blow plate 222: piston

223: Cylinder 230: Guide Bracket

240: supply plate 241: guide plate

250: gap sensor 260: unselected container

261: air spray nozzle 270: ionizer

271: 7th air nozzle 280: top inspection camera

281: first side inspection camera 290: defective container

291: air nozzle 300: the second inspection unit

310: rotating plate 320: second supply plate

330: second ionizer 331: second air spray nozzle

340: timing sensor 350: rear inspection camera

351: second side inspection camera 352: circular inspection camera

360,362,364: 1st, 2nd, 3rd defective container

361,363,365: 1,2,3 air nozzles 370,380: 1,2 containers for goods

371,381 4th and 5th air nozzles 382

383: 6th Air Nozzle 390: Unclassified Containers

391: prevention plate

The present invention relates to an O-ring automatic inspection device, and more particularly, to an O-ring automatic inspection device for supplying the manufactured O-ring to the auditing device to automatically inspect the top, bottom, side, and roundness.

Generally, the O-ring is a rubber material, which is interposed between two members and is used where airtightness and watertightness are required. In particular, it is widely used in equipment that needs to maintain a vacuum or use other chemical solutions, such as semiconductor equipment.

Thus, O-rings are used to connect or route two objects to maintain airtightness and watertight via O-rings on a vacuum or fluid line.

However, such an O-ring is formed by a high-temperature mold made of a flexible rubber material, so that defective products are sometimes generated due to thermal deformation due to high temperature heat, and thus, there are many difficulties in identifying the defective products, and the O-ring of the defective product. As this is distributed and applied to the equipment, the O-ring does not function properly, causing a malfunction of the equipment, which was directly linked to a fatal safety accident.

Therefore, in recent years, there is an urgent need for an inspection apparatus capable of quickly and precisely inspecting the thus-produced O-rings.

Accordingly, the present invention has been made to solve the above-mentioned point, the O-ring produced by configuring the inspection device with each camera for inspecting the upper, lower, side, and circularity of the O-ring, quick, accurate and precise The purpose of the present invention is to provide an automatic O-ring inspection device that can be examined in detail.

O-ring automatic inspection device of the present invention for achieving the above object is a conveyor for transporting the O-ring; A first inspection unit installed on the conveyor and having a top inspection camera and a first side inspection camera for sequentially inspecting the top and side surfaces of the O-ring; And a second inspection unit having a lower surface inspection camera, a second side inspection camera, and a circular inspection camera installed at one side of the conveyor to inspect the lower surface, the side surface, and the circularity of the O-ring.
The first inspection unit, and a hopper for supplying an O-ring to the conveyor; A striking plate disposed in the hopper and dispersing the stacked O-rings by striking the O-rings supplied to the conveyor in the hopper; A supply plate installed to be spaced apart and rotated by the thickness of the conveyor and the O-ring to transfer the O-rings to the upper side inspection camera and the first side inspection camera one by one between the conveyor; And an eighth air nozzle installed at the rear of the first side inspection camera to separate the defective o-ring from the conveyor.
The second inspection unit, the lower surface inspection camera, the second side inspection camera and the circular inspection camera is installed to be spaced apart and rotationally driven; A second supply plate rotatably installed between the rotating plate and the conveyor to supply an O-ring on the conveyor to each camera side of the rotating plate; And a plurality of air nozzles installed at the rear of the circularity inspection camera to separate the O-ring from the rotating plate according to the inspection result.

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In addition, a gap sensor is installed between the supply plate and the top inspection camera to inspect the gap of the O-ring that is transported through the conveyor. A seventh air nozzle that separates is further installed.

In addition, in order to remove the foreign matter attached to the O-ring in front of the top inspection camera, the ionizer to remove the friction energy of the O-ring by releasing ions to the O-ring, and by spraying air to the O-ring to remove the foreign matter attached to the O-ring Air spray nozzle is installed.

A guide bracket for guiding the O-ring discharged from the hopper between the supply plate and the conveyor is installed between the hopper and the supply plate.

Further, between the supply plate and the gap sensor, a guide plate for rotating the O-ring conveyed by the supply plate to the center side of the conveyor while contacting the circumferential surface thereof is rotated.

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The rotating plate rotates faster than the second feed plate.

In addition, in order to remove the foreign matter attached to the O-ring in front of the lower inspection camera, a second ionizer for releasing ions to the O-ring to remove the friction energy of the O-ring, and foreign matter attached to the O-ring by injecting air into the O-ring. A second air spray nozzle to be removed is installed, and a timing sensor is installed between the second air spray nozzle and the lower surface inspection camera to determine the shooting timing of the camera by inspecting the O-ring carried by the rotating plate.

In addition, the plurality of air nozzles of the second inspection unit separate the first, second and third air nozzles that separate the O-rings from the rotating plate according to the lower side, the poor circularity, and the O-rings of the goods that passed the inspection from the rotating plate. And a sixth air nozzle for separating the fourth and fifth air nozzles to be separated from the rotary plate by the O-rings which are conveyed adjacently at or below the set gap.

In addition, the rotating plate prevents rotation of the O-ring that is unclassified by the second, third, fourth, fifth, and sixth air nozzles of the second inspection unit, and prevents rotation of the O-ring from the rotating plate, and is provided in an inclined plate. .

In addition, between the first inspection unit and the second inspection unit, a rotary conveyor having one end inserted into a circular arc to be in contact with an arc is installed in a conveying conveyor for horizontally transporting the O-ring, and the second O-ring having passed through the first inspection unit is rotated and turned over. Supply to inspection department.

In addition, on one side of the conveying conveyor between the supply plate and the hopper of the first inspection unit, a conveying conveyor for conveying the o-ring dropped from the conveying conveyor by the supply plate back to the conveying conveyor is inclined, and the conveying o-ring is provided on the upper side of the conveying conveyor. Guide bracket to guide the to the conveying conveyor is installed inclined.

And, the opposite side of the eighth air nozzle of the first inspection unit and the air nozzle of the second inspection unit is provided with a separate collection of collecting O-ring, the automatic inspection device is configured with an uninterruptible power supply in case of power failure .

Hereinafter, preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

1 to 6 are views showing the O-ring automatic inspection device of the present invention.

1 and 2, the automatic inspection device 10 of the present invention, a conveyor device for transporting the O-ring 2 (hereinafter referred to as "conveyor"), and the first to inspect the O-ring (2) The inspection unit 200 and the second inspection unit 300 is roughly configured, and its configuration is configured on the base frame 100 formed by orthogonal number of frames.

Therefore, the conveyor is a conveying conveyor 110 for smoothly conveying the O-ring 2, which is rotatably installed on the upper surface of the base frame 100 as a plurality.

And, as shown in FIG. 3, the first inspection unit 200 is an apparatus for inspecting the upper and side surfaces of the O-ring 2 transferred by the conveying conveyor 110, and is configured as follows.

That is, the first inspection unit 200 is configured with a conveying conveyor 110 for horizontally conveying the O-ring 2 supplied for the inspection.

The first hopper 210 for supplying the O-ring 2 to the conveying conveyor 110 and the second hopper is supplied to the O-ring 2 discharged from the first hopper 210 on the transfer conveyor 110 220 is installed.

And, as shown in FIG. 6 inside the second hopper 220, the O-ring (2) laminated by repeatedly hitting the O-ring (2) supplied to the conveying conveyor 110 in the second hopper 220 Strike plate 221 for dispersing the air is provided so that the lifting, the piston 222 for raising and lowering the blow plate 221 is installed on the upper surface of the blow plate 221, the cylinder 223.

On one side on the conveying conveyor 110 adjacent to the second hopper 220 is a supply plate 240 for conveying the O-rings 2 supplied from the second hopper 220 at a predetermined interval from the conveying conveyor 110. It is installed to be spaced apart in the upward direction by the thickness of the O-ring (2).

In addition, the upper plate of the conveying conveyor 110 between the supply plate 240 and the second hopper 220, the supply plate 240 is supplied to the O-ring (2) supplied from the second hopper 220 to the conveying conveyor 110 The guide bracket 230, which is bent, is guided to the outer circumferential side of the supply plate 240 so as to be smoothly transferred.

In addition, the upper part of the conveying conveyor 110 behind the supply plate 240 allows the O-ring 2 conveyed by the supply plate 240 to be transferred to the central side of the conveying conveyor 110 while contacting the circumferential surface, which will be described later. Guide plate 241 is installed so that the camera can accurately inspect the O-ring (2).

Here, the guide plate 241 is located on the same line as the supply plate 240 and is further protruded toward the central side of the conveying conveyor 110 than the supply plate 240, and the supply plate 240 and the guide plate 241 are provided. ) Is installed to be adjusted by moving the position from the conveying conveyor 110 according to the size of the O-ring (2) by means such as racks and pinions.

This means that the O-ring 2, which is inspected by the automatic inspection device 10, is always transported in a state in which it is placed at a constant position of the conveying conveyor 110, regardless of its size. It is to be able to inspect correctly.

On the other hand, the supply plate 240 and the guide plate 241 is installed to rotate in the same direction as the conveying direction of the conveying conveyor (110).

Then, the rear of the guide plate 241 is provided with a gap sensor 250 for inspecting the gap of the O-ring (2) to be conveyed one by one through the conveying conveyor 110, the conveying conveyor 110 behind the gap sensor 250. At one side, there is provided a seventh air nozzle 261 which separates the O-ring 2 which is conveyed below the set gap, that is, adjacently, from the conveying conveyor 110 as air.

The gap sensor 250 is preferably formed of an optical sensor having light emitting parts and light receiving parts respectively provided at both ends of the conveying conveyor 110, and is transported by air to the opposite side of the seventh air nozzle 261. An unscreened goods container 260 for collecting the O-ring 2 separated from the conveyor 110 is installed.

On the other hand, since friction energy is generated in the O-ring 2 conveyed as described above on the upper part of the conveying conveyor 110 behind the seventh air nozzle 261, foreign matters may be attached to the O-ring (2). Means are installed to remove the foreign matter attached to the).

That is, the ionizer 270 which removes the friction energy generated in the O-ring 2 by releasing ions to the O-ring 2 installed and transported on the transfer conveyor 110 and the friction energy is removed by the ions. An air spray nozzle 271 for spraying air on the O-ring 2 to remove foreign substances attached to the O-ring 2 is installed on the upper portion of the conveying conveyor 110.

In addition, an upper surface inspection camera 280 and a first side inspection camera 281 which sequentially photograph and inspect the upper and side surfaces of the O-ring 2 being transferred to the upper portion of the conveying conveyor 110 behind the air spray nozzle 271. Are installed in turn.

In addition, an eighth air nozzle 291 is provided at one side of the conveying conveyor 110 behind the first side inspection camera 281 to separate the defective O-ring 2 from the conveying conveyor 110 as air. The conveying conveyor 110 opposite to the eighth air nozzle 291 is provided with a defective container 290 for collecting the O-ring 2 separated from the conveying conveyor 110 by air.

Meanwhile, the width of the conveying conveyor 110 is narrowed by the guide bracket 230 at the distal end of the conveying conveyor 110 across the first inspection unit 200 and the conveying conveyor cannot be conveyed by the supply plate 240. The conveying conveyor 120 which inclines the O-ring 2 removed from the 110 to the front end side of the conveying conveyor 110 in which the second hopper 220 is located and is resupplied is inclined, and the conveying conveyor 120 At the upper end of the guide ring 121 for smoothly supplying the conveyed O-ring (2) to the front end side of the conveying conveyor 110 is installed to be inclined.

The guide bracket 121 is formed as an inclined surface inclined to face the O-ring (2) to be conveyed, this inclined surface is formed to gradually reduce the diameter toward the conveying conveyor 110, the O-ring to be conveyed (2) ) Is easily resupply to the conveying conveyor (110).

In addition, a rotary conveyor 130 is installed at the rear end of the transfer conveyor 110 to invert the O-ring 2 completed by the first inspection unit 200 and to supply the second ring 300 to the second inspection unit 300. As shown in FIG. 5, one end thereof, that is, one end having a large roller, is inserted into the conveying conveyor 110 for horizontally conveying the O-ring 2 so as to be in contact with an arc, and the conveying conveyor 110 is disposed. The horizontal O-ring (2) to be transported along the circular arc shape is supplied to the second inspection unit 300 to turn over.

Here, the rotary conveyor 130 is installed at both ends of the rollers of different sizes, the upper surface is installed to form a horizontal plane, the inverted O-ring 2 is the second inspection unit 300 through the upper surface of the rotary conveyor 130. It is fed horizontally to the side.

In addition, as shown in FIG. 4, the second inspection unit 300 is an apparatus for inspecting the lower surface, the side surface, and the circularity of the O-ring 2 that is turned upside down by the rotary conveyor 130 and configured as follows. do.

That is, the second inspection unit 300 is provided with a rotating plate 310 which is a disk which is installed adjacent to the rotary conveyor 130 and is driven to rotate.

Between the rotary plate 310 and the rotary conveyor 130 is provided with a second supply plate 320 that is rotated opposite to the driving direction, that is, the conveying direction of the rotary conveyor 130, of the second supply plate 320 is rotated The O-ring 2 which is horizontally transported to the rotary conveyor 130 on the circumferential surface is transported to the rotating plate 310 side.

At this time, the rotating plate 310 is rotated at a faster speed than the second supply plate 320, and transports the O-ring (2) supplied to the rotating plate 310 to be spaced at a predetermined interval.

In addition, the second supply plate 320 may be formed according to the size of the O-ring 2 by driving means such as a rack and a pinion, such as the supply plate 240 and the guide plate 241 of the first inspection unit 200 described above. The position is installed to be adjusted by moving from the rotating plate (310).

In addition, a second ionizer 330 is disposed on an upper portion of the rotating plate 310 behind the second supply plate 320 to remove friction energy generated in the o-ring 2 by releasing ions to the O-ring 2 that is rotated and transported. A second air spray nozzle 331 is installed to inject air into the O-ring 2 from which friction energy has been removed by ions to remove foreign substances attached to the O-ring 2.

Here, the ionizers 270 and 330 and the air spray nozzles 271 and 331 may be formed in a unitary manner, but in order to remove the foreign matter more reliably, to secure a time for the ions to fully act on the O-ring 2. It is preferable to dualize.

A timing sensor 340 is installed on an upper portion of the rotating plate 310 behind the second air spray nozzle 331 to determine the shooting timing of the camera, which will be described later, by checking the O-ring 2 rotated. A controller (not shown) configured in the device 10 performs arithmetic processing.

Here, the timing sensor 340, if the O-ring 2 rotated by the rotating plate 310 adjacent to the set gap or less, the rear O-ring 2 is not detected, the undetected O-ring (2) ) Is collected by the sixth air nozzle 383, which will be described later, into the unscreened container 382.

In addition, the upper surface of the rotating plate 310 behind the timing sensor 340, the lower surface (overturned surface) of the O-ring (rotated side) and the side and the lower surface inspection camera for photographing and inspecting the circularity or dimensions of the O-ring sequentially 350, the second side inspection camera 351, and the circularity inspection camera 352 are installed in this order.

On the other hand, a plurality of air to separate the O-ring 2 from the rotary plate 310 by injecting air to the O-ring (2) according to the inspection results photographed on the upper portion of the rotary plate 310 behind the circular inspection camera 352 The nozzle is installed.

That is, the air nozzles are the first, second, and third air nozzles 361, 363, 365 which separate the O-rings 2 according to defects in the lower surface, the side surface, and the circularity, and the quality of the goods passed the inspection. Fourth and fifth air nozzles 371 and 381 that separate the O-rings 2, and a sixth air nozzle 383 which separates the rear O-rings from the O-rings 2 which are conveyed adjacently at or below the set gap.

Then, on the outer side of the rotary plate 310 facing each of the air nozzles, the first, second and third defective product containers 360, 362 and 364 are collected on the lower surface, and the O-ring 2 having poor circularity. And, the first and second goods containers 370 and 380 collected by the O-rings 2 of the goods that have passed the inspection, and the unselected goods containers 382 in which the rear O-rings are collected among the O-rings 2 adjacent to or below the set gap. ) Is installed.

In addition, the prevention plate 391 for preventing the rotation of the O-ring (2) is unclassified and rotated in the rotating plate 310 behind the unscreened product container (382) to separate the O-ring (2) from the rotating plate (310) ) Is installed to be inclined, and an unclassified product container 390 in which an unclassified O-ring 2 is collected is installed at an outer side of the rotating plate 310 adjacent to an end of the prevention plate 391.

The prevention plate 391 is formed of an inclined surface inclined to face the O-ring (2) to be transported, the inclined surface is formed to gradually reduce the diameter from the center of the rotating plate 310 to the outer peripheral side, The o-ring 2 is easily separated into the unclassified product container 390.

On the other hand, the automatic inspection device 10 configured as described above is provided with an uninterruptible power supply, which is its own emergency power in preparation for a power outage, so that the O-ring 2 can be continuously inspected even during a power failure.

In addition, overall control of the automatic inspection device 10 is performed through a controller configured in the automatic inspection device 10.

Hereinafter, the operation of the O-ring automatic audit device of the present invention configured as described above.

First, as shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, a large amount of O-rings 2 manufactured into the first hopper 210 are put in a state where power is applied to the automatic inspection apparatus 10.

Then, the O-ring 2 falls to the conveying conveyor 110 under the first hopper 210, and the O-ring 2 is introduced into the second hopper 220 by the conveying conveyor 110.

The O-ring 2 introduced into the second hopper 220 is also separated by the conveying conveyor 110 under the second hopper 220 and conveyed to another adjacent conveying conveyor 110.

At this time, the hitting plate 221 installed in the second hopper 220 hits the O-ring 2 which is placed on the conveying conveyor 110 under the second hopper 220 and is transferred to the stacked O-rings 2. It is dropped and dispersed (see FIG. 6).

As described above, the O-ring 2 through the second hopper 220 is supplied to the conveying conveyor 110 of the first inspection unit 200 and is conveyed while being guided by the guide bracket 230.

The O-ring 2 to be conveyed as described above is supplied to the feed plate 240 and the conveying conveyor by rotation of the feed plate 240 spaced apart by a gap into which only the conveying conveyor 110 and one O-ring 2 can be inserted. The O-rings 2 are fed one by one through the 110 and are transferred to the next step.

At this time, the remaining O-ring 2 that is not supplied between the supply plate 240 and the conveying conveyor 110 falls to the lower portion of the conveying conveyor 120 by the rotation of the supply plate 240, the dropped O-ring 2 is conveying conveyor While being conveyed to the upper portion of the 120 is guided along the inclined surface of the guide bracket 121 installed on the conveying conveyor 120 is supplied to the front end side of the conveying conveyor 110 is conveyed to the supply plate 240 again.

This operation is repeated until all of the O-rings 2 are transferred to the next stage through the feed plate 240.

On the other hand, the O-ring 2 conveyed one by one by the supply plate 240 is moved to the central side of the conveying conveyor 110 in contact with the circumferential surface of the guide plate 241 is rotated, and conveyed while passing through the gap sensor 250 The gap between the O-rings 2 is checked.

At this time, when the adjacent O-rings 2 are inspected to be less than or equal to the set interval, the seventh air nozzle 261 behind the gap sensor 250 is moved to the unscreened product container 260 as the air of the rear O-rings of the two adjacent O-rings 2. Isolate.

In addition, the O-ring 2 passing through the seventh air nozzle 261 is removed from the friction energy attached to the foreign matter by the ions injected through the ionizer 270, while passing through the air spray nozzle 271 The foreign matter whose adhesion is removed by the injected air is removed from the o-ring 2, so that an accurate inspection of the o-ring 2 through the camera can be made.

On the other hand, the O-ring (2) from which the foreign matter is removed as described above is sequentially passed through the top inspection camera 280 and the first side inspection camera 281, the top and side are photographed to determine whether there is a defect, and determine the failure If it is, it is separated into the defective container 290 by the second air nozzle 291 behind the first side inspection camera (281).

Then, the O-ring 2 of the good passed through the first inspection unit 200 as described above, as shown in Figures 1 and 5, continue to move along the conveying conveyor 110, the rotary conveyor 130 and the conveying conveyor 110. ) Is rotated in an arc shape in the state sandwiched between) and is horizontally transferred to the upper surface of the rotary conveyor 130 in an inverted state.

As described above, the O-ring 2 that is horizontally conveyed and supplied is supplied to the second inspection unit 300 by the second supply plate 320 which is rotationally driven on the upper part of the rotary conveyor 130.

That is, the rotary plate 310 of the second inspection unit 300 which is rotationally driven while the O-ring 2 is in contact with the circumferential surface of the second supply plate 320 that is rotationally driven in a direction opposite to the driving direction of the rotary conveyor 130. It is moved up and transported.

At this time, the rotary plate 310 is rotated at a faster speed than the second supply plate 320 to transfer the O-ring (2) placed on the rotary plate 310 in a state spaced apart at a set interval.

On the other hand, the O-ring 2 placed on the rotating plate 310 and rotated as described above, the friction energy attached to the foreign matter by the ions injected through the second ionizer 330 is removed again, the second air The foreign matter whose adhesion is removed by the air injected from the injection nozzle 331 is removed from the O-ring 2 again, so that an accurate second inspection of the O-ring 2 can be performed.

Then, the o-ring (2) of the foreign matter removed as described above passes through the inspection camera 350, the second side inspection camera 351 and the circularity inspection camera 352 after passing through the timing sensor 340, The bottom, side, and circular views are taken to determine whether there is a defect.

At this time, the photographing time point of each camera is calculated by the controller configured in the automatic inspection device 10 at the moment when the O-ring 2 passes the timing sensor 340, and the photographing time is determined. That is, the camera is photographed with a time margin in order from the lower surface inspection camera 350 to the second side inspection camera 351 and the circularity inspection camera 352.

On the other hand, when there is a defective product among the O-ring (2) photographed as described above, each air nozzle corresponding to the defective item is operated to separate the O-ring (2) by the rotary plate 310 and collected in each container do.

That is, if the bottom surface is defective, the first air nozzle 361 operates to collect the defective O-ring 2 with the first defective container 360, and if the side surface is defective, the defective O-ring (3) passes through the first air nozzle 361 ( 2) the second air nozzle 363 is operated to collect the second defective container 362, and if the circularity is poor, the defective O-ring 2 that has passed through the first and second air nozzles 361 and 363. The third air nozzle 365 operates to collect the third defective article container 364.

Then, the O-rings 2 of the good article which passed all the inspections safely passed through the first, second, and third air nozzles 361, 363, 365, and then, in the fourth, fifth air nozzles 371, 381. By the injected air, the first and second goods containers 370 and 380 are collected.

In addition, the sixth air nozzle 383 operates the rear O-rings among the O-rings 2 unexamined by the timing sensor 340 adjacent to or below the set gap, thereby transferring the defective O-rings 2 to the unsorted container 382. Collect it.

Then, the unclassified O-ring 2 which has passed through all the air nozzles is moved along the inclined surface while contacting the inclined surface of the prevention plate 391 and collected in the unclassified product container 390.

Therefore, the manufactured O-rings 2 are inspected quickly, accurately and precisely through the operation of the automatic inspection device 10 as described above, and by separately collecting the inspected O-rings 2 for each inspection item. Quickly identify the cause of the malfunction of the device and cope with it.

In addition, the automatic inspection device 10 of the present invention has a separate uninterruptible power supply, which is its own emergency power source for a power failure situation, so that the O-ring 2 can be continuously inspected even during a power failure.

As described above, according to the O-ring automatic inspection device of the present invention, by inspecting the top, bottom, side, and roundness of the manufactured O-ring through each camera, the O-ring can be quickly, accurately and precisely inspected. have.

In addition, by separately collecting the O-rings examined as described above for each inspection item, it is possible to quickly identify and cope with the cause of defective products and the malfunction of the device.

Claims (18)

A conveyor for feeding the O-ring; A first inspection unit installed on the conveyor and having a top inspection camera and a first side inspection camera for sequentially inspecting the top and side surfaces of the O-ring; And a second inspection unit having a lower surface inspection camera, a second side inspection camera, and a circular inspection camera installed at one side of the conveyor to inspect the lower surface, the side surface, and the circularity of the O-ring. The first inspection unit, A hopper for feeding an O-ring to the conveyor; A striking plate disposed in the hopper and dispersing the stacked O-rings by striking the O-rings supplied to the conveyor in the hopper; A supply plate installed to be spaced apart and rotated by the thickness of the conveyor and the O-ring to transfer the O-rings to the upper side inspection camera and the first side inspection camera one by one between the conveyor; And an eighth air nozzle installed at the rear of the first side inspection camera to separate the defective o-ring from the conveyor. The second inspection unit, A rotating plate to which the lower surface inspection camera, the second side inspection camera, and the circularity inspection camera are spaced apart and rotated; A second supply plate rotatably installed between the rotating plate and the conveyor to supply an O-ring on the conveyor to each camera side of the rotating plate; And a plurality of air nozzles installed at the rear of the circularity inspection camera to separate the O-rings from the rotating plate according to the inspection result. delete The method of claim 1, O-ring automatic inspection device between the supply plate and the upper surface inspection camera is installed, the gap sensor for inspecting the gap of the O-ring conveyed through the conveyor. The method of claim 3, wherein O-ring automatic inspection device between the gap sensor and the upper surface inspection camera is further provided with a seventh air nozzle for separating the O-ring transported adjacent to the set gap or less from the conveyor. The method of claim 1, In order to remove the foreign matter attached to the O-ring in front of the top inspection camera, the ionizer to remove the friction energy of the O-ring by releasing ions to the O-ring, and the air spray to remove the foreign matter attached to the O-ring by spraying air on the O-ring O-ring automatic inspection device characterized in that the nozzle is installed. The method of claim 1, O-ring automatic inspection device between the hopper and the supply plate is installed a guide bracket for guiding the O-ring discharged from the hopper between the supply plate and the conveyor. The method of claim 4, wherein O-ring automatic inspection device between the supply plate and the gap sensor is installed to rotate the guide plate to be transferred to the central side of the conveyor while the O-ring conveyed by the supply plate in contact with the circumferential surface. delete The method of claim 1, O-ring automatic inspection device, characterized in that the rotating plate is rotated faster than the second supply plate. The method of claim 1, In order to remove the foreign matter attached to the O-ring in front of the lower surface inspection camera, a second ionizer for releasing ions to the O-ring to remove the friction energy of the O-ring, and by spraying air to the O-ring to remove the foreign matter attached to the O-ring O-ring automatic inspection device, characterized in that the second air spray nozzle is installed. The method of claim 10, O-ring automatic inspection device is installed between the second air injection nozzle and the lower surface inspection camera to determine the shooting timing of the camera by inspecting the O-ring carried by the rotating plate. The method of claim 1, The plurality of air nozzles of the second inspection unit may include a first, second, and third air nozzles that separate the O-rings from the rotary plate according to the lower side, the side, and the poor circularity, and the O-rings of the goods that passed the inspection from the rotary plate. 4. An O-ring automatic inspection device, comprising: 4,5 air nozzles and a sixth air nozzle separating the O-rings conveyed adjacently within a set gap from the rotating plate. The method of claim 12, The rotating plate to prevent the rotation of the O-ring that is unclassified in the second, 1,2, 3, 4, 5, 6 air nozzles of the second inspection unit, and the prevention plate for separating the O-ring from the rotating plate is inclined O-ring automatic inspection device. The method of claim 1, Between the first inspection unit and the second inspection unit is installed in the conveying conveyor for horizontal transfer of the O-ring one end of the rotary conveyor which is in contact with the arc, and rotates the O-ring passed through the first inspection unit to the second inspection unit while turning over. O-ring automatic inspection device characterized in that the supply. The method of claim 14, On one side of the conveying conveyor between the supply plate and the hopper of the first inspection unit O-ring automatic inspection device characterized in that the conveying conveyor for conveying the O-ring dropped from the conveying conveyor by the supply plate back to the conveying conveyor side. The method of claim 15, O-ring automatic inspection device, characterized in that the guide bracket for guiding the conveyed O-ring to the conveying conveyor is inclined on the upper side of the conveying conveyor. The method according to any one of claims 1, 3 to 7, and 9 to 16, On the opposite side of the eighth air nozzle of the first inspection unit and the air nozzle of the second inspection unit O-ring automatic inspection device, characterized in that each of the separate collection of the O-ring is installed. The method of claim 17, The automatic inspection device O-ring automatic inspection device, characterized in that the uninterruptible power supply for the power failure is configured.

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